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Offline kiddylion

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Away Allocations
« on: November 04, 2015, 12:33:43 PM »
I'm not sure whether to put this on here or in tickets section so please move if needed to.
Does anybody know the reason why we've only started taking the minimum allocation for away games now??
Liverpool 1900 on a Saturday 3pm which sold out 3 weeks before.
Everton 1800 on a Saturday 3pm which sold out 2 weeks ago & now Southampton only 1700.
As poor as we are we'd always take 2500/3000 wherever if it's a Saturday 3pm game.
If there worried about losing a few grand on unsold tickets isn't that what part of the 200k each club gets was set up for???
« Last Edit: November 04, 2015, 12:36:37 PM by kiddylion »

Offline Witton Warrior

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2015, 12:48:38 PM »
Practice for the Championship season innit   ;-)

Offline Ads

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2015, 01:09:15 PM »
It's odd. We are responsible for an additional allocated tickets we don't sell, but we sold out at Everton last season and equally, we took just shy of 3000 before Christmas at Southampton a year or two back.

Offline AVH87

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2015, 01:28:27 PM »
Poor decisions from the club/ticket office, Everton actually sold out around 4 weeks in advance, so shifting another 1000 wouldn't have been too much trouble you'd think.

Offline Walmley_Villa

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2015, 01:30:17 PM »
Yes - I have raised it on the tickets thread. Seems the club are either trying to minimize cost risk or haven't a clue on their own fans - I think it is a bit of both. We need everyone pulling together to get out of this mess and the fans will I'm sure be well up for it.

Offline Marlon From Bearwood

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2015, 01:39:28 PM »
It's really frustrating, especially as I know a few non ST holders who fancied going to Everton. Surely the fact we sold the initial allocation so early suggests we'd have sold plenty more.

The really strange thing is that Everton won't sell out anyway which makes it even worse. You can kind of understand it at say Chelsea or Liverpool, where the home club would be able to get rid of the tickets to home fans, however I very much doubt there's hordes of Evertonians queuing up to get their hands on our unsold tickets.

Offline Hoppo

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2015, 02:04:43 PM »
Ive rang the ticket office regarding this, its entirely down to Head of Consumer sales Nicola Keys.
The argument is it went down to General sale.. it was like knocking my head against the wall.

Offline Walmley_Villa

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2015, 02:12:55 PM »
Assuming the number of season tickets isn't over 20,000 is it any surprise they go to general sale? Lack of understanding of their consumer, not great.

Offline conman

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2015, 05:30:38 PM »
its all down to penny pinching
the extra support could push the team to winning and getting the 3 points
without it we face relegation and loosing a 100 million pounds in sky money
for starters

Offline cheltenhamlion

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2015, 05:42:56 PM »
That is one to bring to the attention of the Trust if you haven't already done so.

Offline oswald funkletrumpet

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2015, 07:17:42 PM »
the club is happy to spunk 25 million on nzog but wont take an extra 1000 tickets in case they cant sell them.

nothing like getting your priorities right

Online nigel

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2015, 07:17:53 PM »
Are we still running the Away Scheme?

If we are, and, for arguments sake, there are 4000 members, surely that would give the club an indication.

Offline QuintonVilla

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2015, 07:25:46 PM »
We're Aston Villa, not Wigan or West Brom. The ticket office need to start realising that.

Offline cheltenhamlion

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2015, 05:41:39 PM »
The Trust have brought this to the attention of the club. The response was a bit of a fob off in my opinion. Lots of flannel about only getting so many on sale or return and using historical data to decide whether to take a larger allocation.

In theory fine but what data are they using that suggests we couldn't shift 3000 at Everton on a Saturday afternoon?

Online Dante Lavelli

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Re: Away Allocations
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2015, 07:08:55 PM »
I am sure they could shift them with some targeted promotion.
To be honest I assumed that all away games are sold out so do not typically look, but a post on here or the Facebook page and I'm sure the extra tickets could be shifted to lazy folk like me.

 


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