I am Spartacus wrote:Whilst we bemoan, in a way that is so expected of Stagsnet, how seats are allocated in a post-lockdown field Mill does anyone know how the teams that were offering early bird season tickets at the end of May are allocating seats?
Or indeed clubs where the number of season ticket holders far outweighs the 25% of capacity that we are basing re-entry upon?
There will ticket offices up and down the country scratching their heads harder than our ticket office staff.
I think 25% is a very ambitious figure. The basic figure, assuming everybody sits in single seats, is 1 in 6 (every 3rd seat on every second row) which is just under 17%. Even allowing for family groups/bubbles, I would be very surprised if we end up selling more than 20% of our capacity.
Bigger teams with a lot of season ticket holders will have a logistical nightmare trying to come up with a fair way to allocate them. As an example, Forest have a capacity of just over 30k and sold 20k season tickets in 2019/20. Assuming they are working to the same guidelines as we are, they will only be able to sell around 6k for 2020/21.