As per live streams at present the EFL have not revealed whether this will be possible. The information I have been given is that they may have the misguided opinion that ifollow and red button is a good enough service.
I fully understand the risks but if the club lock it down to what has been sold already, leaving the 1100, should it be ballot for season ticket holders, match day sales to season ticket holders from last season or general sale?They won’t attract the support they want when this is over by closing ticket availability to the swathes they want to attract back.
And this is exactly it, the admin and overheads involved in the logistics and say a dad and young son get allocated a night match, someone who travels a long way gets a night match, how do you configure that block, quick turn rounds etc.One possible thought - what if an all season card Riverside had a 11-12 000 capacity and allowing 500 match by match reduced the capacity to 9000.
Figures off the top of my head - but the point is what if having match by match tickets caused the capacity to come down a long way. And also with 13 midweek games next season what difficulties could that cause with quick turnarounds from weekends for fans as well as Boro admin and also midweeks being less attractive to many. Imagine if you went into a ballot and got several midweeks but couldnt attend them.
Am just putting down someone's opinion.Rob surely GC holders have already had their priority opportunity. Why are they getting another one?
Who on earth has asked for GC holders to have ANOTHER priority opportunity?Am just putting down someone's opinion.
Not at all, people would only enter the ballot for particular games not generally. Other clubs seem to be able to manage a ballot system.And this is exactly it, the admin and overheads involved in the logistics and say a dad and young son get allocated a night match, someone who travels a long way gets a night match, how do you configure that block, quick turn rounds etc.
Other clubs - but no one has as yet put it into practice.
What on earth will the likes of Everton do - 30 000 season tickets - they are just starting to debate what that does and doesn't entitle them to. In an old ground like Goodison the capactity is presumably going to be pretty low. There are going to be some mammoth problems in Premier.
I was talking to someone at Blackpool just now - their club reckon they can survive financially on less than a third capacity - they effectively road tested this for a season when the Oyston Out boycott was in full swing. So, could it be that Championship clubs will be hit harder than prudent League One and below?
What were the outcomes of your meeting tonight please?Other clubs - but no one has as yet put it into practice.
What on earth will the likes of Everton do - 30 000 season tickets - they are just starting to debate what that does and doesn't entitle them to. In an old ground like Goodison the capactity is presumably going to be pretty low. There are going to be some mammoth problems in Premier.
I was talking to someone at Blackpool just now - their club reckon they can survive financially on less than a third capacity - they effectively road tested this for a season when the Oyston Out boycott was in full swing. So, could it be that Championship clubs will be hit harder than prudent League One and below?
Rob half the info on our situation is only via you or your counterparts. Of course we’ve not seen a ballot system like this before - these are unprecedented times!Millwall was actually a supporters club post - it doesn't say it anywhere on the official website, which is interesting. But what I meant was we haven't seen it actually in operation. I think I am right in saying Millwall have far less season ticket holders but do run a membership scheme. So, presumably everyone is a member of Millwall.
Mark Motley is going to send out some notes from tonight's meeting tomorrow - but I think we all agreed that the club needs to be really up front and honest about the hard choices that must be taken now.
There are two paths here - making some seats available for sale match by match - it is a significant point that 18 months without being able to see a live game could be like a lifetime. Or all being sold to season ticket holders renewing - but at that point it could be possible to develop a formal waiting list and a mechanism where season card holders can make their seats available to that list. It would have to work around bubbles of course.