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Post by chippenhamgas on Mar 25, 2016 21:35:42 GMT
The away attendance was given as something in excess of 400. Therefore, if you bother to do the maths, u will see there were several hundred tickets unsold. so, are the T/O staff incapable of working out that all home tickets haven't been sold, "ooh look, there's a whole lot of tickets showing as available on the database, what are we going to do? I know, let's send them to the match day office for sale on the day." Or Was the club advised to call it as a sell-out to avoid possible crowd problems? whatever you believe, it wasn't a sell out. You will never convince me that several hundred people went to the trouble of getting tickets to then not bother attending. Why would the club declare it a sell out mid afternoon all they had do was sell the tickets on line last night until they all went? The ground a capacity for home fans is 10,000 so there were 200 tickets at most not sold/fans didn't turn up, I hardly think that's going to be noticeable as spaces on the terracing? As far as the South Stand apparently H&S rules mean we can't sell every seat, if that rumour is true. When Leeds came down a few seasons ago they had the whole south stand, every seat was taken!
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Post by axegas on Mar 25, 2016 21:38:46 GMT
Why would the club declare it a sell out mid afternoon all they had do was sell the tickets on line last night until they all went? The ground a capacity for home fans is 10,000 so there were 200 tickets at most not sold/fans didn't turn up, I hardly think that's going to be noticeable as spaces on the terracing? As far as the South Stand apparently H&S rules mean we can't sell every seat, if that rumour is true. When Leeds came down a few seasons ago they had the whole south stand, every seat was taken! To have the whole of the south stand means more exits, toilets and turnstiles which is why Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday had every single seat, we could never do it as it would that home supporters would share the away end with away supporter which is a recipe for disaster!
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Post by gasonthemount on Mar 25, 2016 21:48:01 GMT
Looking at ground guides the away allocation is 1,100, made up of 800 terrace and 300 seats in the south stand. Perhaps for the Yeovil and Exeter games we should only allocate the terrace spaces to away fans. This would enable the whole of the South Stand for home supporters, approximately an additional 500 to 600 seats. For the Crawley and Dagenham games just give them a 300 seat allocation in the South Stand. This would generate a further 800 terrace tickets for home fans.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 21:49:26 GMT
The official capacity is 11900 reduced to probably 11500 with segregation, less 800 away spaces unfilled means 500 people with tickets didn't turn up. Ummmmmm. I thought there were 1200 away spaces. It is but take 400 off who were there leaves 800
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Mar 25, 2016 21:52:44 GMT
Looking at ground guides the away allocation is 1,100, made up of 800 terrace and 300 seats in the south stand. Perhaps for the Yeovil and Exeter games we should only allocate the terrace spaces to away fans. This would enable the whole of the South Stand for home supporters, approximately an additional 500 to 600 seats. For the Crawley and Dagenham games just give them a 300 seat allocation in the South Stand. This would generate a further 800 terrace tickets for home fans. I think we're obliged to offer them 10%.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Mar 25, 2016 21:55:01 GMT
I thought there were 1200 away spaces. It is but take 400 off who were there leaves 800 Oh yeah, I see what you mean.
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Post by youmadethatup on Mar 25, 2016 22:11:35 GMT
Looking at ground guides the away allocation is 1,100, made up of 800 terrace and 300 seats in the south stand. Perhaps for the Yeovil and Exeter games we should only allocate the terrace spaces to away fans. This would enable the whole of the South Stand for home supporters, approximately an additional 500 to 600 seats. For the Crawley and Dagenham games just give them a 300 seat allocation in the South Stand. This would generate a further 800 terrace tickets for home fans. I think we're obliged to offer them 10%. For the prem league clubs have to make available 3000 places for away fans. Clubs with capacity under 30,000 have to offer 10% of places to away clubs. Half of the tickets are available as sale or return the rest have to be purchased by the club and then sold on. So if this applies to football league teams BRFC with a capacity of 11,000 have to make 1,100 available to away teams. The first 550 tickets sent as sale or return to clubs. It would be upto the away club to decide how many tickets they want (in an all ticket game) ,if BRFC operate a pay on the day system then all 1,100 would have to be left available Iguess.
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Post by mehewmagic on Mar 25, 2016 23:16:58 GMT
Looking at ground guides the away allocation is 1,100, made up of 800 terrace and 300 seats in the south stand. Perhaps for the Yeovil and Exeter games we should only allocate the terrace spaces to away fans. This would enable the whole of the South Stand for home supporters, approximately an additional 500 to 600 seats. For the Crawley and Dagenham games just give them a 300 seat allocation in the South Stand. This would generate a further 800 terrace tickets for home fans. I think we're obliged to offer them 10%. if the oppo agree to have less, maybe they would? we could even sweeten it by giving them seats for the price of a terrace (and don't tell them the view is sh**) BTW - general point - the crawley game seems less of a pull than today's game. So maybe it's only the D&R game that is an issue. That one has shades of last season! Poorly supported 'minnow' given a few hundred seats to watch promotion hopefuls relegate them
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Post by mehewmagic on Mar 25, 2016 23:20:53 GMT
The away attendance was given as something in excess of 400. Therefore, if you bother to do the maths, u will see there were several hundred tickets unsold. so, are the T/O staff incapable of working out that all home tickets haven't been sold, "ooh look, there's a whole lot of tickets showing as available on the database, what are we going to do? I know, let's send them to the match day office for sale on the day." Or Was the club advised to call it as a sell-out to avoid possible crowd problems? whatever you believe, it wasn't a sell out. You will never convince me that several hundred people went to the trouble of getting tickets to then not bother attending. Is the crowd figure the number of tickets sold or the number that passed through the turnstiles ? Being a bank holiday I'm sure there were a number of season ticket holders who couldn't attend ,be that for work reasons or going away or other prohibitive reasons... you would assume it is the former, as we are always told that ST holders are counted in the figure given even if they don't attend. using that info / logic, surely you can calculate the attendance on tkts sold rather than have to faf around counting up turnstile 'clocks'.
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Post by simon1883 on Mar 26, 2016 0:05:42 GMT
Is the crowd figure the number of tickets sold or the number that passed through the turnstiles ? Being a bank holiday I'm sure there were a number of season ticket holders who couldn't attend ,be that for work reasons or going away or other prohibitive reasons... you would assume it is the former, as we are always told that ST holders are counted in the figure given even if they don't attend. using that info / logic, surely you can calculate the attendance on tkts sold rather than have to faf around counting up turnstile 'clocks'.Surely its the lower of the two numbers......... For tax purposes.....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 0:08:29 GMT
I always wanted to marry a ST holder as I think we'd get on like a wang on fire.
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Post by landersgas on Mar 26, 2016 10:54:07 GMT
Tickets for the Cambridge match just arrived in the post this morning....have I missed anything?
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