Town v Northampton tickets

Quoted from HerveJosse

Why do you benchmark everything against Fenty’s rein move on benchmark things against the best decision that can be made

Hence why I said 30 years. His dreadful rein or not, we’ve never had this many season ticket holders, and contrary to what many think, we’ve always had relatively poor home attendance (away too but we forget that).

The club have made a decision, cry bottom all you want but they’ve shown already that they generally make the right one…

I don't think some are quite grasping what we are doing in regards to accommodating more Town fans.

The Osmond holds 1800 and has 5 blocks- A B C D E.

Blocks A and B hold 600 and blocks C D and E hold 1200. There is a natural barrier between block B and block C.

We have to give 10% of capacity to away teams, so if we cover the first rows of seats in C D and E, we can give away fans 919 seats and also not have to have as many police/stewards because of the tarps.

That leaves blocks A and B for Town fans, which is 600 seats that wouldn't normally be occupied by home fans. I imagine against clubs with less away fans, that could be swapped around, so we have the larger section and them the smaller.

It looks from the ticketing plan for the Osmond that only row A is unavailable to home fans for whatever reason, which is about 30 odd seats.

Quoted from ginnywings

I don't think some are quite grasping what we are doing in regards to accommodating more Town fans.

The Osmond holds 1800 and has 5 blocks- A B C D E.

Blocks A and B hold 600 and blocks C D and E hold 1200. There is a natural barrier between block B and block C.

We have to give 10% of capacity to away teams, so if we cover the first rows of seats in C D and E, we can give away fans 919 seats and also not have to have as many police/stewards because of the tarps.

That leaves blocks A and B for Town fans, which is 600 seats that wouldn't normally be occupied by home fans. I imagine against clubs with less away fans, that could be swapped around, so we have the larger section and them the smaller.

It looks from the ticketing plan for the Osmond that only row A is unavailable to home fans for whatever reason, which is about 30 odd seats.

It’s 3 rows A not on plan and B&C already greyed out when went on sale hence why there is a 20% or so reduction in capacity

Quoted from HerveJosse

It’s 3 rows A not on plan and B&C already greyed out when went on sale hence why there is a 20% or so reduction in capacity

Fair enough, didn't know that.  

You have a valid point then regarding the home fans. Maybe the club should just bite the bullet and put extra policing in the 2 block home section. Maybe it's all or nothing?

It remains to be seen if we sell out that section first and foremost.

Guess we will know more as the game approaches.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I think something needs to be done for exiles like you living miles away from BP. There should be a mechanism that grants people season ticket priority for away games within a certain radius of their address. You can never please everyone but a town fan living a stones throw from Sutton for example should have the opportunity to watch the game with their town supporting friends.

For totally selfish reasons I agree mate - difficult to see how that could be done though, could be open to a lot of misuse. In the meantime I’ll just keep my fingers crossed as Sutton’s away capacity has just increased..

It will never happen and there’s many great reasons why (people having season tickets etc), but I’d love for clubs who will bring double figures to just give them the block of the main closest to the osmond and then to fill the Osmond with our fans. The idea of both sides behind  both goals being full of loud Town fans would be awe inspiring

Quoted from ginnywings

Fair enough, didn't know that.  

You have a valid point then regarding the home fans. Maybe the club should just bite the bullet and put extra policing in the 2 block home section. Maybe it's all or nothing?

It remains to be seen if we sell out that section first and foremost.

Guess we will know more as the game approaches.

I expect Block B of the Osmond to open soon, probably tarped at the front as well. It will follow what was indicated by DC , using the structural segregation of the Osmond layout, and I expect this will be the norm. We also see if we release the 281 seats to Northampton if they need them.

We've 10 days to sell about 600 seats including the Osmond, plus ST buybacks which will be triggered in the last few days. I expect this will be a similar attendance to Stockport, but with more home fans and fewer away.

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

I expect Block B of the Osmond to open soon, probably tarped at the front as well. It will follow what was indicated by DC , using the structural segregation of the Osmond layout, and I expect this will be the norm. We also see if we release the 281 seats to Northampton if they need them.

We've 10 days to sell about 600 seats including the Osmond, plus ST buybacks which will be triggered in the last few days. I expect this will be a similar attendance to Stockport, but with more home fans and fewer away.

Yeah, it's looking that way.

Stockport game was 7800 with 1450 away fans and 6350 home fans.

The Northampton game will have around 7000 home and 900 away, if they sell all theirs.

The club are smart... IF we totally sell out of every home seat they may well open up the bottom 3 rows and recruit extra stewarding if it's needed.

Of those seats covered in the osmond, are any regarded as restricted view? I remember at leat the first two rows being relatively low down…