Play Off Dates Confirmed & Tickets

[Compo's Hat]

Football League Rule 31.2.1 states that each club must provide tickets for

2,000 visiting supporters or such number as represents 10% of the club's certified capacity, if lower than 2,000.

Why would any club voluntarily provide more tickets than they have to - unless they weren't confident of selling the spare capacity to their own supporters?

I refer you to the Burnley game. LOL at RFC selling South stand tickets when we've only needed it once when the club did kid for a quid, i expect plenty of empty seats the TV cameras won't show in the Upper West.


I presume the club think we haven't got a chance of finishing 4th looking at the away ticket selling details

[Rex]

finally i can start to plan my finances.

[Compo's Hat]

Just in case...

http://www.football-league.co.uk/footba ... 34_2296575

[Svlad Cjelli]

Football League Rule 31.2.1 states that each club must provide tickets for

2,000 visiting supporters or such number as represents 10% of the club's certified capacity, if lower than 2,000.

Why would any club voluntarily provide more tickets than they have to - unless they weren't confident of selling the spare capacity to their own supporters?

I refer you to the Burnley game. LOL at RFC selling South stand tickets when we've only needed it once when the club did kid for a quid, i expect plenty of empty seats the TV cameras won't show in the Upper West.


I presume the club think we haven't got a chance of finishing 4th looking at the away ticket selling details

But that was quite different - we'd failed miserably to qualify for automatic promotion, not won at home for 4 months, and everyone was on a real downer. This year the whole feeling around the club and the supporters is quite different, so I think they'll have no trouble selling at least the majority of the stand.

In any case, we don't stand to lose - the ticket sales from all 5 play-off matches are pooled and shared 4 ways (*), so any unsold capacity has much less of a financial hit on us. But I do think they'll sell this one without any great trouble.

(*) Not checked this is still the formula but it was definitely like that a few years ago.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

I presume the club think we haven't got a chance of finishing 4th looking at the away ticket selling details

In your opinion, what % chance do Swansea have of losing to Sheff Utd at home? That'd be Swansea who have only conceded 11 goals in 22 home games

I think the club are pretty much spot on with this to be fair.

[Compo's Hat]

Think that's only the feeling of the youngsters on Twitter

Can give you arguements against like our sudden slump, tv and midweek but we shall see.


Wembley ticket lay out from a couple of years ago for play off final.

http://www.football-league.co.uk/static ... 233,00.pdf

[T.R.O.L.I.]

The QPR decision is Friday, RL - plenty of time on Saturday AM for RFC to post a statement on the website that the arrangements are changing and will be announced as soon as possible pending any FL date change / appeal from QPR etc....

Any reason to have a moan though, eh?

Not really - because the official site say these are the CONFIRMED dates.

Really? Would that be part of this statement?

Play-off semi-final ticket details
Posted on: Wed 04 May 2011

The club have released provisional ticketing details for both the home and away legs of our npower Championship play-off semi-finals.

Our opponents, and whether we play at home first or second, will be determined after our final League game of the season at home to Derby on Saturday, kick off 12:45pm.

Supporters may like to note that our two games will take place on Friday 13th May at 7:45pm and Tuesday 17th May at 7:45pm, although it is not yet certain which game will be at home. We will play on these dates because we are certain to finish 4th, 5th or 6th. The 4th and 5th teams will play each other on those dates, and if we finish 6th it will mean Nottingham Forest have finished 5th, and the games will be switched on League advice.

I refer you to the latter part of my post

[Rex]

Oh well - buy tickets and arrange days off if needed.

[leicsRoyal]

Oh well - buy tickets and arrange days off if needed.

Trying to cover all bases.

If I arrange to work in Swansea for 2 days, then we end up playing Cardiff, that's not too bad.

If we end up playing QPR, I will sue the FA!

[Rex]

I've been offered O/T for the proposed home leg. Pressure to dash up the M4 or bail out and take the day off anyhow.
Possible away leg looks like a holiday date being put in.

[Compo's Hat]

I presume the club think we haven't got a chance of finishing 4th looking at the away ticket selling details

In your opinion, what % chance do Swansea have of losing to Sheff Utd at home? That'd be Swansea who have only conceded 11 goals in 22 home games

I think the club are pretty much spot on with this to be fair.

What % do you think Reading had against them at home

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Understood, however:

Sheff Utd are now down
Swansea have a better home defensive record than we do
Swansea also have a chance of 3rd (and thus 2nd should QPR get a points deduction).

Hence I think that Sheff Utd have less of a chance against Swansea than they did against us - which I what I assume the club are also thinking.

[Svlad Cjelli]

Understood, however:

Sheff Utd are now down
Swansea have a better home defensive record than we do
Swansea also have a chance of 3rd (and thus 2nd should QPR get a points deduction).

Hence I think that Sheff Utd have less of a chance against Swansea than they did against us - which I what I assume the club are also thinking.

And it's not just hinging on that single result - to finish 4th not only do Swansea have to beat Sheff Utd, but we also have to beat Derby.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Understood, however:

Sheff Utd are now down
Swansea have a better home defensive record than we do
Swansea also have a chance of 3rd (and thus 2nd should QPR get a points deduction).

Hence I think that Sheff Utd have less of a chance against Swansea than they did against us - which I what I assume the club are also thinking.

And it's not just hinging on that single result - to finish 4th not only do Swansea have to beat Sheff Utd, but we also have to beat Derby.

Other way round, but I get your drift

[Svlad Cjelli]

Ooops - yeah!

[Jerry St Clair]

Wembley ticket lay out from a couple of years ago for play off final.

http://www.football-league.co.uk/static ... 233,00.pdf

What a shameless rip off.

[Royal Lady]

ruh-oh - Schards can't make the Friday game (whether it's home or away) and son of RL can't make the Tuesday game (if it's away) due to having AS level exams all day.

[Maguire]

ruh-oh - Schards can't make the Friday game (whether it's home or away) and son of RL can't make the Tuesday game (if it's away) due to having AS level exams all day.

FFS IT ISN'T ALL ABOUT YOU AND YOU F-ING FAMILY!

[moo]

Surely can't be many of us with 1800 or so points?

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Depends if "we've" renewed early or not.

This time last week I had 1702 points - I now have 1957 points.

I reckon there's around 1000 people with 1950 or more points now (going by the Stevenage sales & assuming a fair few have renewed)