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Post by RD on May 12, 2015 20:01:26 GMT
FOOTBALL CONFERENCE @conferencefooty · 7m 7 minutes ago Will not give any further daily sales of tickets until Friday evening when we will give an update of the full latest figures we have. Thanks twitter.com/conferencefootyNot very helpful! Just shows how tinpot they really are. This was an opportunity to tweet something along the lines of "72 hours left to be part of history - get your ticket to the biggest non-league match in history; guaranteed to be a record attendance". I mean, what else are they busy doing instead? Absolute clowns.
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Post by Gas-Ed on May 12, 2015 20:10:10 GMT
kinell Eastleigh would've brought more than Grimsby. Not gonna have much banter with 8,000 andre mariners scattered about are we. I went to a barbecue in Grimsby on Saturday (my girlfriend was born there and has family there). Most of the guys there were "massive Grimsby fans" but none planned to go to Wembley. The fact of the matter is people in that part of the country, like many other areas, are really struggling to make ends meet. There is nothing there. Ticket price, food/refreshments, petrol all adds up. Effectively, a lot of people who would love to go have been priced out.
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Post by tumshie on May 12, 2015 20:14:45 GMT
kinell Eastleigh would've brought more than Grimsby. Not gonna have much banter with 8,000 andre mariners scattered about are we. I went to a barbecue in Grimsby on Saturday (my girlfriend was born there and has family there). Most of the guys there were "massive Grimsby fans" but none planned to go to Wembley. The fact of the matter is people in that part of the country, like many other areas, are really struggling to make ends meet. There is nothing there. Ticket price, food/refreshments, petrol all adds up. Effectively, a lot of people who would love to go have been priced out. Agreed mate. Heres an article from a Mariner: I was delighted when Town confirmed their place at Wembley for the Vanarama Conference Promotion Final. So delighted in fact that I didn't really care what its official name is. I just wanted to know when I could get hold of a ticket and visit Wembley, that venue of legends, the home of football, et cetera.
This would be the fifth time since that historic April day in 1998, the day Wayne Burnett flicked us into the history books and I cried at a football match. I'd cried at a football match before but that was because my dad made me stand with him and his mates on a snow-covered Imperial Corner on the coldest day in christendom. I was six and was in actual physical pain from the cold. At least Captain Scott had a tent. I had bugger all.
Anyway I digress. Back to Wembley, that venue of... oh yeah, I've done that bit. This is where it all starts to go a bit, well, for want of a better word, sh**.
The plan was to queue up for hours with other excited Mariners, have a chat about who Hurst will pick up front, where to park, and the other general chit-chat that's usual when you are in a big long queue for tickets. But no! Hold the front page: the club can't sell the tickets. Oh no, no, no, no, no.
You see, the FA – guardians of the game and owners of Wembley Stadium, venue of legends – they don't want that. After all, the clubs might bugger it up and sell tickets in the wrong section or something. What the FA wants is for you/us to purchase your/our tickets through an intermediary. That intermediary being See Tickets. OK, fair enough. There is more though. See Tickets wants to charge a booking fee, per ticket. If you buy five tickets, you've got to pay five lots of booking fees.
My worst anger is reserved for when we're being ripped off by the very people I expect to look after our interests At this point I'm getting rather angry. OK, I get angry a lot and sometimes burst out into fits of bad language and general sweariness. This is usually confined to things that I have a rational dislike of – such as Tory politicians or people who do racist monkey chants at Boston United's keeper.
It gets far worse when I have an irrational dislike of something. The very worst is reserved for when I think something is unfair or unjust or that a group of people are being ripped off and taken for granted by the very people they are expecting to look after their interests. Oh, and also when David Burns of Radio Humberside says he's been talking to Garry Birtles, and names his former clubs, except Town. For f**k's sake Burns. See what I mean?
Anyway, See Tickets wants to charge a booking fee of £3 per ticket. It also wants to charge you/us £2.35 for first-class postage – which is odd, because last time I went to the post office, first class postage was 63p. So that's £5.35 so far. The option is open for you to collect your ticket at Wembley and save on the £2.35 postage, but you'll only save 40p because See Tickets will charge you £1.95 to pick up your ticket yourself.
Now, to book a ticket you have to go on the internet or phone up, where you will almost certainly be put on hold because all of their agents are busy, they value your custom and will be with you as soon as possible, and meanwhile listen to some classical music or, if you're really lucky, the hits of Harry Belafonte. After all, it's only costing you 6p a minute.
So far, then, there's the booking fee for something that you have to book through them because they won't let the clubs sell the tickets. And there's the postage for something that you were prepared to go and pick up yourself from Blundell Park but you can't. If that doesn't make you as angry as a football fan who is being ripped off, we come to the price of the actual tickets for a non-League football match at the national stadium, owned and run for the benefit of the game of football in this country, by the FA.
The price is – wait for it – £41, with no concessions, for a category one ticket. You could save a fiver and get a category two ticket, although this probably means that you have to sit with some boring twit from Lincoln who bought his ticket as part of the Vanarama Big Day Out thing thinking that Lincoln actually had a chance at the play-offs.
So there you have it. £46.35 for a ticket you booked yourself online, saving the 6p per minute phone call, and then had posted to you by the world's most expensive postal system.
Once the fans stop going to games it's over. TV will not be interested in showing games played in empty stadiums
How does the FA justify this price? When will something be done about the price of watching football in this country? The FA can't possibly do anything because it is as guilty as the clubs – if not more so – of milking the cash cow commonly known as fans. Liverpool and Arsenal fans have both complained recently about prices at Hull City. I seem to remember QPR charging Burnley fans something like £55. The cheapest ticket at Chelsea is £41, and if you're not a member at Arsenal and want to watch a category A match, it's £65.50.
Forget about the working class being priced out of the game. The way things are at the minute, all fans are being priced out of the game. This has to stop for the good of the game. Once the fans stop going to games it's over. TV will not be interested in showing games played in empty stadiums. The appeal of the English game around the world isn't the quality of the football. Far from it. It's the atmosphere and passion generated by those who turn up at matches, by the hundreds or even thousands who travel to watch their team.
Would the atmosphere at Blundell Park in the play-off semi-final been as good without that brilliant set of Eastleigh fans? Would the game have seemed as good? And that's fifth-tier football. This doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. Pundits may tell us how passionate fans are in South America. Maybe they are, but not like the English fan.
And how does the body that looks after English football look after its prize asset? It just keeps on squeezing.
It says something that after 35 years of watching Town, I seriously contemplated not going to this match. In the end I knew I couldn't miss it, but for the first time I had to think about it and that is all down to the FA. For shame.
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Post by stevek192 on May 12, 2015 20:36:55 GMT
The figure DOES include neutrals which I think probably includes quite a lot of gas so I reckon probably 29000 Gas 4000 neutrals and around 11000 Grimsby. Think the crowd will probably be around the 46000 mark and we will be very near 30000. Disappointing in many respects but pretty good when you consider it is only a non League Final at Championship prices!!!
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Post by seanclevedongas on May 12, 2015 20:40:09 GMT
They are not Championship prices though....... Here are Swindon's prices ADULT PRICES Category 1 - £80 Adults, £40 Ages - 65 and over, 16 and under Category 2 - £62 Adults, £31 Ages - 65 and over, 16 and under Category 3 - £52 Adults, £26 Ages - 65 and over, 16 and under Category 4 - £40 Adults, £20 Ages - 65 and over, 16 and under Category 5 - £30 Adults, £15 Ages - 65 and over, 16 and unde Read more at www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/article/wembley-ticket-details-2452052.aspx#VyX361c8q6J9MUeb.99
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2015 20:45:19 GMT
kinell Eastleigh would've brought more than Grimsby. Not gonna have much banter with 8,000 andre mariners scattered about are we. I went to a barbecue in Grimsby on Saturday (my girlfriend was born there and has family there). Most of the guys there were "massive Grimsby fans" but none planned to go to Wembley. The fact of the matter is people in that part of the country, like many other areas, are really struggling to make ends meet. There is nothing there. Ticket price, food/refreshments, petrol all adds up. Effectively, a lot of people who would love to go have been priced out. I was trying to get Harry Haddock to bite mate, not gas!!
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Post by Topper Gas on May 12, 2015 20:57:48 GMT
Anybody starting to think the Conference are coming in for a bit of unfair stick over the prices? Cat 1 for out game is £41 for the Div 1 game it's £80 and I assume will be at least £60 for the Div 2 game.
The real reason Grimsby fans aren't buying in big numbers is the hassle & expense of the train journey, the time it will take and probably the fear they will lose to us.
The booking fees a pain but given the mess Rovers made of selling the FGR away tickets there's no way the club could deal with selling 30,000+ tickets themselves.
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Post by mumbles on May 12, 2015 23:04:24 GMT
Anybody starting to think the Conference are coming in for a bit of unfair stick over the prices? Cat 1 for out game is £41 for the Div 1 game it's £80 and I assume will be at least £60 for the Div 2 game. The real reason Grimsby fans aren't buying in big numbers is the hassle & expense of the train journey, the time it will take and probably the fear they will lose to us. The booking fees a pain but given the mess Rovers made of selling the FGR away tickets there's no way the club could deal with selling 30,000+ tickets themselves. I think all those prices are over the top to be honest. Especially when you consider there are no concessions. What I don't understand is that even the most ambitious crowd estimates were around 30k less than the capacity of the stadium So why not reduce the ticket prices down to encourage as many nuetrals as possible. Maybe offer family or group tickets. Surely it would be to their own advantage to have as many people milling around buying their overpriced food, drink and merchandise???
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Post by stokegiffordgas on May 13, 2015 6:10:53 GMT
Is it just me that thinks the vanarama and their twitter twat are being run out of a garden shed in an allotment ? They are giving amateur a bad name with their petty edicts and as for the ratio of tickets announcement , wtf was that all about ?
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Post by BishopstonBRFC on May 13, 2015 7:06:33 GMT
Is it just me that thinks the vanarama and their twitter twat are being run out of a garden shed in an allotment ? They are giving amateur a bad name with their petty edicts and as for the ratio of tickets announcement , wtf was that all about ? Judging by the way the Conference is ran, yes.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on May 13, 2015 7:10:39 GMT
Anybody starting to think the Conference are coming in for a bit of unfair stick over the prices? Cat 1 for out game is £41 for the Div 1 game it's £80 and I assume will be at least £60 for the Div 2 game. The real reason Grimsby fans aren't buying in big numbers is the hassle & expense of the train journey, the time it will take and probably the fear they will lose to us. The booking fees a pain but given the mess Rovers made of selling the FGR away tickets there's no way the club could deal with selling 30,000+ tickets themselves. What is totally and utterly contemptible and should be illegal is to advertise something for a price that it cannot be bought for.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on May 13, 2015 7:35:48 GMT
Anybody starting to think the Conference are coming in for a bit of unfair stick over the prices? Cat 1 for out game is £41 for the Div 1 game it's £80 and I assume will be at least £60 for the Div 2 game. The real reason Grimsby fans aren't buying in big numbers is the hassle & expense of the train journey, the time it will take and probably the fear they will lose to us. The booking fees a pain but given the mess Rovers made of selling the FGR away tickets there's no way the club could deal with selling 30,000+ tickets themselves. What is totally and utterly contemptible and should be illegal is to advertise something for a price that it cannot be bought for. Yeah, it's a racket. My favourite bit was the postage charge of £2.35, which sounds more like an ebay seller trying it on, but if you don't want it sent by post, and go to the trouble of picking it up yourself, they still charge you £1.95 for the privilege.
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Post by inee on May 13, 2015 7:43:53 GMT
Is it just me that thinks the vanarama and their twitter twat are being run out of a garden shed in an allotment ? They are giving amateur a bad name with their petty edicts and as for the ratio of tickets announcement , wtf was that all about ? i thought it was run from an ex gpo austin j4 van, they cant use twitter, they used busby but the poor thing died, so they deliver updates via a bantam with a blocked carb, and are using grimby fans drums to convey messages to us at wembly, well maybe not but thats how it looks
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2015 7:57:01 GMT
Anybody starting to think the Conference are coming in for a bit of unfair stick over the prices? Cat 1 for out game is £41 for the Div 1 game it's £80 and I assume will be at least £60 for the Div 2 game. The real reason Grimsby fans aren't buying in big numbers is the hassle & expense of the train journey, the time it will take and probably the fear they will lose to us.
The booking fees a pain but given the mess Rovers made of selling the FGR away tickets there's no way the club could deal with selling 30,000+ tickets themselves. Is this the reason that so many of our fans are missing aswell then? Fear of losing to Grimsby or certainty that we will win! The price of tickets at £40++ shouldn't really put anybody off(tin hat). We haven't played for 2 weeks, it was clear we were going to be in the play offs and lets be honest...As much as people call it overpriced etc. The game is being played at the National stadium, which is modern, in London, and it's a final. If it really was too expensive, fans of both clubs could have united and boycotted the game.
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Post by Topper Gas on May 13, 2015 7:59:27 GMT
Is it just me that thinks the vanarama and their twitter twat are being run out of a garden shed in an allotment ? They are giving amateur a bad name with their petty edicts and as for the ratio of tickets announcement , wtf was that all about ? You're not far off the truth as assuming it was the same guy on Periscope last Saturday then it seems to be run by an OPA from his conservatory in Gloucestershire
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Post by socrates on May 13, 2015 9:52:13 GMT
Anybody starting to think the Conference are coming in for a bit of unfair stick over the prices? Cat 1 for out game is £41 for the Div 1 game it's £80 and I assume will be at least £60 for the Div 2 game. The real reason Grimsby fans aren't buying in big numbers is the hassle & expense of the train journey, the time it will take and probably the fear they will lose to us.
The booking fees a pain but given the mess Rovers made of selling the FGR away tickets there's no way the club could deal with selling 30,000+ tickets themselves. Is this the reason that so many of our fans are missing aswell then? Fear of losing to Grimsby or certainty that we will win! The price of tickets at £40++ shouldn't really put anybody off(tin hat). We haven't played for 2 weeks, it was clear we were going to be in the play offs and lets be honest...As much as people call it overpriced etc. The game is being played at the National stadium, which is modern, in London, and it's a final. If it really was too expensive, fans of both clubs could have united and boycotted the game.
Yeah it's only the cost of two home matches, pretty much. I don't think it's too expensive for a ticket. The cost of travel, food and beer obviously makes it an expensive day but the ticket price ain't too bad.
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Post by mumbles on May 13, 2015 10:40:05 GMT
Is this the reason that so many of our fans are missing aswell then? Fear of losing to Grimsby or certainty that we will win! The price of tickets at £40++ shouldn't really put anybody off(tin hat). We haven't played for 2 weeks, it was clear we were going to be in the play offs and lets be honest...As much as people call it overpriced etc. The game is being played at the National stadium, which is modern, in London, and it's a final. If it really was too expensive, fans of both clubs could have united and boycotted the game.
Yeah it's only the cost of two home matches, pretty much. I don't think it's too expensive for a ticket. The cost of travel, food and beer obviously makes it an expensive day but the ticket price ain't too bad. I agree for a rovers fan the price is acceptable. The problem comes with the neutrals, which are the ones that made up the numbers we had last time. For example, if I wanted to make a day of it and bring the wife and kids it would have cost me £200ish for tickets, plus maybe £100 of train fares plus probably £100 food. So in excess of £400 for a game of conference football. For that price I'm pretty sure the wife and kids would rather have a weekend at the beach or centre parcs. That's fine by me to be honest, I prefer that its mainly fans that will be there as the atmosphere will benefit for it, but in that case the attendance was always going to be low.
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Post by gheadray on May 13, 2015 11:12:23 GMT
Low? ??
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Post by Centenary Gas on May 13, 2015 11:15:01 GMT
Swindon league one playoff final tickets are £30/£15 in the block we are currently selling for £36+£3
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2015 11:33:59 GMT
Swindon league one playoff final tickets are £30/£15 in the block we are currently selling for £36+£3 Is that true? If so, why?
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