[Albion] The Sheffield United golden ticket thread

[Bozza]

I can see a bit of an issue cropping up with tiers being reviewed on 16 Dec and the match four days later, if East Sussex is put into Tier 3 (Rother and Hastings are looking an issue at the moment) there could be a lot of tickets suddenly appears on the exchange. This added to the possibility that B&H and West Sussex could go into Tier 1 so another 2,000 tickets could be released. This could result in a lot of East Sussex supporters being out of pocket.

If East Sussex goes into Tier 3, won't Brighton go with it, as tiered areas are not that granular enough to have Brighton sit outside of that.

...which would mean no one gets to go.

 

[Bozza]

If East Sussex goes into Tier 3, won't Brighton go with it, as tiered areas are not that granular enough to have Brighton sit outside of that.

...which would mean no one gets to go.

Oh, you might be right actually...

South East
Bracknell Forest
Brighton and Hove
Buckinghamshire
East Sussex
Hampshire, including Portsmouth and Southampton
Oxfordshire
Reading
Surrey
West Berkshire
West Sussex
Windsor and Maidenhead
Wokingham

 

[chaileyjem]

Double 3 for me.

 

[Fozzyboy]

Was explained in the fans forum last week

I apologise, I was just trying to be helpful to the people that didn't know

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Window 4 Southampton. Window 1 Sheffield Utd we are going. Early Christmas present

For you or for Sheffield Utd?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I have moved up from 3 to 2.

 

[Doonhamer7]

Was 3 now 4

 

[Gazwag]

Oh, you might be right actually...

South East
Bracknell Forest
Brighton and Hove
Buckinghamshire
East Sussex
Hampshire, including Portsmouth and Southampton
Oxfordshire
Reading
Surrey
West Berkshire
West Sussex
Windsor and Maidenhead
Wokingham

Actually, where is the stadium - is it B&H or East Sussex I can't remember

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Or we got our first home win of the season

How long did it take to get out the carpark? Looked like 1000 people walking past the station to it

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[Bozza]

Actually, where is the stadium - is it B&H or East Sussex I can't remember

It's very possibly both, recalling planning stuff impacting both B&H and Lewes (East Sussex).

 

[Giraffe]

Promoted from 4 to 2. Presumably due to my good behaviour last night? Or the fact I could only see out of half of my glasses?

 

[Giraffe]

How long did it take to get out the carpark? Looked like 1000 people walking past the station to it

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We were out of Bridge Car Park in a few minutes, but were parked very close to the exit. Didn't look like the normal farce that you face from that car park, I guess because the A27 didn't have the normal traffic and the car park was 250 short of capacity.

 

[thony]

Southampton 2 (got ticket and went), Sheffield United 1 (won't be going).
It was a slight annoyance last night that my glasses kept steaming up where I had to wear a mask in my seat (...and I saw a few glasses-wearers wearing their mask off their nose, and the stewards tried to have words with them to wear their mask properly), but the main reason for not being comfortable with the experience was the difficulty with social distancing at half-time (for toilet queues in particular) and when walking back to the Bridge CarPark.

 

[Arthur]

Cant split as you suggest because the groups are not equal sizes. P1 is only = to number of seats available and making it bigger would mean no guarateed seat and a complte nightmare on ticket site when it opened just like p2 chaos for last match. What I cant see is why they cant simply take previous p1 winners from last match out of the ballot for just the next match. I imagine the technology must be good enough to do that.

And only ~50% of group 1 people took up their ticket last time. I appreciate it was for an evening kick off which might not be convenient for people with kids and those that live miles away but being generous if we said only 70% of people are interested in going at the moment that leaves about ~16k so 4 groups of ~4k and like I said you make it first come first served. I'm sure the ticket system can handle that sort of volume.

Excluding people went previously is probably a better way of doing it though.

Incidentally not sure what nightmare you had last time out. I've just checked and I got an email from the club at 9:05 when p2 sales went live. At the time out of curiosity I clicked on said email to see if there were any left and was on the queuing system for about 30 seconds.

 

[studio150]

Up from Tier 4 to Tier 2 which may be the worst grouping.
A chance of getting a ticket on day 2, but it depends on not being sold out on day 1, then a mad scramble 9am on day 2,
I may need to take some medication to keep calm.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Southampton 2 (got ticket and went), Sheffield United 1 (won't be going).
It was a slight annoyance last night that my glasses kept steaming up where I had to wear a mask in my seat (...and I saw a few glasses-wearers wearing their mask off their nose, and the stewards tried to have words with them to wear their mask properly), but the main reason for not being comfortable with the experience was the difficulty with social distancing at half-time (for toilet queues in particular) and when walking back to the Bridge CarPark.

I think this is a good point. If anyone is anxious about social distancing being strictly observed, it isn't going to a level you might be comfortable with. Even with reduced capacity, there are queues, there are pinch points, and different people have different levels of adherence to the rules. I would imagine anyone with a heightened sense of awareness about it would have been uncomfortable at times.

 

[Steve in Japan]

Up from Tier 4 to Tier 2 which may be the worst grouping.
A chance of getting a ticket on day 2, but it depends on not being sold out on day 1, then a mad scramble 9am on day 2,
I may need to take some medication to keep calm.

Same for me, 4 to 2. Mad scramble it is!

 

[Gazwag]

It's very possibly both, recalling planning stuff impacting both B&H and Lewes (East Sussex).

Well lets just hope (for the clubs sake as well) that the Tiers in the SE stay as there are currently (or improve)

 

[Hampster Gull]

Stayed at tier 4


Barber out

 

[Washboard Didgets]

Southampton – Window 3 but lucky to pick up tickets a few days later
Sheffield Utd – Window 4 but wasn't likely to be able to go anyway

Arsenal – Fingers crossed for Window 1