bumper crowd?!

[flashyfox]

The OS reckons we're in for a bumper crowd against Burnley due to the win at watford and the fact that its half term. What does everyone else reckon? Can you see queues at the turnstiles? i'll go for 23,453

 

[Hazzman]

OS once again employs tactics which try to make people rush buy. If you say something is selling out, it means they want people who are 50/50 to go to buy in case they are missing out. They are probably do worser than they expected.

 

[bocadillo]

The OS reckons we're in for a bumper crowd against Burnley due to the win at watford and the fact that its half term. What does everyone else reckon? Can you see queues at the turnstiles? i'll go for 23,453

Is it really half-term up there? Down here in the south-east it's not until next week.

 

[Leigh]

Is it really half-term up there? Down here in the south-east it's not until next week.

Yep. Leicester and Scotland. It's why Craig likes it here!

As for bumper crowds, what a load of rubbish. Are we really supposed to believe that people saw we'd won against Watford and all rushed out on Sunday to buy tickets?! Or that even though the previous 'cheap' game didn't make any difference to crowds we're suddenly going to see loads of people turning up because the (non-paying) kids are off school.

 

[DesertFox]

OS once again employs tactics which try to make people rush buy. If you say something is selling out, it means they want people who are 50/50 to go to buy in case they are missing out. They are probably do worser than they expected.

Why do people have such a negative attitude towards thew club trying to sell as many tickets as possible? Surely that's a good thing, isn't it? I'd be pretty disappointed if they just sat on their arses doing nothing...

 

[Steven]

Why do people have such a negative attitude towards thew club trying to sell as many tickets as possible? Surely that's a good thing, isn't it? I'd be pretty disappointed if they just sat on their arses doing nothing...

When it comes to the Club, I think it is a question of presentation.

 

[bocadillo]

Why do people have such a negative attitude towards thew club trying to sell as many tickets as possible? Surely that's a good thing, isn't it? I'd be pretty disappointed if they just sat on their arses doing nothing...

Personally I'm pleased to see the club doing anything and everything it can in this respect. I just see that it will start to work until we actually put a decent run together.

People complain that ticket prices are too high - but reducing them for some games this season hasn't exactly proved a huge success. I think that people become cynical when they can see that the clubs effort are not being rewarded with higher gates.

In truth, the people are apathetic - in the end they will get the team that they deserve!

 

[mad biker]

Agree that if we were to put together a decent string of results the gate would increase quite significantly, I too applaud the club for the efforts they make to come up with new idea`s put bums on seats, including, through me, and others, asking the really important people YOU for help with the problem, quite interesting that for the visit of Man Utd yesterday that "hot bed" of football passion the Stadium of light had less than 40k !! maybe a bit of a downward trend of attendences ??

 

[MKFox]

Big crowd? Bah, I won't be there then, a big crowd means it takes me an extra 8 minutes to get to the M1 after the game...fecking supporters getting in the way of my routine...bastards...

 

[webmaster]

Why do people have such a negative attitude towards thew club trying to sell as many tickets as possible? Surely that's a good thing, isn't it? I'd be pretty disappointed if they just sat on their arses doing nothing...

I don't mind them trying to encourage people to go, it's the way they hype it up I object to.

They say the result on Saturday has generated interest in the match - how do they know that?
The ticket office has been closed since before Saturday's match, so there obviously hasn't been an increase in ticket sales since then.

I think it's more likely it's just something they've made up so they can publish a story trying to generate more interest.

 

[DesertFox]

I don't mind them trying to encourage people to go, it's the way they hype it up I object to.

They say the result on Saturday has generated interest in the match - how do they know that?
The ticket office has been closed since before Saturday's match, so there obviously hasn't been an increase in ticket sales since then.

I think it's more likely it's just something they've made up so they can publish a story trying to generate more interest.

Webbo: they know that interest in the next match will increase because that is the fickle bonehead nature of 50% of all football fans, hence the full houses when we're doing well, and the empty seats when we're not. It doesn't take a genius, or someone counting calls at the box office, to work that one out.

I can't believe that a bunch of hard-faced cynics like the Talking Balls posse can be so sensitive when it comes to the issue of the football club having a "commercial" side. Wake up and smell the coffee, people! This has been happening for years, nay decades, and everyone grudgingly accepts it as part of normal life in all other walks of life. Why do so many people have this misty-eyed notion of football clubs?

My suggestion: if you don't like it, go elsewhere and try out just about anything else on the planet - you'll find exactly the same thing is happening there as well. Get over it!!!

 

[webmaster]

I suspect what they really mean is that they're expecting more people than usual to turn up without buying tickets in advance.

People realise these days they don't need to buy in advance, because we never sell out, so a lot more people are going down and paying on the night. This can cause problems with people queueing for tickets, the club isn't geared up to sell that many tickets just before kick off.

This was a particular problem for the Blackpool match, with so many season ticket holders also having to buy tickets, some fans not realising their season ticket wasn't valid, and some idiot stewards sending people to the wrong queue.

Perhaps they should do what they used to do years ago - and what some clubs still do, and that's have cash turnstiles for each stand, so they can spread the queues around the ground rather than at a handful of ticket windows.

 

[webmaster]

I can't believe that a bunch of hard-faced cynics like the Talking Balls posse can be so sensitive when it comes to the issue of the football club having a "commercial" side.

I have no problem with the club having a commercial side.

What I do have a problem with is they way they have constantly lied and misled us over the last few years, in an attempt to sell tickets.

It's a lot worse than it used to be - although I remember sending Alan Bennett a fax in 1992 to complain about the way he'd lied about the Wembley ticket sales.

 

[Dickovforengland!]

The OS reckons we're in for a bumper crowd against Burnley due to the win at watford and the fact that its half term. What does everyone else reckon? Can you see queues at the turnstiles? i'll go for 23,453

I hate Sunday games, even if we had 30,000 the atmosphere is bound to be rubbish. When I am Prime Minister every game will kick off at 15:00 on Saturday.

 

[lazzer]

I hate Sunday games, even if we had 30,000 the atmosphere is bound to be rubbish. When I am Prime Minister every game will kick off at 15:00 on Saturday.

here here

 

[BOB HAZELL]

although I remember sending Alan Bennett a fax in 1992 to complain about the way he'd lied about the Wembley ticket sales.

I'm intrigued.......???

 

[webmaster]

I'm intrigued.......???

He went on the radio before the tickets went on sale to season ticket holders and said there was no reason for people to all go early and queue. He said there were lots of each category seat available, and not many people had top priority (we only had a few thousand season ticket holders / members at the time), so people who went at the end of the priority period would still be able to get a good seat.
Foolishly I believed him - but all the good tickets had gone by the time I got there. Obviously what he'd said was bollocks, and he just said it to avoid having thousands of people queueing when the ticket office opened.

 

[Hazzman]

I have a probelm with the way the club presents its self on the commercial. These stories are often a pile of bull to build up interest. The best thing they done was when they sold Leicester Tigers semi-final tickets on the sneak last year. However, I took the opportunity but they only published it on the website for me it was an advantage for many it wasnt. Personally, I think tomorrow's game value for money but instead of message like this, why not sending one out saying its pay at ticket office half-hour before the match.

 

[Brauny Blue]

He went on the radio before the tickets went on sale to season ticket holders and said there was no reason for people to all go early and queue. He said there were lots of each category seat available, and not many people had top priority (we only had a few thousand season ticket holders / members at the time), so people who went at the end of the priority period would still be able to get a good seat.
Foolishly I believed him - but all the good tickets had gone by the time I got there. Obviously what he'd said was bollocks, and he just said it to avoid having thousands of people queueing when the ticket office opened.

They also were not supposed to sell tickets before around 9.30 in the morning. I joined the queue about 6.30 after hearing how many were already down Filbo. Might have been on police orders, but they opened up way earlier than 9.30. Anyone who went down at what they thought might be a reasonable time, may well have been disappointed. It was a bit of a shambles.

 

[BOB HAZELL]

It was a bit of a shambles.

Just a bit - but we wouldn't have expected anything else, would we???

Having said that, it remains one of the most entertaining evenings I've ever spent down at Filbo.....