Liverpool & Arsenal tickets merged from pg5 onwards????

[Row Z Royal]

Both Arsenal & Newcastle go on sale from Tue 25th March.

Dagnabbit. Just the wrong side of pay day.

Which is why you need a credit card

Credit cards lead to debt, debt leads to hate and hate leads to the Dark Side.

No thanks.

[Huntley & Palmer]

Waiting for a mail back from the TO manager on the Arsenal situation

[royal.badger]

Waiting for a mail back from the TO manager on the Arsenal situation

Its on the telly H&P - surely you will be watching from the pub ??

[Huntley & Palmer]

I'm only going for the all day lash in Lonners. Just spoken to my Gooner mate, apparently they can reduce the size of the away end to allow home fans to take the other secion. So RFC have only taken the smallest allowance, great

[Huntley & Palmer]

Hi H&P,



Thank you for comments. However we can not justify asking for 3000 tickets if there is a risk that we will not sell all of the tickets as the club would have to pay for any unsold tickets.



Every away match this season has reached general member card sale, and that includes Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool. If the club had been taking a larger away support to our other away games this season and the demand had been high we could justify asking for the full allocation for Arsenal.



We have increased the point’s requirement to 701 points for the first day as there are an increasing number of supporters with over 601 points.





Kind Regards



Member Services

Reading Football Club



PS. Don't forget to keep us informed of any changes to your personal information such as telephone number or address

[Squelchy2507]

Seems a perfectly valid stance on the club's part to me. Away support has been generally pretty shit this season. As they say, even the 'glamour' games have gone to general sale. And with the game also being a lunchtime kick-off live on TV there is nothing to suggest this game would have been any different.

[SHORT AND CURLY]

Well personally I think its a cop out by the club.
A group of 6 of us are meeting up with some Arsenal mates for a day on the pop and this looks like we may all struggle for tickets. (Gooners have sold out)
They mention Chelsea, evening game and nearly £50 a tkt !
Man Utd first game of the season, lots of fans on holiday (and 3rd visit in less than a year).
Liverpool sold out. (3rd time in a year again)
Arsenal games are one of the most attractive and I know of a number of people that want to go to this game.
Perhaps the club should have risked taken the full allocation, after all in the unlikely event of all the tickets not being sold they could have covered it with millions of Sky spondoolies they have sitting in their high interest account that they have not spent on the team or the ground!

Good old RFC thinking of their pockets and dismissing the fans again!

Better get a ticket or I will not be a happy bunny!

[Billy The Fish]

And with the game also being a lunchtime kick-off live on TV there is nothing to suggest this game would have been any different.

OS has it as 3 pm. or has it been changed again?
http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~1264240,00.html

[Physci]

Still 12.45 per Arsenal and Premier League websites so just an OS error

[AF1]

I'm only going for the all day lash in Lonners. Just spoken to my Gooner mate, apparently they can reduce the size of the away end to allow home fans to take the other secion. So RFC have only taken the smallest allowance, great

IIRC last season you had a hearty LOL @ those who couldn't get tickets for the Arsenal game.



Thus


LOL

[Huntley & Palmer]

Probably, I had the luxury of being an AST holder then like you. Still, should get a ticket no problem I reckon

[Silver Fox]

So people don't want the club to waste money on extending the ground but do want them to potentially waste money by buying empty seats at Ashburton Grove?

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

The thing that annoyos me is that the club and players bang on about supporters getting behind the team but yet they limit the number of tickets available to one of the easiest away games to get to (for those that live in Reading). Yes we might not have sold out if we had taken the whole 3,000, but at the end of the day, the club only lose a maximum of £51,200 if we only sell 1,400 tickets (and I very much doubt it would only be the 1,400 seeing as we've sold 1,700 for Anfield).

Considering we took around 2,500 to Fulham (and Arsenal is a bigger "draw" seeing as how quickly it sold out last year), it would have been nice for the club to have taken any loss on this game as a gesture of goodwill - especially as it has been moved for TV.

[Vision]

Whilst i understand some people's frustrations and obviously there will always be games that are more attractive than others, to be honest i'd rather have the 1400 people which includes those that have followed the club away this season and will show a bit of passion than the figure bumped up to 2500 by the picnickers that turned the Emirates into a "field trip" last season.

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

to be honest i'd rather have the 1400 people which includes those that have followed the club away this season and will show a bit of passion than the figure bumped up to 2500 by the picnickers that turned the Emirates into a "field trip" last season.

Agreed, but I didn't think that Fulham this year was like a "field trip" - can't find any stats on the OS to show how many fans we took but IIRC it was around the 2,000 mark...

[RG30]

We've got 1,400 tickets for both games which, IMO, is an utter joke (especially for the Arsenal game) seeing as we have around 700 AST.

Your 700 figure is way off the mark, it's more 200-300.

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

We've got 1,400 tickets for both games which, IMO, is an utter joke (especially for the Arsenal game) seeing as we have around 700 AST.

Your 700 figure is way off the mark, it's more 200-300.

Fair enough - 700 must have been last season...

[Vision]

to be honest i'd rather have the 1400 people which includes those that have followed the club away this season and will show a bit of passion than the figure bumped up to 2500 by the picnickers that turned the Emirates into a "field trip" last season.

Agreed, but I didn't think that Fulham this year was like a "field trip" - can't find any stats on the OS to show how many fans we took but IIRC it was around the 2,000 mark...

Sad but true that a fair chunk that visited the Emirates last season went to see the opposition. Fulham doesn't have the same pull for that type of fan which combined with its location is why its probably the best away day in the Prem.

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

to be honest i'd rather have the 1400 people which includes those that have followed the club away this season and will show a bit of passion than the figure bumped up to 2500 by the picnickers that turned the Emirates into a "field trip" last season.

Agreed, but I didn't think that Fulham this year was like a "field trip" - can't find any stats on the OS to show how many fans we took but IIRC it was around the 2,000 mark...

Sad but true that a fair chunk that visited the Emirates last season went to see the opposition. Fulham doesn't have the same pull for that type of fan which combined with its location is why its probably the best away day in the Prem.

Which is why I was comparing this year's game at Ashburton Grove with the Fulham game - if we took 2,000 to Fulham this year which "doesn't have the same pull", surely we could take 2,000+ to Arsenal seeing that:

a) It's almost as easy to get to from Reading (just need to change tubes once).

b) Arsenal sold out at the 541+ point mark last year so there are a lot of people that had 401+ (and thus probably have 601+ this year) that didn't get to go last year but would make this year's game a "must go to".

But, hey, there's nothing we can do about it now save waiting for the post Easter bunfight

[Squelchy2507]

The club are now taking the full allocation of 3000
http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~1265349,00.html