Seat Counters 25/26

[vincent]

Maybe you are right but I think the Club would look to sales for the Chelsea and Exeter games as confirmation that demand is out there. They will also have some data to indicate that there is significant demand for more season cards / flexis.

Midweek games against lower profile teams won’t sell out, especially in an expanded ground. That isn’t the test / standard for expanding the ground. I agree demand for tickets has reduced for the lesser profile games and that’s been exacerbated by the industrial scale use of the Ticket Exchange.

Exactly. Plenty of examples where teams have not sold out their stadium but have expanded or moved to a new stadium and their attendances have skyrocketed. Spurs are one but look at West Ham. They went from 35k to 60k.

 

[TimpBlue32]

Sales for the Brighton home game are a bit shocking, in the returned Brighton SS3, in just 1 block there are 637 seats available, at £25 adult, £13 kids (after discount). So a family of 5 for less than £90.

I get it that these are just the Brighton returns, and there are 10 days to do, and it's just after Christmas and is midweek in mid-winter, but in the East stand L3 the same 5 tickets are on sale for £156, no chance of shifting those when SS3 isn't budging.
Demand feels really subdued this year, no doubt the cost of living surge isn't helpful, but there's a hell of a task for the ticket office next year with NS3 opening. They must be a little worried.
The stadium expansion decision might have been made in the afterglow of the treble, when there was a surge in demand. Personally I'd rather have a 50,000 seater rammed to capacity though tickets would be harder to get.
Next year will be Interesting.

Why put block 313 on sale when there are so many to sell all around the ground. Leave it empty it’s obvious away returns. Fill everything else. They (ticket office) eventually realised phased release for Brentford cup game was right strategy hence packed stands (except CB3). Wembley phase release so not new.

 

[Corky]

Why put block 313 on sale when there are so many to sell all around the ground. Leave it empty it’s obvious away returns. Fill everything else. They (ticket office) eventually realised phased release for Brentford cup game was right strategy hence packed stands (except CB3). Wembley phase release so not new.

No one is buying the rest of the ground and it is mainly fans reselling.

The club want to sell as many of their tickets as they can, not wait for singles to be bought or not.

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

No one is buying the rest of the ground and it is mainly fans reselling.

The club want to sell as many of their tickets as they can, not wait for singles to be bought or not.

Exactly. I think it’s great the club put these cheaper seats out for sale. Just a shame they don’t appear to be selling very well. Midweek game doesn’t help (I’m struggling to make it myself!).