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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Filo on May 05, 2019, 11:53:15 am
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Absoloutly no way should they be given the side section in the east stand, we can fill that ourselves
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Double they will even bring that many? Reckon 2.5k tops
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Any thoughts on prices, will the club go £10 adult £5 senior £1 a kid , or possibly increase the price a bit because we will have a good crowd come what may.
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Agreed
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Not sure that works. First we will likely fill stadium at full or close to full price, plus I presume we have to offer Charlton same offer so we are making huge notional loss on their 2-3k fans. And I doubt they will reciprocate a discounted offer at their place as they have a bigger crowd coming, so it doesn’t make much sense all round really - as nice as it might be.
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Be a bit annoying if Charlton then charge £25
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Any idea when/how they are on sale
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Any idea when/how they are on sale
Just announced - on sale Monday to STH’s. Wednesday for bronze members, Thursday for general sale. Normal pricing.
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Tickets on sale Monday for Silver. Thursday general sale. 22 quid Cat A and 21 quid Cat B.
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Monday just tweeted by the club ticket office open Monday
Prices look normal price to so no offers
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Tickets for Rovers' Sky Bet League One play-off first leg against Charlton Athletic will go on sale on Bank Holiday Monday.
The game will take place at the Keepmoat Stadium on Sunday May 11, kicking off at 12.15pm.
Category A
Adult
£22.00
Senior 65+
£18.00
22-24yrs
£18.00
18-21yrs
£14.00
12-17yrs
£8.00
Under 12
£5.00
Category B
Adult
£21.00
Senior 65+
£17.00
22-24yrs
£17.00
18-21yrs
£13.00
12-17yrs
£8.00
Under 12
£5.00
Wheelchair and ambulant disabled pay the appropriate price with a carer free.
Tickets will go on sale as follows:
Monday May 6 - Silver Membership holders
Wednesday May 8 - Bronze Membership, Half Season Members, Dons 2019 ST Holders, Academy, Alliance, Red Squad & Donny Squad Membership Holders
Thursday May 9 - general sale
The Cup Direct scheme will be in operation, so anyone who has signed up for that service will receive their ticket through the post automatically.
Tickets can be purchased from the Club Doncaster Box Office, which will be open from 9am-4.30pm on Bank Holiday Monday to cope with the expected interest. Tickets can also be purchased by calling the Box Office on 01302 762576 or going to tickets.clubdoncaster.co.uk
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What about Cat C
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No cat c for match day tickets they only exist for season ticket sales I believe so would pay want a standard match day would be
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Can’t fault the club... they made it cheap for palace game but at £21 a ticket they could potentially make 200-300k from this game.
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Be enough to pay the fines
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Reckon there will be 8000 tops with it being on sky as well
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Aren’t seniors normally 60+ at Rovers?
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Any idea when the away leg info will be released?
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Could have sworn this match was on Saturday, gutted it's not.
Won't be half the occasion it would have been :thumbdown:
Lunchtime on a Sunday, shite time to go to a footy match
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Could have sworn this match was on Saturday, gutted it's not.
Won't be half the occasion it would have been :thumbdown:
Lunchtime on a Sunday, shite time to go to a footy match
Sunday lunchtime is surely better than 7.30 on a Saturday evening
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Could have sworn this match was on Saturday, gutted it's not.
Won't be half the occasion it would have been :thumbdown:
Lunchtime on a Sunday, shite time to go to a footy match
We’ve just got into a play off semi final, celebrate the fact rather than worry about trivial things like kick off times 😝
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Roversontheup, it is for season ticket holders, who are on sale first, so I imagine it is a typo error.
To tell the truth on some away games in the past, even though their policy has been 65yrs, when purchased at the Rovers they have stuck to 60yrs.
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Any thoughts on prices, will the club go £10 adult £5 senior £1 a kid , or possibly increase the price a bit because we will have a good crowd come what may.
why ? Even McCann has stated if we got to Wembley he doesn’t know how many fans would be there. If the club is to grow it’s fan base it is with success on the pitch not cheap tickets or freebies .
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Can’t fault the club... they made it cheap for palace game but at £21 a ticket they could potentially make 200-300k from this game.
The gate receipts for all four matches in our division go into one pot. This then gets divided up equally into 5. Each of the four clubs gets 20 % and the EFL gets 20%
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Seems a bit unfair if your Sunderland with 34k at or 18k at Portsmouth.
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Just been on Charlton's website and they're charging normal prices for the game down there.
Unless Rovers subsidise tickets/travel in some way, they'll be nowt cheap about the second leg.
Behind their home goal Tickets are £21, don’t they have to charge us the same
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Could have sworn this match was on Saturday, gutted it's not.
Won't be half the occasion it would have been :thumbdown:
Lunchtime on a Sunday, shite time to go to a footy match
We’ve just got into a play off semi final, celebrate the fact rather than worry about trivial things like kick off times 😝
'just' is a stretch for 24 hrs.
Been plenty of time for reflection now. 😉
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Can’t fault the club... they made it cheap for palace game but at £21 a ticket they could potentially make 200-300k from this game.
The gate receipts for all four matches in our division go into one pot. This then gets divided up equally into 5. Each of the four clubs gets 20 % and the EFL gets 20%
Not correct. The EFL take 50% which doesn't leave a lot for everybody else.
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Can’t fault the club... they made it cheap for palace game but at £21 a ticket they could potentially make 200-300k from this game.
The gate receipts for all four matches in our division go into one pot. This then gets divided up equally into 5. Each of the four clubs gets 20 % and the EFL gets 20%
Not correct. The EFL take 50% which doesn't leave a lot for everybody else.
Robbing bas**rd's
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Can’t fault the club... they made it cheap for palace game but at £21 a ticket they could potentially make 200-300k from this game.
The gate receipts for all four matches in our division go into one pot. This then gets divided up equally into 5. Each of the four clubs gets 20 % and the EFL gets 20%
Not correct. The EFL take 50% which doesn't leave a lot for everybody else.
so clubs potentially might make a loss?
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Will bronze members still get a discount?
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Personally I wouldn’t even give them the whole of the north. Segregate it off and open the other half to rovers fans. We need to give them as little advantage as possible
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Will bronze members still get a discount?
Says no membership discounts.
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Don’t really think people can complain at £21. Some just like a moan.
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Can't argue with prices, guessing we've had to agree with both clubs and EFL.
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Got mine online 5 minutes ago, beats going to the ticket office
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Charlton fans will have to set off at about 7 to 7.30 am to come here.
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Charlton fans will have to set off at about 7 to 7.30 am to come here.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
It'll be the early hours when we get home from the away leg.
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Got mine online 5 minutes ago, beats going to the ticket office
Wish we could get ours online. Mad that they can't make it so you can buy disabled tickets online if they have one of the people you're buying for down as disabled.
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Taken from the ticket website. This can't be right? under 12 £5 then 17 and under £8? what's that all about, as well as a 12-17 price.
Senior 60+ £17.00
Young Adult 22-24 £17.00
Young Adult 18-21 £13.00
Junior 12-17 £8.00
Under 12 £5.00
17 and Under £8.00
I also noticed (I've just spotted the 'reserved tickets' screen on the website) on the reserved tickets screen, it says the reason you can't get a carer's ticket from online is because there's no price list for it. Surely there's a way they can make it available to those it applies to?
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Taken from the ticket website. This can't be right? under 12 £5 then 17 and under £8? what's that all about, as well as a 12-17 price.
Senior 60+ £17.00
Young Adult 22-24 £17.00
Young Adult 18-21 £13.00
Junior 12-17 £8.00
Under 12 £5.00
17 and Under £8.00
I also noticed (I've just spotted the 'reserved tickets' screen on the website) on the reserved tickets screen, it says the reason you can't get a carer's ticket from online is because there's no price list for it. Surely there's a way they can make it available to those it applies to?
It is right, it's been those prices all season.
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Taken from the ticket website. This can't be right? under 12 £5 then 17 and under £8? what's that all about, as well as a 12-17 price.
Senior 60+ £17.00
Young Adult 22-24 £17.00
Young Adult 18-21 £13.00
Junior 12-17 £8.00
Under 12 £5.00
17 and Under £8.00
I also noticed (I've just spotted the 'reserved tickets' screen on the website) on the reserved tickets screen, it says the reason you can't get a carer's ticket from online is because there's no price list for it. Surely there's a way they can make it available to those it applies to?
It is right, it's been those prices all season.
Look closer. There's a 12-17 price, and an under 12 price. I know these two are correct and have been this all season as I've had to pay the kids in a couple of times when we've forgotten books. Then there's a 17 and under price - that's dearer than the under 12.
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Charlton's ticketing page says we've allocated them 3,001 tickets.
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Charlton's ticketing page says we've allocated them 3,001 tickets.
They have the option of the extra 800 too.
Which is the wrong decision for me.
Much rather give them to donny fans, I would even rather have 800 empty seats than give them an added advantage.
All about marginal gains at this stage
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Got mine this morning steady stream going in
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Charlton's ticketing page says we've allocated them 3,001 tickets.
They have the option of the extra 800 too.
Which is the wrong decision for me.
Much rather give them to donny fans, I would even rather have 800 empty seats than give them an added advantage.
All about marginal gains at this stage
Who’s to say we will sell out our allocation. If we gave them less and they sell out I’m sure they would find a way into the home end easy enough
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Charlton ave sold 10k for their home leg, how are we doing?
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Charlton ave sold 10k for their home leg, how are we doing?
We’ve sold at least 3, I bought them this morning
COYR
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Charlton ave sold 10k for their home leg, how are we doing?
We've already sold 12k.
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Charlton's ticketing page says we've allocated them 3,001 tickets.
They have the option of the extra 800 too.
Which is the wrong decision for me.
Much rather give them to donny fans, I would even rather have 800 empty seats than give them an added advantage.
All about marginal gains at this stage
I do understand the thought, but this game won't be won or lost based on who sits I those 800 seats in the North East corner. Our fans will give tremendous support and the ground will be full, I'm sure. That's what matters - how well the fans support the team, not exactly how many thousand of us there are.
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Charlton's ticketing page says we've allocated them 3,001 tickets.
They have the option of the extra 800 too.
Which is the wrong decision for me.
Much rather give them to donny fans, I would even rather have 800 empty seats than give them an added advantage.
All about marginal gains at this stage
I do understand the thought, but this game won't be won or lost based on who sits I those 800 seats in the North East corner. Our fans will give tremendous support and the ground will be full, I'm sure. That's what matters - how well the fans support the team, not exactly how many thousand of us there are.
The way I read it is there IS an option to give them more tickets and it's not THEIR option to take.
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Charlton's ticketing page says we've allocated them 3,001 tickets.
They have the option of the extra 800 too.
Which is the wrong decision for me.
Much rather give them to donny fans, I would even rather have 800 empty seats than give them an added advantage.
All about marginal gains at this stage
I do understand the thought, but this game won't be won or lost based on who sits I those 800 seats in the North East corner. Our fans will give tremendous support and the ground will be full, I'm sure. That's what matters - how well the fans support the team, not exactly how many thousand of us there are.
Remember that time we destroyed all the hard work the club had done to build support over the last few years because we gave Palace them extra seats? tragic. And we're about to repeat that very same grievous error and set the club back another two decades here. :silly:
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It says on there forum they have been given 3000 with another 800 if they wa t them
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Why have they done that, we should be able to fill the ground for this one like we did for the Palace game, terrible decision.
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When are away leg tickets on sale
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When are away leg tickets on sale
Tomorrow, 7th
COYR
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They are selling 4 per STH for their home game. We are currently selling 1 per STH. Sales of ours versus theirs are irrelevant at this stage.
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https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/news/2019/may/charlton-athletic-a-ticket-information/
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They've already sold 10k for the Home leg. Would be nice to roll them 3-0 and get em all wanting a refund !
Or for the ultimate "pant wetter" (I just made that upbtw) 3-0 to us in Leg 1 and with them leading 4-0 at home the heavens open. It rains for 30 minutes and despite all their Players and fans (and even Grounstaff) doing their best to clear the pitch and so get to Wembley the Ref (Mick Russell) rules the Pitch unplayable
The game is rearranged and the Addicks win 2-0 and Rovers progress to Wembley POF.
OK I lied about the Ref being Mick Russell - I dont want to make my tale too far fetched :silly:
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I'm hoping to go the away but need to get out of work tomorrow. Good job we have 3000 which we wont sell all of on a Friday night.
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Why have they done that, we should be able to fill the ground for this one like we did for the Palace game, terrible decision.
we wouldn’t sell all them anyway
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Why have they done that, we should be able to fill the ground for this one like we did for the Palace game, terrible decision.
we wouldn’t sell all them anyway
If we can't fill the ground for a home play-off semi final, something is wrong
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If they're having the East, then they should open the West block up for us.
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I get the fincial side of selling them those tickets, what I don’t get is we have the manager and players asking and saying get behind the team it makes all the difference, and the club then make the task harder by selling the opposition an exta 800 tickets to the opposition in a crucial play off game
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It hasn't even been decided that they're getting them yet though has it? Everyone who sells the initial allocation has the "option" of more. We don't necessarily have to give them up - especially if demand dictates we will need them, surely?
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We have had this debate before, has the extra 800 allocation actually officially been decided on, or is this speculation sparked on social media.?
Some fans on here were calling the club all sorts last time this happened and were later proved wrong..
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Having sold nearly 2000 home tickets yesterday, 1st day for season ticket holders, we should hopefully sell enough tickets to fill the home seats. Maybe when they go on general sale ticket sales will increase so those 800 may not be given to Charlton. But there may not be lot of time for that decision.
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We have had this debate before, has the extra 800 allocation actually officially been decided on, or is this speculation sparked on social media.?
Some fans on here were calling the club all sorts last time this happened and were later proved wrong..
I read on a Charlton "site" cant remember if Official one or their Twitter feed that they had been allocated "3000+ with the option of a further 800"
See if I can find it and post later
Charlton Athletic FCVerified account @CAFCofficial May 5 (https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f39f.png) We have confirmation that we will receive an allocation of just over 3,000 for our away tie at @drfc_official (https://twitter.com/drfc_official) with an additional 800 seats if required. But hold tight, we'll announce when they will be going on sale as soon as we can. #cafc (https://twitter.com/hashtag/cafc?src=hash)
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https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5ccf33e769b41/play-off-away-leg-ticket-information
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I don’t get why people are so bothered about 800 tickets.
Charlton have 3k to sell, Rovers have 10k (or thereabouts) to sell before it even becomes a problem.
It’s impossible to know what general aale will bring as it’s a bit of a unique situation to be in the play-offs, but hopefully they’ll go well.
800 seats won’t make a difference anyway.
Mansfield had 5k at MK Dons on Saturday. Leeds had 60k at Wembley (if you listen to their exaggeration) and it didn’t matter.
Given the silly events of last Saturday in the South Stand, if Charlton do flog 3k, it’s better to give them 800 more rather than risk them coming in the home ends.
My argument is that it's about marginal gains. Something team sky are exceptional at, and it works. Super car manufacturers also adopt it by shaving grams of weight everywhere, which amounts to kilograms over the whole car.
Whack the heating on the away changing room full.
'lose' the key for their changing room for an hour.
Don't give them the 800 extra seats.
Paint the changing room a horrible colour.
Remove a few bulbs in the changing room etc
It all adds up to a bigger advantage
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I was right - I originally posted 3001 and 781 ..... then could find only the Tweet I posted above so altered my Post
I think they will flog the 3001 and then as others say "we will have to wait and see" if they ask for or get the extra 781
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I don’t get why people are so bothered about 800 tickets.
Charlton have 3k to sell, Rovers have 10k (or thereabouts) to sell before it even becomes a problem.
It’s impossible to know what general aale will bring as it’s a bit of a unique situation to be in the play-offs, but hopefully they’ll go well.
800 seats won’t make a difference anyway.
Mansfield had 5k at MK Dons on Saturday. Leeds had 60k at Wembley (if you listen to their exaggeration) and it didn’t matter.
Given the silly events of last Saturday in the South Stand, if Charlton do flog 3k, it’s better to give them 800 more rather than risk them coming in the home ends.
My argument is that it's about marginal gains. Something team sky are exceptional at, and it works. Super car manufacturers also adopt it by shaving grams of weight everywhere, which amounts to kilograms over the whole car.
Whack the heating on the away changing room full.
'lose' the key for their changing room for an hour.
Don't give them the 800 extra seats.
Paint the changing room a horrible colour.
Remove a few bulbs in the changing room etc
It all adds up to a bigger advantage
If they do sell 3k (and that's open to debate anyway for various reasons) then I'd give the extra 800 purely on the safety issues because if they ended up coming in the home ends, it has the potential for carnage.
Personally, I think it'll be a similar attendance to the Coventry game anyway - 2.5k in the away end and 8k in the home ends (which looked about what it was, despite the official attendance figure).
Aye, but we're playing Charlton on a Sunday lunchtime. Not Leeds on a Saturday night.
How many Charlton fans have a donny postcode? (which they would need to buy a ticket) I dare say none.
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I don’t get why people are so bothered about 800 tickets.
Charlton have 3k to sell, Rovers have 10k (or thereabouts) to sell before it even becomes a problem.
It’s impossible to know what general aale will bring as it’s a bit of a unique situation to be in the play-offs, but hopefully they’ll go well.
800 seats won’t make a difference anyway.
Mansfield had 5k at MK Dons on Saturday. Leeds had 60k at Wembley (if you listen to their exaggeration) and it didn’t matter.
Given the silly events of last Saturday in the South Stand, if Charlton do flog 3k, it’s better to give them 800 more rather than risk them coming in the home ends.
My argument is that it's about marginal gains. Something team sky are exceptional at, and it works. Super car manufacturers also adopt it by shaving grams of weight everywhere, which amounts to kilograms over the whole car.
Whack the heating on the away changing room full.
'lose' the key for their changing room for an hour.
Don't give them the 800 extra seats.
Paint the changing room a horrible colour.
Remove a few bulbs in the changing room etc
It all adds up to a bigger advantage
If they do sell 3k (and that's open to debate anyway for various reasons) then I'd give the extra 800 purely on the safety issues because if they ended up coming in the home ends, it has the potential for carnage.
Personally, I think it'll be a similar attendance to the Coventry game anyway - 2.5k in the away end and 8k in the home ends (which looked about what it was, despite the official attendance figure).y
Aye, but we're playing Charlton on a Sunday lunchtime. Not Leeds on a Saturday night.
How many Charlton fans have a donny postcode? (which they would need to buy a ticket) I dare say none.
I’ve never understood that whole postcode malarkey.
It’s so easy to pass that, a quick google search of Doncaster postcode and address and easy.
And yes I have done it before twice and got in.
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When i E-mailed the club about this before they confirmed the East Stand towards the North End is still a home section unless home support does not meet demand and home support will always come first for that section and would only be given to away support if required.
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Of course, if it wasnt that way we would have given them the lot which we haven't. We hardly ever sell that many tickets and I'll be surprised if we do this week.
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We won't know the demand until the end if the week though, given that they don't go on general sale until Thursday.
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Keep the 800 seats for ourselves then shove all the ones wearing Burberry and Stone Island in there.
That would stop a pitch invasion.😉
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When they go on general sale will there be a limit to how many you can get,I need 4 ?
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I don’t get why people are so bothered about 800 tickets.
Charlton have 3k to sell, Rovers have 10k (or thereabouts) to sell before it even becomes a problem.
It’s impossible to know what general aale will bring as it’s a bit of a unique situation to be in the play-offs, but hopefully they’ll go well.
800 seats won’t make a difference anyway.
Mansfield had 5k at MK Dons on Saturday. Leeds had 60k at Wembley (if you listen to their exaggeration) and it didn’t matter.
Given the silly events of last Saturday in the South Stand, if Charlton do flog 3k, it’s better to give them 800 more rather than risk them coming in the home ends.
My argument is that it's about marginal gains. Something team sky are exceptional at, and it works. Super car manufacturers also adopt it by shaving grams of weight everywhere, which amounts to kilograms over the whole car.
Whack the heating on the away changing room full.
'lose' the key for their changing room for an hour.
Don't give them the 800 extra seats.
Paint the changing room a horrible colour.
Remove a few bulbs in the changing room etc
It all adds up to a bigger advantage
Aye. Team Sky have been brilliant at marginal advantages. Especially ones in pill and syringe form...
The number of fans we have is secondary to the atmosphere we generate. Personally, I'd prefer us to have a more vociferous away support to push back against. It might just wake up some of the seat blockers in the West Stand.
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What do you mean 'seat blockers'?
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It would surprise me if we were to sell more than ten thousand home fans tickets.
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It would surprise me if we were to sell more than ten thousand home fans tickets.
Especially when posters complain about prices and everybody has got to pay full price and no discounts.
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It’s a play off towards a potential promotion, don’t see why we need to offer discounts..
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It’s a play off towards a potential promotion, don’t see why we need to offer discounts..
I’m not complaining about discounts myself but posters have complained at our prices before and this season.
By the way Charlton have sold 15,000 tickets already for their home leg.
https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5cd152b00db44/15000-home-tickets-sold-for-next-weeks-valley-play-off-semi-final
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Aye but they're selling 4 per STH, we're selling just the STH.
Also, b*llocks to what they're doing.
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I do wonder why general sale is Thursday though, wed may have been better.
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I do wonder why general sale is Thursday though, wed may have been better.
What I do not understand you can buy tickets on line so why have we got to wait specific days to get tickets. As there is no discounts should be on sale to everybody from now to online ticketing.
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It’s to give ST holders and bronze members priority to buy.?
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Surely they could easily make the ST holders' seats unavailable for non-ST holders till Thursday?
Problem is with not making tickets available for general sale till Thursday, that means it's too late to post them out to folk who buy on line. So there'll be massive queues on Sunday morning to pick up tickets.
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According to the Charlton forum we sold just over 2000 tickets to season ticket holders yesterday for the home game.
Not the numbers they are selling tickets at but not bad with only one per person at the moment and the number of season ticket members we have.
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Surely they could easily make the ST holders' seats unavailable for non-ST holders till Thursday?
Problem is with not making tickets available for general sale till Thursday, that means it's too late to post them out to folk who buy on line. So there'll be massive queues on Sunday morning to pick up tickets.
They can't even make ambulant disabled tickets available online so that would probably be pushing it.
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Look I want two tickets for both legs but have the wait until Thursday
I’m not concentrating on the price as I just want to be there !!!
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Surely they could easily make the ST holders' seats unavailable for non-ST holders till Thursday?
Corking idea imo.
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I'm a season ticket holder but got to wait till Thursday and move seat as my partner wants to go
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If we were selling ours at 4 per person we would have sold 8000 on Monday.
Given the difference in the sizes of the two clubs I would say that would have been a pretty good day.
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Perhaps yes. Next few days will tell us a lot.
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We have had this debate before, has the extra 800 allocation actually officially been decided on, or is this speculation sparked on social media.?
Some fans on here were calling the club all sorts last time this happened and were later proved wrong..
I read on a Charlton "site" cant remember if Official one or their Twitter feed that they had been allocated "3000+ with the option of a further 800"
See if I can find it and post later
Charlton Athletic FCVerified account @CAFCofficial May 5 (https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f39f.png) We have confirmation that we will receive an allocation of just over 3,000 for our away tie at @drfc_official (https://twitter.com/drfc_official) with an additional 800 seats if required. But hold tight, we'll announce when they will be going on sale as soon as we can. #cafc (https://twitter.com/hashtag/cafc?src=hash)
I posted that way back on this thread
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Been looking on there forum, they’re quite dismissive that we’d only sold 2000 tkts on Monday . Obviously don’t realise that they’re only 1 per season tkt holder. Someone’s thinking we will only shift 8000 :saywhat:
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Surely they could easily make the ST holders' seats unavailable for non-ST holders till Thursday?
Problem is with not making tickets available for general sale till Thursday, that means it's too late to post them out to folk who buy on line. So there'll be massive queues on Sunday morning to pick up tickets.
They can't even make ambulant disabled tickets available online so that would probably be pushing it.
Given the unnecessary ticket office bashing, it's probably worth pointing out that West Bromwich Albion - a considerably bigger club with greater resources - have closed their ticket office telephone number for a few days and given a special number to disabled fans to contact the club directly, so they can be accommodated.
Ultimately, everyone who wants a ticket will get one, so I think the ticket office staff deserve credit (rather than criticism) for their efforts.
It was a criticism of the software rather than the staff.
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Anybody know what time tickets will be available for Bronze Members online today?
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It says 9am when you go to ticketing online web site.
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Just bought mine (bronze member) and counted 4021 left online.. I don’t know if the system is showing ST holders places as unavailable until general sale tomorrow.?
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I expect it will be.
Does anyone know if, when we hit midnight tonight, the General Sale will begin online? It did for the Palace game and it led to a sellout by about 10am. I have family wanting to come to this game so am keeping an eye on it, of course as a STH I got mine on Monday.
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Isn’t the general sale from 9 am tomorrow, like bronze members today.?
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Boom.
I'd forgotten that me and Andy had bronze memberships to get Palace tickets.
They've come in handy for Charlton tickets !
Home and away - sorted !!
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The general sale of tickets for the Crystal Palace game started round about midnight of the said day of sale, giving the supporters with online facilities an advantage of the hours before the ticket office opened that day to choose their seats, and being generated on the computer probably kicks in automatically.
It maybe worth checking at midnight tonight if you want to sit in a particular area.
I have no problems with this system, it is the modern way, and also progresses the club, although a statement from the club advising of the facility, and probably saving people traveling to the KM and relieving pressure on the office staff on the day would be advisable if the same opportunity will be on offer.
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Boom.
I'd forgotten that me and Andy had bronze memberships to get Palace tickets.
They've come in handy for Charlton tickets !
Home and away - sorted !!
As our hopes now then (sorry cant resist the obvious)
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Boom.
I'd forgotten that me and Andy had bronze memberships to get Palace tickets.
They've come in handy for Charlton tickets !
Home and away - sorted !!
As our hopes now then (sorry cant resist the obvious)
Its the away leg that I reckon will be super special
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The general sale of tickets for the Crystal Palace game started round about midnight of the said day of sale, giving the supporters with online facilities an advantage of the hours before the ticket office opened that day to choose their seats, and being generated on the computer probably kicks in automatically.
It maybe worth checking at midnight tonight if you want to sit in a particular area.
I have no problems with this system, it is the modern way, and also progresses the club, although a statement from the club advising of the facility, and probably saving people traveling to the KM and relieving pressure on the office staff on the day would be advisable if the same opportunity will be on offer.
It says on the online page for this game that general sale starts at 9 am on Thursday.. 4 tickets per person allowed..
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IDM, if it is an automatic system on line, coming on line with the date change at midnight, not at a set time, and the management are unaware, then tickets could come on line tonight at midnight.
It has happened in the past.
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IDM, if it is an automatic system on line, coming on line with the date change at midnight, not at a set time, and the management are unaware, then tickets could come on line tonight at midnight.
It has happened in the past.
Selby, it didn’t work half and hour after midnight this morning, for bronze members, as I tried it myself..
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It was a valid point though, as I raised in regards to the Palace game. We were told by the club that General Sale began at 9am, but then people started posting on here that they could access it at midnight, leading to a mad dash for tickets in the early hours. The ground then had sold out barely an hour into physical sales hours at the ticket office.
So I'm wary of it being the same again here.
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I know, and that is why I tried to buy bronze member tickets at 0030 today..
I can’t guarantee the same thing won’t happen again but I am only repeating what’s on the ticket pages..
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Tried after midnight not available to buy, tried at 7am not available to buy, tried 8:55 system down. Succeeded at 9:30. Only one ticket as it said.
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Web site "down for maintenance" again
Must be hammering it !
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It would appear that the club have left general sales until Thursday because the Ticket Office wouldn't be able to cope with the numbers wanting tickets. Also it would hold up season ticket holders, bronze members etc.
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The change for open for sale to non restricted tickets could be activated by the change in the date and not the time, at the moment they are on sale to restricted people only at one per person.
From tomorrow 4 per transaction to the general public with no restrictions.
I say it could be, it was for the Crystal Palace game.
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Just seen on DROS that the general sale is available now..
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The club are aware Charlton Athletic are close to selling out their initial allocation and the club will monitor the first day of general sales before making a decision on whether to grant the Addicks any additional tickets.
3153 tickets left before this was announced, lets hope we can sell quick and get the extra 800.
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I wouldn't be so confident Rigo. Now 2970 left and as far as I know, that's total, no season ticket places being held - that's a fair few sold since the very recent general sale started.
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Don’t think we will need the 800 if we use the end of the west stand we should be fine
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No they are on general sale now so no season ticket seats held, whatever is shown as available is all that’s left
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Right you were Rigo! Figures now adjusted, 4427 now showing as left.
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So what have we sold 6000 ?
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As of 5 30 pm tonight Charlton have have sold 19,146 for their home leg, and 2,543 for the away leg at the keepmoat, according to their forum.
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Well that's been well managed.
Just gone on line to buy a ticket. Wanted one next to our kid's season ticket seat. Showing up as not available.
So I've bought one elsewhere. Then literally 60 seconds later, they've updated the f**king website and there's a whole pile available near our kid. After I've bought my bleeding ticket.
It's not hard is it, to get this sort of thing right.
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Well that's been well managed.
Just gone on line to buy a ticket. Wanted one next to our kid's season ticket seat. Showing up as not available.
So I've bought one elsewhere. Then literally 60 seconds later, they've updated the f**king website and there's a whole pile available near our kid. After I've bought my bleeding ticket.
It's not hard is it, to get this sort of thing right.
I'd phone the ticket office, likely they'll swap it for you.
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So what have we sold 6000 ?
Looking like 5,000 so far.
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Well that's been well managed.
Just gone on line to buy a ticket. Wanted one next to our kid's season ticket seat. Showing up as not available.
So I've bought one elsewhere. Then literally 60 seconds later, they've updated the f**king website and there's a whole pile available near our kid. After I've bought my bleeding ticket.
It's not hard is it, to get this sort of thing right.
I'd phone the ticket office, likely they'll swap it for you.
Aye. Not really the point though is it?
Firstly they've released the tickets earlier than they said they were going to do. Secondly, they've announced it before the website was updated.
Basic mistakes.
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Take it the remaining number does not include end of west stand ?
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Probably not. Clearly hope tickets sell well tomorrow or Charlton will sadly probably get more.
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Take it the remaining number does not include end of west stand ?
No it doesn't,that area is still showing as not available on stadium seating plan,I've just had a quick count up 4206 left to sell.
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I keep my eyes on the Blocks and sometimes they go up by 1 or 2 so they must have Tickets swapped routinely AND be used to doing it and accommodating !
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I don’t mind charlton getting the 800 extra end of day it’s all cash to go to the budget for next season we can have the end of west stand if needed and get a good 14500 in there for a great atmosphere if front of the sky cameras
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I don’t mind charlton getting the 800 extra end of day it’s all cash to go to the budget for next season we can have the end of west stand if needed and get a good 14500 in there for a great atmosphere if front of the sky cameras
We would only get around £2000 of the revenue from the 800 seats, whichever set of fans get them.
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One of my customers is a charlton fan and he tells me they have been told they can have the extra 800 if they need them
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3893 left. They are flying out
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One if my customers is a charlton fan and he tells me they have told they can have the extra 800 if they need them
Aye, but only if we don't
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No Rigo.
Some folk have a day full of meetings and will struggle to get time to call.
The point is, this is a silly error which was unnecessary easily avoidable.
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Let see with Thursday, Friday and Saturday to go on general sale whether we can sell the 3000+ tickets that are left? Then it will be a good atmosphere one would hope.
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Certainly looking good how fast the tickets are shifting.
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I am trying to buy online but it is not accepting my credit card. Anyone else having this problem? Mind you I bank with Barclays so what do I expect!?
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With a sell out always looking extremely likely, would it not have been better to make the south stand reserved seating for this one game? Making an extra 600+ tickets available.
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I am trying to buy online but it is not accepting my credit card. Anyone else having this problem? Mind you I bank with Barclays so what do I expect!?
Have you used the card previously? I had the same problem, put the details of my bank card in again like it’s a new card and it worked.
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Does anyone know where you pick tickets up from that are ordered online?
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I am trying to buy online but it is not accepting my credit card. Anyone else having this problem? Mind you I bank with Barclays so what do I expect!?
Have you used the card previously? I had the same problem, put the details of my bank card in again like it’s a new card and it worked.
Cheers. I tried a few times with my saved but just now the saved card didn't come up so I started from scratch and it was fine.
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Does anyone know where you pick tickets up from that are ordered online?
Normally from the ticket office
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I am trying to buy online but it is not accepting my credit card. Anyone else having this problem? Mind you I bank with Barclays so what do I expect!?
Have you used the card previously? I had the same problem, put the details of my bank card in again like it’s a new card and it worked.
Cheers. I tried a few times with my saved but just now the saved card didn't come up so I started from scratch and it was fine.
It was the same with me when buying for the CP game, wouldn't take my saved card.
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I noticed with my card details that it had put all of the expiry date into the box for month - it’s hard to notice as the extra bit is obscured
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No Rigo.
Some folk have a day full of meetings and will struggle to get time to call.
The point is, this is a silly error which was unnecessary easily avoidable.
Whilst I agree it was avoidable, lets not forget that the ticket office staff have just four working days to prepare, implement and deliver the ticket sales for one of the biggest matches of the season.
On top of ST sales and the away leg tickets, I'm sure they're working tirelessly and doing their best. Mistakes might happen and if you jumping the gun (off your own back) has inconvenienced you - so bloody what?
If you can find the time to moan on here about it, I'm sure you can find the time to ring them and let them put it right - which I'm absolutely certain they'll do.
But yeah, keep moaning if it suits your agenda.
I'm not blaming the ticket office staff. I'm blaming the software that runs the website.
Agenda? Dear God...
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I noticed with my card details that it had put all of the expiry date into the box for month - it’s hard to notice as the extra bit is obscured
I bet that was my problem then. I've used the laptop before so maybe use that again for Wembley to save the stress!
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Isn't this the software that was recently installed?
As long as the club learns from mistakes it might remove problems in the long run. The higher the league and bigger the gate the more efficient we need to be.
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4,000 left, dought we will sell that many in 3 days
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Does anyone know where you pick tickets up from that are ordered online?
Why didn’t you just pay £1 for delivery? That’s the sensible option.
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Does anyone know where you pick tickets up from that are ordered online?
Why didn’t you just pay £1 for delivery? That’s the sensible option.
That option wasnt there when i tried earlier this evening.
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Received home and away tickets today - pity they had to be separate orders as club could have saved an envelope/postage
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3858 left now, 5483 sold? Could be a lot of people not expecting they'd be on sale till tomorrow, otherwise I think those extra 800 are as good as in the post to Charlton with W32/3 being extra options for us.
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Charlton will get the 800 extra I suspect.
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A fair few may have not have social media or be on the internet as much still expect ticket office to be busy tomorrow
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Charlton will get the 800 extra I suspect.
I expect so to, if we need to we can open the west
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I am trying to buy online but it is not accepting my credit card. Anyone else having this problem? Mind you I bank with Barclays so what do I expect!?
Had same problem would not take Expiry date.
This is on i pad.
Tried on my phone and ok no problem.
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I had a weird one. I have my card details stored for each time I use the ticket site. Always worked very well. Tonight, it defaulted to my company credit card. Which, obviously, I have never used to buy a ticket. Very odd.
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The online system was excellent. I think it's amazing that you can actually choose your seat. I noticed that the west stand was filling up fast. Don't miss out guys.
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Shocking we can't sell out all the home ends for a play off game
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Shocking we can't sell out all the home ends for a play off game
Very easy statement to make. To be honest I don't think many, including our fans give us much of a chance of doing anything given the gap between us and the rest along with the form of Charlton.
Im surprised at the lack of take up so far but I think the club have made a mistake by limiting it to one per season ticket holder etc
There is time but I would be surprised if we sell 4000 tickets tomorrow. I'm guessing the club are looking for that sort of number to hold onto those being held back
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Shocking we can't sell out all the home ends for a play off game
Given general sale was announced for today.....
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Does anyone know where you pick tickets up from that are ordered online?
Normally from the ticket office
As above if you are collecting before Match day
However on Match days you go to the little office attached to South Stand Reception. Go past Reception and turn immediately left and there will be 3 windows and for big games 3 people dishing the Tickets out
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Shocking we can't sell out all the home ends for a play off game
I didn’t realise that we had stopped selling tickets.
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All the regulars who want to/can go to this game will be able to get tickets.. some can’t go on Sundays for all sorts of reasons, and not least us to the short notice of this fixture’s precise date and time.
One of our regular group of 3 can’t make it.
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I just counted 3385 left online.. I estimate the usual blocks available add up to around 10,000 so that means approx 6600 sold - unless people knew that the general sale was brought forward yesterday there may be many looking to buy today..
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Does anyone know where you pick tickets up from that are ordered online?
Normally from the ticket office
As above if you are collecting before Match day
However on Match days you go to the little office attached to South Stand Reception. Go past Reception and turn immediately left and there will be 3 windows and for big games 3 people dishing the Tickets out
I’m in town later on so thought I’d go pick my ticket up, theres no point now really if I have to join the ticket office queue, you’d think itsould be the other way round
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General sale was announced for today. Plenty will shift today and tomorrow.
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Does anyone know where you pick tickets up from that are ordered online?
Normally from the ticket office
As above if you are collecting before Match day
However on Match days you go to the little office attached to South Stand Reception. Go past Reception and turn immediately left and there will be 3 windows and for big games 3 people dishing the Tickets out
I’m in town later on so thought I’d go pick my ticket up, theres no point now really if I have to join the ticket office queue, you’d think itsould be the other way round
Yes, it would be a great idea if people picking tickets could do that away from the slow moving ticket queue. Although it is usually quiet in the late afternoon, given past experiences.
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Do they not have one desk in the TO for collections only.? Maybe ask them..?
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Do they not have one desk in the TO for collections only.? Maybe ask them..?
I have, the reply was vague, collection from the box office, now is the box office the ticket office, or the windows Wolfie refers to, first time I’ve ordered online so not familiar with the collection process
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Box office is the ticket office.
Does it really matter if you have to queue for a bit? Not every year we are treated to big games like these play-off matches is it?
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The Box Office IS the Ticket Office. Cant remember if it actually says it inside on the wall but it DOES say it outside
I ordered Monday and even though it was Bank Holiday they were hard at it when I went to collect my Ticket later that day All Tickets bought today can be collected today at the Box/Ticket Office
If you cant collect till Sunday there may be queues at the Box Office / Ticket Office and so Tickets preordered get collected from the 3 window place (where we sell Coach Tickets as well at times for big away days) to the right of South Stand Reception (opposite bike sheds).
Hope this is still all correct otherwise I will look a right plank ! (Insert jokes here .......................)
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Charlton have now sold their 3001 and are awaiting permission (from Rovers) to sell the 781 Tickets they have earmarked for them.
So they have 3001 and we have roughly 5700 so far with about 3000 left for sale (all my own figures - so dont go betting on the Gate using them please)
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Charlton have sold out initial allocation waiting confirmation if they are getting extra 750 tickets
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2792 left.
Sales going well today
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How're we getting on with the away sales? does the three blocks that are locked on the website mean they're sold out or just not been released yet?
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I am assuming (again I could be wrong) that the 3 Blocks on sale are the initial ones. I watch what goes off and they were the 3 that came up on opening day. Probably Charlton dictate which order the Blocks get sold in as well - which makes sense
I assume (again just me) that the other blocks will be released if/when these go and even then if they are of a similar size would then have added another 1000 Seats . So 2000 of our 3135 so perhaps there are more Blocks to come if we get that far ?
No Cash / Pay on the day this Sunday
https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/news/2019/may/no-cash-gates-for-play-off-game/
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2455 showing now.. that’s over 900 shifted in the last 4 hours..
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I remember the queues for the Wembley tickets... Now that was a queue and a half on the day I went. Refreshments made available while we waited. All before we had the online system!
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Southend was 13081.
I made it 2517 left about 20 mins ago. That's about 6824 sold.
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It always makes me laugh this forum when we have big games. The fever around ticket sales, attendance and queues at the ticket office always makes me chuckle. It’s almost as if people forget how to purchase a ticket or how to get to the stadium
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I reckon we will have a gate of 13.500 at home and somewhere between 22.000 and 24.000 for the away match.
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How have we only sold what we get for a normal league fixture! we had near enough the full East Stand when we played Southend 11 years ago as well as the South and all the West
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The Southend game was the second leg, and that was also our first realistic pitch for promotion to the second tier for 50 years..
And we had finished 3rd in the table..
We should get the same as our best home league crowd of the season plus a few more..
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It shouldn't matter its only the first leg, we are at home in the play-offs
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Charlton been given extra seats for east stand. No surprise there.
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2165 left
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2165 left
Some mistakes there? I make it 2406
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2165 left
Some mistakes there? I make it 2406
Possibly. Made it 2380 now
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I think the way they've sold this could have been better - bit too late for general sale by a day probably and they may have made this decision a tad quick.
However if they feel it's quietened down and demand isn't there then fair enough I suppose.
We aren't a hugely supported club we all know that, nothing to be ashamed of.
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Charlton been given extra seats for east stand. No surprise there.
Why wouldn’t the club I don’t believe we will sell the seats we have left. Around 2300 tickets left.
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Not a criticism. Give them as many as they want.
I’m probably opening myself up for criticism here. I don’t live locally and have to travel to games, so I pick and choose based on commitments and money. This playoff does not hold the same appeal as the Southend one. I just don’t know why. It’s odd. I have told myself if rovers get to Wembley then I will probably go. I wonder if others feel the same, hence the apparent lack of “ playoff fever”
I was much more excited about the fa cup run.
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Not a criticism. Give them as many as they want.
I’m probably opening myself up for criticism here. I don’t live locally and have to travel to games, so I pick and choose based on commitments and money. This playoff does not hold the same appeal as the Southend one. I just don’t know why. It’s odd. I have told myself if rovers get to Wembley then I will probably go. I wonder if others feel the same, hence the apparent lack of “ playoff fever”
I was much more excited about the fa cup run.
Again this not a criticism of the club or EFL but Crystal Palace tickets were £10 / £5 not full prices. So this may put people off. Shouldn’t do, the club, manager and team have achieved their aim to get to playoffs and want to win. If our supporters don’t come to this important game especially at home then they can’t have the same belief.
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We still have the north end of the west stand to potentially open up for home fans..
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What a load of rubbish, and I'm not buying this "doesn't hold the same appeal" nonsense, it's a Play-Off game at home 1st Leg or not, we should fill it, where is our passion!
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What a load of rubbish, and I'm not buying this "doesn't hold the same appeal" nonsense, it's a Play-Off game at home 1st Leg or not, we should fill it, where is our passion!
The "passion" shown last Saturday is why I'm not bringing my child, I'm sure I'm not the only one....
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Go in the family stand if u bringing the kids it is excellent for kid
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I don’t understand why people are moaning that we haven’t sold out.
It is Thursday today.
The match is on Sunday so there is still plenty of time for the remaining tickets to be sold.
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I don’t understand why people are moaning that we haven’t sold out.
It is Thursday today.
The match is on Sunday so there is still plenty of time for the remaining tickets to be sold.
To add to that, it’s the first day of general sale, a workday and not everyone wants to or has access to the online sales
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I don’t understand why people are moaning that we haven’t sold out.
It is Thursday today.
The match is on Sunday so there is still plenty of time for the remaining tickets to be sold.
I don't understand why people are so arsed. As long as you're there and hopefully a mate or two what does it actually matter?
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2241 left in total, hopefully we can shift them
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That’s about 1800+ shifted in the last 24 hours..
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Pretty good, there was 3.7k left this morning and now there is 2.2k left. 1.5k sold just today, don’t know why people are moaning
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The figures in this thread are all over the place, it's quite funny really.
I just want a good crowd, to experience it with my family and be part of a good atmosphere. I think that's pretty achievable, after that I don't care if the attendance is 13 or 14k.
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It’s easy enough to go onto the online ticket sales page and add up the remaining seats..
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did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
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13081 for Southend, so definitely some space left there.
For this game, there's twice as many family section tickets left as there were at a similar level of sales for the Palace game - the effect of the price, Sunday lunch with the grandparents, or the "exhuberance" in the Coventry game? W23 (next to the South Stand) stands out as also selling nearly half as a proportion, where every other section in the ground is at a similar level.
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did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
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Are there any other fans in the country as obsessed with attendances as DRFC?
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did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
But we haven’t finished selling tickets for this game yet.
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did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
But we haven’t finished selling tickets for this game yet.
did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
But we haven’t finished selling tickets for this game yet.
Well we're not going to sell more now are we! We don't have as many home seats as the Southend game
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Received home and away tickets today - pity they had to be separate orders as club could have saved an envelope/postage
I told them I was collecting and all tickets arrived in post
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Charlton have at the moment sold 20,300 tickets for their home game at the moment, and 3,573 tickets for the game at the Keepmoat, so the away end and side bit is nearly sold out at the KM.
With the Sunderland and the Portsmouth games being big crowds, this is shaping up to be probably the most lucrative division 1 playoff of all time.
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...No idea if Sunderland have sold out Stadium Of Light yet, but there is a bit of a capacity difference.
They sold 21772 home tickets according to their forum at 5ish today. 49k capacity and it seems Portsmouth have a max of 2k, though haven't sold all those.
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I say to my son, it’s irrelevant how many are there, the ones who are there are going to support our team. I live away and can’t get to many games, however, my son has caught the bug supporting DRFC and we have just got season tickets for next year. Also every league game we have been to this season, we haven’t seen a defeat.
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...No idea if Sunderland have sold out Stadium Of Light yet, but there is a bit of a capacity difference.
They sold 21772 home tickets according to their forum at 5ish today. 49k capacity and it seems Portsmouth have a max of 2k, though haven't sold all those.
Yep 21784 home fans at the mo !
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did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
But we haven’t finished selling tickets for this game yet.
did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
But we haven’t finished selling tickets for this game yet.
Well we're not going to sell more now are we! We don't have as many home seats as the Southend game
We had 14010 for the Palace cup game.
We had 13081 for the Southend game.
Palace had part or the East Stand too so no reason we can’t get a bigger crowd than the Southend game.
However since the Southend game, you are right, we don’t have as many home seats, partly due to the new big screen installation and partly due to more fan segregation areas these days.
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2025 left on sale if i've calculated it right.
997 West stand
284 South stand
744 East stand
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Then there’s about 800 ish in the spare blocks in the west stand north end, if they open them..
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did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
But we haven’t finished selling tickets for this game yet.
did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
But we haven’t finished selling tickets for this game yet.
Well we're not going to sell more now are we! We don't have as many home seats as the Southend game
We had 14010 for the Palace cup game.
We had 13081 for the Southend game.
Palace had part or the East Stand too so no reason we can’t get a bigger crowd than the Southend game.
However since the Southend game, you are right, we don’t have as many home seats, partly due to the new big screen installation and partly due to more fan segregation areas these days.
Palace did not have any of the East Stand, We had all the East Stand for Palace and Southend
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It does matter to us though, if we get 20% of the total takings from the pot of the playoffs as has been posted previously.
Then we have posters wanting £10 and £5 and they are probably the ones who want us to spend big on incoming players, and moan the price affects the size of the crowd.
Our team deserve our support, our owners also deserve the financial benefits our support for games like this bring in financially.
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did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
But we haven’t finished selling tickets for this game yet.
did we fill it when we beat Southend 5-1 in 2008? I seem to think we didn't.
That's no the point, the point is we sold more tickets for that game, we had all the East Stand and West
But we haven’t finished selling tickets for this game yet.
Well we're not going to sell more now are we! We don't have as many home seats as the Southend game
We had 14010 for the Palace cup game.
We had 13081 for the Southend game.
Palace had part or the East Stand too so no reason we can’t get a bigger crowd than the Southend game.
However since the Southend game, you are right, we don’t have as many home seats, partly due to the new big screen installation and partly due to more fan segregation areas these days.
Palace did not have any of the East Stand, We had all the East Stand for Palace and Southend
Fair enough, my error.
However even with Charlton having the extra tickets there is still potential for us to have 200 more fans than in the Southend game.
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It does matter to us though, if we get 20% of the total takings from the pot of the playoffs as has been posted previously.
Then we have posters wanting £10 and £5 and they are probably the ones who want us to spend big on incoming players, and moan the price affects the size of the crowd.
Our team deserve our support, our owners also deserve the financial benefits our support for games like this bring in financially.
The last paragraph deals with what this should be about. Not discounts but supporting the team and adding finance to the club.
What will it say to the owners if we can’t fill the home game of the play offs, they have put money in to help the team reach the best position they could over 46 games, 23 home games, yet our supporters can’t be bothered to come to the game.
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But, as has been stated earlier in this and other threads, there are many reasons why some supporters are unable to attend.
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Why are people so obsessed with crowd numbers?
Have you got yours? that's all that matters surely
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But, as has been stated earlier in this and other threads, there are many reasons why some supporters are unable to attend.
Yes but every club can say that. It is not unique to Doncaster that people are not able to go for one reason or another.
It is time this town got of its arse and started supporting the local team in larger numbers.
We are not a pub team as some still want to portray us as.
We have owners that we should all be very
thankful for ( Understatement ) A set up that is community orientated, a fantastic modern stadium and a team that has the desire and ability to be successful.
WHAT MORE DOES THE DONCASTER PUBLIC WANT.
If we get to Wembley every Tom Dick and Harry will be wanting to go.
It’s time this club got the volume of support it deserves.
SORRY IF I SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD but it needs saying.
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Productive day. Home and away tickets got for Charlton. And a season ticket for next season for me and my son.
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Why are people so obsessed with crowd numbers?
Have you got yours? that's all that matters surely
Are you interested in competing on equal terms with Championship clubs ravenrover?
If so the attendances matter. If not then maybe they don’t.
I personally want to see this club establish itself in the 2nd tier of English football.
IT IS ACHIEVABLE. Is ambition not something worthy or something?
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I’m with you on that Campsall, although the attendances will usually follow the league position..
A crowd equalling or bettering our best league attendance this season is good enough..
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Why are people so obsessed with crowd numbers?
Have you got yours? that's all that matters surely
Are you interested in competing on equal terms with Championship clubs ravenrover?
If so the attendances matter. If not then maybe they don’t.
I personally want to see this club establish itself in the 2nd tier of English football.
IT IS ACHIEVABLE. Is ambition not something worthy or something?
We all want us to compete on equal terms Campsall.
It will not happen financially though.
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But, as has been stated earlier in this and other threads, there are many reasons why some supporters are unable to attend.
Yes but every club can say that. It is not unique to Doncaster that people are not able to go for one reason or another.
It is time this town got of its arse and started supporting the local team in larger numbers.
We are not a pub team as some still want to portray us as.
We have owners that we should all be very
thankful for ( Understatement ) A set up that is community orientated, a fantastic modern stadium and a team that has the desire and ability to be successful.
WHAT MORE DOES THE DONCASTER PUBLIC WANT.
If we get to Wembley every Tom Dick and Harry will be wanting to go.
It’s time this club got the volume of support it deserves.
SORRY IF I SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD but it needs saying.
Agreed Campsall. It is a shame that for a town of our size we only manage to pull in a very small % of the population.
However, what can any of us do other than bang the drum in our own social circles? Can’t beat people over the head to attend so I tend to think it’s not something to get too worried about.
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Why are people so obsessed with crowd numbers?
Have you got yours? that's all that matters surely
Are you interested in competing on equal terms with Championship clubs ravenrover?
If so the attendances matter. If not then maybe they don’t.
I personally want to see this club establish itself in the 2nd tier of English football.
IT IS ACHIEVABLE. Is ambition not something worthy or something?
We all want us to compete on equal terms Campsall.
It will not happen financially though.
Sorry hound, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN FINANCIALLY?
What never? We may as well all give up and go home then. Why will it not happen?
This is not Fleetwood with no population. Burton with no history etc etc.
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Why are people so obsessed with crowd numbers?
Have you got yours? that's all that matters surely
Are you interested in competing on equal terms with Championship clubs ravenrover?
If so the attendances matter. If not then maybe they don’t.
I personally want to see this club establish itself in the 2nd tier of English football.
IT IS ACHIEVABLE. Is ambition not something worthy or something?
We all want us to compete on equal terms Campsall.
It will not happen financially though.
Sorry hound, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN FINANCIALLY?
What never? We may as well all give up and go home then. Why will it not happen?
This is not Fleetwood with no population. Burton with no history etc etc.
Premier league parachute payments might just have an influence.
Far bigger clubs than us with far bigger attendances could also possibly play a part.
Burton and Fleetwood won’t be in the Championship.
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Does anyone know what the actual capacity is nowadays at the Keepmoat ??
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It does matter to us though, if we get 20% of the total takings from the pot of the playoffs as has been posted previously.
Then we have posters wanting £10 and £5 and they are probably the ones who want us to spend big on incoming players, and moan the price affects the size of the crowd.
Our team deserve our support, our owners also deserve the financial benefits our support for games like this bring in financially.
The last paragraph deals with what this should be about. Not discounts but supporting the team and adding finance to the club.
What will it say to the owners if we can’t fill the home game of the play offs, they have put money in to help the team reach the best position they could over 46 games, 23 home games, yet our supporters can’t be bothered to come to the game.
Just out of interest, 6035 at Newport tonight.
Ground capacity is 8075 for football matches.
Only three quarters full.
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I’m with you on that Campsall, although the attendances will usually follow the league position..
A crowd equalling or bettering our best league attendance this season is good enough..
Agreed IDM but i am referring to attendances in general not this play off match.
I am sure we will get 13.500. or even more on Sunday which is good but let’s face it if we didn’t get 10.000 home fans in for a League 1 play off when would we?
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Why are people so obsessed with crowd numbers?
Have you got yours? that's all that matters surely
Are you interested in competing on equal terms with Championship clubs ravenrover?
If so the attendances matter. If not then maybe they don’t.
I personally want to see this club establish itself in the 2nd tier of English football.
IT IS ACHIEVABLE. Is ambition not something worthy or something?
We all want us to compete on equal terms Campsall.
It will not happen financially though.
Sorry hound, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN FINANCIALLY?
What never? We may as well all give up and go home then. Why will it not happen?
This is not Fleetwood with no population. Burton with no history etc etc.
Premier league parachute payments might just have an influence.
Far bigger clubs than us with far bigger attendances could also possibly play a part.
Burton and Fleetwood won’t be in the Championship.
Burton have been though.
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I’m with you on that Campsall, although the attendances will usually follow the league position..
A crowd equalling or bettering our best league attendance this season is good enough..
Agreed IDM but i am referring to attendances in general not this play off match.
I am sure we will get 13.500. or even more on Sunday which is good but let’s face it if we didn’t get 10.000 home fans in for a League 1 play off when would we?
I agree we should have bigger crowds in the championship if we get there..
As for Sunday, I’m just looking forward to the game.
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But, as has been stated earlier in this and other threads, there are many reasons why some supporters are unable to attend.
Yes but every club can say that. It is not unique to Doncaster that people are not able to go for one reason or another.
It is time this town got of its arse and started supporting the local team in larger numbers.
We are not a pub team as some still want to portray us as.
We have owners that we should all be very
thankful for ( Understatement ) A set up that is community orientated, a fantastic modern stadium and a team that has the desire and ability to be successful.
WHAT MORE DOES THE DONCASTER PUBLIC WANT.
If we get to Wembley every Tom Dick and Harry will be wanting to go.
It’s time this club got the volume of support it deserves.
SORRY IF I SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD but it needs saying.
Agreed Campsall. It is a shame that for a town of our size we only manage to pull in a very small % of the population.
However, what can any of us do other than bang the drum in our own social circles? Can’t beat people over the head to attend so I tend to think it’s not something to get too worried about.
That’s what we have got to do pib keep banging the drum. Bring a friend. Bring sons, daughters, grand children etc.
The club is certainly doing its best to get the youngsters interested. They are the future.
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Why are people so obsessed with crowd numbers?
Have you got yours? that's all that matters surely
Are you interested in competing on equal terms with Championship clubs ravenrover?
If so the attendances matter. If not then maybe they don’t.
I personally want to see this club establish itself in the 2nd tier of English football.
IT IS ACHIEVABLE. Is ambition not something worthy or something?
We all want us to compete on equal terms Campsall.
It will not happen financially though.
Sorry hound, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN FINANCIALLY?
What never? We may as well all give up and go home then. Why will it not happen?
This is not Fleetwood with no population. Burton with no history etc etc.
Premier league parachute payments might just have an influence.
Far bigger clubs than us with far bigger attendances could also possibly play a part.
Burton and Fleetwood won’t be in the Championship.
Burton have been though.
True but they didn’t last long.
Twentieth place in their first season and relegated the next season.
We did much better than that.
Clubs like us, Burton, Rotherham and Barnsley will always struggle to compete financially in the Championship.
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I’m with you on that Campsall, although the attendances will usually follow the league position..
A crowd equalling or bettering our best league attendance this season is good enough..
Agreed IDM but i am referring to attendances in general not this play off match.
I am sure we will get 13.500. or even more on Sunday which is good but let’s face it if we didn’t get 10.000 home fans in for a League 1 play off when would we?
I agree we should have bigger crowds in the championship if we get there..
As for Sunday, I’m just looking forward to the game.
We will have bigger crowds in the Championship.
The away end will usually ensure that.
I believe the away end is worth an extra one million pounds a season to us.
If we are doing ok then more floating fans will turn up, some of them to see the bigger clubs we will be playing against too.
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The thing is, income will increase proportionately overall if we get to the Championship over the income from our last visits. Besides the income we would receive as a Championship club without kicking a ball, the clubs income through TV money, sponsorship and through Club Doncaster activities will way exceed what we ever earned before.
The income from ticket sales/memberships over a season is important however fluctuations in attendances at individual games makes marginal differences.
It's not worth getting anxious about these things as our turnover will enable the board to sanction an increased budget.
As said above though, there are other clubs who benefit from parachute payments and will have bigger budgets, although their cost will be much higher too without necessarily having relative better quality on the pitch.
In other words, we will be financially fitter than many other clubs.
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DBR, Don’t forget though that all the extra benefits that we get will also be paid to the other clubs in the division.
Any financial gain we get will not improve our situation at all against the other clubs.
The only thing that might help is Club Doncaster revenue.
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I am enjoying the banter on this thread, but with two days left, the away end sold out, some sections of our supporters sold out and very near in some sections, and still being able to buy tickets on a walk up to the ticket office on match day,and on line.
It could, and will not be far off a sell out to me, what's the fuss about.
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DBR, Don’t forget though that all the extra benefits that we get will also be paid to the other clubs in the division.
Any financial gain we get will not improve our situation at all against the other clubs.
The only thing that might help is Club Doncaster revenue.
Yes. As I said, we'll be financially fitter than many other clubs who are already committed to higher costs including players on 'silly' contracts, bigger squads, etc, etc. We don't have the same baggage.
Don't get me wrong, it will be tough but if we have faith in McCann, he will acquire more bang for our buck and improve the quality of the squad.
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I am enjoying the banter on this thread, but with two days left, the away end sold out, some sections of our supporters sold out and very near in some sections, and still being able to buy tickets on a walk up to the ticket office on match day,and on line.
It could, and will not be far off a sell out to me, what's the fuss about.
What indeed, total agreement mate.
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It does matter to us though, if we get 20% of the total takings from the pot of the playoffs as has been posted previously....
We get 12.125% of the total of the 4 semi match profits.
After match costs are taken off, and then a 3% levy to the EFL, 50% of the remainder goes to the pot for our league semi final play offs, and 50% into a pot for all the EFL.
https://www.efl.com/clubs-and-competitions/sky-bet-play-offs/playoff-rules--regulations/
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It does matter to us though, if we get 20% of the total takings from the pot of the playoffs as has been posted previously.
Then we have posters wanting £10 and £5 and they are probably the ones who want us to spend big on incoming players, and moan the price affects the size of the crowd.
Our team deserve our support, our owners also deserve the financial benefits our support for games like this bring in financially.
A couple of points of correction here though Selby.
Firstly the Palace game and the playoff games are run under different competitions with different rules, therefore changes in ticket prices aren't under our total control.
Secondly, we don't get 20%. The EFL take 50% of the pot, the other 50% is then shared out between the four clubs, which means we get 25% of 50%. In other words we don't get much.
PS You beat me to it BRR.
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Just a quick question. I’ve ordered tickets this evening. If I collect them tomorrow where do I collect them from?
Thanks
Chris
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Just a quick question. I’ve ordered tickets this evening. If I collect them tomorrow where do I collect them from?
Thanks
Chris
The Box office.
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Since I last logged on, most threads have about 4/5 new posts. This thread has 2 whole pages.
Some people get so worked up about how many people go through the turnstile, we have this every time there's a big game. What's it worth obsessing over?
The ground will be just about full on Sunday, let's look forward to it and be excited that we get to extend our season and enjoy another big occasion or two.
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DBR, Don’t forget though that all the extra benefits that we get will also be paid to the other clubs in the division.
Any financial gain we get will not improve our situation at all against the other clubs.
The only thing that might help is Club Doncaster revenue.
Yes. As I said, we'll be financially fitter than many other clubs who are already committed to higher costs including players on 'silly' contracts, bigger squads, etc, etc. We don't have the same baggage.
Don't get me wrong, it will be tough but if we have faith in McCann, he will acquire more bang for our buck and improve the quality of the squad.
I have the utmost faith in McCann.
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The net gain to us will outweigh any relatively small variation in our attendance. It's a win win!
So let's chill, let's concentrate on the games.
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I can't believe there's folk getting upset about folk getting upset over the potential attendance.
Just done a count and made 1,990 tickets available - which to me would equate to somewhere about 7k sold - that's purposely under egging the home sections a bit as SS will be at 90% capacity due to the unreserved seating, then the block at far end of West Stand which isn't on sale, other seats covered up with adverts in the corners, etc, then hospitality/directors which is obviously separate.
Add on Charlton's 3k-3.5k and that's 10,500 (approx) as a minimum, with two days to go.
I'm absolutely sure it'll pick up as it gets closer to the day/kick-off as well.
Think the South Stand will get close to selling out tomorrow - that's my prediction but we shall see!
Yep, agree with you on that assessment.
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I agree and not sure what the fuss is about with this or how club could have done it better.
Game was confirmed late Saturday
Monday they went on sale tool season ticket holders and gave them 2 days. I think this is fair, sth pay £400 a pop so should be given priority and many will have made plans bank holiday Monday so they should have had 2 days.
Wednesday was all other members and they gave opportunity for people to buy a membership on the day if anyone wanted to guarantee seats, that leaves 3 days plus the Sunday for general sale.
In terms of crowd there will be many thinking it's a tight month, 2 bank holidays plus a school holiday. Many went to Coventry that might not have been planning to had it not been must win and until Pompey caved against peterbro on the Tuesday it looked like a non event.
Those same people are probably thinking of saving money on the semifinals to be able to afford a day out in the big smoke.
Providing the team show up against Charlton I couldn't care less how many fans join them.
If we sell out the same people moaning about not enough people getting behind the team will change to moaning about having to queue longer for a pint or traffic getting out of the stadium.
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https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk
Well there you are this answers the question. So Charlton will have over 4000 fans there and we will have 9500 at most.
Have the club shot themselves in the foot with this?
Yes it's definitely money in the bank but we know how much noise that many fans can make in the away end.
For such an important game some clever tactics are needed and I think that this is where our club comes up short and shows its nievity at times.
We need every bit of advantage we can get. Look at Sunderland who have only given Portsmouth 2000.thats less than for a league game.
Even if we didn't sell out, so what... Its our ground and up to us to manage the support behined the team.
To be honest, abit more patience and I think we would have sold out the ground meaning it would have been over 10k fans to support rovers and more support to the team.
It's time like this when I wonder when are we going to learn, its also times like this when having JR there I'm sure he would have said not to do it
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Didn't JR build the wall in the East stand in first place so we could take more money off Leeds fans (away team) on a regular basis? Wasn't concerned about giving the away advantage then was he.
800 extra fans won't impact a 180 minute 2 legged tie and if you think that then I despair
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Just a quick question. I’ve ordered tickets this evening. If I collect them tomorrow where do I collect them from?
Thanks
Chris
The Box office.
.... and see my Reply in this Thread #190 with Photo
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https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk
Well there you are this answers the question. So Charlton will have over 4000 fans there and we will have 9500 at most.
Have the club shot themselves in the foot with this?
Yes it's definitely money in the bank but we know how much noise that many fans can make in the away end.
For such an important game some clever tactics are needed and I think that this is where our club comes up short and shows its nievity at times.
We need every bit of advantage we can get. Look at Sunderland who have only given Portsmouth 2000.thats less than for a league game.
Even if we didn't sell out, so what... Its our ground and up to us to manage the support behined the team.
To be honest, abit more patience and I think we would have sold out the ground meaning it would have been over 10k fans to support rovers and more support to the team.
It's time like this when I wonder when are we going to learn, its also times like this when having JR there I'm sure he would have said not to do it
It's out of the club's hands. The EFL state we have to charge normal admission prices, give them a break
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Makes a change for someone to shoot the club down and ask questions later? Not!
Read the EFL play off rules then think again!
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https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk
Well there you are this answers the question. So Charlton will have over 4000 fans there and we will have 9500 at most.
Have the club shot themselves in the foot with this?
Yes it's definitely money in the bank but we know how much noise that many fans can make in the away end.
For such an important game some clever tactics are needed and I think that this is where our club comes up short and shows its nievity at times.
We need every bit of advantage we can get. Look at Sunderland who have only given Portsmouth 2000.thats less than for a league game.
Even if we didn't sell out, so what... Its our ground and up to us to manage the support behined the team.
To be honest, abit more patience and I think we would have sold out the ground meaning it would have been over 10k fans to support rovers and more support to the team.
It's time like this when I wonder when are we going to learn, its also times like this when having JR there I'm sure he would have said not to do it
It's out of the club's hands. The EFL state we have to charge normal admission prices, give them a break
Eh where have I mentioned prices?
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Didn't JR build the wall in the East stand in first place so we could take more money off Leeds fans (away team) on a regular basis? Wasn't concerned about giving the away advantage then was he.
800 extra fans won't impact a 180 minute 2 legged tie and if you think that then I despair
I have no idea if Jr did or didn't. I'm just saying that sometimes being a little more savvy wouldn't go amiss
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Makes a change for someone to shoot the club down and ask questions later? Not!
Read the EFL play off rules then think again!
I can honestly not be bothered to read the pile of tripe the clueless ideots at the efl spout (I have no respect for them as a governing body you may have guessed)
Does it genuinely say we have to give up over a 1/4 not far off 1/3 of our stadium to away fans in the playoffs? I think someone needs to have a word with Sunderland then.....
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We have over 1900 tickets left online just now, plus the 800 odd from the spare blocks I’m the west stand..
If we have a complete sell out and fans are locked out and can’t get tickets then maybe we shouldn’t give Charlton the extras, but if we don’t do that, what’s the problem.??
We were outnumbered by 100% in both big finals but still won the games..
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Noise from the crowd is good no matter what song they sing it will get are players up for it more as we are at home so more people in the ground the better donny or charlton fans it all equates to a better atmosphere
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Didn't JR build the wall in the East stand in first place so we could take more money off Leeds fans (away team) on a regular basis? Wasn't concerned about giving the away advantage then was he.
800 extra fans won't impact a 180 minute 2 legged tie and if you think that then I despair
You would be surprised how much it will help Charlton.
marginal gains,
It is naive from the club, and it's a result of having business men and not football people on the board
(there are plus points and negatives to both, and I think on the whole the board are doing an OK job)
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DBR, Don’t forget though that all the extra benefits that we get will also be paid to the other clubs in the division.
Any financial gain we get will not improve our situation at all against the other clubs.
The only thing that might help is Club Doncaster revenue.
Yes. As I said, we'll be financially fitter than many other clubs who are already committed to higher costs including players on 'silly' contracts, bigger squads, etc, etc. We don't have the same baggage.
Don't get me wrong, it will be tough but if we have faith in McCann, he will acquire more bang for our buck and improve the quality of the squad.
Not forgetting of course that incoming players will want higher wages and transfer fees (what are they!) will be higher so even though income increases costs will too
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As of 9-20 am this morning there is by my reckoning less than 2000 (1996) seats left on sale for the game.
With so few left I would be buying at the ticket office or on line rather than thinking I could get them from the ticket office on the walk up on Sunday as usual if it was my normal way of purchase.
By the way Boomstick, the total outnumbering of away fans in the European games this season apart from at Liverpool, and the arrogance of the Barcelona team, made very little difference to to results.
In three of the games Spurs,Arsenal, and at Chelsea, the away fans were totally outnumbered, but on the field their team were the better side, and noise made no difference whatsoever,Chelsea were lucky.
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Didn't JR build the wall in the East stand in first place so we could take more money off Leeds fans (away team) on a regular basis? Wasn't concerned about giving the away advantage then was he.
800 extra fans won't impact a 180 minute 2 legged tie and if you think that then I despair
You would be surprised how much it will help Charlton.
marginal gains,
It is naive from the club, and it's a result of having business men and not football people on the board
(there are plus points and negatives to both, and I think on the whole the board are doing an OK job)
Ignoring the fact that John Ryan was the one who sanctioned the "Leeds wall" being built in the first place to get a dig in at the board are we?
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Been to the Box Office this morning and walked straight up to the desk. No queue.
Good news for those who are worried about having to queue for tickets they've ordered online.
Bad news for those who are worried about us not selling all of our tickets.
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Does anyone know what the capacity of the Keepmoat is these days ??
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Been to the Box Office this morning and walked straight up to the desk. No queue.
Good news for those who are worried about having to queue for tickets they've ordered online.
Bad news for those who are worried about us not selling all of our tickets.
It’s a working day, perhaps folks are buying online or on the phone..
Sill, I think we have the capacity to accommodate everyone who wants to go..
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Does anyone know what the capacity of the Keepmoat is these days ??
With the amount of segregation and also the front few rows at both ends taken out i would estimate around the 14.000 mark.
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I thought we would sell out, it looks unlikely now.
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Sounds about right.. with the south stand spare seats for unreserved seating, the video screen, and segregation I reckon we must lose about 1200 from the original capacity..
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Does anyone know what the capacity of the Keepmoat is these days ??
With the amount of segregation and also the front few rows at both ends taken out i would estimate around the 14.000 mark.
14010 v Palace so that stacks up as well
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Last seasons final between Rotherham and Shrewsbury only 26.000
That is very poor indeed.
How many do you think we would take this time? ( If ) :clapping:
I do think we would get an awful lot come out of the woodwork again. A bit less than last time but still around 20.000.
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https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk
Well there you are this answers the question. So Charlton will have over 4000 fans there and we will have 9500 at most.
Have the club shot themselves in the foot with this?
Yes it's definitely money in the bank but we know how much noise that many fans can make in the away end.
For such an important game some clever tactics are needed and I think that this is where our club comes up short and shows its nievity at times.
We need every bit of advantage we can get. Look at Sunderland who have only given Portsmouth 2000.thats less than for a league game.
Even if we didn't sell out, so what... Its our ground and up to us to manage the support behined the team.
To be honest, abit more patience and I think we would have sold out the ground meaning it would have been over 10k fans to support rovers and more support to the team.
It's time like this when I wonder when are we going to learn, its also times like this when having JR there I'm sure he would have said not to do it
Look at it on the flip side.
With nearly 4k away fans there's a greater chance that there'll be a few cockroaches amongst them who'll shout abuse/slag off their own players (every club has 'fans' like that). If they've got a few sensitive players, it might affect their performance.
The fans won't get at their own players...it's a sort of unspoken rule this season out of respect for Bowyer and what he's trying to achieve.....plus every player will give their all for the team. If we go one down there will be no negative reaction, you'll find us very disciplined and patient.
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Sadly not me, out of the country with something that can’t be changed.!!
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I thought we would sell out, it looks unlikely now.
Had a look about 11:30 1797 tickets left just had another look 1673 so there is still a steady stream,Anyone know if the box office is open tomorrow,There's probably people still out there who don't do online or over the phone purchases so Saturday could be a good selling day?
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Only around 100 tickets left in south about 1200 left in total
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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11 pages on ticket sales..... wow
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Last seasons final between Rotherham and Shrewsbury only 26.000
That is very poor indeed.
How many do you think we would take this time? ( If ) :clapping:
I do think we would get an awful lot come out of the woodwork again. A bit less than last time but still around 20.000.
Didn't know that! How many did Rotherham take?
We officially took 26000 last time, although you could knock off around 500 as they were Leeds that were huddled behind the goals
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1625 left in total in the home end... with only 64 left in the south stand
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It will be a sell out. Almost there
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It will be a sell out. Almost there
It might shut some people up then.
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Hound, I don't think it will shut them up, they will just move on to another criticism, probably the ques at half time, or how poor the food on offer was, and the price.
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How are ticket sales going?
Head in hands 🤦♂️
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Down to 1539 now available with only 29 left in the south stand
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Is this with or without the further seats to be offered up in the west stand?
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I don’t think those blocks are showing yet..
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Is this with or without the further seats to be offered up in the west stand?
Without
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Down to 1539 now available with only 29 left in the south stand
Don't forget the 18 in W31.
South Stand now all gone (feckin site! Now showing 34 left)
East nearly done bar the Family Stands which are selling really poorly.
Loads left in the West.
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Last seasons final between Rotherham and Shrewsbury only 26.000
That is very poor indeed.
How many do you think we would take this time? ( If ) :clapping:
I do think we would get an awful lot come out of the woodwork again. A bit less than last time but still around 20.000.
Didn't know that! How many did Rotherham take?
We officially took 26000 last time, although you could knock off around 500 as they were Leeds that were huddled behind the goals
24k including the Leeds fans, google the pictures to see they had around 1500/2k in the top tier. JR offered Leeds 12k out of the 36k.
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Makes a change for someone to shoot the club down and ask questions later? Not!
Read the EFL play off rules then think again!
I can honestly not be bothered to read the pile of tripe the clueless ideots at the efl spout (I have no respect for them as a governing body you may have guessed)
Does it genuinely say we have to give up over a 1/4 not far off 1/3 of our stadium to away fans in the playoffs? I think someone needs to have a word with Sunderland then.....
The clueless idiots at the EFL?
Let me just point out that they're not a governing body.
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Last seasons final between Rotherham and Shrewsbury only 26.000
That is very poor indeed.
How many do you think we would take this time? ( If ) :clapping:
I do think we would get an awful lot come out of the woodwork again. A bit less than last time but still around 20.000.
Didn't know that! How many did Rotherham take?
We officially took 26000 last time, although you could knock off around 500 as they were Leeds that were huddled behind the goals
24k including the Leeds fans, google the pictures to see they had around 1500/2k in the top tier. JR offered Leeds 12k out of the 36k.
Sorry, but nowhere near 1500.
Anyway doesn't matter does it
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They’re only going, to see the Rovers.!!
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24k including the Leeds fans, google the pictures to see they had around 1500/2k in the top tier. JR offered Leeds 12k out of the 36k.
Sorry, but nowhere near 1500.
Anyway doesn't matter does it
Grouped on two tiers here surrounded by stewards. Looks like 1.5k+ to me.
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Charlton have sold out the away end, 3,700, which justifies the decision to give them the extra tickets!
They've also now flogged roughly 21k for the game at The Valley and that's on course for a sell-out in the home ends so it should be a cracking atmosphere.
Admirable, admirable effort from their fans!
Aye good decision in giving them an added advantage in fighting for the millions on offer for promotion, just for the pennies the club will get in return in selling a few extra tickets.
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24k including the Leeds fans, google the pictures to see they had around 1500/2k in the top tier. JR offered Leeds 12k out of the 36k.
Sorry, but nowhere near 1500.
Anyway doesn't matter does it
Grouped on two tiers here surrounded by stewards. Looks like 1.5k+ to me.
To be fair, my memory was poor then. It was 11 years ago!
Looks like your right.
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I was surprised, I only recalled a few hundred. Leeds and their desperate photoshopping.
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Charlton have sold out the away end, 3,700, which justifies the decision to give them the extra tickets!
They've also now flogged roughly 21k for the game at The Valley and that's on course for a sell-out in the home ends so it should be a cracking atmosphere.
Admirable, admirable effort from their fans!
Aye good decision in giving them an added advantage in fighting for the millions on offer for promotion, just for the pennies the club will get in return in selling a few extra tickets.
Last time I checked football was won on the pitch and not in the stands
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Who cares.. I’m still drinking my work brews from my “ceefax” mug showing the score from that game..
That’s all that mattered then, and what happens on the pitch is all that matters on Sunday too..
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You would think the ticket office would be open until later tonight, loads of people turning up and its closed a 4pm
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And it will be open tomorrow, for walk ups and calls, and there’s online sales too..
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You would think the ticket office would be open until later tonight, loads of people turning up and its closed a 4pm
there'll be a rush on to Rothwell's for scraps as it's Friday, to be fair to 'em...
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South stand now sold out... 1428 left on sale
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Think they might open west end part for on day walk ups
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Last seasons final between Rotherham and Shrewsbury only 26.000
That is very poor indeed.
How many do you think we would take this time? ( If ) :clapping:
I do think we would get an awful lot come out of the woodwork again. A bit less than last time but still around 20.000.
Didn't know that! How many did Rotherham take?
We officially took 26000 last time, although you could knock off around 500 as they were Leeds that were huddled behind the goals
24k including the Leeds fans, google the pictures to see they had around 1500/2k in the top tier. JR offered Leeds 12k out of the 36k.
Leeds would’ve taken more.
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Leeds would’ve taken more.
Not sure the flood facilities at Wembley would have handled any more grief.
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is the ticket office open tomorrow
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Makes a change for someone to shoot the club down and ask questions later? Not!
Read the EFL play off rules then think again!
I can honestly not be bothered to read the pile of tripe the clueless ideots at the efl spout (I have no respect for them as a governing body you may have guessed)
Does it genuinely say we have to give up over a 1/4 not far off 1/3 of our stadium to away fans in the playoffs? I think someone needs to have a word with Sunderland then.....
The clueless idiots at the EFL?
Let me just point out that they're not a governing body.
Makes a change for someone to shoot the club down and ask questions later? Not!
Read the EFL play off rules then think again!
I can honestly not be bothered to read the pile of tripe the clueless ideots at the efl spout (I have no respect for them as a governing body you may have guessed)
Does it genuinely say we have to give up over a 1/4 not far off 1/3 of our stadium to away fans in the playoffs? I think someone needs to have a word with Sunderland then.....
The clueless idiots at the EFL?
Let me just point out that they're not a governing body.
That's fair enough. Notable that you did not offer a view on my other comment about them lol
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Charlton have sold out the away end, 3,700, which justifies the decision to give them the extra tickets!
They've also now flogged roughly 21k for the game at The Valley and that's on course for a sell-out in the home ends so it should be a cracking atmosphere.
Admirable, admirable effort from their fans!
Aye good decision in giving them an added advantage in fighting for the millions on offer for promotion, just for the pennies the club will get in return in selling a few extra tickets.
Last time I checked football was won on the pitch and not in the stands
Yes but note the latest article from dfp with grant and copps asking the fat lazy Donny public to get of their arses and show their support for the team at full price for once (I added the last bit)
I agree with what they say as well.
Maybe the underdog comments and being on sky has put people off, but what needs to be done to get people to support a team that's done so well this season? It's not exactly going to encourage new players to sign in the future
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So for those ticket-watching what is the current synopsis? How many we definitely sold (including Charlton) and what we expecting?
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is the ticket office open tomorrow
Yes 9-4..
I will be calling them if mine don’t arrive on tomorrow’s post.!!
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24k including the Leeds fans, google the pictures to see they had around 1500/2k in the top tier. JR offered Leeds 12k out of the 36k.
Sorry, but nowhere near 1500.
Anyway doesn't matter does it
Grouped on two tiers here surrounded by stewards. Looks like 1.5k+ to me.
To be fair, my memory was poor then. It was 11 years ago!
Looks like your right.
Memory, like a fine wine, only improves over time. Or at least you remember less how bad it was before.
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So for those ticket-watching what is the current synopsis? How many we definitely sold (including Charlton) and what we expecting?
1,550 remaining in home ends which (to my guess) would equate to 7,500+ sold, then Charlton’s lot on top of 3,700 - so 11,200 as a minimum.
South Stand has 14 remaining.
My maths says that’s 12.200 sold? Am i wrong? Will we not have over 10.000 home tickets to sell based on a capacity of around 14.000?
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So for those ticket-watching what is the current synopsis? How many we definitely sold (including Charlton) and what we expecting?
I'm suspecting they released some more in the SS, the figures on the site change a lot. None appearing to be sold since about 2.30 when I looked. Now it's exactly 1600 left (plus a possible W31/32/33) which I make as 7741 sold. Add the Charlton allocation and that's so far a crowd of 11241. So we should get about 12000 on the day?
At Charlton we've sold about 870.
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So for those ticket-watching what is the current synopsis? How many we definitely sold (including Charlton) and what we expecting?
1,550 remaining in home ends which (to my guess) would equate to 7,500+ sold, then Charlton’s lot on top of 3,700 - so 11,200 as a minimum.
South Stand has 14 remaining.
Looking at the seating plan I would say over 80% of the remaining seats are row E and below same as the away blocks at Charlton. So people may find it difficult to pay for low level seating. In the South stand it makes no difference as it’s non reserved seating.
Also Charlton have opened another block.
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Looking at the seating plan I would say over 80% of the remaining seats are row E and below same as the away blocks at Charlton. So people may find it difficult to pay for low level seating. In the South stand it makes no difference as it’s non reserved seating.
A few hundred seats higher up at Charlton as the 4th block was made available earlier today.
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It's unreserved at Charlton
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So for those ticket-watching what is the current synopsis? How many we definitely sold (including Charlton) and what we expecting?
I'm suspecting they released some more in the SS, the figures on the site change a lot. None appearing to be sold since about 2.30 when I looked. Now it's exactly 1600 left (plus a possible W31/32/33) which I make as 7741 sold. Add the Charlton allocation and that's so far a crowd of 11241. So we should get about 12000 on the day?
Which is bizarre given we got (or declared) 12794 for the Game v Coventry .... I am still convinced that was no more than 11500
Also got 14010 v Palace as well. OK Tickets were cheaper for that but why would we not be getting 13500 for this one ?
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By my reckoning there is 1223 tickets left for sale in the home sections as of 9-20 am with 330 approx sold between the close of the sales office last might.
With a walk up facility on the day to purchase from the ticket office I expect the two sections in the west stand to have to be opened, and an initial sell out or very near of the original tickets for sale, I hope so anyway.
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It's unreserved at Charlton
Brilliant news... every away section should be
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48 tickets have now become available again in the south stand
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We won't sell out now, looking at the online system their will be patches of empty seats in the East and West stands, disappointing
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Grant mcann has said the fans make a huge difference.
Wonder how he feels about giving Charlton an advantage by giving them 800 extra seats?
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Think they've only sold part of behind the goal the 800 extra is to sell behind the goal
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We won't sell out now, looking at the online system their will be patches of empty seats in the East and West stands, disappointing
Oh for f**ks sake man.! Those who want to/can go, will be there..
Just enjoy the game and celebrate that we are in the play offs, rather than getting bothered about the total attendance.!
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Grant mcann has said the fans make a huge difference.
Wonder how he feels about giving Charlton an advantage by giving them 800 extra seats?
It's about time we banned away fans full stop. This will guarantee us 69 points at the start of the season.
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Grant mcann has said the fans make a huge difference.
Wonder how he feels about giving Charlton an advantage by giving them 800 extra seats?
Give it a rest man! We're doomed, we're doomed I tell thi!
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Just been in to collect some tickets. Asked Suzanne about the capacity and it is around 14.000 but the segregation can be reduced if required.
We have total sales of just short of around 12.500 including 3.800 for Charlton Athletic. So that’s 8.700 home fans.
I do hope we will get the rest sold today and tomorrow.
To be honest if we don’t the board must be wondering what they have to do to fill this ground.
COME ON ALL THOSE WHO HAVEN’T BOUGHT A TICKET YET.
The weather is set fair and this is A BIG GAME. It’s NOT the same on telly is it. YOU CANT BEAT BEING THERE. COME ON FOLKS :rtid:
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You would think the ticket office would be open until later tonight, loads of people turning up and its closed a 4pm
it baffles me still that folk will go to the ground instead of ringing them up, and collecting on the day...
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You would think the ticket office would be open until later tonight, loads of people turning up and its closed a 4pm
it baffles me still that folk will go to the ground instead of ringing them up, and collecting on the day...
Having had to collect on the day for the Cov game (and been stuck at the end of a very long queue) I can 100% understand why people go to the ticket office.
I ordered mine online Wednesday and picked up Thursday.
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Is there a separate queue in the ticket office (I'm gathering it's open today?) for collections or do you have to join the buyers' queue?
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48 tickets have now become available again in the south stand
I've said before on here , that the online ticket seat selector can't be trusted to calculate sales .
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Is there a separate queue in the ticket office (I'm gathering it's open today?) for collections or do you have to join the buyers' queue?
No queue or buyers this morning at 9-30
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You would think the ticket office would be open until later tonight, loads of people turning up and its closed a 4pm
it baffles me still that folk will go to the ground instead of ringing them up, and collecting on the day...
It baffles me why people don’t book online and have them posted for £1
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You would think the ticket office would be open until later tonight, loads of people turning up and its closed a 4pm
it baffles me still that folk will go to the ground instead of ringing them up, and collecting on the day...
It baffles me why people don’t book online and have them posted for £1
The posting option wasn't available because the general sale only went on sale on Weds night.
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1449 left according to online ticketing which based on what Campsall has been told probably means whats left online is all that is left to make up the 14,000 unless they open the blocks in the west and reduce segregation.
815 west stand
11 south stand
623 east stand
Just been in to collect some tickets. Asked Suzanne about the capacity and it is around 14.000 but the segregation can be reduced if required.
We have total sales of just short of around 12.500 including 3.800 for Charlton Athletic. So that’s 8.700 home fans.
I do hope we will get the rest sold today and tomorrow.
To be honest if we don’t the board must be wondering what they have to do to fill this ground.
COME ON ALL THOSE WHO HAVEN’T BOUGHT A TICKET YET.
The weather is set fair and this is A BIG GAME. It’s NOT the same on telly is it. YOU CANT BEAT BEING THERE. COME ON FOLKS :rtid:
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The posted tickets usually arrive next day.. I opted for post on Wednesday morning.. still waiting..
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Grant mcann has said the fans make a huge difference.
Wonder how he feels about giving Charlton an advantage by giving them 800 extra seats?
He’ll probably care a lot more if one of their players gives them an advantage.
The players they have won't change, the performance they give can. Improved by more of their fans.
Really surprised you cant see the concept of marginal gains.
It's short sighted penny pinching by the club on this occasion.
( although I'll repeat, I do think they are doing an OK job on the whole)
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48 tickets have now become available again in the south stand
I've said before on here , that the online ticket seat selector can't be trusted to calculate sales .
Appears not because random Seats seem to appear as with those 48
There were a few added in different Blocks earlier and I assume that people cant swap online and the TO was not open so who was adding them ?
Also as I have said a few times I followed the sales for Coventry game and adding their sales as well I arrived at 11100 for a Comp I do. However the Gate declared was 12700+ - so online must not be accurate for some Games
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The posted tickets usually arrive next day.. I opted for post on Wednesday morning.. still waiting..
Cue Dianna Ross....
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Grant mcann has said the fans make a huge difference.
Wonder how he feels about giving Charlton an advantage by giving them 800 extra seats?
He’ll probably care a lot more if one of their players gives them an advantage.
The players they have won't change, the performance they give can. Improved by more of their fans.
Really surprised you cant see the concept of marginal gains.
It's short sighted penny pinching by the club on this occasion.
( although I'll repeat, I do think they are doing an OK job on the whole)
So you would rather see empty seats then?
It doesn’t look as if this game has captured the imagination of the Doncaster public. If it had we would have sold out by Thurs tea time.
Charlton snapped up the further allocated 800 tickets in a day. They had sold 3.000 already.
Looks as though it has captured their imagination doesn’t it? Ex premier league club slumming it in League 1
Well done to the Charlton fans. You have to applaud that level of support from 185 miles away.
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...Also as I have said a few times I followed the sales for Coventry game and adding their sales as well I arrived at 11100 for a Comp I do. However the Gate declared was 12700+ - so online must not be accurate for some Games
The online system does seem bizarre. It's not just the SS where suddenly more tickets become available. The Cov game discrepancy between declared and actual attendance was affected by non attending STH, as well as sales on the day, though that still doesn't account for what you say.
Good to hear the away game will be unreserved, and that gradually the sales are increasing there. If anything, the noise that can be made there will be the most significant input from fans, especially as players tire.
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South Stand SOLD OUT. Ive just bought the last in the South stand.
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Grant mcann has said the fans make a huge difference.
Wonder how he feels about giving Charlton an advantage by giving them 800 extra seats?
He’ll probably care a lot more if one of their players gives them an advantage.
The players they have won't change, the performance they give can. Improved by more of their fans.
Really surprised you cant see the concept of marginal gains.
It's short sighted penny pinching by the club on this occasion.
( although I'll repeat, I do think they are doing an OK job on the whole)
So you would rather see empty seats then?
It doesn’t look as if this game has captured the imagination of the Doncaster public. If it had we would have sold out by Thurs tea time.
Charlton snapped up the further allocated 800 tickets in a day. They had sold 3.000 already.
Looks as though it has captured their imagination doesn’t it? Ex premier league club slumming it in League 1
Well done to the Charlton fans. You have to applaud that level of support from 185 miles away.
Yes, to be fair in this huge crunch game I'd rather have the empty seats in the away end.
Don't get me wrong, just for this game where we need every possible advantage.
I'd prefer we gave them the very bare minimum (1500?) don't forget the club will make hardly any money from gate receipts after the efl Rob their share.
I agree about the donny public, its so frustrating.
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The EFL want to maximise their return. We would be reported if we blocked Charlton's request for extra tickets without good reason.
To say we're making hardly any money out of it is also way off the mark. Proportionately we are set to gain more than the other 3 clubs when the pot is divided equally. With a belt and braces guestimation, I reckon we're on to collect between £185k to £200k plus TV money.
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The EFL want to maximise their return. We would be reported if we blocked Charlton's request for extra tickets without good reason.
To say we're making hardly any money out of it is also way off the mark. Proportionately we are set to gain more than the other 3 clubs when the pot is divided equally. With a belt and braces guestimation, I reckon we're on to collect between £185k to £200k plus TV money.
Maybe, but the extra from the added 800 is f**k all.
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Boomstick, you don't half talk tripe at times, we will not get a pittance from the game at all, car parking,shop sales, bar and food sales, TV fees, advertising, programme sales, if nothing else they allow more for the turnover for fair play rules.
Add the fact that all three other participants who are much bigger pool their cut and we will come out of it quite well I think.
And when was the last time you got an assist from where you were sitting, or gave a player instructions that caused him to score a goal?
Apart from that we get our share of any money distributed to the division 1 clubs by the EFL the same as every other club.
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Since football is a game for fans, if we had several hundred seats available for away fans who wanted them, and we refused to release them because of some marginal gain concept, we would quite rightly be castigated by the football community.
See, it's NOT about winning at all costs. It's about the experience. It's the journey, not the destination.
Put simply, I'd rather lose with dignity than win by being John Beck.
Think about it. If everyone does the marginal gains thing, nobody wins and everyone loses their dignity.
Football that is reduced to nasty, snarling bitterness is pointless.
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Grant mcann has said the fans make a huge difference.
Wonder how he feels about giving Charlton an advantage by giving them 800 extra seats?
He’ll probably care a lot more if one of their players gives them an advantage.
The players they have won't change, the performance they give can. Improved by more of their fans.
Really surprised you cant see the concept of marginal gains.
It's short sighted penny pinching by the club on this occasion.
( although I'll repeat, I do think they are doing an OK job on the whole)
So you would rather see empty seats then?
It doesn’t look as if this game has captured the imagination of the Doncaster public. If it had we would have sold out by Thurs tea time.
Charlton snapped up the further allocated 800 tickets in a day. They had sold 3.000 already.
Looks as though it has captured their imagination doesn’t it? Ex premier league club slumming it in League 1
Well done to the Charlton fans. You have to applaud that level of support from 185 miles away.
Charlton are a bigger club than us with a bigger fan base.
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Since football is a game for fans, if we had several hundred seats available for away fans who wanted them, and we refused to release them because of some marginal gain concept, we would quite rightly be castigated by the football community.
See, it's NOT about winning at all costs. It's about the experience. It's the journey, not the destination.
Put simply, I'd rather lose with dignity than win by being John Beck.
Think about it. If everyone does the marginal gains thing, nobody wins and everyone loses their dignity.
Football that is reduced to nasty, snarling bitterness is pointless.
BST don’t mention that name. If he was a football manager then i am from another solar system.
Watched Middlesbrough v Cambridge in 1993 a game which my step son Neil Illman played in for Boro and quite frankly i thought Cambridge were playing Rugby Union with a football.
90 mins of kicking the ball into touch as far as they could kick it. If that’s watching football then this game we love is not for me. He was a “man” masquerading as a football manager. :facepalm:
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:saywhat:
Grant mcann has said the fans make a huge difference.
Wonder how he feels about giving Charlton an advantage by giving them 800 extra seats?
He’ll probably care a lot more if one of their players gives them an advantage.
The players they have won't change, the performance they give can. Improved by more of their fans.
Really surprised you cant see the concept of marginal gains.
It's short sighted penny pinching by the club on this occasion.
( although I'll repeat, I do think they are doing an OK job on the whole)
So you would rather see empty seats then?
It doesn’t look as if this game has captured the imagination of the Doncaster public. If it had we would have sold out by Thurs tea time.
Charlton snapped up the further allocated 800 tickets in a day. They had sold 3.000 already.
Looks as though it has captured their imagination doesn’t it? Ex premier league club slumming it in League 1
Well done to the Charlton fans. You have to applaud that level of support from 185 miles away.
Charlton are a bigger club than us with a bigger fan base.
hound we know that but your missing the point. This is a league 1 play off match.
All we are asking is for 10.200 of the local population to turn up. Not 20.000+
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Boomstick, you don't half talk tripe at times, we will not get a pittance from the game at all, car parking,shop sales, bar and food sales, TV fees, advertising, programme sales, if nothing else they allow more for the turnover for fair play rules.
Add the fact that all three other participants who are much bigger pool their cut and we will come out of it quite well I think.
And when was the last time you got an assist from where you were sitting, or gave a player instructions that caused him to score a goal?
Apart from that we get our share of any money distributed to the division 1 clubs by the EFL the same as every other club.
Some people get my point and disagree, which is fair enough. But I think you've missed it completely.
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This thread is depressing. Some people get far too worked up about a few empty seats. Or a few seats that aren't empty, as it appears!
Just look forward to the game and enjoy the fact we are in this position! Most teams are facing their first football-free weekend of the year today!
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This thread is depressing. Some people get far too worked up about a few empty seats. Or a few seats that aren't empty, as it appears!
Just look forward to the game and enjoy the fact we are in this position! Most teams are facing their first football-free weekend of the year today!
If it’s depressing ignore it.
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If we didn't give Charlton the extra tickets then they would have bought in the home end just like our fans would have.
If you wanted a ticket people have had plenty of chance to get one
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:saywhat:Grant mcann has said the fans make a huge difference.
Wonder how he feels about giving Charlton an advantage by giving them 800 extra seats?
He’ll probably care a lot more if one of their players gives them an advantage.
The players they have won't change, the performance they give can. Improved by more of their fans.
Really surprised you cant see the concept of marginal gains.
It's short sighted penny pinching by the club on this occasion.
( although I'll repeat, I do think they are doing an OK job on the whole)
So you would rather see empty seats then?
It doesn’t look as if this game has captured the imagination of the Doncaster public. If it had we would have sold out by Thurs tea time.
Charlton snapped up the further allocated 800 tickets in a day. They had sold 3.000 already.
Looks as though it has captured their imagination doesn’t it? Ex premier league club slumming it in League 1
Well done to the Charlton fans. You have to applaud that level of support from 185 miles away.
Charlton are a bigger club than us with a bigger fan base.
hound we know that but your missing the point. This is a league 1 play off match.
All we are asking is for 10.200 of the local population to turn up. Not 20.000+
Newport had 25% of their seats empty on Thursday while Tranmere was worse than that with 9579 turning up in a ground with 15573 places.
I know you will say you are not bothered about Newport or Tranmere but it does put a bit of perspective on our ticket sales which retrospectively will be better than those two games.
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This thread is depressing. Some people get far too worked up about a few empty seats. Or a few seats that aren't empty, as it appears!
Just look forward to the game and enjoy the fact we are in this position! Most teams are facing their first football-free weekend of the year today!
If it’s depressing ignore it.
Believe me, I've tried. I just think some people spend too much time obsessing over things like this when they really don't matter. It's not like the stadium is going to be empty is it, it's going to be one of our biggest attendances of the season quite comfortably.
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It’s just frustrating that to fill the stadium we have to give almost 30% of the seats to the opposition. That should not be the case for a play off match.
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Paul, having a lot of supporters while you are winning a game is great, our job and the teams is to make their strength a weakness.
Having a large number on your back, leaving the ground early, audibly frustrated can be an absolute nightmare.
Being an ex Leeds supporter you should know that.
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This thread is depressing. Some people get far too worked up about a few empty seats. Or a few seats that aren't empty, as it appears!
Just look forward to the game and enjoy the fact we are in this position! Most teams are facing their first football-free weekend of the year today!
If it’s depressing ignore it.
Believe me, I've tried. I just think some people spend too much time obsessing over things like this when they really don't matter. It's not like the stadium is going to be empty is it, it's going to be one of our biggest attendances of the season quite comfortably.
We maybe should have one dedicated Thread for Attendances and then stick every post about it on there
In that way it would be easy to "ignore" it - and it should stop multiple threads about the same thing !
Would suggest a Question and answer type layout as people always ask the same types of question even when they have been answered already and it would save some people time looking through for the answers.
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I reckon there's fewer than 800 tickets left now in the main areas with another 460 in the family sections.
To all intents and purposes, it'll be a sell out.
Just to make some bleeding noise now.
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I reckon there's fewer than 800 tickets left now in the main areas with another 460 in the family sections.
To all intents and purposes, it'll be a sell out.
Just to make some bleeding noise now.
Exactly that’s what we must do, we don’t want to hear Charlton sing and they will sing.
3 early goals might quiet them down though. :woohoo:
Yes the place needs to be a cauldron tomorrow. Intimidating as possible to the opponents.
I mean Charlton, not us.
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Paul, having a lot of supporters while you are winning a game is great, our job and the teams is to make their strength a weakness.
Having a large number on your back, leaving the ground early, audibly frustrated can be an absolute nightmare.
Being an ex Leeds supporter you should know that.
I not sure about the analogy to Leeds Brian.
We need to take the lead and then take probably at least a 2 goal advantage to the away leg to quieten those Londoners up.
Before you jump on me i think we may not need a 2 goal lead to win overall.
Got a feeling we are going to produce a magnificent performance at the Valley.
In fact I know they will because it’s my birthday and they won’t let me down. :)
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Hope they dont get you "loads of Cards"
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Hope they dont get you "loads of Cards"
2 red ones please Wolf for the team playing in red at the Valley. That will do nicely thankyou.
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Plenty of empty seats in Sunderland, looks as though there was more for the league game against us
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We are worried about a few empty seats,look at the massive Sunderland empty seats everywhere
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A question for the people who were grumbling that we might not get a sell out.
If the ground only held say, 12500 to 13000, would you be happy if it was a sell out with that many people in?
If the answer is yes then you should be happy anyway because that is what we are likely to have there.
Even Villa v WBA didn’t sell out and that is a massive local derby match.
Derby v Leeds also not a sell out.
It really isn’t a big issue.
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I remember when the original design for the Keepmoat was for only just over 10,000 seats! There was a public event at the earl of Doncaster where my old man made a (hot under the collar) comment that 10k wouldn't be enough for the future. So he likes to think he played his own small part in that decision, the old dear.
In reality, I think Andy Liney was the/a major advocate at that stage that 10k wouldn't be enough.
edit: it might have 12,000 thinking back. In any case, lower than what it ended up.
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Villa vs WBA was a sell-out before general sale mate. Second leg at the Hawthorns is also sold-out already.
The official ground capacity shows about 1800 more than the attendance shown on the bbc sport website.
I went from that.
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Don't ever understand why people get fixated with attendances, bet Salford did not care playing in front of just over 8k today at Wembley and winning promotion to the league for the first time
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Don't ever understand why people get fixated with attendances, bet Salford did not care playing in front of just over 8k today at Wembley and winning promotion to the league for the first time
That is why I am trying to highlight to some posters that most of the play off matches won’t sell out.
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https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk
Well there you are this answers the question. So Charlton will have over 4000 fans there and we will have 9500 at most.
Have the club shot themselves in the foot with this?
Yes it's definitely money in the bank but we know how much noise that many fans can make in the away end.
For such an important game some clever tactics are needed and I think that this is where our club comes up short and shows its nievity at times.
We need every bit of advantage we can get. Look at Sunderland who have only given Portsmouth 2000.thats less than for a league game.
Even if we didn't sell out, so what... Its our ground and up to us to manage the support behined the team.
To be honest, abit more patience and I think we would have sold out the ground meaning it would have been over 10k fans to support rovers and more support to the team.
It's time like this when I wonder when are we going to learn, its also times like this when having JR there I'm sure he would have said not to do it
Look at it on the flip side.
With nearly 4k away fans there's a greater chance that there'll be a few cockroaches amongst them who'll shout abuse/slag off their own players (every club has 'fans' like that). If they've got a few sensitive players, it might affect their performance.
The fans won't get at their own players...it's a sort of unspoken rule this season out of respect for Bowyer and what he's trying to achieve.....plus every player will give their all for the team. If we go one down there will be no negative reaction, you'll find us very disciplined and patient.
Sorry, did I just read ‘Bowyer’ and ‘respect’ in the same sentence?
I need to back off the red wine......
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Don't ever understand why people get fixated with attendances, bet Salford did not care playing in front of just over 8k today at Wembley and winning promotion to the league for the first time
Wow that’s a poor attendance for that fixture.
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It shouldn't be at Wembley, two non-league sides coming from the north west, it's not too surprising really.
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Only 26610 At Sunderland.
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That's surprising. Maybe the full price issue and scheduling is having more of an adverse effect than we thought.
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It's a terrible effort. Tonight was their lowest attendance of the season in the league. What's that all about?
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Just read some fans thoughts Pre match and they say it's due to the disappointment of not achieving automatic, coupled with St holders having to pay full price. There's also alot of uncertainty about their future and finances with their owner appealing for new investment.
There's a feeling amongst their fans that they've blown their chance of getting straight back up.
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I can see there being a few walk ups today with the weather good. Wouldn't be surprised to see a fair queue at the ticket office come 12..
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We’re going early as my postal tickets didn’t arrive in time..