ANOTHER Wembley ticket fiasco

[bristolseagull]

Re: Re: ANOTHER Wembley ticket fiasco

STH by any other name then, even if these STH paid 100K for the seats.

Face it, the game as we know it is over. It's all about TV audiences and 50 milllion quid promotions. The game as a whole would quite happily play to a completely empty stadium if they could sell every seat as a Debenture. At that point tho, they'd have to PAY extras to fill the seats and generate some atmosphere.

Don't get mad. Just keep your money for something else. Something more deserving.

drugs

 

[London Calling]

I was in Club Wembley seats yesterday, we were able to change ends at half time! The segregation issue is interesting, in the first half we were sat next to Derby fans, with WBA fans in front of us, so they failed in the segregation anyway. It was the same in the 2nd half when we changed ends, no trouble though.

All said and done though, 10K empty seat is a disgrace, furthermore, half the beer/food outlets in the councourse were closed, and the queues were enormous. In the "lahdy dah" section upstairs, they ran out of booze, so sent those people down to the Club concourse bars too.

And, did you see the pathetic "pyrotechnics" at the end, a few hundred soggy paper streamers thrown on top of the players as they posed with the trophy, sad. Where were the fireworks we had at Cardiff? I guess it's probalby London Borough of Brents H&S officers work. The streamers you get to let off on your Grans birthday are more impressive.

This coupled with the music being played so loud (rocking all over the world, again) that you couldn't hear the Derby fans singing at the end, why do they do that? Metallica in July won't make that much noise.

All in all, Wembly and the FA need to raise their game, empty seats, closed facilities, and with the prices they charge for beer and food, they could find that fans are turned off, I can see play-off finals with many more empty seats in the future.

Finally, I didn't remember Wembley being quite the shithole it is, it is a wasteland, we walked all the way round the ground, it's like it's been built on a bombsite. It is a sorry replacement for the Millennium Stadium, right in the centre fo a vibrant city, a CHOICE of pubs and bars everywhere.

Oh well, I guess I'll be there if the Albion ever make it again.

The area outside is still under redevelopment...............................a shopping centre and bars are to follow...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................


one day?

 

[Superphil]

The area outside is still under redevelopment...............................a shopping centre and bars are to follow...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................


one day?

I hope so, but won't hold my breath, Wembley the place never was the nicest place to go, at least the stadium is excellent. That area outside must be at least twice the size as the Wembley Stadium site, so if they do upgrade it, it will be pretty special.

 

[Storer68]

and they have yet to work out how to stop the rain gushing down Wembley way when there is anything stronger than a drizzle happening.

made me feel quite nostalgic for Withdean

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

One encouraging thing tho is that the debenture seats have proper fans positioned directly above them. What if, next big game, each of the fans sat directly above were to smuggle in an M&S prawn sandwich and gently lob it into the debenture seats below. just a thought...

 

[Easy 10]

Adrian Chiles referred to the vast circle of empty prawn sandwich seats as the "ring of disinterest" apparently. That about summed it up.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

I'm going to the England game with a mate on Friday, but only because we'll be going from London, so we can eat near work. I wouldn't bother to come up from Sussex unless the Albion were playing there. The Millennium Stadium is in an infinitely better location than Wembley is. Even Twickenham is better off for local facilities than Wembley.

 

[Easy 10]

The Millennium Stadium is in an infinitely better location than Wembley is.

Apart form it being in WALES, that is...

 

[Tooting Gull]

Clearly that ring of seating has helped pay for the stadium, whether you agree with it or not (and I don't).

But it really shouldn't be beyond the wit of someone to devise a scheme that if the corporates are NOT taking up their boxes/suites for a match (and they never/rarely will on a Bank Holiday weekend) then they HAVE to at least offer their tickets for resale (ie getting some money back) for a game like a Championship play-off. If they're worried about yobs destroying the boxes, then just give them access to the seats. And if they are worried about segregation, make it a family area.

Everyone wins. More fans get to big games, companies claw back some cash, Wembley and FA don't look such dickheads.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Personally I think it's BRILLIANT of Wembley to clearly identify the wankers killing the game as we know it, down to the EXACT seat numbers. Would be the easist thing in the world for the fans sat directly above, to make these seats the target for all the abuse and used burger wrappers and drink cartons they can muster. Just render it so unpleasant to be sat there in the f***-you-I'm-obscenely-rich seats that something has to CHANGE. Not rocket science. Don't get mad, get EVEN.

 

[Wienergull]

One encouraging thing tho is that the debenture seats have proper fans positioned directly above them. What if, next big game, each of the fans sat directly above were to smuggle in an M&S prawn sandwich and gently lob it into the debenture seats below. just a thought...

Perhaps some Roy Keane clones could be brought in to do the lobbing - although it would hardly be gentle - and do some mean eyeballing at the same time.

 

[who me?]

according to the daily mirror saturday who ran a story about some bloke who's company had lobbed 100 grand wembleys way for ten seats.

debenture seat holders only had an option(for 10000 quid) to purchase their seat for the day.
90 quid a go. 20 quid more than the top priced ticket offered to derby/wba fans
BUT
it would come with a voucher for a free burger

 

[Superphil]

according to the daily mirror saturday who ran a story about some bloke who's company had lobbed 100 grand wembleys way for ten seats.

debenture seat holders only had an option(for 10000 quid) to purchase their seat for the day.
90 quid a go. 20 quid more than the top priced ticket offered to derby/wba fans
BUT
it would come with a voucher for a free burger

The tickets were £99, you had your own entrance into the stadium which was open 3 hours before kick-off. You got food which included as many burgers, pies (veggie and meat), rather nice chicken, fries, M&Ms, Maltesers, Crisps, Chocolates and other snacks as you could eat.

In addition all your beer, wine, spirits, tea, coffee and soft drinks were included. After the game the bars were open for a further hour and a half to drink up before leaving, thus missing the queues (albeit you had to pay for beer after the game)

The food was good quality, the beer was cold, the tea tasted like tea, the seats were padded and very comfortable.

I agree that it's all wrong, and it's a shame that this is the way it's going to be. But as someone said, this is partly what has paid for the stadium.

 

[ditchy]

Personally I think it's BRILLIANT of Wembley to clearly identify the wankers killing the game as we know it, down to the EXACT seat numbers. Would be the easist thing in the world for the fans sat directly above, to make these seats the target for all the abuse and used burger wrappers and drink cartons they can muster. Just render it so unpleasant to be sat there in the f***-you-I'm-obscenely-rich seats that something has to CHANGE. Not rocket science. Don't get mad, get EVEN.

Why are they wankers? the wankers are the FA for providing the facility to abuse ....They are not killing the game .. its the owners of clubs etc who providing these type of facilities instead of more seating for the genuine fan .. unfortunately the fact of life is that these "rich seats" bring the revenue sort after by clubs and associations . Its the same policy on aircraft seats , guess you pay your money and take your choice !

 

[Simster]

Clearly that ring of seating has helped pay for the stadium, whether you agree with it or not (and I don't).

What is worse, it was f***ing obvious to just about everyone that this sort of thing was going to be necessary in order to fund the stadium when it became obvious that the cost of rebuilding Wembley was SOARING to over £700m. i.e. over three times the cost of building a new stadium anywhere else in the country.

A MASSIVE number of prawn sandwich seats, over priced shit food & concessions, and a very very few cheap category seats. That is the cost of a rebuilt Wembley. Was it worth it? I think not.

 

[Storer68]

I should't worry. We won't be going there for a long long long time.