Wembley Tickets

I was in roughly that spot last year. Good view I thought, plenty of noise, I was towards the back and the middle tier overhangs slightly which helped with the accoustics. I would happily return to the same spot but booked over the phone first thing today so am clueless as to where I will be!

Any more thoughts on whether block 119 is any good?

I'm 50/50 whether to pay the extra and take pot luck online or just pick up tickets from Plainmoor.

There's a lot of folk watching the Trophy Final on or near the half-way line.

I bought my tickets on line before the choice buttons were made available. As you rightly say we will have to wait and see exactly where we will be allocated seats, however, I think that due to the crazy sales system that there will be many empty seats. If that turns out to be the case, I think that you will probably be free to sit where you like!
It is just a shame that instead of concentrating on generating all possible goodwill, enthusiasm and excitement during the lead up to the final, we are left debating the sale and allocation of tickets! Sadly what's done is done! Whilst easy say , try not to let those responsible ruin what is OUR day out supporting OUR wonderful club as they do all that they can to give us back a League Football team!

Well that's because the clubs handled the ticket sales themselves just as we did last season when we were there. There were exactly the same seats favoured then too.

All I can suggest is a mass stampede from the crap seats to any empty good ones next Sunday as a sign of protest and an organised campaign to let this senile old cnut Brian Lee know what we think of him and sing for his resignation.

Can anyone think of a suitably short and sweet song and put it up on the Cambridge fans' site too?

This guy has overseen the wholesale piss take of the league by Weymouth, the farce of the players' registrations and points deductions; and now this.........................get rid of the old fool!!!!!

Exactly, shedding enough clubs to get rid of scheduled midweek fixtures would make sense (as it would in all leagues) as the attendances for these games are appalling and would also help with the ridiculous impacting of games at the end of every season due to the need to get the fixtures finished so the blazers can have their night out at their awards ceremony/dinner..................that's another bloody scandal that needs addressing. Remember how we had to play four times a week at the end of last season and then ultimately ran out of juice in the all important play off semi and Trophy Final?

These administrators, don't give a shit about the welfare of players or the finances of supporters; they really don't..................and let's face it clubs like Woking who actively make visiting fans unwelcome, Weymouth who pulled a stunt that would never be permitted in the Football League and Histon with there hopelessly inadequate set up are hardly fit to carry the mantle of "Non League's" Premiership standard are they?

At least the BSP will be shot of Woking and Weymouth next season, or will they? There seems to be a repetitive theme of the inadequate getting a reprieve in this league.

This is not knocking the BSP per se. It's a pleasure and a privilege to visit the likes of Stevenage, Rushden, AFC Wimbledon and other upwardly mobile clubs who have striven to provide excellent facilities and teams of no mean competitiveness. There are plenty of clubs like Oxford, Wrexham, York, Luton, Mansfield and the like who have perfectly good facilities and knowledgeable crowds and a fairly decent welcome. We've seen Aldershot, Exeter and Burton move upwards and onwards and we'd just die to join them next season, but if we don't it won't be the end of the world and I'd just like to think that the BSP will get it's administrative house in order as befits the super little league that it can be ; and to a large extent generally is.

A bit late on the scene but I've had a few things on my mind this week through starting a new job. Anyway, here goes.

I was just getting on the train home at Hatfield on Tuesday - along with people who appeared to be heading for a match in the vicinity of Finsbury Park - when my mobile rang to tell me of the ticket arrangements for Wembley. "Yeah, yeah go ahead" was my response and, by the time I emerged from the tube at Waterloo, I'd recieved an "all sorted" text. That, I'd argue, was the perfect arrangement - in theory - for our little party comprising four souls from Taunton and one from Exeter, none of whom (save for me going to the Legends Evening) was likely to set foot in Torquay for a while.

And, having purchased tickets for at least half-a-dozen play-off finals at Cardiff, it's the way ticket sales have been going for a while. However, from those games and a few others elsewhere, I've had contrasting experiences. These have ranged from Leyton Orient - good old-fashioned postal system which involved the O's cashing my cheque (remember those?) and failing to supply me with a ticket until the Football League intervened - to Cheltenham Town using a very efficient online business in East Lancashire which offered a drop-down menu facility allowing me to select where I wished to sit. In general, my experience of online systems has been favourable and I'd guess most of us would be happy with a "mixed economy" approach which allows us to choose between purchasing tickets online, by phone or through the old-fashioned over-the-counter method. Most importantly, in whatever system, there has to be an arrangement which allows purchase of tickets right up to the last moment. Anyone who has bought event tickets in recent years would, I'm sure, be able to provide details of how this can be done!

Two things interest me. Firstly, that venues (such as Wembley or the Millennium) are often not involved in ticket sales at all. Their approach seems to be to hire the place out and hand over everything to the event organisers. I suppose that's low-cost-for-maximum return and, in Wembley's case, the stadium owners play the card - for a fair bob on the bill no doubt - that they have a unique product that the entire world (according to the marketing consultants) wants more than anything else. By contrast, and I know it's a completely different situation, I've just ordered four tickets for Wales v Estonia - a tenner each plus a quid for postage (arriving next day) - direct from the venue in Llanelli. There's something rather quaint and reassuring about that - and I did like her Llanelli accent to boot.

Secondly, I note the way the Conference has called the shots rather than the competing clubs. Certainly, from my experience of Football League play-offs, each club has individually decided how to sell tickets. For me, unless I've wanted to sit with a particular set of fans, this has involved "shopping around" to find the method that most suited me. In the current instance Cambridge may have used one method; Torquay United quite another. Fair play.

Lastly, if you've not seen them, Colin Lee's comments in the Herald Express during the week made for interesting reading:

"We had meetings with two other ticket companies, thinking ahead, before the Conference invited us and the other semi-finalists to Wembley last week.

But when we got there, tickets.com made a presentation and it was obvious that the decision had already been made.

The fact is that our supporters can buy tickets cheaper through them than if we had done it through another source, and that means quite a lot to us.

What you do lose is the direct connection to your supporters and we know people like to come in to buy tickets.

But we hope it's easier for them, not having to get in their cars and driving here.

Having said that, we didn't have any say in the matter."

I wonder what the other bidders offered?