2,612 sold for QPR

NorthumberlandBoro said:
I'm not so sure..
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Birmingham still has the worst unemployment in the country

Six of the ten constituencies with the worst unemployment in the whole UK are in Birmingham
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Trust me there are a lot of professional jobs in Birmingham - have you visited the City Centre in the last 3 or 4 years - a lot has been completely redeveloped. There are pockets of deprivation with some quite complex issues, but overall the employment market is better than on Teesside. Many professionals commute into the centre from places like Lichfield. An example is Cadburys who are still a major employer although not as big as they were.

When I go back to Teesside I hear a lot of professional types (gradutes etc) have jobs away either during the week or have two homes/bases or moved away and come back for visits. It will go on too in Birmingham but on a smaller percentage scale. I had 8 known uncle and aunties plus my parents and of their children only 50% stayed in the area despite all their parents staying in the area. All the older generation were born working class, rented houses etc.

It might change a bit with if working from home 5 days a week is allowed.
 
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Fulham is regularly more than the number you suggest......everyone who wants a ticket, can get one in their 'nuetral' section, which is next to away block
 
clay said:
Liverpool, so about 140 miles.

I'm doing most of the QPR trip on the stopper West Midlands train because Avanti have basically given up running a weekend service, so that's going to be a long day.
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£82 is expensive (29p per mile) from Liverpool to Boro even £55 (nearly 20p per mile) - do you have a railcard?

A petrol car is around 16p per mile fuel for one person - 8p for 2 etc

I have found you a potential ticket for Sunderland game for £43 (no railcard) see below. For some games I am sure I could get it down to £39

Booking Process - raileasy.co.uk

www.raileasy.co.uk
 
Ref Corporate tickets - cheers for the information - so we can eliminate corporates for the discrepency in ticket numbers.

I think the MFC ticket office and PR have just got it wrong with the numbers. I tend to believe the website ticketing system and will go with over 2,600 sold.
Pear-Drops said:
Fulham is regularly more than the number you suggest......everyone who wants a ticket, can get one in their 'nuetral' section, which is next to away block
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Not in 2021 they could not and in 2019/20 - 2021 their ground was getting redeveloped and no neutral end. The Woody game 2019/20 was a night match and we did not sell out the away end and were in relegation battle.

In 2017/18 we did sell out and may have had fans in neutral end so you could be right that season that we sold 2,600 plus - it was early on in September and we had just spent £50m?
 
Redwurzel said:
Trust me there are a lot of professional jobs in Birmingham - have you visited the City Centre in the last 3 or 4 years - a lot has been completely redeveloped. There are pockets of deprivation with some quite complex issues, but overall the employment market is better than on Teesside. Many professionals commute into the centre from places like Lichfield. An example is Cadburys who are still a major employer although not as big as they were.

When I go back to Teesside I hear a lot of professional types (gradutaes etc) have jobs away either during the week or have two homes/bases or moved away and come back for visits. It will go on too in Birmingham but on a smaller percentage scale. I had 8 known uncle and aunties plus my parents and of their children only 50% stayed in the area despite all their parents staying in the area. All the older generation were born working class, rented houses etc.
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Been to the centre of Brum several times recently. The centre is well developed, but walk a few minutes away and the look is very different. There may be a lot more professional jobs than Teesside (not difficult), but the stats suggest there is still a significant unemployment problem. I bet there are loads of Brummies that are London based. Can't say I know any personally and I've no idea where you get the stats from to price it!
Anyway I'm ,not arguing with the notion that loads of folk leave Teesside for employment (I'm one of them), but just question that it is significantly more than other provincial areas.
 
I agree with you Big John we had the away end of about 80% of the neutral end that afternoon - I was looking at post-AK days, that Fulham game was over 7 years ago in April/May 2015.
 
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NorthumberlandBoro said:
Been to the centre of Brum several times recently. The centre is well developed, but walk a few minutes away and the look is very different. There may be a lot more professional jobs than Teesside (not difficult), but the stats suggest there is still a significant unemployment problem. I bet there are loads of Brummies that are London based. Can't say I know any personally and I've no idea where you get the stats from to price it!
Anyway I'm ,not arguing with the notion that loads of folk leave Teesside for employment (I'm one of them), but just question that it is significantly more than other provincial areas.
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I haven't got any stats, except population growth. Its more a gut feeling that more Teessiders have had to leave their home area than say Brummie's, as percentages.

edit - Birmingham's population is up 13% since 2002 - Teesside's has probably declined by 2% or 3% in the same period (its feels there are less people about when I visit). Fewer schools and colleges etc.
 
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249 tickets left...

We could always cover them with a few flags like away fans do at the Riverside, except they try to cover 1000 empty seats.:LOL:
 
Redwurzel said:
£82 is expensive (29p per mile) from Liverpool to Boro even £55 (nearly 20p per mile) - do you have a railcard?

A petrol car is around 16p per mile fuel for one person - 8p for 2 etc

I have found you a potential ticket for Sunderland game for £43 (no railcard) see below. For some games I am sure I could get it down to £39

Booking Process - raileasy.co.uk

www.raileasy.co.uk
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Thanks for the effort, but I use that site already to split whenever possible, and I don't meet any of the criteria for a railcard.
 
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