Match ticketing if Reading get promoted

[voyager1]

Due to where I live and the fact I work full time, I normally get to Reading about 1-2 times per month. Normally, I've been able to buy match tickets without any trouble as I usually get them once they're on general sale.

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

Would I struggle to get tickets for matches? Do the club set aside a certain number of tickets for non ST holders?

What was it like last time Reading were in the Premier League?

[Ian Royal]

You would struggle. I had exactly this problem, tickets are actually usually available for most matches, but in limited supply and I found at fairly short notice if you've got a relatively low points total. Although if it hadn't cost me about £100 a game I probably would have managed quite a few more than I did.

But half the South Stand gets opened up to Reading fans most, if not all games in the top flight. I think we had about 18k season ticket holders... the rest was split fairly evenly between away fans and homes fans iirc.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Having said all that, if we do get promoted this season, next season will not have the novelty factor that 2006/07 as (naturally) you will never be able to replicate the "first ever season in the top flight" feeling.

Tickets for the South Stand in 07/08 weren't too hard to come by - obviously the big games were difficult, but I think at least half of the games from that season went to General Sale (i.e. no Royalty points). As such I don't foresee the bunfight for tickets that we saw in 06/07.

[westendgirl]

Due to where I live and the fact I work full time, I normally get to Reading about 1-2 times per month. Normally, I've been able to buy match tickets without any trouble as I usually get them once they're on general sale.

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

Would I struggle to get tickets for matches? Do the club set aside a certain number of tickets for non ST holders?

What was it like last time Reading were in the Premier League?

According to their customer charter they keep 10% for non-ST holders, but if it is like last time you may need lots of royalty points unless it is a less glamourous side.

[Terminal Boardom]

Having said all that, if we do get promoted this season, next season will not have the novelty factor that 2006/07 as (naturally) you will never be able to replicate the "first ever season in the top flight" feeling.

Tickets for the South Stand in 07/08 weren't too hard to come by - obviously the big games were difficult, but I think at least half of the games from that season went to General Sale (i.e. no Royalty points). As such I don't foresee the bunfight for tickets that we saw in 06/07.

Couldn't agree more. That first game against Middlesbrough resulted in a 300 mile round trip from Caversham. I have never been as excited either before or since for the first game of a season.

[Ian Royal]

God that was a beaut.

[tink]

It was possible to get to the less fashionable games - in that first season i managed to get tickets to everton, aston villa and watford and then in the second season i got tickets to sunderland.

Back then though, the royalty points were still relatively new, so even if you only had 50 points, you were fairly near the top of the pile as a non-ST holder.

I think i've only got about 170 odd points now, which means there is probably a helluva lot of non-ST holders ahead of me now, so don't much fancy my chances for getting prem tickets, apart from maybe the boltons, blackpools and blackburns etc of this world.

[Ian Royal]

I apparently never go to games and I've got more than double your points. I think I had that many when we were in the Prem... so you'd be right.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

I used all my points up to see ARsenal away the first season

[Wizard]

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

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

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

If we go up DO IT Wizzy

[brendywendy]

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

[muddyfeet]

If we go up, I may be tempted back into getting a season ticket - would season tickets sell out if we got promoted?

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

If we go up, I may be tempted back into getting a season ticket - would season tickets sell out if we got promoted?

Almost certainly at the current prices.

Perhaps we should do a Man City and sell in the away section that would be used for cup games, then move the ST to the non ST areas of the other stands if the South is needed for cup games.

[muddyfeet]

If we go up, I may be tempted back into getting a season ticket - would season tickets sell out if we got promoted?

Almost certainly at the current prices.

Perhaps we should do a Man City and sell in the away section that would be used for cup games, then move the ST to the non ST areas of the other stands if the South is needed for cup games.

hmmm I wonder how long I would have to make a decision if we were to get promoted?

[Ian Royal]

Very very little time. We sold out of STs in our Prem years iirc.

[Whore Jackie]

Very very little time. We sold out of STs in our Prem years iirc.

First season, for obvious reasons, we did. Second year saw a drop of a few thousand IIRC. Be surprised if there was more than 15.5K ST holders max with promotion.

[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.

[muddyfeet]

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

[Rex]

They would surely just open up the half of the south stand as before.