I don't UNDERSTAND about the EMPTY seats

[Vegas Seagull]

UNDER 20000 today BUT announced a SELL out AGAIN. It is SO weird, the SEAT next to ME has been EMPTY since the Doncaster game. I WONDER why ?

Work

 

[Snowy]

There were eight empty seats in a row in front of me in the East Stand!

 

[timsouch]

i was told today the ticket exchange from the club is coming in jan or feb or some time early next year but is on its way just organising it at momeent

 

[Amahwrang]

Why would the Club support a scheme which could lose them money ? They have your money for your season ticket seat - they don't want you easily selling it onto a non season ticket holder as the demand for match day seats in the East South corner would cease. If the stadium was all ST then it could work.

The club would make money, exchange system only kicks in after non ST sold out, you get the season ticket value refunded less an admin fee. Buyer pays full price for the seat. Everyones happy

 

[wizo7]

I have NEVER sat in my actual seat in the North Stand. Always stand at the back with a group of people I go to away games with. That's the same for the person that sits next to me.

 

[nail-Z]

A simple scheme wouldn't even be difficult to implement. Why not just allow people to request a paper ticket online. Even if they charge £10 for the privilidge, it allows the season ticket holder to pass on or sell their ticket for any individual game.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Maybe its just the start of the general dip in attendances in the run up to Xmas. Have to say the North Stand concourse did seem less busy than normal and the queues for the bogs were shorter. Hoorah!

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

This has had a lot of threads, and I am sure it will get more due to the following

The ground capacity is down on wiki as 22,374

When you look around the ground and where ever you sit, it is hard to pick out many empty seats that could equate to 2K plus empty seats.

We have played Liverpool (21,897), Palace (20,968), West Ham (20,686) Leeds (20,646) and Donny (20,219) plus others where the game has been sold out but showing as under 20K.

This leaves between 800-2200 on tickets on the above listed sell out games as being possibly unsold or purchased and unused.

So conspiracy theorys will then abound that the club are holding back tickets, not counting tickets until the true science are shown, that either people do not turn up or sponsors/ players / Clubs and ST tickets go unused and the ground is so vast that 10 in every 100 seats plus away end non takers does not show to the human eye as many people missing.

So I have still not seen a good explaination and blame MI5....

 

[The Grockle]

I blame the JWCL (johnny wont come latelys)

 

[Gazwag]

There were two seats two rows in front of me in the north which were empty because the fans are banned. They had given their smart cards to friends/family but the stewards asked them to leave.

Makes you wonder why the turnstiles let them in the ground.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It must be rocket science or the club don't need/want the money.. Weird!

The technology already exists and is in place. 1901ers can email a paper ticket for any match to any email address for which they cannot attend.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The technology already exists and is in place. 1901ers can email a paper ticket for any match to any email address for which they cannot attend.

Never knew that. Sounds like technology that could easily be rolled out to all STHs with access to email.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Never knew that. Sounds like technology that could easily be rolled out to all STHs with access to email.

It's cool, I have used it. There is no technical reason I can see as to why it cannot be rolled out across the board. I do not think too many people would grumble if the club charged a few quid per transaction to make it worthwhile for the club.

 

[Peter Grummit]

There are always lots of empty seats in the West South corner - the so called 'staff seats' (my lad worked in the ticket office so told me about these). This and the lack of the ticket exchange are an indictment on the inefficiency of the Club ground management. The ticket office management and the MD should be bonus incentivised to sort this asap, it's amateur.

PG

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Probably the Saturday 3pm kick-off caught a lot of people by surprise!

 

[Langley]

My seat has been empty all season - I stand up for the whole of the game.

Then you are clearly in breach of the terms of sale for your ticket. See page 9 of the program.
Unless you happen to be in the very back row, then you obviously have no consideration for the fans behind you