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Not at all, no. Anyone that's unallocated in a STH + X tickets purchase could be anyone, and some will be STHs themselves.

The STH+3 thing was absolutely the right thing to do, and for that reason they couldn't have let STH claim their own seats even if the whole ground was available from the off. But, yes, they stuffed up estimating fan demand for a game as they did for the Palace tie.

Not to mention the security thing of needing to know exactly who is in the stadium and in what seat.

Brighton & Hove Albion: making it difficult to buy tickets to support your club since forever.

Wozza and others on this thread have bought tickets for non-STH already. I think the "trick" is you select two tickets, when doing it online, and leave them both assigned to you. Do not assign one to your son as the system will detect that he can't have one in his own name yet. I think that's...

But a STH can buy up to 4 seats with the other (up to) 3 not needing to be assigned to anyone.

Indeed it does...

Wozza says otherwise. A STH can buy up to 4 tickets, one assigned to the STH and 3 unassigned.

Yeah - sounds like the same problem I had. The ticket can be assigned to a STH or unassigned completely. It can't be assigned to a non-STH though. It's the mad world of Albion ticketing.

It's not simple at all though is it? There would be, at a guess, a good 8,000 STHs who would have no ability to buy a seat until phase 2. Why should one group of STHs get to pick up their own seat whilst a whole load of others have to wait and then fight over the scraps remaining, or sit and...

"at the moment"?

From recent history, I doubt this thread will escape the attentions of the club. All I can say is if people buy in number, then the upper tiers, or at least one of them, will need to be opened. I guess it's difficult to assess the impact of the "waiting for the upper tiers" mob. Ideally I'd...

Snap. Five of us who couldn't (be arsed) with the Palace game, but are going to the Coventry game.

I guessed it might be something like that. I shouldn't expect our ticketing system to be able to apply the simple logic that with 4 named STHs buying there should be the ability to buy any "unallocated" tickets at all.

Whenever I say anything that suggests the club may have mis-judged supporter sentiment I get a long email. As such, I'm saying nothing.

But a STH can buy 4 tickets (so the chaps above say).

4 * STHs and 1 * non-STH and the computer says no for me as it's making me assign the tickets.

I think so too. It just needs people to buy tickets to illustrate that.

What's going to happen is this... 1. People who want upper tiers wait, meaning... 2. Lower tier ticket sales are steady but not spectacular. 3. Eventually upper tier waiters consider buying lower tiers but the tickets left aren't very good. 4. Club consider they judged it right - few lower tier...

I didn't know for one - I expect I was crawling through the Southampton traffic at the time. Have they really opened up only part of the ground to start with?