paulr
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Post by paulr on May 5, 2009 11:20:37 GMT
According to the Club answer phone message, tickets will NOT be sold from Plainmoor but via web later today with phone bookings from Thursday. Details will be announced soon. I hope you are given a choice of seating and expect a hype in prices compared with buying them from Plainmoor!
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Post by Budleigh on May 5, 2009 11:37:15 GMT
It's not a club decision... it was taken out of their hands
(but don't forget to take up the club's offer of a great price on season tickets bought before the 15th of May... near to 500 sold far!)
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Post by paulr on May 5, 2009 12:44:07 GMT
Already done! Paul  |
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Post by merse on May 5, 2009 15:33:56 GMT
 There are better details on the Cambridge United site than ours and they tell their fans they are getting the West End of the stadium so we will be in the same seats as last season's Trophy Final...................they have also organised a "Singing Amber Army Section" ~ nothing like that on ours. At the moment the purchasing arrangements are a bloody cheek in my opinion with NO SEATING PLAN, do they seriously expect people to hand over £30-£35 a ticket plus "handling fee" without any say over where they will be sitting? That's a piss take of the highest order and I'm fecked if I'm going to book under those conditions.....................I'd rather turn up on the day and pay on the gate; unless the the blazers are stopping that too. It seems to me like it's a case of go to Wembley and get ripped off, why play it in a half empty gaff like that when somewhere like Reading or even Villa Park would be a much better option and better atmosphere. Who the hell wants a "Wembley Experience" anyway with all this corporate "on a jolly" nonsense, we're not going there to have a party, we're going there to do a job, get it done and piss off back with Football League membership - end of story. We don't need silly suits and daft button holes like the Trophy Final last season, this isn't a social occasion it's a ruddy football match that needs winning and full focus and nothing less. Wembley's a damned miserable place to be a loser and we've been losers there too often. There's no triumph in getting there as we wanted to be the Champions and this is second best, so we HAVE to get it right. I just wish the powers that be saw it that way and stopped turning it into some Corporate Birthday Outing!  EDIT: Now there IS a singing "Popside Section"as the O/S has been updated and details of the stadium end announced, but STILL NO SEATING plan................let's hope the phone lines can accomodate choice on Thursday, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Post by timp1 on May 5, 2009 17:00:26 GMT
Before anyone calls you Mr Grumpy, Merse, I'm with you as Mr Grumpy 2!
What a rip-off! £35 per head? I presume Ronaldo etc are guesting for both teams. What's also pi**ed me off is the limit of 12 tickets per person for a game that is not going to fill half the stadium. I want to sit with the same people who I stand with week in, week out, not day-trippers, and my mates who are travelling with me-that's at least 20.
Yes, let's remember why we are there-to win a place back in the League, not for a "jolly".
I'd also advise people to eat before they arrive to save getting ripped off further by the Stadium.
£35! Bah!
BTW, there is a link on the Official Site to a seating plan, so I presume one can specify which block to purchase seats.
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paulr
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Post by paulr on May 5, 2009 17:26:32 GMT
Beware also that CAR PARKING at Hillingdon and Rislip and other London Underground stations on the outskirts cannot be booked in advance at this time. I have just spoken to a lady at NCP who states that they have been advised that all bookings are suspended for the time being and that they have not been told why or when this may alter. The NCP web site is also unavailable at this time. Hey Ho!
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Post by mike on May 5, 2009 17:37:24 GMT
Before anyone calls you Mr Grumpy, Merse, I'm with you as Mr Grumpy 2! What a rip-off! £35 per head? I presume Ronaldo etc are guesting for both teams. What's also pi**ed me off is the limit of 12 tickets per person for a game that is not going to fill half the stadium. I want to sit with the same people who I stand with week in, week out, not day-trippers, and my mates who are travelling with me-that's at least 20. Yes, let's remember why we are there-to win a place back in the League, not for a "jolly". I'd also advise people to eat before they arrive to save getting ripped off further by the Stadium. £35! Bah! BTW, there is a link on the Official Site to a seating plan, so I presume one can specify which block to purchase seats. just been playing around on the online ticket purchase site and can't find an option to choose block etc If any one has better luck would be pleased to know Seems to be an overpriced shambles and the restriction of 12 tickets per transaction is crazy |
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Post by stewart on May 5, 2009 17:40:52 GMT
I have just e-mailed the club asking them to find out, if possible, whether or not we will be able to state our block of choice when using the telephone service.
Surely the ticket company cannot expect us to purchase tickets and have no idea where we will be seated ?
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Post by evertoned on May 5, 2009 17:45:00 GMT
Just booked mine using the popside logon
Thirty quid not that bad
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Post by capitalgull on May 5, 2009 18:09:29 GMT
I have just e-mailed the club asking them to find out, if possible, whether or not we will be able to state our block of choice when using the telephone service. Surely the ticket company cannot expect us to purchase tickets and have no idea where we will be seated ? I just did the same, got a reply from Darryl Haggan, and he admitted he was stunned about not being able to specify a section. As I said to Merse earlier on, it's getting to the point where I might just stay at home and watch on Setanta, since Wembley and their ticket agents don't seem to give a crap about their customers. |
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Post by chrish on May 5, 2009 20:12:01 GMT
I have just e-mailed the club asking them to find out, if possible, whether or not we will be able to state our block of choice when using the telephone service. Surely the ticket company cannot expect us to purchase tickets and have no idea where we will be seated ? I just did the same, got a reply from Darryl Haggan, and he admitted he was stunned about not being able to specify a section. As I said to Merse earlier on, it's getting to the point where I might just stay at home and watch on Setanta, since Wembley and their ticket agents don't seem to give a crap about their customers. Thirty quid is a complete rip off. I managed to get a few work colleagues interested earlier today thinking it would be in the 20 to 25 quid price range but that is a complete disgrace. I hate to sound like a miserable git but thats far too expensive! |
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Post by kevgull on May 5, 2009 20:33:00 GMT
30 - 35 quid for a playoff final ticket, of which a collective 140,000 ish could find its way back to our club.
With the strength in depth of the BSP next season, it could be a long time before we visit the Wembley again.
My wife has just paid 40 quid to watch Take That at Cardiff so there is no complaints from me to watch Brazil from the west country!
I only hope we play in Yellow as most of our songs incorporate our home colour.
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Post by capitalgull on May 5, 2009 20:41:12 GMT
Sorry Kevgull, but the only money TUFC make from the play-off final is from the sales of hospitality packages.
The receipts from the game are shared throughout the whole of the BSP so we will get a 1/24th share and nothing more.
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Post by ospelgull on May 5, 2009 20:46:08 GMT
Tickets for last years final also cost 30/35 quid. It's a lot of money but it's worth it, especially if we win.
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Post by merse on May 5, 2009 20:52:48 GMT
I just did the same, got a reply from Darryl Haggan, and he admitted he was stunned about not being able to specify a section. As I said to Merse earlier on, it's getting to the point where I might just stay at home and watch on Setanta, since Wembley and their ticket agents don't seem to give a crap about their customers. Thirty quid is a complete rip off. I managed to get a few work colleagues interested earlier today thinking it would be in the 20 to 25 quid price range but that is a complete disgrace. I hate to sound like a miserable git but thats far too expensive! You do realise that this Wembley gate money is shared out between ALL the BSP clubs and that means we have to pay into a slush fund to keep stupid clubs like Weymouth alive, bent clubs like FGR whom all evidence points towards match fixing and idiot clubs like sHiton who have already ripped us off by demanding eighteen fecking quid for kids and old folk to sit in their bike shed. Sills should have left his mask at the Arseworld "Stadium" so that the robbing bastards can commit further highway robbery during the close season charging old folk just to ride past their ground on the bus into Cambridge. The way I feel about this is that IF I cannot chose where I want to sit, then I won't be handing over my money and I'll sit at home and watch it on the telly for nothing rather than feather the nest of the incompetent, the corrupt and the down right criminal. If they'd had sHiton in the final they'd have been looking at barely a couple of thousand fans of their's turning up, clods of the new pitch sent flying all over North West London and having to open the Olympic Gallery just to get a close up view of the action. If they had Weymouth there, they couldn't be sure they would even turn up and if it was FGR you'd have to drag 'em all out the bloody bookies getting their money on the opposition before they could start. |
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