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Thread title amended for accuracy Here's a photo I took just before kick-off yesterday: As you can see, there are two patches of empty seats. The ones towards the back of the stand are within the corporate seating area, so this is presumably covered by the issues raised by SaintBobby. However, the seats at the bottom of the stand are not within the corporate area, so questions should be asked of the club as to why these seats have been empty for both the Wigan and Man United games, despite block 5 showing as completely sold out on the online ticketing system.

This. Very much this.

No idea if they've even recruited the latest replacement, they've gone through three (that I know of) in the two years since Luker left

That Joe Michalczuk is hilarious. A "journalist" (in showbiz, hilariously, yet seems to think he's qualified to comment on football) with such a thin grasp on reality. It seems to run in the veins down there...

Have we all read this? http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/portsmouth/fb_news.php?storyid=18018&title=hall_right_now:_youve_got_to_laugh_as_portpin_go_on_the_offensive... It appears the irony remains completely lost

One rather amusing snippet that's been on Twitter today, Andrew Strauss took three first-class wickets. Guess who his first was...

There or thereabouts. Certainly we lost the first 5 - the only team to stay up having done so Edit: just checked, 1 point from the first 8 (1-1 draw at home v Spurs), 2 from the first 9 (1-1 draw at Arsenal), then beat Coventry in the 10th game 2-1.

You were warned that would happen, tbf

So that's three England captains Graeme Smith has seen off now, Hussain, Vaughan and Strauss

The rule is the lower of 10% of capacity or 3,000.

No idea who Peter Gilbert is but if they're trying to sign Delroy Facey then, frankly, I say let them carry on... he wasn't even good at that level 10 years ago

Anyone who believes any of those "Agent" or "ITK" Twitter feeds needs sectioning

But they were able to copy across customer details and season ticket details so - in theory - there's no reason why they couldn't do the same with match tickets.

It's the sort of system that should have been put in place years ago, really. It'll be interesting to see what happens next season, do points from this season carry forward so those who go to most games this season get first dibs early next season, or do they go for the nuclear option of resetting everyone to zero again?

Darren Purse. No big deal that we missed out there From memory, while Spurs came in with a joint bid for the two, we were only ever interested in Reid and had a £4m bid accepted. However, he told us in no uncertain terms that he wasn't interested, mainly due to our rather one-dimensional approach in our relegation season where everything was launched to Crouch in the hope that someone would do something with the knockdowns.

And it does, hence the initial requirement for 45 loyalty points in the first sales period (dodgy online system allowing non-eligible people to buy notwithstanding). If non-ST holders end up buying match tickets for the vast majority of home games as well as attending a number of away games, they'll have deservedly moved up the ladder in terms of eligibility for the most popular away games, IMO. As you rightly say, it's unfortunate that perhaps THE most anticipated away game this season has come so early in the season meaning you only had to buy a ticket for three games (one if you're a ST holder) in order to guarantee an Arsenal ticket. If this game had been in March, with 10+ away games already behind us, there would be absolutely no argument over who is more deserving of a ticket. Personally, I'd have liked all of last season's ticket sales to have counted towards a loyalty system this season (gradually losing their weighting over the course of the season as this season's sales take greater importance), but appreciate that would have been a fairly substantial task to administer, especially with the changeover in ticket system.

Nope, no way of the club tracking purchases because all sales were done through Stevenage's ticket office.

The best bit is they've put that internal wall up so you can no longer see how many of the ticket office staff are just sat around in the office doing nothing

Some of those arguments are absolute nonsense. Yes, the whole system has been a shambles, but simply "having a season ticket" has NEVER been a guarantee of obtaining an away ticket. Simple mathematics shows that. 22k-ish season ticket holders, 3k Arsenal tickets available. Shock horror, some season ticket holders don't get a ticket.

Perhaps I misread, but the way I interpreted it was that it wasn't actually a queue but a complete lucky dip as to which "position" you obtained. I've only used the new online system once so far, and that was to renew my season ticket, so I've not had the dubious pleasure of experiencing their queueing system, but for me the process should be like this: 1. Before the sale time, no "buy" button exists. Users can F5 as much as they like, but the button won't appear until 9am (or whenever they set the tickets to be available). 2. As soon as the sale time arrives, the "buy" button appears, and as soon as users click that button, they're put in a queue in order of when they clicked that button - likely to be microseconds between them, but if you're operating a first-come, first-served system, that's the way it's got to be. Judging by reports on here, there's been no real prioritisation for those who got there first. For what it's worth, the current system is easily hackable by anyone who knows what they're doing. For example, I can log in and order a ticket for the Villa home game despite it not being listed on the "Match Tickets" page.

That's insane No wonder Pompey got rid of the exact same ticket system within 2 months of installing it. Absolute shambles

Well that went well, it seems...

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Yep. The idea of a splash screen like that is that it appears the first time you visit the site and then doesn't reappear on subsequent visits. Clearly it's not working like that at the moment

Agreed, although we've no way of knowing whether local Man United fans bought blocks of tickets among a group of friends in those areas on the twinned ticket. It seems as if anything's possible with our ticket office and online system