Derby allocated extra play off tickets for the Amex

[chrisg]

Thousands are left on sale at present - huge areas of 'good availability' so can't see this being over 26000 in my opinion. Anyone wanting a ticket by now would have bought it.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Thousands are left on sale at present - huge areas of 'good availability' so can't see this being over 26000 in my opinion. Anyone wanting a ticket by now would have bought it.

It seems from reported sales figures that there is 3,500 - 4,000 tickets left before sales this morning

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Thousands are left on sale at present - huge areas of 'good availability' so can't see this being over 26000 in my opinion. Anyone wanting a ticket by now would have bought it.

All that panic and people waiting hours in a queue and spending loads of money trying to ring the club - and we're not even close to selling out.

 

[Bold Seagull]

All that panic and people waiting hours in a queue and spending loads of money trying to ring the club - and we're not even close to selling out.

Do you not think the panic was the away tickets which went on sale at the same time?

 

[nwgull]

Thousands are left on sale at present - huge areas of 'good availability' so can't see this being over 26000 in my opinion. Anyone wanting a ticket by now would have bought it.

Looking at seats available, I'd estimate about 3k remaining, so at least 27k on the assumption that Derby sell out their allocation. And they only went on general sale today - amidst confusion that it was already sold out due to ST seats not being available until last night - so I'm sure that loads will be sold between now and Thursday night.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Already plenty of green block s have turned red. The tickets do seem to be selling steadily. Glad to see that W3G is fully stocked already.

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

If it's all percentage-based, shouldn't we get a larger allocation than them as their stadium has about a 3000 larger capacity?
Or am I being dim?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

If it's all percentage-based, shouldn't we get a larger allocation than them as their stadiums has about 3000 larger capacity?
Or am I being dim?

The additional tickets Derby have could well tidy things up from a segregation point of view but the same is not applicable at the iPro due to where they position the away fans.

 

[Gazwag]

Ah, I see. So in reality there might well have been +30,000 there but that would only be unofficial?

I think it would be the other way around, there were less than 30k in the ground

 

[hybrid_x]

if we are serious about getting to the EPL and the £100m that comes with it - we should give them as few tickets as possible - and in the corner high up somewhere (WU-South)

giving them nearly the whole end behind the goal is not going to help us.

it makes a difference to both sets of players if at their eye level the whole crowd is supporting brighton.

 

[Giraffe]

if we are serious about getting to the EPL and the £100m that comes with it - we should give them as few tickets as possible - and in the corner high up somewhere (WU-South)

giving them nearly the whole end behind the goal is not going to help us.

it makes a difference to both sets of players if at their eye level the whole crowd is supporting brighton.

I agree with this. A lot of clubs have hooked on to this in recent seasons and moved away fans as far away from the goal as possible. For the away leg we are upper tier right in the corner.

 

[Notters]

if we are serious about getting to the EPL and the £100m that comes with it - we should give them as few tickets as possible - and in the corner high up somewhere (WU-South)

giving them nearly the whole end behind the goal is not going to help us.

it makes a difference to both sets of players if at their eye level the whole crowd is supporting brighton.

You may be right but I'd like to see some evidence for this. I reckon the effect is probably relatively small.

 

[Bob!]

if we are serious about getting to the EPL and the £100m that comes with it - we should give them as few tickets as possible - and in the corner high up somewhere (WU-South)

giving them nearly the whole end behind the goal is not going to help us.

it makes a difference to both sets of players if at their eye level the whole crowd is supporting brighton.

We tried something similar last Season by putting the away fans in the South East corner with some blocks in East, and some in South.
We dropped that as I guess that away fans were not willing to pay the extra for the tickets in the East.

 

[Giraffe]

You may be right but I'd like to see some evidence for this.

Ouch

 

[carteater]

maybe the club knows we're loose so they want to make sure as many derby fans as possible see them triumph at the stadium in the first leg.

 

[backson]

Ouch

Dammit, you could warn us

 

[trueblue]

I agree with this. A lot of clubs have hooked on to this in recent seasons and moved away fans as far away from the goal as possible. For the away leg we are upper tier right in the corner.

Going back a bit but one of the first thing's Martin O'Neill did at Villa was move away fans on to the side. The Amex set-up is poor for big games, especially as boisterous away fans easily drown out the North Stand.

 

[somerset]

Going back a bit but one of the first thing's Martin O'Neill did at Villa was move away fans on to the side. The Amex set-up is poor for big games, especially as boisterous away fans easily drown out the North Stand.

Leeds did too.... plus Everton off the top of my head.

 

[Giraffe]

Leicester - put us in the corner.
Leeds - put us in the corner
Palace - put us in the corner
Derby - put us in the corner
Burnley - put us in the corner


Just off the top of my head.

 

[Giraffe]

Dammit, you could warn us

Apologies