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Cobbold Stand Season Ticket Holders to Move to Allow Increased Leeds Allocation - Ipswich Town News

Town have written to season ticket holders in the Cobbold Stand informing them that they will be required to move from their seats for the game against Leeds United on Saturday 13th January in order to increase the away side’s allocation.

The Whites are set to be given all the blocks across the upper tier of the stand, an allocation of more than 3,000 seats, with the exception of A Block, which will remain empty for safety and security reasons, and the premium D Block which will be unaffected by the move.

In the summer the club wrote to the season ticket holders involved outlining that this might be the case for some games during the campaign ahead. The Leeds match is the first where the opposition have been given so many tickets and their support will be the largest following at Portman Road during 2017/18.

"There were several occasions last season when we didn’t have the capacity to cater for the travelling support and to prevent away fans purchasing tickets in the home end, we had to introduce an all-ticket stance,” the club wrote in July.

"The decision to go all-ticket was done on safety advice but it meant that on some occasions we were turning away local people who ‘just wanted to go to a game’ on matchday even though the stadium was far from full.

"To try and avoid that situation happening in 2017/18 and again on safety advice, we will look at increasing the away seating for certain games next season, reducing the need to make matches all-ticket for all.

"We will write to you nearer the time if that is the case. We realise this might prove to be inconvenient to you so we are asking you whether you would like to consider moving your seat to another part of the Cobbold Stand or indeed anywhere else within the stadium ahead of the new season.”

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