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Wembley tickets - 39k officially SOLD OUT (p109)

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  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    fenaddick said:
    When you join the queue and it says you are number 4,178 does anyone believe there are 4,178 in the queue , the numbers seem too massive 
    anyone gone in at a real low number 
    It will be inflated by people having more than 1 browser open. I was about number 300 the other day, think any lower than that and you’re getting in pretty much straight away 
    Yes, on my laptop I was 91st in the first season ticket holders’ queue, and something like 4,000th in the queue on my PC. It look about a minute or so to get in. 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    CAFCTrev said:
    Looks like the attendance will be around the 70k mark, as per the last couple of season.

    Charlton v Sunderland remains highest attendance in L1 history at 76k.

    Its not, Man City v Gillingham in 1999 was slightly higher at 76,935
    Gillingham are a massive club to be fair. 
  • Woodwork
    Woodwork Posts: 423
    JamesSeed said:
    CAFCTrev said:
    Looks like the attendance will be around the 70k mark, as per the last couple of season.

    Charlton v Sunderland remains highest attendance in L1 history at 76k.

    Its not, Man City v Gillingham in 1999 was slightly higher at 76,935
    Gillingham are a massive club to be fair. 
    Good potential to be fair! But I won’t start that one again. 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,105
    If you're buying today, good luck! I don't think the site states it, but they do not accept AMEX. Also do not refresh or press back on the payment screen, wait for the try again button and the tickets will still be in your basket.
  • Spanish
    Spanish Posts: 856
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,129
    JamesSeed said:
    CAFCTrev said:
    Looks like the attendance will be around the 70k mark, as per the last couple of season.

    Charlton v Sunderland remains highest attendance in L1 history at 76k.

    Its not, Man City v Gillingham in 1999 was slightly higher at 76,935
    Gillingham are a massive club to be fair. 
    Definitely some twins in families in Gillingham. They just happen to breed as well. 
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,424
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,834
    Orient sales are slowly continuing, they should have block 516 opened up in next couple of hours 
    Now selling 516
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,627
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
    Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many. 


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  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    27,500 tickets sold by Leyton Orient 
  • Peakey4Rocket
    Peakey4Rocket Posts: 117
    The new block on sale is only half open. This potentially allowing for a segregation net allowing 517 round to halfway for additional Charlton tickets 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    The new block on sale is only half open. This potentially allowing for a segregation net allowing 517 round to halfway for additional Charlton tickets 

    That's another 9,000 seats - even half of that would be great.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,105
    shirty5 said:
    27,500 tickets sold by Leyton Orient 
    That's more than decent. It's better than non-old firm clubs taken to Scottish Cup Semi-finals.
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,424
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
    Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many. 

    By ‘randoms’ I meant people without a cafc purchase history.
    I have a purchase history from being a (lapsed) season ticket holder and was lucky enough to get a ticket when that window opened.
    Some people I know with similar circumstances weren’t as lucky.
    I just think being able to get 3 additional tickets for people without history is not fair when others with more Charlton connection miss out.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,871
    Official tickets with barcodes have been emailed.

    Put your favourite record on and have a wiggle 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,160
    _MrDick said:
    Good luck with getting a response to that question 
    Well if I'm the only one asking, I probably won't get one. That's how things work. Or don't work.
  • Chrispy51
    Chrispy51 Posts: 473
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
    Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many. 

    By ‘randoms’ I meant people without a cafc purchase history.
    I have a purchase history from being a (lapsed) season ticket holder and was lucky enough to get a ticket when that window opened.
    Some people I know with similar circumstances weren’t as lucky.
    I just think being able to get 3 additional tickets for people without history is not fair when others with more Charlton connection miss out.
    My frustration is that I have probably been to enough games over the past 2 seasons to have the loyalty points to have bought in the earlier batch, but given the ease of getting tickets previoulsy I have often bought on the gate when making a last minute decision on an evening game, or had tickets bought by who I occasionally go with and not linked the accounts.  Therefore I have a lot of "missing" loyalty points because I bought without my fan ID.

    If I miss out today and more tickets dont become available I will be very frustrated and may change my view, but I also feel that fans with the huge loyalty point totals and fans with season tickets who go to every home game have earned the right to bring friends/family along for the big day out.  I could potentially argue that it should be 2 tickets per fan ID / season ticket etc. (as this would have allowed me to get tickets by now!) but I can see the rationale to get the tickets sold as soon as possible, hopefully filling the stadium
  • kentred2
    kentred2 Posts: 2,338
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
    Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many. 

    Not really; 15000 is an average. Take off the season ticket holders and the rest could be different people each match. So in theory all 22000 could have attended a game (maths not audited!)

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  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,737
    edited May 22
    kentred2 said:
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
    Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many. 

    Not really; 15000 is an average. Take off the season ticket holders and the rest could be different people each match. So in theory all 22000 could have attended a game (maths not audited!)
    And there's always the possibility that if you have a group of ST holders then one or more those may have been unavailable for particular matches and so someone else used the tickets (that was certainly the case with me for midweek matches this season where my granddaughter would come instead of my grandson).
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,925
    Chrispy51 said:
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
    Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many. 

    By ‘randoms’ I meant people without a cafc purchase history.
    I have a purchase history from being a (lapsed) season ticket holder and was lucky enough to get a ticket when that window opened.
    Some people I know with similar circumstances weren’t as lucky.
    I just think being able to get 3 additional tickets for people without history is not fair when others with more Charlton connection miss out.
    My frustration is that I have probably been to enough games over the past 2 seasons to have the loyalty points to have bought in the earlier batch, but given the ease of getting tickets previoulsy I have often bought on the gate when making a last minute decision on an evening game, or had tickets bought by who I occasionally go with and not linked the accounts.  Therefore I have a lot of "missing" loyalty points because I bought without my fan ID.

    If I miss out today and more tickets dont become available I will be very frustrated and may change my view, but I also feel that fans with the huge loyalty point totals and fans with season tickets who go to every home game have earned the right to bring friends/family along for the big day out.  I could potentially argue that it should be 2 tickets per fan ID / season ticket etc. (as this would have allowed me to get tickets by now!) but I can see the rationale to get the tickets sold as soon as possible, hopefully filling the stadium
    It's a unpopular opinion, but personally I think ST/VG holders should be able to buy 4 tickets as long as everyone has a cafc ID. Nobody should be entitled to bring randoms, just because they've spent money at the club. 

    Family stands should be for young kids too, not 15/16/17 year olds who are probably having a pint before the match  😆 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,358
    Woodwork said:
    JamesSeed said:
    CAFCTrev said:
    Looks like the attendance will be around the 70k mark, as per the last couple of season.

    Charlton v Sunderland remains highest attendance in L1 history at 76k.

    Its not, Man City v Gillingham in 1999 was slightly higher at 76,935
    Gillingham are a massive club to be fair. 
    Good potential to be fair! But I won’t start that one again. 
    Good call but can we keep it in the "travellers" thread....


    Oops!
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,627
    Maybe Orient should have contacted their local council to sell tickets. Just received this from Merton council, the borough for Wimbledon.


  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,199
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
    Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many. 

    By ‘randoms’ I meant people without a cafc purchase history.
    I have a purchase history from being a (lapsed) season ticket holder and was lucky enough to get a ticket when that window opened.
    Some people I know with similar circumstances weren’t as lucky.
    I just think being able to get 3 additional tickets for people without history is not fair when others with more Charlton connection miss out.
    They might have missed out so far, but it’s not over yet and there still seem to be a lot of available seats in the stadium, so let’s judge it at the end. 
  • Chrispy51 said:
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
    Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many. 

    By ‘randoms’ I meant people without a cafc purchase history.
    I have a purchase history from being a (lapsed) season ticket holder and was lucky enough to get a ticket when that window opened.
    Some people I know with similar circumstances weren’t as lucky.
    I just think being able to get 3 additional tickets for people without history is not fair when others with more Charlton connection miss out.
    My frustration is that I have probably been to enough games over the past 2 seasons to have the loyalty points to have bought in the earlier batch, but given the ease of getting tickets previoulsy I have often bought on the gate when making a last minute decision on an evening game, or had tickets bought by who I occasionally go with and not linked the accounts.  Therefore I have a lot of "missing" loyalty points because I bought without my fan ID.

    If I miss out today and more tickets dont become available I will be very frustrated and may change my view, but I also feel that fans with the huge loyalty point totals and fans with season tickets who go to every home game have earned the right to bring friends/family along for the big day out.  I could potentially argue that it should be 2 tickets per fan ID / season ticket etc. (as this would have allowed me to get tickets by now!) but I can see the rationale to get the tickets sold as soon as possible, hopefully filling the stadium
    I don’t have a ticket (distraught doesn’t get close to describing how I feel 😩 - attending for over 50 years, former season ticket holder, just not able to get to many these days).   

    I’ve also been to games that I didn’t purchase on my account, and have paid for a CharltonTV subscription for the last 5 years or so (just after I moved to Luxembourg…😉). 

    However, the not buying tickets on my account is a lesson learnt.  

    Appears I have 1 final crack at getting one today, but not holding my breath as I can only use levels 1 & 2.

    As disappointed as I am, I am delighted for everyone who managed to secure a seat.    

    Without getting too complacent, it should be a hell of a day!  

    COYA!! 
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,199
    Chrispy51 said:
    Spanish said:
    Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then. 
    Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’.
    Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.

    Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....

    It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required...
    Madness. But then we are only football fans....
    The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
    Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many. 

    By ‘randoms’ I meant people without a cafc purchase history.
    I have a purchase history from being a (lapsed) season ticket holder and was lucky enough to get a ticket when that window opened.
    Some people I know with similar circumstances weren’t as lucky.
    I just think being able to get 3 additional tickets for people without history is not fair when others with more Charlton connection miss out.
    My frustration is that I have probably been to enough games over the past 2 seasons to have the loyalty points to have bought in the earlier batch, but given the ease of getting tickets previoulsy I have often bought on the gate when making a last minute decision on an evening game, or had tickets bought by who I occasionally go with and not linked the accounts.  Therefore I have a lot of "missing" loyalty points because I bought without my fan ID.

    If I miss out today and more tickets dont become available I will be very frustrated and may change my view, but I also feel that fans with the huge loyalty point totals and fans with season tickets who go to every home game have earned the right to bring friends/family along for the big day out.  I could potentially argue that it should be 2 tickets per fan ID / season ticket etc. (as this would have allowed me to get tickets by now!) but I can see the rationale to get the tickets sold as soon as possible, hopefully filling the stadium
     

    Appears I have 1 final crack at getting one today, but not holding my breath as I can only use levels 1 & 2.

    We don’t know that and hopefully it won’t be the case. 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,892
    It’s the lack of comms from Charlton which is frustrating on the likelihood and volume of extra tickets they have requested. 

    A sense of scale would help a bit. 
  • Sheepie1985
    Sheepie1985 Posts: 484
    It’s the lack of comms from Charlton which is frustrating on the likelihood and volume of extra tickets they have requested. 

    A sense of scale would help a bit. 
    To be fair they can't promise anymore allocation than what they've already announced at the moment. It's down to Wembley to offer more to them first