Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:07 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

I'm in the north stand and can't think of any good reason to allow people to wander into the east and west stands.

The idea was to provide a chance to hang out with people you know who may be elsewhere in the stadium. The idea wasn't to swap stands like at Knowsley Road, just to have a nice relaxed atmosphere. It's a great idea I think.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:26 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

The idea was to provide a chance to hang out with people you know who may be elsewhere in the stadium. The idea wasn't to swap stands like at Knowsley Road, just to have a nice relaxed atmosphere. It's a great idea I think.

The Idea is fine, but if don't work practically we can either throw our hands up and moan about fans, or try practical solutions.

Like I said for some games this open access idea could work as the capacity will be lowered simply by attendance. In fact there is no need to worry about the attendance, if they sell over a limit the gates are shut, if they sell below that limit the gates are open.

That way the attendance governs the access requirements rather than the access having to be guessed prior to each game.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:32 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

To be fair, I don't see why Saints should be out of pocket by giving up a whole stand to a team that doesn't bring any supporters, or through having to sell tickets to away fans for cheaper than they would to home fans (given this is a likely sell-out).

From what I can see all adult tickets for your Cas game this weekend are £22 so it's not much difference.

Why would you need to give us the full stand? Can't ever remember being segregated at Knowsley Rd. Could have given us 500 in the terrace and sold the rest to Saints fans. Will now get the added problem of Salford fans standing in a seated area as well.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:45 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

Why would you need to give us the full stand? Can't ever remember being segregated at Knowsley Rd. Could have given us 500 in the terrace and sold the rest to Saints fans. Will now get the added problem of Salford fans standing in a seated area as well.

Nothing to stop you buying tickets in the East terrace direct from Saints if you feel so inclined to stand up.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:51 pm  

Very true all tickets on sale on the Saints website.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:52 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

Nothing to stop you buying tickets in the East terrace direct from Saints if you feel so inclined to stand up.

Not too bothered about the standing aspect personally however might do this to save myself £5.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:59 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

Why would you need to give us the full stand? Can't ever remember being segregated at Knowsley Rd. Could have given us 500 in the terrace and sold the rest to Saints fans. Will now get the added problem of Salford fans standing in a seated area as well.

That's coz at Knowsley Road we already had the necessary safety certificate for our capacity whereas we're trying to achieve that at the moment and we had a hiccup against Widnes because some Saints fans decided to move stands and cause the West Stand to look over full. Long term there should be a solution which will at least involve wiser stewarding but my guess is that this is simply a stop gap until the solution is found.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:00 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

Not too bothered about the standing aspect personally however might do this to save myself £5.

You may be moved. You may not either. I suppose that depends on how the stewards operate in the 'away' end, bearing in mind those tickets are on sale to Saints fans.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:01 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

The Idea is fine, but if don't work practically we can either throw our hands up and moan about fans, or try practical solutions.

No reason why we can't do both!

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:12 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

You may be moved. You may not either. I suppose that depends on how the stewards operate in the 'away' end, bearing in mind those tickets are on sale to Saints fans.

Its not a soccer ground Saintsfan. There is no formal segregation, hence the open concourses.
Just the Salford fans are being encouraged to group together in the North East corner to allow for the Saints masses to fill the East stand.