Seat Counters - 2022/23

[Prestwich_Blue]

He said he paid a lot of money for it, which heavily suggests he bought it off a ticket agency. I doubt it’ll piss you off any less but at least it will have probably come from the approx 2/3rds that were never earmarked for points holders.

Points holders get just under two-thirds of tickets normally. So your maths is on a par with Eni Aluko's. ;-)

I've no idea how true it is but I've heard stories of people who help pay for their hospitality season tickets this way.

 

[bluesmith]

Points holders get just under two-thirds of tickets normally. So your maths is on a par with Eni Aluko's. ;-)

I've no idea how true it is but I've heard stories of people who help pay for their hospitality season tickets this way.

Why is there only approx 1/3 of the allocation shown as available immediately as they go on sale?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Why is there only approx 1/3 of the allocation shown as available immediately as they go on sale?

Probably because they hold blocks back initially. We've seen that so many times before when you think you're going to struggle to get a ticket but then loads more appear. No idea why as we were always going to easily sell out a game like that, but seems to be a hangover from the old days when we'd only take half the allocation initially.

 

[Stephen230]

Points holders get just under two-thirds of tickets normally. So your maths is on a par with Eni Aluko's. ;-)

I've no idea how true it is but I've heard stories of people who help pay for their hospitality season tickets this way.

Just going off what I’ve read on here from people who seem to monitor these things closely. And the consensus seemed to be that approx 1,000 out of a normal 3,000 allocation were going to points for high demand games. I’ve no idea how true that is but yours is this first post I’ve seen disputing it, so I just assumed it was probably reasonably accurate.

 

[Deep Sky Blue]

No tickets left for the Chelsea cup game now, although I assume some will periodically appear

 

[Didsbury Dave]

No tickets left for the Chelsea cup game now, although I assume some will periodically appear

Wow, that one has sold well.

 

[wolfie1988]

Probably because they hold blocks back initially. We've seen that so many times before when you think you're going to struggle to get a ticket but then loads more appear. No idea why as we were always going to easily sell out a game like that, but seems to be a hangover from the old days when we'd only take half the allocation initially.

Only 1150 went on sale to points holders for the derby.

Liverpool, Leeds etc. are harder to judge because restricted views don't get put on sale until unrestricted are sold out.

My biggest bugbear with it is how only the points holders get landed with restricted view tickets. OSC and corporate always get the prime seats.

 

[James2401125]

There's no big rush for Southampton away. Around 400 left and 2 blocks not even put on sale

 

[i kne albert davy]

There's no big rush for Southampton away. Around 400 left and 2 blocks not even put on sale

No big shock there is there, just after Christmas break another two days off couldn't have been a worse draw for us. Hopefully when they go to open sale some of our fans closer to Southampton will take up the slack.

 

[Stephen230]

I've no idea how true it is but I've heard stories of people who help pay for their hospitality season tickets this way.

If that is true, it really shouldn’t be something the club are happy to turn a blind eye to.

I don’t necessarily agree with it but I can at least understand why the club are prepared to allow those paying tens of thousands on hospitality to jump the queue for away tickets. But it should be on the strict understanding that they are for personal use only. With checks in place, which would be easy enough.

If I understand it correctly, they would not only be taking the piss but actually breaking the law. Unless City have given them express permission to sell them on at inflated prices, which would be even worse.