[Albion] Leeds not selling out (yet?)

[Cowfold Seagull]

This.

There are always significant gaps at the Amex (and no doubt elsewhere) at games until the first full week of Sept. Debated to death on nsc every year.

Newcastle was a surprisingly nearly full Amex, Leeds is looking good too.

So just two home games into the season, with Newcastle a virtual sell out, and Leeds doing well too.

Yet people still complain.

 

[El Presidente]

I'm sorry, but why should NHS people get discounted tickets, I get fed up with NHS workers getting freebees/discounts when they are just doing their jobs!!! especially GP's who seem to become invisible.

I imagine most people will disagree with me but I had to get it off my chest.

I guess some people think that NHS staff were coming into work during a time of a global pandemic that killed 150,000 in this country and millions more worldwide. At the time there was uncertainty about the danger of the virus, whether a vaccine would be available to reduce that danger yet NHS staff were still brave enough to deal with covid patients under those circumstances.

Tony Bloom thinks that those risks taken by NHS staff are worth acknowledging with a relatively low cost but still kind gesture in terms of discounted tickets…and you don’t.

Different decisions. Different folks. Can understand your annoyance, after all, what has Bloom ever done for us?

#BloomOut
#BarberOut
#SackTheBoard
#PrivatiseTheNHS*













*Appreciate this is current;y a work in progress.

 

[Dave the hatosaurus]

Yep. its too early to say. The difference in terms of demand between Newcastle (sold out a few days before KO) , most of the games last season and Leeds (not quite sold out 24 hours before KO) demand is only a few hundred seats out of 31,000 or so - or a few hundred out of the 4-5000 match day tickets. I guess club will end up with 200-300 unsold tickets for Leeds although i'm sure they'd have hoped / perhaps expected to have shifted them given the early season form. But i'd say Its hard to look at any of the games (yet) and start to draw conclusions about pricing, cost of living, and so on - yet.

100 % agree no firm conclusions yet . However i feel i must say that i am in the not a sell out until exchange has sold out camp , although i fully realise that from the club's point of view if a season ticket holder cannot make it and lists on the exchange which does not open and thus the seat(s) remain empty it will still be considered as sold .

Sometimes wonder how many times in a season someone visiting the club ticket site in the week before a game and seeing only singles in most blocks and pairs only available in the corners or way at the back will not buy at all when there may be some prime seats listed on the exchange which is not open . Although i am pretty sure the club will have done some research on this and know the optimum time to open it . Or is it always when the last ticket they have is sold ?

 

[South west gull]

100 % agree no firm conclusions yet . However i feel i must say that i am in the not a sell out until exchange has sold out camp , although i fully realise that from the club's point of view if a season ticket holder cannot make it and lists on the exchange which does not open and thus the seat(s) remain empty it will still be considered as sold .

Sometimes wonder how many times in a season someone visiting the club ticket site in the week before a game and seeing only singles in most blocks and pairs only available in the corners or way at the back will not buy at all when there may be some prime seats listed on the exchange which is not open . Although i am pretty sure the club will have done some research on this and know the optimum time to open it . Or is it always when the last ticket they have is sold ?

I personally think the break pre Christmas for the world cup will get people out of the habit of going to football

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[Stat Brother]

I bet their other 74 posts are equally enlightening.

 

[chaileyjem]

I personally think the break pre Christmas for the world cup will get people out of the habit of going to football

Well outside of the PL and Champ people will still be going in their millions to EFL and non league. Which aren't stopping.
(Not sure there's any evidence that the 18 months of lockdown impacted on overall attendances - if anything i think they're now higher. )

 

[Dave the OAP]

Certainly was the case some years ago.

That was after they smashed up Bournemouth wasn’t it?

 

[Dave the OAP]

I'm sorry, but why should NHS people get discounted tickets, I get fed up with NHS workers getting freebees/discounts when they are just doing their jobs!!! especially GP's who seem to become invisible.

I imagine most people will disagree with me but I had to get it off my chest.

Wow you appear to be a right piece of work. 5 minutes talking to my daughter who worked her arse off all through the pandemic for the NHS would ram your argument back up your arse!

Thanks for your 75 posts btw.

 

[Uter]

Well outside of the PL and Champ people will still be going in their millions to EFL and non league. Which aren't stopping.
(Not sure there's any evidence that the 18 months of lockdown impacted on overall attendances - if anything i think they're now higher. )

If clubs maintain the average crowds we've seen in the first few weeks of the season we will see:

- Top flight average crowds over 40,000 for the first time ever.
- Total attendances in the top 4 divisions top 34,000,000 for the first time since 1954/55 - a rise of 2,000,000 on last season.
- Third tier average crowds top 10,000 for the first time since 1959/60.
- The highest fourth tier crowds since the late 1960s.

 

[Weststander]

I'm sorry, but why should NHS people get discounted tickets, I get fed up with NHS workers getting freebees/discounts when they are just doing their jobs!!! especially GP's who seem to become invisible.

I imagine most people will disagree with me but I had to get it off my chest.

Mrs.W works in the NHS and she isn't a grumbler about her lot there.

The perks and benefits:
- modest pay, but better than some with no knowledge would have us believe.
- an incredible pension scheme.
- during the pandemic ..... they could shop at some supermarkets in the early hours with other emergency workers, rarely an Albion or Brighton Centre gig tickets (but all snapped up quickly, low odds of getting one) and the occasional box of chocolates/biscuits from volunteers/charities.

It isn't the amazing thing you might think.

GP's - half have decided to work a three day week or less, but it's probably a stressful job on the days they work. It's fallen out of fashion with new doctors, who favour hospital work.

 

[Weststander]

If clubs maintain the average crowds we've seen in the first few weeks of the season we will see:

- Top flight average crowds over 40,000 for the first time ever.
- Total attendances in the top 4 divisions top 34,000,000 for the first time since 1954/55 - a rise of 2,000,000 on last season.
- Third tier average crowds top 10,000 for the first time since 1959/60.
- The highest fourth tier crowds since the late 1960s.

it's only going to get greater eg Liverpool, Everton, Newcastle and Villa constructing or proposing huge new stands/stadia.

 

[Bob!]

Yep. its too early to say. The difference in terms of demand between Newcastle (sold out a few days before KO) , most of the games last season and Leeds (not quite sold out 24 hours before KO) demand is only a few hundred seats out of 31,000 or so - or a few hundred out of the 4-5000 match day tickets. I guess club will end up with 200-300 unsold tickets for Leeds although i'm sure they'd have hoped / perhaps expected to have shifted them given the early season form. But i'd say Its hard to look at any of the games (yet) and start to draw conclusions about pricing, cost of living, and so on - yet.

My son is over from Spain.

I've got a Season Ticket in W3H, there are none showing for sale in that block, probably because they are the cheapest seats in the house and the club want to sell the seats designated as non STH areas, or more expensive ones. Normally we'd try to get him one in the same block and he'd try to move around to get as close to my seat as possible. Nothing on sale in my block so he won't be going.

 

[Superphil]

. Although i am pretty sure the club will have done some research on this and know the optimum time to open it . Or is it always when the last ticket they have is sold ?

I was told this morning that it is when the last available ticket is sold, which I find a bit hard to believe. I think there must be a point when there are only say 10 or 20 left that they open the exchange. Currently there are over 500 left to sell, I don't think the exchange will open on this game.

 

[chaileyjem]

My son is over from Spain.

I've got a Season Ticket in W3H, there are none showing for sale in that block, probably because they are the cheapest seats in the house and the club want to sell the seats designated as non STH areas, or more expensive ones. Normally we'd try to get him one in the same block and he'd try to move around to get as close to my seat as possible. Nothing on sale in my block so he won't be going.

I think there are none showing because they’ve now sold out. (In that block)! There are none in my ST area now either as I was likewise thinking of buying an extra. (But there were last week)

 

[Uter]

it's only going to get greater eg Liverpool, Everton, Newcastle and Villa constructing or proposing huge new stands/stadia.

Yup. In a few years the average PL attendance will likely be pushing 45000. In ten years maybe even 50000.

I totally get all the arguments about the local transport infrastructure, the structural challenges regard expanding the stadium and whether we have the support to justify it, and they have all been debated to death, but the reality is we could find ourselves with one of the smallest PL stadiums in the next 10 years.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

My son is over from Spain.

I've got a Season Ticket in W3H, there are none showing for sale in that block, probably because they are the cheapest seats in the house and the club want to sell the seats designated as non STH areas, or more expensive ones. Normally we'd try to get him one in the same block and he'd try to move around to get as close to my seat as possible. Nothing on sale in my block so he won't be going.

Normally some in w3i available, I didn’t see the owners until the man United game last season


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[Pogue Mahone]

I think there are none showing because they’ve now sold out. (In that block)! There are none in my ST area now either as I was likewise thinking of buying an extra. (But there were last week)

Obviously they have, but if they opened up the exchange there would instantly be some availability there.

W3H was where I have had a ST throughout the Amex years. On several occasions I put my ticket on the exchange, but it didn't open, as did several friends in the same area. I gave it up this season for various reasons, but am unexpectedly able to go tomorrow. I'm holding off buying though, as none of what is available attracts me.

If they don't open the exchange, I'll watch a stream.

 

[Bozza]

My son is over from Spain.

I've got a Season Ticket in W3H, there are none showing for sale in that block, probably because they are the cheapest seats in the house and the club want to sell the seats designated as non STH areas, or more expensive ones. Normally we'd try to get him one in the same block and he'd try to move around to get as close to my seat as possible. Nothing on sale in my block so he won't be going.

Whenever I've been in a similar position, I 've just bought any WSU seat and always managed to find an empty seat close to my two.

Given there is an expectation that a lot of folk will have other plans this bank holiday weekend, the chances are high that there will be empty STH seat somewhere very close to your own and/or an empty pair you could both move to.

I'd be buying a ticket and taking the chance that you'll still be able to sit together - I'm sure you will be able to.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Whenever I've been in a similar position, I 've just bought any WSU seat and always managed to find an empty seat close to my two.

Given there is an expectation that a lot of folk will have other plans this bank holiday weekend, the chances are high that there will be empty STH seat somewhere very close to your own and/or an empty pair you could both move to.

I'd be buying a ticket and taking the chance that you'll still be able to sit together - I'm sure you will be able to.

Just one seat available in the whole of WSU at the moment.

 

[Bozza]

Just one seat available in the whole of WSU at the moment.

...or find a friendly WSUer who can't go.

Such as [MENTION=236]Papa Lazarou[/MENTION] with his nice, central, second row seat!