Then two vouchers etc.

Details are up on site now.

Looks like me and the mob are waiting till wednesday then

Tho i see theres no confirmation of the amount the guy at Rochdale told me this morning?????

What did he tell you?

This is crazy, I accept that Season ticketers should deservedly have first pick but to use the voucher system again (when no one has told us to keep hold of stubs) and giving no stub holders one day to get tickets is stupid.

And why on earth are they only being sold from Monday??
AND WHY ON EARTH DO WE ONLY HAVE 3000 TICKETS IN AN END THAT HOLDS 3600??

Told me 3000 and was as amazed as us all why the delay in getting them.....ie to organise coaches etc etc thought it was very harsh on us

The rest are for the grab squad that are ready to chuck us out if we do not sit down,as the message says Rochdale has an all seating policy.

Tickets were on sale to all from an efficient ticketing operation at Wycombe and we took 850 so why do we need to have a staggered sale for 3000 tickets. Don't the club want supporters at Rochdale?

Just a thought but why can't they invite postal applications from season ticket holders from TODAY and get them on general sale by post or person from Monday. Come on Pools sort it out! That way they can send em out before people need to set off to the game.

It's a complete farce!!!!

Train Tickets booked and now this!!!!

Oi, You! Poolyboydave, season ticket holders do NOT deserve priority for this match AT ALL. THIS IS AN AWAY MATCH, NOT A HOME ONE. THE FANS WHO HAVE BEEN GOING TO THE AWAY GAMES DESERVE THE FU-C-KING PRIORITY!!!!!!!!

for an away league match, there's no guarantee that season ticket holders have been going to every away game though, is there? It would be WRONG to give season ticket holders/regular home fans priority.
What if I produced all the stubs from away games and have been to twice as many away games as the average season ticket-holder? (PS I've been to every home match bar one this season in any case) -
Who has attended more away games? Who should get priority for away tickets?
It HAS to be first come first served for an away match , exiles especially would feel hard done by - those people who go and cheer the lads at away matches when any support helps the team when we are miles away, and when the majority of home fans (season tickets included) haven't travelled. Why should they be pushed out at this stage?
I hope I've made my point!!!!!!

Apart from anything else, I can't.

They go on general sale on the Friday and assuming they get posted on the Friday my postman never shows his face until just before lunchtime on a Saturday.

Absolutely pathetic and farcical.

Also whats all this stub crap? where was the advice on keeping stubs from those games?

We are season ticket holders. But any scheme other than a first come first served, at this late stage is complete madness!! No telephone sales until the day before the match? Are they complete lunatics at the club!!

We have without doubt the most pathetic ticketing system in the Football League. Compare it for instance with Notts County or Wycombe. Ridiculous! at a stroke this has wiped up to a thousand off the attendance. Worse, it could ensure that there are lots of Pools fans in the home sections.

This is unbelieviable. How the hell am I supposed to get a ticket, I wasn't at the Vic for the Stanley game, I woun't be there on Friday. So have to wait general sale.

It's an away game, why can't away stubs be used, I was at Wycombe, barnet, Darlo and Stockport, but that doesn't seems to matter a jot.

I live 350 miles away, and if I buy one and it's posted on Friday I'll have to leave the house a good three hours before the postman turns up.

Once again the club show their naivety and stupidity.

I know it's not Pools fault that it has been made all-ticket but it should be on a 1st come 1st served basis!!!!

Why can't they just sell the from the Turnstiles on the Clarence road side of the ground as soon as they get them....just leave the exit gates open for after people have made their purchase????

I know you wouldn't be able to see if people are on the data base etc....but so feck!!!!

They'd all be sold within 1/2 days that way and then people can sort out arrangements to get to the match instead of hoping and praying the day before the game that they can actually get a ticket and then sort transport out!!!!

Or is all that just too simple for Pools????

Like I said in the other thread and like Mr.Parmo said yesterday....feck all the fecking about....I'll just go in the home end!!!!

All this is making my head hurt....I've just made a cup of tea and poured the Milk in an ashtray!!!!

Chip, it mentions that you can leave voucher, payment and an SAE at the ticket office on Friday and they'll send tickets out.

Actually - STE can queue up on Monday and Tuesday or leave the voucher Friday when they'd be going to the match anyway. - Why do they need essentially three days to buy them? - I understand that there's a few Season Ticket holders who can't make Friday games, but they can queue on Monday. That frees up Tuesday for 2 stubs, Wed for 1 stub and general on Thursday and a chance of the postie delivering my ticket before I have to leave for the game.

But would you chance that????

If it's the only way, I'll bloody have to....

Hopefully the club will send tickets bought over the phone back to Rochdale to be picked up, but I expected the club to have sorted out the sale out logically, but that hasn't happened.....

Probably more down to the fantastic service the ticket office give. One hundred tickets per hour so two days needed!

100 tickets per hour....you're havin' a laugh aren't yeh?!?!

I've just tried to e-mail my complaint to both the ticket and euquiry e-mail addresses on the official site and both got bounced back as undeliverable as the e-mail accounts don't exist. Does anyone have a valid e-mail address for Pools?

My mistake Mr Mutters, I was just being optimistic

I sent an email this morning to 'enquiries@hartlepoolunited.co.uk' and it got there...

Maybe the club's realised the furore and has 'gone dark' in Jack Bauer speak!!!

Good point - I suspect the speed it due to checking that Season Ticket Holders are on the database!!

You might be better off trying to phone, Emails are much easier to ignore.

BUT my coaches are not a shambles,they all have wheels etc.

I couldn't get to the Accrington game due to work but I asked our kid to keep his stubbs and look for any others on the floor etc for a cunning plan I had!!!!

I've texted him to see if he actually got any....but I'm still waiting for his reply!!!!

I'd rather e-mail as I would like to raise the ticketing arrangements at the next AGM ias I'm on the shareholders database as well as the ticketing database.

The ticketing situation is shocking at our club, Its a shame really
My question is... Since when did Pools make the Playoffs? Because this ticketing arrangement is very Playoff-Esque!

As a Season Ticket holder, I'll be able to get my ticket no problem,
Although I do feel that if they were to do it, Only 1 day for Season Tickets & The rest of the week general sale, That would eliminate last day problems.

But exiles who can attend the odd match & Who are/were going to make a massive effort to go to Rochdale on Saturday may now be put off by the fact that they only really have Friday to purchase a ticket from x hundred miles away from Hartlepool

I feel for those poor beggars that cant get to the ticket office on Friday & Have to go on Saturday morning before setting off

and I hope for this arrangement they leave the ticket office open later hours all week (Especially Friday!!!!!!)

Of course if the filth and Rochdale hadn't, quite arbitrarily, decided to make the match all ticket at such a late stage, then no-one would be jumping through hoops for a ticket. Remember you are public enemy number one, a football fan.

So are you strangling the chicken or smashing the egg??

I feel for you lads, I've done this stuff myself desperate to get to a game but living 120 miles out of town. Oh the fun I had with Cardiff because I had a Sheffield postcode................

I actually applauded the club for how they dealt with the ticketing for Cardiff, I thought an external firm was a top, top idea!
Obviously the "Handling Charge" was a bit of a pain, But the idea to ask a ticketing firm to do it, Was great!

Because god knows what it would have been like down the ticketing office the weeks pre-Cardiff

Even Sheffield Wednesday struggled with there better organised ticket system with the pure bulk sales of there tickets

Sorry Kev but that is complete bollox. The all ticketing is not the issue its the crazy system that has been implemented. No-one has complained about the bare fact that its an all ticket game.

No John. If the match wasn't all ticket, everyone could just get on the train, get in the car or jump on the leg iron and pedal there and pay at the gate. Like every other time we've been to Rochdale.

Why is it suddenly all ticket?? It's suddenly all ticket because plod thinks everyone who went to Darlo is going to turn up at Rochdale, that's why, and he's shit himself.

The distribution system is a poor model admittedly but I don't see the need to impose the all ticket rule, it's not the darlo derby, it's not Sunderland in the cup, it's not the Cardiff Final, its the next league game at Rochdale. Put that in it's perspective and ask why it's suddenly all ticket.

Big following yes, but it would never sell out. We will not take 3000 fans to Rochdale, which is arguably less accessible than Wycombe was last week.

They police have made their decision and there's 10 days to go before the game. The issue is that the tickets go on general sale the day before the match not that it is all ticket.

It's not just the next game, though is it. If it was a fortnight ago I'd expect a similar turn out to Wycombe, but if we match or better Walsall's result over the weekend we could win the championship at our next game which is Rochdale.

If you look at it from the police's perspective Hartlepool are coming, and could win the championship on that day. The away end holds 3,000 (I know it's bigger, but that's how many we've got) and Hartlepool took 3,750 (and could've taken more) to Darlington for a league game, derby or not it's not as big as a potential championship win, they've took a large following to Stockport (who are in the same police area) and have consistently taken large numbers around the country. It's better to give them tickets and only have 3,000 travel, than have pay on the door and risk potentially thousands of away fans being locked out around the streets of Rochdale.

That should be worth 2 stubs.

That's exactly my point though Mr Croydon. Just about everyone who goes to the home games plus a few stragglers will go to Darlington on a Sunday. It's half an hour away and for exiles it's a nice run with no wagons on the motorways.

The turnout was 1200 at Stockport. I daresay the same 1200 will go to Rochdale. I'd chance my arm on another 600 maximum. We haven't sold out Friday night yet and that's at home.

It's a stupid knee jerk reaction by the Police to try and pull the perceived numbers down. How longs it been on the calendar?? Ten Months?? Everyone else just has to deal with it. We'll fall well short of the ticket allocation as we always would have done and Superintendent bounder, the smug bastard will be patting himself on the back. "We won't be repeating the errors made at the Man Utd v Roma match..........' You can almost hear it.

Last time I was at Rochdale there were riot police outside the ground at the final whistle because some of our daft lads had been causing trouble before the match. I am sure that hasn't been forgotten by GMP either.

Fair point, Kev, fair point - but the fact remains that in the Police's eyes we've taken fans more to a League Two game in the past month than their club can accommodate.



I agree with the knee jerk reaction comment. But I can't agree with the second part - yes, it's been scheduled since June, but the magnitude of the game for the away side wasn't determined until a few weeks ago - you could say it won't fully be determined until 5 o'clock on Saturday.

I hope you're right that tickets will go back over the Pennines unsold - at least it'll mean that I will get tickets, but I don't think it will be the case - depending on weekend results we could be as much as 5 clear or 1 behind, if it's the former then I reckon they'll sell out within the first hours of general sale if it goes that far. If it's the latter (I hope it's not) then they'll be plenty left.

what's pi-ssing me off is I'd be going to Rochdale even if we were already relegated!!!!! People who would have had no intentions of going but now want to, can get in before me!!!!!!!

Who says by the way we are getting 3000 tickets.

Maybe this is why it is being done this way.

Good point PM, They haven't announced how many we've got have they. The only figure being banded about was ADG's, and unsurprisingly it was a big round one!!

Rochdale get 2000 on a good day, we'll fall short of that.

But be ready when you get there, the overtime gravy train is almost over for this season and they'll want to make the most of it.

Right, this has stuffed me completely then!

I can't rely on my Postman at the best of times, have no stubs, so my chances of getting a ticket on time are close to non-existant.

I can't just turn up and go in the home end because the game is apparently also all-ticket for home fans.

I live about 30 miles away from Rochdale, have even had to arrange a babysitter for my little boy as the missus is due to be working, and now it looks like I can't go. Annoyed? Try Livid!

Why cant you buy over the phone and pick your ticket up at Rochdale like it say's on the official site

Did you see the fiasco that was Blackpool when that happened a couple of years back? Queue a mile long, Frank Reid was even having to wait....

It looks like problem may be sorted by virtue of having understanding folks who are going on Friday but won't be travelling to Dale - they will get me the ticket and send it registered post.

I know this isn't the club's decision for all ticket etc, however the way the distribution is being handled has "Fiasco" written all over it.

Chip is spot on, a win to GUARANTEE the title and the woodwork will well and truly be emptied