Ticket Pricing, Empty Seats, Box & Club Level Empties

[navangooner]

its live on espn,with the prices i can see a crowd of 40-45000

They will probably still say the attendance is 60000 or so as they go by tickets sold and not people through the gates

[northbank123]

its live on espn,with the prices i can see a crowd of 40-45000

They will probably still say the attendance is 60000 or so as they go by tickets sold and not people through the gates

Are you surprised? Atmosphere is generally pretty shite anyway and all the club care about is the £££££

[MK Gould]

I think we now have 5 home games for sale to red members at the same time. Even Man City this weekend is still on sale..... One of the big impacts of games not selling out is that it prevents ST holders from selling odd games via arsenal.com. That has massive implications for next season - much more than the odd couple of hundred unsold seats in the upper tier.

As for whether the cat B is just about being fair to ST holders.... I've not worked out what the "saving" is of the course of a season to know whether we can afford to live with the odd cat C home cup tie. I suspect that there is a big enough saving that we could and, as said above, if we get United in a future round or Real/Barca in the CL then these would surely be cat A so it would even itself out.

As for this particular game, I don't think there is any way that Swansea will sell - or accept - anything like 9000 tickets for a midweek replay in January..... I'd be amazed if they brought half that - and even then it would be some achievement!

[falkirk goon]

I think we now have 5 home games for sale to red members at the same time. Even Man City this weekend is still on sale..... One of the big impacts of games not selling out is that it prevents ST holders from selling odd games via arsenal.com. That has massive implications for next season - much more than the odd couple of hundred unsold seats in the upper tier.

As for whether the cat B is just about being fair to ST holders.... I've not worked out what the "saving" is of the course of a season to know whether we can afford to live with the odd cat C home cup tie. I suspect that there is a big enough saving that we could and, as said above, if we get United in a future round or Real/Barca in the CL then these would surely be cat A so it would even itself out.

As for this particular game, I don't think there is any way that Swansea will sell - or accept - anything like 9000 tickets for a midweek replay in January..... I'd be amazed if they brought half that - and even then it would be some achievement!

swans allocated just over 2000 tickets

http://www.swanseacity.net/news/article ... 84250.aspx

[Dan_85]

I guess if they actually wanted to sell tickets for this it would help if the ticket hub actually worked. Every available seat i click on gives me an error; "There are no prices available for this seat" Idiots.

[Simon]

Works fine for me using the interactive seating map

[MK Gould]

The replay suited me fine.... As part of my season ticket sharing arrangement I'd "sold the rights" to our 4th cup game before the start of the season, and Swansea's equaliser guaranteed that we'd be going against Bayern Munich...!

Happy to watch this one on TV....and save the money for the trip to Brighton maybe !

[Peeman]

Getting stung for matches like this is one of the reasons that I'll probably be giving up season ticket next year. The inclusion of the 7 cup matches is a joke. Every year there might be 2 that u'd be interested in at best. These replays at such short notice makes it nearly impossible to try and get over to it.

The other main reason is wenger. If he is still there come renewal time I will not be renewing.

[StuartL]

Getting stung for matches like this is one of the reasons that I'll probably be giving up season ticket next year. The inclusion of the 7 cup matches is a joke. Every year there might be 2 that u'd be interested in at best. These replays at such short notice makes it nearly impossible to try and get over to it.

The other main reason is wenger. If he is still there come renewal time I will not be renewing.

Please ensure that your put that in your email / letter to the club when you decline their kind offer next summer (April ?)

[RVP2]

Fair play to Swansea, offering £5 return coaches for their fans.

[SamiS]

The replay suited me fine.... As part of my season ticket sharing arrangement I'd "sold the rights" to our 4th cup game before the start of the season, and Swansea's equaliser guaranteed that we'd be going against Bayern Munich...!

Happy to watch this one on TV....and save the money for the trip to Brighton maybe !

you're an absolute genius and very jammy

not missing munich home

what would you have done IF the 4th was Munich?

[northbank123]

I think we now have 5 home games for sale to red members at the same time. Even Man City this weekend is still on sale..... One of the big impacts of games not selling out is that it prevents ST holders from selling odd games via arsenal.com. That has massive implications for next season - much more than the odd couple of hundred unsold seats in the upper tier.

As for whether the cat B is just about being fair to ST holders.... I've not worked out what the "saving" is of the course of a season to know whether we can afford to live with the odd cat C home cup tie. I suspect that there is a big enough saving that we could and, as said above, if we get United in a future round or Real/Barca in the CL then these would surely be cat A so it would even itself out.

As for this particular game, I don't think there is any way that Swansea will sell - or accept - anything like 9000 tickets for a midweek replay in January..... I'd be amazed if they brought half that - and even then it would be some achievement!

swans allocated just over 2000 tickets

http://www.swanseacity.net/news/article ... 84250.aspx

Apparently they only took 2000 last night? If that's what they're taking for a Cup semi I wouldn't imagine they'd sell more for the replay at ours?

[SteveO 35]

The club have made a real mess of this one. I've had half a dozen season ticket holders offer me their ticket for the game. January, midweek, on TV, sandwiched in between big league games. Category B = no empathy with supporters

Turn out will be max 45k. Should have offered kids for £5 or something

[VoiceOfReason]

I seem to recall Cardiff bringing 9,000 fans to the Emirates for the FA Cup replay in 2009 - do they have that many more fans than Swansea? Or is it, as I assume is the case, down to the fact that Swansea now play PL opposition every week, and that fans have already been busy coughing-up for the League Cup semis?

[VoiceOfReason]

Just noticed that the potential Brighton vs. Arsenal fixture will be played at 3pm on the Saturday.

The televised games are:

Millwall vs. Aston Villa (Friday night)

Stoke / Crystal Palace vs. Man City (Saturday lunchtime)

Man Utd / West Ham vs. Blackpool / Fulham (Saturday evening)

Brentford / Southend vs. Chelsea (Sunday noon)

Birmingham / Leeds vs. Tottenham (Sunday 2pm)

Oldham vs. Liverpool (Sunday 4pm)

WTF? Surely Brighton/Arsenal was one of the ties of the round.