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You're right that there will have been season ticket holders counted in Monday's total but not actually present, so because all tickets for Sunday's game have to be purchased, I'm guessing everyone buying one intends to be there. Could that actually result in there being more actual bums on seats on Sunday than there were on Monday, even though the official figure given might be lower?

 

Amazing going, far more than Burton in 2013. The fan base has grown a lot, and some think we’ll struggle to take more than 20k to Wembley lol.

Hopefully the club can begin to capitalise and rise up the leagues.

 

You really are a cretin @DimitriPayet.

 

This rings very true. I was telling @Bronco theres a bloke who sits on the row in front of us, has done for ages. He hasn't been for quite a few home games, me the lady at the side of me were hoping he was ok. Turned out he'd been pretty ill. You build quite a bond with the people around you, i sat next to lovely guy for a few years who unfortunately passed a year or two back, really miss his sense of humour on what could be an awful 90 minutes.

 

Harsh. When I read that I assumed that only ST holders could buy tickets. Ppl rushed to get their own seats but due to the glitches they had all been greyed out. So then they bought any old seats. A combination of poor communication and computer faults. Please don’t blame fans.

 

Personally it doesn't affect me but i've seen messages on here stating it should be like a cup game where it's a free for all tickets but i don't agree. This is essentially another league game, why shouldn't fans be afforded the chance to sit where they always have for what is one of the biggest league games we've had for years?

 

I'd love to think that our season hinged on the fans clapping harder.

 

If our fans behind the goals make a difference,why not do it all season?

We’d have pissed the league if it was that easy.

 

So just to summarise what I think has happened after reading through this and the away thread and to see if I am reading it correctly?

Somebody in the Club alongside a consultation with a fan or two has totally misread the rules and has decided to allocate Carlisle too many tickets. This has then led to the current allocation arrangement, which was not required as the inflated allocation could have been accommodated within the usual away areas of the ground anyway.

The additional revenue for the Club if all the extra away tickets are sold will be £14,000, divided by 5 (EFL, and the four play off clubs) = £2,900. Plus a bit of extra revenue in the MR for the beverage franchise.

And this figure needs to be balanced against policing, stewards and all the other unseen costs for the Club and fans.

The advantage being quoted is having home fans behind both goals, though again needs to be balanced against having 30% more away fans in the ground than required.

No other Club has misread the rules as such, nor thought it a good idea and have followed suit.

Please feel free to correct as required. I may have misread what fellow posters have posted.

 

The claim that they wanted City fans in the T S Dallas stand is just a smokescreen to try to hide the cockup they've made.

 

Who would dream that BCFC and VP would accommodate 45,000 fans in the space of 6 days?

 

Just why did we have to be turfed out of the Midland Road? Surely the TL Dallas and the usual away block would have sufficed? Carlisle don't get many more tickets this way, but season ticket holders have to move to the crappy seats. Daft decision.

 

Oh dear! What a balls up.

We were going to book tonight, but got confused by how many seats had supposedly been sold (when they hadn't, apparently), and we got kicked off the system twice while we were going through the steps!

We'll give it another go tomorrow.

Not concerned about not getting a ticket, but would prefer to be sat in the Midland Road.

None of it made much sense. We've been moved, but others could reserve their own seats, but only if they could figure out that the system was greying out their own seats as 'sold'

Not sure who this is all fair to, but losing our seats to Cumbrians who can't observe a minute's silence is annoying!!

 

I agree. I think my only point was when those in the Midland Road have been moved in the past the arrangement was that all tickets were up for grabs. This time those in the Midland Road have to put up with the seats that are the least attractive.
There was no need for this to happen.

 

Hopefully words will be hard with the ticketing guy as well to remind him that in future, he needs to wait for others to compliment him on the job he is doing rather than jumping in to pat himself on the back and making himself look like a right melon.

 

The I’m alright Jack attitude is all very good till you are Jack

 

Are you Marcos mate you can tell us? Has he gone into hiding because he's realised it actually hasn't been the success he thought it was and cant take the twitter mob on his back? If you don't like the whining stop reading the thread it's a forum if people are annoyed (and I can see why they are) they are entitled to say so if they want.

Personally I've just bought a different seat in the other end of Midland Road and it doesn't really bother me that much but it just comes across that the club haven't really given much thought to those home fans who may be stuck with sitting in seats they didn't really want to where everyone else is OK. There really wasn't any need for this we are playing Carilse not Man City.

 

If there is a mess with regards tickets for Wembley it won't be Bradford City's fault as I believe it was Ticket Master (or one of the companies that sell large venues) that sold them for the last two times we've been ?.