Match ticketing if Reading get promoted

[roadrunner]

If Reading get into the Premier League then obviously attendances would rise.

Would I struggle to get tickets for matches?

No. I gave up my season ticket after we got promoted because I had just moved to Leeds and didn't think I'd come down for many games, but I came down for almost all the home games. Season tickets were at about 16,000 ISTR, and we gave 2,700 to away fans, which left a significant amount in the South Stand and some dotted around the stadium. I never missed out on a game I wanted to go to. I shouldn't imagine anything would change.

Do you have alot of royalty points tho? I don't have that many which is my worry bout not being able to get tickets

I was at about 600 then. Pretty low in comparison to many but although we filled the ground week in week out, it was never hard to get a single anywhere. Easy enough to get good seats in my favoured Y25 up where TROLLI and Co are, or just below them, and at worst it was the South Stand.

[Wizard]

Still debating buying a season ticket for next season. If we go up £250 (for me) would be cracking value.

surely thats crtacking value regardless

if we go up its an absolute steal

You see me at the MadStad all the times I'm not working though, that's how often I can't get there. I'd have to be very smart with annual leave and shift swapping to make it worthwile.

[Rex]

I always manage the work around the fixtures.

[Z175]

I gave up my ST for Z175 in 2004, after being at uni for a year and attempting to fly down for half the games.

Little did I anticipate the promotion season, however I never missed a game I could get to.

- Had to go in the away section in our sell out v Leicester at Christmas 2005 in the the championship as I was used to pay on the day.

- Since then I booked online as early as possible. Due to having royalty points for a ST since they were brought in I was towards the front. Obviously the East, North and West were ST only thanks to the 8,000 people who bought half season tickets in 2005 but they opened up the south so I sat there for two years in the prem, suffering abuse such as "where were you when we were..." from the corporate middle class who snapped up my seat as a 1/2 ST and didnt turn up for the championship.

- I moved back to reading in 2007 but obviously the STs were sold out. I went to every single game though so tickets weren't difficult. I was even able to get extra tickets in the south stand for various interested friends/family at times so i don't think you need to worry about royalty points that much but they help for peace of mind. Fortunately we got relegated and the plastics went home, allowing me to regain my rightful place opposite Sir John. Sadly not in Z175 though

- They did a few schemes such as to buy a ticket for Man Utd you need to buy one for Charlton etc, which is understandable but kinda mean if you would go to Charlton if you didn't live 450 miles away but happened to be on holiday during a Utd or Arsenal game! I managed to sell the tickets for the games I couldn't get to but its a hassle. The plus point is we were on tv lots that first season so at least for an exile the media coverage is awesome.

[Svlad Cjelli]

- I moved back to reading in 2007 but obviously the STs were sold out. I went to every single game though so tickets weren't difficult. I was even able to get extra tickets in the south stand for various interested friends/family at times so i don't think you need to worry about royalty points that much but they help for peace of mind.

One of the problems the club had during the PL years - and especially the second one - was that people who might have tried to get tickets assumed that every game was completely sold out, and so didn't even look to see if it was. So there usually were tickets available to people switched on enough to look for them.

[Red]

Sounds like they got complacent in their advertising then.

My local (PL) club Fulham advertise absolutely everywhere and good luck to them for it.

[brendywendy]

Sounds like they got complacent in their advertising then.

My local (PL) club Fulham advertise absolutely everywhere and good luck to them for it.

so do west ham, but 5they both have to, cos their attendances need it, whereas ours in the prem were always near capacity, or as close as.

personally i think that its oxf*rd gay and embarrassing to have to advertise tickets to your club.

[Red]

Interesting angle to take.

[brendywendy]

just sounds desperate when you have to fork out for billboards and radio ad space just to try and get your crowds up.especially when it really isnt the norm
i mean fair play, they need to, and it must have a positive affect, but all it will do is fill up the ground with daytripping footourists who dont actually give two oxf*rd about the club

[Red]

Bums on seats are all that counts.

As for day trippers, well it was all of our first game at some point. You don't go from not attending to being a season ticket holder overnight.

[brendywendy]

of course it's bums on seats, and of course our two years in the prem brought in many fans who have stayed.

im just saying that the sort of "fan" who looks at a fulham billboard and goes, oh yeah, i forgot about fulham, should probably go to a game, isnt really the kind of fans i want at my club.

i saw a woman and family with a picnic blanket over their knees at the madejski, with a load of food on the floor in front of them, sharing a thermos, and they got all upset when i had to spoil their set up to get past.
thats the kind of fan who would respond to a radio ad for football. and while Jm may be happy to ahve them there, i think they bring nothing to the game, and actually have a negative effect on atmosphere.

[Red]

I see what you're saying brendy, just a bit surprised I'm hearing it from a Reading fan.

[brendywendy]

LOL

[Wizard]

Decided I am gonna buy a ST for next season. Bring it on

[brendywendy]

north stand?

[Wizard]

north stand?

Usual seat, just in front of you m8!

[brendywendy]

Yay!

[Norfolk Royal]

[quote="brendywendy"]i saw a woman and family with a picnic blanket over their knees at the madejski, with a load of food on the floor in front of them, sharing a thermos, and they got all upset when i had to spoil their set up to get past.
thats the kind of fan who would respond to a radio ad for football.[quote]

Tbf they sound like the sort of fans who would respond to improved catering facilities.

[Wizard]

Yay!

Just bought it. Now I have 600 royalty points.

Now I just hope I can get to enough games for it to be cost effective

[brendywendy]

i can always take it off your hands for the ones you cant make, for my godson, for a reasonable price of course!