Chelsea chat

Just a though I wonder why we wasn't given the complete Shed End which is 6,800 I think?

Sure it was Brentford who took that recently, unless its different rules for different cup's , , ,

Have we sold out?  Online is showing out of stock and phones not working - maybe taken web sales down until dealt with queue in ticket office...

Got mine but my lad has a London posse that want to go...

Quoted from Mariner Timsky

Just a though I wonder why we wasn't given the complete Shed End which is 6,800 I think?

Sure it was Brentford who took that recently, unless its different rules for different cup's , , ,

There's a maximum of 10% of the total capacity for away fans in the League Cup, so Chelsea gave us all they were allowed to. Not sure if that means there'll just be a few empty blocks in our end or a line of stewards and a tiny section of Chelsea fans though? Either way it's kind of a ridiculous rule in this situation.

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

Have we sold out?  Online is showing out of stock and phones not working - maybe taken web sales down until dealt with queue in ticket office...

Got mine but my lad has a London posse that want to go...

They said this on Twitter...

"An initial amount was launched online, we had 150+ orders come through in a couple of minutes. Whilst we process all these orders, remaining tickets will be put online once we’ve processed all these."

...so I'm assuming if 150+ orders of people ordering multiple tickets as well as people turning up at the office, they need to make sure they aren't sold out. They said they'd put a Tweet out 15mins before the next batch go online so tell your son to keep checking.

This 10% rule... does it apply to all clubs in the competition, or just PL teams?

If it applies to all, then let's say we drew Man City at home. Our official capacity these days seems to be around 8,000. Does that mean we'd have given City 800, even though the Osmond can accept a lot more than that?

Just seems an odd rule. I'm sure it's there for a reason, but it's not obvious to me.

A mate of mine has two adult and one child ticket in the home end. He's got away tickets now.  If you can't get away tickets and don't mind going in the home end PM me.

Quoted from RichMariner

This 10% rule... does it apply to all clubs in the competition, or just PL teams?

If it applies to all, then let's say we drew Man City at home. Our official capacity these days seems to be around 8,000. Does that mean we'd have given City 800, even though the Osmond can accept a lot more than that?

Just seems an odd rule. I'm sure it's there for a reason, but it's not obvious to me.

Seeing as Chelsea have sold this out, the 10% thing makes complete sense, but imagine that they didn't - it would be criminal to NOT sell more than 10% of the capacity to an away club whose fans want to go, when the home fans aren't that bothered.  I believe the EFL have a right to state a MINIMUM % that has to be allocated, but never to dictate a maximum.

Quoted from Heisenberg

I’ve never really thought about this, but if GOS is for really
Poorly kids, I apologise. I’ve always thought it was just a massive hospital for kids only. Hopefully I’m right.

Not sure myself either but apology accepted.

I work at an office that backs onto GOSH, well that's when I am not WFH. GOSH is a very busy place as you might expect, they do a great job there.

Quoted from RichMariner

This 10% rule... does it apply to all clubs in the competition, or just PL teams?

If it applies to all, then let's say we drew Man City at home. Our official capacity these days seems to be around 8,000. Does that mean we'd have given City 800, even though the Osmond can accept a lot more than that?

Just seems an odd rule. I'm sure it's there for a reason, but it's not obvious to me.

Hmmm, I'm not sure. I might have misread it and it actually said minimum 10% then. I thought it was stated as maximum on our OS when the initial Chelsea allocation was announced, but I can't find that page/article now.

Quoted from Heisenberg

Seeing as Chelsea have sold this out, the 10% thing makes complete sense, but imagine that they didn't - it would be criminal to NOT sell more than 10% of the capacity to an away club whose fans want to go, when the home fans aren't that bothered.  I believe the EFL have a right to state a MINIMUM % that has to be allocated, but never to dictate a maximum.

Yeah, I agree...however if your ground holds 50,000 and your away end is 6,000 it's almost counter productive for the EFL to cap the away allocation at 10% as it only frees up a 6th of the stand for home fans, which will need a block of segregation...or you just leave it empty. Either way there are empty seats. As said above though, I might have misread this maximum/minimum info.

It can't be a maximum of 10% as We're getting over 5k tickets and the ground holds less than 50k