Swansea allocation

[Svlad Cjelli]

Just saw a link to this on the swansea version of HNA?

http://www.livefootballtickets.com/cham ... -9128.html

This site had tickets 'for sale' before our Cardiff game

Why not? They knew they were in the final 24 hours before we did.

[RoyalBlue]

Just saw a link to this on the swansea version of HNA?

http://www.livefootballtickets.com/cham ... -9128.html

This site had tickets 'for sale' before our Cardiff game

Why not? They knew they were in the final 24 hours before we did.

More annoying is the fact they have tickets and the prices they are being allowed to sell them for.

Is there really a difference between this type of site and the guys who would get arrested if they were caught touting tickets outside Wembley?

[Svlad Cjelli]

More annoying is the fact they have tickets and the prices they are being allowed to sell them for.

Is there really a difference between this type of site and the guys who would get arrested if they were caught touting tickets outside Wembley?

Ah, I see. No, I'm completely with you on that one - it is legalised touting and completely outrageous.

[RoyalBlue]

More annoying is the fact they have tickets and the prices they are being allowed to sell them for.

Is there really a difference between this type of site and the guys who would get arrested if they were caught touting tickets outside Wembley?

Ah, I see. No, I'm completely with you on that one - it is legalised touting and completely outrageous.

So is the FSF able to do anything about it? Or is it more double standards and two faced talking by our legislators? (I'm not referring to the FSF with that second sentence!)

[Rex]

The bad thing about this is there might be some desperate enough to keep these people in business.

[Svlad Cjelli]

More annoying is the fact they have tickets and the prices they are being allowed to sell them for.

Is there really a difference between this type of site and the guys who would get arrested if they were caught touting tickets outside Wembley?

Ah, I see. No, I'm completely with you on that one - it is legalised touting and completely outrageous.

So is the FSF able to do anything about it? Or is it more double standards and two faced talking by our legislators? (I'm not referring to the FSF with that second sentence!)

The FSF has highlighted it lots of times and we frequently raise it with the football authorities. But there's money in it for the clubs so they don't want to do anything about it. And as long as they sell on behalf of a club they're OK under legislation.

Having said that, there are lots of sites that offer tickets, take the money and sell you the square root of bugger all. I suspect this site might be one of those - why does it need to be registered in Spain?

[RoyalBlue]

Ah, I see. No, I'm completely with you on that one - it is legalised touting and completely outrageous.

So is the FSF able to do anything about it? Or is it more double standards and two faced talking by our legislators? (I'm not referring to the FSF with that second sentence!)

The FSF has highlighted it lots of times and we frequently raise it with the football authorities. But there's money in it for the clubs so they don't want to do anything about it. And as long as they sell on behalf of a club they're OK under legislation.

Having said that, there are lots of sites that offer tickets, take the money and sell you the square root of bugger all. I suspect this site might be one of those - why does it need to be registered in Spain?

So there's money in it for the clubs - what's RFC's view on this? - and the football authorities as usual don't give a toss! What about MPs or are they happy to allow these up-market high tech touts to operate, just so long as the raincoat brigade are driven off the streets?

[The Cube]

The two halves of the stadium aren't exactly the same size - that's because of where the segregation is within the stadium.

The club that gets the home dressing room (the one that finished higher in the league table) also gets the gets the East end of the stadium, which is the slightly larger one.

So no conspiracy, just the rules and teh segregation.

If this right then they would have had to wait to see who won the first semi. Did the ticket printers really hover with finger on button waiting for the result, and if so do the Swansea tickets just have Swansea printed on them rather than Swansea / Nottm Forest? And what would have happened if Forest had finished fifth, the ties had been swapped and the result of the second semi determined which of the two teams in the final was the highest placed?

My best guess would be that instead the winner of the 3rd v 6th tie got the home dressing room and eastern end.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

All this debate over 374 seats when both sides have over 39,000 seats?

Get over it.

[AthleticoSpizz]

All this debate over 374 seats when both sides have over 39,000 seats?

Get over it.

I think its all a bit tongue in cheek mate................


hail the hobnob

[Rex]

All this debate over 374 seats when both sides have over 39,000 seats?

Get over it.

I think its all a bit tongue in sheep mate................


hail the hobnob

[AthleticoSpizz]

yes...we've been fleeced

May this be the scrag end to all of the mutton jibes

[philM]

More annoying is the fact they have tickets and the prices they are being allowed to sell them for.

Is there really a difference between this type of site and the guys who would get arrested if they were caught touting tickets outside Wembley?

Ah, I see. No, I'm completely with you on that one - it is legalised touting and completely outrageous.

They are selling blocks of 10 in some areas (for around £1,300!). It says all tickets are from valid ticket agents. Assuming nobody had a full deck of RFC member cards how do they get their tickets? Is it from RFC/TicketZone/Wembley/FA?

[Z175]

Aidan from Norway bought 2 tickets to swansea reading... Sickening isn't given the queues at swansea and our own internet efforts. Can we all report this to the FA and see what they have to say? The mark up won't be going to the clubs or FL that's for sure

[philM]

Aidan from Norway bought 2 tickets to swansea reading... Sickening isn't given the queues at swansea and our own internet efforts. Can we all report this to the FA and see what they have to say? The mark up won't be going to the clubs or FL that's for sure

I've started a touts thread, can we get back on here to the much more important matter of the 374 tickets

[Glory Boy]

More annoying is the fact they have tickets and the prices they are being allowed to sell them for.

Is there really a difference between this type of site and the guys who would get arrested if they were caught touting tickets outside Wembley?

Ah, I see. No, I'm completely with you on that one - it is legalised touting and completely outrageous.

They are selling blocks of 10 in some areas (for around £1,300!). It says all tickets are from valid ticket agents. Assuming nobody had a full deck of RFC member cards how do they get their tickets? Is it from RFC/TicketZone/Wembley/FA?

The F.A. know there are cash rich neutrals out there that will think nothing of paying £150+ for a ticket. It is just peanuts to them. They will go for the occasion/big day out and not even consider that they are being ripped off.

[Great Knolly]

If you've got to divide the tickets in half and you can't have two sets of fans in the same block, then a difference of 374 in about 80,000 is a pretty good effort.

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

http://www.swanseacity.net/page/Latest/0,,10354~2364411,00.html

[RoyalBlue]

TicketZone now reporting for Swansea:

"We have sold out of our allocation. Liberty Stadium Ticket Office are cutting the queue at 12 noon today"

[Wycombe Royal]

So have Swansea also had their allocation upped? Ours is now 39,396 which is a whopping 20 more than their initial allocation.