[Albion] Exchange seats now available to buy for west ham game

[Westdene Seagull]

We do have a load of tinpot fans, we are certainly have nowhere near the same level of passion of say portsmouth, even though I can't stand them or the place. It's fkin embarrassing if you ask me, even though your not, even palace I dread to say. Queue the death threats

Alternatively the Easter holidays might have an affect rather than "tinpot fans". I've left France two days early just to go to this match as it is. Thanks to Sky I can't make the last two home matches - it's almost as though they don't understand people have other things in life other than football. I guess that makes me tinpot.

 

[Bozza]

Told me today when I called that the reason my tickets hadn’t shown up was to stop away fans trying to buy them. As @Goldstone1976 has eluded , this isn’t the first time this has happened to us either , we sit just down the way from him.
I was comforted by the fact that because we HAD at least tried to list our tickets Barber wouldn’t be getting into us threatening to take our season tickets away.
Nevertheless, if I hadn’t have called today our tickets wouldn’t have been listed and therefore wouldn’t have been sold, good system eh?

Mid-morning today a reasonable number of seats in the West Middle 1901 area appeared for sale that weren't listed previously.

First thing this morning, 18 tickets were for sale in W2 1901, in just five blocks. By late morning, 84 tickets were listed across all eight blocks.

Someone somewhere released a fair few 1901 tickets that had been held back before then.

 

[Superphil]

Mid-morning today a reasonable number of seats in the West Middle 1901 area appeared for sale that weren't listed previously.

First thing this morning, 18 tickets were for sale in W2 1901, in just five blocks. By late morning, 84 tickets were listed across all eight blocks.

Someone somewhere released a fair few 1901 tickets that had been held back before then.

Indeed, I phoned around 9:30 and that’s when they said they’d activate mine. I think there is quite a worry about oppo fans buying them.
Makes a mockery of the ‘list your tickets and get some money back’ concept of the exchange if they hold back tickets on purpose.

 

[BN41Albion]

Hilarious how the prospect of having an attendance of 27/28,000 as opposed to one of 30,000 is breaking some on here into a cold sweat

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this as I read through the thread. 27/28k is hardly sign of a 'flakey fanbase' and absolutely on par with other clubs of similar size in the Prem in similar scenario. I actually think we do pretty well overall compared to other similar sized clubs overall, especially considering where we've come from the last few decades

 

[BN41Albion]

What would you call this then?

Is Saturday 3pm not a convenient kick off time anymore?

People can’t be arsed to go because we’re in a bad run of form

Or people just have other things going on in their lives. Laughable how much people not going to football seems to rile some folk up.

There are a handful of proper big clubs in this country that will sell out/be packed to the rafters whatever happens (Man City certainly not one of them), the rest of us have the same situation of empty seats increasingly appearing when things aren't going great especially. Watching on MOTD you always see a similar number of empty seats in most grounds - west ham the other day looked half empty, man city had loads of empty seats for their game on Tuesday night

Cost of football isn't helping at all either

27-29,000 is hardly a poor actual attendance anyway

 

[HCxUK]

Or people just have other things going on in their lives. Laughable how much people not going to football seems to rile some folk up.

There are a handful of proper big clubs in this country that will sell out/be packed to the rafters whatever happens (Man City certainly not one of them), the rest of us have the same situation of empty seats increasingly appearing when things aren't going great especially. Watching on MOTD you always see a similar number of empty seats in most grounds - west ham the other day looked half empty, man city had loads of empty seats for their game on Tuesday night

Cost of football isn't helping at all either

27-29,000 is hardly a poor actual attendance anyway

People do have other things going on in their lives.

But we’re still in with a chance of qualifying for European football for the second time ever. Just feels a bit crap that so many can’t be arsed because a bad run of form

City fans were protesting against ticket prices btw

 

[Dave the hatosaurus]

25/04 @ 23.25 3020

 

[Westdene Seagull]

People do have other things going on in their lives.

But we’re still in with a chance of qualifying for European football for the second time ever. Just feels a bit crap that so many can’t be arsed because a bad run of form

City fans were protesting against ticket prices btw

How do you personally know the drop off is because fans can't be arsed ? Easter is the ideal time for many to get away - for 4 days leave you can get 10 days holiday.

 

[Bozza]

Alternatively the Easter holidays might have an affect rather than "tinpot fans". I've left France two days early just to go to this match as it is. Thanks to Sky I can't make the last two home matches - it's almost as though they don't understand people have other things in life other than football. I guess that makes me tinpot.

Is East Sussex on school holidays still? That would certainly impact things.

Here in West, West, West Sussex, the schools went back on Tuesday.

 

[Invicta]

We do have a load of tinpot fans, we are certainly have nowhere near the same level of passion of say portsmouth, even though I can't stand them or the place. It's fkin embarrassing if you ask me, even though your not, even palace I dread to say. Queue the death threats

Once more in English maybe ?

 

[Bozza]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this as I read through the thread. 27/28k is hardly sign of a 'flakey fanbase' and absolutely on par with other clubs of similar size in the Prem in similar scenario. I actually think we do pretty well overall compared to other similar sized clubs overall, especially considering where we've come from the last few decades

Completely fair.

I'm not wetting my pants at the no-shows but it feels to me as though demand has fallen away this season, both in terms of season ticket holders taking up their seats, and one-off ticket buyers. Most of the recent games have seen thousands of unsold exchange tickets.

But having not tracked this before, it's a gut feel not backed up by any statistical evidence.

I'm not sure I can recall a Saturday 3pm game where we've had 3,000 tickets being up for grabs on the day before the game.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Is East Sussex on school holidays still? That would certainly impact things.

Here in West, West, West Sussex, the schools went back on Tuesday.

There were plenty of school aged children on tonights Dieppe to Newhaven ferry so I guess the parents just thought sod it - we'll take the fine if need be. Equally plenty of peoples children are grown up - like mine. Given the demographic of Albion fans I'd suggest there are many in my situation of eaking (sp?) out leave from work allowances to get a decent length holiday (although I did a load of work while in away anyway).

 

[BN41Albion]

We do have a load of tinpot fans, we are certainly have nowhere near the same level of passion of say portsmouth, even though I can't stand them or the place. It's fkin embarrassing if you ask me, even though your not, even palace I dread to say. Queue the death threats

Total bullshit. Wasn't long ago pompey were getting 12-15k in L1 and the Championship (5-10years ago), and palace support drops away very quickly when they're shit - one game against us they only managed 17k in the championship. Their away following is shyte compared to ours too, especially considering the rest of the country is more easily accessible from London than here.

 

[Weststander]

Is East Sussex on school holidays still? That would certainly impact things.

Here in West, West, West Sussex, the schools went back on Tuesday.

BHCC and East Sussex schools restarted Tuesday 22nd.

 

[Weststander]

6 home PL wins out of 16 attempts:
24 August
6 October
9 November
14 February
25 February
8 March
Incredibly, beating Manure, Spurs, ManC, Chelsea.

At many games this season including Saturday KO’s there are a ton of empty seats. Imho the disappointing spells have shaved a few thousand off those making the effort. Obviously stuff like the trains and now the A27 makes doing that more appealing.

 

[Easy 10]

STH crowds have ALWAYS been fickle - its just that these days, we now have realtime hard online data on all the fairweather 'can't be arsed' no-shows binning off their season ticket seats in advance, because they're taking Melanoma and Chlamydia skiiing the next day, or they want to be home for Ant n' Dec.

Back in the Championship days, before the imposed online ticket exchange was barely a globule of spunk swimming in PBOBE's ballsack, we'd all have a good old chuckle at the announced pretendance figures of (say) 26,482 against Wigan (ie "tickets sold") when any fool could see we actually had barely 15k knocking about in there. 'Twas always the case.

However, skipping a Saturday 3pm game does seem a bit lame to me. Particularly as they are such rare treats indeed, most of the time these days in the PL for us. I'm sure 99% of the 3,000+ binning it off tomorrow all have really good reasons though. It is what it is, as I think I heard someone say once or twice.

 

[BN41Albion]

People do have other things going on in their lives.

But we’re still in with a chance of qualifying for European football for the second time ever. Just feels a bit crap that so many can’t be arsed because a bad run of form

City fans were protesting against ticket prices btw

Were they? Very lame protest if so, and the Etihad is notorious for empty seats - didn't look much different to usual.

I get what you mean about chance of Europe, but I feel that a lot of folk are feeling very meh about the season now, which is certainly reflected on here - not just about BHA but the PL in general. It's been such a shit season for the PL with nothing to play for for ages already (bar Europe). I switched off from bothering to watch most games on telly, and motd etc, a while ago now. Woken up this morn not really feeling like I can be arsed with going today either; west ham are dire and nothing to play for, we're in poor form and these are the games we seem to struggle most in... I will go, and I'm sure I'll be more up for it later, but right now...

 

[elwheelio]

When prices creep up year on year it can be easy to overlook how insanely expensive going to a football match is these days.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Go and support Portsmouth or Palace if it bothers you that much

He is a palace fan.

 

[chaileyjem]

When prices creep up year on year it can be easy to overlook how insanely expensive going to a football match is these days.

It’s not cheap . But - all the matchday tickets for this game sold out. Thousands can afford that and all games sold out this year.

The secondary market for this might well be affected by ££ -as @Bozza argues and other factors. But season ticket renewals weren’t that different this year.

but I’m more fascinated why thousands of people who can afford to pay £600/700/800 for a ticket, have gladly renewed, yet decide to not use it multiple times a season. There will be some personal reasons ofc . But The travel, scheduling, price of a pie, football issues that are often cited don’t change that much season after season.


So if anything we’ve a lot of st holders , perhaps increasing in number , who presumably can afford to not turn up multiple times a season and don’t really mind. Preferring the flexibility. And will keep renewing. (The Data we have shows that they have )