Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:51 am  

The Chair Maker wrote:

They will need to do this then as both the West and South stands share the same turnstile entrance and contiguous concourse.

The North stand can be isolated pretty easily and also the East as they have their own dedicated turnstile entrances.
All it really needs is a temporary barrier complete with yellow jacketed steward to send out the message not to move.

The temperary barrier IMO is the best option and was the first thing that came to mind when this problem popped up.

This way for the games that will be high capicity we can use the barrier and have steward stood there and when the low capicity games we can just leave it.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:20 am  

Also, I'm sure mates who want to meet up before the game or at half time can chat over the barrier then go back to their own stand.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:22 am  

I think the fact that our major concern going into a new season is that we have sold too many tickets is a fairly good position to be in. Ok, there are a few teething issues to sort out, but lets focus on the positives around Saints at the moment, and celebrate the fact that we are supporting a fantastic club.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:14 pm  

SomersetSaint wrote:

I think the fact that our major concern going into a new season is that we have sold too many tickets is a fairly good position to be in. Ok, there are a few teething issues to sort out, but lets focus on the positives around Saints at the moment, and celebrate the fact that we are supporting a fantastic club.

I agree but bad news always makes for discussion, Good news makes for short threads because everyone just agrees and that's the end of it

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:17 pm  

I understand capacity is 18000. Does this figure allow for any movement between stands or none at all?. Rovers east stand is regulary sold out but you can see small gaps here and there.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:00 pm  

blakeysrobin wrote:

I understand capacity is 18000. Does this figure allow for any movement between stands or none at all?. Rovers east stand is regulary sold out but you can see small gaps here and there.

They dont allow terraces to get full in this day and age.

even so called full terraces, would in the old days have held many more without any hassle whatsoever.

People will be restricted to the stand they have bought tickets for.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:00 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

I think it's a nice idea, one that is in keeping with what you could do at KR, but unfortunately probably unworkable in reality given you're likely to need stewards checking tickets at each vomitory into the stands, which is labour intensive and would cause massive queues.

I honestly don't think it will be an ongoing issue especially at Superleague matches because the majority of the seats will be occupied by season ticket holders who have bought those tickets for the specific purpose of being able to sit down and doing so in 'their own seat'. I think the novelty factor of the first game was a major factor in the stand switching.

I'm told the council had asked for the reduced capacity and would question whether the incident of the gentleman having a heart attack, and potentially a number of complaints from those being asked to move to the North Stand have played a significant part in that. Either way I suspect it is all a bit of an over-reaction.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:30 am  

The site says all ticket for this one. Which by any stretch is a good result. I know it's the first league game, but all ticket for a match against Salford is definately a first in Saints history.

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:17 am  

Can see a lot of home games being classified as all ticket especially if we progress to having a successful season.
One problem is when saints fans can,t buy tickets for the west stand and start to buy tickets by other means for the East Stand. This would be OK against most away teams, but migrating into a Leeds or Hull KR supporting crowd could possibly create problems for the stewards. Could this be allowed to happen!

Re: Sold too many tickets??? : Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:32 am  

I see no reason why not. Have been to Leeds a few times and Saints fans tend to stand in the middle of the away end, whilst Leeds fans take the front wall and the edges around us. Never seen a fight or trouble apart from the occasional shut up passed between fans as tries are scored.

Saints fans will get first dibs as you can get a ticket online a month in advance of the game on the Saints site, so the away allocation will probably only be sent out the week before.

I can actually see games like Wigan getting to the point where less wigan fans can go than previously. If we agree 10k season ticket have gone. If capacity is now less that 18k. Saints fans will be waiting in March to book their ticket for the game in April and if we sell out the game against Salford, then those same walk up fans will want a ticket for the wigan game too. It maybe that there will only be about 1000 tickets left for Wigan to be sent.

In the end Saints have to get the homefans in first , away fans including the little Wiganers will have to take what ever is left the week before kickoff.