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Post by pauld on Apr 25, 2024 14:41:17 GMT
...and while we're boosting the club coffers while rewarding loyalty, a means of reserving your normal seat as an ST holder too 👍🏻 £20-£30 on top of your ST for a gert big 'reserved' sticker for the season with your name or ST number on it. With a lot of Johnny Come Lately's for this game (and maybe yet even the final!) there'll be a lot of displaced regulars unless they arrive stupid early. Happens often enough already with non segregated games, away fans that came up on the coach with their team get first pick of the seats, and that's not fair. When the new stand is built the club may even bring back the 'Stand fee' used to me Morty stood there taking 50p off everyone. But in all seriousness a little like other do at this level and above what's the harm in numbering the seats and rows and selling them properly for and extra £1.50-2 a game and then have the normal terrace tickets. This then gives you 2 season ticket prices terrace or seated. Say we get 400 in that stand every week across thats an extra £18,000 a year.... The last couple of years the club has been looking at something like an "1886 club", effectively an enhanced season-ticket that would involve pre-match hospitality, free programme etc; presumably this could include reserved stand seat, priority on tickets. Obviously this relies on the facilities being available, which is all part of the overall development plan, as I understand it. I don't know if the WFCSA has been involved in discussions with the directors, but it would help the club if the fans let them know what sort of things they'd like to see, such as the ideas floated in this thread. |
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 25, 2024 15:52:14 GMT
There is no chance they will not sell out their entire allocation. I agree. They are moaning on their forum that they will be getting only about 450 tickets, when they have more than double that number of season-ticket holders. Erm, obvious solution... finish 2nd or 3rd then 😉 But it is a difficult one. Yes they're ST holders but how often do they go to away games?, there'll be regular away game travellers but don't have a home season ticket. This is the very situation we will face if Chelmsford beat Braintree and we win our SF. A pecking order plan, in advance, so everyone knows would help, but I suspect it'd be a first come first served free for all. In the Championship/Prem, where all away tickets are purchased through your club, there is an audit trail to prove how many games you've been to. But it gets abused, people with no intention of going to the away games buy tickets, sub them out to others but claim the 'points' so that when a big cup game comes up they get the priority. At our level though how do you prove travelling loyalty? I'd never want us to get to the stage where proper laborious efforts need to be made to get to watch our team, it's one of the many reasons I've fallen out of love with league football. I guess the pragmatic answer is that this doesn't happen very often so if we can't get tickets, that's what NLTV is for 🤷🏻♂️ |
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Post by portlandred on Apr 25, 2024 16:01:05 GMT
And to think they brought nearly 150 fans to the league game at Woodside !! Maybe we’ve based their allocation on that turnout !
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 25, 2024 16:07:16 GMT
As we're discussing it, here's the Stones forum match thread... MUFC Forum |
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Post by Bally on Apr 25, 2024 16:46:31 GMT
There is no chance they will not sell out their entire allocation. I agree. They are moaning on their forum that they will be getting only about 450 tickets, when they have more than double that number of season-ticket holders. Sould have finished 2nd or 3rd then! 😉 |
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 25, 2024 17:25:18 GMT
Tickets have just gone on sale for Stones fans, I think it's fair to conclude there will be no tickets coming back unsold for us to offer more.
Paul, did you mention recently that our record gate was around 3,000 back in the days where gates were estimated?
In which case, will our 3,200 (isn't it now?) capacity be our highest ever verified home attendance?
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 25, 2024 18:35:40 GMT
So in the end total anarchy broke out.
A 'secret link' was sent out to their season ticket holders to give them priority over general sale... only for it to be shared on their forum (and presumably the Insta/Face/Twit/Tok) so it was a free for all after all 🤦🏻♂️
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Post by Bally on Apr 25, 2024 18:50:30 GMT
As we're discussing it, here's the Stones forum match thread... MUFC ForumWow that's an entertaining read! Early posts about winners coming from this match (Errrr Chelmsford anyone?), expecting Worthing to score first (Have they watched our highlights?), lots of moans about only getting 15% allocation (finish higher up then) and then when they've got a ticket, it's all gravy!!!! Love football! |
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Post by pauld on Apr 25, 2024 20:06:22 GMT
Tickets have just gone on sale for Stones fans, I think it's fair to conclude there will be no tickets coming back unsold for us to offer more. Paul, did you mention recently that our record gate was around 3,000 back in the days where gates were estimated? In which case, will our 3,200 (isn't it now?) capacity be our highest ever verified home attendance? 3690 is the record home gate (FA Cup 4th QR v Wimbledon on 14th November 1936 - gate receipts £97, apparently!). 3000+ was my guess at the largest home league attendance. The biggest reported attendance at Woodside Road was for the Southern Counties Amateur Championship final on 4th May 1946, when Sussex beat Cornwall in front of 4000....but I am suspicious of that figure 1) because it is a nice round number and 2) we were warned by the Sussex FA beforehand that we would lose the right to host county matches if the gate wasn't at least 4000... |
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Post by pauld on Apr 25, 2024 20:09:35 GMT
There's a similar conversation going on the Chelmsford forum; their capacity is slightly less than ours and they have given Braintree 660 (i.e. just over 20%), presumably for logistical reasons.
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Post by dutchboy74 on Apr 25, 2024 21:21:39 GMT
There's a similar conversation going on the Chelmsford forum; their capacity is slightly less than ours and they have given Braintree 660 (i.e. just over 20%), presumably for logistical reasons. . Could it be because their average gate isn’t great? This season around 913. So maybe it doesn’t cause the hype it causes here in Worthing? |
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Post by pauld on Apr 26, 2024 13:20:25 GMT
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 26, 2024 13:37:13 GMT
Link to an interview with Aarran on BBC Sussex... Twitter/X |
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 26, 2024 16:52:35 GMT
George Elokobi wins manager of the week... Twitter/XErm, hello?, the week ends on a Sunday guys! 🙄😉 |
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 26, 2024 19:15:09 GMT
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