Tickets for Man Utd game

RE: You mean the north stand that is designed to be split in two?

Correct. Lets see if our club do some forward thinking and decide to have 3K more home fans in the ground cheering us on and 3K less away fans in the ground cheering on our opponents.

 

RE: You mean the north stand that is designed to be split in two?

http://www.barnsleyfc.org.uk/bbs/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=152638&mid=1031224#M1031224

 

cant see that happenin dreamboy wot bout season ticket holders whos happy in west stand

 

yes

if we are forceful enough with them instead of rolling over and accepting it.

The teams in sheffield manage to split their stands. We have a stand designed in such a way that home and away fans never even see each other (except from the seats) and yet we accept it straight away when told no. i'd say its much more of a risk to have home fans in the north side of the west stand as the turnstyles are near those of the away fans yet this is allowed

 

What have season ticket holders who are happy in the west stand got to do with us splitting the north stand 50/50?

 

They can stay there. Man Utd should only be in half the north stand, with the other half for our fans. We aren't obliged to give Man Utd 6K tickets for a one off game, the north stand was designed for both sets of fans and we should be doing all we can to accomodate as many Barnsley fans as possible in the hope that they will come back again more in the future.

 

RE: You mean the north stand that is designed to be split in two?

Apart from the police.

 

Ah the old roll over and die attitude

The club could force the hand of the police if it had the desire and will to do so.

They could very easily get public and media backing by inviting look north and calender down to film a piece about how the police are stopping them and show everybody on TV the infrastructure in place to segragate the fans. i would like to bet that sky sports would even take up the story.

Do you think the police would dare to continue saying no in the face of a public outcry? I don't

 

i seem to remember a game last season we tried to do that but police rejected it could have been chelsea infact

 

RE: Ah the old roll over and die attitude

Makes you wonder why we built it to split into two if whenever the police say jump we ask how high?

 

RE: yes

Yeah we should demand that in OUR ground we allocate tickets as we see fit. I reckon we will sell out the home ends no problem so how can we justify giving away fans 3K more tickets when our own fans could have them?

 

It's for reasons like that

That I don't have any friends.

 

We would lose capacity if we split the North Stand, just give Manure half of the West Stand

 

Agree on this one

BFC seem to kow tow to the rozzers at every turn.

Practices of segregation used routinely all over the country at other grounds appear to be off the menu for BFC for some utterly bizarre reason despite the away end being specifically designed to be split.

 

when did the police stop us segregating that stand?

It's news to me. In Bassett's season I used to sit in the North Stand all the time. It segregated fine then. And there's a host of other clubs that segregate stands. Why are the police so against us doing it and when did that happen?

 

Correct, it always makes me laugh how our kick off times ...

..... are changed by the Police when we play a derby match at home, even against the likes of the mighty Chesterfield, but the deedah derby, policed by the same force, has kicked off at 3pm on a saturday afternoon in the same season as ours are changed, and when they are on Sky they can play at any time of the day or night, anybody would think we were Millwall/West Ham rolled into one

 

I think the extra income...

... is why it would be considered

 

Just text back

Yes!

 

I would guess

That as the club is responsible for paying for policing inside the ground a segregated stand costs more to police.

If you aren't going to generate additional sales, and indeed reduce ticket sales by segregating by three empty columns of seats and increase costs you wouldn't normally do such as thing.

however in this case ticket sales would be a much higher level than in budget.....

the thing is the loyal fans will get their tickets anyway and the extra tickets are only going to be sold to plastic Manc fans either from Barnsley or elsewhere anywya...

So the club should maximise revenue.

 

That's fair enough

Wouldn't mind being able to get another as the missus fancies going, but I wouldn't complain about just 1 per ST holder.