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West Ham do a ballot for 10% of away tickets I think unless the allocation is really small. Which sounds fairly reasonable until a person with 8 aways misses out on a Pompey ticket to someone who's done none. Never going to please everyone but ultimately the current system is the fairiest in my view. As I and others have pointed out it's not exactly difficult to get on the ladder either. The real problem is many people don't want to repeatedly travel up north during our worst ever season to watch us get hammered but then expect a ticket for a local game with high demand.

By people not selling them on do you mean leaving the seat empty? Brighton get attendance details from the home club and then take the point away if a ticket wasn't scanned. Surprised we didn't implement that after the Cardiff cup game last season.

This. We're nowhere near at the point of a closed shop yet. Someone I know got their first season ticket in 23/24 and now has 12 away games to his name and is not far off top of the pile. It's getting harder for sure but it's still possible if you're willing to put the miles in. Loads of games last season went to just STH's or even members so there was plenty of opportunities to get on the ladder. As for people buying for points I think some clubs do a percentage of tickets for random collection at every game. People would get sick of that pretty quickly though I'm sure.

Surely there'll be some additional segregation in the away end for the skates match? A block either side, or at least chapel side I'd imagine.

I'm sure not that long ago they used to announce the match day prices and which games were which category all at the beginning of the season. Seems much more secretive now. Probably so they can charge more.

Yeah I remember it being linked with Doncaster last time. Wrexham tickets on sale to members tomorrow. Doesn't mention a category but cheapest adult ticket is £30.

I think aways will sell quite quickly first half of the season particularly as everybody gets their credits up for Fratton. Obviously depends on how we're doing too.

They might even close pubs, pretty sure they've done that before? Cans and pyro down Brittania road from 8am.

Not sure about that. Aren't our games with them almost always early KO's? If people can't get up for playing them lot at home for the first time in 13 years then there's seriously a problem regardless of KO time.

Definitely by design.

Think there'll be more members than available seats but you should be able to get a ticket for pretty much anything you want. Might just need to be on the ball for certain ones eg the skates.

They would have had to give them more for that though presumably as it was FA Cup? All depends on how many they expect to sell.

I just meant because not many people will have done it before and it's a small allocation.

Be a proper scramble for tickets this.

Think every Saturday has 4/5 12:30 KO's doesn't it?

The £3m would affect PSR if it's an interest payment as interest is considered a day to day running cost and isn't excluded from the calculations. Something which affected Everton a lot I believe.

Not surprised by the lack of interest in the Kingsland block. Among the highest priced seats and generally speaking people buying those seats won't want to be next to away fans.

Any indication of how many sold?

Not really surprising given it's the first renewal after the stadium changes. Could be various reasons why people don't like their current seat eg not wanting to be close to away fans.

Yeah I think it might be a disability section there. Always been my favourite part of that photo.

'Got 12 points but we're still better than you'

Fucking hell 😂

Yeah I remember the skate fan which seemed to be the trigger point. I missed the Sheffield United one sadly so had to wait for Walsall for my first joyous pitch invasion.

Main memory of the Burnley one was a load of young lads thinking they were really hard and then the old bill brought the dogs out and they legged it towards the half way line.

I'm going to hold off until after the Arsenal game I think. See if I can convince some around me to move to Chapel.