More tickets for Blackpool fans versus Nobbers

Just a look at the match from economic point of view, this is the main game we sell out all sides of the ground.
The casual Blackpool fan or those that pick and choose their games for various reasons should be able to go, and always there is a potential to attend more games, especially a dad with his lad.

PNE fans won't spend money and will go straight back afterwards in the main.

With most other away following there is a spending element in terms fans staying over, visiting the tourist attractions or going for a few pints before or after the game, plus obviously more gate receipts

So this game is better to sell more home tickets for the future and present Blackpool fans, plus the most effective for the Blackpool economy....


Plus keep the Knobbers out of our town.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
Neither do you.


Additional 3,500 what the hell are you on about? I’ve never suggested anything near giving them that quantity.
I suggested giving them around and extra 800 tickets to get it up to 3,000 in total that way I said we would have been given the whole Kop for the away game.
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How many times that was never going to happen last season, listen to mansford, the club and the police.

They didn't want pne fans anywhere near the North stand.

We then had demand, the club weren't sure if we would have demand as it was all new to them, they'd never had a derby game with PNE.

We sold the 3 sides and were allowed 800 more in the east, nobbers couldn't have them even if we had no demand.

So getting a full kop at their place was never going to happen as Ridsdale used the situation to sell a revenge story and improve his popularity.
 
michellebutterflyhotel said:
I’m glad BFC have taken this stance tbh after their childish behaviour last season. Not understanding the situation properly last season regarding away fans from pne and only allocating 2200 in their ground when they had a few thousands empty seats in the other stands
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We only had a seats spare because it was live on sky tv and a lot got refunds .
We had nearly 19,000 attendance last April
This season I think it won’t be far off been sell out if not on tv .
 
FY5_Seasider said:
Let's give Preston an extra 800 seats and lock out the casuals that want to watch us play PNE at home.

The logic being that if we give them 3k they will then give us 5k in the return fixture. The majority of which will only do PNE away all season and no other away games.

Makes sense 👍🏻
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Yep madness, if people don't go to a single away game then its their fault. The exact type of casuals some aren't arsed about at home.

It got down to 1 away game or less last season so all those who go away to1 other a couple even get a chance.

Also 5k is never even on offer from them, or any amount bigger than our 2200 as they have more fans attending than last time.

Its complete bollocks to suggest we'd get the full kop anyway or any more.
 
SeasideKurt said:
Genuinely the most peculiar viewpoint I've seen Blackpool fans have in the history of following this football club is wanting to give those pricks more tickets. Weird. They didn't exactly bring anything to the atmosphere last season anyway.
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I can't understand it, even more bizarre that you have ex board member and BST committee man banging the drum for giving them more

Idiots ....
 
You know this clamour for more away tickets?

We only just sold out for Burnley 😂

Oh yeh, it’s because they were only on sale for a week… actually where is that guy who said he was in the know that tickers for local games go on sale late so hooligans can’t plan things?! 🤣

Anyway back to the point, how many we now sold in the East? 500?? So that’s 500 Blackpool fans who couldn’t have gone tomorrow, to give Preston more tickets so that we get more away tickets when we only just sold out last season with 2,200? Oh yeh it was on Sky… 😴

The idea of giving away fans more tickets at the expense of our own fans is mind boggling. Great way to grow a fanbase 😵‍💫
 
Adams Kebab said:
You know this clamour for more away tickets?

We only just sold out for Burnley 😂

Oh yeh, it’s because they were only on sale for a week… actually where is that guy who said he was in the know that tickers for local games go on sale late so hooligans can’t plan things?! 🤣

Anyway back to the point, how many we now sold in the East? 500?? So that’s 500 Blackpool fans who couldn’t have gone tomorrow, to give Preston more tickets so that we get more away tickets when we only just sold out last season with 2,200? Oh yeh it was on Sky… 😴

The idea of giving away fans more tickets at the expense of our own fans is mind boggling. Great way to grow a fanbase 😵‍💫
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This board really is full of idiots ..
 
Adams Kebab said:
You know this clamour for more away tickets?

We only just sold out for Burnley 😂

Oh yeh, it’s because they were only on sale for a week… actually where is that guy who said he was in the know that tickers for local games go on sale late so hooligans can’t plan things?! 🤣

Anyway back to the point, how many we now sold in the East? 500?? So that’s 500 Blackpool fans who couldn’t have gone tomorrow, to give Preston more tickets so that we get more away tickets when we only just sold out last season with 2,200? Oh yeh it was on Sky… 😴

The idea of giving away fans more tickets at the expense of our own fans is mind boggling. Great way to grow a fanbase 😵‍💫
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Good point tbf

Would you sell 5,600 if given the whole kop ?

Highly unlikely

I also agree you should have as many home fans in as possible, regulars or not .
 
Adams Kebab said:
You know this clamour for more away tickets?

We only just sold out for Burnley 😂

Oh yeh, it’s because they were only on sale for a week… actually where is that guy who said he was in the know that tickers for local games go on sale late so hooligans can’t plan things?! 🤣

Anyway back to the point, how many we now sold in the East? 500?? So that’s 500 Blackpool fans who couldn’t have gone tomorrow, to give Preston more tickets so that we get more away tickets when we only just sold out last season with 2,200? Oh yeh it was on Sky… 😴

The idea of giving away fans more tickets at the expense of our own fans is mind boggling. Great way to grow a fanbase 😵‍💫
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In fairness, most of our fans would have written off the prospect of getting a ticket for last years Away fixture and so will have already resigned themselves to not going and made alternative plans. So there’s always going to be a huge impact on demand.

It would be great to have a big Away following at Dumpdale again, but never at the expense of failing to accommodate our own fans at home.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
In fairness, most of our fans would have written off the prospect of getting a ticket for last years Away fixture and so will have already resigned themselves to not going and made alternative plans. So there’s always going to be a huge impact on demand.

It would be great to have a big Away following at Dumpdale again, but never at the expense of failing to accommodate our own fans at home.
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Yep fair point 👍🏼

But if you really want to go an away game you find a way don’t you and plans can change as soon as it got down to 2 previous away games and then 1…
 
Adams Kebab said:
Yep fair point 👍🏼

But if you really want to go an away game you find a way don’t you and plans can change as soon as it got down to 2 previous away games and then 1…
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Of course you find a way, but you can’t ‘find a way’ if tickets have already sold out. It’s more also that people just become mentally resigned to the fact that they’re not going, then don’t even take any notice of sales at all as they just assume they’ll be sold out.

I ended up getting an unexpected last minute ticket for the Play Off Final at Wembley and ended up giving it to my son, because I’d made alternative plans.
 
Off Duty Trip said:
Yea of course you have, just not sure you’d sell that many in the current climate

I’d estimate around 3500

But I feel we’ll never know
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I genuinely think we'd sell whatever allocation we were given; but it doesn't matter - PNE will do what they think is in the best interest of their club even if it's as simple of forgoing £60k-100k so Risdale can play to the populist part of the fan base and/or not giving an advantage to our players because we'd out sing you - assuming it's nothing like the dross served up last season. And that's fine.

Back to Blackpool, turning away occasional home fans to give more away tickets is stupid and should never happen - no club should contemplate it really. Generally speaking we are talking about a couple of games per season where it matters such as a local derby or when we are pushing for promotion - other than that, we can accommodate most who want to go within three sides. Doesn't help that the East stand is a mess and not really fit for purpose - it just about did it's job when we made it to the PL but as you know, we could and should have had a far greater legacy than what our previous owners left us with.
 
No doubt your new owner will be that desperate for cash to keep you afloat, they wont be as stupid as Ridsdale....
So any of the games from 2023 onwards when your £12m funding stops...They will be you giving us the whole (what's it called?...The Danny Welbeck memorial stand?) for all games.......I can see them offering package deals or BOGOF offers....

Imagine.....Were going to be one of the only reasons you can stay afloat come 2023
 
Just had a quick look on the club site; there's one or two individual seats in a couple of blocks, Q block has a row which looks like a group of ST holders are on holiday and a few in front of the Directors box - probably some of the old boys not wanting to revisit their youth by scrapping 😆

Looking at the availability in the East; a quick count says we've sold an additional 400+ tickets to Blackpool supporters which we couldn't have done without opening it - for me it's a no brainer; but I wonder where the cut off point would be for some of our fans who think we should be giving the additional allocation to the Nobbers?
 
TSSeasider said:
Just had a quick look on the club site; there's one or two individual seats in a couple of blocks, Q block has a row which looks like a group of ST holders are on holiday and a few in front of the Directors box - probably some of the old boys not wanting to revisit their youth by scrapping 😆

Looking at the availability in the East; a quick count says we've sold an additional 400+ tickets to Blackpool supporters which we couldn't have done without opening it - for me it's a no brainer; but I wonder where the cut off point would be for some of our fans who think we should be giving the additional allocation to the Nobbers?
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Some think we shouldn't have any home fans in there and it should just be nobbers 🤷🏽‍♂️
 
Livingthedream47 said:
Many many years ago .
Teams don’t have big away followings now
Stoke visited us the other week & it was the highest away following they had in the 2 years was 2,500 . They brought 3,000 +
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We have sold out whatever you have given us for as long as I remember. Whether that be 5.5k or 2.5k.
 
Livingthedream47 said:
Many many years ago .
Teams don’t have big away followings now
Stoke visited us the other week & it was the highest away following they had in the 2 years was 2,500 . They brought 3,000 +
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You know and I know full well we'd sell out 5,600 away to your lot.

And there are two reasons why we won't get that allocation, 1) the tit for tat pettiness shown by your board (only a tactic to get your fanbase on side) and 2) Lancashire Police are absolutely beyond inept to handle that many fans.

The way we were treated at Deepdale last season was a disgrace and extremely dangerous.
 
Of course there will be a few - just like there were BFC fans in the PNE home end last season

They will be scattered about and keep their heads down
 
Adams Kebab said:
You know this clamour for more away tickets?

We only just sold out for Burnley 😂

Oh yeh, it’s because they were only on sale for a week… actually where is that guy who said he was in the know that tickers for local games go on sale late so hooligans can’t plan things?! 🤣

Anyway back to the point, how many we now sold in the East? 500?? So that’s 500 Blackpool fans who couldn’t have gone tomorrow, to give Preston more tickets so that we get more away tickets when we only just sold out last season with 2,200? Oh yeh it was on Sky… 😴

The idea of giving away fans more tickets at the expense of our own fans is mind boggling. Great way to grow a fanbase 😵‍💫
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Yeah, there's quite a lot who don't go away much who would want tickets for the nobbers away if available, but hardly that bothered if they won't take in an away game bar that.

But the Burnley ones were a joke and on sale a week is far from ideal.

We took a bit less than 4k to Blackburn with nowt to play for the season before.
 
Off Duty Trip said:
Good point tbf

Would you sell 5,600 if given the whole kop ?

Highly unlikely

I also agree you should have as many home fans in as possible, regulars or not .
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Of course we could and have many times, as said bit less than 4k to Blackburn, which means nowt to most pool fans, last season with nowt to play for same week we lost to you.
 
B_Side_The_C_Side said:
No doubt your new owner will be that desperate for cash to keep you afloat, they wont be as stupid as Ridsdale....
So any of the games from 2023 onwards when your £12m funding stops...They will be you giving us the whole (what's it called?...The Danny Welbeck memorial stand?) for all games.......I can see them offering package deals or BOGOF offers....

Imagine.....Were going to be one of the only reasons you can stay afloat come 2023
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Blackpool fans have always thought they are bigger than they are your struggling to get 9,000 home fans .
We have average of 16,500 this season.
With all the extra police costs & trouble round the City & damage in the stadium it’s not financially worth it .
If you had 5,600 tickets for deepdale there would be every nut case & juvenile delinquent from the fylde coast who have no interest in BFC & who sole intention is to but simple causing trouble.
You don’t have the fan base to warrant giving you 5,600 tickets just admit it.
 
B_Side_The_C_Side said:
No doubt your new owner will be that desperate for cash to keep you afloat, they wont be as stupid as Ridsdale....
So any of the games from 2023 onwards when your £12m funding stops...They will be you giving us the whole (what's it called?...The Danny Welbeck memorial stand?) for all games.......I can see them offering package deals or BOGOF offers....

Imagine.....Were going to be one of the only reasons you can stay afloat come 2023
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You won’t be getting any allocation if your in league one cha
 
SeasideKurt said:
You know and I know full well we'd sell out 5,600 away to your lot.

And there are two reasons why we won't get that allocation, 1) the tit for tat pettiness shown by your board (only a tactic to get your fanbase on side) and 2) Lancashire Police are absolutely beyond inept to handle that many fans.

The way we were treated at Deepdale last season was a disgrace and extremely dangerous.
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You only get 9 k at home though 😂
 
JJpool said:
Of course we could and have many times, as said bit less than 4k to Blackburn, which means nowt to most pool fans, last season with nowt to play for same week we lost to you.
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When in the last 10 years .
We did the double many years ago 🤣🤣3.500 to Blackburn I believe that would mean 2,000 empty seats .
We had a great atmosphere last season with a split kop.
I think most pne fans are happy with the current arrangements started by BFC& the police.
 
Livingthedream47 said:
When in the last 10 years .
We did the double many years ago 🤣🤣3.500 to Blackburn I believe that would mean 2,000 empty seats .
We had a great atmosphere last season with a split kop.
I think most pne fans are happy with the current arrangements started by BFC& the police.
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When have we sold it in the last 10 years? We haven't played you and you haven't given it us you daft bugger, bar that cup game you still have special days about which was sold out.

You only took 4k ish yourself when you had something to play for last season.

No the current issues were a result of our stand and once we sold out 3 sides we then sold the other stand, we had every right to do this. The only reason other clubs get more is there's no home demand.

PNE fans and club failed to understand this, probably on purpose from Ridsdale seeking his revenge mission and increased popularity, albeit temporarily.

You were basically playing tit for tat because we decided to sell to our own fans when we had the demand.

So who started it, you. No club would lock their own fans out.
 
Livingthedream47 said:
Blackpool fans have always thought they are bigger than they are your struggling to get 9,000 home fans .
We have average of 16,500 this season.
With all the extra police costs & trouble round the City & damage in the stadium it’s not financially worth it .
If you had 5,600 tickets for deepdale there would be every nut case & juvenile delinquent from the fylde coast who have no interest in BFC & who sole intention is to but simple causing trouble.
You don’t have the fan base to warrant giving you 5,600 tickets just admit it.
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Let's be honest though. Your increased average is only because you give tickets away to kids. My mate got his two kids season tickets plus two of their friends and they rarely go. This isn't a dig as it encourages younger fans whilst we have made it difficult for our own fans with the shambolic membership scheme which has only been put in place to rinse away fans at the expense of growing our own fanbase.
 
A_Tense_Grin said:
Let's be honest though. Your increased average is only because you give tickets away to kids. My mate got his two kids season tickets plus two of their friends and they rarely go. This isn't a dig as it encourages younger fans whilst we have made it difficult for our own fans with the shambolic membership scheme which has only been put in place to rinse away fans at the expense of growing our own fanbase.
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But the fan base is growing & with all the hot dogs & pop sales & club kits a lot of money from these kids tickets & soon they will be adults if we can keep half of them as ST holders it will be brilliant.
That’s how I started and now I can’t stop.
 
Livingthedream47 said:
Blackpool fans have always thought they are bigger than they are your struggling to get 9,000 home fans .
We have average of 16,500 this season.
With all the extra police costs & trouble round the City & damage in the stadium it’s not financially worth it .
If you had 5,600 tickets for deepdale there would be every nut case & juvenile delinquent from the fylde coast who have no interest in BFC & who sole intention is to but simple causing trouble.
You don’t have the fan base to warrant giving you 5,600 tickets just admit it.
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Thousands of freebies. You aren't pulling the wool over our eyes. Just look at your average attendances over the past 10 years.

There is literally no point in gloating over the fact that you give away so many Season tickets. Most of them dont give 2 shits about PNE. That's why the atmosphere is so piss poor at deepdale.
 
I love the fact that the PKE fans are giving it the Billy Big Balls of how many fans that turn up.......But they don't even go to their own home games.....
And you're only turning up to these as your Under 11, season Tickets were at rock bottom prices and you could use them to get into a game for £5

You had more or less the same figures as us last season....You give away free season tickets and your attendance goes up
And even if they don't turn up...you still count them......

Come 2023 season, when Hemmings fucks you off.....How many ST will you sell then when they are a normal price....???
 
Livingthedream47 said:
But the fan base is growing & with all the hot dogs & pop sales & club kits a lot of money from these kids tickets & soon they will be adults if we can keep half of them as ST holders it will be brilliant.
That’s how I started and now I can’t stop.
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Your hot dogs look horrendous BTW, all bread.

Still remember this.....The lad bought it on 38 minutes and was still eating it af full time 😅 fair play value for money, but in an odd way. You only need to buy one to share with about 20 people.

Also a funny review overall.


We have rollover which are class BTW.
 
We have sold out every single time, we would sell out again. Like it or not it's our biggest game and it's your biggest game, I think we would both take 5,600 if we were able to we have proven that every time.

Using Stoke City as an example is stupid, we are talking about a derby.
 
it is so predictable and actually boring that all of a sudden (this season) the knobbers are interested in home & away attendances again but last season they used every excuse in the book as to why they had shit support.

The fact of the matter is we both have poor support and heaven forbid if they hadn’t marketed their season tickets at rock bottom prices (and gave a thousand or so away) they would be pulling in the same or less than us.
 
Livingthedream47 said:
Blackpool fans have always thought they are bigger than they are your struggling to get 9,000 home fans .
We have average of 16,500 this season.
With all the extra police costs & trouble round the City & damage in the stadium it’s not financially worth it .
If you had 5,600 tickets for deepdale there would be every nut case & juvenile delinquent from the fylde coast who have no interest in BFC & who sole intention is to but simple causing trouble.
You don’t have the fan base to warrant giving you 5,600 tickets just admit it.
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16500 have you fuck. You live in cuckoo land just like one of you said there was 2500 at Huddersfield when one of your own said 14/1500 max
3-4000 free under11s
So you actually sold between 9/10,000 at a greater reduced cost than ours. Be interesting to see how many you get next season at full price won’t it?
 
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FY5_Seasider said:
Thousands of freebies. You aren't pulling the wool over our eyes. Just look at your average attendances over the past 10 years.

There is literally no point in gloating over the fact that you give away so many Season tickets. Most of them dont give 2 shits about PNE. That's why the atmosphere is so piss poor
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michellebutterflyhotel said:
16500 have you fuck. You live in cuckoo land just like one of you said there was 2500 at Huddersfield when one of your own said 14/1500 max
3-4000 free under11s
So you actually sold between 9/10,000 at a greater reduced cost than ours. Be interesting to see how many you get next season at full price won’t it?
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Our average home gates this season is 16,470 that’s a fact .
Free Kids have to bring a adult with ST they don’t have to come but they do & they all have full kits .
Talked to bloke who said he was a season ticket holder at Man U for few years & now has moved to preston & said he decided to get 2 season tickets for him & his 7 year old son & support the local team where he now lives . His lad had a full pne kit on that’s because of the clubs attitude to getting new fans .
This is the best thing the club has done in years.
Bring them young & you have them for life .
 
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