Dot Counting Portsmouth Home 15th February Ticket Thread

Attendance tracking
Early ticket sales are very strong for this one.

9.00pm update on Sunday 2nd February and there are only 535 home seats left.

Very few seats left together in the East or North Stands.
That's 65 sales since I looked earlier at 4pm. This will sell out easily, but we'll still have about 150/200 empty seats!!!
 
Looking forward to this one. I’ll be behind the lads all the way but if I get the chance to speak to Josh Murphy as he comes into the tunnel after the pre match warm up I will make it known to him how special last season’s run in was and his Wembley performance.
 
11.30am update on Tuesday and very strong early sales are continuing for this one.

There are currently only 366 home seats available.

By Stand these are distributed- North 73, East 38, South Upper 47, South Lower 208.

Only single seats left now in the North, East & South Upper Stands (bar a couple of pairs in South Upper end block 9).

Another definite sell out and I imagine the ticket exchange facility will be opened up before the end of this week, either Thursday or Friday.
 
Be interesting too see how many Pompey manage to get home tickets, from chatting on the train back from Stoke to a few, they intimated that some had got on the database from previous seasons and would try to get a ticket if the away allocation sold out quickly (which it did!)
 
I just hope that those who can't make it make use of the ticket resale system. So frustrating still seeing lots of empty seats despite it being a 'sell out'! Are those fans who are not using the system just not aware of its availability?
 
The smelly fella with the tats, dirty looking hat and odd shoes I'm sure will be in attendance, lucky us.

With his distinctly odd behaviour, and several home bans because of it, I`m amazed they`ve sold him/her/they a ticket.
 
Presumably the club can see if season ticket holders have attended based on whether they scanned in or not?
If there's a number who haven't attended games, for example the early Saturday games as they may have commitments that mean they can't, and haven't listed their ticket on the exchange, surely it's worth the club giving them a reminder that they can list their seat if it's going to be a re-occurring thing?

Sizeable gaps in the family area versus Bristol City as well as other areas of the North Stand. I always assume those in the East Stand, are people who have 'bundled' in at the top of the stand.

Seems a real shame to have numerous empty seats that haven't even been made available for possible re-sale.
 
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There's a balancing act I think. When you buy a season ticket you are committing to that without any guarantees. If we were getting thumped 5 nil every week then you can't just say that you don't like it any more and get your money back. You're in come what may. And we saw that in covid when thousands bought season tickets for what turned out to be one game.

So I think that we have to be slightly careful at demonising (not that we are) those who don't attend. But as @CaptainOx has said, we should be reminding them of the opportunity to resell these tickets if they're unused so that as many as possible can attend.

The point @Colin B made about ensuring that single seats can't be left is also important. If we had pairs or more tickets remaining, then I think that we'd sell out all original seats much quicker which would give people a bigger window to return unused seats, and give greater opportunities for these to be then sold on.

In regard to the family stand, we have seen far more 12.30 games than many of us were expecting and that is one of the biggest issues for regular attendance. I would imagine that people keep their tickets on the hope that they can get away from kids football in time to make the game, but safe in the knowledge that if not they can still watch it on sky.

I think that we may see a reduction in take up for some of these tickets next season as a result.
 
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Nice to see you have started to be all inclusive, you'll get there one day

What one thinks and what one puts down to word can be markedly different.

Mr Westwood is a complete and utter k**b who`s aroma arrives in the room half an hour before him.
 
I'm a big strong gal, still waiting to here your alternative thoughts on my gender identity along with one other poster on here. So say what you want.
 
Presumably the club can see if season ticket holders have attended based on whether they scanned in or not?
If there's a number who haven't attended games, for example the early Saturday games as they may have commitments that mean they can't, and haven't listed their ticket on the exchange, surely it's worth the club giving them a reminder that they can list their seat if it's going to be a re-occurring thing?

Sizeable gaps in the family area versus Bristol City as well as other areas of the North Stand. I always assume those in the East Stand, are people who have 'bundled' in at the top of the stand.

Seems a real shame to have numerous empty seats that haven't even been made available for possible re-sale.
We get an email every time the exchange opens up. I share my tickets with friends most weeks but it’s pretty easy to put it on the exchange (when it works) however one time it just said “not permitted” or similar . Much as I’d like to Always help I didn’t want to spend time calling the ticket office .

But let’s be honest at this point very few people don’t get to see a game that they want to
 
Midnight update on Wednesday and we are now down to 236 home seats available.

By stand the remaining seats are distributed:

North 62, East 21, South Upper 35, South Lower 118.

That means 130 sales in the past 36 hours so we will likely get down to the trigger point for the ticket exchange to open either Thursday afternoon or Friday morning.
 
Midnight update on Wednesday and we are now down to 236 home seats available.

By stand the remaining seats are distributed:

North 62, East 21, South Upper 35, South Lower 118.

That means 130 sales in the past 36 hours so we will likely get down to the trigger point for the ticket exchange to open either Thursday afternoon or Friday morning.
It'll be interesting to see when they open it for this game, as that trigger point seems to have varied game to game, and as we discussed, they went a bit early last time out.

I think the decision to only sell seats at full price, irrespective of who they're sold to, is something that needs looking at. If a dad and child want two exchange tickets they currently have to pay for two adults, which may put some people off. The club has sold the seat and had the money once, so I'd rather see an incentive to get people into the empty seats than maxing out the revenue in this instance.
 
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