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Post by gasify on Apr 3, 2024 10:13:50 GMT
give them as many as they want if we could. Dead rubber for us so may as well get the coins in That's the limited 1300. Even though we may have 3-4k empty spaces in CAT A games. The club will not bend on the 1300 away allocation. Otherwise Derby Bolton Reading Peterboro would of brought 3-4k fans and we would of got crowds of 12000. It be 9k plus with a mere 1300 away. Why they are steadfast in this policy I don't know. Its been the policy for years and it ain't changing !. P.S The above teams sold out in 24 hours 1300. We could of sold 10k extra tickets to the teams above very easily. At this point in time, it's not that the club doesn't want to give more tickets. It's not physically possible to give them more tickets whilst keeping the segregation between the fans. My hope is that the South Stand will be full on Saturday. |
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Post by percy on Apr 3, 2024 10:25:40 GMT
That's the limited 1300. Even though we may have 3-4k empty spaces in CAT A games. The club will not bend on the 1300 away allocation. Otherwise Derby Bolton Reading Peterboro would of brought 3-4k fans and we would of got crowds of 12000. It be 9k plus with a mere 1300 away. Why they are steadfast in this policy I don't know. Its been the policy for years and it ain't changing !. P.S The above teams sold out in 24 hours 1300. We could of sold 10k extra tickets to the teams above very easily. At this point in time, it's not that the club doesn't want to give more tickets. It's not physically possible to give them more tickets whilst keeping the segregation between the fans. My hope is that the South Stand will be full on Saturday. This seems to be correct. Hopefully in the close season some amendments can be made to make the SS allocations much more flexible (as intended?) |
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Post by oldmarket65 on Apr 3, 2024 10:28:30 GMT
That's the limited 1300. Even though we may have 3-4k empty spaces in CAT A games. The club will not bend on the 1300 away allocation. Otherwise Derby Bolton Reading Peterboro would of brought 3-4k fans and we would of got crowds of 12000. It be 9k plus with a mere 1300 away. Why they are steadfast in this policy I don't know. Its been the policy for years and it ain't changing !. P.S The above teams sold out in 24 hours 1300. We could of sold 10k extra tickets to the teams above very easily. At this point in time, it's not that the club doesn't want to give more tickets. It's not physically possible to give them more tickets whilst keeping the segregation between the fans. My hope is that the South Stand will be full on Saturday. I think we exhausted this before. And Yatton & Russgas suggested we put in an additional gate which could be done in a day or two. Either way the club isn't going to move on the 1300 away allocation. Maybe there are reasons beyond which we don't know about but it's not a gate !. |
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Post by oldmarket65 on Apr 3, 2024 10:30:47 GMT
At this point in time, it's not that the club doesn't want to give more tickets. It's not physically possible to give them more tickets whilst keeping the segregation between the fans. My hope is that the South Stand will be full on Saturday. This seems to be correct. Hopefully in the close season some amendments can be made to make the SS allocations much more flexible (as intended?) Sadly not STs being sold in South stand as we speak. And with separation it wouldn't be worth the outlay . S.Ts are too close to gate 3 and with the full sheet in section 3 . It be minimum of away extra seats next season maybe 50 -100. |
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Post by percy on Apr 3, 2024 10:39:03 GMT
This seems to be correct. Hopefully in the close season some amendments can be made to make the SS allocations much more flexible (as intended?) Sadly not STs being sold in South stand as we speak. And with separation it wouldn't be worth the outlay . S.Ts are too close to gate 3 and with the full sheet in section 3 . It be minimum of away extra seats next season maybe 50 -100. No season tickets in section G, but I take your point. Lets get the South east section done soon! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2024 10:40:10 GMT
This seems to be correct. Hopefully in the close season some amendments can be made to make the SS allocations much more flexible (as intended?) Sadly not STs being sold in South stand as we speak. And with separation it wouldn't be worth the outlay . S.Ts are too close to gate 3 and with the full sheet in section 3 . It be minimum of away extra seats next season maybe 50 -100. probably banking on the big hitters pompey derby and Bolton get promoted. |
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Post by oldmarket65 on Apr 3, 2024 10:50:34 GMT
Sadly not STs being sold in South stand as we speak. And with separation it wouldn't be worth the outlay . S.Ts are too close to gate 3 and with the full sheet in section 3 . It be minimum of away extra seats next season maybe 50 -100. No season tickets in section G, but I take your point. Lets get the South east section done soon! Section G will be the sterile area next season. The away fans will get two sections which is similar to now ( except a small sheet ). Maybe an extra 100 seats. Once East terrace starts away fans will be limited to 700-800 seats. We are losing big money I.M.O. |
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 3, 2024 14:03:07 GMT
Sadly not STs being sold in South stand as we speak. And with separation it wouldn't be worth the outlay . S.Ts are too close to gate 3 and with the full sheet in section 3 . It be minimum of away extra seats next season maybe 50 -100. probably banking on the big hitters pompey derby and Bolton get promoted. To be replaced by possibly Sheffield Weds and Plymouth, plus Wrexham and Stockport? I wonder why we can't move the "sterile" area on the east side further down the terracing and allow more away fans to stand, given the east terrace rarely sells out? |
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Post by gascloud on Apr 3, 2024 18:27:09 GMT
Money in gate receipts are key, but do we really want to increase our capacity only to become the new MK Dons and let all and sundry take the ground over? If the owners would rather concentrate on getting more gas in to games then I’m backing them. Nice to have a good away turn out but we have to draw the line, and it appears this has been done where the netting has been placed.
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 3, 2024 18:39:11 GMT
Money in gate receipts are key, but do we really want to increase our capacity only to become the new MK Dons and let all and sundry take the ground over? If the owners would rather concentrate on getting more gas in to games then I’m backing them. Nice to have a good away turn out but we have to draw the line, and it appears this has been done where the netting has been placed. Not sure increasing the away capacity to, say, 2,000, in a 12,000 capacity stadium is becoming the new MK Dons? |
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Post by gasify on Apr 3, 2024 18:42:37 GMT
Money in gate receipts are key, but do we really want to increase our capacity only to become the new MK Dons and let all and sundry take the ground over? If the owners would rather concentrate on getting more gas in to games then I’m backing them. Nice to have a good away turn out but we have to draw the line, and it appears this has been done where the netting has been placed. Not sure increasing the away capacity to, say, 2,000, in a 12,000 capacity stadium is becoming the new MK Dons? We could change our name to BS Pirates? |
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Post by gasonthemount on Apr 3, 2024 19:09:23 GMT
Interestingly and I have said before there is the demand from home supporters for more seating and that is why the South Stand has become so popular.
Over 900 season tickets have been sold for the South Stand/SW stand for next season.
Bolton have been given 1,342 tickets which equates to 10.7% of the capacity of 12,500. However when you factor in the capacity less segregation the % increases to 11.18.
There are quite a few teams in League 1 which give less to away teams than Rovers: Lincoln, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Burton, Fleetwood, Northampton, Exeter, Orient, Stevenage, Wycombe, Shrewsbury. That is nearly 50% of the sides in League 1.
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Post by mftc on Apr 3, 2024 19:23:10 GMT
I see we have reduced capacity again.the new wheelchair access above the family area has meant about 5 rows of terrace has been removed to put in a platform.
Although it is good to see wheelchair access, surely they could have instigated this without the need to remove any terrace area capacity.
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Post by bidefordgas on Apr 3, 2024 19:24:29 GMT
This seems to be correct. Hopefully in the close season some amendments can be made to make the SS allocations much more flexible (as intended?) Sadly not STs being sold in South stand as we speak. And with separation it wouldn't be worth the outlay . S.Ts are too close to gate 3 and with the full sheet in section 3 . It be minimum of away extra seats next season maybe 50 -100. The club are only selling ST’s in the South stand up to and including block f. That then gives them the option regards block g towards the east side for next season. They in my opinion are waiting to see how many they can sell in the south stand so it’s quite possible some clubs could be given half of block g and the rest of the stand across to the east side. That then allows the segregation on half of the seats in block g. At the end of the day like I have said before the club have built the new stand for the benefit of its own supporters having access to seating as none was available in the east and west stands. Any spaces then left over will obviously be made available to away supporters on a game by game basis as regards allocation. |
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Post by oldmarket65 on Apr 3, 2024 19:43:40 GMT
Interestingly and I have said before there is the demand from home supporters for more seating and that is why the South Stand has become so popular. Over 900 season tickets have been sold for the South Stand/SW stand for next season. Bolton have been given 1,342 tickets which equates to 10.7% of the capacity of 12,500. However when you factor in the capacity less segregation the % increases to 11.18. There are quite a few teams in League 1 which give less to away teams than Rovers: Lincoln, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Burton, Fleetwood, Northampton, Exeter, Orient, Stevenage, Wycombe, Shrewsbury. That is nearly 50% of the sides in League 1. I just did a quick bit of research. Biggest away followings this season. Lincoln 1870 wycombe 1840 shrews 1654 Cheltenham 1516 Cambridge 1470 Northampton 1467. All smaller grounds offering bigger away followings. |
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Post by gasonthemount on Apr 3, 2024 20:00:55 GMT
Interestingly and I have said before there is the demand from home supporters for more seating and that is why the South Stand has become so popular. Over 900 season tickets have been sold for the South Stand/SW stand for next season. Bolton have been given 1,342 tickets which equates to 10.7% of the capacity of 12,500. However when you factor in the capacity less segregation the % increases to 11.18. There are quite a few teams in League 1 which give less to away teams than Rovers: Lincoln, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Burton, Fleetwood, Northampton, Exeter, Orient, Stevenage, Wycombe, Shrewsbury. That is nearly 50% of the sides in League 1. I just did a quick bit of research. Biggest away followings this season. Lincoln 1870 wycombe 1840 shrews 1654 Cheltenham 1516 Cambridge 1470 Northampton 1467. All smaller grounds offering bigger away followings. That will teach me to make assumptions without checking facts! I did look up some but not all. Well done Oldmarket. |
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Post by oldmarket65 on Apr 3, 2024 20:11:22 GMT
I just did a quick bit of research. Biggest away followings this season. Lincoln 1870 wycombe 1840 shrews 1654 Cheltenham 1516 Cambridge 1470 Northampton 1467. All smaller grounds offering bigger away followings. That will teach me to make assumptions without checking facts! I did look up some but not all. Well done Oldmarket. I think we are all surprised why a ground holding 12000 only allows 1300 away. Burton gave Derby 1484 Stevenage gave Derby 1392. I'm using Derby away allocation local derby's might get more v those teams I mentioned. I think Fleetwood holding 5300 gave Derby around 1200 so there is one that offers less. Plus we will be 3-4k short of capacity on Saturday. I would of thought clubs would want to fill stadiums and maximise profits ?. |
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Post by gascloud on Apr 3, 2024 20:33:36 GMT
Money in gate receipts are key, but do we really want to increase our capacity only to become the new MK Dons and let all and sundry take the ground over? If the owners would rather concentrate on getting more gas in to games then I’m backing them. Nice to have a good away turn out but we have to draw the line, and it appears this has been done where the netting has been placed. Not sure increasing the away capacity to, say, 2,000, in a 12,000 capacity stadium is becoming the new MK Dons? Because there are some suggesting we let 3 to 4000 in if we can’t sell the tickets ourselves. I’m sure you’ve picked up on that? |
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Post by gasonthemount on Apr 3, 2024 20:40:08 GMT
If we can allocate sections G, H and J of the South Stand to away fans plus the 550 terrace tickets, I think the total allocation can be increased to approx. 1,750.
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 3, 2024 20:44:47 GMT
Not sure increasing the away capacity to, say, 2,000, in a 12,000 capacity stadium is becoming the new MK Dons? Because there are some suggesting we let 3 to 4000 in if we can’t sell the tickets ourselves. I’m sure you’ve picked up on that? Can you post a link to where anybody has suggested giving Bolton 4,000 tickets? |
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