Thetownend.com

... 11,500

wheres that from?

Got to be a wind up surely, hopefully :cry:

I hope so! Can't get my tickets untill Friday!! I really hope this is a wind up!

Ring up ticket zone and find out, i got told didn't believe it rang up....

Shocked but i got mine  :D

It's from FB I think. And it said "apparently" afterwards. Take it with a pinch of salt If I were you.

Haven't seen that F/B thing anywhere... i can promise if you ring up they will tell you we have sold over 22,000

Points West said at 6:45 we had sold 8000 tickets, so don't panic!

22,000 would mean that every Season Ticket Holder for this Year and next (believe that's about 7000 unique people) had bought three, which I doubt severely.

I bought 18 today :hmmm:

I can assure you i rang up and they told me what i said

Dont be fooled...most season ticket holders will buy the full six allocation...for family friends etc...so if 5000 season ticket holders buy six each.........30,000 sold.

Indeed. For instance, there's a big group of us going, and within this group, there are only three of us that are ST holders.

Nah dont believe it, that'll be an oxford fan working the desk that told WC that.

That had better be bollocks!

I call bullshit.

As STFC11 says....on Points West earlier (6.45pm) they had said that we had already sold around 8,000 tickets....and they were actually at the CG, so I am inclined to believe them rather than and internet rumour.

I can believe it to be fair!

We're a bigger club than Pox :D

22k my arse!

Don't think you're allowing for (say) kids STs, lonely singles (we've got a fair few of them I'll warrant) and season ticket holders doubling up (e.g. one ST buys six for group of mates, all ST holders). No way will most buy six each.

And 22,000 in 24 hours? No chance. I call Samdy's bullshit and raise it a bollocks.

Dont agree....most season tik holders will buy for family members and friends who dont have them.
Though i agree that they wouldnt have sold that amount as yet.

21k of them are Kevin Amankawaahs family turning up to batter the Millwall lot

why? there's still 15k left

I don't believe the 22000 figure myself, maybe 22000 left to sale.  I tried the phone number this morning to no avail.  Gave up the ghost and booked 8 tickets from two season tickets.  Family and friends make7 and just me a Town fan.

Or they may have misunderstood the question and 22k is the total sold so far (us 8k Wall 14k  :( )

millwall tickets go on sale friday.
at the den and 'see tickets'

ours are just from ticketzone

that's probably 14k millwall in our end.

What Sutton said  :eek:

Really? How many do you think my seven year old will be buying on his season ticket? Best hide the credit card from him :)

So how many are you buying Paul.....

I've nicked his identity and booked six tickets. Charged to your credit card Paul. I love this Identity Management career  :)

hi guys can I ask a question, do you have to be on the database? or just have a local postcode?

I was on the database from yonks ago, but now always just buy my ticket on the day. I've probably moved house 3 times since I last phoned the ticket office and order tickets and I could do without any problems when I ring Friday morning.

I think you're fine with an SN postcode

cheers im tempted to phone stfc tomorrow just to see if they can bring my details upto date just in case, although that might be to late I suppose if they've already passed the details on. :hmmm:

hopefully a Warminster postcode will ok

Got 5 (actually on Joe's ticket because it wouldn't accept my ST number), we also ordered 2 for my brother-in-law on his ticket and none on mine. So that's 7 tickets between 3 season tickets, far cry from everyone using up their allocation. Given there was always going to be a panic rush on the 1st day, the first day's sales will be toploaded. I don't reckon we'll pass more than 15k by the time tickets go on general sale. Which would still be bloody good in 2 days, but 22k on the first day? Pfft.

(not aimed at you leef, I know you called that as shit as much as I did)

You seem to talk more sense than others, compelled to agree.

I have to say i have just been through the ticketzone listings of our seating as if i was going to buy some seats, you now cant get anymore than 2 together on the bottom tier and also the first 20 rows of the top tier are pretty much gone, the expensive tickets are shifting quick too by the looks of things, Personally after going through it I dont think 22,000 is too far off the mark

looking again it seems blocks 536 to 550 on the upper tier havent gone on sale yet and that seems like shit loads so probably best to ignore my previous post unless of course you have a ticket in one of those blocks in which case it means they are sold out!

I bought 18 from 3 ST's today :) along with a stretched hummer to make the journey in, chavtastic or what!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6wok7g7do

Dont be fooled by his intelligence masquarade, he's worse than the rest of us put together most of the time. Just chant the mantra 80% bollocks everytime, and you wont go far wrong.

will be fine. they were really helpfull whe i rang up.
i think the postcode things more to stop people with an 'SE' postcode

That's not a high bar round here :) But as sutton so kindly pointed out, finding yourself agreeing with me should usually be taken as a red flag you've got something hideously wrong

Tbh, it doesn't matter much, so long as there are enough left when they go on general sale for non-season ticket holding fans to get the tickets they need and none left by next Friday

I've ordered 5 tickets, over 3 S/t holders.

pauld  I'll see your bollocks and raise you...  (er, hang on, that's not right at all)

8,000 sold according to the radio this morning.
7,400 according to the adver.

No you won't, the arse may be on the table (or Woolies website at least) but front views are not on offer

7,457 as per the OS, up to noon yesterday

Ticket Zone staff obviously have a sense of humour! 22k hahahaha.

i think thats quite good going within 36hrs.
So by the end of play today we could have sold almost 15k if we continue to sell at that rate

So the 8000 figure from last night's 6:30pm Points West bulletin looks about right.

No. If It's taken us 2 days to sell 8000 if we keep going at the same rate we might have sold 12000 by the end of today.

no. if we had sold 7457 by noon yesterday that is within 36hrs. therfore we should sell 15k by end of play today.

If they went on sale at 6pm on Tuesday and by 6pm on Wednesday we've sold 7.5k, that's 24 hours!

Noon yesterday the tickets had only been on sale for 18 hours where did you get 2 days from? MRoundabout is correct.

OK I'm wrong.

You would expect the first day to have the most sales tho.

Just like more general sales tickets will be sold on Friday than on any other day. People are enthusiastic, they like to get in there first.

says 11500 now

if I'm honest I   can't see us getting 30k, would people be ok with 25000?

No. Not knowing Oxford sold 32,500.

Now that I've seen we've sold 11,500 in 39 hours I would be disappointed with 25k

what is the official oxford figures, I have heard various from 28,000 to 37,000 and this is AFTER the event. Every tom dick and harry seems to have their own figure, based on how many people were in so and so a pub.

Attendances mean EVERYTHING

Fucking hell. I couldn't give a fuck if we took 3,000. As long as we win

There was a certain amount of double counting because when some of them said they'd brought their wife AND their sister, Wembley officials thought they were referring to two separate people

titter titter....

in a way dave they do, long term anyway. agree with what you say but it is also interesting in working out how many of  the people of wiltshire care enough to spend a small fortune on a ticket.

  plus there is a small amount of pride at stake

11'500 as of 9am today

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/TicketNews/0,,10341~2054575,00.html

33,000 according to Official Wembley Website

http://www.wembleystadium.com/events/pastevents/conference2010.htm

impressive, that means york took about 10k. Bless.

Yeah fair point. But i'll gain a lot more pride watching us in the championship next season than being able to say we took x thousand to wembely

i'm with you dave. poxford are somehow gloating that they took 33k to wembley for only their second visit.

yet i'd rather turn round and say but we're in the championship. your still shit

12,000 according to the club shop about 30 mins ago.

rammed then

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8691000/8691164.stm

Also not so many of theirs put off by the price - it was cheaper for their village sunday league final than it is for proper football

 :yuck:

true. £40 for top seats

Does anyone know, if they have been released yet, how the Club Wembley tickets (2nd Tier) are going, sales wise?

My boss had seats there for the Oxford game and said it was a great view and bar and toilets facilities were worth the extra dosh.

Do you think people are spending that extra dosh as it's a one-off game?

Sorry, but haven't read all the threads and just wondered whether there would be enough left when they go on general sale?

Cheers

Wasn't the attendance 38,000 for the O*ford game?

With 8,000 York fans, how can they have 33k ??

42669 according to bbc news

on another note, I assume the club shop wil be selling loads of flags, merchandise etc (at NON cashing in rip off prices please Nick)....its looks quality when the players come up and there are a shed load of flags going off...

All wembley merchandise is expected to go on sale this friday.

I might have a drive over on saturday.

What hours is the club shop open on non matchday saturdays?

All that yellow makes me feel sick  :puke:

14,000 as of 2pm

I'm looking forward to getting to Wembley and looking for the street merchandise vendors who haven't done their research properly and got dodgy goods with our old badge on it!

on course to break 15k by end of day 2. not bad going tbh

like the sello-ticketo-meter on the O/s...

even if it is wrong

9am to 5pm

Anyone had any luck getting Tier 2 tickets? Please speak to me. I don't smell...much....

there are tier 2 tickets available for £62.

i know people who have purchased club wembley seats (2nd tier)

Cheers mate and Arriba.

oh he's mate then.cunt

Yeah that's right, and I don't care who knows.

 :D

14,000 at 2pm.

I reckon 20,000 at least by the end of tomorrow.

Easy. Think of all the so called 'Glory Supporters'

General sale tomorrow so all the plastics will start buying.

:D

Any indication how many Millwall have shifted?

None. Theirs don't go on sale until tomorrow.

We're selling really quickly considering they haven't even gone on general sale yet.

Ah :)

So I'll be buying tomorrow then

A load of them (at my work, anyway) have got tickets through mates that are ST holders.

I don't really care who buys them as long as we fill our allocation as much as possible and generate a great atmosphere.  Who knows, might gain a few extra regular fans.

Will be first thing tomorrow to try and get some decent seats - don't want to have to compromise on views too much just to get seats together. Has the online booking been working fine for everybody? If it takes me any longer than 20 minutes I'll be late for my exam!

I get a little wound up by daytrippers who think they're Swindon Town experts on the basis of one game they've watched on Sky but such is life. (as Luci states) We need these people to sell out our allocation.

Paternity leave plus one member of staff leaving equates to myself not only unable to get to Wembley but also unable to watch the game on TV.

:badmood:

If we sell our allocation of 36,700 and Millwall do too then are there more tickets available? For a 90,000 capacity staduim that still leaves 16,600 empty seats? Surely cant be for segregation reasons?

Check your contract. If they can't sack you for it, phone in sick and fuck off to Wembley. They'll know you were lying, but if they can't sack you...

As long as you keep it flying high, we'll never die.

I don't really care about all the day trippers as such, as long as no town fans miss out on tickets which is not going to happen unless they've booked a holiday to Egypt or Spain.

It won't stop me from looking down on them though (check out the irony, check out the humour) :)

I'm trying to negotiate a way of finishing at 3 so I can rush to a pub - that's as good as it'll get.

I especially enjoyed the hardly deliberate but still annoyingly smug message from my Newcastle United supporting younger brother who is going.

just seen on town website we'd 14,000 by 2pm today so dont panic boys looks like we got plenty to go around  8)

sold 14,000 that is -sorry !

There are some Club Wembley seats not on sale, a segregation on both sides of the ground, executive tickets for each of the clubs, and presumably a whole load of FA and FL representatives who fancy popping along too. I reckon what we've been given is all we'll get.

And it'll be more than enough - cue 'it's a disgrace' thread next.

It may well be. Be nice to fill it though!

Will be interesting to see how many book tomorrow - I for one will be up nice and early!

I didn't book it you cunt.

How many did we take to Wembley in 69? I was only -2, so can't remember much about it.

half of a 100k crowd

             As I recall, the ticketing arrangements were a bit shoddy in those days. My ticket cost 46 shillings (£2-30) and I do remember a fair amount of scrapping, possibly due to there being a fair Spurs contingent amongst our support.

About 30k Swindon, the rest pretty much all Arsenal.

Thanks. Just wondering if 37k would be the largest 'Swindon' attendance.

It would. 35k went in 93 and that was the highest 'congregation' of town fans so far.

Where did you get that info from?

Just general knowledge really of that game.

20,000 as of 11am now

Just saw that, that's pretty impressive in a short span.

Thats really impressive.  Well done town fans and glory hunters, just wish half of these people would come to games on a regular basis!

Earlier in the season myself and my Italian AC Milan supporting friend agreed that if Milan made the champions league final or town made it to Wembley we would go.  Unfortunately, even after considering flying back for one day (the day of the match) I really cant justify spending so much money on the flights and tickets.  Gutted but hope to be able to watch it on the internet.

23,000 by 3pm today according to bbc swindon - impressive but as we all know most of these wont be at CG next season

No, but if an extra 500 buy season tickets because of this that's a significant amount of money. And I bet the club is making a small fortune out of merchandise sales from all those who don't have any Town tat to display

                                                                                                                                                                   Ageed but will they - what is it 5,200 or so ST so far for next season - guess it all depends what happens at Wembley ......  ;)   

Hoping to get at least ten home games in next season cash permitting

Oh and that reminds me, must mail the FA to tell em to schedule Swindon at home when Poole are away

24,600 according the official site now :)

'Wall sold 22,000 in one day according to another forum  :(

So did we, according to the forums. Don't believe everything people tell you.

Yes but Swindon Town have a bigger penis so every cloud...

Whoopee doo, ain't they clever

They didn't sell that much, half of that.

accordign to millwall's website they have sold 13500

Up to 28,000 now. Only 8,700 left!!!!

And only 32 quid seats left. Best get in sharpish Sippo

Gone past my 25,000 estimate then, excellent. Would be nice to get past to 30K mark though.

If we're 2 short, I'm going to blame Sippo and Gazza

What about the bold headed one off to see the camels and pyramids?!

I think we'll get 33k

Is that how many we've actually sold or how many Ticket Zone think we've sold as they appear to be sending out random numbers of tickets to some people compared to what's actually been ordered!

It's on the official site.

Egypt's at least a reasonable excuse. Unlike "pop over for the weekend" Spain and you, you fucking pussy

Millwall have only sold 15,500 tickets up2 today according to there website

http://www.millwallfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10367~2055243,00.html

But they are not on general sale yet.

They'll sell out.

they have sold 20,000 now

I'd say we have easily sold over 30,000 now.

The 28,000 figure was yesterday lunchtime.

even though  the OS says end of play saturday?

No update on ticket sales yet today.

Must be over 30k now surely?

milwall have sold over 28k too.
looks like it'll be a packed wembley

Millwall will sell all their's.

I reckon a 70k to 75k gate.

Only twice before has the attendance gone over 67k, so we should beat that combined and there is a fair chance the record may go as well - just under 77k for Man City vs Gillingham.  Bolton played in one a few years before they reached the top and had a total attendance of 31k at Wembley for the game!

on a tangent but, something i hope they take some photos of is the 62 coaches leaving from Swindon in convoy down the M4.

Don't think it is. They must be waiting to hit the magic 30k before making an announcement. Our internet sales were shit yesterday, as everyone was out enjoying the sun.

I just think things have slowed up as most of the people who wanted tickets would have gone for it on Friday as soon as they became available.

I just expect a trickle of sales between now and Friday and our final ticket sold number to lie at around 32k?

My mum got hers friday but had to press ringback 187 times before she finally got through. (yes i know she counted)

so almost gave up and held on until today. most other would have done the same i reckon. and with the weather being so good no one was going to sit indoors trying for tickets

28,643 sold as of monday lunch time according to the OS.

Just bought the groundsman's tickets to add to the tally - 31 in total

i haven't got that on my internet. if so thats very poor so looks like we wont hit the 30k.

not even updated on my iphone so where is that figure from

You can also buy from the county ground now.


How to purchase play-off tickets
Posted on: Mon 24 May 2010

Swindon Town will play Millwall in the League 1 Play-Off final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 29th May 2010.

The Robins have been allocated 36,700 tickets for the game in the West side area of Wembley.

Tickets available from the STFC Box Office

An allocation of tickets have now been made available for sale from the STFC Box Office.

These tickets will be on sale from 8.30am Tuesday morning.

Ticket sales so far have reached 28,643 as of Monday lunchtime.

so we have sold roughly 600 tickets over the weekend

No, about 600 Sunday and this morning.  28k at COP Saturday.

Millwall may well reach their full allocation and possibly a few more.

Looks that way,Im guessing that's why they are now also selling them from the county ground box office to try an entice people.

Gutted if we don't reach 30k.

Easier now for monthly paid people to pop along to the ground on payday on Friday if they wanted to go but were struggling cash wise.

I think we will just about scrape 30k

Looks like the Millwall factor has kicked in - just as we all knew it would.

They do need to highlight that tho rather than put it just under purchasing play off tickets,I only looked on the off chance many will still think it's ticket zone only still.

What people are scared ? Im not sure why they would be,there will be old bill everywhere.

I really cant imagine the fact that you have to ring/contact ticket zone is putting anyone off buying tickets...its other factors:
Millwall
Total cost
Just dont care.

what millwall factor? you mean being scared of going cos it's millwall?!!!

cost isn't a factor anymore seeing as it's only £32 & £42 tickets left which means we've snapped up all the expensive ones.

i personally don't believe the millwall factor.

so it just leaves the fact people don't care

Cost could come into it on the travel side of things tho with all the coaches being booked and rail being more expensive and crowded.

how much is it from swindon now?

I said total cost, inc. travel, food, beer....the total day will prob come to £100 minimum for every fan.
For a flaoting fan with little disposable income, that would be enough to put them off for sure...

I think i was quoted about £52,although if i went later i think it was cheaper.

We only managed 32k and 35k for the 2nd division Play-off finals. I think the fact it's a league lower and years of mismanagement will have had an effect.

Where does it say what priced tickets are left then

I agree that they should highlight it more. May be an email to the club (I have) or Nick Watkins may help? 

The more the merrier!  :beers:

 

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/TicketNews/0,,10341~2054575,00.html

I am pretty sure the adver will run an article on it tomorrow as the club will want to attract as many daytrippers as possible plus they might go in the shop and buy some merchandise as well.

Yeah, I think if you had the money to spend you would have got a ticket by now BUT, it is payday soon and also if there are some spare seats on any coaches that are going, that may sway people.....

all coaches are fully booked though. 62 in total

£32 & £42 are the only ones left.

https://www.ticketzonebooking.co.uk/index.cfm?TICKETZONE_25729_51274122&action=shop.eventVenues&int_EventID=454&bit_SignOn=0&str_EventAddOn=swindon2.cfm&CFID=25729&CFTOKEN=51274122

I was thinking more of private coaches. Must be loads going from pubs etc which have the odd seat left? You never know.

National express are running some im not sure if they are fully booked and there was guy on the adver comments saying he had spaces stopping at a pub with a BBQ etc.

less than the scum would be awful.

anything over 30,000 is a bonus.

not really. especially as there top ticket was £40

To a regular fan...not going to be much of a disincentive.

If you live locally, don't go to (m)any games, were thinking of taking the wife and kids to Wembley for a day out and wanted to see what the football thing was all about...Millwall's reputation might just sway you in to not going.


If we win, I think I'd be able to handle the disappointment of a Swindon attendance figure starting with a '2'.  (That said, I'm sure we will sell a few thousand more.  Maybe not a complete sell out of our allocation, but there will be enough of us there on Saturday for there to be an impressive sea of red & white.)

We have overachieved this season (is the nicest possible way!) and Saturday is an unexpected bonus.

Whereas with Oxford, this really was a make or break match for them. I know many Oxford ST holders who were thinking of not renewing next year.

After 4/5 seasons down there and leading the league by a mile at Christmas, they had to win. A loss would have sent them spiraling even lower...if that was possible!

So 30k is not too shabby.

Yup, I spoke to a load of "kind of interested in football, but not necessarily a Town fan" types over the weekend who said precisely this ie they'd watched the Charlton 2nd leg, were excited/interested about us getting to Wembley and would probably have gone with kids if it had been Huddersfield, but were put off by Millwall/the cost

The cost is the killer...how is a couple with three kids going to afford it?...they wont be able to.
Best part off 200 quid just for tickets, many with holidays coming up as well.

If we don't take more than Oxford it will be shameful. Totally shameful. They're going to bang on about how massive they are as well. Great.

Best part of 200 quid? And the rest .... (having just shelled out for precisely that combination)

So what if the pox take more than us...they play in yellow, have been non-league for half a decade, will be below us in the league pyramid for the billionth season in a row, smell, enjoy sexual relations with their sister (who may also be their granny), stick bananas up each others bottoms and have a three sided ground.

We are Swindon Town.  Argument Ends.

I rest my case Paul....fair play to you.

Which is exactly why it would be embarassing if they took more.

Not really a choice in my case mate. Me and Joe were never going to miss it, youngest got swept up in the excitement so he wanted to come as well having steadfastly refused to come to football until now (his first game is going to be at Wembley - how do I break it to him that it's not always like that? "Sorry, son, it's all downhill from here), my stepson's been on and off for years so more than happy for him to come. So all in all it seemed a bit mean to leave the missus at home. As long as she's got all the housework done, of course :)

Lets hope its a great memory and it will be money well spent.
On the issue of how many we will sell i think we will sell them all..four days of selling yet.

Waaaaaaah we're going to sell not a lot of tickets. Boohoo, we might as well fold, not even bother playing etc etc

Tickets available from the STFC Box Office

An allocation of tickets in each price range have now been made available for sale from the STFC Box Office.

These tickets will be on sale from 8.30am Tuesday morning.Ticket sales so far have reached 28,643 as of Monday lunchtime.

The STFC Box Office will be open from 8.30am until 5pm each day and until 7pm on Thursday.

The club was always going to have to sell tickets in the last few days, as it got closer to the final.

At the end of the day, there is a recession on, and if we are taking 30k... that'll do me.

Yeah, 30,000 is decent and we'll have that many plus a few. No one can really complain about that.




...although I expect they will :hmmm:

it's a fucking shit amount. we should sell out easily and have more than the fucking pox.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I don't think Cardiff or Blackpool sold out last weekend. There weren't loads of spare seats but there were a few.

82000 there.

Blackpool and Cardiff sold all of their allocation. Because of club wembley etc there was some 10000 empty seats. I'd rather the game was at the Millenium stadium.

Why???
 
Wembley is the home of football and holds many happy memories for me.

Bloody Welsh stadium.

There were definitely empty seats in both ends. Maybe they got lost?!

The cost is the killer...how is a couple with three kids going to afford it?...they wont be able to.
Best part off 200 quid just for tickets, many with holidays coming up as well.
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The cost has definitely been a factor.  We went for £62 seats, but with travel on top and the crap that my lad wanted from the STFC shop, it's come to £200 and that's just for three of us. I've whacked it on the credit card and will worry about it later, but if you're not really that bothered, you probably couldn't justify it.  Saying that, a few mates of ours who initially said they couldn't afford it have been on the phone today asking what the ticket situation is because they now want to go!  No doubt others will follow suit as the week goes on particularly if they go to the ground.


Over the weekend there was only £32 tickets left.  I'd be a bit pissed off if I'd got one of them because there was nothing else available only to find all prices are suddenly available again today?

Why???
 
Wembley is the home of football and holds many happy memories for me.

Bloody Welsh stadium.

I just think it has a better atmosphere and surroundings. The new Wembley has lost the magic of the old Wembley. Like tonights game when all those 'fans' missed Glen Johnson's goal because they were getting another beer.
At least the Millenium would be at capacity. When I watched the Blackpool Cardiff game on Sat I lost some of the excitement I had for this Sat. It looked like a league 2 play off with all those empty seats. I had an image of a sea of Red and Blue on Saturday, like in '93, but now I know that isn't going to happen.

Plus I think we would sell all of our tickets if it was at the Millenium and Millwall wouldn't. I just hope we can out sing them though. But I doubt that'll happen as there fans that will there will be more 'hardcore' than ours.

New wembley is proper shit compared to the old one.  :nod: And at £800mill...... As a stadium the Millenium is much better, but there's something wrong about the english play off finals in wales.

I don't think it would make any difference.  If anything people are less likely to want to go there than to Wembley.  What exactly  do you mean by more 'hardcore'?  Anyway they've only got one droney song!!

Half a word actually.........Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiill

I just mean by 'hardcore' they obviously have a bigger following than us, therefore I'd expect them to out sing us as a lot of our fans on Sat will be family tag alongs and daytrippers.

Anyway less with the negative...white kit, allocation not sold, saying I'd rather see it at the Millenium (what a prick!), lets look on the bright side.
Millwall fans outnumbered Scunthorpe by 4 to 1 last year and that didn't do them any good. I don't care if we plsyed it at Mannington Rec, as long as we win I'll be happy.

I'm sure they used to do the Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll  bit after?  Maybe it was too many syllables for them  

Anyone notice huge queues outside the ticket office this morning? Probably not, but it would be nice to shift a few more before Friday.

Nah, I went to the old wembley several times and I've been to the new wembley a couple of times and it is so much better. The old one was falling to bits, the staircases were crumbling, the roof leaked and almost everywhere you sat there was a massive pillar in the way. Also, the atmosphere was always shit at the old wembley for England friendlies anyway and no different from the new one. I prefer the new wembley to the millenium as well, although they are both great stadiums.

Pay day for alot of people of Friday, so maybe a few on the edge will buy then.  But look like we will just crawl over the 30k mark, leaving a predicted total attendance of around 70k.

it's been said Millwall have sold out!

Fuck off have they. My millwall mate says they probably won't

As has been said a lot have been priced out of it. My son has just started going again this season, & had 8 mates who all said they wanted to go.  All of them have backed out as for some of them it will cost a weeks wages.

Only a couple of thousand left, and they will go this afternoon. They've sold out online, and they're only available to personal callers now.

Hopefully we'll get the 10k that your lot couldn't shift.

doubt it as the ones which are left are top tier behind the goal.

we'll probably shift another 2k which will see our ticket sales at just over 30k.

Millwall will sell their allocation, probably today or tomorrow, which they should do when you consider the difference between our average gates and the small matter of being in London.

Around 32k would be pretty good for us considering the gates we get, and compares favourably to 90 & 93.

i think the only extra tickets they may get are the greyed out areas on the wembley plan. as these don't seem to have been put up for sale for either team

I still think we'll hit 35k, which even if we dont quite is pretty damn good.  Millwall wont get anymore, it was different last year when they could shift scunny around due to their small numbers, too many segregation issues this time.

35k? really?!
be nice if we did

I'll be happy to hit 30k

There are lots still umming and aahing, company i use for sub work is based in Swindon, they have all said they are going but haven't bought yet for example.

They're earning £30-40 quid a week? Saturday job?

No update today at all. Sales must be going slow now.

Ticket + train + tube + pub + food

Umm, beer... That's normally the biggest expense with me anyway.

Ticket £45-00
Train   £22-40
Tube   £ 5-60
Pub     £40-00  :hmmm:
Food   £10-00
Prog    £ 8-00 estimate
Total  £131-00*

* I expect JFW spends more than that on a pair of shoes  :)
only joking jfw  

That,s not bad. My trip to norwich was £20 ticket, £30 train, and about £80 beer and £4 kebab. Wembley is going to be a bargain.

I know it still doesn't come to a week's wages, I was just pointing out the day costs a lot more than the ticket. Oh, and I think £60 for the tube was a tad generous.

eh?

He meant five pound sixty pence reeves.

People are using cost as an excuse, which is a cuntish thing to do. One or two of our mates are doing it. I don't understand Swindon's population, I honestly don't. Most are a bunch of money-grabbing glory-hunting twats, you'd have thought they'd have loved it. This is a one-off opportunity in my book and fans, whether you're a huge fan or the occasional watcher, should embrace it. Unless of course all these people are gambling that we'll become mint and will be off to Wemble every year

The cost wasn't an issue for me, my brother and my dad, we got the best seats and they'll be worth every penny as the opportunity to see your team play at Wembley doesn't come along very often. But on the other hand, the cost is the only reason why we won't be taking my niece and nephew as its doubtful they'd have enjoyed it anywhere near enough to make it worthwhile.

At the end of the day this is a 3rd tier match and the ticket prices are a disgrace. Having the club state the ticket prices are set by Wembley and nothing whatsover to do with them is complete bollocks and insulting. The Football League (and in turn all the clubs) agreed to sign the deal with the FA and Wembley to host the games and pricing would have been a major part of that agreement.

To add insult to injury, fuck all of the ticket money actually ends up with the clubs involved - under 10% of it.

All very well for you to say as (I assume) a single bloke, but it's not quite so easy for people with families. Me, the missus, three kids (one over 18) is well over £350 for tickets and coach alone. That's before we've paid for food, drinks etc at the "gouge them for all you can" Wembley prices. I'm looking at easily well north of 400 quid for the day. Not really a decision for me, wouldn't miss it for the world, and delighted to be able to give my kids a day out that they'll always remember. But then I've been a season ticket holder for years (the missus hasn't been much recently as she looks after our youngest so me and the 7 year old can go to games, but she's been following Town since she was a kid) and I'm fortunate enough to be (still) in a reasonably well paid job. But that amount still hurts when we're already stretched with all that boring stuff like keeping a roof over our heads, school uniforms, food on the table etc. If I was a casual fan, in a lesser paid job (or had lost my job in the recession or was worried I'm about to), I'd have to think very, very hard about whether we could really afford it. You might not be quite so blase and dismissive if your circumstances were a little tighter.

jonny's right - football really needs to take a long hard look at itself and whether it's going to be able to continue to pass on the cost of it's excesses onto ordinary fans in this way.

So what about people like me then? I'm a single parent plus i live up north, It would cost me around £100 in train fares  alone, That's without the actual match ticket and everything else, I just can't afford it no matter how much i want to go it's impossible, I have to settle for watching it on TV, I'm just lucky that i have Sky and i've added Sky Sports for a month just so i can watch this game as after that i won't be able to afford to pay £40 a month for Sky with all the sports.

I've been to a fair few away games this season and go to as many as possible but i don't get to go to as many games as i would like.

Yeah OK point taken I was more talking about people who are bottling it and using cost as an excuse, as one of my mates is, not people who have to fork out loads due to having to pay for kids etc. I was basing it more on him not going despite him living in Wilts; I live in Cardiff and am making the effort despite knowing I'll have to be a bit tight the next few weeks. However I am still surprised that we haven't sold out our allocation based on how many glory hunters there are in swindon

I don't know a single UK based Swindon fan who isn't going. Except those who are in Spain or Cairo. Or Sippo. None have used cost as an excuse.

I do know plenty of people who have only ever been to the odd game or (none at all) who are going. These people aren't really Swindon fans at all. There are more of these people paying quite ridiculous prices than genuine Swindon fans.

If it wasn't on telly we'd have sold out our allocation by now.

I cant really afford it if im honest,but thats what credit cards are for.Buy now,pay back when a relative dies..

I'm the same. I can't really afford to go at all. If I was 'sensible' there's no way on earth I'd be going and really, I shouldn't be. But I am.

I do think 30000 is a lot for a team like Swindon. For me the wife and two kids it was over £100 that's not including the train and food. The fa really do rip us off at times. But thanks to mr credit and mr card we are going. Come on the Town

A guy at work paid for himself, his wife, his mate and his 3 kids. Know how much that cost? Over £350 and that's just for tickets. I don't think it's an excuse at all, the only reason I'm going is because I've got my ticket, travel etc paid for me as a birthday present. I mean I would have gone regardless but against my better judgement! For one or two it's OK, but for the Town fans that have families to look after it's a fucking expensive day out.

I think 30,000 town fans is a hell of an achievement considering things like the cost, average home attendance and the fact we have been so shit for the past 15 years.

I really did consider going to the game but with plane tickets, game tickets and everything else it would have cost me well over a grand.

Not sure if this has already been said but ....

It says on the Millwall site that they have sold over 34000!

Have we hit 30k yet?

I think we stalled at 29k. which as I said isn't bad when you take into account our last 2 wembley appearances at a higher  level game, prices and wrongly or wrongly the fact it is millwall and  some day trippers may be put off.

mixture of high prices and millwall will put a lot of people off but then we will have almost 30k there which will still make a lot of noise for the lads

I think 30k in the current economic climate is bloody good, the prices were not cheap at all, I remember when we played at Wembley in 93 the cost of my ticket was £8 when the average price at the CG was about £6 a ticket.

What with it being Millwall as stated...that will inevitably put a lot of timid glory hunters/families off going, even though trouble has rarely taken place in and around Play Off finals at Wembley in the past.

Every Town fan there will do us proud, and I will be bursting with pride no matter what, even though I won't be there with you all.

Whatever the figure, even if it is only slightly above the last one, an update on the o/s would be nice, plus and update to that counter thing. The lack of updates looks amateurish to me.

I think the fact we're selling season tickets again suggests we're not selling any more Wembley tickets!

Your wish is their command...

Just over 30000.

30001 then!

That'll do nicely I think.  Imagine if you'd get to keep the revenue off of that.

Or...

apparently the revenue from the final gets split between the 4 playoff teams.

Yes..along with all the semi final ties,all pooled in together and split four ways.

No it doesn't.

The revenue (ticket sales less costs) from the semi-finals is pooled and half of it is shared between the 4 teams and half the revenue from the final is shared between the 2 teams. The other half of the money from the semi-final and final goes in to the Football League pool, which I believe is shared out amongst all teams. There is no TV money either as the games are part of the main TV deal.

Still north of £1m for each club - not to be sniffed at

interesting jonny. didn't know that.
as neville said it's a good amount which will help the coffers

If you add up all the extra income from the playoffs (tickets, merchandise etc) then deduct all the expenses the club will end up with it's an extra £250k. Which as I said before is taking the piss when the gate receipts for the final alone will be around £4m.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/8112906.Play_off_win_could_mean___250_000_to_Town/

And those coffers will be boosted massive if we win.........probably at least another 500 season tickets sold i should imagine...along with all the extra TV dosh...........PLEASE LETS WIN.

And 5,500 Season tickets as well apparently (apologies if you already knew this)

Remember that quote, still reckon he got his maths wrong, or was informed wrong, we'll get at least double that figure probably more imo.

Now sold over the 30000 mark so I'm happy with that.

Over 31k now according to the guy in the ticket office (yeah yeah I know). I was in there this morning. They are apparently still selling to the last minuters and he reckons we will go over 32k.

I just bought another 5 after my order got messed up. We'll shift a few more yet!

Oficially 31,254 at 8am this morning......creeping up to a very impresive amount.

i reckon we'll get close to 33k which is very very impressive

We still might match Oxford's amount! What is the EXACT amount of tickets they sold?

who cares tbh

Won't a lot of people get paid today?

today or tomorrow yeah. so could increase i reckon.

but 32'000 swindon + 34'000 millwall will make a very good atmosphere.

good job we have more songs than them.

yes, but from a songs point of view we will have to keep it simple so all the day tripper can join in!

(36000 from wall I believe)

Wise men say, Oh when the reds, Danny Wilson's red(!) and white army... they're all pretty simple. It's hard to get complicated chants going at Wembley anyway as it's so vast.

I've heard the acoustics at the new wembley are shit and it's hard to get an atmosphere going.

How do you the exact amount

I recall in 93, there was this clapping thing going on

----CLAP----clap-clap-clap-clap   ----CLAP----clap-clap-clap-clap   ----CLAP----clap-clap-clap-clap   


never heard it before or since, fuck knows where it came from... hope we can get beyond that this year!

Ooooh good I can bring my happy clapper from Charlton then, superb

actually, it was three little claps after the big one, not four, got to get this right!

Actually it was.

CLAP----CLAP----  clap-c-clap clap clap

I'm sure it was starting by the older generations were/are to embaressed to sing.

I'm sure it'll be the same this Saturday.
Gutted it looks like we're not going to sellout
this time around.

ah yes, there was that one as well wasnt there (well tabbed out by the way!), maybe with a cheeky 'ooh' on the end.
But there was still mine as well I think, when we had a corner or soemthing.

Please please please let's not have the chant stand up if you love Swindon surely that is why we are there

I've only ever heard that sung as a response to stewards making people sit down. I wouldn't worry.

We could sing are you watching Oxford but hey they won't be :clap:

Well i'm gonna be going mental regardless who's sitting around me. Hopefully wont have a voice come the end of the game.

I think a lot of them will be. Possibly the only non-Millwall fans in the country who will be wanting us to lose on Saturday!

I think you are spot on, however when we win on saturday we will be the same distance in league terms as we where at the start of this season
Oxxfords support mainly comes from Abingdon and Oxford whilst Wantage, Faringdon and so on follow the town, hopefully the Oxford area will have a power cut on Saturday afternoon for a few days

Any figue on what we've sold?

I can't bear the tension here.  Frankly, I couldn't give a rat's arse about the result on Saturday.  As long as we hit 32,000 ticket sales, I'll be happy.

:D

Your signature is far too big and annoying.

31,223 according to the Swindon Town FC Facebook page posted an hour ago

Seconded.

I found it rather subtle and was tempted to make it about twice the size so that no one misses it.

Or a repeat of this:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8680692.stm

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8188675.YOUR_SAY__Oxfordshire_s_troubled_TV_antenna/

Better?

50% better

Millwall have sold 36k, we have sold 31K.  Reasonably even split of fans then.

Oi!! Couple of hours more like, not days! I have to get home!!  :D

As for the fans, think Wantage is like Carterton, split down the middle.

Best not, the kids will go mad if Dr Who doesn't get recorded

I have seen a few Oxford and a few Swindon fans in Wantage whenever I go and visit my dad. Bizarrely the landlord of one of the pubs their (Can't remember which one) was at Wembley in 1969 supporting Swindon but now 'follows' Arsenal.

was fun growing up in wantage in the eighties, town totally split down the middle.