Coventry Prices & Ticket Arrangements

There is an easy solution to this problem that will maximise revenue, segregate the fans and solve the food and comfort issues.

Give them the Pop side. Our small home following can easily fit in the other 3 sides.

Right, that's that sorted. I'm off to Gaza to bang some heads together!

Snorebay You really are like an old gramophone player with its needle stuck merse, problem is its getting boring and the only thing I wish is that I could bet on here, as I would win on you every single time.

You got it wrong big time about Coventry selling their 1500 tickets



If 1500 more were sent up I believe they would sell them as well, but to be fair here, they are a much bigger club the the BSP team Torquay. Your biggest problem is you only look at things through a football fans eyes and fail to understand there are more people who do not like football, or go and pay to watch a game, than there are fans on terraces.

The only people really interested that TUFC are playing an FA Cup game is its fans and those who may just have some interest, but not enough to go and buy a ticket. I will make a thread after this post, that will explain why six tickets that would have been bought, won't be now.

The plain fact is that Torquay United has lost far more fans than it will have at the Coventry game, our new board are not responsible in anyway for that, just events over the years. I know people who stopped going and have never gone back, because the popside was given to away fans, Bateson lost plenty and others just could no longer stand so many disappointments they experienced being a fan of TUFC. Being in the BSP has also cost the club fans and once lost they are so hard to get back.

I live here and talk to people, I know all those I went to football with once, who no longer go, I have lost count of the people I have talked to, who tell me they once always went to Plainmoor, so it really has nothing to do with Torbay being sleepy Merse, more to do with people giving up and finding things to do that give them better entertainment for their money. If I read in the paper our cricket team is playing in some final, I will be pleased, but as I have no interest in that sport, you would not find me in some que to buy a ticket.

If a team from the Blue Square South was drawn at home against Coventry and could only give 500 tickets to away fans, then loads of fans would miss out, If Robbie Williams was going to do a one night concert in Torquay and there was only 2000 tickets, many more 1000's would miss out and not see the show.

Its a fault of the club that it does not have a decent capacity away end and not the fault of any fan or even anyone else living in Torbay and if 500 more tickets were offered, they would all sell and still some Coventry fans would miss out on being at the game.

So please tell what sort of fence you want to see, surly it will have to fixed into the ground? and how many extra policemen will have to be paid for, to form an extra barrier? 15 at least I would say and I wonder how much that will add to the police bill the club has to pay.

Then you want to leave the gate open into the away end from the popside, bloody stupid idea, yes they can go and get a drink at half time, but how are you going to stop a few hundred more from moving on to the popside, we have segregation in football for a very good reason.

Its my view that the human rights thing is played out far to much and its often the victims who seem not to have any, while those committing the crimes have plenty. For me this is a human rights issue, I pay to go into Plainmoor and I expect the club to make the ground as safe a place as possible, I expect to be able to stand in a home fans stand and know as far as humanly possible, it will not have away fans in it.

I do not go to football to see or be a part of any trouble, the club can't really be responsible for anything that happens out in the streets, that is what we have policemen for, but it has a duty to make sure the risks are reduced so all fans in its ground remain safe. Its a joke really when you think about it, I can't have a bottle top, I will get threatened that I will be ejected if I stand on a yellow line, its all to do with health and safety, yet to try and make a few extra bob, my own safety could be at risk, due to away fans being on the home terrace.

You go on about fans who may miss the game, but how many empty seats do you see in top flight club games? well add them all up there are plenty and not because fans don't want to go, but are prised out of going, now that would be a better thing for you to work on Merse and not the fact that some Coventry fans may not see the game.

One final point, its the clubs job to sell the tickets to the people of Torbay, just what are they doing to try and sell out all the home places? sorry but not allot from where I'm sitting, I bet there are plenty of people who don't even know there is a game.

A Jolly decent reply Merse, the point about people still staying away? I think they have all moved on from it , but I still maintain that once fans stop going and change their habits etc, it is hard to ever get them back.

I agree Merse, the tickets would be sold to Cov season ticket holders and I know there are many desperate to get to the game. If you Risk Assess it, I would think we'd be OK even if we beat them 3-0. Any trouble and they'd put themselves up for being banned from their own stadium - I would say that it's unlikely to be an issue. Let them have the tickets - it's the FA Cup not some local derby.

On another note, you had said what's the difference between the Grandstand segregation and any popside - two - price of tickets and sitting down - always affects the outlook of people.

There lies the problem Rob, the club needs to reach out to the Bay far more than it does, yes people know there is a football team who play up at Plainmoor, but games like this really need to have so much more of a hard sell.

Let the bay know that it is a big game and how the club needs to have as much support as possible and as long as any that do come, don't stand in the middle of the popside, they may just come back again.

A thousand tickets on sale yesterday, sold out today..........mmmmmmmm I wonder where most of those tickets ended up?

We need the money though.

It is good news that the game is now a sell out and you do wonder who has bought all the tickets. Maybe sleepy old Torbay has woke up and if they have then that should keep Merse quite for a few days ;D

The question that has to be asked was how phone sales were handled, have all calls to the club resulted in tickets being sold? I ask only because they will have to be posted out you would expect and therefore the club should know if the have been sold to Coventry fans.

If tickets sold via the phone have had no controls put on them, then we could end up with a worse situation than before. Maybe merse was right about giving up one end of the popside and having a temporary fence put up etc. If it is the case that we may have home stand tickets sold to Coventry fans over the phone, then they will be free to wander or stand where they like on the popside.Having them all in one place would have to be better than having them mixed in and not knowing who they were as such.

I really do not see there being any problems at the game, but the away stand and how many away fans the ground can hold, does need looking into and finding away to offer bigger clubs more tickets in cup games etc. The space behind the away end is large and really the stand should have been built bigger, I seem to remember Bateson saying that the problem making it bigger, was the height of the roof.

While its better for away fans to have a roof over the stand, they must still get wet when the wind and rain blows into the stand, I would rather see the away end like it once was. No it did not have a roof, but the steps went much further back and it could hold so many more away fans, I wonder if anyone knows what it was able to hold, before it became a car lot for Dave Webb.