Wembley tickets - 39k officially SOLD OUT (p109)

stoneroses19 said:

Jon_CAFC_ said:

Solidgone said:

But why is there such a delay to put the 1400 on sale? if we have been allocated the tickets then sell them. It’s unfair to leave supporters dangling on whether they will or won’t get a ticket especially when travel and other arrangements need to be made to attend the match.

Just realised…we are football supporters and deserve to be fucked around.🥸

Fair question and post all of this there needs to be a grown up conversation with the club, trust and fans reps as to how to address a number of the failings throughout this and the semis 

its been too stressful, the news delayed and too often fellow fans on here doing a sterling job of helping out others - it’s good we have a strong sense of community in that respect but in terms of growth, for the club it lets them down.

they have, I’m sure, the staff worked tirelessly behind the curtains, but how much of their effort is because of poor processes.

There have been levels of demand quite unlike before and for that, getting more allocation and generally getting tickets out so people can relax and not panic is much needed next time 

Slightly unfair to call out "a number of failings" then finishing with "levels of demand quite unlike before". 

The club can't foresee everything and be ready with a plan a/b/c/d just in case anything may or may not happen. 

Personally, think we can look back and say the club did well with the final on chosen phases, the online booking process etc. 

Understandably, there's frustration from the hundreds (thousands?) that haven't yet got tickets, but again that returns us to the levels of demand that has arisen since the tickets went on sale at the weekend. 

Woodwork said:

superclive98 said:

Woodwork said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Woodwork said:

Uboat said:

Woodwork said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Woodwork said:

Gravesend_Addick said:

I understand it's a wembley game & appreciate not everyone in attendance will be a 'proper 'fan, but the volume of tickets & the speed in which they've sold shows the fan base is still there & the potential for the club is still huge. 

I think there's a real feel good factor around the club at the moment & the future looks bright, regardless of Sunday's result!!

I think most medium sized London football clubs could sell 40,000 tickets for a one off, promotion decider at Wembley tbf. 

Same as I think every London based club could get 35-40,000 most weeks in the PL, if given the stadium to do so, including Barnet and Bromley. As that is the nature of English football these days. 

Which means I do agree with you, there is great potential. But in the Championship you have a fair few clubs that average 25-40,000 on a regular basis. So until that happens, you need owners that step up. 

Bromley and Barnet, come on, that's taking it a bit too far.

I honestly don’t think it is.

Plonk Bromley in the Premier League and give them a 40,000 stadium and they will sell it out most weeks. That is where English football is at these days. In fact, the very fact they have no league history & therefore rivarlary baggage, means they’d sell it out even easier. Lots of football tourists would go, local ones & foreign ones. 

Charlton has lots of potential. But so does any club playing inside the M25 in this modern era. Difference is, Charlton at least has a much better foundation already in place than Bromley. But that doesn’t diminish the point that if a eccentric billionaire built a 40,000 capacity stadium at Earls Court, founded a club called Earls Court Rovers and bribed the PL for a place in PL ala Arsenal style in 1919, then they could get crowds of 30-40,000 depending on fixture. It wouldn’t be the most partisan ground in the country, but it would be full. 

There’s an ‘if’ doing quite a lot of heavy lifting in that post. 

Not really.

Because the point is, there are easily enough foreign vistitors and floating football fans living in and around London to make an American style franchise football club a reality these days. Most PL clubs are reducing season ticket holders so that they can cash in on football tourists (UK & foreign based ones). 

I am not literally talking about Bromley or even Earls Court Rovers (😂) specifically. I am making a point about modern football crowds. 

I'll talk about Bromley, you brought them up.
Unless you are taking the p*** now you're very wrong.
I can go back to the mid 90's and they were getting less than 500.
I'll not make any further comment, I have bitten.

I think you’ve missed my point. Perhaps that is my fault. 

I am not talking any clubs. I am talking about supply & demand. A simpler way of looking at it is… Wembley stadium acquire a franchise for a spot in the PL. To watch Wembley FC in the PL all you do is turn up or buy online a ticket anywhere in the stadium. There is no segregation. No season tickets. The prices range from £25 to £100. Every match would attract 30,000 plus. Big games v Liverpool etc 80,000 plus. 

NB: I am not talking about how many Bromley or Barnet would take to a Wembley final either!! My point on that, is every senior, medium sized London side could take 40,000+ to a Wembley final imo. Which tbf has been proved time and again.

All this hypothetical chit-chat is getting a bit boring now and really doesn't add anything to the thread.

Sorry. You're right. To be fair to me, I only wanted to make the point once... but comprehension skills are an issue these days and I have had to try and clarify the point several times. However, a good friend (a barrister) once said that debating with idiots is only worthwhile if you are getting paid for it. I will now shut up. 

Valleysarr said:

In 98 I am pretty sure we shared the toilets with Sunderland fans where we were close together ! 

RFlight said:

oohaahmortimer said:

I can’t believe how shoddy this ticketing process is .
This isn’t the first time one team will have 30k ish and the other team can potentially sell 50k ish .
Surely there’s a process they go through and as one team nears the last 5k of tickets they have(time dependent as in how near to kick off they get to these numbers) they then request more , if available , they then get released and the whole process should be reasonably smooth and it keeps the tickets available and stops panic/attempting to buy in the other end .
segregation will be in place in each tier and it’s just a process of see where sales of seats are late on and after Saturdays Match move the barriers/netting/door closures etc  along to accommodate the next fixture 
it’s not rocket science , are there just fuckwits everywhere in this world or am I missing something that’s making this whole process so difficult/farcical.
Also with print at home/show on phone , why have they not gone out immediately, it’s not like those tickets where the QR code or whatever the fuck it is keeps changing .
Bang the fuckers out with the email confirmation because they will surely have been allocated a seat and make the whole process less stressful for Joe Public .

The voice of reason speaks. 

Completely agree with all of this. They WILL have a process and this wont be the first time this situation has arisen. The silence and apparent confusion is really odd.

And the e-ticket thing, surely that's done automatically? Or are they seriously expecting us to believe that someone has to go through the list and attach the tickets to an email and send that email individually? (If that's is the case, WHY?!)

Unfortunately the entire ticketing and organisation process is not nearly as easy as most people think or would hope. 
I have been organising events in stadiums / arenas (organised 8 at Wembley Stadium) for nearly 15 years (music concerts, mostly) and the ticketing process is an absolute minefield and a thankless task for any ticketing team, no matter how many times it has been done! 

Tickets allocations are beyond simply moving more to one team or the other. There are huge amounts of safety, crowd management, licensing and general logistical factors to consider, as well as multiple levels of stakeholders to approve all the changing plans. So although it looks as though things are unclear and moving at a glacial pace, I  would be very confident that Wembley and the clubs ticketing teams are busting their balls to do the right thing by all fans. 

After Euro 2020, organisers simply won't take any chances on their licence, so every block reallocation will be vetted and scrutinised to make sure they are doing the safest thing, as well as maximising income where possible... 

The interesting thing I find with any big event, whether that is play-off finals, concerts, Glastonbury tickets (prime example) are that ticket purchasing is such an emotional and individual thing. Everyone wants to be at the big moments, everyone wants to be able to tell their mates they've bagged them all seat together - so emotions are high at the risk of not being part of that moment. Which is totally understandable! 

However, what we have to keep in mind is that they are dealing with 3 big finals in the same weekend + all of the summers concerts following the football. So just this coming weekend alone, they are dealing with over 250,000 potential tickets and all of the separate plans, procedures and stakeholders associated with that! 

I think at this stage, if you've got tickets and a confirmation from CAFC to confirm the purchase, you are on for an absolute winner and looking forward to a big game on Sunday. 

Gribbo said:

guinnessaddick said:

Gribbo said:

@Woodwork I think I know you. Where do you come out of mate?

Self-explanatory, out of the woodwork.

Yeah, that was the joke 😃 

Chizz said:

Pete_C said:

I have 2 spare Wembley tickets for Sunday in block 234 - price category 3. Not sure how the process works for selling them on but I’m only looking for face value which is £62 including the booking fee

"Face value" doesn't include a booking fee.  

I think it's great when fans can offload tickets they find they don't need to other fans.  But I don't think anyone should be passing on a "booking fee".  If someone buys four tickets and ends up not needing two of them, they really ought to pass on a couple at "face value" and stump up the booking fee themselves.  It's just that, I think a ticket with £30 printed on it shouldn't be sold to someone else at more than £30.