How are the Forest ticket sales going

NFFC John said:
I mentioned after the first game that Forest at the moment is the hottest ticket in town in Nottingham. Purely because of the novelty factor of being in the Prem after so long away. Unless you're in your late 30s/early 40s or older you will have only seen us in the top flight as a kid if at all.

What doesn't help is that we have a 30k (ish) capacity with 24k season ticket holders and 3k away fans so getting hold of a ticket is difficult, getting hold of two together if you want to go with a mate or your kid is nigh on impossible. Same for away games with way more away memberships sold than tickets available.

It'll die down I'm sure the longer we're here if we stay up but at the moment it's like trying to get tickets for Glastonbury every time a match is approaching so a game like this might be seen as an ideal opportunity for some non-regulars to actually see a game live.
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Well the Forest tickets seem to be on general sale and still available, so not sold yet. Not sure why people would be asking Blackpool fans for tickets rather than buying through your own site...

Maybe similar to us in that we played last season and this, for some it doesnt get the pulses racing, it's a cold night game and on TV is having an effect too?
 
tangerine.com said:
Course it won't be a sell out.
Burton was a pitiful turn out.
Exeter was a pitiful turn out.
Forest will be the same with or without TV.
Now if it was Man C/ Man U /Liverpool etc seats would have been sold in seconds.
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Err what’s your point….and Burton was not a pitiful turn out on a Boxing Day( hardly local but then so many these days have no idea of the geography and distances involved in our country let alone anywhere else)and Exeter mid January was always going to be a lower turnout.
Maybe the seats for the last line on your list would have sold out but to how many plastics( including those supporting the opposition) and I wonder and how many would return.
Forest were never going to be that kind of attractive draw to the plastic or casual supporter.
 
Hope they have the frost covers on tonight and tomorrow. On Wedesday predicted to zero degrees in the hours leading up to ko
 
NFFC John said:
I mentioned after the first game that Forest at the moment is the hottest ticket in town in Nottingham. Purely because of the novelty factor of being in the Prem after so long away. Unless you're in your late 30s/early 40s or older you will have only seen us in the top flight as a kid if at all.

What doesn't help is that we have a 30k (ish) capacity with 24k season ticket holders and 3k away fans so getting hold of a ticket is difficult, getting hold of two together if you want to go with a mate or your kid is nigh on impossible. Same for away games with way more away memberships sold than tickets available.

It'll die down I'm sure the longer we're here if we stay up but at the moment it's like trying to get tickets for Glastonbury every time a match is approaching so a game like this might be seen as an ideal opportunity for some non-regulars to actually see a game live.
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great post. when we had our season in the sun. every tom dick and harriet wanted a ticket. and then you had to buy blocks of tickets . forest are a good club doing its best to please everyone. CLOUGHIE is my all time manager hero.
 
There seems to be very little 'buzz' about this game.
Is it because it's a replay?
Am sure had it been the other way and the first game had been at home, there would have been a lot more talk about it?
 
M61Exile said:
There seems to be very little 'buzz' about this game.
Is it because it's a replay?
Am sure had it been the other way and the first game had been at home, there would have been a lot more talk about it?
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It's just neither here nor there I think. There'll be interest in it tomorrow night when it's happening but the result just needed to be sorted out on the day at Forest without any extra faffing.

The FA's reward for eventually winning it being a trip to Bristol City or West Ham on a Friday night is more of a punishment than Barnsley got by being kicked out of the competition. That's just put the cherry on the icing on top of the least fan-friendly shit cake that they could come up with really.

The only Bristol we need to be going to is Rovers and coming back with at least one league point.
 
bleach51 said:
Err what’s your point….and Burton was not a pitiful turn out on a Boxing Day( hardly local but then so many these days have no idea of the geography and distances involved in our country let alone anywhere else)and Exeter mid January was always going to be a lower turnout.
Maybe the seats for the last line on your list would have sold out but to how many plastics( including those supporting the opposition) and I wonder and how many would return.
Forest were never going to be that kind of attractive draw to the plastic or casual supporter.
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Pre Sadler's take over, when was the last time we had a 'pitiful' 9,700 in League One or Two?

Absolutely ridiculous comment.
 
M61Exile said:
There seems to be very little 'buzz' about this game.
Is it because it's a replay?
Am sure had it been the other way and the first game had been at home, there would have been a lot more talk about it?
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I'm sure if it was the other way round the board would be full of people saying we blew our chance in the first game and there's no way they're going to Nottingham on a Wednesday night to watch us get hammered.

They were saying that ahead of the original tie.

It's just one excuse after another to justify not going.
 
NOW then young man. get yourself to Bloomfield and cheer on Whoever you follow. Would have loved to see Cloughie walking down the touchline to the oppostion dugout. I know we have played them a zillion times or seems like it. But it is another chance to show what we can do against a decent PL side. ITS Where we would like to be one day. AT least before the Creatures from the Dumpdale swamps ever get there.
 
Csideur said:
Bought 3 this morning at the ticket office.Asked how it was going, said ok-ish about 5k.
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Which would be similar to the amount who went last season, on a Saturday, in a league above, more novelty factor, not on tv etc etc.

It's now back to previous purchaser only. Maybe Forest are getting close to selling out, still openly available to anyone at their end.
 
JJpool said:
You do get quite a lot of late sales for cup games, people go on the night. So will go up but nothing amazing, as expected considering the factors.
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I just don't really understand why any local fans wouldn't go.

Cheap tickets.

Premier league opposition (nothing special but more exciting than recent home fixtures)

Don't buy into many of the excuses personally.
 
ansdellmafia said:
Sounds like we’ve requested them to stop selling any more than the southern end of the east . Pointless opening the north side for a handful of fans I guess .
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Could be right, if so then people need to hold the same 'disappointment' for the attendance for Forest fans as our own.

Given last year they filled the east completely. That would show that the factors I mentioned have do indeed have an effect afterall. Looks like we'll sell more than in the championship, where it wasn't at night and on TV etc.
 
Shiggy said:
I just don't really understand why any local fans wouldn't go.

Cheap tickets.

Premier league opposition (nothing special but more exciting than recent home fixtures)

Don't buy into many of the excuses personally.
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To be fair it’s going to be a bit cold
 
Shiggy said:
I just don't really understand why any local fans wouldn't go.

Cheap tickets.

Premier league opposition (nothing special but more exciting than recent home fixtures)

Don't buy into many of the excuses personally.
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Buy into them or not, they're legitimate factors, things like changing a game to a night match have an impact, always has done. We have many exiles that make up the attendances. On TV makes a difference, etc. This was all fairly predictable. It's only those who got a bit carried away that are more disappointed.
 
Wizaard said:
Pre Sadler's take over, when was the last time we had a 'pitiful' 9,700 in League One or Two?

Absolutely ridiculous comment.
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You’ve confused me Wiz….was this aimed at me ( I suspect not but🤔) or the poster I responded to.Either way I have been following BFC for a long long time and remember days when if we got 6 to 7 thousand we were impressed😂and I think gates of around 10k are ok given where we are but for some it seems not.Each to their own as they say.
One thing I do know that for exiles like me,which I have been for close to 50 years,there will only be one team and the size crowds is the least relevant to the vast majority of us.
 
nothing to do with money, you could change £40 per person if we were playing fast flowing attacking football against city/liverpool/utd and it'd be sold out
 
REALLY dont care who or what has bought a ticket . WE will make an awful lot of noize for the Boyz from Bloomerz. Me and Steven included.
 
bleach51 said:
Err what’s your point….and Burton was not a pitiful turn out on a Boxing Day( hardly local but then so many these days have no idea of the geography and distances involved in our country let alone anywhere else)and Exeter mid January was always going to be a lower turnout.
Maybe the seats for the last line on your list would have sold out but to how many plastics( including those supporting the opposition) and I wonder and how many would return.
Forest were never going to be that kind of attractive draw to the plastic or casual supporter.
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Err I thought my point would be obvious. But maybe not.
 
bleach51 said:
You’ve confused me Wiz….was this aimed at me ( I suspect not but🤔) or the poster I responded to.Either way I have been following BFC for a long long time and remember days when if we got 6 to 7 thousand we were impressed😂and I think gates of around 10k are ok given where we are but for some it seems not.Each to their own as they say.
One thing I do know that for exiles like me,which I have been for close to 50 years,there will only be one team and the size crowds is the least relevant to the vast majority of us.
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No, I was backing you up 🤣
 
Due to the low number of tickets sold for away fans, Forest’s allocation has now been reduced for the fixture on Wednesday evening.

From the gazette
 
Shiggy said:
I just don't really understand why any local fans wouldn't go.

Cheap tickets.

Premier league opposition (nothing special but more exciting than recent home fixtures)

Don't buy into many of the excuses personally.
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Regardless of the opposition, if people can afford it they should go. End of
 
tangerine.com said:
Err I thought my point would be obvious. But maybe not.
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Your point was obvious I simply didn’t agree with it other than the final comment but only because the plastics would have been out in force as they would be in any other club at our level and for that matter most many championship and some Premier League clubs.
 
BFC4EVA said:
Quite a few sold looking at Ticketmaster. R u looking at the right game ?
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Just been on Ticketmaster again and the key below indictates the dark blue dots are available seats. They are the vast majority of the seats
 
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JOHNMAJORTOM said:
i was secretly hoping for tottenham. would love to see that. and my son was saying the same. .
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Me too though whether I got to go would have been a different matter….mind you my niece’s hubby is a big Spurs fan and his ( step) dad often has use to one of the executive boxes so they go a lot.Mind you had this happened and I got invited in there they might have regretted having me as well let’s just I can get a bit over passionate about what is going on especially if we get one of those “refs”.
it is certainly probably the only ground I would still love to experience as my last visit to the Spurs was back in the early 60’s when my dad took me there when Spurs were probably the best team in England at the time…might have been their double year.
 
JJpool said:
That's not necessarily true, some of us are below 40 and it's a big game still. You don't have to have been there in the past to know of the rivalry etc. The youth also love a local derby. As I said also, it's the chance of actually winning something and going to Wembley.
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LOL....Such a big game that we'll probably play most of our 2nd string, (even for a quarter final) whereas tomorrow night it will be our 1st X1.

Haha The Bristol Street Trophy v The F.A Cup
 
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TangerineArmy said:
Wonder how many tickets forest have sold then due to gazette story 🤔
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It said a limited number left so must have been under that 2200 presumably and they've decided not a lot more will be going and not worth opening the other side.

It shows that when you keep playing a team you had before, put the game on a cold weeknight live on TV, the attendance will be less, who knew.

Tbf ours looks like it'll actually be more than last years under many less favourable circumstances.
 
Blackpool Are Back! said:
LOL....Such a big game that we'll probably play most of our 2nd string, (even for a quarter final) whereas tomorrow night it will be our 1st X1.
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Not many care about Forest as a club, many people care about Bolton, the competition is poor but a chance to win it. We don't know who he'll play, he'll possibly introduce a few more 1st teamers.

Hard to say if the competition puts many off or if the chance at Wembley will attract, as well as thr local derby interest, we'll just have to see.
 
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