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Chekatrade ticket info.

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Captain Deltic said:
You may not be, but there are plenty who would. So you would suggest not taking an allocation if things were not the other way around because you personally wouldn't go?
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How many people usually travel to U21 games to watch us play Newcastle. I haven’t a clue tbh.
 
Shite. £15 to watch us play an average u21 team. Understand why it's priced that way but still poor value for quality on offer
 
Captain Deltic said:
I don't really want to moan on too much about the club as I have been well impressed the way things have been run this season however I am gonna express annoyance at this business of only opening one stand (or two for this fixture) for cup games. I understand the theory but in practice it just does not work. I have been to all the home cup games this season and each one has seen huge ques at the turnstiles, season ticket holders sitting in "their" seat resulting in people who had bought tickets in those seats to be forced to sit elsewhere, twice I have found the seat I had been sitting in during the first half occupied by somebody else in the second half, Stewards trying to keep people away from sections of seating for no apparent reason and fans missing up to 15mins of the first half because of hundreds of folk still coming in, unable to sit in their seats and arguing with stewards over them trying to sit in areas the Stewards have been told to keep clear. I think that the new policy for cup games is actually putting people off from going. I find it barmy that this policy is being enforced for the Mags U21 game as I am certain there would be more demand if season ticket holders could buy a ticket in their seat and if fans could choose which area to sit in. It also causes a slow uptake on tickets as when its block by block people are holding back from buying tickets until their seat or preferred block becomes available. I am not going to complain too much about tickets being increased in price, but I was expecting them to be a tenner.
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I’ve been to each of the cup matches too and agree with a number of the issues you raise. The seating issue shouldn’t occur, people should sit in their ticketed number, the current arrangement doesn’t give season ticket holders preference for their own seat.

What I have also found is that there are fewer stewards and less supervision of the crowd. By pure chance I’ve sat in the same section for each game. There have regularly people been smoking in their seats (primarily e-cigs) and at the beginning of last night and the last Checkatrade fixture people bringing in pints of lager just on kick off. Last night I spent most of the evening enveloped in the sweet sickly fog exhaled by the individual sat in front of me - there’s no need really ...
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
I was talking to Neil Fox in the Hylton last night. He said it had to be £15 in order to cover the policing costs. He also said that the Mags were wanting 10% of capacity as an allocation.
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10% :eek::lol:. Would the likely increases in attendance not cover the costs? I think someone might be under estimating how many will want to go. The no ST priority phase certainly suggests that.
 
Mainze said:
How many people usually travel to U21 games to watch us play Newcastle. I haven’t a clue tbh.
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I bet 99% of Mags who come to the Chekatrade game don't go to their U21 games and if the shoe was on the other foot we would sell our allocation, which would include 99% that don't do our U21 games. The Mags will come to take the piss and I am certain if table were turned we would do the same
 
Not sure where the police will come from. According to their own websites, Sunderland Central has 23 officers including CSOs (mind, they also said their HQ is at Gill Bridge, which shut down ages ago) and a further 23 at Sunderland North. Hartlepool has about 6, according to recent articles referred to on here. But at least we've already wasted billions on HS2, which might well never happen, and gone billions over budget on Crossrail, so that's OK. Nice to know we've got our priorities right. Yet again.
 
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Sumdumgi said:
I’ve been to each of the cup matches too and agree with a number of the issues you raise. The seating issue shouldn’t occur, people should sit in their ticketed number, the current arrangement doesn’t give season ticket holders preference for their own seat.

What I have also found is that there are fewer stewards and less supervision of the crowd. By pure chance I’ve sat in the same section for each game. There have regularly people been smoking in their seats (primarily e-cigs) and at the beginning of last night and the last Checkatrade fixture people bringing in pints of lager just on kick off. Last night I spent most of the evening enveloped in the sweet sickly fog exhaled by the individual sat in front of me - there’s no need really ...
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I've never noticed the e-cig or beer in seats at the cup games but I have noticed that the stewards don't seem as bothered with dealing with stuff as they do for league games. Maybe its just because there are less of them and no police back up. Its clear that, no matter how well intentioned closing stands are, it just does not work
 
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