Will St James’ be a sell-out tomorrow?
Posted on October 30th, 2010 | 42 Comments |
It’s fair to say that they have been going pretty well, which is to be as expected as it is THE local derby, but will we manage a sell out at St James’ Park for the first time this season?
In short, technically we won’t sell out fully as a larger than normal segregation area between the two sets of fans has been requested by the police, presumably to stop those filthy Mackem tramps hoying their sharpened benefit coins at the home fans, again, but what about all of the rest of the avaiable seats? Will we shift them in time for the kick-off tomorrow? Or will we fail to sell out a derby for the first time in quite a while?
I checked earlier and all I saw was one seat remaining in the Platinum Club, just one seat in the entire ground. I checked a bit later on and the official website said that there was a few more seats left. Then I checked again and it said we had sold out. In short, heaven only knows if we have actually sold out what is available as the new club website appears to be a bit pants in all honesty and can’t seem to make it’s mind up on what it wants to show!
This is where I need the assistance of a fully blown season ticket holder. Online ticket sales have moved to a stage of ‘season ticket priority’, which means that I can no longer nip on and have a peek to see just what the state of play is regarding how many seats are actually left for sale.
Of course much of the will it/won’t it quandry over the sell out question hinges on the North-West corner of the ground up in level seven. Otherwise known as the ‘members area’, tickets for that particular part of the ground are sold to members only and not to the general public, which means that there are quite often seats available in the singing section that fans can’t get their hands on, which is a shame.
All in all, the crowd is guaranteed to be above 50,000 anyway, and there is no doubt that there is only a limited amount of seats remaining for the match which will probably hardly noticable anyway, but wouldn’t it be nice to shift the lot?
Let’s hope the lads can send the fans home happy!
Toonsy, nowt happens when I log in with my season ticket number so I’m guessing they’ve all gone if true then I’d say yes it’s a sell out as all the seats made available have been sold :-)