Attendance thread - Tottenham game

[The Kraken]

Before I start, I just want to highlight that this is a thread about the attendance at the upcoming Tottenham game. Just so that we're clear. A lot of people seemed to get caught out by the last attendance thread and get very angry by its contents once they became stuck within it, so I just want to make sure everyone knows what this one is all about.

Anyway, home tickets seem to be selling very well. As of tonight, only 1,089 tickets are remaining, so we can assume they'll sell out in the next few days. Given that the game is on a Sunday (albeit not being shown on Sky) then that is pretty decent. And hopefully the ticket office will have sorted out the problems we saw at the Man Utd game which, despite being a sellout still saw many empty blocks of seats. With that in mind this could end up being our highest attendance of the season, Tottenham will clearly bring a full allocation of away fans.

So if you want to go to this game and haven't yet got a ticket I suggest you get a wriggle on; I reckon they'll be sold out by Thursday or Friday.

[Miltonroader07]

Yeah, I think this will be a sell-out as well, being on Sunday is good as many folk cant go on a Saturday (every week) due to work. not being on Sky is a bonus as I do think our attendance falls when we are on Sky... I have no stats though IMO

[The Cat]

My mate tried to buy 2 tickets in block 36 near us last week but closest he could get was 7 rows in front in block 37.

[The Kraken]

My mate tried to buy 2 tickets in block 36 near us last week but closest he could get was 7 rows in front in block 37.

There are hardly any multiple seats together from block 29 onwards. Most available seats are in the Chapel. Sometimes the club have held back seats in blocks 1 and 2 which they release late, not sure if they've been released yet or not.

[Jonnyboy]

Ill go for 31,682.

[trousers]

Here's hoping there are still a few empty seats. Would be embarrassing if it's full and the Spurs fans start singing the "You're only here to see us" song.

[Turkish]

Here's hoping there are still a few empty seats. Would be embarrassing if it's full and the Spurs fans start singing the "You're only here to see us" song.

You cannot being to understand what an anticlimax it was when I opened this thread, got to your post and it wasn't 'the' picture.

[Bucks Saint]

I will go for the sell out capacity, less the average difference of all guesses on the Fulham attendance thread v the actual attendance, plus the number of people who learned anything useful from that thread.

[Dig Dig]

I think Krackers is indicating that this is perhaps proof that we need a bigger stadium?

[This Charming Man]

This game isn't linked is it? Imagine there will be plenty of Spurs fans in the home ends. Rather them than the Japanese, so every cloud...

[dubai_phil]

There will be two extra fans in the ground.

Moi & FMDP - she is finally getting her first trip to SMS and is totally buzzed about it.

[svetigpung]

my son and i are flying over from sweden for this one..
looking forward to a full house and a cracking atmosphere

[ericofarabia]

There will be two extra fans in the ground.

Moi & FMDP - she is finally getting her first trip to SMS and is totally buzzed about it.

Ha ha ....... that'll cramp your style when buying a programme

Hope she gets to see a great game and experience a fantastic atmosphere.

[Frank's cousin]

What I'd ask the club, is whether the pockets' of empties are actually sold tickets or a problem with the system, which is it? There are always the odd spaces where ST holders csant make it, and dont pass on the ticket... but the pockets being in the same areas, could be 'sold' tickets to some corporate ticket supplier... used to have two of these next to me when last in the prem - STs owned by local firm that let them out to employees and customers...not always filled for the cat C games... Firm I work for also sponsors a prem club and has a box and as well as 10 additional stand seets that get raffled to staff on a match by match basis... not always possible for winners to attend. So if we have a 'sell out' and there are empties, whats going on?

[Bucks Saint]

What I'd ask the club, is whether the pockets' of empties are actually sold tickets or a problem with the system, which is it? There are always the odd spaces where ST holders csant make it, and dont pass on the ticket... but the pockets being in the same areas, could be 'sold' tickets to some corporate ticket supplier... used to have two of these next to me when last in the prem - STs owned by local firm that let them out to employees and customers...not always filled for the cat C games... Firm I work for also sponsors a prem club and has a box and as well as 10 additional stand seets that get raffled to staff on a match by match basis... not always possible for winners to attend. So if we have a 'sell out' and there are empties, whats going on?

Good point. The gold standard solution is used by Barca - ticket holders can release seats for resale via the club's main online system and they get a share of the proceeds if sold. Obviously having almost insatiable demand tends to help here

[Wurzel]

9 tickets booked by me yesterday all for non-regular attendees.

First time I've used new online pick your seat system. Took me ages to work out it was only showing from half way up to the top and you had to shrink the section to be able to see the rows nearest the pitch (scroll bar done nothing). Was that just me being stupid? or a bug in the system? and could it mean many are thinking sections are full when there are seats available lower down?

[The Kraken]

9 tickets booked by me yesterday all for non-regular attendees.

First time I've used new online pick your seat system. Took me ages to work out it was only showing from half way up to the top and you had to shrink the section to be able to see the rows nearest the pitch (scroll bar done nothing). Was that just me being stupid? or a bug in the system? and could it mean many are thinking sections are full when there are seats available lower down?

If you hit the "drag" button at the top you click and drag down for the seats at the front. It would seem this has been a common misunderstanding.

[Saint Garrett]

This problem may have added to the fact there are always gaps at the bottom of the stands. When I first used it, I didn't even realise you could scroll down, I just thought that was the front of the stand and didnt think anything of it.

[The Kraken]

This problem may have added to the fact there are always gaps at the bottom of the stands. When I first used it, I didn't even realise you could scroll down, I just thought that was the front of the stand and didnt think anything of it.

For the Wigan and game and the Man United game the seats at the front of the stands (partciularly in the Itchen) were all shown as totally sold out pre-game, only for big gaps to be seen during the game. So, rather than this scroll issue, there was obviously a bit of a cock up in the ticket office for these seats to not actually go out on sale. For the Villa game and Fulham game we've been well short of selling out capacity, and while there have been gaps at the front of the stand, the bigger gaps have actually been seen high up in the Chapel/Itchen corner. And, lets face it, the worst seats to view a game from are those right at the front behind the goals, so its perhaps only natural that they'd be the lest seats to sell out.

Against Tottenahm, which we be a sellout, we'll get an idea if the ticket office have sorted themselves out and actually managed to get all available seats out for sale.

[Wurzel]

If you hit the "drag" button at the top you click and drag down for the seats at the front. It would seem this has been a common misunderstanding.

Cheers for that. Just revisited the page and so it does ! Seems arse about face to me though, surely it would be more logical to open on the whole section then zoom and drag to the area/row/seat you want.

[The Kraken]

Cheers for that. Just revisited the page and so it does ! Seems arse about face to me though, surely it would be more logical to open on the whole section then zoom and drag to the area/row/seat you want.

There's many aspects of the online system that could do with improving. That issue is very much one of them. Another is that, for games that are really close to selling out (admittedly we've only had one of those so far) there is no way to know which blocks have available tickets for sale without actually clicking into them. Load time per block can often take 5 to 10 seconds each, and with 42 available blocks to choose from it can become a laborious exercise. There should be some sort of function to highlight which blocks still have groups of available tickets and which ones are sold out.

[Frank's cousin]

For the Wigan and game and the Man United game the seats at the front of the stands (partciularly in the Itchen) were all shown as totally sold out pre-game, only for big gaps to be seen during the game. So, rather than this scroll issue, there was obviously a bit of a cock up in the ticket office for these seats to not actually go out on sale. For the Villa game and Fulham game we've been well short of selling out capacity, and while there have been gaps at the front of the stand, the bigger gaps have actually been seen high up in the Chapel/Itchen corner. And, lets face it, the worst seats to view a game from are those right at the front behind the goals, so its perhaps only natural that they'd be the lest seats to sell out.

Against Tottenahm, which we be a sellout, we'll get an idea if the ticket office have sorted themselves out and actually managed to get all available seats out for sale.

Just wodering whether these had been brokered or reserved by some corpoarte or reseller type? or it mey be a system bug, but I suspect that the TO will have a set tuime for a comprehensive review of the system after a few games - which would be nornmal practice after installing a new system - would like to think so anyway.

[The Kraken]

Just wodering whether these had been brokered or reserved by some corpoarte or reseller type? or it mey be a system bug, but I suspect that the TO will have a set tuime for a comprehensive review of the system after a few games - which would be nornmal practice after installing a new system - would like to think so anyway.

For the Wigan game it didn't look like the front row seats were ever on sale. Same for Man U. For the Villa game they were on sale right from the start; my guess is they were either comps or club seats reserved for families etc, and there was an over-estimation by the club on how many seats would be taken up.

[ottery st mary]

There are hardly any multiple seats together from block 29 onwards. Most available seats are in the Chapel. Sometimes the club have held back seats in blocks 1 and 2 which they release late, not sure if they've been released yet or not.

Yes....Just purchased in Block 2

[Frank's cousin]

One disadvantage over the old system where seats were allocated by the TO, is that we are left with more 'single' seats which are often then more difficult to sell, some folk wanting to take kids and family etc will wait till another game when tehy can get seats together?

[Yate Saint]

Purchased 2 in the Itchen, Kingsland North was full, Block 1-2 had a few individual ones going. Also discovered the Zoom function after about 10 mins of wondering why the stand row started at HH!!

So its pretty much sold out according to the lack of green squares!!! Come on you Saints.

[Orange]

Booked last night and not many left. Get a shift on anyone who wants one!