How many can we expect

3000

3,300 I've heard

Amazing that the NL couldn't find a stadium with a normal capacity bigger than 27,000 to stage the play off final.

Here's 3 they obviously didn't look at: Riverside Stadium (34,700), Stadium of Light (49,000), St James Park (52,400).

Someone must have thought it was a bit far for Torquay fans to travel, assuming they didn't win the league outright...

Do you think it will be two final tickets per Pools season ticket holder, or one?

Even down south there are plenty of bigger stadiums. Its ridiculous, and proof the NL don't a clue of their clubs they hold power over.

Dodgy back hander gone somewhere?

Ticket info.

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Other end of the nation
One o clock on what will probably be a hot Sunday afternoon
Let's be frank, Torquay will be the favourites
Only 3,100 tickets for pools
41 pounds. From seniors to toddlers.

The national league can absolutely go F itself. What are they achieving from this though? Has procuring ashton gate really set them back so much to demand £41 admission???

24 hours after a rugby game at the same ground too.

Let's pray we win and can tell the N.L. to go fuck itself!!!!!

a red hot poker comes to mind. even the idea of an ashton gate final is akin to be promised a new train set as a kid and expecting an electric one only to be given a second hand clockwork one. the only poolies who could get excited about playing there would be an exile who lives in the area. those in charge of the league said, if you believe them, that all the premier league clubs turned them down. well the majority of the championship clubs must also have done the same thing. do not worry though if all but one of the clubs had been southern based they,d have managed to get the stadium of light somehow.

In defence of the National League

Firstly the late start to the season was due to them falling foul of the same problem as 50% of the nation - they believed that for once Boris Johnson had told the truth. What idiots they were. Clearly the only way the National Leaguecould survive was with supporters at games. They delayed the season in this hope and fell victim of Johnson's ignorance of viruses and their spread, along with his failure to take advice of experts or countries with more knowledge of how to handle deadly diseases - Asian countries who had put a plan in place rather than the failed UK system that they had tested in a trial and failed dismally, only for nothing to be done about it.

So they started the season late as there was no guarantee of funding to support the massive losses of no crowds. They have made many mistakes with the vote to cancel or susspend the season, again the cause being the change in the funding from the Government. This should have benn sorted earlier I agree.

But the late finish to the season was always going to occur with the late start. This produces the problem of the game taking place in the summer break.

Many stadiums will either not have a pitch laid or staff available or maybe renovations being done to the stadium. The issue of crowds are determined by current Covid laws in place to protect the spread. So the pricing will obviously be higher as crowd level lower, hiring of stadium at late notice and the expectations of the National League as to what they think people will pay.

Higher prices and inconvenience is going to happen everywhere, the world over from the Covid virus.

Yes Bristol is a nightmare for travelling for us and I agree somewhere more central would be much better, but it is supply and demand in a Capitalist society.

Hopefully next season attending games will be much easier, whatever league we are in.

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Higher prices and inconvenience is going to happen everywhere, the world over from the Covid virus.

Yes Bristol is a nightmare for travelling for us and I agree somewhere more central would be much better, but it is supply and demand in a Capitalist society.

its not just about the price its everything to do with the final thats wrong. before you even mention the downer of ashton gate and the kick off time its actually playing the game on a sunday instead of saturday. with a limited capacity no matter where it was played even with the euro,s being on its going to be a sell out. more to do with the television audiance than those watching live. nearly everywhere on a sunday is near impossible by train unlike saturday so hope no one mentions carbon footprints to me. even global warming comes a poor second to tv companies and their profits.

This is a dreadful decision let alone the rest.

A rousing rendition of 'You don't know what you're doing' as the national League representatives take their seats from both sets of fans might be an idea.

Used to follow NE Revs, a football team based in the US who I think groundshared with a college "football (the american one)" team. Could always tell when the american football team used it, and from what I can gather rugby has even more tackling.

Not surprised at the price, but surely a better stadium could be found. Does any football club currently play at the horrific hockey stadium MK Don's once used? Can't imagine that been too expensive to use.

I think, like most fans of clubs in our league, that the people who run the National league couldn't organise the proverbial piss up in a brewery.
I admire Mr Snailwood's attempt for even looking for excuses for their decision making but I would point out that there will be an enquiry into the behaviour of Boris and his Government during this pandemic. On top of that there will be a General Election in due course where we all will be able to judge their performance and the availability of a suitable alternative.
However no such scrutiny will fall on the National league and we fans will never have the opportunity to kick them out.
Therein lies the difference and the problem.

Just had a look at the Ashton Gate layout and noticed that there will be no Pools fans in the Lansdown Stand, which is the biggest in the stadium (11,000 capacity) and houses the changing rooms, tunnel, team benches and executive boxes. So I guess Torquay are the honorary home side for the day and the Poolie riff raff are being kept well away.

Do what you like ya NL bastads, it's Pools who are going up!

Hockey stadium was knocked down years ago. Isn't it this time of year a lot of clubs are re-laying their pitches?

The que is past the Raglin

Apart from the £41 ticket price + booking fee per ticket, not per transaction, Bristol City are charging £30 for car parking at the ground. Total rip-off city !

Looks like Ashton Gate is being used as a vaccination centre too, along with a big screen for the Euro matches.
As for parking, as I remember it, you can park some 10 minutes away and walk. Given that is the time it usually takes to get out of a car park at the ground, the better option. One benefit of the game being on a Sunday- you can park on single yellow line. Glad that Poolies are lining up to make the trip. Bristol is worth an overnight visit anyway so make a good weekend of it.

actually its nearly as bad as london. when i drove national express coaches in the 1980,s bristol was a regular mid journey stopping off point or destination. was the first time i paid a quid for a cup of coffee. ashton gate years ago used to be a decent pace to park but seems to have joined the rest with yellow paint around and residents only parking restrictions.

train price 344 pound from keighley to bristol. too far for me nowadays to do the journey in one day. could have been worse we could have been playing somewhere i actually wanted to see pools play as a league club. radio tees for me unless someone wants to give me a lift to share all expenses.

Ridiculous. They may as well make the referee Basil Fawlty, very clear the National League want a Torquay win.

Name down for flight and ticket. Twice in a lifetime opportunity.

700 mile round trip by car for me as I have to be in Norfolk for work on Friday and can't get away till Saturday evening. I'm going to drive to Cheltenham, night in a hotel there, train down to Bristol on Sunday morning, return to Cheltenham for the car and back up the road North sometime on Sunday afternoon.

If I'm lucky I'll find myself walking up to the ground with the Torquay massive

If your not flying down your tinpot

well if you do then there is a chance of getting into a discussion about the merits of palm trees, cream teas and which british resort is more overated than torquay.

At least Pools and Torquay will have the same number of fans in the stadium, albeit much lower than would have been there in a normal season. Sing and shout for Pools!