That's a perfect summary for me.
The only thing I'd add is we don't know what the Spurs stance was. If our club said, can we have 4 days to see how quickly we sell the 5,700 and then get back to you with the remaining allocation and Spurs said no to this, then some of the blame is with Spurs...
I believe we would have sold 9,000. We sold 5,700 in just over 3 days from the 23,000 STH's. I'm sure members and those with purchase history plus STH guests is a massive pool far greater than the STH number. So why did they think it would not sell out 9,000. I tracked the last remaining seats...
Quite astonishing. Good grief. I didn't think for a minute that they were not going to sell the upper tier.
So we sold 5,700 in pretty quick time but yet they didn't think they would sell another 3,300. Gobsmacked. And like others have said, what poor communication to not say this before they'd...
On the assumption that we have a maximum of 9,000, I'd say that top tier 5 blocks hold 4,500 - 5,000, so yes we probably have already sold 4,000 - 4,500 I'd guess.
Block 113 now open lower tier with 852 tickets, so I under estimated that. probably means there are bigger number in the upper tier than I originally estimated.
Currently state of play
Lower tier - 49 seats left, but one block still to open (about 500 seats)
Middle Tier - 432 left - no more blocks to open
Upper Tier - nothing open yet, 5 blocks to open, I'm guessing another 3,000-3,500 up there?
I think we all understand why they do it this way. And yes I've no doubt Spurs don't want us selling the best block first because if we don't sell out they would rather sell these to their own fans. However the club must realise this is selling quick so faffing around like this is a bit stupid...
Indeed. I suspect it was a very different place 250 years ago!
And yes, less than 60 tickets left in 421. The speed these are selling they really should just open the whole middle tier now, and arguably the whole lot.