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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5560 on: April 21, 2015, 07:17:53 pm »
hmmmmm Scousers getting panned now. Personally would rather spend time at the match with a  "coke sniffing, little scouser, worse than an Evertonian, double clicking nob", than some of our "fans" we have who "follow" us.

Bunking in the match has always been a part of going the match, as long as I can remember when I started going in the 80`s and it isn't  some little fucking smackhead pastime.
im panning the cuntish behaviour from people in our support who happen to be Scouse, unless being Scouse means you are sound regardless of what you do?

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5561 on: April 21, 2015, 07:40:24 pm »
I, like many other reds, find stuff like this embarrassing:






Don't think anybody has had a go at little kids wearing a shirt or a scarf. Liverpool has a unique fan culture, and in terms of football fashion has always been ahead of the curve in the UK, seeing it get eroded just feels like another example of the club slipping away from us with the commercialisation and homogenisation of the modern game
Everybody, take minute to laugh at these pictures ;D, how can a grown adult do this to themselves ? Hell I don't even think I wore a full kit as a kid unless i was playing in a actual team.

As for the calls about people looking down on those wearing a replica shirt, it definitely happens and there's been plenty of discussions on here before about it, not sure which threads they were in though ?

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5562 on: April 21, 2015, 08:22:00 pm »
But none of them are LFC + CFC or LFC v MU are they?
God no. Still, maybe should've gone for pennants instead though :)

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5563 on: April 21, 2015, 08:25:19 pm »
Everybody, take minute to laugh at these pictures ;D, how can a grown adult do this to themselves ? Hell I don't even think I wore a full kit as a kid unless i was playing in a actual team.

As for the calls about people looking down on those wearing a replica shirt, it definitely happens and there's been plenty of discussions on here before about it, not sure which threads they were in though ?

The best part is when they even wear shinpads, unreal
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5564 on: April 21, 2015, 08:27:48 pm »
The best part is when they even wear shinpads, unreal
Probably hoping to make the bench.

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5565 on: April 21, 2015, 08:35:47 pm »
Haha shinnies as well, like some fucking shite over enthusiastic 5-aside player.

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5566 on: April 21, 2015, 08:41:04 pm »
Probably hoping to make the bench.

(maybe should've brought him on!)
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5567 on: April 21, 2015, 09:25:36 pm »
Edit - Fair doos Rhi, hadn`t thought of that  :wave
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5568 on: April 21, 2015, 10:56:20 pm »
Edit - Fair doos Rhi, hadn`t thought of that  :wave

same here

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5569 on: April 21, 2015, 11:17:02 pm »
I wear a different Liverpool jersey to work every day,and I'm 36,what's wrong with that? I'm proud to let everyone know I'm a Liverpool fan and win lose or draw,i wear my colours. Full kit wankers are obviously that,but tops are fine,surely.

If you are fishing, then fine. Very good.

If your not, this is exactly the problem and mentality people talk about. Surely you dont wear a replica top every day? What are you trying to prove? After 2 or 3 days everybody knows your a red

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5570 on: April 21, 2015, 11:34:31 pm »
Everybody, take minute to laugh at these pictures ;D, how can a grown adult do this to themselves ? Hell I don't even think I wore a full kit as a kid unless i was playing in a actual team.

As for the calls about people looking down on those wearing a replica shirt, it definitely happens and there's been plenty of discussions on here before about it, not sure which threads they were in though ?

I suspect that the chap in the lower picture may have learning difficulties, if so no criticism there please.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5571 on: April 22, 2015, 08:13:05 am »
I suspect that the chap in the lower picture may have learning difficulties, if so no criticism there please.

I'm guessing the one above may do also.

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5572 on: April 22, 2015, 08:14:58 am »
I suspect that the chap in the lower picture may have learning difficulties, if so no criticism there please.
Obviously if true.

Not sure how you come to that conclusion by that photo though, but if he is ,someone shouldn't be taking his photo in the first place.

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5573 on: April 22, 2015, 09:41:35 am »
Don't know about you lads but I cant fucking wait for West Brom on Saturday after that Wembley experience.  Forget the result for a minute. even before kickoff there was a strange feeling inside there. It just wasn't right. Even though LFC are no strangers to Wembley it felt alien, weird.

Don't think I've ever seen so may face painted adults and grown men with Coutinho shirts on.  The occasion felt so much different to the 3 visits in 2012 which were pretty good even though we lost to the rent boys in the last visit.

Looking forward to Saturday for a proper sing and seeing the regulars.  Those lads who do the flags at the front of the KOP , the old school scouse blokes i see at almost every away game and the gangs of young lads who go.  I know there is much discussion about young lads from Liverpool being priced out of the game but I always see a large contingent of the young fellas as well as the older blokes from Liverpool at the aways.

After last Sunday, I reckon the game on Saturday and the away end atmosphere will be ace.  Once we are inside the Hawthorns it will hopefully hit home that this is what following LFC away is all about and not visits to a stagnant, soulless pits like Wembley.

The whopper count was off the scale on Sunday.

Oh and they REALLY need to get those FA cup semis back to neutral venues (OT, Villa Park etc)


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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5574 on: April 22, 2015, 02:20:52 pm »
Pete, I'm going to jostle and heckle you at the game.


I'll be the one with the painted face, Barry venison shirt and half-and-half bobble hat(Queen of the South/Cowdenbeath).   
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5575 on: April 22, 2015, 02:37:20 pm »
Pete, I'm going to jostle and heckle you at the game.


I'll be the one with the painted face, Barry venison shirt and half-and-half bobble hat(Queen of the South/Cowdenbeath).   
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5576 on: April 22, 2015, 03:00:25 pm »
The problem isn't scousers vs wools.  It's people who give a shit vs people who don't.  I'm scouse born and bred but moved to Essex in my 20s.  Sometime I go the match with fellow scousers, sometimes I go with people who aren't scouse.

Everybody I go with, Scouse or not falls into the category of people who give a shit, if I'm fortunate enough to be amongst them in the ground they'll do their best to sing their hearts out.  However, once in the ground I often feel as I don't belong, because I often end up amongst people who are there for the occasion, or to be entertained rather than to support the team.

When I first started going the people who were there for the occasion or to be entertained would go in the stands.  People who just wanted to support the team would go for the cheaper terracing option where it was easy to group together with like minded others.

Until there's a way of getting the 'supporters' separated from 'the customers' inside the ground the atmosphere wont get any better, but now were going around in circles again.

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5577 on: April 22, 2015, 03:25:01 pm »
Yeah. it was horrible in Wembley. Forget what happened on the pitch. The atmosphere was shocking. I started to have a horrible feeling once I got inside the stadium and saw a fuck load of half and half scarfs and Wanker Hats on sale.

Take YNWA out of it and the awesome crowd surfer banner which passed over and that was about it the entire match. No 'poor scouser Tommy' no player chants (a very quiet Gerrard one aside). Just the occational 'Liverpool Liverpool' chant. Villa outsung us all game and out classed us (no anti scouse/Liverpool chants etc).

You know its bad when your own fans start the pyro early because there was no point in using it towards the end.

I was in block 120. 5th row. In a place between the ones that wanted to stand all game and the ones who wanted to sit all game. I couldn't care less about if I stand or sit or both but the bitching an moaning from people behind me trying to get those in front to sit was just shameful

I would level this particular experience down to the club's way of allocating the tickets. Most (including myself) just took whatever ticket they could get hold of, not really caring where they sat as long as they could get a ticket. I think had there been more notice (not the clubs fault I know considering the QF replay) then I think fans could have been more organised and sorted out a singing section

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5578 on: April 22, 2015, 03:46:19 pm »
Pete, I'm going to jostle and heckle you at the game.


I'll be the one with the painted face, Barry venison shirt and half-and-half bobble hat(Queen of the South/Cowdenbeath).   

That shirt will go great with your BV Mullet too Chopper :)

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« Reply #5579 on: April 23, 2015, 08:08:26 pm »

Don't know about you lads but I cant fucking wait for West Brom on Saturday after that Wembley experience.  Forget the result for a minute. even before kickoff there was a strange feeling inside there. It just wasn't right. Even though LFC are no strangers to Wembley it felt alien, weird.

Don't think I've ever seen so may face painted adults and grown men with Coutinho shirts on.  The occasion felt so much different to the 3 visits in 2012 which were pretty good even though we lost to the rent boys in the last visit.

Looking forward to Saturday for a proper sing and seeing the regulars.  Those lads who do the flags at the front of the KOP , the old school scouse blokes i see at almost every away game and the gangs of young lads who go.  I know there is much discussion about young lads from Liverpool being priced out of the game but I always see a large contingent of the young fellas as well as the older blokes from Liverpool at the aways.

After last Sunday, I reckon the game on Saturday and the away end atmosphere will be ace.  Once we are inside the Hawthorns it will hopefully hit home that this is what following LFC away is all about and not visits to a stagnant, soulless pits like Wembley.

The whopper count was off the scale on Sunday.

Oh and they REALLY need to get those FA cup semis back to neutral venues (OT, Villa Park etc)
Spot on. Just two thousand odd going for it, hope that last result leaves all the whoppers behind for this one.

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« Reply #5580 on: April 24, 2015, 02:20:59 pm »
People absolutely do have a choice though. The 2 home games in the FA cup went to general sale, and anybody who had both games recorded was able to get a Wembley ticket if they wanted one.

All you are doing is deflecting blame and operating under the false assumption that only 1 group of people are to blame, as I said before touts, and people who use touts are both to blame for the current climate. On Friday QPR tickets will be on general sale, and anybody who wants a ticket will no doubt get one. If you want to go to (most) home games then you'll get tickets, simple as that, but the reality is that lots of those buying off touts aren't interested in a game against Hull or Stoke, they want to show up for United or Everton or Wembley and screw over those who regularly go

Went to check QPR this morning and were sold out.
The "unglamorous" games you mention are exactly the ones I go to. I've never been to Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, etc... The semi was by far the biggest game I'v ever gone to.
It's tricky to get tickets for Liverpool home games. I can't go to games Mon-Fri, only weekend ones. My point is that it would be good for the club to somehow recognise people who have to secure tickets by other means than the club and let them get on the ladder, as it were.
And it'd be good for the club to make a greater effort clapping down on touts. It's not impossible to do, if they were inclined to tackle the issue. You can't tout a plane ticket, and there's millions of flights daily around the world.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5581 on: April 24, 2015, 02:44:05 pm »
Went to check QPR this morning and were sold out.
The "unglamorous" games you mention are exactly the ones I go to. I've never been to Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, etc... The semi was by far the biggest game I'v ever gone to.
It's tricky to get tickets for Liverpool home games. I can't go to games Mon-Fri, only weekend ones. My point is that it would be good for the club to somehow recognise people who have to secure tickets by other means than the club and let them get on the ladder, as it were.
And it'd be good for the club to make a greater effort clapping down on touts. It's not impossible to do, if they were inclined to tackle the issue. You can't tout a plane ticket, and there's millions of flights daily around the world.


I'm sorry but if you can't get tickets for any of the unglamorous home games without touts then you're doing something seriously wrong, it's really not difficult. The 2 FA cup home games were on sale for days, and the Wembley ticket was on sale for an entire day too, it was incredibly easy to get there by legal means.


As for the plane ticket comparison it doesn't really work, some lads have been going to every game home and away in some cases for decades on season tickets not in their name, if you started needing picture ID or a passport for your season ticket there'd be absolute chaos and you'd lose a ton of regulars
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5582 on: April 24, 2015, 04:45:15 pm »
I'm sorry but if you can't get tickets for any of the unglamorous home games without touts then you're doing something seriously wrong, it's really not difficult. The 2 FA cup home games were on sale for days, and the Wembley ticket was on sale for an entire day too, it was incredibly easy to get there by legal means.


As for the plane ticket comparison it doesn't really work, some lads have been going to every game home and away in some cases for decades on season tickets not in their name, if you started needing picture ID or a passport for your season ticket there'd be absolute chaos and you'd lose a ton of regulars

I suppose my point really goes back to the shit atmosphere at Wembley, and how tourists going for the experience, as opposed to creating the atmosphere, get tickets. They get them from touts is the short answer.
Tickets for the shitty away games are handy to get, off the other clubs. Got an email from Newcastle this morning offering me tickets for their game v Swansea for 10 quid for example.
Anyway, regarding touts, surely there are steps that could be taken by the club to hinder it. Regardless of my situation, it would help regulars get tickets, which is what you're also in favour of.
Other than supporters repeating the mantra 'buy from touts, your part of the problem', the club should be more active and look at solutions.
With flights, there's nearly 10 million a day. The system doesn't collapse because it's too much hassle to bring id. Also, like season tickets, flight names can be changed. A simple webpage on the Liverpool site could accommodate that.
Just a suggestion, but any others would be great. 

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5583 on: April 24, 2015, 06:18:28 pm »
I suppose my point really goes back to the shit atmosphere at Wembley, and how tourists going for the experience, as opposed to creating the atmosphere, get tickets. They get them from touts is the short answer.
Tickets for the shitty away games are handy to get, off the other clubs. Got an email from Newcastle this morning offering me tickets for their game v Swansea for 10 quid for example.
Anyway, regarding touts, surely there are steps that could be taken by the club to hinder it. Regardless of my situation, it would help regulars get tickets, which is what you're also in favour of.
Other than supporters repeating the mantra 'buy from touts, your part of the problem', the club should be more active and look at solutions.
With flights, there's nearly 10 million a day. The system doesn't collapse because it's too much hassle to bring id. Also, like season tickets, flight names can be changed. A simple webpage on the Liverpool site could accommodate that.
Just a suggestion, but any others would be great. 

The problem is that the things you would do to deal with touts would catch out a lot of regular matchgoers. The original point of season tickets is to provide a club with advance income up front and smooth cash flow. The benefit to the season ticket holder is that they get an reduction in ticket price per game for buying in bulk. It also gives preferential buying rights for away games and cup competitions. As long as the supply of tickets broadly matches demand, a season ticket is beneficial to anyone going to all home games.

Back in the day, the club was eager for supporters to take up season tickets to improve cash flow and forecast income for the next season. It allowed people to buy more than one season ticket under the same name. These season tickets were passed on to other family members and friends and the club had no interest in enforcing any non-transferrable wording on the tickets.

As demand for tickets has grown in recent years (and exponentially after Istanbul) the benefit of having a season tickets has changed from a simple financial benefit to a guarantee of getting a seat when demand massively exceeds supply. It means that anyone with a season ticket is not going to give it up even if they only go to half the home games or less. And no one in their right mind is going to give a season ticket back to the club just because it doesn't have their name on it, and would be nervous about losing it unless there's an amnesty.

It's why there are almost no season tickets coming available and why the season ticket waiting list is so long. I considered putting my name on the waiting list a while back even though I know I probably couldn't make more than half the home games. I'd pass it on at face value of course but decided not to bother because it would just inflate the list.

If you clamp down on touts by a blanket check of season tickets against ID, the club will catch out a load of people who have been using those season tickets for years in good faith.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5584 on: April 24, 2015, 10:50:23 pm »
The problem is that the things you would do to deal with touts would catch out a lot of regular matchgoers. The original point of season tickets is to provide a club with advance income up front and smooth cash flow. The benefit to the season ticket holder is that they get an reduction in ticket price per game for buying in bulk. It also gives preferential buying rights for away games and cup competitions. As long as the supply of tickets broadly matches demand, a season ticket is beneficial to anyone going to all home games.

Back in the day, the club was eager for supporters to take up season tickets to improve cash flow and forecast income for the next season. It allowed people to buy more than one season ticket under the same name. These season tickets were passed on to other family members and friends and the club had no interest in enforcing any non-transferrable wording on the tickets.

As demand for tickets has grown in recent years (and exponentially after Istanbul) the benefit of having a season tickets has changed from a simple financial benefit to a guarantee of getting a seat when demand massively exceeds supply. It means that anyone with a season ticket is not going to give it up even if they only go to half the home games or less. And no one in their right mind is going to give a season ticket back to the club just because it doesn't have their name on it, and would be nervous about losing it unless there's an amnesty.

It's why there are almost no season tickets coming available and why the season ticket waiting list is so long. I considered putting my name on the waiting list a while back even though I know I probably couldn't make more than half the home games. I'd pass it on at face value of course but decided not to bother because it would just inflate the list.

If you clamp down on touts by a blanket check of season tickets against ID, the club will catch out a load of people who have been using those season tickets for years in good faith.

What's your view on an amnesty ? Club could allow those who use one that's not in their name to have it legitimately transferred to them but deal with the multiple ST holders who farm them out for profit.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5585 on: April 25, 2015, 07:47:40 am »
What's your view on an amnesty ? Club could allow those who use one that's not in their name to have it legitimately transferred to them but deal with the multiple ST holders who farm them out for profit.

I believe they've already done this

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« Reply #5586 on: April 25, 2015, 08:05:35 am »
Once again Red Potato you're trying to justify your use of touts and it's indefensible.

I don't criticise you for coming to the games from abroad, fair enough, but touts see you as a walking bag of money, and also, why should you be more entitled to a ticket because you can afford to buy on the black market?

You'll find a lot of fans think what you do is pretty despicable.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5587 on: April 25, 2015, 10:39:48 am »
Once again Red Potato you're trying to justify your use of touts and it's indefensible.

I don't criticise you for coming to the games from abroad, fair enough, but touts see you as a walking bag of money, and also, why should you be more entitled to a ticket because you can afford to buy on the black market?

You'll find a lot of fans think what you do is pretty despicable.

Maybe then the fans who sell to touts / are touts should stop? Think about where the touts get their tickets, particularly for 'big ' games.
Yes, they see supporters from abroad as money bags and are quite happy to oblige for the matches they can't attend. Professional touts aside, the amateur who does it occasionally is abusing their relationship with the club and exploiting demand from far away supporters.

Strangely, some people think I'm looking for sympathy. I'm not. I also don't feel entitled to a ticket. I'll go back to my original point and the issue of the shitty Wembley atmosphere. The fact that there was criteria to buy tickets for that game suggests that regular match goers were doing the touting. The reality is that many genuine supporters end up buying from touts. Pretending that's not the reality of the situation leads to matches like last weekend and the mass service Anfield is turning into, i.e., tourists can get tickets too. Hence the notion that the club could also recognize ticket stubs, etc... when deciding on ticket criteria.

The pointless lazy line 'stop buying from touts' seems to be the only solution offered on here and it's not a real life solution.
There is massive demand for match tickets. The club is expanding the stadium for a reason, not just to sell out for the 'big' games, as is implied by some here. Is QPR a big game?

It almost feels that it's too much effort to tackle the touting issue, and those who have access to tickets can put their feet up and wag their fingers at those who get theirs from the secondary source after official sales have depleted.
As for being despicable, away games I buy from the host club. Home games I've gone to were the 'smaller'' games, so its likely that any regular match goer couldn't have gotten tickets. Again, it was a lazy generalization.

I dare any season ticket holder / regular match goer on here who has ever touted to make their case. Then you might catch a glimpse of proper despicable.

The idea of an amnesty is interesting. Perhaps it has been done before, but could be done again, update the database and regularise the system. Make it possible to transfer a name on the ticket for individual games, like an airline or car insurance company does. This could be done online, quickly. Surely a fix could be created and tackle the touts control of seemingly unlimited tickets more effectively.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5588 on: April 25, 2015, 02:18:34 pm »
Maybe then the fans who sell to touts / are touts should stop? Think about where the touts get their tickets, particularly for 'big ' games.
Yes, they see supporters from abroad as money bags and are quite happy to oblige for the matches they can't attend. Professional touts aside, the amateur who does it occasionally is abusing their relationship with the club and exploiting demand from far away supporters.

Strangely, some people think I'm looking for sympathy. I'm not. I also don't feel entitled to a ticket. I'll go back to my original point and the issue of the shitty Wembley atmosphere. The fact that there was criteria to buy tickets for that game suggests that regular match goers were doing the touting. The reality is that many genuine supporters end up buying from touts. Pretending that's not the reality of the situation leads to matches like last weekend and the mass service Anfield is turning into, i.e., tourists can get tickets too. Hence the notion that the club could also recognize ticket stubs, etc... when deciding on ticket criteria.

The pointless lazy line 'stop buying from touts' seems to be the only solution offered on here and it's not a real life solution.
There is massive demand for match tickets. The club is expanding the stadium for a reason, not just to sell out for the 'big' games, as is implied by some here. Is QPR a big game?

It almost feels that it's too much effort to tackle the touting issue, and those who have access to tickets can put their feet up and wag their fingers at those who get theirs from the secondary source after official sales have depleted.
As for being despicable, away games I buy from the host club. Home games I've gone to were the 'smaller'' games, so its likely that any regular match goer couldn't have gotten tickets. Again, it was a lazy generalization.

I dare any season ticket holder / regular match goer on here who has ever touted to make their case. Then you might catch a glimpse of proper despicable.

The idea of an amnesty is interesting. Perhaps it has been done before, but could be done again, update the database and regularise the system. Make it possible to transfer a name on the ticket for individual games, like an airline or car insurance company does. This could be done online, quickly. Surely a fix could be created and tackle the touts control of seemingly unlimited tickets more effectively.

Whilst I don't agree with touting at all, I do agree with Red Potato in much of what he says. There are hundreds if not thousands of tickets being swapped through twitter and other online forums for every game. The semi was no different though it seemed to be quieter from what I could see than other matches - so how were so many non-usual match goers there? Many of these exchange tickets are at face value but no doubt many are not, but very often these are season ticket holders who are swapping/selling. Is it touting if it is at face value?

This season I have been to Europe and to an FA Cup match at Anfield on friends' season tickets, is that right or wrong? People assume that season tickets are in the hands of Liverpool post code residents but is that actually the case these days, or as these tickets have been handed down over the years have more and more moved out of Liverpool as people have moved north, south, east and west for work, family reasons etc?

As RP has pointed out, it is the holders of these tickets who are letting them go the touts, surely they aren't coming directly from the club. Feel free to have a pop at RP as if nobody bought from touts there would be lower demand, but it is ridiculous to think that people will stop touting if demand is less as there will always be some sort of demand when there is a shortage of supply.

The whole thing needs root and branch reform, the club needs to be more aware of what is going on, the fans who sell to touts should be banned and where are the police and local authorities in this seeing as it is an illegal activity. Don't just blame people like RP, and the crappy atmosphere at some is not just down to touts/OOT's.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5589 on: April 25, 2015, 02:39:19 pm »
Red Potato, you don't feel entitled to a ticket because you're not entitled to a ticket. Build the loyalty up like the rest of us do and stop buying your way to shortcuts.

You're the problem. The touts are the problem. You're both the problem.

And I find it incredible that you think tourists in Wembley were the problem, when you flew in on your 500 euro ticket.

Lets agree to disagree because we don't know each other and outside of this issue I'm sure we wouldn't be at each other.
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« Reply #5590 on: April 25, 2015, 03:06:47 pm »
On fire today. Follow up on the pitch now
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5591 on: April 25, 2015, 03:11:38 pm »
Sounds boss today

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5592 on: April 25, 2015, 06:02:51 pm »
Sounds boss today

It was good. Completely different from last week. Kicked off at half time between a couple of lads but otherwise pretty good.

Oh and the slagging off of Gerrard and Johnson was predictable.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5593 on: April 25, 2015, 06:40:24 pm »
Sounded great. If you grouped that bunch of lads and lasses together at Anfield the place would be rocking
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5594 on: April 25, 2015, 06:48:49 pm »
Return to form compared to last weekend in the stands.

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5595 on: April 25, 2015, 06:52:19 pm »
Good atmosphere today, particularly at the back of the stand.

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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5596 on: April 25, 2015, 08:10:33 pm »


Jibed today off as I'm fed up of the shite I here and see from the traveling kop. Too many tourists/gobshites now, so today I took a break, gave my ticket to my brother and watched my local team Chester put 5 past Nuneaton. Paid £5 and had a great time. Think I'll be doing more Chester games next season unless something changes.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5597 on: April 25, 2015, 08:14:24 pm »
Sounded great. If you grouped that bunch of lads and lasses together at Anfield the place would be rocking
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5598 on: April 25, 2015, 08:17:13 pm »
It was good. Completely different from last week. Kicked off at half time between a couple of lads but otherwise pretty good.

What the fuck was that about, I was in the block in front and suddenly it was like all hell let loose and the police piled in.

Was really good, sounded like it was better further up the stand but overall pretty loud, loads of songs getting an airing.

Something needs to be done about shutting people up on the concourse during minute's silences though, that's today and our Hillsborough one at Anfield spoilt by idiots shouting their mouths off which leads to others shouting at them. Someone near me told a steward to go and tell them to shut up but it didn't make any difference.
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Re: Our fantastic away support
« Reply #5599 on: April 25, 2015, 08:48:45 pm »
Jibed today off as I'm fed up of the shite I here and see from the traveling kop. Too many tourists/gobshites now, so today I took a break, gave my ticket to my brother and watched my local team Chester put 5 past Nuneaton. Paid £5 and had a great time. Think I'll be doing more Chester games next season unless something changes.
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