Roger Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Anyone know how sales are going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Villa pretty much sold out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey88 Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 City game was pretty much sold out with the odd seat here and there still avaliable until City sent some of their allocation back. Think there might be 150 or so left all together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Really surprised City sent some back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Villa pretty much sold out Where did you get that from? It's absolute nonsense. Still more than 1500 tickets remaining, and that's from a total of around 6500 available on a match-by-match basis (essentially, we've still got around a quarter of the tickets left to sell). Worth noting that Villa have only taken an allocation of 2200 (and haven't sold out), so there's a reasonable chance this'll be our lowest league attendance of the season. Less than 300 left for Man City, half of which are in block 43 in the allocation returned by Man City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Where did you get that from? It's absolute nonsense. Still more than 1500 tickets remaining, and that's from a total of around 6500 available on a match-by-match basis (essentially, we've still got around a quarter of the tickets left to sell). Worth noting that Villa have only taken an allocation of 2200 (and haven't sold out), so there's a reasonable chance this'll be our lowest league attendance of the season. Less than 300 left for Man City, half of which are in block 43 in the allocation returned by Man City. Is Block 43 available to Saints fans for the Villa game? Or are we just not selling seats for it at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Is Block 43 available to Saints fans for the Villa game? Or are we just not selling seats for it at all? Still loads available elsewhere in the ground so no point opening that section up yet. It's much cheaper for the club to have a whole block of segregation than to employ extra stewards etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Still loads available elsewhere in the ground so no point opening that section up yet. It's much cheaper for the club to have a whole block of segregation than to employ extra stewards etc. Definitely a low crowd then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Bought tickets last week, looked at every stand and the only place available was The Itchen Corner. But then you knew that didn't you Mr Know It All Steve Grant. I suggest before you open your mouth you get your facts right first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 I suggest before you open your mouth you get your facts right first. Er, I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc_saint Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Surprised it's maybe going to be a low attendance especially as this is our first home game for pretty much a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Surprised it's maybe going to be a low attendance especially as this is our first home game for pretty much a month With two home games in 4 days, the other against one of the title favourites, I can't say I'm particularly surprised. If you're going to pick one or the other, City would be the one most would pick, I imagine. I think it's quite telling that a third of the tickets remaining for the Villa game are in the family section. Midweek at the beginning of December isn't ideal if you want to take your kids along to a game - it's the sort of situation I suspect many would pay the extra few quid and watch the higher-profile game on the Saturday instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 With two home games in 4 days, the other against one of the title favourites, I can't say I'm particularly surprised. If you're going to pick one or the other, City would be the one most would pick, I imagine. I think it's quite telling that a third of the tickets remaining for the Villa game are in the family section. Midweek at the beginning of December isn't ideal if you want to take your kids along to a game - it's the sort of situation I suspect many would pay the extra few quid and watch the higher-profile game on the Saturday instead. Good spot that, just over 500 unsold tickets left in the family centre, what are the restictions for buying in there? can you only buy an adult if also buying U16? not surprising that area will have empty seats for midweek games not in school holidays. what would they do if rest of the ground was sold out ? Surprised Villa aren't bringing many, i noticed on twitter they were running free coaches, but think this was limited to the first 10 coaches booked up, still means about 5-600 of them will be travelling for free, plus they have decent support from around Banbury / Oxford area straight down the A34. the fact we are yet to sell out a home game despite our good start to the season hopefully will be noted when it comes to setting next years prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Calling Turkish. There's an attendance thread. Time to indirectly quote MLG as if he is speaking for the whole fan base regarding expanding the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleonothing Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 @SouthamptonFC: There are less than 200 tickets left for this Saturday’s visit of @MCFC, so you’ll have to act fast to secure your seat! #saintsfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 With two home games in 4 days, the other against one of the title favourites, I can't say I'm particularly surprised. If you're going to pick one or the other, City would be the one most would pick, I imagine. I think it's quite telling that a third of the tickets remaining for the Villa game are in the family section. Midweek at the beginning of December isn't ideal if you want to take your kids along to a game - it's the sort of situation I suspect many would pay the extra few quid and watch the higher-profile game on the Saturday instead. What about all these people from Dartford to Truro who are coming by the coachload every week to see premier league football at Southampton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 2 December, 2013 Share Posted 2 December, 2013 Good spot that, just over 500 unsold tickets left in the family centre, what are the restictions for buying in there? can you only buy an adult if also buying U16? not surprising that area will have empty seats for midweek games not in school holidays. what would they do if rest of the ground was sold out ? Surprised Villa aren't bringing many, i noticed on twitter they were running free coaches, but think this was limited to the first 10 coaches booked up, still means about 5-600 of them will be travelling for free, plus they have decent support from around Banbury / Oxford area straight down the A34. the fact we are yet to sell out a home game despite our good start to the season hopefully will be noted when it comes to setting next years prices. That's our catchment area mate. They're all Saints fans there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 3 December, 2013 Share Posted 3 December, 2013 Is Block 43 available to Saints fans for the Villa game? Or are we just not selling seats for it at all? The lower part of block 43 is now available, an extra 350-odd seats. Would expect the upper part to be available for any walk-ups, although there are still loads of seats in the Chapel end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian lord Posted 3 December, 2013 Share Posted 3 December, 2013 It is all about price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red&white56 Posted 3 December, 2013 Share Posted 3 December, 2013 Just bought 2 tickets in Block 43 - it looks 2/3 full. (didn't look at other parts fo the ground as I did that last week and most were full excpet for the odd seat here and there - the Itchen / Chapel corner had seats open at that time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 3 December, 2013 Share Posted 3 December, 2013 Just bought 2 tickets in Block 43 - it looks 2/3 full. (didn't look at other parts fo the ground as I did that last week and most were full excpet for the odd seat here and there - the Itchen / Chapel corner had seats open at that time) For the Villa game, they've only released a small block of around 300-350 tickets which goes back as far as row V and across 17 of the 28 seats in the block. I believe 17 is the maximum number of seats allowed from an exit for health and safety, so the segregation netting will presumably start next to that. Quite surprised they even released those tickets considering there's still around 1200 seats available elsewhere in the ground. One of the problems the club suffers from since they brought in the new ticketing system which allows you to pick your own individual seat rather than being automatically assigned them is that people instinctively want space between them and strangers, so if they're buying 3 or 4 tickets and they see a section of 7 or 8, they'll pick the seats in the middle of that available section rather than at the edge, which then prevents someone else who wants 4 tickets from buying next to them. It's particularly problematic in the family section, not one block in the family section (blocks 20-27) has completely sold out this season because there has always been odd seats dotted around all over the place which can't be sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red&white56 Posted 3 December, 2013 Share Posted 3 December, 2013 ....................One of the problems the club suffers from since they brought in the new ticketing system which allows you to pick your own individual seat rather than being automatically assigned ......, so if they're buying 3 or 4 tickets and they see a section of 7 or 8, they'll pick the seats in the middle of that available section rather than at the edge, ........ Bought my 2 on the end of a row, filling the row. I like atmosphere at games (the nipper and I sat alone aren't going to create a very good one) so I will always try to find seats in the crowd, not by myself......... There must be others like me??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BedfordSaint Posted 3 December, 2013 Share Posted 3 December, 2013 Looking at current sales and considering Villa have apparently sold around 2,100 I think we'll be looking at about 30,500 - 31 tomorrow night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 3 December, 2013 Share Posted 3 December, 2013 For the Villa game, they've only released a small block of around 300-350 tickets which goes back as far as row V and across 17 of the 28 seats in the block. I believe 17 is the maximum number of seats allowed from an exit for health and safety, so the segregation netting will presumably start next to that. Quite surprised they even released those tickets considering there's still around 1200 seats available elsewhere in the ground. One of the problems the club suffers from since they brought in the new ticketing system which allows you to pick your own individual seat rather than being automatically assigned them is that people instinctively want space between them and strangers, so if they're buying 3 or 4 tickets and they see a section of 7 or 8, they'll pick the seats in the middle of that available section rather than at the edge, which then prevents someone else who wants 4 tickets from buying next to them. It's particularly problematic in the family section, not one block in the family section (blocks 20-27) has completely sold out this season because there has always been odd seats dotted around all over the place which can't be sold. Booked tickets online for the Mayflower recently and it doesn't allow you to just leave one seat free. Saints should adapt their system to do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 3 December, 2013 Share Posted 3 December, 2013 Booked tickets online for the Mayflower recently and it doesn't allow you to just leave one seat free. Saints should adapt their system to do the same. It would be interesting to see how many ticket purchases are made for just one ticket. I'd expect the rate to be much higher at somewhere like the Mayflower where, realistically, you're not going to go on your own, whereas it's not particularly unusual to do so at a game. Considering there are a number of flaws in the system already, adding a feature like that (that's potentially pretty complex to implement) to the mix seems unlikely, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 3 December, 2013 Share Posted 3 December, 2013 I'll be there tomorrow so that should stick a few thousand on the gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 4 December, 2013 Share Posted 4 December, 2013 @SouthamptonFC: All general seating for this Saturday's visit of @MCFC to St Mary's has now sold out! Thanks for your excellent support. #saintsfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 4 December, 2013 Share Posted 4 December, 2013 @SouthamptonFC: All general seating for this Saturday's visit of @MCFC to St Mary's has now sold out! Thanks for your excellent support. #saintsfc IMpressive considering the prices and the fact that Mn CIty didn't sell their allocation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 4 December, 2013 Share Posted 4 December, 2013 @SouthamptonFC: All general seating for this Saturday's visit of @MCFC to St Mary's has now sold out! Thanks for your excellent support. #saintsfc Interesting... this screenshot from 2 minutes ago: Around 85 tickets left in the family section as well, albeit all single tickets so not entirely sure if they're actually able to sell them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scummer Posted 4 December, 2013 Share Posted 4 December, 2013 The will be loads of empty seats in the family section tonight, my son has a season ticket but he won't be going as it's a schoolnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffo Posted 4 December, 2013 Share Posted 4 December, 2013 We've sold 27,200 so far. That's not taking into account block 43 though because I have no idea how many sold in there. With walk ups and block 43 we're looking at 28-28,500. Then add 2k Villa on so we should be around the 30k mark. Not too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 4 December, 2013 Share Posted 4 December, 2013 Interesting... this screenshot from 2 minutes ago: Around 85 tickets left in the family section as well, albeit all single tickets so not entirely sure if they're actually able to sell them. Genius, that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 4 December, 2013 Share Posted 4 December, 2013 The will be loads of empty seats in the family section tonight, my son has a season ticket but he won't be going as it's a schoolnight. How many seats does he take up then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 4 December, 2013 Share Posted 4 December, 2013 I am not surprised, there are loads of people who are struggling. I for one cannot afford a ticket, in this our best season for years. Other things take priority in a family of 5. Even more so as we enter December. Looks like many had to choose Villa or City and choose City..... Me I would have picked this evening, I love evening games. Hoping to get along a couple times after the new year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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