11762 season tickets renewed

[cheeryoleary]

Moan # 1. Waste of money replacing my card just so the word 'season ticket' is removed.

so if they didn't send a replacement and you went and sat in your old seat how does the steward know who really has the ticket for that seat in a dispute?

Dunno. Maybe the club could sell a 'seat sign' to season ticket holders which would be affixed to their seat. Sounds like a good idea to me.

[Maguire]

Dump Nay Mags for BANT at halftime/ Stephen Hunt moan.

Why would we be moaning about a Sunderland player? :-S

[Alan Partridge]

Dump Nay Mags for BANT at halftime/ Stephen Hunt moan.

Why would we be moaning about a Sunderland player? :-S

He'll still be a grade a pcunt.

Having said that I will have enough to moan about once Jimmy Kebe lines up.

[RoyalBlue]

Moan # 1. Waste of money replacing my card just so the word 'season ticket' is removed.

so if they didn't send a replacement and you went and sat in your old seat how does the steward know who really has the ticket for that seat in a dispute?

Dunno. Maybe the club could sell a 'seat sign' to season ticket holders which would be affixed to their seat. Sounds like a good idea to me.

How apt that that particular idea came unstuck in parallel with our campaign on the pitch! Not enough money invested in the end product I'm afraid!

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Why are the club stopping selling season tickets after today?

I don't get why you'd stop unless you hit the maximum capacity.

Because the club have too at some stage release tickets for the opening league games and it's no good not having a ST seat you purchased unavailable for the 1st league game as a supporter bought that seat already.

Rubbish.

They can issue an alternative seat on a game by game basis if a potential STH wants a seat that's already seen sold for the the first, or second or third game.

Alternatively limit the sale of STs to those seats that haven't been sold already for the first game.

It's not rocket science and I can't believe the club are willing to tell someone who wants to give them £450 to take a long walk off a short pier.

I don't ever remember a closing date being in force before.

An easier way would be told hold back a number of seats in each stand, maybe a couple of thousand in total, earmarked as potential season tickets, and don't sell any individual tickets in those seats for the first couple of games.

You could then adjust the number of seats held back (almost certainly downward) as you get nearer the first game of the season if individual ticket demand requires you to free up some extra seats.

Stopping people from buying season tickets is crazy. What if (and I know the consensus of the board views this as unlikely) we make a few signings that get people thinking we mean business this year. There'll be no way for the club to capitalise on this rare outbreak of optimism.

[Roger the Rabbit]

Well they could always just start selling season tickets again....

It can only be a 'policy' decision, there isn;t going to be a physical reason why they can;t sell anymore.

It does seem a little bizarre though

[Streets]

LOL @ 14,000 STH's who are all sat wondering what the point was in investing their money in a football club that wont invest in the team.

[readingbedding]

I don't feel cheated, I love popping off to the football, catching up with mates, watching the game, then into Town to watch the evening game in a Pub.

Wouldn't spend a Saturday any other way...

Love it.

[Streets]

LOL @ 13,999......

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

LOL @ 14,000 STH's who are all sat wondering what the point was in investing their money in a football club that wont invest in the team.

Maybe they just want to watch their team play football. A radical idea, I know, but it could be possible.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Well they could always just start selling season tickets again....

It can only be a 'policy' decision, there isn;t going to be a physical reason why they can;t sell anymore.

It does seem a little bizarre though

As was said, if they sell seat 123 in Row Z for the Plymouth game, then they can't sell that seat as a season ticket, at least without it being something a problem logistically. Which is why I said, you have 6000 or so available for general sale, and 2000 or so available to be sold as season tickets, with all individual ticket sales coming from the 6000 and all season tickets coming from the 2000. Problem solved.

[The 17 Bus]

Which seats would you hold back though, I assume the better ones, which are the ones that will go first for Plymouth, I assume they will have the whole away end as usual?

[Roger the Rabbit]

I'm just not sure why they need to hold any back.

If they've sold seat 123 Row Z for Plymouth and someone wants a season ticket in that area and 124 Z is available then they buy that.

They could even sell them a season ticket for 123 Z but bar the season ticket for the Plymouth game and issue a paper ticket for a different seat.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

I'm just not sure why they need to hold any back.

If they've sold seat 123 Row Z for Plymouth and someone wants a season ticket in that area and 124 Z is available then they buy that.

They could even sell them a season ticket for 123 Z but bar the season ticket for the Plymouth game and issue a paper ticket for a different seat.

I think there was a situation when they did the half-season tickets a couple of years back, where although you'd have thought they'd be sensible and not sell them for seats that hold been sold for the next couple of games....well, this is our famed ticket office here.


There's also the potential problem of one person buying 123 Z for Plymouth, and one person buying 124 Z for Palace, meaning neither can be sold as a season ticket (at least not without having to issue extra tickets etc). Reserve 123 Z as a season ticket seat and both those individual sales are made for 124 Z instead.

The idea about reserving a couple of thousand tickets is really just to prevent cock-ups. You shouldn't need to do it, but it ends the problem of seats potentially being sold twice by blocking them from general sale.

[Streets]

LOL @ 14,000 STH's who are all sat wondering what the point was in investing their money in a football club that wont invest in the team.

Maybe they just want to watch their team play football. A radical idea, I know, but it could be possible.

A hardcore of say 6,000 yes. But there is a huge level of expectancy this season and this lot will be getting very restless.

I'm one of the 6,000 by the way. I'd be there every week no matter what league we're in and that has always been the case, but people expect and it's looking like that could really backfire on the club unless we pull out a few top signings to replace the outgoings.

[Roger the Rabbit]

I'm not 100% sure but I suspect there is no difference between 'reserving' a seat and having sold it - on the system at least.

So if 123 Z was sold for the first game of the season and 124 Z was sold for the second anyone then trying to buy it as a season ticket would see that it was unavailable and pick a different one - say 125 Z or 125Y.

You may wel lbe right, but it just seems that blocking thousands of seats from sale is a real sledge hammer to crack a nut.

I do recall a few years ago there were some problems with double selling of seats. Remember the whole system has been changed since then, and having had the problem once I suspect they've learned. The TO is run very differently these days and the TO manager is much better than previous incumbants - not that that will mean they are 100% perfect !!

[Royal Lady]

If they stop selling season tickets, people who want to go to every game will have to pay for each game, thus netting the club more money.

[RoyalBlue]

:roll: If they stop selling season tickets, people who want to go to every game will have to pay for each game, thus netting the club more money.

Kitson's departure has probably scuppered that cunning plan!

[Roger the Rabbit]

:roll: If they stop selling season tickets, people who want to go to every game will have to pay for each game, thus netting the club more money.

Will it ?
Another interesting exercise in calculating whether getting all the money up front and getting the interest on it is worth more than getting it in stages over 9 months, perhaps factoring in the chances of someone missing the odd game.

Anyone got a calculator ?

[Royal Lady]

Truly, in your next re-incarnation on here Behindu, I strongly suggest you use the Mr Condescension tag.