Season Tickets

[VillaTim]

Most of the prime seating is season ticket.

That’s a good point. It is also going to make finding a replacement seat in a similar location very difficult

Maybe they'll offer a discount in corporate for a season to soften the blow .

[chrisw1]

This is why they're not expanding the stadium.  An extra 4,000 standard-price seats adds very little.  Creating a few thousand GA+ generates a lot.  I think it's the same reason Everton decided 50k was enough and Chelsea have managed to compete with 40k.

It's a bit shit for loyal fans who want to get a ticket as there will be even less to go around and long-term regular attendees will get frozen out.  But it's the inevitable price of progress.

If they'd built the North it would have been a lot less painful for fans and hopefully that will be back on the agenda in the next few years.

[UK Redsox]

You could see the back 2 or 3 rows in the Lower Witton being re-imagined into Premium Seats.

Middle blocks of the North Stand

Lower Trinity - dug-out blocks


There's your 900 seats...

*waves*

That's me.

There's a few non-ST seats in the area, including the one next to me.
My mate has tried to buy it as a ST, but the TO won't sell it as such

[London Villan]

Me too UK Redsox - we were told at the Chelsea game by a steward we were "privileged" to even sit there...

They weren't saying that during 2016...

[frank black]

Most of the prime seating is season ticket.

That’s a good point. It is also going to make finding a replacement seat in a similar location very difficult

Impossible

[ChicagoLion]

Most of the prime seating is season ticket.

That’s a good point. It is also going to make finding a replacement seat in a similar location very difficult

Impossible

Yes, there are going to be a lot of displaced pissed off ST holders.

[chrisw1]

900 of them would be my guess.

[dalians umbrella]

Anyone tried speaking to the club yet?

I just rang the ticket office. The lady told me that they found out the same information we did today and thy are non the wiser than us. And that they don’t know which seats are affected yet. She said that anyone affected would be the 1st to know. She was a very nice lady and there was no point arguing and making the following points, which are: somebody must know which seats are affected, otherwise they wouldn’t know there are 900 of them. Also, it’s all very well being the 1st to know, but if you haven’t heard anything, you don’t know if it means you aren’t affected or they just haven’t happened to get to you yet, or they have forgotten to get to you.

[Nii Lamptey]

900 ST holders displaced, is that was what was expected? For some reason I was thinking there would be fewer than that.

It's what I feared, I'm expecting my Dear John letter today

Where do you sit Des?

A5, Row F seat 164

I'm pretty much identical to you Des, but in A4. Mildly concerned, but hoping it's more likely to be the middle tier of the Trinity, than the upper.

[chrisw1]

I'd be very surprised if it's upper Trinity tbh.

[London Villan]

Brilliant comms from the club... I wonder how long combined us season tickets-holders have held them - my guess (collectively) would run into thousands of years support...

[chrisw1]

I think unless you're behind the dugouts, close to the 1874 seats in the middle Trinity or directly in front of the boxes in the DE or North, then there's a reasonable chance you'll be ok.  I'm just guessing of course, but that would be my stab at it.

[Nii Lamptey]

I don't think my upper trinity seat will be affected, but I'll be royally pissed off if it is....  I used to sit on the very back row of the Witton Lane stand, looking across the halfway line. During the MoN era, we were all kicked out as they wanted to position the sky cameras there so that the shiny new Trinity Road stand was the backdrop on tv, rather than the dilapidated shed that is the Doug Ellis.

Lightning doesn't strike twice does it?!

[London Villan]

I think unless you're behind the dugouts, close to the 1874 seats in the middle Trinity or directly in front of the boxes in the DE or North, then there's a reasonable chance you'll be ok.  I'm just guessing of course, but that would be my stab at it.

This is my gut feeling on it.

[Ads]

What is the development rumoured to be? Adding 1500 seats in the "middle" north where the boxes are?