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Kids for a quid in bid to pack Hawthorns
Monday 7th April 2008, 4:42PM BST.
West Bromwich Albion today slashed its prices for the final two home games of the season in a bid to guarantee sell-outs for the conclusion of the promotion race.
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The Baggies have made the crucial matches with Watford and Southampton ‘kids for a quid’ and have reduced prices for everyone else to just £10 for all parts of the stadium.
The club hopes the move will counteract the effect of the matches being televised live by Sky television, which traditionally hits attendances hard.
And it is being seen as a way to rally disappointed fans following Saturday’s defeat in the semi-final of the FA Cup against Portsmouth at Wembley.
Albion take on Watford on Saturday at 5.20pm and Southampton on April 28 at 7.45pm in two games that could be pivotal to their chances of winning promotion to the Premier League.
Manager Tony Mowbray said: “Our supporters have a huge part to play in helping us get to where everyone wants to be.
“Reducing prices is a great move by the club.It will be a massive boost to me and the players if the fans pack out The Hawthorns for these two games and get right behind the team.”
The reduced prices apply to home fans only and supporters who have already bought tickets will be refunded the difference
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kids for a quid,plyers for a quid,stadium for a quid good sale at tesco’s
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Desperation mode. Let’s hope the is enough kids to snap those babies up! Won’t be able to sell ‘em if adults have to pay full for themselves before kids deal kicks in!!
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no need to say nothing the headline says it all
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How embarssing can it get? Firstly you struggled to sell the cup tickets that Barnsley and Cardiff sold with ease and now you’re having to give tickets away to fill your own ground! This is not what one would expect of a club at the height of it’s success is it now? Maybe the fans can already smell the demise of your backward little club for another season???
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You’ll have to pay the fans to fill the whorethorns!! boing boing saggy faggies
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“Kids for a quid”..Oh No..that means the Nugget’s will be beating a path to the University of Football: The Hawthorns quicker than you can say “Craddocks short one”…
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WOW i can go to the next 2 matches for 2 quid,hope me mom lets me stay out late boing boing
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You wouldn’t fill the Poorthorns if you let all your supporters in FREE
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These 2 games are both on sky…
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We need the ‘Kids for a quid after being ripped off at Wembley yet again.First Derby and then Pompey in addition to the rather pricey but quality catering in the new stadium.
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well done, theyll prob be few wolves fans who make attempted jokes at this. but i personally think its great idea to fill the stands. the extra support could help push wba over the finishing line
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something else for the dinglets to be jealous with us,kids for a quid ,our club always seem to be able to upset our jealous friends from down the road by doing great deals for our superb fans.how they must crave to be like us,,DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT THE WEST BROMWICH ALBION WAY,,,,LOVELY JUBBLY..
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do you lot not feel ashamed to be taking your kids even if it is for a pound,its not to late to save them and bring them to the wolves
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we late with the post this morning arnt we,anything to do with last nites result i wonder boing boing blackpool here we come
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kids for a quid………………..aka can’t sell ya tickets!!! lol
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Im sorry guys, Im not usually a typical dingle by having a dig at every chance but anyone who is challenging for promotion to the prem should not have to have drastic cuts in ticket prices to ensure a near full ground, possible promotion should be enough to get bums on seats, especially with the attractiv
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This shouldnt happen to a team looking at possible automatic promotion, the ground should be full anyway, but i feel that wolves would struggle too as the current economic climate is heading on a fast downward spiral with the rise in cost of living far outweighing the rise in wages, so something has to be sacrificed , ie, a ticket costing 20-odd quid, plus the beer and food, amounting to 40-50 quid that some fans can ill afford at the moment, a very good idea to help the fans, lets just hope a certain Mr. Moxey is taking note.!!
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6 – is right to be fair
your supposedly big club yet cant fill out
where are all those 35k wemberly fans now hey???
surely they must fill the the hawthorns??
oh yes 15k of them only been twice in their lives
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6n7,yes but its exspensive following the albion with all the success we have,drawn away in every round of the cup,getting to wembley,its not like being a dingle just buy ya early bird season ticket(sum of ya) and thats it,boing boing im going up the tower
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sorry meant 9n10,its just that im so excited bout going to blackpool on the fair and going top of the league boing boing
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Funny considering all the comments above i notice you havent sold out yet for next week. Despite the game being re-arranged. we sold our allocationa ages ago. And just maybe our club appreciate the extra cost of the cup run and wembley something our jelous little brothers down the road did not ahve to worry about.
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just rember dingles,you couldent sell your tickets for your home leg play off semi final agenst us cud ya,boing boing go when your winning
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as dickinson says cheap as chips,all you season ticket holders who have paid full price to watch leiceter,coventry etc hammer ya at home do you feel cheated by the club a quid in you’ll have every tom dick and harry shaving on saturday just to get in for a quid,there’s a bloke aged 56 he’s wearing a school uniform on saturday lol.
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12 – i meant
all the comments been re-arranged
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1 ‘Stadium for a quid.’ Surely you’re confusing us with another local team that had to sell the whole club for a tenner because no one wanted to take it on. Just think if ten of our kids use their Watford money they could club together and buy the Wolves. I won’t even bother doing the ‘they’ve already got a cowboy outfit’ joke. You must be embarrassed enough already
4 Villein. (I think you’ll find this is the correct spelling, it means a peasant.)
I presume this is meant as a joke. Surely you can’t be stupid enough to believe what you’re saying. Just in case I’ll explain. They sold their tickets first come first served. Our club made sure that the real fans got theirs first. They did it online to save us going to the ground. They then released the rest to the part timers, don’t worry, you’ll find that you have them as well if you ever get to Wembley. WBA, looking after their fans again.
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23.. Only time I would feel cheated is if I had payed to watch the rubbish football your team churns out
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17. At last a sensible Wolf in a sea of moronic comments as usual.
All West Midlands clubs need to bring in young supporters for their future especially with all of the armchair fans we have in the area bringing up their kids supporting Man Ure, Liverpool etc.
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Posts 1 to 6 why bother to waste your energy or tax the small number of brain cells you have posting on here.
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what about the true fans, the season ticket holders that go up every other week, through thick and thin, are we going to get some money back???
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Thats the way to win the league play rubbish for 80mins then win 3-1
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28 Sorry to pick you up on this Stourbaggies but brain cells implies plural when I’m sure the reality is singular or even non existent.
Don’t worry, this won’t upset the knuckledraggers. The words are far too long.
In fairness you do get the occasional Dingle who drools enviously at the smorgasbord of footballing entertainment that is regular fayre at the Hawthorns.
Which proves that even being a Doghead does not always put you beyond redemption.
Top of the League, over a hundred goals and we’ve already had another trip to Wembley.
Would we swap that for dreary, dull football at a club worth a tenner, the probability of mid table mediocrity and an outside chance of a play off defeat at the hands of Palace or Plymouth?
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