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Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:41 am

Forever Blue wrote:
CFS25 wrote:Wolves going like hot cakes! I do think sky games is affecting our crowds home and away....

Our home games are massive if we could win all them we should go up! I don’t like the look of any are away games very tough!



Until the end of Oct we were lucky to be on Sky once, our fans were moaning that we were not on Sky.

Our three biggest home gates Leeds United/Man City & Wolves were and are all live tv games and not great time kick offs.

Plus Derby away a near sell out was live on Sky.

Its nothing to do with tv.

Sad fact Some of our fans have cherry picked their games to about 5 out of 30 odd so far, depending who the opposition is.



Plus Aston Villa is away on a Tuesday night live on Sky and we sold 2,600 tickets in 48hrs :thumbright: :bluebird:

I have always said when fans want to go they go :bluebird:

Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:11 am

Everyone appreciates the ticket office is not resourced for the current surge in demand. Its a triple whammy, a very congested fixtures, demand increasing for home and away tickets, as belief returns added to season ticket season renewals / deadlines.

A few things they perhaps could consider in the short term.

Up until the ST deadline opening the ticket office for an extra couple of hours into the evening if they're able to staff it.

In acknowledgement that people are struggling to contact them, waive the match day price increase for Burton and make sure they're fully aware of the cash booths, which avoid match day queues at the ticket office.

I've always been sceptical of e ticketing but to be honest I now find myself using it more and more. They could put more on there. In the family stand for the burton game they only have seats showing in the probable wet front area. Burton aren't bringing many so release another block. For the Wolves game they should bite the bullet and put a good half of the middle and upper tiers of the Ninian on sale. There's still well over a week to go so they will have to do at sometime.

Lastly do a press / radio release on it so that people know although its busy, we have a ground capable of taking many more.

On the Burton game if everyone tried to persuade a friend to go and on average only half were successful then the ground would be more or less full.

Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:22 am

epping blue wrote:Everyone appreciates the ticket office is not resourced for the current surge in demand. Its a triple whammy, a very congested fixtures, demand increasing for home and away tickets, as belief returns added to season ticket season renewals / deadlines.

A few things they perhaps could consider in the short term.

Up until the ST deadline opening the ticket office for an extra couple of hours into the evening if they're able to staff it.

In acknowledgement that people are struggling to contact them, waive the match day price increase for Burton and make sure they're fully aware of the cash booths, which avoid match day queues at the ticket office.

I've always been sceptical of e ticketing but to be honest I now find myself using it more and more. They could put more on there. In the family stand for the burton game they only have seats showing in the probable wet front area. Burton aren't bringing many so release another block. For the Wolves game they should bite the bullet and put a good half of the middle and upper tiers of the Ninian on sale. There's still well over a week to go so they will have to do at sometime.

Lastly do a press / radio release on it so that people know although its busy, we have a ground capable of taking many more.

On the Burton game if everyone tried to persuade a friend to go and on average only half were successful then the ground would be more or less full.


Agreed on the Ninian. One final push and I'm sure we'll get the numbers. :thumbright: :ayatollah:

Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:20 pm

This is like nearly all the other games, forecasting big crowds and away following , but then it doesn't happen.
Plenty of seats left in corners and part of lower Ninian. Family Stand got a whole block to open yet.
23000, maybe 24000 crowd probably.

Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:24 pm

Im guessing the attendance forecast is based on sales to date.
Probably also new take up of persons purchasing as well.

Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:01 pm

They could do with putting more up on e ticketing certainly for the Wolves game. There's only a few single seats left in the family stand so that needs an extra block released. The middle and upper Ninian needs to be put on at least the half towards the canton. Every sale they make on line takes pressure off the office and phone lines. There's 10 days to go so they clearly know they'll have to do it at sometime. They could do with putting up an extra block of the family stand for the Burton game as they're down to the last couple of hundred seats at the front in the blocks already on sale.

Should be comfortably over 20k Friday and I wouldn't be surprised to the Wolves game hit the 30k mark.

Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:24 pm

Forever Blue wrote:
alexccfc wrote:Wolves have sold out



Fair play to them on their site it was still saying waiting for extra tickets

But selling 3,000 that quick for a Friday night live on Sky excellent :thumbright:

:bluebird:

We sold our allocation for derby also live on sky with a shit ko Time :thumbup:
Just saying 8-)

Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:20 pm

Forever Blue wrote:
alexccfc wrote:Wolves have sold out



Fair play to them on their site it was still saying waiting for extra tickets

But selling 3,000 that quick for a Friday night live on Sky excellent :thumbright: :bluebird:



Wolves have never travelled to Cardiff, never. They sold 3,000 as we would to them if the circumstances were the same. That will be biggest they have brought to Cardiff since I been watching. Correct me if am wrong but as I said they have never come to Cardiff

Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:48 am

Walinoz wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:
alexccfc wrote:Wolves have sold out



Fair play to them on their site it was still saying waiting for extra tickets

But selling 3,000 that quick for a Friday night live on Sky excellent :thumbright:

:bluebird:

We sold our allocation for derby also live on sky with a shit ko Time :thumbup:
Just saying 8-)


We never sold out, but Villa away has sold out on a Tuesday night live on Sky :thumbright: :bluebird:

Thats my point, Sky/times etc don't matter fans will go if they really want to :thumbright:

Re: BREAKING:BRILLIANT NEWS CARDIFF C MANIC /SO PLEASE CALM

Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:54 am

Stringfellow wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:
alexccfc wrote:Wolves have sold out



Fair play to them on their site it was still saying waiting for extra tickets

But selling 3,000 that quick for a Friday night live on Sky excellent :thumbright: :bluebird:



Wolves have never travelled to Cardiff, never. They sold 3,000 as we would to them if the circumstances were the same. That will be biggest they have brought to Cardiff since I been watching. Correct me if am wrong but as I said they have never come to Cardiff


Gareth, Your right they have never brought this many to us before :thumbright:

Their 3 previuos away supports to Cardiff were 2,010, 1,030 and 802 fans.

But this season everywhere they have gone they have been taking 2,500-5,000 away fans.