Speaking to a Bolton fan this week and he said the true Bolton fans have been caught out with this one. Whilst concentrating on the Bradford tickets the "2 or 3 away games a season brigade" snapped up tickets for this one. They didn't feel the need to rush as 4400 was more than enough for them as they wouldn't have sold out. United taking back the tickets has left several hundred of the hardcore support high and dry. I'm assuming they don't have a points system like ours
If the Bolton fans were concentrating on their big match with Bradford
Then only selling 2,518 out of 2,785 for that game was a poor effort, local game and not even sold out.
Many of their fans reckon they'd have sold 3K, that would mean 800 in the lower tier.
No doubt their owners thought the same but that would have still meant 1,400 unsold tickets on their end.
We've managed to virtually sell out the bottom tier (30 tickets left) so proves it was a good decision by SU.
The only thing I do think is weird was how come we instantly allocated them 4,400 tickets?
We ALWAYS just give 2,200 in the top tier first, then only when that's sold the away club request more tickets and SU consider that request and can offer up to 2,200 more in the lower tier.
Feel sorry for any genuine fans that have missed out but a 2,200 allocation means not too many have missed out.