shorehamoldboy
Vital Squad Member
it is rod but really we should have easily sold out with the position were in and it being a steel city derby
Pig Tickets
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Mahatmafoot
Vital Squad Member
You can't sell out unless you have the necessary points. All the seats would have sold out, and they will if the club sees sense, if these stupid stipulations weren't put into place.
ChipButtyBlade
Vital Squad Member
The current "you must have 500 loyalty points" is a load of old tosh.
All that needed to be done was say you must have been to at least 2 games this season and 2 games last season and obviously be on the data base.
All that needed to be done was say you must have been to at least 2 games this season and 2 games last season and obviously be on the data base.
shorehamoldboy
Vital Squad Member
yeah but theres got to be plenty mahat that have got more than 500 points and are choosing to watch it on sky rather than getting down to the lane to support the team
Mahatmafoot
Vital Squad Member
Don't worry, over a week and half to go. Will sell out well before kick off. Just like SUFC to make it difficult.
Longshortandtall
Vital Reserves Team
Online sales indicate only 584 tickets left to-day. Kop 280, BLUT 285 and 19 in the Pukka Pie Corner. South Stand, Westfield Corner and John Street sold out. For some reason we seem to have moved over 400 tickets yesterday. Don't think they've relaxed the rules, maybe they've been slow to update the system but John Street had over 100 for sale yesterday and now there are none.
Not sure if these figures include 500 restricted view seats as they are usually identified as separate on the system. Assuming all the tickets go we are looking at a sell out crowd of 31,000. Approximately 1500 seats will be segregated of which nearly 800 are on the away end because of SAG.
Not sure if these figures include 500 restricted view seats as they are usually identified as separate on the system. Assuming all the tickets go we are looking at a sell out crowd of 31,000. Approximately 1500 seats will be segregated of which nearly 800 are on the away end because of SAG.
Half term,that is my totally unresearched conclusion for the surge in sales.
And the figure of 1500 seats unused for segregation purposes is a joke,take a look at Arsenal/Spurs,Manchester derby,even the Old Firm game and you have a row of stewards between the 2 sets of fans,scandalous
shorehamoldboy
Vital Squad Member
yeah it is weird that other local derbys with twice the crowd of the sheffield derby can just adopt 1 line of security between fans yet syp wont allow this
tomytony
Vital Champions League
Not sure I agree with that Chips but, regardless of that,I have never seen anything to tell me that I needed to pay an (annual?) membership fee.
Is it something I have missed ?
Longshortandtall
Vital Reserves Team
112 Seats on John Street have reappeared online so still around 700 to sell.
Longshortandtall
Vital Reserves Team
Is this a new rule this season Bulmer? If so do you know when the Club announced this?Presumably this only applies to purchasing tickets for the Pigs and Weeds matches.
Rod Currie
Vital Football Legend
My young friend apparently had to pay for Membership last season to mek her Loyalty points valid,i think they get so much knocked off home games after they've been to 2 home games and it means if they attend abart 6 home games they've more or less got their membership fee back.I dunt like it one bit,this kid was goin wi her parents and me from bein abart 5yrs old(ya have to feel for her)
and in my view she should be able to get a pig ticket wiout havin to pay a membership fee.UTCB
tomytony
Vital Champions League
My young friend apparently had to pay for Membership last season to mek her Loyalty points valid,i think they get so much knocked off home games after they've been to 2 home games and it means if they attend abart 6 home games they've more or less got their membership fee back.I dunt like it one bit,this kid was goin wi her parents and me from bein abart 5yrs old(ya have to feel for her)
If I could get at mine Rod she could gladly use my memberhip number to get a ticket but, as outlined above, I can't get at my loyalty points- will send a PM to you
tomytony
Vital Champions League
I know I had to pay the membership to get tickets for the Huddersfield play off LST but I have always been able to check my points on line up until trying yesterday so I m not sure how it works now.
Obviously, when McC finally leaves, I would like to resurrect them.:eek!:
Longshortandtall
Vital Reserves Team
I'm probably being a bit slow in thought today but the suggestion seems to be that to activate your loyalty points for any priority game, in other words one where you have to have a minimum number of loyalty points to get a ticket, you have to at least purchased a membership.
That can't be right because those with 500 points and a membership card were allowed to buy tickets for the Pig game from Monday 9 October. Those with a minimum of 500 points registered on the system were able to do this from 18 October. Suggests no membership was needed. The only instance where you may have had to buy a membership from this date was to get 100 extra points to make sure you got over 500 points.
I accept there has to be some form of bar to ensure away fans do not buy tickets. This season we have dropped the season ticket holder plus 1, which ensures none are passed onto pig fans. The Club regularly shares data with other clubs to again add in a check to weed out away fans buying tickets in the Home End. So there are checks in place.
Last season the bar was set at 250 points for this game. As the tickets were announced on 4 October this year a fan could have bought tickets for the 3 Home games Hull, Wigan and Stoke and a membership and got above this threshold for a Pig ticket if they were so inclined. I do not understand why a figure as high as 500 has been set and this is the issue I have as it does exclude the occasional Blade visitors from buying tickets which does not make economic sense.
ChipButtyBlade
Vital Squad Member
Much like what i said earlier,if you have been this season and last season,you are hardly going to be a
ChipButtyBlade
Vital Squad Member
BladeGermany,i have had a reply on S24SU forum about a customer number being available,would that help you ?
You need to reply sharpish.
No it’s always been the case it’s just never really affected many people till now just the odd one or two
