What is the misleading information...

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  1. pon

    pontyender Well-Known Member

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    pontyender, Mar 1, 2008
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    pontyender Well-Known Member

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    Anyone know? nt
     
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    It was the Chronicle

    when the ticket information came out, the Chronicle reported that tickets would go on general sale last Monday.
     
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    Have they only just spotted that one?

    If so, I think that's a bit rich. Why didn't they take out a proper advertisement like most other businesses have to do?

    It seems that if you aren't on the internet, you don't get to find out anything regarding BFC.

    My mate dashed down there last saturday coz of that duff info in the chronicle. The ticket office wasn't even open - but apparently they did have a burly looking security officer on duty... :eek:
     
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  5. pon

    pontyender Well-Known Member

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    RE: It was the Chronicle

    It can't be that old chestnut again surely? That was addressed over a week ago. This sounds more like somebody's been spreading ********, rather than a honest printing error. This West Stand Upper thing maybe?
     
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  6. Gue

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    colchester? nt
     
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    RE: It was the Chronicle

    probably is something else then, I just assumed it was that when I skimmed the details. Is the BBS a 'section of supporters' then?
     
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    the answer...............

    When Chelsea tickets went on sale to ST holders, Alan Bloore , Chairman of the supporters trust, went on Praise and Grumble on Radio Sheffield and stated that Colchester ticket stub holders would receive priority over general sale, after season ticket holders had been satisfied. As ticketing details had already been announced this seemed strange to say the least. However this claim was backed up by 2 members of the trust on this site.

    Now this took place 2 weeks ago and so it seems strange that the club are only refuting the allegation now. What is also puzzling is that I rang the box office the day after Mr. Bloore put his foot in his mouth, to ask if what he had said was true and they confirmed that nothing had been finalised and that I should "keep an eye on the club website". So, I had the information from an official source, contrary to what has been posted on the official site.

    Seems obvious to me that this was another scam by the club to instill false hope into those that had already been screwed in the Liverpool ticket fiasco. The club were hedging their bets that they wouldnt sell as many to ST holders, but by Friday it became apparent that virtually all ST holders had taken up their 2 ticket allocation. This coupled with the centenary society tickets meant that if the club were to offer priority tickets to Colchester holders, then it was likely that no tickets would go on general sale.

    They couldn't face that uproar, they bottled it, more farce.

    /poo

    And I'll still be in the front o the queue. (doh)
     
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    like we said 1 st ticket not rocket sciance went 2 day 2 st bought 2 tickets
     
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    I don't see why Colchester stub holders should get priority

    When they announced this 'offer' it was designed to put an extra couple of thousand on the Colchester gate and give those ticket holders priority 'when' the Anfield tickets went on general sale (which for some reason the club seemed to think they would). Even though this logic was highly flawed, the principle was reasonable.

    Once the tickets for Anfield had been sold I don't see why the Colchester issue has ever been raised in relation to Chelsea. Those stubs were never designed to relate to Chelsea tickets, and quite rightly they are not. If they wanted to give priority for this one, they would have used QPR stubs not Colchester ones.

    OK< I understand that the issue here is that someone from the Trust claimed Colchester stubs would give priority, but I'd have had far more to say if that actually were the case than I have now it's been confirmed as incorrect. The way I see it the only people who complain about this are folk clutching at the straw of the one game they attended this season for the promise of a bit of glory proving to have yielded nothing. Well again, I have next to no sympathy, but accept that the club should have a) never suggested such a silly policy in the first place and b) explicitly stated to the hard of thinking that the Colchester tickets were no longer relevant (in the same way the ticket stubs we used for Wembley 2000 can't be used to get priority for Chelsea).
     
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    The only logical reason

    Is they were supposed to give priority to the Liverpool game and the club was unable to keep its promise due to unforseen (well by one person anyway) circumstances.

    Personally I thought the Colchester idea was wrong in the first place as it discriminated against the fans that for various reasons cant get to every game but go to a lot of matches eg due to work patterns location etc

    I really hope one lesson learned for next season is a proper system of rewarding those with say 10 or 5 match stubs if we get any more games with more "fans" than tickets. And I also think Away stubs should count for away games ahead of any home stubs. I know of fans, even ST holders who go to many of our away games who couldnt get a ticket for Liverpool because some ST holders who could queue on the first day took friends who don't even know what colour shirts we play in
     
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    Agree with every point there

    as I said - I'd have been in uproar if Colchester ticket holders HAD been given priority for this, so stupid was the idea in the first place. I'd like to think/hope that the club MUST recognise they've made serious mistakes with the tickets this year and completely revamp the system for next year, and that system seems entirely sensible to me.
     
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    I think you are missing the point

    The club themselves last week were implying that Colchester stubs may have some priority,I think its completely disingenuous of the club to then issue a statement on Friday evening blaming others for the announcement by the Supporters Trust. If the comments were not correct why has it taken a week and a half for the club to put the record straight.Only 1,400 tickets left for general sale,where have the rest gone.We haven't got 8000 season ticket holders have we.
    I agree that the advertising of tickets for the Colchester game as getting some priority was stupid when they had already decided two tickets per season ticket holder. Not making it absolutely clear those stubs were useless after the Liverpool game and clearly misleading some fans,and they did, is another example of the complete incompetence of the clubs Administative Management
     
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    RE: I think you are missing the point

    There are 1250 Centenary Members as well. Doesn't fully explain why there is only 1400 tickets available on general sale though. Friday lunch time we were poised to break 13,000 sales, yet by Saturday 3pm that must have risen to 15,600 if there are only 1400 left. Unless there weren't 17,000 home tickets available and part of the West Stand is closed off.
     
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    which in itself is yet another example

    of the Club's incredible incompetence and total disregard for its customers.</p>

    They know there's a huge demand for tickets for this game, yet they can dismiss all the speculation by issuing a simple statement quoting the real capacity of the ground - not the total number of seats, but the number of marketable seats.</p>

    By boasting about how many seats have sold, without quoting the number that are available, is just another reminder of how completely arrogant and out of touch they are.</p>
     
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  16. Gue

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    If top tier of West stand at far side is closed - does that mean the bottom part of it would be? wendies had that part yesterday
    I don't see that ise being open as 13,000 plus 1,400 = 14,400 and that isn't the capacity of the 3 home sides.
     
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