Dot Counting Cardiff City Home Ticket Thread (Boxing Day)

[Thecurraghofkildare]

1.30pm update on Friday and we are now down to 159 home seats available - by Stand: North 40 (couple together in back row of central block 25), East 22 (all singles), South Upper 30 and South Lower 67 (few together in end blocks).

That's another 36 sales already today so this will likely be very close to a full sell out (in terms of original seats anyway) by the end of the weekend.

 

[Thecurraghofkildare]

10.30am update on Sunday and there are now just 73 home seats left for this match, all singles.

8 blocks completely sold out and remaining seats distributed by Stand - North 26, East 15, South Upper 17, South Lower 15.

Imagine we will be close to fully sold out of original seats by tonight (remarkably a month before the game!) and that the club will open up the ticket exchange facility tomorrow.

 

[Thecurraghofkildare]

5.15pm update on Monday (25th) and as forecast the ticket exchange mechanism has now been opened up for Boxing Day against Cardiff, a full month ahead of the match.

There are currently 42 original seats and 38 exchange seats available so 80 seats in total - some nice exchange seats together in the North Stand (family section) and a few together also in the East Stand and South Stand Upper for anyone looking to buy more than one seat.

 

[Thecurraghofkildare]

1.00pm update on Wednesday

With the ticket exchange in full swing, there are now 88 home seats available for Boxing Day - 27 original seats and 61 exchange seats

Seats currently available are distributed by Stand - North 16, East 46, South Upper 14, South Lower 12

Any exchange tickets in groups together sell very quickly and the vast majority of availability comprises single seats.

 

[billyturleyscurlywurly]

Can’t beat festive football.

 

[Thecurraghofkildare]

1.30pm update on Tuesday (3rd December)

All original seats are now gone meaning an official sell out already.

There are just 23 exchange seats available currently (East Stand 14, South Lower 7, South Upper 2 & none in the North Stand).

Obviously more exchange tickets may become available over the next few weeks and it's possible the club will release some additional seats also (e.g. unsold Icons packages) but these are likely to be few in number with 100+ exchange seats already snapped up, so grab one of the handful of remaining seats if you're keen to go and haven't purchased yet.

 

[ECYellow]

1.30pm update on Tuesday (3rd December)

All original seats are now gone meaning an official sell out already.

There are just 23 exchange seats available currently (East Stand 14, South Lower 7, South Upper 2 & none in the North Stand).

Obviously more exchange tickets may become available over the next few weeks and it's possible the club will release some additional seats also (e.g. unsold Icons packages) but these are likely to be few in number with 100+ exchange seats already snapped up, so grab one of the handful of remaining seats if you're keen to go and haven't purchased yet.

And yet we will all be looking at the ludicrously large segregation, again.

Something really needs to give with that. It's utterly bizarre that we are losing out on revenue but more importantly, cannot get more supporters into the stadium.

 

[BrockBuster]

Would have loved to come to this one ideally with some mates, but MIL is having knee surgery around Xmas, so may be stuck near the South coast for most of the festive period.

She'll have to put up with a bit of Sky+ on the TV instead then to 'help' her recovery.

 

[ECYellow]

Excellent crowd yesterday, as is typically the case for Boxing Day anyway.

It remains a shame that there are still so many visibly empty seats, though. There must have been around 150 in the East Stand, the same if not a few more in the North, and I can’t tell in the SS as I’m in it. A lot of the tickets in the East stand I’d imagine are ST holders, as the seats were mostly left of centre about half way back.

Hopefully, if we stay up, the club implement a system next year that works on reducing the ability for ST holders to miss games at will, without putting their ticket up for exchange.

Hopefully, those that didn’t attend will be enticed back on Sunday after a cracking result!

 

[Carpy]

Hopefully, if we stay up, the club implement a system next year that works on reducing the ability for ST holders to miss games at will, without putting their ticket up for exchange.

I disagree with this quite strongly, I pay for my ticket, if I choose to miss a game and not flog it, that's my prerogative.

There are a significant number of people that go in groups, if one or two can't go, they shouldn't be forced to have one or more randomers sit in the middle of them.

 

[Foley]

I disagree with this quite strongly, I pay for my ticket, if I choose to miss a game and not flog it, that's my prerogative.

There are a significant number of people that go in groups, if one or two can't go, they shouldn't be forced to have one or more randomers sit in the middle of them.

I get that, but it is frusrating seeing so many empty seats when lots of people would live to have gone to the game

 

[QR]

I disagree with this quite strongly, I pay for my ticket, if I choose to miss a game and not flog it, that's my prerogative.

There are a significant number of people that go in groups, if one or two can't go, they shouldn't be forced to have one or more randomers sit in the middle of them.

That's the Christmas spirit!

 

[chuckbert]

I disagree with this quite strongly, I pay for my ticket, if I choose to miss a game and not flog it, that's my prerogative.

There are a significant number of people that go in groups, if one or two can't go, they shouldn't be forced to have one or more randomers sit in the middle of them.

That's true if you don't give a s**t about other supporters getting to watch a game rather than miss out.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

I get that, but it is frusrating seeing so many empty seats when lots of people would live to have gone to the game

It might be frustrating but those people have paid upfront for their seat.

It is up to them if they want to miss the odd game or not. Their plans might have changed at short notice.

The ticket exchange is useful but some fans may not want to use it incase they can suddenly go last minute if they weren’t previously able to.

 

[Essexyellows]

If you`ve got 11,000+ in the ground then a % will have reasons not to go on the day - illness, family and "stuff".

I do lend my ticket to friends and/or utilise the exchange system so feel no guilt.

All being well next year will be less chaotic!

 

[Foley]

It might be frustrating but those people have paid upfront for their seat.

It is up to them if they want to miss the odd game or not. Their plans might have changed at short notice.

The ticket exchange is useful but some fans may not want to use it incase they can suddenly go last minute if they weren’t previously able to.

I understand that.
But there seemed to me to be 100's of empty seats
As I said, frustrating when so la y wanted to go and couldnt

 

[christenedinjericho]

I disagree with this quite strongly, I pay for my ticket, if I choose to miss a game and not flog it, that's my prerogative.

There are a significant number of people that go in groups, if one or two can't go, they shouldn't be forced to have one or more randomers sit in the middle of them.

Everyone knows it's the person's prerogative to miss a match whenever they like but looking from the North Stand its seems the same bald patches of blue seats are empty every fortnight. And I'm talking approximately about 100/125 upper and at least 100 or so below.

In the NS where I reside there was a row of 8 seats empty in front of me (in the block next to the stewards) so a significant octet of fans had decided to not to attend en masse and this would have been an ideal amount of seats for a family to escape from charades and take up on the day. I wonder if these we on the exchange system?

Anyway, apart from the last octet of minutes 3 top, top points.

COYY'S

 

[QR]

It might be frustrating but those people have paid upfront for their seat.

It is up to them if they want to miss the odd game or not. Their plans might have changed at short notice.

The ticket exchange is useful but some fans may not want to use it incase they can suddenly go last minute if they weren’t previously able to.

That's valid point, it just wasn't the point being made.

 

[holdsteady]

I disagree with this quite strongly, I pay for my ticket, if I choose to miss a game and not flog it, that's my prerogative.

There are a significant number of people that go in groups, if one or two can't go, they shouldn't be forced to have one or more randomers sit in the middle of them.

Could you not shuffle along?

 

[ECYellow]

I disagree with this quite strongly, I pay for my ticket, if I choose to miss a game and not flog it, that's my prerogative.

There are a significant number of people that go in groups, if one or two can't go, they shouldn't be forced to have one or more randomers sit in the middle of them.

You’re not wrong, it is your prerogative not to release your ticket for sale.

In your example of having a group of mates, why wouldn’t you still flog your ticket (hypothetically) and then on match day, have the ‘random’ sat on the end of your row of mates? It doesn’t seem like a very robust reason to restrict a fellow supporter from attending.

It all feels a little like “this is my ball and you’re not allowed to play with it”.

Hopefully the club are a little more dynamic next year when considering the number of empty seats, in the same locations, every home game of this season.