[Albion] ESU and WSU open for Coventry game

[Djmiles]

Club should issue a statement, one way or the other:

We will open ONCE the remaining tickets are SOLD

or Under NO circumstances will an Upper Tier be opened.

Simple enough isn’t it?

 

[Barham's tash]

Quite. They are apparently "aware" of this thread.

Hopefully they are reading it and taking notice.

Dear Mr Barber. Open the ESU today. Send out a positive e-mail and Press Release. You will sell at least a thousand tickets in there within a few days to cover your costs and make lots of people happy. If those at least 1,000 sit in the lower ESU seats it will also give the impression of a fuller ground on TV (good for sponsors) and add to the atmosphere. Best regards, MG

Instead of hiding on NSC and slating his EVERY move Moshe why don’t YOU email Mr Barber? He really is open to being constructively criticised/challenged. You might find it enlightening.


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[Wozza]

Club should issue a statement, one way or the other:

We will open ONCE the remaining tickets are SOLD

or Under NO circumstances will an Upper Tier be opened.

But if they announce the first option, ticket sales for lower levels will get even slower.

And if they announce the latter, they can't change.

 

[Is it PotG?]

But if they announce the first option, ticket sales for lower levels will get even slower.

And if they announce the latter, they can't change.

Possibly, getting confused now. My head hurts and I want the game to start.

 

[kingcole]

Seriously though, is this the lengths we have to go to, to prevent the club acting like tinpot dickheads? Assuming one of the FA Cup finalists will be pre-booked for the Champions League, then we're THREE games away from playing competitively in Europe. That's got to be amazing for even the most jaundiced of us oldies. And for any fervent Albion fans not old enough to remember 1983, many on account of not yet being born, the club's nonchalant dismissal of the competition is beneath contempt.

And before you even start [MENTION=24867]chaileyjem[/MENTION], just **** right off. You'll be pathetically attempting to defend the indefensible. At least as far as genuine Albion fans not in pay of the club are concerned.

Agree with your comments about the club, but I think that the FA once again only give the winners a spot, and if there are already in theEuopa / Champions League then the spare place if offered to the next highest finisher in the Premier League.

 

[TSB]

#Firstworldproblems

 

[Taybha]

what are you talking about, if you'd read the thread you'd see that Bozza has been in contact with Paul Barber and others have rung the club

And what did they say ?

 

[Albion Dan]

If there are NO PAIRS available in the lower tiers why on earth hasn't the club opened it up already Come on I want to get front row seats..

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

What, in some kind of coordinated effort at 2pm?

(FOUR each, folks!)

Get INTO them! (Fvck 'em up!)

 

[kingcole]

If there are NO PAIRS available in the lower tiers why on earth hasn't the club opened it up already Come on I want to get front row seats..

There are pairs left, but there are close to the corners and near the away fans.

There are no pairs in the family area. Despite us having a popular additional family area (the shelf) the club have so far decided not to sell tickets their either.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Seriously though, is this the lengths we have to go to, to prevent the club acting like tinpot dickheads? Assuming one of the FA Cup finalists will be pre-booked for the Champions League, then we're THREE games away from playing competitively in Europe. That's got to be amazing for even the most jaundiced of us oldies. And for any fervent Albion fans not old enough to remember 1983, many on account of not yet being born, the club's nonchalant dismissal of the competition is beneath contempt.

And before you even start [MENTION=24867]chaileyjem[/MENTION], just **** right off. You'll be pathetically attempting to defend the indefensible. At least as far as genuine Albion fans not in pay of the club are concerned.

I agree with you about the tantalising prospect that the this tie offers, tickets amazingly are still available for purchase so the only length you have to go to is log on to the ticket site, select ticket(s) and pay.

 

[Perry Milkins]

I'm in. And so is my wife. And I don't even have a wife.

But do you have a neighbour called Kazamiah Grabovski?

 

[kingcole]

43 more available now than at 1245........

No there isn’t. I added 100 to my total for some reason.

About 470 so sold 60 in 75 mins

 

[Djmiles]

What, in some kind of coordinated effort at 2pm?

(FOUR each, folks!)

You can actually put as many as you want in the basket.....

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

But do you have a neighbour called Kazamiah Grabovski?

Yes, yes I do.

 

[dazzer6666]

About 470 left now.....

 

[DumLum]

No, the club is not beyond criticism. What I said that if the demand isn't there why should they open the upper tiers, and if the demand for tickets does increase then that option is available. As it stands there are still tickets up for grabs in the the lower tiers.

I don't understand your beef about the club offering season ticket holders the chance to purchase up to four tickets each and that prices have been reduced. To me that seems to be a reasonable offer. To be honest what more can they do to encourage fans to go? Being totally cynical here, I suppose they could have a bout of naked ladies mud wrestling as pre-match entertainment, or an invitation for Billy Smart's Circus to turn up.

The fact is that the Albion are playing an FA Cup tie against a League 2 side. It's hardly the biggest attraction in the universe and as a consequence many fans do not consider it a decent draw and therefore will not go. That's their choice not the club's.

I don't have a beef with the club letting season ticket holders have 4 tickets. Great idea.
I also think they got the ticket prices spot on.
You ask what more can the club do to get a larger attendance. The answer is OPEN THE UPPER TIERS....or at least one of them. The longer they leave it the smaller the attendance will be. Maybe if they had thought of opening the upper tiers to start with Coventry could have had a larger away section also?

 

[chaileyjem]

At least as far as genuine Albion fans not in pay of the club are concerned.

Barber told me that i wouldn't get paid for this thread until it had reached at least 20 pages . I did say that its only the FA Cup and a L2 side but he wasn't having it. #BarberOut

 

[Is it PotG?]

Maybe if they had thought of opening the upper tiers to start with Coventry could have had a larger away section also?

Been covered several times, with regards to recent aggro that was never going to happen.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There are pairs left, but there are close to the corners and near the away fans.

There are no pairs in the family area. Despite us having a popular additional family area (the shelf) the club have so far decided not to sell tickets their either.

Club patently has it's own agenda on this one that it's not going to share with us, the great unwashed, and the only people who keep this club in existence. Oh well.