1500 Season Tickets Available

[STAR Liaison]

As the "missing" 1000 are seats vacated by last season's not-renewing STHs then that would mean selling match day tickets dotted around the E/W/N stands, rather than only in the South stand. Doesn't seem likely. ?

Not sure why you say that as single seats could be bought in the other stands last season - I know because I know of several occasions when we were able to bring mates along to games and get seats in the west stand (they tended to be the less popular games as they don't have many Royalty points but they did get them). They were single seats then but they were available if you asked.

[The 17 Bus]

which totally against what I was told when I asked if my father could move to the Lower West, i was catergorically told there were NO SEATS available there, and have been told this on more than one occasion, perhaps they were seats returned under the bye back scheme you managed to get??

[weybridgewanderer]

if they were for the less popular games i suspect sponsors had first refusal on each game which is why they were noy available as season ticket but could be purchased single game

[working class hero]

if they were for the less popular games i suspect sponsors had first refusal on each game which is why they were noy available as season ticket but could be purchased single game

I can see why the resale would be a good idea - but if the club are willing to do this for their corporate friends why no buy back scheme for the average punters?

[weybridgewanderer]

if they were for the less popular games i suspect sponsors had first refusal on each game which is why they were noy available as season ticket but could be purchased single game

I can see why the resale would be a good idea - but if the club are willing to do this for their corporate friends why no buy back scheme for the average punters?

no idea, i know these schemes make clubs lots of money

maybe difficult to administer while the ticket office is still trying to get the basics right?

[Behindu]

Selling unwanted corporate seats would be a lot easier than running a general buy back scheme.
The Corporate seats aren;t 'sold' they just get held back up to a certain date in case they are wanted. This is often part of a requirement of the Premier League rather than anything done by the club. If they are not wanted then they go on general sale. No one has to get refunded any money.

[working class hero]

Funny how one of the best run clubs in the land cannot run a buy back isn't it? Ticket agencies, festivals, theatres all do returns - so RFC could do it if they could be bothered.

[weybridgewanderer]

the person that took over ticket office operations last year all but admitted they were struggling to do the basics well

let them get that sorted, then see if the can cope with the tickets for the expansion, then we can worry about a buy back. once the expansion is in place and there are more than a couple of hundred people looking to sell back to the club and the stadium is still selling out, then we should look at a buy back

buy back only works on sell outs because the club will sell all available tickets before buying back season ticket seats. if all the availabl;e sets don't selll thn no point in buying back orthe club loses money

There may little point doing a lot of work to introduce this now if in 2 seasons we can't sell out anymore coz we expanded the stadium and only get 36000 on our 38000 seater stadium

[Behindu]

Funny how one of the best run clubs in the land cannot run a buy back isn't it? Ticket agencies, festivals, theatres all do returns - so RFC could do it if they could be bothered.

Not quite the same though is it....

A buy back for season tickets is not the same as sending back tickets for a one off event.
And plenty of places won't take returns these days anyway !

[1960]

I still don't get the figures. !7,000 STH + 4,000 in the south bank = 21,000. Where are the other 3,000? There can't be that many coporate & hospitality can there? And the 1,500 extra tickets are to plug holes in the season ticket areas, so these should end up full and therefore will not be spare for match days.

[philM]

I still don't get the figures. !7,000 STH + 4,000 in the south bank = 21,000. Where are the other 3,000? There can't be that many coporate & hospitality can there? And the 1,500 extra tickets are to plug holes in the season ticket areas, so these should end up full and therefore will not be spare for match days.

Remember they are selling 1000 less STs this time in the N/W/E so they won't end up full of STHs. We still don't know who gets to sit in those seats

[Royalphil]

Well it worked!

10:15 and just got a ST more or less where I wanted... so happy bunny... AND only had to wait 10 mins on the phone (No 9 in the queue). Result!

[The 17 Bus]

Result for my dad too, no queue straight in and now happy in the Lower West, just have to convince him that he will get to the buses if he leaves a tad after the final whistle.

Very few seats in the Lower West available, must all have too much money

[Winchester Royal]

Called at about 4, got straight through, and got last seasons seat again.

Result.