Do you think people will have to sit in the seat that it says on their ticket, just i have a season ticket and me mates dont or will it be like darlo, sit were you want?

it wont sell out, you can pay on the gate, was on the phone to the ticket office and she just said yup, pay on the gate.

and the categorys are based on the league positions and nothing else, thats directly from leeds united 2007 ltd

well luton have 3 points as well but they are catergory b. how can they go on league positions after 2 games

Thats what i said!! They are just money grabbing a$$holes!

But, if there are more that want to go IOR will have to "buy" more tickets off of Leeds.

Must say i'm scratching me heed wondering why this is a Cat A game. First i've heard of it being dependent on league position.

Assumed it was because of the "derby" scenario. Or that you guys have a big away following but I understand only 1,700 tickets have been allocated so it cant be about bringing revenue in. Plus the more "cheap seats" go to you (south stand if higher allocation) then it's less for us and most Leeds folk rightly or wrongly, just don't want to pay the next price up of £30 for division 3 footy no matter who the oppo is.

Owd Papas tekking the piss. Let's hope we don't have too many Cat A games.

So is this likely to sell out?

If so will we get another 1.7k?

Guaranteed we can sell more than 1700 without even trying.

Season tickets work out at £16 per game I think to be fair. But for those without them and paying matchday prices for Cat A games when the £25 tickets have gone it's then up to £30. There are some £23 tickets but they are in family enclosures and you have to go with kids and be members to get them (I think!). They obviously sell out straight away.

how many season tickets have Pools sold then? I have heard rumours around the 1,800 mark. If that's the case, they will all get snapped up by the season ticket holders.
Let's face it, nobody wants to miss out on this one, even the "once every two seasons away fan" type. Which means that loyal away fans could get pushed out again. Haven't we done this before???

PS I am myself a ST holder, and our lass and the bairn, but I think there should be some means in place of demonstrating who has been to AWAY games, not who has a season ticket. Other clubs do, so if it means producing the last five away stubs or something, then tickets go on sale to those people first - then to the next group with four stubs etc, in decreasing order of numbers of away stubs. It would only take five days to get down to general sale, and nobody would/could complain about this way of doing things. It IS the fairest way of ticket allocation for away matches, no arguments.This way people will always keep stubs from matches attended to assure their reservation is effectively kept as a loyal away fan.
Similar to home stubs ticketing system which is already in use!!!!!
Why is this concept so hard to implement??

Disagree Parmo.

With the tiny discount that Pools offer for buying a season ticket the only real incentive to have one is priority on away games.

I know for a fact that if this was removed I'd just pay on the gate every game. So would many others.

I agree with you parmo, There should not really be any priorities, they should do it '1st come 1st served' thats about the only fair way of doing ticketing I think

I'm not advocating first come first served, I'm advocating a ticketing system which demonstrates who has been to away games.
Ok then Rip, after the away stubs have been allocated, THEN it can go to ST holders!!!!! Then to general sale!! How's that???

Still wouldn't encourage me to buy a season ticket.

Over the course of a whole season you only save £60 when buying a season ticket as opposed to paying on the gate. In the general scheme of things that is peanuts. The only reason to buy a season ticket at that sort of price, in my opinion, is to ensure that I can get a ticket for every away game that I wish to attend.

Your ticket stub theory could remove that guarantee so therefore I wouldn't buy the season ticket.

Agreed. One of the main incentives for me buying my season ticket is the priority factor.

I can just imagine all the fans turning up at Leeds on buses and trains, all kids between 8-15 year old!!!
The police would still bully/push around/arrest them all!!!!

The reason for buying a season ticket should be to get a good discount on Home games, and priority for cup/play-off matches at home. Ok, and maybe cup matches/play-off matches away from home.
BUT NOT for bread-0and-butter 23 league away matches. That is where my ticketing system would come in!!! Fair's fair all round!!!
If the ST discount was better, then you might not bring the away tickets factor into it!!!!!!

Why not though?



But it isn't though is it so it therefore becomes irrelevant.

How many??

MANY MANY!

Don't you listen?

1- I don't believe it to be fair so there.

2- When has anything that Dribbs ever said been true?

Away games are the only option for many of us to see any kind of regular match action.
Yes I know it doesn't fill the Pools coffers but it cuts both ways. Exiles from other clubs come to see their team play Pools but don't get to many of their own home games.

If Leeds give us the 3.6k which they can then we wouldnt be having this argument.

ok,there are 4 of us planning to go to this game.me the only poolie,the lad I'm staying with who lives wakefield and 2 other locals who have never seen pools.if I don't at least get 2 tickets I've got no where to stay.
I get to maybe 7 or 8 home games a season so a season ticket is a non starter.I get to at least 10 away games a season,more this southern based year all being well. so you could say the club make less from me directly than most although me and the kids normally get shirts etc from the club shop.so should I get a ticket ahead of a season ticket holder?

damn right

Dawlish, the support of people like yourself is underestimated by the club. The more fans we have at away games, the better the chance of the team being able to get a result.
The upshot of a good away win is usually a good home attendance next match. The club therefore benefits from this.
If the team sees a good away following miles away from Hartlepool, it is a massive boost for them, and results over a season are certainly influenced by things like that.

Isn't it ironic as ms Morissette once said! For weeks now poolies have been sounding off about the price and threatening to boycott the game now it's insufficient tickets! That's why it's category A surely? One of the big reasons for buying a season ticket (for me at any rate) is the seat itself. I sit exactly where I want to sit amongst people I now know etc. Bit like a time share - guaranteed accommodation. Tomorrow at Forest I'm almost sat on the pitch. Not my cup of tea but some love it. Still I have my ticket for the biggest game in the country so I'm happy See you soon

Same as usual, everyone who wants one will get one, but we always have a big debate and a pop at the club first. It's the Bunker law.

Which is why this is a top site - fingers crossed now as I make a swift exit for Forest > price £24. Would you believe it - LUFC category A Good luck yourselves today.

Here Here John

The club have perfected the technique of instilling uncertainty and anguish amongst their supporters whilst always delivering a ticket in the end. They seem to think it heightens the excitement of the build up to the big day.

" I don't like sitting down at football matches at the best of times " - for the record my seat is no more than a stake in the ground. We do not sit down where I sit (stand) on the kop. Perfect - me own turf marked out and I stand just like the old days. And, because we are Leeds, I like everybody in the ground without exception so no problems. Right behind the net at Forest today - that's not a £24 seat by anybody's standards!