Who's going? I'm slightly concerned that, after our robust mockery for some of the Makem attendances in the early stages of the Worthington, we may find that there are a fair few gaps in the crowds..

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Answers

Not if were top of the league .. and if we dont sell them we should let the young uns in for nowt .

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

I agree re selling spares to kids for nowt. They should be doing it now with the corporate spares.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

What about the risk/certainty of upsetting those people who have paid good money for their seats?

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

The club should have thought of that before they allocated too many corporate seats. Besides which, seeing loads of empty seats can't give them any certainty that they have paid according to the rules of supply and demand..

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Meanwhile back in the present day, how would you explain to Mr Smith who has just paid through the teeth to get his seat that because it is a cup game and we want to look good, the seat next to him has been allocated to little jimmmy from down the road.

Forget how many seats the club allocated that has all been done and is a dead issue.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

I know a lad who tried to get 2 tickets for the Chelsea game and was told that only coroporate ones were available at something like #57 each!

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Come on this is Chelsea we're playing and considering how much they pay for a season ticket, if we put the price down too much we'd have all those Chelsea fans coming to live up North because they will see better football at half the price! ;0)

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

As a part time fan, I can safely say that I won't be going if the price is anymore that #15 for adults and #5 for kids. And I think the majority of other fans will be thinking the same way.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

DB, it's hardly a dead issue. Give a seat away cheap and little Jimmy may buy a programme and a burger, too. There are NO returns on an empty seat apart from continued anger that people were hoisted out of these seats in the first place.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Orient away will be fun :-) Another London game to narrowly lose after outplaying the opposition...all we need now is Graham Poll.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Dougal,

Precisely, continued anger and for what? It's done now, what can be done.....take the club to court?

No real remedies available now that won't further enrage the fans more, all you're looking for is I told you so, which is no good to anyone and a bit 'Jane Duffy like'.

Here's the scenario, You've paid so much for your seat, you sit downfor the match and some annoying little tosspot comes along and moans all chuffing match about this that and the other, how pissed off would you be? He may sit there and enjoy the game but you'd still moan that he'd not paid to watch the game and you've forked out the price of a cracking night on the Quayside!

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

DB, Not so. It is legitimate to wonder why the club will turn down good revenue from letting people in at cheap rates and let seats stay empty. They are presuming that corporate interest will rise if we do better and that you can always flog these seats for "big" games like Man United. And they could use the "weekend first" principle -ie. let people in on a match by match basis at a reasonable rate on those seats but they can't go into the lounges etc. Travellers on tarisn put up with this and I'm sure corporates would, too. Keeping them emtpy is baffling.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Do those of you with season tickets pre-pay in advance for cup matches? If not, letting kids in for nowt or a quid is not an issue. Let adults in for a tenner and kids for a quid and fill the ground. You'd still end up with gate receipts of between #300,000 and #400,000. This will, however, need the agreement of Orient as both clubs have to agree the pricing strategy for cup ties where the receipts are share. What an opportunity though, to let thousands of the disenfranchised into the new SJP.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Jacko, Bondholders and some ST holders get Cup tickets as of right. The new ST holders are almost all "supplementary ticket holders" which means that they can be refused Cup tickets if others use their tickets so that they can (if necessary) accommodate the extra away fans required by the FA for Cup ties.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000