Noob Season Ticket Question

[Liquidshokk]

Not had a season ticket before due to an erratic work schedule but think I'll get one next season. Just have a couple of questions if someone wouldnt mind answering;

 

Do they only cover league games? I notice that people with season tickets still had to phone up for JPT/FA tickets

 

Do you have to pay for JPT/FA Cup tickets on top?

 

How do you normally go about buying for someone to go with you? does the other person just phone up and hope that the seat next to yours is free as I assume you dont have to phone up to get your own tickets for the games?

 

Are you sent your tickets or do you just use the same ticket for every game?

 

Thanks

[RedAndWhite91]

Not had a season ticket before due to an erratic work schedule but think I'll get one next season. Just have a couple of questions if someone wouldnt mind answering;

 

Do they only cover league games? I notice that people with season tickets still had to phone up for JPT/FA tickets yes

 

Do you have to pay for JPT/FA Cup tickets on top? yes

 

How do you normally go about buying for someone to go with you? does the other person just phone up and hope that the seat next to yours is free as I assume you dont have to phone up to get your own tickets for the games?

 

you choose your season ticket seat, it's pure luck if the seat next to you is available

Are you sent your tickets or do you just use the same ticket for every game?

 

you get a booklet with stubs for each match day... you just rip off the stub and give it to the turnstile mush

 

Thanks

 

HTH

[Liquidshokk]

Cool, Thanks.

 

Im guessing a lot of season ticket holders end up going on their own then?!?! :cool:

 

So those stubs can be given to anyone to use if work deprives me of a visit to the fortress? :smt033

[NickG]

if you want to sit with someone elsewhere you can leave your season ticket with ticket office, swap for another seat next to your mate, and they sell your seat for that game

[RedAndWhite91]

Cool, Thanks.

 

Im guessing a lot of season ticket holders end up going on their own then?!?! :cool:

 

So those stubs can be given to anyone to use if work deprives me of a visit to the fortress? :smt033

 

I have a ST next to my mate, and a couple of other mates are just a few rows down... If you go with your mates if they are getting a ST you should be able to get seats together. And technically yeah you can. My mate has missed a couple of games and I've given his ST to my mate, and my dad, on different occasions.

[JonnyLove]

Cool, Thanks.

 

Im guessing a lot of season ticket holders end up going on their own then?!?! :cool:

 

So those stubs can be given to anyone to use if work deprives me of a visit to the fortress? :smt033

 

I sit next to me dad but thats because we got ours together. The good thing is we have met and chat with all the people around us. I have no problem should my dad not decide to re-new that i'll go on my billy. Thankfully you have the best part of 22000+ other people to talk to during the game.

[Saint_clark]

Once you've sat there for half a season you get to know the majority of the people around you, so you won't be going on your own.

[Chez]

Once you've sat there for half a season you get to know the majority of the people around you, so you won't be going on your own.

 

unless you pick a section that has no season ticket holders

[Mase]

I haven’t had a season ticket since our last season in the Prem myself. It just so happened the season we got relegated was the season I started part time work and had to work most weekends. A few weeks ago I managed to change my weekend shifts to an evening shift during the week, so next season I’ll be getting one for sure.

 

I’d like a bit of advice on where would be best for me to sit though. At the moment when I go to games with the old man (usually once a month) I just opt for as close to the half way line as possible. The view is perfect but the atmosphere is a bit dull. Then again, I don’t want to have to stand up & sit down every few minutes singing “stand up if you hate Poopey” etc, so I’d like an in-between. Any ideas?

[Scummer]

I haven’t had a season ticket since our last season in the Prem myself. It just so happened the season we got relegated was the season I started part time work and had to work most weekends. A few weeks ago I managed to change my weekend shifts to an evening shift during the week, so next season I’ll be getting one for sure.

 

I’d like a bit of advice on where would be best for me to sit though. At the moment when I go to games with the old man (usually once a month) I just opt for as close to the half way line as possible. The view is perfect but the atmosphere is a bit dull. Then again, I don’t want to have to stand up & sit down every few minutes singing “stand up if you hate Poopey” etc, so I’d like an in-between. Any ideas?

 

Kingsland North. Somewhere around block 33-34.

[Amesbury Saint]

I haven’t had a season ticket since our last season in the Prem myself. It just so happened the season we got relegated was the season I started part time work and had to work most weekends. A few weeks ago I managed to change my weekend shifts to an evening shift during the week, so next season I’ll be getting one for sure.

 

I’d like a bit of advice on where would be best for me to sit though. At the moment when I go to games with the old man (usually once a month) I just opt for as close to the half way line as possible. The view is perfect but the atmosphere is a bit dull. Then again, I don’t want to have to stand up & sit down every few minutes singing “stand up if you hate Poopey” etc, so I’d like an in-between. Any ideas?

 

block 35 would meet your criteria.

I dont do the stand up thing but enjoy a good sing

[Mase]

Kingsland North. Somewhere around block 33-34.

 

Thanks for the recommendation. I’d probably go 33 because it’s closer to the half way line. Upper or lower?

[Liquidshokk]

Thanks for the recommendation. I’d probably go 33 because it’s closer to the half way line. Upper or lower?

 

Want someone to pick your seat number too??? :cool:

[Mase]

block 35 would meet your criteria.

I dont do the stand up thing but enjoy a good sing

 

Is 35 on the corner?

[Mase]

Want someone to pick your seat number too??? :cool:

 

Unless you know of any female models that sit around that area, I’m sure I’ll manage

[saint_stevo]

block 35 would meet your criteria.

I dont do the stand up thing but enjoy a good sing

 

Sat in 35 v Pompey, looking forward to it v Leeds in a few weeks!

[Matthew Le God]

 

Do they only cover league games? I notice that people with season tickets still had to phone up for JPT/FA tickets?

 

Yes, of course only league games but you get priority for cup games for your seat when tickets go on sale.

 

DO you have to pay for JPT/FA Cup tickets on top?

 

Yes of course you do.

 

How do you normally go about buying for someone to go with you? does the other person just phone up and hope that the seat next to yours is free as I assume you dont have to phone up to get your own tickets for the games?

 

If the seat next to your seat is a non season ticket then they can have that if you order it quick enough. If the seat isn't free then you can get two seats somewhere else but only pay for one of them(as you as a season ticket holder has already paid). You also have to give the ticket office your season ticket until after the game.

 

Are you sent your tickets or do you just use the same ticket for every game?

 

You get a season ticket booklet which has vouchers for all 23 league games.

[Liquidshokk]

Do they only cover league games? I notice that people with season tickets still had to phone up for JPT/FA tickets yes

 

Do you have to pay for JPT/FA Cup tickets on top? yes

 

How do you normally go about buying for someone to go with you? does the other person just phone up and hope that the seat next to yours is free as I assume you dont have to phone up to get your own tickets for the games?

 

you choose your season ticket seat, it's pure luck if the seat next to you is available

Are you sent your tickets or do you just use the same ticket for every game?

 

you get a booklet with stubs for each match day... you just rip off the stub and give it to the turnstile mush

 

Thanks

 

HTH

 

Yes, of course only league games but you get priority for cup games for your seat when tickets go on sale.

 

 

 

Yes of course you do.

 

 

 

If the seat next to your seat is a non season ticket then they can have that if you order it quick enough. If the seat isn't free then you can get two seats somewhere else but only pay for one of them(as you as a season ticket holder has already paid). You also have to give the ticket office your season ticket until after the game.

 

 

 

You get a season ticket booklet which has vouchers for all 23 league games.

 

As per the first reply?

 

Thanks all the same.

[Matthew Le God]

I'm intrigued why you asked this...?

 

DO you have to pay for JPT/FA Cup tickets on top?

 

Of course they pay.

 

Otherwise....

 

13,000 season ticket holders could have for example 10 home Cup games or they could get none it is varible from season to season.

 

That is potentially 130,000 free tickets, times £20, equals £2.6m

 

That is ALOT of money to miss out on.

[Liquidshokk]

I'm intrigued why you asked this...?

 

 

 

Of course they pay.

 

Otherwise....

 

13,000 season ticket holders could have for example 10 home Cup games or they could get none it is varible from season to season.

 

That is potentially 130,000 free tickets, times £20, equals £2.6m

 

That is ALOT of money to miss out on.

 

Didnt actually realise there were that many season ticket holders! Couple of hundred at most. Not sure why I thought that.... Guess I thought the events of the last few years put people off getting them..

 

On the basis of of a couple of hundred season tickets it wouldnt be such a big deal if the cup games were included

 

Was a stupid question that one though, admittedly. (Boredom does that to me.)

[Trumush]

Did'nt want to open a new thread as this has been answered before but can somebody please remind me of David Luker's email address.

 

Thanks.

[Matthew Le God]

A couple of hundred season ticket holders!

 

You'd have to go to the bottom half of the Blue Square leagues to find those sort of numbers!

Edited 17 February, 2010 by Matthew Le God

[Liquidshokk]

A couple of hundred season ticket holders!

 

You'd have to go to the Blue Square leagues to find those sort of numbers not a large club like Southampton that had 22,000 season ticket holders when in the Premiership!

 

Geez. Im so naieve clearly. I know we have a massive fanbase but just thought the majority bought them as and when they want to go.

 

Cant wait to get mine next season and meet some new chums around me near the dug out, which is my fave spot. Will be hard pushed to get a season ticket around the dug out area? One of the guys in the ticket office said he was surprised seats in row B were available at the stage I booked as so many season ticket holders around there....

[Matthew Le God]

Geez. Im so naieve clearly. I know we have a massive fanbase but just thought the majority bought them as and when they want to go.

 

For nearly every club roughly 50% of the average attendance is made up of season ticket holders. This obviously fluctuates from club to club.

 

It works out a lot cheaper as a season ticket holder. Divide the cost of a season ticket by 23 games and it is a lot lower than buying on a game by game basis.

 

Can't wait to get mine next season and meet some new chums around me near the dug out, which is my fave spot. Will be hard pushed to get a season ticket around the dug out area? One of the guys in the ticket office said he was surprised seats in row B were available at the stage I booked as so many season ticket holders around there....

 

I'd advise against row B. Gives a terrible view of the game. Best to sit as close to the halfway line as possible from about row K up to the very back. As long as you are central, sitting near the back at St Mary's gives a great view. Hence why all the posh seats are situated there in the Itchen. So get an equivalent seat in the Kingsland.

Edited 17 February, 2010 by Matthew Le God

[Liquidshokk]

For nearly every club roughly 50% of the average attendance is made up of season ticket holders. This obviously fluctuates from club to club.

 

It works out a lot cheaper as a season ticket holder. Divide the cost of a season ticket by 23 games and it is a lot lower than buying on a game by game basis.

 

 

 

I'd advise against row B. Gives a terrible view of the game. Best to sit as close to the halfway line as possible from about row K up to the very back.

 

Ive sat in Row B a couple of times this season, one of the times being when we played Norwich and connolly ran past us and scored a screamer... You do struggle to see the whole game i agree but I love being down with the players and the action. Watching Pardew shout out his orders and seeing the players react puts a whole new perspective on the game.

 

Admittedly I probably wouldnt want to sit that low EVERY game. A tad higher it is then.

[Mase]

Any idea as to when the club will announce more details on next seasons pricing plan? Or when they go on sale?

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

IMO, row W is a perfect vantage point, I sit in Block 31 virtually on the half-way line and the view is second to none. But, you pays your money and you takes your choice.

[SNSUN]

I'm not a season ticket holder because I work the dreaded LUL shiftwork, but in terms of seating position it is so much better sat up top. I much prefer being at the back, better atmosphere and a better view. Sadly for me, if I take my girlfriend along, she has cruddy eyes, and we have to sit near the front, which is when I tend to rely on the screens to follow the action.

[Mase]

I'm not a season ticket holder because I work the dreaded LUL shiftwork, but in terms of seating position it is so much better sat up top. I much prefer being at the back, better atmosphere and a better view. Sadly for me, if I take my girlfriend along, she has cruddy eyes, and we have to sit near the front, which is when I tend to rely on the screens to follow the action.

 

Should have gone to Spec... Oh why bother.

[benjii]

A couple of hundred season ticket holders!

 

You'd have to go to the bottom half of the Blue Square leagues to find those sort of numbers!

 

Or about 20 miles east.

[hamster]

imho there are not really and 'bad ' seats at SMS. I've sat in every part of the ground (including in with the Gills fans) aprt form corporate and each area has it's unique ambience.

 

Maybe over the next few matches you could do a recce of each area and find 'your' area. Just bear in mind that the club are planning to move the away fans next season which is going to have a pretty big impact on many aspects of the spectator experience.

 

Also bear in mind that what some consider the best seats for singing are actaully the absolute worst for big cup games, because as it is, they mae you move!

[Liquidshokk]

Sorry to dig out an old thread but is relevant still to my noobness :-) does the season ticket I just bought give me entry to pre season friendlies as well as league games??

[MINIBARCELONASAINT]

no.