Will we sell out?

[Frankie as in Howard]

You couldn't buy new tickets yesterday together? Surprised.

there were hundreds together yesterday particularly the 91 unsold in block 119.

 

[Blades1971]

This ticketing system is utter chaos. It wouldn't surprise me if there were loads of empty seats in United and Sunderland on Saturday. Isn't technology fantastic

 

[Frankie as in Howard]

Tickets unsold are 230 in top tier and 19 in middle tier and 149 in bottom tier which is 398 unsold tickets plus whatever total is in unopened blocks of 526/527.

 

[Nick Jansky]

I can remember when Sean Thornton played for us way back in the Mcarthy era, was absolutely brilliant when he was at it, unfortunately he was at it more in the bars of the Northeast.

Our Sean Thornton is similar, but mainly frequents establishments in Attercliffe.

 

[Wincobank S9 Blade]

How many tickets is in 526 mate?

Not 100% sure but Sunlun just got another 1k tickets

 

[Bassett Style]

I think all blocks that have not sold out are open according to the stadium map on the Sheffield United website.
Some blocks have quite a few seats together, and some have a few single tickets. An hour ago, I counted the total
available tickets as 350. That means over 35K sold. If you can't afford it, don't have wages yet, etc, ask a family member/friend.
To borrow some money until you get paid., That's what I did and got my ticket. As long as you pay back, it's alreght int it.

According to ticket office we've sold about 33k as some people have said on fb recently, this would mean a few blocks haven't been fully open to us, they seem to be still selling though, if Sunderland get a few more released I suppose that would prove this to be the case.

 

[YES Blade]

Not 100% sure but Sunlun just got another 1k tickets

Could they be in the club Wembley seats? Similar to what we got in 205/206?

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Tickets go off sale at 3pm tomorrow

 

[Wincobank S9 Blade]

Could they be in the club Wembley seats? Similar to what we got in 205/206?

Again not 100% sure on it, whether they get more or not we’ll find out but rumours circulating on X

 

[Wincobank S9 Blade]

Again not 100% sure on it, whether they get more or not we’ll find out but rumours circulating on X

 

[Jon Bon II]

Four days to go and another 48 pages before we hit 100 pages, which is disappointing if you ask me. Sunderland forum already at 220 pages and has requested more bandwidth. Pigs would have hit 100 pages in 48 hours.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

As we won't have any available Wembley seats to count after 3pm tomorrow, onto the next job.

As season tickets are on general sale, could someone please count up the unavailable seats so that we can finally put to bed the question over the number of season ticket holders? (Unless someone is holding 3000 season tickets in their basket)

 

[SRBlade]

Have our Wembley attendances dwindled on each occasion? (Barring the City semi final because I totally understand not paying £200 to see us lose comfortably)

 

[Not so Slim ane]

We’re so out of date, they’re actually for the Milleniun Stadium in Cardiff!

They are faxing my tickets through apparently

 

[Not so Slim ane]

As widely predicted on PorkTalk, finger on the pulse as always

I've had 8,600 in my basket since Monday afternoon.... Sorry everyone

 

[Gimli]

Four days to go and another 48 pages before we hit 100 pages, which is disappointing if you ask me. Sunderland forum already at 220 pages and has requested more bandwidth. Pigs would have hit 100 pages in 48 hours.

We should have called the thread ‘Let’s get Wembleh sold aahhtt’

 

[Sheffsteel]

Tickets unsold are 230 in top tier and 19 in middle tier and 149 in bottom tier which is 398 unsold tickets plus whatever total is in unopened blocks of 526/527.

There’s 835 seats in block 526
And there’s 1,118 seats in block 527 but we’ve already sold about a quarter of it., which went on sale Sunday and I saw that sales were going well in there but then block 527 was frozen (greyed out) a few hours later……presumably because Wembley planned to put segregation netting over the rest of block 527
Enabling Sunderland to be given the 835 tickets in block 526 on the half way line upper tier.

So 230+ 19+ 149 + 835 + approx 800 = 2,033 unsold tickets from our allocation
But it looks like we’ve been given an extra allocation 263 seats in block 205 and 263 seats in block 206.

If our initial allocation was 35.5K….looks like we’ve undersold by roughly 1.5K…so looks like we’ve sold about 34K tickets
But the way blocks of previously unavailable sold out seats keep mysteriously appearing….then who knows.

 

[Pedro's Winger]

Disagree, allowing season ticket holders to buy up to 4 would have largely resulted in season ticket holder A buying tickets for season ticket holders B, C and D so they can sit together and not season ticket holders A, B, C and D all buying 4 each. There would have alao been season ticket holders buying tickets for none season ticket holders who were members or have 15k points etc to sit together. Those people would have bought tickets anyway.

Ultimately the uncomfortable truth is we don't have the fans to totally fill out Bramall Lane ( see Burnley on Boxing Day') except for when we play Wednesday and we don't have the fans to sell out a full allocation at Wembley. If we did there wouldn't still be tickets available.

The ticketing policy doesn't help but it is what it is and i don't care. We are going to take low 30s to Wembley and given past disappointments that's not a bad following.

We've sold out numerous games in the PL, quite a few in the Champ and have sold out Wembley and Cardiff before.
Lack of sales this time is more down to our playoff history, regularity of going to and losing at Wembley etc.
As you said, the level of sales is actually not bad given quite a few have stuck to the decision never to go again.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

There’s 835 seats in block 526
And there’s 1,118 seats in block 527 but we’ve already sold about a quarter of it., which went on sale Sunday and I saw that sales were going well in there but then block 527 was frozen (greyed out) a few hours later……presumably because Wembley planned to put segregation netting over the rest of block 527
Enabling Sunderland to be given the 835 tickets in block 526 on the half way line upper tier.

So 230+ 19+ 149 + 835 + approx 800 = 2,033 unsold tickets from our allocation
But it looks like we’ve been given an extra allocation 263 seats in block 205 and 263 seats in block 206.

If our initial allocation was 35.5K….looks like we’ve undersold by roughly 1.5K…so looks like we’ve sold 34K tickets
But the way blocks of previously unavailable sold out seats keep mysteriously appearing….then who knows.

Isn't 527 on the halfway line not 526? So Sunderland fans would be on our side for that 1k if they have 526?

 

[Sheffsteel]

Isn't 527 on the halfway line not 526? So Sunderland fans would be on our side for that 1k if they have 526?

According the their plan it shows they have the whole of 527 section (which again has 835 seats in it) but on our plan it shows we have half.
So not sure about block 527, although doubt it was ever split in half just separated by the steps….as that wouldn’t offer enough segregation.

Anyhow block 526 is so close to the half way line behind the TV cameras that it won’t be obvious regards which side it’s on.

 

[Hblockblade]

Get em all gon blades come on fill your baskets before it's too late, don't hesitate just do it!!

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Before 3pm tomorrow they'll be some counting

 

[Hblockblade]

If your reading this and still undecided,my message is clear... Where are you!! Let's be having you!!

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

It absolutely has an impact if you don`t want to sit in the (theoretical) sun for 90/120 mins


On several occasions last week there was barely any availability as blocks hadn`t been opened up. For those not following this as closely as people in this and the other thread I can absolutely see why people would see most blocks "greyed out" and panic thinking that there might not be any more tickets.

It absolutely has an impact if you don`t want to sit in the (theoretical) sun for 90/120 mins


On several occasions last week there was barely any availability as blocks hadn`t been opened up. For those not following this as closely as people in this and the other thread I can absolutely see why people would see most blocks "greyed out" and panic thinking that there might not be any more tickets.

Aye
Or
Take a hat,
utilise your meteorological insight (combined with geographical insight)
(Develop ) patience
Apply (readily available) information (on the club’s own links)) & knowledge (understanding) of (proposed) sales patterns to ascertain that “greyed-out” areas to East (right hand side)? (& South) hadn’t yet gone on sale whereas as those to the North (onwards towards the right) had been sold.

 

[Davalon]

As we won't have any available Wembley seats to count after 3pm tomorrow, onto the next job.

As season tickets are on general sale, could someone please count up the unavailable seats so that we can finally put to bed the question over the number of season ticket holders? (Unless someone is holding 3000 season tickets in their basket)

Empty coach seats from tomorrow pm mate

 

[FriethBlade]

We've sold out numerous games in the PL, quite a few in the Champ and have sold out Wembley and Cardiff before.
Lack of sales this time is more down to our playoff history, regularity of going to and losing at Wembley etc.
As you said, the level of sales is actually not bad given quite a few have stuck to the decision never to go again.

If we've sold 33-34k i will upgrade that from not bad to very good. Given previous disappointments, cost, our battering last year its surprisingly good

Given Sunderlands average attendance was 40% higher than ours it's not surprising they are going to and up with a few more thousand than us there

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Rounded guess by 3pm tomorrow.

Blades - 34k
Mackems - 36.5k

(35.5k allocation each originally)

Any prizes for the correct guess?

 

[Davalon]

If we've sold 33-34k i will upgrade that from not bad to very good. Given previous disappointments, cost, our battering last year its surprisingly good

Given Sunderlands average attendance was 40% higher than ours it's not surprising they are going to and up with a few more thousand than us there

Sunderland's average attendance this season including away fans (not counting play off leg) is 39,182. They've only today sold out of 35.5k tickets.

Our average based on the same is 28,130. We've seemingly sold somewhere between 33 and 34k by today.

If anyone is taking the piss out of our sales, they should be doing the same of the Mackems too.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

If we'd have allowed everyone 6 we would have sold out straight away

 

[diode_blade]

Someone get out the good old swingometer.
Like watching election night this thread.