That seems crazy that they would stop first timers. I have emailed for my customer number anyway, not expecting a quick turnaround, I imagine the smc are swamped.
I phoned their helpline and they said I had to register and then get activated but they don't recognise my client reference number yet - maybe they will at 2 pm
the ticket office don't seem to know anything about the system but they will know your client reference ticketmaster gave me a client number too when I registered don't know why I need to register if they have my details from city already
There's nobody local who isn't going to know someone with a customer number and there's no way it should be a free-for-all with tickets being sold to Wendies, so it's perfectly reasonable and sensible.
What happens after Monday? Surely we aren't just going to stop sales completely? Sending a batch to sell over the counter at Tiger Leisure should be the next course of action.
When you compare it to the mad scramble for tickets in 2008 there can only be *3 reasons - this is our 4th visit in 8 years so it's "old hat", people just arent excited about a return to the Premier League and the Allams. George Bernard Shaw really knew what he was on about. * I dont accept money as a reason - if you're desperate to go you'll find a way.
The old hat stuff doesn't stop other clubs, who return to Wembley regulalrly, from nearly shifting all their tickets. Just hope there's a mad rush when general sale begins.
I don't think sales are that bad, we've sold more tickets than we have ST holders, I guess a few ST holders will be waiting to book on general with others, who don't hve enough entitlement to get tickets for everyone they want to sit with. I think sales have started alright to be fair, more will sell over the next few days I'm sure. We won't sell out but we'll take a good few I reckon.
Only twat clubs like Man U, arsenal, Liverpool with thousands of glory supporters all over the country. I think Wigan didn't even sell out for the cup final. Edit: just looked, a lot more seats gone this morning too.
Wigan sold 25,000 tickets for the FA Cup final, they took an initial allocation of 21,000, but later increased it. Man City sold 31,779.
My girlfriends (at the time) dad was a Latics fan and he couldn't be arsed to go despite there being shedloads available. The day before the final, to shift the rest of their allocation, local radio started giving them away, including coach travel. This wasnt a standard radio competition, if anyone wanted one they could have them, so he just got one of them and went for free. So even if they took their full allocation in the end, they definitely didnt sell them all.
I wouldn't worry about Wednesday fans buying tickets in our end, the useless twats can't even figure out how to register on not606.
