All 18,000 Season tickets sold

[Arthur Pint]

http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10306~880043,00.html

All 18,000 season tickets for the 2006/7 season have now been processed.

Reading Football Club has received more than 1,800 new applications, of which around 1,000 could not be fulfilled.

The Club used Royalty Points as the basis to offer approximately 800 new season tickets which were not renewed by previous owners.

We are sorry that we could not fulfil every request for season tickets. If you made an application and have not received a season ticket, you will have to buy match tickets for each game.

Under Premier League rules the maximum percentage of home season tickets allowed is 95% of the home gate, but Reading Football Club operates to a 90% rule. This ensures that there are 2,400 home tickets for sale on a match by match basis for the many fans that do not have a season ticket.

Season ticket holders who renewed the same seat will not receive a new card as their card from last season is updated.

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One thing that strikes me about this is that the club were allowed to sell 1,200 more season tickets and chose not to disappointing 1,000 fans, why not have gone to the 95% mark and sold everyone who wanted a season ticket one and then only had 1,400 seats at every game for general sale? It would have been guaranteed income and quite a bit of it in advance. Just seems a little odd with the club being so money orientated these days, maybe there not as evil as we think they are!

[Dirk Gently]

Beacsue although "Under Premier League rules the maximum percentage of home season tickets allowed is 95% of the home gate, but Reading Football Club operates to a 90% rule. ".. the FA Cup regulations say that you need to reserve 15% for the away club.

So under Prem rules we could have sold 95% of 24000-10% - 20,520, but that would have caused all sorts of hassles with segregation in trying to sell FA Cup games - unless they sold some sort of "league only" ST.

Much easier to not sell any South Stand Sts so they can keep this clear to sell all of it for cup games - which they need to do because the segregation means you either sell half of it or all of it.

[Arthur Pint]

Thanks, Acutally makes perfect sense when you think about it in terms of needing to segregate the South Stand.

Well in that case here's to staying in the Premiership this season and a bigger stadium the season after!!

[EASTENDER MARKY]

18,000 season tickets and 2,400 matchday ticket sales leaves 4,000 for the away fans?

[Dirk Gently]

Nope - it will be different for the FA Cup. The 15% rle means that thy might have to give the whole South stand to the away team, so expect no south stand tickets to be sold for these games, unless away club only takes half of it, in wich case it will be 2,400 available.

[Ian Royal]

18,000 season tickets and 2,400 matchday ticket sales leaves 4,000 for the away fans?

That is the away allocation. expect it to be halved for a lot of games as we arn't that big a draw for most premiership clubs. Thus leaving 4,400 tickets for home fans.

I'm fully in support of the clubs attitude on this. But then I don't have a season ticket, can't afford one and couldn't get to every game even if I could.

[Huntley & Palmer]

Nope - it will be different for the FA Cup. The 15% rle means that thy might have to give the whole South stand to the away team, so expect no south stand tickets to be sold for these games, unless away club only takes half of it, in wich case it will be 2,400 available.

It is only 'up to' 15%

The FA wrote:
In all matches preceding the Semi-Finals, the Visiting Club shall have the right to claim up to 15% of all accommodation for which tickets are issued providing these tickets are in a fully segregated area

So we could only offer the largest side of the South Stand rather than all of it