Wembley tickets

[Yorkshire Blue]

Capacity restrictions for events at Wembley Stadium are set by the relevant authorities in conjunction with TfL. Any decisions on capacity restrictions cannot and have not been made by the National League.

Undoubtedly a factual statement.

However what it omits to mention is that any decisions on capacity will have been based on the organiser’s estimates.

The problem is the NL horrendously misjudged demand.

Interesting quote in there, obviously covering their back but goes against what folks were saying that the planned works were made known before the stadium was booked:

Wembley Stadium has been the confirmed venue for this season’s Promotion Final since last year, long before the planned closure of Wembley Park station was announced. Events of this size take months of planning and consultation. As such, seeking alternative venues at short notice was not deemed a viable option.

In which case you'd have to say the TFL are primarily responsible for this (though I'm sure there's been a huge amount of fumbling the ball on the NL side).

I’ve bolded the key bit.

The NL admit there were months of consultations.

Can someone reply thanking them for confirming that months of consultations took place and asking them to confirm whether during these consultations they advised TfL, Brent Council and any other relevant authorities that this situation might arise.

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

Good luck to everyone still looking for tickets. The optimist in me thinks that there MUST be more tickets released after Tuesday’s safety meeting. Despite the shambles that has unfolded so far, at least all the relevant people that need to be talking to each other now seem to be doing that and hopefully good sense prevails. Our wonderful club thinks that we could sell 35k tickets and presumably Oldham could do a similar number, that’s just too much exposure/revenue to let pass without some heads being banged together and the capacity increased.

If they don't, the other thing they'll have to consider is thousands of rival fans converging in pubs in and around the Wembley area which could create a Policing nightmare

 

[Beefy]

I posted this on the BBC website in the comments relating to MPS applying pressure for more Play-Off tickets:-

"The National League could be doing a whole lot more to help increase the ticket allocation. This is the flagship event for the National League in a year when they are pushing to increase the number of teams promoted from 2 to 3. What better way of justifying that effort than by smashing the attendance record for a National League Final. They are missing a massive opportunity".

This is a cracking observation. It really is a monumental own goal.

 

[Boreham Blue]

Update from near the front of the queue. Wembley releasing tickets at 12.

 

[ROB]

Update from near the front of the queue. Wembley releasing tickets at 12.

any idea how many in the queue at RH?

 

[Lemon Lyman]

The fact it’s taken until now for them to make a statement tells you all you need to know about the national leagues organisation

 

[Smiffy]

Ticket Alert

 

[SUFCJK]

The fact that level 5 is open is a very good sign, I’m hopeful that means more tickets should be released after tomorrow

 

[ShrimperLee]

These new tickets are in the upper tier? That has to be a good sign surely?

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

So is that 2,722 on top of the 21,500?

 

[McShrimper]

A monumental collective **** up based from the various parties on this. Unsurprisingly nobody is taking responsibility, instead deflecting blame to the other. National League encouraging coach travel which is impractical to thousands. We don’t all still live in Southend you know! If you average it out (kids, concessions, early bird etc) ticket price is probably £30. Reckon they will cap it 46,000. 23,000 each. If we’d both been given proper allocations it would realistically be 15,000 - 20,000 + tickets more. That’s £450k on seat revenue alone plus spend in other areas ie. food, drinks. Costs would not be a fraction of that. Run by numpties, money aside it’s depriving thousands of fans of this rare occasion.

 

[united we stand]

Whether Wembley was decided long before TfL scheduling their engineering the latter is posted SIX months in advance. Ample time for contingency arrangements to be put in place. Also I refuse to believe TfL didn’t speak to the league. You can bet your life some conversations were had along the lines of we’ll only get 20-30K so the closures won’t be an issue. Seems to me to be some wriggling going on.

I read this as 100% national league.
Yes you confirmed Wembley- you don’t mention the date! The fact you don’t mention the date tells me you ****ed this up

 

[CorkShrimper]

Well done to the clubs for pushing so hard, people should have been able to enjoy the week leading up to the final but are up to the early hours fighting for the fans. Hope common sense prevails soon.

 

[fredheim_holm]

So is that 2,722 on top of the 21,500?

I may be wrong, but I think we have 21,500, plus the coach allocation which was itself 1500 or so? Which were all sold out yesterday, ~23k.

Now another 2.6k are on sale and about to be very quickly snapped up, taking us around 25.5k.

Someone can correct me if I've got the maths off here.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Forget who it is, but one of the spokespeople somewhere described it as a "clusterf***" - best and most apt description.

I've had to take tickets in the lower tier but really wanted the middle. Drove straight down to Roots Hall Saturday evening after landing back at Stansted from our holiday!

 

[undercovershrimper]

in the online wait room....no time estimate available

 

[londonblue]

I'm currently at Wembley doing some shopping. Just found someone who works for Sky Sports. When I find another I'm going to mention the issues and see if he can get it on their news programme

 

[shrimper-james]

Got 5 devices ready in the queue

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Forget who it is, but one of the spokespeople somewhere described it as a "clusterf***" - best and most apt description.

I've had to take tickets in the lower tier but really wanted the middle. Drove straight down to Roots Hall Saturday evening after landing back at Stansted from our holiday!

Relieved to hear you got tickets. Was concerned you may miss out as you were away.

 

[It'sGrimUpNorth]

This is ridiculous isnt it. They’ll be releasing more tickets seat by bloody seat next.

Stop embarrassing yourselves and open it all up.
Bragging on the tv that Charlton sold their allocation of 40k. Well if ours were all on sale from the get go, I reckon we would not have been far from that!!

Talk about feed the anxiety. Who puts these clowns in charge?

Muppets.

Up the shrimpers