Matches Bristol City - Ticket thread

[Carpy]

As a quick aside to the moderators could you please give the Chief Dot Counter label to Colin B rather than myself as Colin always has been and always will be the Chief!

I've removed custom titles from most, you got missed, we're doing something else for things like that, all will be revealed shortly.

 

[Colin B]

I've removed custom titles from most, you got missed, we're doing something else for things like that, all will be revealed shortly.

I can't wait.................

 

[Essexyellows]

I've removed custom titles from most, you got missed, we're doing something else for things like that, all will be revealed shortly.

Ooooooo what will I get?

 

[Colin B]

Currently 110 original seats left, meaning about 80 have been sold in the last 24 hours.

But there are now exactly the same number, 110, of exchange seats also left. The number of exchange seats has been steadily rising through the day, until the last hour or so, when it has started slowly reducing.

I suspect we'll have a handful of original seats left unsold, with exchange seats in pairs, and threes, in better areas available now, so it'll be interesting to see how the exchange seats play out over the next two and a half days. The official attendance will be in the normal order of 11,300/11,400.

 

[The Curragh Of Kildare]

12.45pm update on Thursday and there are currently 197 home seats available - 89 original seats and 108 exchange tickets.

Remaining seats by Stand are distributed: North - 43, East - 43, South Lower - 78, South Upper - 33.

 

[The Curragh Of Kildare]

9.00pm update on Thursday and there are 145 home seats available following solid sales today - 62 original seats and 83 exchange tickets now left.

 

[Carpy]

Ooooooo what will I get?

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[Colin B]

Not a huge amount of movement since @The Curragh Of Kildare posted last night.

66 original seats left, and 85 exchange seats. But a row of 14 new original seats (bit of an oxymoron there!) have become available in Block 9 of SSU.

What is interesting now is that nearly all seats available, both original and exchange, are single seats. There are the 14 in a row that have just been added (which I expect to be snapped up quickly) and then only three pairs of seats in total. It means that nearly all of the pairs and triples of exchange seats have been sold, and the number is only bolstered by single seats being added at a late stage.

I think the next modification to the ticket system needs to be a way of preventing single seats being left in the middle of rows. Other clubs using TicketMaster have this, so I think we should look to implement it, although it will probably have to be next season now.

 

[Essexyellows]

I think the next modification to the ticket system needs to be a way of preventing single seats being left in the middle of rows. Other clubs using TicketMaster have this, so I think we should look to implement it, although it will probably have to be next season now.

How would that work?
If a row consists of a smattering of ST holders and others numbers 1 - 50 sit in their allocated seats, but if the ticket holder of Number 25 lists on Exchange a week before the match they all budge up 1?

 

[Sarge]

How would that work?
If a row consists of a smattering of ST holders and others numbers 1 - 50 sit in their allocated seats, but if the ticket holder of Number 25 lists on Exchange a week before the match they all budge up 1?

wouldnt it be only 25 of them who budge up one?

 

[SteMerritt]

wouldnt it be only 25 of them who budge up one?

It wouldn't matter if they did, you'd still have the single seat, but now it is on the end of the row

 

[Scotchegg]

How would that work?
If a row consists of a smattering of ST holders and others numbers 1 - 50 sit in their allocated seats, but if the ticket holder of Number 25 lists on Exchange a week before the match they all budge up 1?

I assume he means the original tickets sales. As it stands, we are usually left with a couple of hundred seats unsold when more attractive pairs/groups come available on the ticket exchange. So we end up selling some seats twice and some not at all.

In an ideal world we should sell all original seats a week in advance of games and then open up the exchange for those who have missed out and are perhaps more likely to take odd seats wherever they become available.

 

[Colin B]

How would that work?
If a row consists of a smattering of ST holders and others numbers 1 - 50 sit in their allocated seats, but if the ticket holder of Number 25 lists on Exchange a week before the match they all budge up 1?

I wasn't referring to exchange tickets, but "normal" ticket sales, and season ticket sales.

For example, in a standard row of 26 seats presently someone could buy seats 1 and 2 as season tickets, then someone else could buy seats 4 and 5 as season tickets, leaving seat number 3 empty and unlikely to be sold. Under the system I'm proposing that would not be possible and the second purchaser would have to buy seats 3 and 4, or seats 5 and 6, thereby always leaving two seats.

Our current system where we can have as many as 150/200 single seats, out of 10,000 is very inefficient. I'd have thought our ticketing gurus would have been able to avoid this with their decades of experience!!!

 

[swolley]

I bought tickets for the Panto in Chippy theatre this year and their system would not allow me to select tickets that left a single seat, if they can do it then maybe not too difficult

 

[Wicko]

I bought tickets for the Panto in Chippy theatre this year and their system would not allow me to select tickets that left a single seat, if they can do it then maybe not too difficult

Ditto the theatre in Norwich.

 

[Marked Ox]

I bought tickets for the Panto in Chippy theatre this year and their system would not allow me to select tickets that left a single seat, if they can do it then maybe not too difficult

Do they sell season tickets?

 

[swolley]

Don'r think ST are available but when you have seen Jack and the Beanstalk once, although it was excellent, a 2nd/3rd time might lose its appeal

 

[Essexyellows]

I wasn't referring to exchange tickets, but "normal" ticket sales, and season ticket sales.

For example, in a standard row of 26 seats presently someone could buy seats 1 and 2 as season tickets, then someone else could buy seats 4 and 5 as season tickets, leaving seat number 3 empty and unlikely to be sold. Under the system I'm proposing that would not be possible and the second purchaser would have to buy seats 3 and 4, or seats 5 and 6, thereby always leaving two seats.

Our current system where we can have as many as 150/200 single seats, out of 10,000 is very inefficient. I'd have thought our ticketing gurus would have been able to avoid this with their decades of experience!!!

Thank you.... and yes..... me too!!

 

[The Curragh Of Kildare]

6.30pm update on Friday and currently 133 home seats available - 46 original seats and 87 exchanges seats.

By Stand they are distributed - North 24, East 36, South Lower 43, South Upper 30

The originals seats are all singles so anyone looking to but more than one seat together needs to avail of the last few joined exchange options before 9.30am tomorrow morning when exchange seats will no longer be available.

 

[Marked Ox]

Don'r think ST are available but when you have seen Jack and the Beanstalk once, although it was excellent, a 2nd/3rd time might lose its appeal

Might explain why it is simpler for them though.

 

[SirAndyOfCrosby]

I wasn't referring to exchange tickets, but "normal" ticket sales, and season ticket sales.

I agreed with you wholeheartedly when I thought you were!

I put two together on the Exchange earlier this season, in a block containing plenty of single seats (but with zero, or nearly zero, pairs anywhere in the ground), and some selfish pr*ck bought one of them.

I don't care about the fact my 2nd seat didn't subsequently sell - but this individual has potentially put off a couple who would go (together) when there was a good dozen other singles to choose from in that block alone (let alone elsewhere).

The system should have made them buy both or else pick a single.

 

[Coffin Dodger]

Ooooooo what will I get?

I don't know, who is the most obtuse right leaning player who has played for us?

 

[Jster]

I don't know, who is the most obtuse right leaning player who has played for us?

Didn't Matt le Tissier once have a trial with Oxford?

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

David Icke played a few reserve matches in the early 70's

 

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