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Still only 27,624 play-off tickets sold

As of noon Wednesday.

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By Blackpool.

Now first off let me say the only fair way to award tickets for any game like this is by an initial 50-50 spilt.

Now for the but..... but teams should be forced to sell in 'blocks' thus meaning any onsold tickets can be easily passed to the opposition club and a division of fans can still be enforced. At the present time the only the only criteria required to purchase tickets for Blackpool fans is that an applicant must have purchased a ticket from the club at one point in the last 2 years.

posted on 14/5/12

come on FA, give it to West Ham fans.

posted on 14/5/12

Just checked the official Blackpool site, tickets now on GENERAL sale and still 16,000 left

posted on 14/5/12

http://www.whufc.com/articles/20120514/general-sale-update_2236884_276

Let me try and grab few for my friends early in the morning..

comment by Tomkins (U1116)

posted on 14/5/12

Those 500 tickets will be gone before 9.30 i would imagine tomorow.

WE WANT MORE FOOTBALL LEAGUE

comment by (U13358)

posted on 15/5/12

Whilst agreeing that the allocation of tickets is disproportionate, seeing as your average gate was 32000 including away fans none of the regulars should be struggling to get a ticket you would think. How many tickets do you think you could sell? Yes there will be many day trippers from Blackpool but I would imagine quite a few from Essex as well. The more the merrier if it means filling the place and creating an atmosphere.
Blackpool sold their allocation two years ago but I don't think they will this time. The town is hardly booming financially and the tickets aren't exactly cheap. Couple that with the travelling expenses etc...
Anyhow, heres to a good game played in a great atmosphere.

posted on 15/5/12

At a complete guess I think we could sell 50,000 for this game easily. That is just my feeling/guess from the number of family and friends who are armchair fans but have asked if I could get them a ticket.

comment by Tomkins (U1116)

posted on 15/5/12

There has actually been demand of 75,000 fans for tickets.

Thats demand, conisdering the amount of fans who want tickets but just simply understand they wont have a chance of getting them. I reckon we could easily sell out the whole stadium ourselves

posted on 15/5/12

All gone..

No use of standing in the rain..

posted on 18/5/12

West Ham won't get the spares. When we played Doncaster in the play-off final, their chairman said from the outset that they wouldn't sell all the tickets and offered to drive the surplus up to our ticket office personally but the Football League wouldn't allow it.

It ended up with thousands of Leeds United members without tickets and there were over ten thousand empty seats in the other end.

posted on 19/5/12

Tompkins,leeds had over 100k applications for tickets vs donny for L1 final and as said donny had about 10k unsold so they should sell in blocks so the likes of leeds and west ham could have the tickets unsold.

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