Semi final tickets?

[coyrls]

Not going to sell out. Sad state of affairs.

[TBM]

When we played Swansea in the PO final


• We will have 39,002 tickets located in the West half of the stadium.
• Season ticket holders will be able to buy from 9am on Thursday and Friday of this week, two tickets available for every season ticket holder.
• Members booking period will be Saturday and Sunday, one per membership.
• Subject to availability, general sale will begin on Monday, four tickets per transaction.


Even then i remember us going to general sale and plenty being available....

I guess the club believed their own hype

[mr_number]

I think they just wanted to make sure that everyone who has a reasonable number of points (i.e. 300+) had the chance to get a ticket, which seems fair enough.

[TBM]

I think they just wanted to make sure that everyone who has a reasonable number of points (i.e. 300+) had the chance to get a ticket, which seems fair enough.

Doing it with a +1 would still have seen members with 300pts get a ticket.....we're now down to people who have been to 1 game in, what, 12 years?

[Norfolk Royal]

I'm in, three tickets got this morning when they changed to the 10+

Well pleased, thanks to those who offered to help.

[windermere_royal]

Interesting the club are not releasing any ticket sold information, tragic that we won`t sell out for our first SF in 88 years, the people of Reading really don`t deserve a team.

[TFF]

Interesting the club are not releasing any ticket sold information, tragic that we won`t sell out for our first SF in 88 years, the people of Reading really don`t deserve a team.

We've only got about 18,000 fans. It's a slightly awkward KO time. It's a £100 day out. The view from the available tickets is ridiculous. We're gonna get beat. It's on the telly.

It's not really that surprising.

[Hoop Blah]

Clearly the club bottled it and went for the safest option in terms of making sure fans who've earned their ticket were 100% guaranteed of getting one.

Commercially I don't think it made much sense and I think they could've come up with a better system to ensure fans could get tickets with their mates or family (perhaps even allowed concession tickets as plus 1s as well as >500 points). As it is they probably got it a bit wrong and we're obviously struggling to sell out as quickly as they thought we would.

Their comments about 100k members, not going on general sale and 300+ points being guaranteed a ticket have possibly worked against them as well. Those who might've waited to get tickets with their plus 1s and 2s under normal circumstances might now have been panicked into buying singles in the first wave of tickets only to find the current situation which isn't ideal.

[Nameless]

Interesting the club are not releasing any ticket sold information, tragic that we won`t sell out for our first SF in 88 years, the people of Reading really don`t deserve a team.

1. What's tragic about not selling a totally arbitrary number of tickets ?
2. Why do 25 or 30,000 people not deserve a team because a few thousand others aren't (currently) going to the game ?

[wingnut]

I guess there's a number of factors at play here:
- the team's abysmal league record this season
- we've played arsenal a fair few times in recent history and got thumped every time, meaning that, especially when combined with the first point, no one has any confidence we'll win
- we've been to wembley recently - and it's not as if it's the final
- the lack of +1s for season ticket holders early doors. That season ticket holders can buy more now is no use when the extra tickets won't be anywhere near the first ticket(s) bought.

Can the club hand back the additional allocation we asked for?

[Norfolk Royal]

Don't think we should panic about not selling out just yet. I reckon they'll all go. Was in phone queue for 20 mins this morning so still plenty being bought obvs.

Also, would it not have been the case that season ticket holders tend to sit with friends who are also season ticket holders. So one of the STH's would have phoned and got tickets for all their friends quoting the STH numbers.

If that is the case it would mean that mates are sitting together would it not?

[Davezk]

I was willing to spend £100 on 2 tickets but since as a member (not ST holder), I can't get a +1. I don't really want to go by myself as rather make a day of it with the missus in London.

The club won't sell out and when I see 2 empty seats next to each other on TV I'll be so annoyed because I was willing to spend the money to be there and the club denied me that opportunity.

[TBM]

Their comments about 100k members, not going on general sale and 300+ points being guaranteed a ticket have possibly worked against them as well. Those who might've waited to get tickets with their plus 1s and 2s under normal circumstances might now have been panicked into buying singles in the first wave of tickets only to find the current situation which isn't ideal.

This ^

I know a few people who panicked and bought their tickets early but if they had known they would have waited and took their kids along, who were only fairly new fans and didn't fall into the "300 pts" bracket

[tidus_mi2]

I was willing to spend £100 on 2 tickets but since as a member (not ST holder), I can't get a +1. I don't really want to go by myself as rather make a day of it with the missus in London.

The club won't sell out and when I see 2 empty seats next to each other on TV I'll be so annoyed because I was willing to spend the money to be there and the club denied me that opportunity.

If they haven't sold all tickets in a couple days, I wonder if they will give members with a large number of points a +1 or +2.

[Hoop Blah]

Don't think we should panic about not selling out just yet. I reckon they'll all go. Was in phone queue for 20 mins this morning so still plenty being bought obvs.

Also, would it not have been the case that season ticket holders tend to sit with friends who are also season ticket holders. So one of the STH's would have phoned and got tickets for all their friends quoting the STH numbers.

If that is the case it would mean that mates are sitting together would it not?

With the fall off in STH over the last few years I think it's a fair bet to say that there are plenty of ex-STH who go or have gone to games with STH. In my group we've gone from about 20 STH when the stadium opened to 7 or 8. There's at least 5 or 6 that still come along on a regular basis though.

There are also lots of family, and especially kids, who do the same. I know quite a few STH who won't be taking their kids because of the lack of plus 1s. These are the kids that will be our fanbase for years to come and their missing out.

[TBM]

Don't think we should panic about not selling out just yet. I reckon they'll all go. Was in phone queue for 20 mins this morning so still plenty being bought obvs.

Also, would it not have been the case that season ticket holders tend to sit with friends who are also season ticket holders. So one of the STH's would have phoned and got tickets for all their friends quoting the STH numbers.

If that is the case it would mean that mates are sitting together would it not?

With the fall off in STH over the last few years I think it's a fair bet to say that there are plenty of ex-STH who go or have gone to games with STH. In my group we've gone from about 20 STH when the stadium opened to 7 or 8. There's at least 5 or 6 that still come along on a regular basis though.

There are also lots of family, and especially kids, who do the same. I know quite a few STH who won't be taking their kids because of the lack of plus 1s. These are the kids that will be our fanbase for years to come and their missing out.

I had a season ticket when the stadium first opened and stopped going in 2005 when the kids came along and i could no longer afford it.

I then went along to games using my Dad or Grandads season ticket when they couldn't go, same with friends tickets etc. Recently i've been taking my 2 boys along but i've always bought the tickets via my member card (they receive a paper ticket). So what it meant was they couldn't go to this game (or so we were led to believe) - i've now got a ticket and they're staying at home (i'm not swapping the seat i have now for a shite one in the gods)

[wingnut]

Their comments about 100k members, not going on general sale and 300+ points being guaranteed a ticket have possibly worked against them as well. Those who might've waited to get tickets with their plus 1s and 2s under normal circumstances might now have been panicked into buying singles in the first wave of tickets only to find the current situation which isn't ideal.

This ^

I know a few people who panicked and bought their tickets early but if they had known they would have waited and took their kids along, who were only fairly new fans and didn't fall into the "300 pts" bracket

Yep me too. Except I wanted a couple for m8s not kids.

[coyrls]

I was willing to spend £100 on 2 tickets but since as a member (not ST holder), I can't get a +1. I don't really want to go by myself as rather make a day of it with the missus in London.

The club won't sell out and when I see 2 empty seats next to each other on TV I'll be so annoyed because I was willing to spend the money to be there and the club denied me that opportunity.

If they haven't sold all tickets in a couple days, I wonder if they will give members with a large number of points a +1 or +2.

I think they will give all with 10+ points the +2 option tomorrow or Thursday.

[Vision]

Don't think we should panic about not selling out just yet. I reckon they'll all go. Was in phone queue for 20 mins this morning so still plenty being bought obvs.

Also, would it not have been the case that season ticket holders tend to sit with friends who are also season ticket holders. So one of the STH's would have phoned and got tickets for all their friends quoting the STH numbers.

If that is the case it would mean that mates are sitting together would it not?

With the fall off in STH over the last few years I think it's a fair bet to say that there are plenty of ex-STH who go or have gone to games with STH. In my group we've gone from about 20 STH when the stadium opened to 7 or 8. There's at least 5 or 6 that still come along on a regular basis though.

There are also lots of family, and especially kids, who do the same. I know quite a few STH who won't be taking their kids because of the lack of plus 1s. These are the kids that will be our fanbase for years to come and their missing out.

And if they'd been given plus ones then people with more than one kid would be complaining because they'd have to pick one. Not that it's a bad thing as it's good for children to know nice and early who Dad's favourite child is

Seriously though I'm surprised they did it this way for all the reasons I listed before the announcement but they did it the fairest way to ensure everyone who had actively supported the club to some degree could get a ticket and thus avoid the situation that occured at the Man City Q/F where they underestimated the demand and many genuine fans missed out.

[Compo's Hat]

Wonder if they've informed the FA that they've changed their mind about more provisional tickets from the FA?

No surprise the only blue block not sold is 106 where the drummer is, yet another cock up from RFC.