Rant on ATC from first time poster...

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I just can't get me head around this obsession with going to a presentation. Sake. It's like going to Tenerife for a week and spending half a day being hard-sold at a timeshare presentation. Who needs that shit? I repeat, just give us a stadium plan and an online booking form.

 

[Joey Deacon's Disco Suit]

This bloke was born in 1988 at the earliest. Assuming he has always had an adult ST (highly unlikely - he's probably had the subsidised children's rate) then not until 2004 at the earliest would he have been old enough to hold down a job paying enough for him to afford a ST of his own. More likely 2006. "his" financial support for the club before then would have been from someone else's pocket and most probably at a subsidised rate.

 

[Everest]

I've had my season ticket since before 1995 and attended my first game inn(sic) the middle of the 1995/96 season when I was 7.

That doesn't make sense.
His first game was the middle of the 95/96 season (let's say early 1996), BUT he had a ST BEFORE 1995?

 

[cjd]

Of course not, no.

But, say....

Block D 10th - 14th
Block E 15th - 18th

...etc

Pretty sure I've seen someone from block C be on the same date as Block G

 

[Hungry Joe]

I'm confused so have decided not to think about it anymore.

 

[Beach Hut]

I got the 17.01 and D block

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I'm confused so have decided not to think about it anymore.

Same

 

[sir albion]

I had a season ticket for both seasons at gillingham,but i've only been to one game at withdeanNo way should i get priority

 

[Icy Gull]

May have a failing memory here but weren't attendees at Gillingham only promised a seat at Withdean? I had a season ticket at the Priestfield and don't remember being guaranteed a seat at Falmer

 

[Acker79]

Yes but even when within a block, they must have an order because they could not have all of say block D all on the same day

Of course. It will be something like:

Priority group one block a
Priority group one block b
Priority group one block c...
Priority group two block a
Priority group two block b
Priority group two block c...

 

[alofbrighton]

I just can't get me head around this obsession with going to a presentation. Sake. It's like going to Tenerife for a week and spending half a day being hard-sold at a timeshare presentation. Who needs that shit? I repeat, just give us a stadium plan and an online booking form.

Well said. If Albion sell 15,000 season tickets and I can't get one then good luck. Can't see it though and I'm concerned that people are going to be spread out all over the place irrationallly when we really need some form of organising re singing/hardcore section, family sections etc. Apparently Southampton had this problem with St,Marys in the first season. I only want to sit in the more vocal areas and if not I'll take my chance with the tickets left over. In other words just give me a stadium plan and an online booking form so I can pick where I want to sit.

 

[Lush]

I think people need to remember that buying a season ticket at Gillingham and Withdean entitles you to a seat to watch an Albion game at Gillingham or Withdean.

Anything else is a bonus.

 

[Wozza]

Found it on club site. "Of course if any supporter finds it impossible to get along to a presentation we will help by phone or email, during their allocated priority period" (Brown).

Will be interesting if the phone/online service opens at the same time as the viewings...

 

[Notters]

Well said. If Albion sell 15,000 season tickets and I can't get one then good luck. Can't see it though and I'm concerned that people are going to be spread out all over the place irrationallly when we really need some form of organising re singing/hardcore section, family sections etc. Apparently Southampton had this problem with St,Marys in the first season. I only want to sit in the more vocal areas and if not I'll take my chance with the tickets left over. In other words just give me a stadium plan and an online booking form so I can pick where I want to sit.

That's the whole point in the presentations though, so they can tell you which will be the noisy sections (north stand), the boring sections (east stand), etc. You're saying "well said" to someone who has completely the opposite view to yourself.

 

[Mackenzie]

Well said. If Albion sell 15,000 season tickets and I can't get one then good luck. Can't see it though and I'm concerned that people are going to be spread out all over the place irrationallly when we really need some form of organising re singing/hardcore section, family sections etc. Apparently Southampton had this problem with St,Marys in the first season. I only want to sit in the more vocal areas and if not I'll take my chance with the tickets left over. In other words just give me a stadium plan and an online booking form so I can pick where I want to sit.

...the away end

 

[Don Quixote]

What is the point in this crappy thing? I will just see the stadium when it is actually finished.

 

[armchairclubber]

I do think it's a little sad that loyal & genuine Albion fans have to insult loyal and genuine Albion fans. I know that the fact that we have all been categorised and been given an order of priority does make it a little difficult but come on, most people on this site are on here pretty much for the same reason, whatever their backgrounds, surely ??

 

[Deadly Danson]

I think a lot of you lot are being very hard on the poster. I'm in much the same boat - ST holder at the Goldstone, ST holder at Gillingham and ST holder at Withdean and was very much looking forward to getting a prime location at Falmer. However, as my crime is that my seats are in Block C at Withdean the earliest I can attend is 25th Jan which means there is a good chance that several thousand prime seats will have been sold by the time I get my chance. Now, it's a difficult one for the club I know and if the main aim is to sell as many STs as possible then good on 'em and the more the merrier but it doesn't mean I should be happy that many people who perhaps haven't supported the club through thick and thin may get the better seats - closer to half way line etc etc

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

People need to stop complaining. They're trying to make it so people who have been the most dedicated to the club get first crack. They're not about to go around and ask everyone who wants a season ticket why they deserve to go first. They have to do it in the only way they can which is by the books. I couldn't afford a season ticket this season so I'm out of the running for first dibs completely? Am I upset? No, that's just how it is. But, the tickets won't run out. If worst comes to worst, I'll get a seat right in the deepest depths of the stadium and then at least I'll be in the running for a better seat the season after next. I'll sit cross legged on the stairs if I have to. Though the stewards might have something to say about that.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

I think a lot of people dont have a clue, how large an area, and what kind of view 16000 seats will give you. Have any of you ever been to a professional ground, or only the Withdean
Too many posters, IMHO are comparing it to the shit hole that is Withdean. This is a modern football stadium, with excellent facilities and a superb raised view of the entire playing area.
Get real for fucks sake, you are not sitting in the pissing rain in a temporary stand, you are sitting under cover, on a padded seat with 1st class facilities in a state of the art stadium.
So there are 500 people in front of you that can choose their seat before you can.
If it wasnt for Tony Bloom, Dick Knight and the rest of the management team, you might be playing at Withdean forever, or not even in the football league.
I'm just chuffed that I can see the team i've supported since 1964, at Falmer and although I have preferences where I sit, as long as I'm there I dont give a shit.