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Covering rows of seats is just pathetic and needless, just sell the blasted seats
the issue was covered in the interview with Debbie, which you obviously haven't bothered to listen to. It's also been covered in a previous thread on here, which you obviously haven't bothered to read She explained that the away seat allocation total is a delicate financial balancing act between the cost of selling/not selling the seats plus the cost and inconvenience of covering the seats in tarps; This latter point is in the lap of the police who instructed the club that if they sold extra tickets ,then a higher police presence would be requireded, so increasing the cost to the club of policing the fixture. That's the reason the Stockport fixture saw a reduced away allocation with tarps covering the first 3 rows. Basically the increased policing costs outweighed the value of selling those extra few hundred seats so not pathetic, not needless and certainly a far more complicated situation than just selling 'the blasted seats'
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I would pay the extra policing costs then to be honest. Tarpaulins look hideous and are just an invitation for idiots to rip them to shreds like ours did at Chesterfield.
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I would pay the extra policing costs then to be honest. Tarpaulins look hideous and are just an invitation for idiots to rip them to shreds like ours did at Chesterfield.
If you look online our block in the Osmond is also probably going to be tarped on the first two rows.
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If you look online our block in the Osmond is also probably going to be tarped on the first two rows.
Has it suddenly become de rigueur to put ugly tarpaulins everywhere?
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Notts county was totally different. We will actually fill the part we're not giving them. The whole of the stand out fans were in was empty.
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Imagine the outcry if a club only gave us 919 tickets knowing an away end held almost double that…
I think the play-off gate receipts were split 6 ways so there was very little financial gain if Notts gave us more tickets but we served them with karma. The ticket situation there is much different though because it's a 20k stadium that they can't fill. We are in a situation where we can't fit our fans in so there is some method to our limiting of away numbers.
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And again, the issue of police literally bullying clubs is raised once again, meanwhile folk cryarse about a statement telling us what rules/laws were already in place.
How on earth the police can dictate to a private company how they can and can’t sell tickets is bonkers.
The issue with the tarp was covered by Debbie and o understand exactly why their allocation is so low…still, we’d be up in arms on here, regardless of facts had we only been given say 919 for orient…
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the issue was covered in the interview with Debbie, which you obviously haven't bothered to listen to. It's also been covered in a previous thread on here, which you obviously haven't bothered to read
She explained that the away seat allocation total is a delicate financial balancing act between the cost of selling/not selling the seats plus the cost and inconvenience of covering the seats in tarps; This latter point is in the lap of the police who instructed the club that if they sold extra tickets ,then a higher police presence would be requireded, so increasing the cost to the club of policing the fixture. That's the reason the Stockport fixture saw a reduced away allocation with tarps covering the first 3 rows. Basically the increased policing costs outweighed the value of selling those extra few hundred seats
so not pathetic, not needless and certainly a far more complicated situation than just selling 'the blasted seats'
For me this is another reason to stop saying we have a capacity of 9032 in the context of selling out the ground. If we have seats that require tarpaulin then we can't sell those seats or at least choose not to for financial reasons. Counting them in the total is either incorrect or disingenuous.
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Block A in the Osmond now open. Less than 200 left in the Main.
nothing at all left in Pontoon, Upper or Lower. Only 50 unrestricted view seats left in the main. Over 80 sold in the first block of the Osmond
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And again, the issue of police literally bullying clubs is raised once again, meanwhile folk cryarse about a statement telling us what rules/laws were already in place.
How on earth the police can dictate to a private company how they can and can’t sell tickets is bonkers.
The issue with the tarp was covered by Debbie and o understand exactly why their allocation is so low…still, we’d be up in arms on here, regardless of facts had we only been given say 919 for orient…
But if we don't reduce the capacity by placing tarps over the front rows, you need more police/stewards to cover along the fence and stop fans going over onto the pitch. The cost of these extra stewards/police is more than the money made from extra ticket sales, so there is not much point. Plus 900 away fans is easier to handle in and around the ground than 1200 to 1800. We are under no obligation to put away fans before our own. It'll hardly matter for the majority of games anyway, as most teams don't have large away followings.
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