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4 minutes ago, Cidre Monita said:

I don’t for one minute think he has any shame. Or his lickspittle Gavin Marshall. 

Gavin Marshall - a total leach stealing a living at Ashton Gate. Odious man.

8 hours ago, Topper 123 said:

Nearly 15000 season tickets sold so far come on reds let’s hit the 17000 mark this would be great

Nowhere near 15k currently 

I'd rather s*** in my hands and clap than renew my season ticket. No chance of a renewal here. 

14 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

They seem to do it every year , not sure why they bother other than to look generous. I can't believe anyone would buy a ticket in the 12,000 / 1 chance it will be free. 

I know that it will have no impact on my season ticket purchasing choice.

From what I've heard, the odds are significantly better than 12000/1

11 minutes ago, Hartleysbeard said:

How much do we expect fixtures to be moved from Sat 3pm? I’ll be one of those trying to juggle attending with other commitments like coaching a grass roots team. If there are more frequent Sunday fixtures, I fear I’m going to lose the value of being an ST holder. That said, I’m usually able to shift my tickets to friends when unable to attend. Much easier to do that when we’re playing well of course!

5 out of 12 games are being shifted each weekend. So I'd assume that a fair few of our games that would've otherwise been 3pm will be moved. 

Hearing that we may get an announcement on this tomorrow....

57 minutes ago, Cidre Monita said:

The 4th best supported team in EUROPE after Arsenal, Barcelona & Man U going down with a whimper. City in free fall, the ladies already gone and the Bears 3rd from bottom. Hat tip to messrs Gavin Marshall & Stephen Lansdown….continuing to make Bristol proud.

This. 2 accountants who know Jack about football. Clueless the pair of them 

Lansclown out signs, followed by paper planes on the pitch!!

4 minutes ago, Homer Simpson said:

B0llox thought this was an announcement. 

My hopes were raised too!

1 minute ago, chinapig said:

It's easy, just ensure that the 3 people in the most important positions are out of their depth. I can do that.

You can add Gavin Marshall to that too. Clueless

Just now, Billio said:

OK..... get your chequebook out

Constructive response.

10 minutes ago, Gimpymoo said:

How many are you expecting to bring tonight?

Around 2600

47 minutes ago, CyderInACan said:

 

That should shift another couple of hundred tickets!!!

24 minutes ago, BS3 Ark at Ee said:

Heard it was more like 1,900 but if it’s 2,500 then that’s even better

Yep it's just over 2500 so far 

Over 2500 going so should be a good atmosphere...

18 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Couldn’t it be used when there is demand?

From City's POV, they want to sell every seat they can their end. Only once all seats are sold is it worth turning on ticket resale. It's not viable until a game is sold out.

The difference with the "big" clubs is that their games are sold out weeks in advance. Demand is high and by utilising ticket buy back / resale, they can fill empty seats and ST holders can get a bit of money back if they're not going. However, we aren't at a stage where we're selling out a long time in advance. On the rare occasion we sell out a league game, it's maybe a day or two in advance. The cost of utilising this option isn't worth it so close to a fixture. 

Like I say though, if we ever got to the PL, and games were sold out well in advance, which they would be, I have no doubt this would be utilised as the demand would be there for it. As it stands, selling out 1 day before a fixture once or twice a season doesn't make it a viable option.

2 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Is it?  I’ve not seen anything comm’d about it.  FWIW when I can’t go, I let Gareth Torpy know, in case he has any wheelchair supporters looking for a seat.

Yes, City use the same ticketing sales platform as Newcastle, Man C, Liverpool etc. The option to resell tickets is used by these clubs, but obviously the demand is there for them, whereas it's not yet there for us.

On 01/02/2024 at 14:06, Silvio Dante said:

Cheers Phants - exactly what I’m seeing, South Stand either not on sale or outsourced and poor sales in the blocks that are on sale.

Ultimately Bristol Sport have made a bit of a rod for their own backs here. They’ve taken on the concert and thought they could do it better than established promoters. The headliner is a guy who hasn’t done stadiums over here, and Craig Davids thing was last seen doing halftimes at Twickenham. If you also look at the second stage it’s tiny.

Ultimately if it was going well we’d see endless tweets on it. It’s not, so I predict either a load of cut price ticket deals hitting soon, or a full blown cancellation.

Not like Bristol Sport to run a shitshow!

 

I'd say there's a very strong chance this will be cancelled. Sales are dire. They saw the pound signs, thinking they could cut out the promoter and do it themselves. They forgot one important thing....the quality of the line up!! Did they genuinely think Ne-Yo and Craig David were going to shift 25-30000 tickets?! Laughable tbh

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

If attendances continue there needs to be a point where ST holders can at a minimum notify the club their seat won’t be used.  The club may decide to offer some £s back if that seat is then sold.  Even if they only do it for certain games.  Wasted revenue opportunity, let alone atmosphere.

As mentioned previously, this option is available and if demand is consistently there, the club will utilise it. At the moment, the demand isn't nearly consistent enough to warrant it I'm afraid.

3 hours ago, phantom said:

Like mentioned already I'd say it's about supply and demand. 

Up until very recently we haven't been selling out so tickets have always been available 

Exactly this. The ability to turn on resale for fans that can't attend a fixture is there. But there needs to be consistent demand for it. If we ever get to the PL, it'll be turned on, as games will sell out far in advance. At the moment, games aren't selling out far enough in advance, or consistently enough, to warrant turning this on. 

2 hours ago, MarcusX said:

If anyone with a ST doesn't want to go I'd happily buy a ticket from them!

If not, I'll have to try my luck in the morning but I'm working somewhere with limited phone/internet so need to set an alarm to remember 

I do find it odd that it looks like City expected less demand for this game, then put in a higher requirement for the first sale period than they did for West Ham? That was just straight up ST holders in one go wasn't it?

Think it should have been members with 5 aways at the same time as STHs with 5 aways to be honest, but I'm conscious that us exiles who go more away than home always come off worse in these scenarios

There will be plenty available tomorrow morning for members, and there'll be availability when it comes to general sale also. 

The requirement of 5+ for a 4hr window was presumably done to ensure those that have been to more away games had first shout. 

When it comes to Plymouth, the small allocations means the priority window is more likely to be around 10+ away games.

8 hours ago, phantom said:

How are away end allocations calculated in the FA Cup?

The calculation is quite simple in the FA Cup.

Prior to the semi-final and final, which are played at Wembley, visiting clubs are allowed up to 15 per cent of all tickets for the stadium they are playing at.

That is unless 15 per cent of the stadium exceeds 9,000. So clubs travelling to Old Trafford, the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the London Stadium and the Emirates Stadium will have their allocations capped at 9,000, unless the home clubs are willing to offer more.

Despite the calculation seeming quite simple, there are still a few stipulations.

The visiting club must make a request for the amount of tickets they would like for their fans within four days of the draw. More often than not, teams will request the full 15 per cent but, in some scenarios, they will take fewer tickets than they are allowed.

In the instance that not all away tickets are sold by the visiting club, the remaining tickets must be returned to the home club on or (preferably) before the day of the match.

The tickets in the away end are not the only ones that are accessible to the visiting club. They are also entitled to a third of seats usually reserved and known as “home and visiting directors’ seats” up to a maximum of 24 seats.

The disabled facilities must also be separated. The visiting club have the right to claim 15 per cent of those seats as well.

Visiting clubs will not always be guaranteed 15 per cent of the seats throughout the stadium, though.

The Safety Advisory Group (SAG) must also agree to the away allocation that has been proposed. The SAG is made up of representatives of services including the police, fire, ambulance and building authority.

For fixtures that pose risks to health and safety, they can choose to decrease allocations for visiting clubs

TAKEN FROM : https://theathletic.com/4071358/2023/01/09/fa-cup-away-end-allocations-calculated/

All true. There is a little more to it than this though.

Home teams wants to maximize revenue from these FA Cup games. For this reason, bigger allocation offers often come with T&C's attached. For example, WHU offered City multiple different allocation sizes, the lower end ones coming without any conditions attached. However, the 9k allocation offer, which they were obliged to make, came with the condition that any unsold seats would need to be paid for by City. (Yes, clubs can do this). This is because it meant moving thousands of their ST holders, and because they were confident they could shift the tickets their end. Therefore, clubs have to choose their allocation carefully. In this case, it was a no brainer - a new stadium for most, top end PL club with recent European success, easy (ish) location, pretty convenient KO time, very cheap tickets, etc.

In the case of Forest, it's not so cut and dried that we'll take a huge following up there. We've played them a fair amount in recent years, it's a reasonably long trek for a midweek game, the opponents in any potential next round are unknown, ticket prices might not be as cheap (they are not obliged to match our pricing) etc etc.

So, it's not just a case of it's the FA Cup, we must accept 15%. There are lots of other factors that come into play.

Allocation will be around 2800. 

Wednesday 7th is the pencilled in date.

Reprints will be available to collect at West Ham. If you selected Post and they haven't arrived by now, call the club. You'll get put on a reprint list to collect at WHU on Sunday