Couldn't sell all their tickets but limited ours, odd

[Teesste]

I hope come Wednesday that we can recreate the atmosphere from the Brighton promotion game. Hopefully people will have just one less beer and get to their seats that bit earlier to really get the noise going nice and early.

We really do have a big part to play.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

How superior are we?

 

[the_holgate_roof]

Never seen so many stewards at a match, outside after the game there were hundred just lined up, no idea what that was all about.

 

[Linny]

This board is getting more mackemesque by the day.

Frantically searching for empty teams to ridicule.

Those putting pictures on twitter to comment on empty seats really need to get out more.

It really doesn’t matter.

 

[Peppery_John]

Not going to lie I was there yesterday and was massively impressed with the home support, maybe not as long and sustained as ours but very very loud especially considering for the most part they were second best.

It wasn't especially loud on Sky, but they always turn down the background noise. It was quite loud on the radio though.

 

[FatFrank]

It wasn't especially loud on Sky, but they always turn down the background noise. It was quite loud on the radio though.

I'm surprised you could hear any form of stadium atmosphere over the constant fangirling of Coventry from the Sky commentators.

Did you know that Mark Robins has taken Coventry from League 2 to the Championship Play Offs in just 5 years?

 

[Comforts_comforter]

I thought the home fans woke up in the second half. I wonder how much of the "noise" was down to the stadium acoustics? High walls must certainly help!?!

 

[Linny]

I'm surprised you could hear any form of stadium atmosphere over the constant fangirling of Coventry from the Sky commentators.

Did you know that Mark Robins has taken Coventry from League 2 to the Championship Play Offs in just 5 years?

That’s impressive like. He’s done a great job. Especially under the circumstances.

 

[BoroMart]

They sold out all the tickets they decided to sell or were allowed to sell, I was looking for a home end ticket and there wasn't even hospitality left.

Now you can slate them for leaving big zones unsold but then I guess it will be the same at the Riverside Weds, sad trend for some reason where clubs feel the need to do that but it is the way for some reason

There were individual seats many of them unsold, I’m not buying it was a sell out

 

[BoroMart]

Let's not start acting like mackems over tickets sold, there was a chunk of empty seats in our end yesterday as. I'm sure there's a reason for that as well rather than us not selling out.

There was. They gave us 2,000 tickets for a section that holds about 2,400

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Their ground has a safety certificate for around 32,300. The crowd yesterday was 28,874, meaning 3426 unused seats (10 % of capacity).Certainly not all accounted for by segregation seats.
There a been a big negative reaction to this by the fans(pages on their forum), blaming the club for mismanagement.
Interestingly when we have had around 8% of unused seats for 'sell out ' crowds at the Riverside the general reaction has been a shrug of the shoulder/ reference to 'concourse issues'.

 

[BoroMart]

Their ground has a safety certificate for around 32,300. The crowd yesterday was 28,874, meaning 3426 unused seats (10 % of capacity).Certainly not all accounted for by segregation seats.
There a been a big negative reaction to this by the fans(pages on their forum), blaming the club for mismanagement.
Interestingly when we have had around 8% of unused seats for 'sell out ' crowds at the Riverside the general reaction has been a shrug of the shoulder/ reference to 'concourse issues'.

Clearly a % of seats aren’t sold because of stadium configuration, when segregating. That’s all fair. The point being made here is there was significantly more empty seats at yesterdays game that could have been sold.

 

[atypical_boro]

Let's not start acting like mackems over tickets sold, there was a chunk of empty seats in our end yesterday as. I'm sure there's a reason for that as well rather than us not selling out.

Exactly this. Who cares. Hardly like the ground was empty!

 

[Otto42]

The limiting of away tickets trend will be one of the things that kills off our football’s unique spectator experience. In Scotland they’ve ruined the Old Firm games and it seems we are going the same way.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Clearly a % of seats aren’t sold because of stadium configuration, when segregating. That’s all fair. The point being made here is there was significantly more empty seats at yesterdays game that could have been sold.

I would agree.
Though I would still make the point that at some very high profile premier games you can barely see the segregation.

 

[UTB70]

Strange because they got 30500+ in their home game vs birmingham on the last day. Yet 2k less for playoffs.

 

[gizasqueezemister]

Strange because they got 30500+ in their home game vs birmingham on the last day. Yet 2k less for playoffs.

Brum got 4.5k tickets. That's the norm for Cov's away end. Ours was capped at 2 out of spite/fear

 

[Mfc79]

Brum got 4.5k tickets. That's the norm for Cov's away end. Ours was capped at 2 out of spite/fear

Thats exactly it. They could have given us another 400 or 500 tickets in our end and they chose not to sell the tickets to us in favour of leaving thd seats empty.

D1ck decision that $h1ts on football fans again.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

There was. They gave us 2,000 tickets for a section that holds about 2,400

And we're giving them 2000 for a sector which held more last week.

 

[blinkbonny]

I live in Coventry and was toying with attending as a home fan. On Saturday morning I could have chosen from hundreds of seats at the far end of the ground ,and from the side-block closest to the Boro fans.

It was clearly stated that no tickets would be sold on the day, so that may be why the above poster could not get one.

The opposite end to the Away end is always very poorly attended for some reason. In most grounds I know the most fanatical fans tend to congregate behind a goal. Not at Coventry. They seem to have opted for traditionally one of the worst views in one of the corners.

Always puzzled me.