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Heroes & Villains => Tickets & Travel => Topic started by: Marlon From Bearwood on July 12, 2017, 03:30:05 PM
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Allocation of 5,000
http://www.insidewelshfootball.co.uk/cardiff-city-move-home-supporters/
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Excellent. Fair play to Cardiff for making the effort to get us extra seats in.
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Hopefully the club will take up the offer.
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Worth mentioning that Cardiff is the best ground I've ever been to for getting served, the bars were large and there seemed to be more staff than fans.
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Am going to combine this with a trip to the Doctor Who Experience.
(Not sad).
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Am going to combine this with a trip to the Doctor Who Experience.
(Not sad).
It was certainly the highlight of last season's visit for me. That and the refund I got from the rail company on account of excessive bantz on the way back.
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You're invited if you want to visit again!
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Joe and CD sitting in a TARDIS...
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From what was an extremely dodgy gaff to a great city to visit - I personally like the bars by the Millennium Stadium but the City Centre matches anywhere else now in the UK.
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I didn't know that the Doctor Who thing was still there. I thought that it was temporary.
Therefore, I might pop along as well.
They do have a special display dedicated to Nicola Bryant, don't they ?
(https://georgesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/nicola_bryant_shorts.jpg)
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Afraid not UKR.
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Do you have to do the 'Experience' bit or is it ok to just go look at the props exhibition ?
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I dunno. I do know the Experience is closing soon so will be last time you could visit in conjunction with a Villa match.
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Great allocation. Easy for me to get to. Hopefully better performance and result than last year.
I don't get the whole Doctor Who thing! Incidentally, the new writer of Doctor Who (the writer for Broadchurch) is from Bridport where I live and I coach his lad in my U14 footy team.
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Tell him to bring back Peri. Many thanks.
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I asked @AVFCSupport about the Cardiff/Reading games and was told that tickets should be on sale by the end of "next"
I assume that they mean "next week"
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Cardiff are selling their home tickets now, interestingly they're not selling tickets in blocks 123, 124 and 125. That's where our extended allocation would be which would suggest we've taken the full 5000.
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Do you have to do the 'Experience' bit or is it ok to just go look at the props exhibition ?
Not sure if it's compulsory but it's no more than half an hour and quite fun.
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I've no interest in these "experience" type things. Did the Boston Tea Party one last year (only way to see the exhibits) and hated every minute of it
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4803 tickets, £24.
3900 for Reading, £20.
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From PRAVDA
Cardiff City v Aston Villa
Sky Bet Championship
Saturday August 12
Kick-off: 3pm
Cardiff City Stadium
Full allocation: 4,803 tickets
Prices: £24 (adults), £20 (O60s), £15 (U22), £12 (U16s)
Wheelchair bays: Available by calling the Ticket Office on 0333 323 1874
Tuesday July 25, 5pm ONLINE/Wednesday July 26 phone or in person: On sale to 2017/18 season ticket holders who have purchased tickets for 17+ away league matches in the 2016/17 & 2017/18 seasons combined
Wednesday July 26, 5pm ONLINE/Thursday July 27 phone or in person: On sale to 2017/18 season ticket holders who have purchased tickets for 13+ away league matches in the 2016/17 & 2017/18 seasons combined
Thursday July 27, 5pm ONLINE/Friday July 28 phone or in person: On sale to 2017/18 season ticket holders who have purchased tickets for 9+ away league matches in the 2016/17 & 2017/18 seasons combined
Friday July 28, 5pm ONLINE/Monday July 31 phone or in person: On sale to 2017/18 season ticket holders who have purchased tickets for 5+ away league matches in the 2016/17 & 2017/18 seasons combined
Monday July 31, 5pm ONLINE/Tuesday August 1 phone or in person: On sale to all 2017/18 season ticket holders
Tuesday August 1, 5pm ONLINE/Wednesday August 2 phone or in person: On general sale
Only tickets purchased before 3.30pm on Thursday August 10 will be posted to supporters. All tickets purchased after this deadline will be available for collection only from Villa Park.
Lions Club chairmen can purchase from 3pm on Thursday July 27.
To buy, visit us in person, call 0333 323 1874 or buy online from our ONLINE BOX OFFICE.
Coach travel is £21 and coaches depart at 10am.
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Wednesday evening for me then
Caerdydd is a nice easy one for me to get to. Closer than home games
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I think I have five aways. I expect I'll be fine. Well done to the club for taking the full allocation.
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The ticket office have forgotten to put them up for sale! Not even up on the website yet, despite saying 5pm on the Website.
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£80 minimum on trains. I paid £11 for a return to London the other day.
Thanks Villa for leaving it so long to get the tickets on sale, you twats.
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£80 minimum on trains. I paid £11 for a return to London the other day.
Thanks Villa for leaving it so long to get the tickets on sale, you twats.
A day return to Cheltenham is about £15. See if you can split the ticket from there or Gloucester.
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I can't get the ticket splitter site to work. Never tried it on my own will have a go, thanks.
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Dunno if this helps CD https://new.trainsplit.com/timetable_fares.aspx
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It probably would but I've persuaded my mate to drive and booked a hotel now!
Cheers, anyway!
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£80 minimum on trains. I paid £11 for a return to London the other day.
Thanks Villa for leaving it so long to get the tickets on sale, you twats.
A day return to Cheltenham is about £15. See if you can split the ticket from there or Gloucester.
Shhh... don't suggest things like this. We don't want a load of lost Brummies wandering around our county's railway stations :)
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£80 minimum on trains. I paid £11 for a return to London the other day.
Thanks Villa for leaving it so long to get the tickets on sale, you twats.
A day return to Cheltenham is about £15. See if you can split the ticket from there or Gloucester.
Shhh... don't suggest things like this. We don't want a load of lost Brummies wandering around our county's railway stations :)
I booked £40 return trains from New Street when the fixtures came out.
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Couple thousand gone. Open to 5 plus aways now.
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551 left a few minutes ago
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2419 sold from 4800. Sales seem to be slow for all away games so far.
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Probably because of the ticket office problems.
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That's the sales at close of play on Friday.
Sales do appear slow and if that figure hasn't moved on by the end of today now its at plus 5, then it wont sell out I wouldn't have thought. Reading the same.
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I just think the whole system at the moment makes it really difficult to buy tickets. We are away scheme members but as of yet we have no season tickets.
I called as I understand there is a delay but my 2 junior 16yr olds tickets have not arrived yet also and I was unsure if that was included in the mailing for the tickets gone last week. I have called and they are saying at least 20 minute wait on the phone. I cannot access online via the new ticketing system so all in all they are not making easy for people to buy tickets.
The message says call again friday if season tickets have not arrived. I imagine a fair few might not get there or some issue with renewals etc. Some will not get to check if they are at work so that leaves Sat AM to sort before the game, it is awful organization
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Surely our away support hasn't dropped off after just one season down here? Leeds have been down here for years yet sold out 4800 for Bolton away in 15 minutes.
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Leeds can probably buy tickets on the phone.
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Can you not buy tickets on the phone at moment?
Crikey that's poor. Add that to having no season tickets and it's not surprisng things arent moving at thr moment.
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I haven't tried today. Tried to phone them three times last week and gave up.
They could at least reintroduce the feature that tells you what number you are in the queue. That was a useful feature. I'll phone them and tell them to bring it ba... oh.
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Managed to finally get 2 tickets for Reading, but only after being on hold for 35 minutes. Mentioned my difficulties and many others in getting tickets online and the fella was totally oblivious to it.
No wonder the away sales are low if the only way you can buy a ticket is a 30 minute plus phone call.
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You're the only person to buy tickets since Friday according to Twitter so they're perhaps not as so slow sales wise as advertised.
That said if people are struggling to call and have only just got their season tickets today then it's likely sales would pick up.
The new online seat selector has 7 out of 10 blocks sold out and 11, 560 and 890 left respectively. So 3400 sold. Quite handy that it let's you choose your seat. Pity we can't do that in the away scheme.
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You're the only person to buy tickets since Friday according to Twitter so they're perhaps not as so slow sales wise as advertised.
That said if people are struggling to call and have only just got their season tickets today then it's likely sales would pick up.
The new online seat selector has 7 out of 10 blocks sold out and 11, 560 and 890 left respectively. So 3400 sold. Quite handy that it let's you choose your seat. Pity we can't do that in the away scheme.
I think picking your own away seat is a really good concept. The problem I had was I could only buy my own ticket...i couldn't assign anymore tickets and I couldn't even get one with my daughter's reference and are accounts are linked together.
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*rakes over old coals, for no good reason*
Does the selector allow you to pick the standing section seats?
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*rakes over old coals, for no good reason*
Does the selector allow you to pick the standing section seats?
It allows you to sit with your mates whether they are sitting/standing!
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1200 left.
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Find it strange that we've sold more for Reading on a Tuesday night than we have for the first away of the season on a Saturday.
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Lot of Villa Banbury way and it's dead easy to get to. Plus it's cheap. Not that Cardiff is far mind.
At the rate of sale they should sell out.
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A good win against Hull (0-0) will help shift the remaining Cardiff tickets aswell.
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I had no problem getting 3 tickets online last night at 5.15
when they went on general sale. Also no problem assigning
2 tickets for my 2 sons with there client references. Being able
to choose were you sit is also a good idea.
Overall can't knock the new system. UTV
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I had no problem getting 3 tickets online last night at 5.15
when they went on general sale. Also no problem assigning
2 tickets for my 2 sons with there client references. Being able
to choose were you sit is also a good idea.
Overall can't knock the new system. UTV
It works fine on a desktop but fails miserably on a mobile device when it comes to buying more than 1 ticket at the same time.
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1016 left
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I have 4 x Cardiff tickets for sale. Face value. PM me for details.
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Still about 700 left. Where have all the away fans gone? Not selling out these big allocations will result in the club taking smaller allocations like we used to, then people will be moaning about it.
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Taking over 4,000 is a decent effort, they've only just gone on general sale, and it's been a pain in the arse to get tickets from the tickets office for the last week or so.
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When you've only won 5 or 6 away games in 2 years, taking over 4K to Cardiff is hardly shabby.
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Need to look at the numbers sold, not numbers left of the allocation.
If it was your standard 3k allocation, we'd have sold out ages ago and everyone would be saying 'great support'.
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Still about 700 left. Where have all the away fans gone? Not selling out these big allocations will result in the club taking smaller allocations like we used to, then people will be moaning about it.
Why the constant sniping about away fans? It's getting a bit tiresome.
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According to AVFC support on Twitter there's over 1000 left for Cardiff and we may not sell out any of our first 3 away games.
Must admit that is slightly surprising, especially with Cardiff being first away game, Saturday 3pm, not on TV and reasonably priced. Last year we easily sold out Sheff Wed away despite it being £42, live on tv and 4.30 Sunday afternoon.
Whatever the reason, there does appear a drop off in demand so far this season.
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According to AVFC support on Twitter there's over 1000 left for Cardiff and we may not sell out any of our first 3 away games.
Must admit that is slightly surprising, especially with Cardiff being first away game, Saturday 3pm, not on TV and reasonably priced. Last year we easily sold out Sheff Wed away despite it being £42, live on tv and 4.30 Sunday afternoon.
Whatever the reason, there does appear a drop off in demand so far this season.
They're Friday's figures. On Friday we'd sold 3700, we've subsequently sold virtually another block and 400 odd in the process.
This year the Twitter account appears to only update on a Monday and with the end of the previous weeks figures.
I was sad enough to write down how many we'd sold over the weekend and recorded the Cardiff sales as 3762, which I would have done mid-afternoon, only because I was intrigued as to whether my theory that we shift more over a game weekend is true. Today we've sold 4144 total, having moved the last 100 from a block and having moved 100 odd from another.
Reading sold out and R27b appears to be an additional allocation of seats to the right of the away end under the screen.
161 seats were returned from the away scheme for Reading [which is why 161 of the central block seats came back on sale randomly]
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Good research Ads. So how many do we have left for each game, do you know?
That pesky QuintonVilla has drawn me in.
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Roughly 650 for Cardiff and 200 for Reading.
In respect of Reading, its only a hunch that its extra tickets, as the shape of the block R27b is an inverted V which is the area that, if memory serves, straddles the away end and a bit of the home end under the screen.
Last year the allocation was 4100, this year its 3900. I presume due to our last visits involving pitch incursions, it would means some rows at the front have been tarped off.
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Ta. Decent chance we will shift them, then.
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Good following either way. Should be an enjoyable day out.
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Hope so. I'm looking forward to the piss up/Doctor Who Experience more than the match, mind!
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Still about 700 left. Where have all the away fans gone? Not selling out these big allocations will result in the club taking smaller allocations like we used to, then people will be moaning about it.
Why the constant sniping about away fans? It's getting a bit tiresome.
OMG I'VE JUST READ WE HAVE 14 TICKETS UNSOLD FOR SOME RANDOM AWAY MATCH WHERE IS OUR SUPPORT?????
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Has anyone received their Caerdydd ticket yet ?
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Nope.
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Has anyone received their Caerdydd ticket yet ?
Monday...but no coach ticket.
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Bournemouth Lions have a mini bus going to the game and hopefully picking me up on the way. I went on my own last year and got charged £15 on the bridge as I was in my van. A very expensive day to see another miserable defeat.
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What's that? Is there a toll we should be avoiding?
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What's that? Is there a toll we should be avoiding?
Severn Bridge / Second Severn Crossing
Not a problem for anyone coming M50/A40
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I've just spoken to the TO re the non-arrival of my Caerdydd ticket.
They can see that I bought the ticket but it wasn't sent out.
They're now going to send it. ::)
If it doesn't arrive, I have to call the TO Friday afternoon to be put on a duplicate list for collection at the ground
Therefore, if anyone hasn't received their ticket, I suggest giving the TO a call to make sure that your order was processed
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I had the same, purchased my tickets last Tuesday and hadn't arrived. spoke to the T/O yesterday
and the guy had to speak to his supervisor!!! when he came back to me he said a batch of tickets
were being sent out on Tuesday evening. Received them this morning. Happy Days. UTV
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Mine came yesterday. Useless.
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I've just spoken to the TO re the non-arrival of my Caerdydd ticket.
They can see that I bought the ticket but it wasn't sent out.
They're now going to send it. ::)
If it doesn't arrive, I have to call the TO Friday afternoon to be put on a duplicate list for collection at the ground
Therefore, if anyone hasn't received their ticket, I suggest giving the TO a call to make sure that your order was processed
This happened to me at Cardiff last season and i picked mine up at the ground. Absolutely no problem.
A window very close to away turnstiles and envelope was ready and waiting for me.
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Ticket site showing 349 tickets left.
AVFCSupport on Twitter saying there's still 800+ left.
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Tickets have arrived. 😊
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4000 odd sold. Great following and the biggest they've had for a league game. Good stuff.
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Fair play to them for giving us so many.
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Yep, fair play. It was odd last year with a reasonably sized ground so empty. Should make for a good atmosphere.
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One for the ticket saddos, that means you Quinton.
I'll confess I am confused by this.
I suspected that a possible error in my own calculations is that not all blocks are sold at once. Block 9 has been selling for some time and there are circa 350 left, so I assumed that block 10 contained perhaps the remaining 500. However, there a single return ticket in that block and with all others having been sold, it would seem that 4400ish have been sold, rather than 4000.
Either way, it is worth remembering that before anybody criticizes the away support again;
a) it hasn't dropped off, that's either 600 or 1000 more going to Cardiff this year compared to last
b) that's more than anybody has taken to Cardiff
The away support is a credit to the club. We cause no bother, take bucket loads and make a racket. Well done my brothers.
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One for the ticket saddos, that means you Quinton.
I'll confess I am confused by this.
I suspected that a possible error in my own calculations is that not all blocks are sold at once. Block 9 has been selling for some time and there are circa 350 left, so I assumed that block 10 contained perhaps the remaining 500. However, there a single return ticket in that block and with all others having been sold, it would seem that 4400ish have been sold, rather than 4000.
Either way, it is worth remembering that before anybody criticizes the away support again;
a) it hasn't dropped off, that's either 600 or 1000 more going to Cardiff this year compared to last
b) that's more than anybody has taken to Cardiff
The away support is a credit to the club. We cause no bother, take bucket loads and make a racket. Well done my brothers.
Agreed mate. I wasn't really criticising, I just thought we'd sell out the lot with it being the first away game. Although having Reading away 3 days later and another big allocation hasn't helped, and quite a few people are probably still on holiday.
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Ticket for Sat has arrived.
Not sure why the TO told me yesterday that it hadn't been printed. It's a Cardiff issued ticket, so why / how would villa be printing them?
Thought that the Reading ticket might have been in the same envelope but it wasn't
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Ticket for Sat has arrived.
Not sure why the TO told me yesterday that it hadn't been printed. It's a Cardiff issued ticket, so why / how would villa be printing them?
Thought that the Reading ticket might have been in the same envelope but it wasn't
Same. I thought my Reading ticket would be in the same envelope.
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Thanks Ads and QV, I for one like the tickets sold updates.
It'll be rocking, that's a given!
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mine still not arrived, it is a joke order them last week!!! - problem for me is that I go to Cardiff for the weekend leaving this afternoon!
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If they haven't arrived by the time you're setting out, ring the ticket office. They'll arrange for you to pick up duplicates at the ground.
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Somebody mentioned that the collection from Cardiff was very efficient, so hopefully not too much of a ballache if it doesn't arrive on time.
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Thanks for the advice, lets hope for a win!!!!
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If they haven't arrived by the time you're setting out, ring the ticket office. They'll arrange for you to pick up duplicates at the ground.
Given how long it takes the TO to answer the phone, I would suggest calling today rather than leaving it until tomorrow
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Piisser. Bristol and Cardiff on my doorstep and I'm on me hols.
Shouldn't complain I suppose .......
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4803 in the end. This for a team that has won 5 of the last 44 away games. Superb.
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QPR supporter on Twitter yesterday bragging that they took 640 to Cardiff.