My understanding is that the West Stand Upper blocks from 7 onwards will be sold as matchday tickets this season on a supply and demand basis.
So I take it the club are not selling seats in the North/East corner that housed away fans in recent seasons ? Just in case
I think the communities in there have effectively already been broken up. If it's dependent on SAG, and if they're not having an additional meeting, there's little if any chance of reversing it after they've voiced their input. It's a pitfall from linking the two issues. I think people in there maybe felt there was no concerted campaign supporting them, so made their own individual actions, as eastanders were left to do.
If that's the case, it's a shame something hasn't been organised for (now) previous pass holders, to have an option on an alternative seat, that could be sold match by match, while staying put in their old seat until a decision is reached on away fans. It'd be a half measure, but it could sill be organised for people to transfer back up there on a game by game basis.
My friend met a man in a lift who says the Allam's have had several meetings with 2 different consortiums about altering the set up of sunrise and sunset. More of a simple switch than any form of migration apparently. There is a plan to rename it as "rise" and "set" as this is more catchy.
I think it's actually block six onwards, UP6-UP11 being the proposed away end, I don't even think they're selling memberships in UP5 currently.
I could buy in UP6 in January so perhaps it is there, but I thought that the club used half of it themselves.
I don't think the SAG decision will make much difference, even if they reject the proposal, I think the plan is to keep things as they are and try again the following season. A surprisingly high amount of those being shifted from the West Upper have decided to sign up to new seats elsewhere (based on what I've seen online, rather than any official numbers), particularly since last weekend. Obviously many others still have the hump and are saying they'll no longer be attending games next season.
We have to give the away fans 2,400 seats, the West Upper is 4,000 seats, only just over a third of it is for home fans.
The SAG decision won't make a lot of difference, that's the point, it left, and to degree leaves an opportunity to soften the blow, by letting people stay in their seats a it longer, or until away fans can actually go in. They could still have an option on another seat. I'd be surprised if some hadn't got seats elsewhere, it's that or leave. On line isn't always that representative, sometimes, what looks like a lot, is the same people, or story being repeated. That mistake has been made before. Of the ones I know, I'd say it's around 60/40 that have binned it. Some of those could have kept their seats, but didn't want to be near away fans and binned it partly through not being asked or considered by anyone involved. Yep, I'm repeating, but I'm saddened that no lessons seem to have been learned from the last **** up that brought us here.
Just as another slant in all this, and I have no idea if it's representative, but given ticket sales I doubt it is. I know of a few families with kids that are buying their first passes/membership. They've been going to odd games for the past few seasons, but for them, even though they're concessions, and won't make every game, they see it as a price worth paying. It raised a question I hadn't thought of. If they buy passes for 16 year olds, presumably there's nothing to stop an adult using them if the youths can't go?
I expect technically you're not supposed to transfer the ticket use, but practically it would be fine i assume seeing as how all seats in an area cost the same I also know people that are buying their first pass for them and their kids...that's what happens when you get to the hallowed Premier League
I know I should know this, but I'd never looked before How do you actually buy a season pass? Is it just through the website season pass link? It's just that it isn't working so I didn't know if it wasn't always or whether it was just temporarily down? Not that I'm buying one, but I was interested in how they were showing the areas still being debated Cheers
Out of curiosity, if the away fans were in Upper West how would that affect everyone getting out? - the west area is the busiest side with fans from East, South and west heading to Anlaby Rd, and some from North and West heading for the bridge.
What if the Premier League object to us not having concessions? Allam will not budge, as he knows best, therefore the Premier League do not let us in! Will he throw £170m away? I doubt it.
I think the club are fairly confident they'll at least be able to trail away fans in the West Upper and that being the case, they can't sell memberships in there. If people are happy to take a punt, they'll probably be able to buy match day tickets in there for most games, though it's likely to be a costly way of doing things. I've no idea how many in the West Upper will sack it off, but I'll be amazed if it's over 25%, it's the least militant part of the ground. When this scheme was pitched to us, it involved the West Upper fans being invited in 100-150 at a time, to have everything explained and to try views from other parts of the ground, but this obviously didn't happen. I believe there was actually a plan to do the same ahead of the East Stand moves, based on the way things were handled for similar moves at Sunderland, but the club management decided to just do it and let everyone find out after the event. We don't do lesson learning, we're sticking with railroading.
