Tickets for Argyle away

[denzel]

So is the first time that we have given them more tickets than they make available for us? Given the capacities at both grounds that's pretty shocking.

 

[Rog H K]

Been chatting with some Argyle fans and they say rumours are City were offered either the mandatory 2 or 3 blocks as a normal allocation or could have the full four blocks like Liverpool had but on a condition the tickets were non returnable and that City would have to take a hit on unsold tickets if they couldn't sell them as Plymouth couldn't then sell any returns because of the fences under the Barn Park end of the ground separating the blocks. They say City apparently turned this offer down. And Argyle may now take the block in the corner with a block as segregation.
So. Any truth in this?

 

[Colesman Ballz]

Been chatting with some Argyle fans and they say rumours are City were offered either the mandatory 2 or 3 blocks as a normal allocation or could have the full four blocks like Liverpool had but on a condition the tickets were non returnable and that City would have to take a hit on unsold tickets if they couldn't sell them as Plymouth couldn't then sell any returns because of the fences under the Barn Park end of the ground separating the blocks. They say City apparently turned this offer down. And Argyle may now take the block in the corner with a block as segregation.
So. Any truth in this?

Only at bleddy Argyle is football stuck in a timewarp. Fencing under the stands to keep the visitors safe from marauding bands of knuckle dragging Neanderthal locals, its reminiscent of the Old Den thirty or forty years ago ! Are their stewards that totally rubbish and ineffectual ?

And if penny pinching Harry Potter and his school chums, are trying a non-return scam, surely this would break some Football league rule or at least some long standing convention between clubs ?

Argo might just as well abandon their grand ground expansion plans, a total waste a money, what's the point if they can't even cope with selling the seats that they already have ?

What a feckin shambles ! (facepalm)

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

So is the first time that we have given them more tickets than they make available for us? Given the capacities at both grounds that's pretty shocking.

Yep....But for the last few league visits we have barely taken 1,000..The demand this time has certainly taken our club by surprise...

1,500 is a good %(around 40) of our average home support at SJP

 

[fred binneys head]

Yep....But for the last few league visits we have barely taken 1,000..The demand this time has certainly taken our club by surprise...

1,500 is a good %(around 40) of our average home support at SJP

I'm not suggesting the club should have taken the risk by underwriting all of the tickets available, but that is ridiculous if true. We were always going to take a large following to argyle after the run we're on. We took over a thousand to Pompey, we've taken over a thousand to Barnet before when we were doing well FFS, we took over 2,000 the first time we played them recently, etc. If the club didn't realise demand would be high for a game against our deadly rivals, just down the road, when they are 2nd in the league and we are 4th and we are unbeaten in 11th having won the last 5 then someone needs some help.

Depends when they were asked to underwrite - if they were asked in October then I get it. If it was recently, then I don't.

 

[ramone]

Be nice to know if they did the same for other clubs in the League.

 

[Pete Martin (CTID)]

Been chatting with some Argyle fans and they say rumours are City were offered either the mandatory 2 or 3 blocks as a normal allocation or could have the full four blocks like Liverpool had but on a condition the tickets were non returnable and that City would have to take a hit on unsold tickets if they couldn't sell them as Plymouth couldn't then sell any returns because of the fences under the Barn Park end of the ground separating the blocks. They say City apparently turned this offer down. And Argyle may now take the block in the corner with a block as segregation.
So. Any truth in this?

No. We have not been offered any additional tickets under any provisos. The club has requested more on several occasions but the answer from them has consistently been "no".

The City attendances in recent years at Gnome Park have been;

2015-16 877
2014-15 943
2013-14 826
2012-13 1,635

I think our rapid elevation to 4th has taken everyone by surprise and the demand really brings into focus the fickle nature of football support and how performance affects attendance by the more casual fan.

 

[Spoonz Red E]

on a condition the tickets were non returnable and that City would have to take a hit on unsold tickets if they couldn't sell them

Daft rumour. Away tickets are the property of the away Club and we sell them as a service for them (receiving a 5% fee). The Club does not 'buy' tickets from an away Club at any point.

 

[Colesman Ballz]

No. We have not been offered any additional tickets under any provisos. The club has requested more on several occasions but the answer from them has consistently been "no".

The City attendances in recent years at Gnome Park have been;

2015-16 877
2014-15 943
2013-14 826
2012-13 1,635

I think our rapid elevation to 4th has taken everyone by surprise and the demand really brings into focus the fickle nature of football support and how performance affects attendance by the more casual fan.

On the basis that earlier in the season we allowed Argyle a far higher proportion of the total ground capacity, than we are even requesting, then I really believe the Club should employ it's "heavy artillery" and target the PAFC Board over this issue. Their whole ticketing procedure is a total shambles with page upon page of complaints on Pispotty and ATD forums.

Argyle are unable to keep their own fans happy, with a near total lack of communication, and the position over sales changing virtually on a daily basis. There is a total disconnect between whoever is setting out the ticketing policy and the troops in the front line of the ticket office. It is even been suggested that they are getting more information from us then they are getting from their own club.

So frankly a "broadside" in at their owner/director level might help all concerned. (facepalm)[G]

 

[Antony Moxey]

I think our rapid elevation to 4th has taken everyone by surprise and the demand really brings into focus the fickle nature of football support and how performance affects attendance by the more casual fan.

What's fickle about it?