Tynemouth Blade
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I don't think we've sold out per se this season...... Yet!
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Alistair CampbellThere's not a single Burnley fan who lives outside Burnley. Apart from Ollie Norwood.
And that's a fact.
you said -As I said, your post has no relevance to my reply to YES Blade . I suggested to him that a first timer applying for a ticket on Saturday with a Burnley postcode would be shown short thrift. You tried to counter that with an analogy about your amazing escapade 48 years ago. I don't know what you're trying to prove here other than being an argumentative tosser.
Probably because you've got a purchase history on the clubs database. Vetting people buying tickets shouldn't be difficult. If you got a Burnley postcode and this game is the first time you've tried to buy a ticket then shenanigans are pretty obvious.
First game I ever saw at Bramall Lane was against Leeds.
My postcode at the time was LS8 1QZ.
Your point is?
My point is that you wouldn't have sold me a ticket as my shenanigans were pretty obvious yet here I am over 48 years later still coming back having never had a Sheffield postcode and having held a season for about 40 of those 48 yrs.
The owner (i fink he's the owner) has a Zip Code ..................What about fans that don't have a Sheffield or Burnley postcode? How do we know who they support?
Isn't that the same for every club?
But how do you attract fans otherwise?
That’s because the capacity is given as the number of seats in the stadium when it should the maximum we are allowed to use due to segregation. We’ll never be able to sell every seat for a football match. That’s been obvious from the day we finished the corner.I don't think we've sold out per se this season...... Yet!
What about fans that don't have a Sheffield or Burnley postcode? How do we know who they support?
I was referring to a available seats, not stated capacity!That’s because the capacity is given as the number of seats in the stadium when it should the maximum we are allowed to use due to segregation. We’ll never be able to sell every seat for a football match. That’s been obvious from the day we finished the corner.
Come on, lets be realistic. Its hardly likely that a group from say Scunthorpe are going to suddenly register for tickets for this match.
There's not a single Burnley fan who lives outside Burnley. Apart from Ollie Norwood.
And that's a fact.
Finally, I usually find that once people turn to hurling insults it's generally because they have nothing of relevance or value to add to a discussion and they are merely trying to save their face and their ego.
I'm very sorry, I didn't realise that it was a private discussion on a public forum.i was having a reasoned and interesting discussion with YES Blade and you butted in with an accusation of arrogance, to which I replied accordingly. Tough shit if that's upset you, don't start it in the first place.
Was that before or after El Alamein?First game I ever saw at Bramall Lane was against Leeds.
My postcode at the time was LS8 1QZ.
Your point is?
I'm very sorry, I didn't realise that it was a private discussion on a public forum.
Without looking it up I think six of our 19 home games were under the magic 30k.Interestingly, for a similar game the last time in the Premier League (Middlesborough) we only got 27483. We got around the 28k for most of the less fashionable teams that season (Reading, Fuham etc.)
That said, I totally agree with looking at getting rid of some of the hoops people are having to jump through for these types of games when we could be selling out.
I very much doubt that's the case, more likely we'll miss out on a few quid from a fair weather fan that won't go anywhere near the Lane if/when we're back in the Championship.
Are we all pathetic....or just the 674?Still 674 tickets ( excluding Kop Corner ) unsold as of this morning.
99% knew that mate if not I dispairIT WAS A WIND UP. Just getting at the miserable " well we haven't sold a game out " wankers.
Did you not read the op?The fact the club are letting you get tickets for up to 4 family and Friends to me says there’s not that much been sold
If it can be mitigated, I'd agree with you. There may not have been trouble in 15 years from away fans on the home end, but how many times would they have needed to do it, once we were in internet buying times?I'm surprised that you've reached that conclusion.
If I were to do a Risk vs Opportunity analysis of this situation I would definitely conclude that the likelihood of crowd trouble was minimal, vs the opportunities attached to attracting new fans whilst the club is at an all time commercial high.
The Risk - Away fans buy tickets in the home end.
There are numerous mitigations which can be taken, the obvious two that spring to mind
(1) Post Code checks on sales.
(2) Limit general sale purchases to 2 tickets per single transaction. A lot less likely to cause trouble when isolated.
But in honesty, even if away fans did infiltrate the home end the chance of trouble is highly unlikely. I can't remember many instances in the last 15 years of trouble of this nature.
The opportunities of attracting new fans & everything that brings should be fairly obvious.
I think the club has got this one horribly wrong. I have a friend, a Doctor in Sheffield, who is constantly using my customer number & bank card to purchase tickets to games. He wanted to bring 2 of his colleagues, big football fans now living in the city, but couldn't & the game wasn't even a sell out. It just seems stupid.
30,000 away for a 2nd round cup match on a Wensdi neyt . Not bad.......haha pathetic from the police as usual.
God forbid people actually turn up to these games & the police have to do some actual work...
Dresden backed by 30,000 away fans
More than 30,000 Dynamo Dresden fans made the 125-mile journey to Hertha Berlin for a German Cup tie on Wednesdaywww.bbc.co.uk
I see our German friends somehow managed to get this game to go ahead without any issues...
How can it be pathetic when we are on for our 3rd average of over 30 k for the seasonStill 674 tickets ( excluding Kop Corner ) unsold as of this morning.
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