It’s just not comparable. We didn’t just randomly pull tickets with no warning.
Not really fair to be honest. Always buy in advance, and if I knew I was risking something I would’ve bought before. There was no risk of us selling out last night, 200 tix still available. Was never a case of leaving it last minute, just assumed there would be no issues.
You could all see that tickets were selling out fast, so had to buy quickly to avoid disappointment. Ours weren’t going to sell out so not comparable at all.
There is probably another contributing issue. Because of the takeover confirmation I suspect there has been a late rush of home sales in the last 48 hours. Our tickets now have a QR code that doesn't work with the barcode turnstiles so have to be manually scanned & we've probably had to reallocate any staff on duty tomorrow to get the extra home fans in. Our back office staff went through months without being paid so I for one wouldn't begrudge any that aren't due to work being forced to come in & that's assuming we even have extra people. I think this is both a safety & logistical issue.
I know a couple of away tickets that shall we say are homeward bound, might not be alone!
No but it was obvious you lot were gonna sell out from the moment tickets went on sale. There’s still tickets available in our section!! How can they just decide that we can’t buy them. Give them to Barnet and let them sell them if they don’t want home fans in the away end, it’s not that difficult.
That’s not the point, how are people not understanding that. You gave us 4 hours notice that tickets were not available on the gate and pulling them completely. Think about it from our pov, we never sell our away allocations and this would’ve been no different. I understand a Southend fan buying way in advance because your support is magnificent, but for us there’s literally no need to do that for any game apart from maybe borehamwood. Especially on a day with no trains we were never gonna sell out.I do agree, but playing devils avocado, it’s not as if this fixture has snuck up out of nowhere. You’ve had plenty of time to get them
Past two seasons have been pay on the day (cash only). No issue with that. But it means many supporters were going to pay on the day again, as for an away fan at Southend it’s been the method of purchase in previous seasons.
Think we would’ve taken 300-400. We’d sold 200 last night with another 200 available in the block you gave us last night with a day and a half before the game. There is no way in hell I should be expected to know that between 10pm last night and 10am this morning that your club decides that they’re no longer selling tickets.
Exactly. No difference between buying last night and this morning in the grand scheme of things, we weren’t close to selling out.
Not at all true I believe. We don't have a history of selling out on Boxing Day probably as a lot of people have family commitments nor do we when its on TV. We also have a number of supporters who were not coming due to the Rat regime &/or were becoming disenchanted with the progress of the takeover. The news over the weekend has I'm certain perked interest & lead to the current situation.
I was talking about you coming to us on the 30th. Point still stands, away end was not gonna sell out so it’s not justifiable to stop selling away tickets.
