Are we small time?

I think it mostly boils down to:

• Families who bought iFollow passes being offered 1 ticket.
• Most people didn’t buy a season ticket as the football wasn’t guaranteed.
• With all the ridiculous regulations at Wembley (no singing or drum for example), people would much rather watch it in the pub with mates.

Under normal circumstances we’d have sold 30k easily.
 
No trains
Coaches expensive +face mask to be worn.
Unable to buy tickets with friends and family.
SD measures in the ground so sat on own.(How that works out if you had young kids not happening)

And plenty of other examples why the whole thing is one big faff.

I also know quite a few pensioners who are giving it a miss.

I'm going but boy it's bloody hard work!

Edit-Also we stopped at 4k ST sold Lincoln didn't and had to do a raffle for tickets.
You'd never have 100% buy them so the o/p is talking shite.

One question normal circumstances who would have more fans at Wembley on Sunday?
 
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Stu99 said:
I think it mostly boils down to:

• Families who bought iFollow passes being offered 1 ticket.
• Most people didn’t buy a season ticket as the football wasn’t guaranteed.
• With all the ridiculous regulations at Wembley (no singing or drum for example), people would much rather watch it in the pub with mates.

Under normal circumstances we’d have sold 30k easily.
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30K is OTT, maybe 20.
 
Stu99 said:
I think it mostly boils down to:

• Families who bought iFollow passes being offered 1 ticket.
• Most people didn’t buy a season ticket as the football wasn’t guaranteed.
• With all the ridiculous regulations at Wembley (no singing or drum for example), people would much rather watch it in the pub with mates.

Under normal circumstances we’d have sold 30k easily.
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I think we would definitely sold somewhere in that region in normal circumstances but unfortunately these are not normal circumstances.
What would have normally been a great family and friends day out,for example my wife,my nephew, his wife and 2 kids and my elder brother would have been there for certain.
However this was never going to happen but The Club and all the other play off finalists for that matter were put in an almost impossible situation with this.
They had to offer first “dibs” to season ticket holders , a free for all was never the first option,and I would suggest the vast majority of those opted to buy but some for all sorts of valid reasons declined to do so and unfortunately
The one single ticket purchase was also the only option given the allocation the clubs were given.
I am sure the remaining tickets will go but as many have said I’m sure the majority of our support just went ahead and made different plans to watch the game.

My only gripe is that the ticketmaster management has been awful.I despaired on Monday of ever getting a ticket as it drove me crazy, getting a seat,any, and then finding it had suddenly become unavailable and when finally getting a complete purchase ( 90 minutes later) not then getting the ticket to print.Credit to the club in sorting this eventually out but only after a 5 hour wait.
 
I think it’s just the way the club has decided to sell them. They should have held ballots. Season ticket holder, then iFollow, then-purchase history, with people from those groups expressing their desire to attend prior to the ballots taking place. It would have been done and dusted before now!
 
It’s painful to go and painful not to be going either way, but I’m sure everyone will make the best of their situation and be watching.

It is still a final with a 50/50 chance of lifting a trophy and being in the Championship next season. If the price I pay to achieve that is to miss being at the game - again - then so be it.

In other circumstances we could have ended up like AFC Fylde and not even get to finish the season let alone fight for the right to promotion.

I console myself with the fact that if ever you were going to miss going to Wembley, then this is the season to do it, no thanks to the pandemic!
 
straightatthewall said:
Play off final after a barren year and several in the wilderness and less than 4000 tickets and the club is struggling to sell them.

Maybe Karl was right.
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Tinpot really. I've volunteered to buy one just to try to help make it look like we've got some fans and I suppose that means I'll have to go now as well.

Just hope they'll let me in with my full BBQ set and grand piano that I'd like to take in with me.
 
SomersetSeasider said:
I think it’s just the way the club has decided to sell them. They should have held ballots. Season ticket holder, then iFollow, then-purchase history, with people from those groups expressing their desire to attend prior to the ballots taking place. It would have been done and dusted before now!
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Bottom line is not many want a 10 hr round trip to be sat miles away from mates, when you can watch it with mates in a Pub. Had I wanted to do that, I'd be there, no question or problem.

The last time I did a final without making a weekend of it was Torquay; the game is the centrepiece, but the fun is an insurance policy.
 
So reading through the defence of why we’ve been struggling to sell, the biggest excuse seems to be that people can’t sit next to someone. Doesn’t say much for people’s moral fibre does it...
 
Nice attempt in this thread.

Its pretty obvious that after the season ticket holders the limited tickets remaining are 1 per person, which the large majority, myself included, just won't go alone and leave family etc behind.

It should be a day when you all go down.
 
I’ll admit, I’m not too bothered about not going under the 4,000 fans, sit on your own, don’t cheer, wear a mask for 90 minutes bollocks.

Watching at home I can do what I want. Still hope everyone there has a great time and roars us on to victory but think it’ll really effect the atmosphere
 
Stu99 said:
I think it mostly boils down to:

• Families who bought iFollow passes being offered 1 ticket.
• Most people didn’t buy a season ticket as the football wasn’t guaranteed.
• With all the ridiculous regulations at Wembley (no singing or drum for example), people would much rather watch it in the pub with mates.

Under normal circumstances we’d have sold 30k easily.
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This is it. I watched every game with my dad on ifollow. I can only buy one ticket and I always watch with my dad. I’d much rather watch at home with him than go to Wembley without him.
 
Good luck to the stewards making everyone wear a mask during the match. They struggled with the difference between a Blackpool and a West Ham shirt last time we were there.
Going Saturday, Champions League Final in a bar somewhere near Wembley. Nice sleep and then the big day, can't f###ing wait.
 
Fishing threads aside am I missing something here? Are there tickets left unsold? There seem to be plenty of people on here who would give their right arm for a ticket?
 
THEMISSINGLINK said:
I’ve turned a ticket down,the people i go or watch with can’t get tickets and to be honest i’d sooner watch here than be lost in a near empty overpriced stadium like Wembley,with restrictions galore in place,sounds like great fun.
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Unbelievable, I would walk to Wembley if it was the only way I could get a ticket. Yes we are small time with lots of plastic fans.
Bring back NAPM, at least it was a decent excuse.
 
Seasideboris said:
Unbelievable, I would walk to Wembley if it was the only way I could get a ticket. Yes we are small time with lots of plastic fans.
Bring back NAPM, at least it was a decent excuse.
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After the way you criticised the protesting fans and funded the Oystons, your opinion on anything means about as much as dog shit on the bottom of a shoe to the majority of real fans who had the moral fibre to do the right thing
 
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Phil_bfc deux said:
After the way you criticised the protesting fans and funded the Oystons, your opinion on anything means about as much as dog shit on the bottom of a shoe to the majority of real fans who had the moral fibre to do the right thing
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Only funded them once and that was for the Exeter game.
Just like yourself who funded them at the Villa game,
Hippocrite!

Don’t give me that crap that you were OK to do it then. NAPM was in place you scab

I was amongst the protesting fans anyway.
 
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Get real
No one expected any tickets to be available - we would have sold 18 to 22 thousand easy
 
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Seasideboris said:
Only funded them once and that was for the Exeter game.
Just like yourself who funded them at the Villa game,
Hippocrite!

Don’t give me that crap that you were OK to do it then. NAPM was in place you scab

I was amongst the protesting fans anyway.
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You are just making things up

I remember you from the old site defending the Oystons over fellow fans

Oh and Villa away was over 2 years before Exeter and also before fans decided to stop paying into the Oystons assist stripping fund

I was at the court cases when fellow fans were being sued, i was at several protests, i was at Derby at home when we started this campaign and i was on the pitch again Huddersfield

What did you do except for fund the Oyston regime?

You post on this site now like you did back then

You can't get away from it
 
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Excuses about the Villa game. You funded them and are a scab.

You are making things up. I never defended the Oystons, never ever. Please show me any evidence of this as there is non.
I also was involved in demonstrations.
Just a bullshitter and what a bitter person
 
"Maybe Karl was right"

Quite frankly, a ridiculous hand grenade to throw at your fellow supporters when the terms of the ticketing are unacceptable for the vast majority
 
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