Playoff tickets, First Leg

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west_yorks_blade said:
Thirty mins in a virtual queue far better than standing in a line outside the ticket office & You can get on with other things.
I managed to take a dump, make a sandwich and knock one out.
Last time I did that in the BL car park queue there were some very irate people around me.
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In that order? Surely it has to be sandwich, wank then dump?
 

Still loads of tickets left this morning, anyone who wants to go should get a ticket and can't argue with the pricing in comparison to forest for example
 
Drunk blade said:
Still loads of tickets left this morning, anyone who wants to go should get a ticket and can't argue with the pricing in comparison to forest for example
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Don't think anyone will argue with the pricing.

Apart from one or two individual games, pricing us one thing the club has got right for years and deserves to be praised for imho.
 
Odd one. Can only assume we're maximising capacity around whatever police requested. Blades fans will just have to drown out the away support...

(But the mismatched pricing from Forest in 2nd leg👎🏾)
 
One thing this thread has told me is we have a lot of selfish twats as fans. Thousands of Blades fans are clearly going to miss out but some people couldn’t give a shiny shit, says a lot.
 
wizadry said:
One thing this thread has told me is we have a lot of selfish twats as fans. Thousands of Blades fans are clearly going to miss out but some people couldn’t give a shiny shit, says a lot.
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Maybe it's just me but I often find that a few who criticise those with an I'm slright jack attitude in General Chat, often display an I'm alright jack attitude in General Blades Chat.
 
brownblade said:
Odd one. Can only assume we're maximising capacity around whatever police requested. Blades fans will just have to drown out the away support...

(But the mismatched pricing from Forest in 2nd leg👎🏾)
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What's mismatched about it. We're charging their fans £29, they're charging us £29
 
The Sheffield united ticket office are an absolute disgrace

I've just been down to buy a ticket for my 97 year old grad father who sits in the disabled seats on the family stand and the ticket has been allocated to a Nottingham forest supporter
 
Boxer Blade said:
Have united come out with an official statement regarding these issues? They have upset a lot of fans who are season ticket holders and also why they have given forest the BLUT corner, the sooner they do the better because fans are really pissed off with how this has
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We need some kind of statement from the club as the upset this has caused will not be forgotten by anyone who has lost there seat (especially family and friend groups who have lost there seats and now have to plan buying seats for the group! With some who can't be bothered watching on tele instead)
Putting them on sale within minutes of Saturdays match! Gazumped many season ticket orders (my and my brothers seats had gone before we new what was happening.)
To upset most ticket holders is not good business
 
finlaytheblade said:
We need some kind of statement from the club as the upset this has caused will not be forgotten by anyone who has lost there seat (especially family and friend groups who have lost there seats and now have to plan buying seats for the group! With some who can't be bothered watching on tele instead)
Putting them on sale within minutes of Saturdays match! Gazumped many season ticket orders (my and my brothers seats had gone before we new what was happening.)
To upset most ticket holders is not good business
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Has anyone got a hot line to the prince as this is the biggest fuckup in our history and we've had a few.
Just no logic in any of it.
 
Klaatu Barada Nikto said:
What's mismatched about it. We're charging their fans £29, they're charging us £29
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Goodpinchofclough said:
We're not

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There's a rule that prevents a club charging away fans more than home fans are paying for the same game. It can be less, which occasionally happens, but not more.

Blades charging home fans £20 means we can charge Forest up to £20.

They're charging their own fans £29, which means they can charge us up to £29.
 

I have just watched Sunderland win, and their fans were all housed in the top tier, with several rows of covered seats. I would expect that the same rules have been applied by the authorities to both games?
 
Morning all Blades looking for some help please ticket website says that I've not deposited enough credit to buy a ticket and I cant proceed, my current card details are on the site all added correctly any ideas please? I've emailed the ticket office just awaiting a response which will probs arrive on Sunday.. Thanks in advance
 
wizadry said:
One thing this thread has told me is we have a lot of selfish twats as fans. Thousands of Blades fans are clearly going to miss out but some people couldn’t give a shiny shit, says a lot.
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i agree that this is a shit show from the ticket office(and someone needs sacking for it) but are there thousands of fans who want to go going to miss out ?

There are plenty of tickets left and some are in blocks so they can sit together. I am amazed the home tickets aren't close to selling out by now due to the cheap cost as I thought demand would easily outstrip supply. Hopefully they will sell out in the next couple of days and they will then release the remaining two blocks on the lower tier of the away end
 
bartman said:
i agree that this is a shit show from the ticket office(and someone needs sacking for it) but are there thousands of fans who want to go going to miss out ? There are plenty of tickets left and some are in blocks so they can sit together. I am amazed the home tickets aren't close to selling out by now due to the cheap cost as I thought demand would easily outstrip supply. Hopefully they will sell out in the next couple of days and they will then release the remaining two blocks on the lower tier of the away end
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They'll sell out. We're always slow on the uptake when it comes to selling tickets. People were moaning last week that we didn't sell out for the Fulham game, before the fixtures were announced and then we sold out on Thursday.
 
The Club gives florist fans Bramall Lane upper and corner 2,700 seats £20 quid. at florist, we get 2,000 and have to pay more or less a tenner more. what a bleeding mess up.
We have been shafted. admin/ticket office manager should be giving us an explanation of why they agreed. go on Radio Sheffield Sheffield praise and grumble.to explain.
 
finlaytheblade said:
We need some kind of statement from the club as the upset this has caused will not be forgotten by anyone who has lost there seat (especially family and friend groups who have lost there seats and now have to plan buying seats for the group! With some who can't be bothered watching on tele instead)
Putting them on sale within minutes of Saturdays match! Gazumped many season ticket orders (my and my brothers seats had gone before we new what was happening.)
To upset most ticket holders is not good business
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How do you make it out of the house?
 
Loads of tickets left, that's without even opening the rest of the lower tier or any of the restricted view on the kop. Now the rush is done, not looking like a sell out despite all the moaning.
 

Roygbiv said:
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Thanks Roy.

The logic is there to see and confirms bits and pieces posted on here, but it raises important questions.

1) Why is it not possible to segregate the BLUT from the Westfield Corner? It's bricked and shuttered off internally. Much larger grounds of a similar age to ours have 'split' ends shared between home and away fans. It's also possible to segregate the exits, so Blades coming out on Bramall Lane would be forced to turn left towards the Railway, and Forest turn right towards the Cricketers, but unable to turn down John Street.

Any extra security cost should be picked up by Forest considering their fans' behaviour have caused the issue. Should they refuse, we should've given them the BLLT but only the minimum 2000 with the front rows netted off so they're further from the pitch. If SUFC incur a small cost due to increasing security to placate SYP, for fear of a repeat, so be it. That's preferable to the situation we have now. Charge £25 instead to help offset that extra cost if necessary, everyone would've still been pleased with £25.

2) Why was it necessary to open the ticket window so soon after full-time on Saturday? The club aren't printing tickets so there's no time needed for posting them out etc. There should've been announcements on Saturday evening and Sunday telling fans to make sure their accounts are linked as tickets will be online only. Publish a 'how to' guide and keep directing people to it. Hold back starting sales until Tuesday if necessary, to give the ticket office all day Monday to assist those that haven't got themselves set up over the weekend.

3) Why is the ticket system infrastructure so inflexible? Even with points 1 and 2 not possible, a better system would've still avoided all the bollocks.

Sat 7th 5pm - ST holders can buy their own seats, except Westfield Corner ST holders. No transfers, no extras. No-one else can buy during this window.

Tues 10th 9am - Westfield Corner ST holders get their own window to buy seats elsewhere in the ground, either unused or ST holders who didn't buy their own seat for whatever reason. As this means all the inconvenience is picked up by Westfielders, their tickets are £15. Non-Westfield ST holders would be frozen from buying in this window, having already had 2.5 days to sort themselves out.

Thursday 12th 9am - Members without ST can now buy, with all other ST holders also now unfrozen to move seats if possible or if they didn't move quickly enough when it was their window.

Friday 13th 9am - general sale, available to all to buy or move seats

Overall, something has to change. Whether it's some kind of re-configuration of the Bramall Lane end to make it possible to segregate, or at the least a robust but flexible ticketing system where restrictions can be applied and removed to create a proper sales structure.

EDIT - for clarity, I'm a ST holder in the Westfield who has moved to the SS for this game.
 
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