| Bournemouth 12:04 - Mar 10 with 8256 views | LRB84UK |
Sold out in 30 seconds. Me and the boy on 39 points missed out. Beyond frustrated that we'll be losing our 100% record this season! |  | | |  |
| Bournemouth on 12:06 - Mar 10 with 4402 views | TractorWood |
Great footballing side these days but to give away teams 1,600 tickets in this day and age is pretty ridiculous. Particularly as we bent over backwards to get our ground ship shape for the Prem. |  |
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| Bournemouth on 12:07 - Mar 10 with 4391 views | skinnybob72 |
Could be worse, you could have been on 40 and not realised you were on 40 until after the deadline for buying had passed...
My son would have had to miss 2 days school travelling to / from the game so maybe for the best! | | | |
| Bournemouth on 12:08 - Mar 10 with 4366 views | VanDusen |
Still the ballot... Fingers crossed for you. | | | |
| Bournemouth on 12:13 - Mar 10 with 4269 views | SitfcB |
| Bournemouth on 12:06 - Mar 10 by TractorWood |
Great footballing side these days but to give away teams 1,600 tickets in this day and age is pretty ridiculous. Particularly as we bent over backwards to get our ground ship shape for the Prem. |
Or 1,307! |  |
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| Bournemouth on 12:14 - Mar 10 with 4256 views | vinceg |
| Bournemouth on 12:08 - Mar 10 by VanDusen |
Still the ballot... Fingers crossed for you. |
Has the ballot date been announced? |  | | |
| Bournemouth on 12:24 - Mar 10 with 4165 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
| Bournemouth on 12:06 - Mar 10 by TractorWood |
Great footballing side these days but to give away teams 1,600 tickets in this day and age is pretty ridiculous. Particularly as we bent over backwards to get our ground ship shape for the Prem. |
A chunk of our ST holders had to be moved, and a number of our fans are missing out to accommodate everyone else. The good thing is this won't be an issue next season. |  |
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| Bournemouth on 12:26 - Mar 10 with 4133 views | Zx1988 |
| Bournemouth on 12:24 - Mar 10 by SaffronWaldenBlues |
A chunk of our ST holders had to be moved, and a number of our fans are missing out to accommodate everyone else. The good thing is this won't be an issue next season. |
I don't think Bournemouth have got away with doing less - it's just that the nature of their ground meant that they had to do less upon promotion.
With Championship mandatory away allocations being the lower of 2,000 or 10%, they'd have been fine as they were when they moved up a division. | |
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| Bournemouth on 12:27 - Mar 10 with 4128 views | football |
| Bournemouth on 12:06 - Mar 10 by TractorWood |
Great footballing side these days but to give away teams 1,600 tickets in this day and age is pretty ridiculous. Particularly as we bent over backwards to get our ground ship shape for the Prem. |
Their ground is ship shape. It's a smaller ground hence less tickets but there is nothing wrong with their ground. To demand a club has a bigger ground is a little arrogant as our ground is much smaller than most in the PL, many of their clubs woudl have l liked extra tickets | | | |
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| Bournemouth on 13:15 - Mar 10 with 3923 views | VanDusen |
| Bournemouth on 12:14 - Mar 10 by vinceg |
Has the ballot date been announced? |
The details will probably come out some time later this week or early next I imagine, based on previous matches. | | | |
| Bournemouth on 13:22 - Mar 10 with 3894 views | benrhyddingblue |
| Bournemouth on 12:27 - Mar 10 by football |
Their ground is ship shape. It's a smaller ground hence less tickets but there is nothing wrong with their ground. To demand a club has a bigger ground is a little arrogant as our ground is much smaller than most in the PL, many of their clubs woudl have l liked extra tickets |
Yes our ground is much smaller than a lot of other prem grounds but we still provide 3,000 away tickets every game, same as 73,000 capacity Old Trafford, so I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make with your second sentence. | | | |
| Bournemouth on 13:26 - Mar 10 with 3852 views | football |
| Bournemouth on 13:22 - Mar 10 by benrhyddingblue |
Yes our ground is much smaller than a lot of other prem grounds but we still provide 3,000 away tickets every game, same as 73,000 capacity Old Trafford, so I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make with your second sentence. |
Other clubs would like more if they could. I dont like the slating other clubs just because they have smaller grounds - seems somewhat arrogant of us | | | |
| Bournemouth on 13:39 - Mar 10 with 3760 views | Vaughan8 |
I was surprised the didn't have smaller increments after 40+.
How many were left after the 40+ just out of interest? | | | |
| Bournemouth on 13:59 - Mar 10 with 3638 views | LRB84UK |
| Bournemouth on 13:39 - Mar 10 by Vaughan8 |
I was surprised the didn't have smaller increments after 40+.
How many were left after the 40+ just out of interest? |
There really should have been a 35+ there's a massive difference between 30 and 39 points.
I've been incredibly lucky to get to go to all the away games so far this season and certainly haven't taken that for granted but my goodness I wanted to go to them all! | | | |
| Bournemouth on 14:07 - Mar 10 with 3591 views | tommcd |
| Bournemouth on 13:39 - Mar 10 by Vaughan8 |
I was surprised the didn't have smaller increments after 40+.
How many were left after the 40+ just out of interest? |
Bournemouth Away Ticket Sales 'Profile' by tommcd 10 Mar 12:36The Bournemouth away fixture sold out within seconds upon the opening of the 30+ Window (12pm Monday), so the Ticket Sales 'Profile' for the fixture will be as below.
Summary
The Club announced an allocation of 1307 tickets had been provided, total seat-map count ran at the same. 22 seats were marked Restricted View and 2 Severely Restricted.
The Seat Map suggests 22 wheelchair + assistant spaces, 191 seats unavailable for purchase (likely breakdown: 26 retained for the Ballot, 165 retained by the Club / reserved for Steward seating).
There were 1094 seats made available for sale in 'points-based' sales windows.
879 (80.35% of available seats) seats sold in the 40+ window.
215 (19.65%) seats sold in the 30+ window.
Points of note:
* The Club introduced a new 40+ Window for this fixture given the small allocation, but there was no 35+ Window, remaining tickets went straight to 30+.
* Analysis of previous sales suggests it's likely there were just under 1000 Members with 40+ points in advance of this sale.
* There was no 35+ Window, but Analysis of previous sales suggests it's likely there would have been around 500 Members eligible in that Window.
* 40+ members are very 'safe' (ie they don't need the extra APP at any cost), so the long-distance plus mid-week fixture likely explains why the 40+ Sales weren't closer to high-900.
Graphical Comparison:
https://i.ibb.co/ccc841jF/Bournemouth-Tickets-Profile.jpg
Previous Sales 'Profiles' for reference:
In order of sell-out (vs order of fixture):
* Southampton - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/592381
* West Ham - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/592631
* Brentford - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/593642
* Tottenham - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/594339
* Nottingham Forest - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/595274
* Wolves - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/596205
* Arsenal - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/596469
* Fulham - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/597336
* Liverpool - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/598267
* Aston Villa - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/600334
* Manchester United - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/601670
* Coventry City (FA Cup) - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/602210
* Crystal Palace - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/602302
* Nottingham Forest (FA Cup) - https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/603896
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| Bournemouth on 14:12 - Mar 10 with 3553 views | Mullet |
| Bournemouth on 13:26 - Mar 10 by football |
Other clubs would like more if they could. I dont like the slating other clubs just because they have smaller grounds - seems somewhat arrogant of us |
Nah, it’s unacceptable. Either give teams 3k or get out of the league. Syphoning that money off and not bothering to do the bare minimum is scandalous.
There’s no way in the world they and palace etc couldn’t smarten up their grounds - it’s a choice. |  |
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| Bournemouth on 14:17 - Mar 10 with 3518 views | NeedhamChris |
| Bournemouth on 14:12 - Mar 10 by Mullet |
Nah, it’s unacceptable. Either give teams 3k or get out of the league. Syphoning that money off and not bothering to do the bare minimum is scandalous.
There’s no way in the world they and palace etc couldn’t smarten up their grounds - it’s a choice. |
This is up there with the Brighton banner. The entitlement and snobbery because it's Bournemouth.
10% is fair, even if annoying. | |
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| Bournemouth on 14:26 - Mar 10 with 3465 views | MalcolmBlue |
| Bournemouth on 12:27 - Mar 10 by football |
Their ground is ship shape. It's a smaller ground hence less tickets but there is nothing wrong with their ground. To demand a club has a bigger ground is a little arrogant as our ground is much smaller than most in the PL, many of their clubs woudl have l liked extra tickets |
I think the overall point is that they’ve been in the premier league for a good number of seasons now and their stadium has a smaller capacity than several league one teams. I don’t think it’s as preposterous as you make out.
Edit - Also according to Wikipedia 61 football grounds have been used in Premier League history (including Wembley, and several grounds that are no longer used - like Highbury, white hart lane, Maine Road, Upton Park) and Ipswich are dead middle of that list. We would be above average if you took out all the stadiums that aren’t used any more. So to say we don’t have a premier league capacity doesn’t seem to hold much weight either. [Post edited 10 Mar 14:37]
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| Bournemouth on 14:33 - Mar 10 with 3426 views | Sticks74 |
Another 39 pointer missing out on my first away of the season. Doubt it would have made any difference but I don’t understand the logic behind expanding the points priority window to 30 given the tiny amount available. If anything, it should have been reduced. Fingers crossed for one of the 26 in the ballot! | | | |
| Bournemouth on 14:35 - Mar 10 with 3415 views | Mullet |
| Bournemouth on 14:17 - Mar 10 by NeedhamChris |
This is up there with the Brighton banner. The entitlement and snobbery because it's Bournemouth.
10% is fair, even if annoying. |
You’ll have to explain how. It’s no different to clubs who step up in non league and have to bring stuff up to standard.
Why should they continue to rake in billions and not invest in infrastructure for fans? Especially after they were bankrolled to the top. 3k fans for the biggest league in the world is paltry anyway. Why should they be exempt from doing the bare minimum? | |
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| Bournemouth on 14:37 - Mar 10 with 3392 views | MaySixth |
Rubbish away day., been there done that |  |
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| Bournemouth on 14:48 - Mar 10 with 3314 views | WestSussexBlue |
| Bournemouth on 12:06 - Mar 10 by TractorWood |
Great footballing side these days but to give away teams 1,600 tickets in this day and age is pretty ridiculous. Particularly as we bent over backwards to get our ground ship shape for the Prem. |
Very good point | | | |
| Bournemouth on 14:56 - Mar 10 with 3251 views | Earls_Jeans |
| Bournemouth on 14:35 - Mar 10 by Mullet |
You’ll have to explain how. It’s no different to clubs who step up in non league and have to bring stuff up to standard.
Why should they continue to rake in billions and not invest in infrastructure for fans? Especially after they were bankrolled to the top. 3k fans for the biggest league in the world is paltry anyway. Why should they be exempt from doing the bare minimum? |
Where I think this is genuinely unfair is that every other club still has to hand over 3,000 seats to Bournemouth fans for their away games.
If Premier League clubs have stadiums with an away allocation of 1,300 seats, then surely that is all they should be allocated for the reverse fixture? I appreciate segregation is an issue in some stadiums so some capacity would be lost, but we ended up with that scenario in December at PR anyway as 'plucky little Bournemouth' didn't sell out their allocation. | | | |
| Bournemouth on 15:05 - Mar 10 with 3184 views | quirkie |
There are 9 clubs in League two with a bigger capacity than Bournemouth, even 3 sides in non-league football have bigger grounds.
Bournemouth have had more than enough time to move to a bigger ground that suites the Premier league.
I think they know at some point the money will go and they will be back to a Div 3/Div4 yoyo team that they have been for most of their history, so keeping their current ground makes sense to them. |  |
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| Bournemouth on 15:08 - Mar 10 with 3150 views | Vaughan8 |
| Bournemouth on 15:05 - Mar 10 by quirkie |
There are 9 clubs in League two with a bigger capacity than Bournemouth, even 3 sides in non-league football have bigger grounds.
Bournemouth have had more than enough time to move to a bigger ground that suites the Premier league.
I think they know at some point the money will go and they will be back to a Div 3/Div4 yoyo team that they have been for most of their history, so keeping their current ground makes sense to them. |
Is the demand there, even in the premier league for say a 30k seater stadium? Genuine question but I'm guessing not? | | | |
| Bournemouth on 15:23 - Mar 10 with 3080 views | BlueNomad |
| Bournemouth on 14:12 - Mar 10 by Mullet |
Nah, it’s unacceptable. Either give teams 3k or get out of the league. Syphoning that money off and not bothering to do the bare minimum is scandalous.
There’s no way in the world they and palace etc couldn’t smarten up their grounds - it’s a choice. |
They are close to finishing their new out of town training ground which looks amazing. That will free up the current training ground which is next to the stadium .Work can then start on that site, meaning they don’t have to move while it’s being done. When the current stadium was being built they played at Dorchester, possible because they were in L2 at the time. I don’t think they can be expected to move over 30 miles to play at St Mary’s!
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