New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[windymiller]

That was another point/rant generally - about Mansfield game.



Mansfield sold out;



But the attendance was 48,583.

The difference wasn't just the segregation between fans, nor a big gap of hospitality. It was mainly ticket transfer issues.

IMO, they'll sort the hospitality gap - and they already have as far as I could see. But in time, there will still be more gaps around the stadium than we're used to because of forced digital tickets - like Mansfield.

Fair enough, I must have misunderstood the point. I agree about the general point regarding ticket transfers. I'm not 100% sure why they have gone down this route, I think the idea was that they would be able to sell on the individual's season ticket seat for a big mark up, and maybe that is happening, I don't know, but it seems self-defeating to alienate your single biggest guaranteed ticket-based income stream - the season ticket holders - and not just let them hand over their season ticket to their son/daughter/best mate/milkman (without each of them having to shell out £35 for a membership that seems to have no other benefits - don't get me started on the two tier membership scheme) for the one or two games a a season that they can't attend, they have paid for that seat themselves anyway.

Longer term, I wonder if all of this will have a chilling effect on local support longer term, particularly with younger supporters? If you can't ever get a ticket to the game, or you have to shell out £100-350 to get one, will people have the same connection to the club? I wouldn't have thought so. I suspect the club don't care and would rather have a smaller number of season ticket holders to maximise revenue from tourists and looky-loos but I wonder if demand will hold up in the long term and, if it doesn't, can you attract back the fans that were disenfranchised when demand was high?

 

[Smurph]

Presumed they had to go the same route as everyone else.
Do they have a bus lane route?

Yeah you get on the bus in a coned off area north of the stadium on Derby Road and that gets you far enough North to miss the mayhem.

If you miss the queued busus I expect its a long wait, but they have had plenty the last few times.

 

[davek]

Perhaps shouldn't make assumptions when being so critical, it makes assertive views in how to resolve have less substance.

SeatUnique was sold out for the below. My guess is a package wasn't ready, or a company booked them and didn't issue the tickets to staff/clients. Or, Everton didn't allocate them properly to partners;

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Everton allocate tickets. So games like Mansfield, SeatUnique sold out 3 times as they kept getting more and more allocation. The game then had lots of empty seats, because IMO, Everton made it almost impossible to pass on tickets etc.

Either way, we're all guessing but any empty seats in the stadium is on Everton.

I agree that ultimately the empty seats are on Everton. SeatUnique or any other third party seller of tickets are just doing what they do and the responsibility for the spectacle is not on them.

My point overall is that Everton need to find creative solutions to the unsightly blocks of empty seats.

 

[frank_da_tank]

What do we think will happen when rowdy bunches come to town? Man utd/rs/Newcastle?

Think might be kept in abit longer or all just let out into the pen area at same time? Dosent seem a good idea to me

 

[BullensBob]

What type card, what stand mate.. asking for a friend

BoS visa debit and East Upper! Same combo I used for Roma though so not fail safe!

I don't remember the trays of pints being a bit crowded so I snuck a hand through a gap in some doddering old fellas and pulled one through so maybe a bit of sleight of hand is the key to a free pint!

 

[Seathestars]

My point is the 600 empty seats (against villa) really isn't a 'huge' number. There was at least 200 seats empty at the last game at goodison and that had massive demand and was sold out. It's just the way it is, some folk don't turn up. Just because at goodison they were more dispersed around the ground you could not easily see the empty ones.
Now with these expensive premium tickets they are batched together so when they don't sell a few hundred you can see it more clearly. It's not 'huge numbers' though it's all pretty standard.

Not sure I agree mate, our season ticket waiting list is huge and Evertonians should be in those seats.
I sit in lower west and there's 10 rows maybe that were empty for the Brighton game and Roma, although against villa most were taken.
One empty seat not taken by a blue is one too many, not counting those who can't make it for some reason.

 

[chippy1722]

They are really pushing Seat Unique on social media but the pricing is way way off.

 

[Simo]

BoS visa debit and East Upper! Same combo I used for Roma though so not fail safe!

I don't remember the trays of pints being a bit crowded so I snuck a hand through a gap in some doddering old fellas and pulled one through so maybe a bit of sleight of hand is the key to a free pint!

Same for me East upper, overcharged and still waiting for a resolution.
Now you've given away your skills, it'll be like a game of Twister at the next game

 

[Timbucktoo]

Perhaps shouldn't make assumptions when being so critical, it makes assertive views in how to resolve have less substance.

SeatUnique was sold out for the below. My guess is a package wasn't ready, or a company booked them and didn't issue the tickets to staff/clients. Or, Everton didn't allocate them properly to partners;

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Everton allocate tickets. So games like Mansfield, SeatUnique sold out 3 times as they kept getting more and more allocation. The game then had lots of empty seats, because IMO, Everton made it almost impossible to pass on tickets etc.

Either way, we're all guessing but any empty seats in the stadium is on Everton.

Looks terrible seeing that many seats left empty.

 

[jinkyali]

I agree that ultimately the empty seats are on Everton. SeatUnique or any other third party seller of tickets are just doing what they do and the responsibility for the spectacle is not on them.

My point overall is that Everton need to find creative solutions to the unsightly blocks of empty seats.

Put some stewards in them...

 

[arch stanton]

The business seats will be together for access to the business lounge and the business bars. It's like getting on an airplane and turning left.

I can be a pilot?? brilliant!!

 

[Rita_Poon]

I can be a pilot?? brilliant!!

Only after your twelfth pint...

 

[ste d' indica]

But here's the thing mate - over a season, Everton will earn less from me as a fan in total from catering than they would have got from me at Goodison.

Wait.. they had Fortnum & Mason biccies at Goodison??!!

 

[Rich1878]

What do we think will happen when rowdy bunches come to town? Man utd/rs/Newcastle?

Think might be kept in abit longer or all just let out into the pen area at same time? Dosent seem a good idea to me

I mentioned this ages ago. It's not a good idea is it. Especially that lot

 

[frank_da_tank]

I mentioned this ages ago. It's not a good idea is it. Especially that lot

Does nobody know any answers? Surely its been thought about by people at the club?