Col U tickets

[henry18]

Anyone got a spare ticket?

 

[mattitouk]

Anyone got a spare ticket?

I like your audacity henry, and while I admire the fact that you had the foresight to jump the gun so to speak and get in there early in your request for a spare ticket, I feel your inexperience is showing here,..... firstly there will be many posts in the coming weeks, with the same request.... and secondly...there is at least a dozen of us auctioning a kidney (or other vital organs) right now on ebay in return for a spare ticket!! :smile:

 

[Tommy2holes]

I like your audacity henry, and while I admire the fact that you had the foresight to jump the gun so to speak and get in there early in your request for a spare ticket, I feel your inexperience is showing here,..... firstly there will be many posts in the coming weeks, with the same request.... and secondly...there is at least a dozen of us auctioning a kidney (or other vital organs) right now on ebay in return for a spare ticket!! :smile:

Yeah I'm currently starting with less vital and working up. Appendix anyone?

 

[Blues 'n twos]

I like your audacity henry, and while I admire the fact that you had the foresight to jump the gun so to speak and get in there early in your request for a spare ticket, I feel your inexperience is showing here,..... firstly there will be many posts in the coming weeks, with the same request.... and secondly...there is at least a dozen of us auctioning a kidney (or other vital organs) right now on ebay in return for a spare ticket!! :smile:

Have a heart ( not his ) he is just quick of the mark :smile:

 

[tia]

Great we have sold our allocation so quickly but hopefully we get some more tickets from Colchester as fair few non season ticket fans who travel to away games regulary get a chance to go as well.

 

[Colchester and proud!]

This sounds like "fun", lets hope my club answer your plea quickly to put you out of your misery, I honestly don't know which way this will go, they may prefer to keep that area free in case home fans want them or just leave the whole section closed for security. We have been known to refuse extra ticket requests when there is no chance of them being needed for home fans, it will probably largely depend on whether Robbie like's your club or not!

 

[tia]

This sounds like "fun", lets hope my club answer your plea quickly to put you out of your misery, I honestly don't know which way this will go, they may prefer to keep that area free in case home fans want them or just leave the whole section closed for security. We have been known to refuse extra ticket requests when there is no chance of them being needed for home fans, it will probably largely depend on whether Robbie like's your club or not!

If there are some unsold tickets or you dont think you will sellout home end makes sense all round to give Southend more tickets.Be a good earner for your club

 

[ooh-andy-ansah]

I'm pretty sure col u will implement some kind of policy involving local postcodes or databases.

haha just logged into my Col U ticket account, had to go in home end last time when Moussa scored right in line with where I was sitting :smile: At least I have an option if I can't get in the away end. I have a postcode approx 70 miles away from Southend.

 

[Colchester and proud!]

If there are some unsold tickets or you dont think you will sellout home end makes sense all round to give Southend more tickets.Be a good earner for your club

We won't sell the other 8000 plus tickets in my opinion, but as I said before the club were saying around 5000 had already been sold not including your intial allocation which was about 1900 I believe. The problem is if we give you more tickets it will be 1000 seats in the east stand which by the way are more expensive. We normally divide that stand in half, the r/h side as you view from the pitch covers two sections that are near the half way line that tend to be the most expensive and the other two sections are the family enclosure. The left hand side has disabled areas at the top and then around 1500 seats in various sections. The club would allocate the nearest sections to your current stand to you and leave another area empty to segregate the two sets of fans. Now if Robbie thinks we might sell part of that area he will not give you any more tickets, because by giving you more in the East he will lose potential sales of some of the most expensive seats on that side which would be lost due to segregation. It could go either way, there is a lot of interest so it could hit 9000 or so on the day which may well mean he decides not to give you any more. Either way it is a gamble but a nice one for him to have, we shall see!

 

[nevereatwhitesnow]

If there are some unsold tickets or you dont think you will sellout home end makes sense all round to give Southend more tickets.Be a good earner for your club

I've just had a really rough count of tickets availabe to buy for home fans in various blocks stands -

East Stand (only half on sale currently as North-end of this stand can be given to away fans or opened up to home fans) - Only about 320 tickets left to buy
South Stand - Only around 450 available
West Stand - Has around 750ish available (but quite a few of these seats can be taken up by hospitality etc)

Given there is still over a month to buy tickets (and a big chunk of people pay on the gate currently) South will totally sell out as will all currently availabe in the East - West stand (most expensive by a long way) may have some capacity.

Gut feeling is that they will keep an eye on how sales progress over next week and then make a decision - the problem with the 4 potentially availabe blocks in the East Stand is it would be very difficult to further segregate (so if away fans were in one of those blocks the rest couldn't be made available to home fans due to access, concourse and segregation. Setting aside whether Essex Police will have a view (or say) personally I doubt that you'll be given any further tickets though.

If you were thinking of buying in the home stands I wouldn't recommend doing so in the South Stand, but for sensible family type chaps who won't be stupid then West Stand (blocks 8 or 9 would your best bet as these are nearest to away fans and don't tend to attract any of the most "energetic" types!

 

[Jai]

haha just logged into my Col U ticket account, had to go in home end last time when Moussa scored right in line with where I was sitting :smile: At least I have an option if I can't get in the away end. I have a postcode approx 70 miles away from Southend.

At the risk of diverting this thread, it is absolutely criminal that goal is not on Youtube.

 

[Colchester and proud!]

I've just had a really rough count of tickets availabe to buy for home fans in various blocks stands -

East Stand (only half on sale currently as North-end of this stand can be given to away fans or opened up to home fans) - Only about 320 tickets left to buy
South Stand - Only around 450 available
West Stand - Has around 750ish available (but quite a few of these seats can be taken up by hospitality etc)

Given there is still over a month to buy tickets (and a big chunk of people pay on the gate currently) South will totally sell out as will all currently availabe in the East - West stand (most expensive by a long way) may have some capacity.

Gut feeling is that they will keep an eye on how sales progress over next week and then make a decision - the problem with the 4 potentially availabe blocks in the East Stand is it would be very difficult to further segregate (so if away fans were in one of those blocks the rest couldn't be made available to home fans due to access, concourse and segregation. Setting aside whether Essex Police will have a view (or say) personally I doubt that you'll be given any further tickets though.

If you were thinking of buying in the home stands I wouldn't recommend doing so in the South Stand, but for sensible family type chaps who won't be stupid then West Stand (blocks 8 or 9 would your best bet as these are nearest to away fans and don't tend to attract any of the most "energetic" types!

Good advice NEWS (See what I did there!) well done on putting in a bit of work on this, I do think we will struggle to sell all of the East stand if we open up the North part as well, but if the club think they can sell a good part of them I think they might not part with any more tickets. Like I said it is a gamble either way, I wonder how many boxes have been sold, they all looked like they were being used against Coventry on Saturday.

 

[Colchester and proud!]

haha just logged into my Col U ticket account, had to go in home end last time when Moussa scored right in line with where I was sitting :smile: At least I have an option if I can't get in the away end. I have a postcode approx 70 miles away from Southend.

Just sent this post to Col U..................................... only jesting!!! :smile:

 

[shrimperjon]

With the game only a few weeks away surely if Col Utd fans were looking at going to the game they would have bought their tickets by now, with the odd exception. Cant see them suddenly selling another 2000 or so, they simply dont have that many fans. With the obvious risk of Southend fans getting in the home ends which i believe many already have done, surely it makes sense to offer us the maximum possible.

 

[shrimperjon]

Good advice NEWS (See what I did there!) well done on putting in a bit of work on this, I do think we will struggle to sell all of the East stand if we open up the North part as well, but if the club think they can sell a good part of them I think they might not part with any more tickets. Like I said it is a gamble either way, I wonder how many boxes have been sold, they all looked like they were being used against Coventry on Saturday.

Just out of interest and with Coventry possibly your biggest game of the season, how many Cov fans were there Saturday, i think the crowd was around 5300 or so

 

[Tommy2holes]

I will be trying to get tickets in the home end if we are not given anymore. Just need to find someone with a cm postcode.

 

[shrimperjon]

Good advice NEWS (See what I did there!) well done on putting in a bit of work on this, I do think we will struggle to sell all of the East stand if we open up the North part as well, but if the club think they can sell a good part of them I think they might not part with any more tickets. Like I said it is a gamble either way, I wonder how many boxes have been sold, they all looked like they were being used against Coventry on Saturday.

Also what has that away policy been when the likes of Norwich and Ipswich have visited?

 

[Colchester and proud!]

With the game only a few weeks away surely if Col Utd fans were looking at going to the game they would have bought their tickets by now, with the odd exception. Cant see them suddenly selling another 2000 or so, they simply dont have that many fans. With the obvious risk of Southend fans getting in the home ends which i believe many already have done, surely it makes sense to offer us the maximum possible.

Who knows we shall see Jon, Colchester fans are used to just rolling up on the day confident of getting in, I think the club may push the sales in the local press before deciding to give you any more, but hey what do I know!

 

[shrimperjon]

I will be trying to get tickets in the home end if we are not given anymore. Just need to find someone with a cm postcode.

Doesn't have to be a CM postcode, we have plenty of fans who travel from outside the SS postcode to our games, im sure Colchester must have fans that travel from outside their postcode area as well.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Just out of interest and with Coventry possibly your biggest game of the season, how many Cov fans were there Saturday, i think the crowd was around 5300 or so

About 900 Coventry I think?