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From: "Dr Michael Benjamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:59 PM
Subject: [LU] Miserable sods
What a bunch of miseries.
We got into the finals for [EMAIL PROTECTED] sake. You'd think that we were
relegated.
Still on about the only goal P
Not anyone in disguise.
Can you imagine this list if everyone shut up about things that they
know nothing about.?
Don't you think that it is bloody strange that in spite of getting to
Cardiff the vast majority of post s are pure belly aching moaning
minnies. The football the tickets. the
On Thu, 11 May 2006 00:11:04 +0100, you wrote:
>Rumour I now hear
>
>at 6pm today only 5000 tickets had sold, and 3500 of those were new
>applications. (i.e. £45 extra per new member)
> - Original Message -
> From: tim whelan
> To: The Leeds List
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Gotta love Uncle Ken
He WILL make money by hook or by crook
Whilst it doesnt sound right at all - what
mechanisim can you put in place to make this fairer? Also this will bring up the
"real fan"debate once again.. Eg. Im a member but being 12,000 miles away I
havent got on my bike this ye
Rumour I now hear
at 6pm today only 5000 tickets had sold, and 3500
of those were new applications. (i.e. £45 extra per new member)
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From:
tim whelan
To: The Leeds List
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:36
PM
Subject: Re: [LU] Tickets
Do
Yep this is my preferred plan too
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From:
Mark Humphries
To: 'DAVID NATTAN' ; 'list leedslist'
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:26
AM
Subject: RE: [LU] Another classic from
Mark
If he isnt going to
pick harding or pugh I reckon he migh
Speed they were going today surprised they have sold that many...
>ONLY 10,000? Pl;ease don't get my hopes up, I've still to find out if I can
>get tomorrow afternoon off to go down!
>
>Mark K.
>
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Emmo
Does anyone know what the situation is with postal
applications?
Mine would have got there first thing this morning
(Wednesday) and I won't be able to go down in person as I live in Crewe. Do I
stand a chance?
Tim W.
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From:
Terry Emmott
To: The Leed
You're outdoing yourself now. I am a teacher. We get nice long holidays
but we don't get the choice of taking days off when we want. Or would you
rather I threw a sickie and abandoned the kids for a day during their exams?
Christ on a bicycle.
Si
What were they supposed to do?
Wrap ar ri
ONLY
10,000? Pl;ease don't get my hopes up, I've still to find out if I can get
tomorrow afternoon off to go down!
Mark
K.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Terry
EmmottSent: 10 May 2006 22:36To: The Leeds
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Idiot, I can't begin to tell you how much of a dick you sound.
Mark K.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dr Michael
Benjamin
Sent: 10 May 2006 20:27
To: Si Carter
Cc: leedslist@list.zetnet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [LU] Miserable sods
What were t
best wishes everyone - most especially real...i mean regular... fans with your
ticket quests.
have heard no comment on the gritty wtf game which i didn't see.
seems a bit inconsistent (unfair...typicial anti leeds bias) that they had a
reported full scale 22 man brawl with managers getting red c
Just spoken to the boy Sean who has been in the
queue since 10-15 this morning and is now within 30 people of getting our
tickets at 10.30 tonight. The story going round the queue at the moment is that
they have sold around 10,000 tickets so far and he reckons there is about
another 1,000 in
Are you Didsbury in disguise ? I've got home and away season tickets (and there's only about 200 of us left) - i'm already in trouble at work for taking Monday off unauthorised to goto Preston - at the moment i don't know if i'm going to get a ticket. I'm a bit pissed off with this to say t
Are you Didsbury in disguise ? I've got home and away season tickets (and there's only about 200 of us left) - i'm already in trouble at work for taking Monday off unauthorised to goto Preston - at the moment i don't know if i'm going to get a ticket. I'm a bit pissed off with this to say t
What were they supposed to do?
Wrap ar ribbon round it & wait?
First come , first served.
If you wanted it enough then go queue.
But stop bloody moaning!
On 10/05/06, Si Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, listen carefully Michael, YOU get a bloody grip, because, yes, it DOES
mean bad manageme
Oh, and in case anyone thinks that was intemperate, they should try talking
to a ST holder who turned up this afternoon only to be told to "try again
tomorrow" (he can't, he's working). His language makes mine look positively
mild-mannered.
Si
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From: "Si Carter"
No, listen carefully Michael, YOU get a bloody grip, because, yes, it DOES
mean bad management and selling out to glory seekers. You have people
who've not been to a bloody game since we got relegated getting tickets and
you can predict people who've been going for the last two seasons (but who
What a bunch of miseries.
We got into the finals for [EMAIL PROTECTED] sake. You'd think that we were
relegated.
Still on about the only goal Preston scored. Crainey should be
castrated. Blackwell out by Xmas. We need to buy a new team. What
next?
And now the show stopper. We sell out the tickets
Ah... My ticket purchaser arrived at 0530 this morning and was 3rd in the
queue. We each have £66 tickets in a group on the front row of the 2nd tier,
overlooking the halfway line...
Proper planning prevents...
;-)
>I suspect half the "good" tickets are in the NE ticket office, going to
>g
It still beggars belief to me that they replace a stadium that used to have a capacity of 100,000 (pre plastic bucket seats) with one with a capacity 90,000 (71,000 for general sale) knowing there were all the same ticketing issues when it was 100,000.On 10 May 2006, at 18:03, DAVID NATTAN wrote:FA
FA Cup final is treated as a big football occasion though and lots of county FAs etc (the "football family " who have got 15% of England tickets for Germany !!) get tickets - that is why clubs get more for the League Cup final The play offs only really concern the teams invovled so apart from a fe
Agreed Mark, it was a good battling team performance on Monday, but it was
bloody ugly to watch - not that there was anything wrong with that in the
60s or now, cos it's the result that matters first and foremost. Am I the
only one though, to think last nights game (albeit 0-0) was much quicker
pa
It's
not like the match is on Sundaythey should have invited postal applications
to be in by Saturday and then opened the ticket office on
Monday.
Just
opening the ticket office Saturday would at least have given people like me
who have to work some bleeding chance.
Mark
K.
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I suspect half the "good" tickets are in the NE ticket office, going to
glory hunting twats who've been to half a game between them this year.
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From: "Darran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 5:19 PM
Subject: [LU] tickets
Queued for five and
Queued for five and a half hours and then could onlg get tickets in
the corners, lower tier or up at the top.. Piss poor organisation.
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Well the guy was rattled and seemed to be struggling with
the situation but his words were something like “I expect that there will
be very, very few tickets left after we have processed the current people”
And yet he also said that he was trying to give the
locked-out queuers a postal
ARGH! This is ridiculous!
By
my calculation 12,000 ST holders = 24,000 tix if they all get 2 plus 10,000
member = a total of 32,000.
If
we assume that not ALL members and ST holders went down today (me and loads I
know of) and not ALL ST holders got 2 then there's at least 3 - 4 thousand
I think the rest go to sponsors and the like. According to a friend
Liverpool and West Ham only got 28k each for the FA Cup Final.
- Si
DAVID NATTAN wrote:
> If the Millennium holds 72,500 is there any chance of LUFC getting
> any more tickets ?
>
> As I understand it we asked for and received t
Title: RE: Leedslist digest, Vol 1 #145 - 11 msgs
David Thompson is available now. Mind, so is Henchoz.
I'm totally fcking pissed off with it.
If I don't get a ticket I couldn't give a stuff
about the final, because I won't be watching it on the TV.
Glory hunting twts, like you say. There's a bloke
here in my office had his housewife queue up all day for his ticket and he's not
been once th
Surely this cannot be right about selling out ? We got 35,000 tickets and put 33,000 on sale, we only have 22,000 members in total so there should be enough for St holders to get 2 each and members one. I dont believe every ST holder who has got to ticket office today has bought 2 . If correct
So what about postal applications then? Fantastic! Verner Dunderhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:CEO Harvey was clearly rattled when questioned at ER by a Radio Leeds reporter
They had just closed the gates at ER, some three hours earlier than previously intimated on the web
CEO Harvey was clearly rattled when questioned at ER by a Radio Leeds
reporter…
They had just closed the gates at ER, some three hours earlier than
previously intimated on the website. When asked what would happen to anyone who
was not already in the locked in queue, he said that he fel
>PS Thanks for reminding me about Tinkler - I agree that there ought to be
>some government-funded counselling service for survivors of that match. It
>changed my life forever, and I'm sure is the sole reason that I'm such a
>miserable old git now
I take it Rich Walker was at the match too?
Gaff
Dunderhead wrote:
Queue nostalgia anyone? Any tales of heroic queuing for 60's cup matches or
maybe the Barcelona semi?
I remember it well - I queued right down Lowfields Road (I don't actually
remember where the tickets were being sold from - was it a turnstile??). I
queued for a few hour
If the Millennium holds 72,500 is there any chance of LUFC getting any more tickets ? As I understand it we asked for and received the maximum allowed which is 35,000. Watford (I have heard) have asked for 28,000- if true will we be able to obtain the other 7,000 they have not asked for or will
He is generally shite, it's the attempt at 40yr cross field balls that does
it for him mainly.. but I thought he did ok on Monday. No he isn't as good
as Dorigo, but we have had much worse, and he has been much worse this
season.
He can defend a bit though.. what would you rather have, Ian Harte
Apparently you can't join the queue at all now. They reckon it will take
till midnight to clear the current queue.
Fucking shambles.
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Cant remember that specific incident, but maybe its because I have low
expectations to start with :)
I thought he did a decent job. My lasting recollection was the good tackle
he put in, and that he wasn't made to look a mug. I also don't remember him
looking particularly slow, just that Whalley
Have to agree with you on Crainey John (can't think of a worse one off the
top of my head), although I'll repeat, he did do his job in bringing Nugent
down, red card or no red card - come on Mark, the guy's absolute shite.
Virtually everytime he passes it it goes to an opposition player - either
> By gad, we're so bloody awful I think we're going to do it!
> I'm not sure I quite understood how bad Championship football is, but
> the first game was possibly the worst game of football I've ever seen.
what? do you mean its worst that last season? or the season before last?
I probably d
If we go up I think we build a team round Crainey. Maybe play 3 at the back
cos Crainey can do 2 men's jobs.
Build from the back - keeper to Crainey, one touch...off his shin pad..two,
three...four...he's got it under control now...look up...9 iron down the
wing into the stand. Total football.
Fair enough, there was definitely one occasion, the guy went past him,
Crainey tried to pull the guy down and fell over...that pretty much counts
as looking like a twat.
I understand what you're saying about being negative but Crainey was poor.
David Robertson WAS worse though :)
Mark K.
-Or
Our definition of being 'skinned' differ then.
By skinned I mean made to look like a twat, ie how he looked for the first
half vs Wigan when he was being skinned. Mind you Teale (I think it is) did
that to a few prem left backs as well this year.
> -Original Message-
> From: Mark Kitch
I still think that the ticket allocation rationale was fatally flawed
from the outset – especially the two per person aspect. We might as well
go back to collecting programme tokens for premium matches…
Queue nostalgia anyone? Any tales of heroic queuing for 60’s cup
matches or maybe th
If he isn’t going to pick harding or
pugh I reckon he might put Kelly and LB and move Richardson back to RB.
We cannot afford to move Killa out of CB.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DAVID NATTAN
Sent: 10 May 2006 15:12
To: list leedslist
Sub
>>He wasn't diabolical, he didn't get skinned and made (and won) a few
decent
>>tackles.
I'm not getting into a big argument, just the facts, and you're wrong, he
DID get skinned, I can think of 3 occasions.
Mark K.
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PHEW!!!
Got two luvver-lee tickets!
One of my mates got them, he was there at 7am, got served at 11.30am & he was only as far back as the Banqueting Suite!
Usual organisational skills - the ticket office didn't even know the difference between the differently priced tickets! They didn't e
Erm, I think its someone else you should be telling its only a game..
He must have been doing his nut in waiting to post the usual negative
diatribe.
Its constant relentless absolute negativity. I am seriously starting to
think that he is another incarnation of Lord Disbury/Chantelle.
At leas
I know it is counting our chickens, but if we do get promoted I agree with Rich
& the Rev Lee that we need pretty much a new team.
The only players from the current squad that look anything like premiership
material are.
Sullivan, Kelly, Richardson, Kilgallon, Derry, Bakke, Miller, Healy, Hulse
Worse than Harding, if Butler is fit he may put the fat boys back together and move Killa to left back !!! Dave He is shite but we're in the final and he's not playing - hurrah!wait on that means Harding...
could be UFO spotters
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From:
Verner Hanna
To: leedslist@list.zetnet.co.uk
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:03
PM
Subject: [LU] NON LU:A1 North of Wetherby
(Speed Cameras?)
Has anyone noticed the large amount of very tall pylons along th
How many tackles did he miss by the way?
Four or five? but then again he only played half a game - LOL!
p.s keep the toys in the pram Mark - its only a game.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stotty
Sent: 10 May 2006 1
Ten years on from the fiasco that was the ticket allocation for the League
Cup Final against Villa, here we are again. Does nobody at LUFC think these
bloody things through in advance? Existing ST holders and members should
have been given the first few days to get tickets (in person or by post),
Yes, cos Preston are so shit they didn't see how utterly useless he is.
Either that or their coaching staff didn't actually see him as a week spot.
But no, you lot with less than zero professional football experience, let
alone zero coaching skills or qualifications know better than either a
prof
I think Mark's on the wind-up. Doing a bloody good job
though.
Crainey played well !! ... Jeez !
--- Stotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Crainey played his usual game on Monday
>
> Won 1 tackle - albeit a very good one
>
> Skinned more often than not - luckily Preston only
> attacked a few t
Worse than Ian Harte?
Worse than David Roberston?
Worse than Harding (who you have slated)?
Lee Sharpe?
Lets face it Rich, Leeds has hardly been a stomping ground for quality left
backs.
He wasn't diabolical, he didn't get skinned and made (and won) a few decent
tackles. As always you let you
Has anyone noticed the large amount of very tall pylons along the A1 between Wetherby and Dishforth?They are on both sides of the road and placed at very regular intervals. It looks like two glass globes on top of each. Are these speed cameras?Yesterday I was passing the new stretch of A1 just past
Crainey played his usual game on Monday
Won 1 tackle - albeit a very good one
Skinned more often than not - luckily Preston only attacked a few times down
that side
Passing - fcking hopeless.
He is shite but we're in the final and he's not playing - hurrah!
wait on that means Harding...
>>As others have mentioned, Crainey played well. In
>>fact the whole back 4
>>played well.
Staggering !
I didn't read all the match reports on here but did
anyone else really think Crainey played well ? He did
one good challenge which the Leeds fans sarcastically
cheered. Apart from that he was
> In fact your criticism of Gregan for their goal in
> the first leg was totally
> unwarranted.. if you had played to any kind of level
> you should know that
> the last thing you do as the last defender is go
> running after the ball and
> commit yourself. Nugent is a quick player. Gregan
> actu
> At last the voice of reason. I thought Blackwell was
> playing for a 0-0 draw with his line up at Preston and
> then he planned to bring all his attackers on during
> extra time / pens.
If you thought that then it must be true.
>Like the first leg I thought we
> battled well but played terr
> By gad, we're so bloody awful I think we're going to
> do it! I'm not sure I quite understood how bad
> Championship football is, but the first game was
> possibly the worst game of football I've ever seen.
> Donkeys - both teams. Second leg was funny - both
> teams were rubbish again, only us le
I've just been for a drive past at lunch, thought I'd suss it out before I
queue up after work.
At the moment there's a queue down the West stand (about 10 people wide),
which then goes all the way along the back of the first car park, up the
side of it back onto Elland Road, and along Elland
By gad, we're so bloody awful I think we're going to do it! I'm not sure I quite understood how bad Championship football is, but the first game was possibly the worst game of football I've ever seen. Donkeys - both teams. Second leg was funny - both teams were rubbish again, only us less so. Ref a
I sent my application of first thing this monring as I live in London and
have no chance of getting up there. For the £66 one fingers crossed it gets
there in time b4 there all snapped up.
Surely they should allocate one to every memebr and season ticket holder and
then let the season ticke
So, who's cheering on Boro tonight in Eindhoven?
Ah, Eindhoven. Wasn't that long ago that we enjoyed an afternoon/evening in
Eindhoven. Seems like yesterday. I vividly recall Wiggy kicking the match
ball into my nuts in the fans friendly match in the afternoon - ouch!
Was the calmest, most
Police have just analysed the Spurs lasagne & it was found to contain
traces of hard cheese, sour grapes & tough shit !
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I really hope these numbers are correct - as i'd imagine people would be really peed off if ST holders don't get a ticket because they have sold a lot of them to Members before ST holders can get there. Luckily Mr Turford is in the queue with my ST at the moment but there are many people in the
Just had a phone call from a mate of mine who is in the queue, he reckons
he's 3/4 of a mile down Elland Road!!
As someone who can't get there until Saturday or Sunday I'm slightly
panicking - they haven't got their sums wrong have they?
2 tickets each? Plus Members, how
Topliss, that was the name of the ref from Grimsby
who buggered us up in the fifties. Told you I'd never forget
it.
Si,I have asked the ticket office that very same question via email - I'm hoping customer number will do it - I don't have the tickets anymore!Will let you know if & when I get an answer.Andy
On 09/05/06, Simon Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anybody know if home semi-final ticket holders will have
Although very important, the final is made all the more important due to the recent connections - especially for Kevin Blackwell. His opposite number having been one of his assistants & three players, for one reason or another, being sold by him cos they didn't measure up or fit in.
Let's hope
Anybody know how many tickets allocated to Watford?
Had a look on their website - there was nothing on there about buying tickets!
Julie
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Got mine..got 2 spares as well...and yes I have sold them !
Ted
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Graham wrote:>Got mine..got 2 spares as well...and yes I have sold them !
Just had a phone call from a mate of mine who is in the queue, he reckons he's 3/4 of a mile down Elland Road!!
As someone who can't get there until Saturday or Sunday I'm slightly panicking - they haven't got
I hear different numbers, but these seem to be the most consistent:-11,000 season ticket holders.20,000 membersSeason ticket holders are automatically members, so that becomes:-22,000 (season ticket holders x 2)
9,000 membersSo that's 31k, plus the fact that anyone can go and become a new member an
How long did you have to queue for?
And how long was the queue when you joined it?
I'm off after work...
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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [LU] Old Enemies
Got m
I didn't queue..my mate on the FA got me 2.and a corporate S/T
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I hope the no new members is cos they realised they cocked up with thatNews From The Ticket OfficeSupporters who are applying for
tickets for the Football League Championship Play-Off Final are advised
that tickets are allocated on a first come first served basis.
The best seats available will
Supporters who are applying for tickets for the Football League Championship
Play-Off Final are advised that tickets are allocated on a first come first
served basis.
The best seats available will be allocated for each price band.
Unfortunately supporters are unable to pick and choose their seats
Had an automated reply from the ticket office including the same info they
are currently publishing on the web site.
I get the feeling there will be none left anyway once S/T holders and
members have had their allocations.
Si.
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From: Simon Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
Title: Message
Cheers
Andy,
I have
emailed the ticket office aswell, I will let the list know if I hear anything. I
can imagine they are so busy and wouldn't be surprised if they are not
replying to emails at the moment.
Si.
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