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Must admit I'm surprised the West Stand didn't sell out straight away.

I sit along the popular side now, but I'm thinking of swapping to the West stand for some terrecing action.

You'll be making two stick flags and joining the ultras next.

How do Saints expect to sell tickets when they don't even put adverts in the Star or Reporter. The only mention is a small article about the forums.

Do you not read the Star? It had a massive spread with big pics of the new stadium and details about the forums in the edition before the forums started. Saints have done all they can do this time, short of sticking posters in shops.

They've not to be fair. What they should be doing is getting 'hot squads' onto it, passing out fliers with vouchers etc, like they do in holiday resorts for bars. Saints need to really push the season tickets rather than meander along like they always do.

The brochures are nice, but they need to get them forced into people's hands. Wouldn't cost much, a couple of stands in the town centre everyday, costing no more than a few grand over the next couple of months.

If the forums are anything to go by, there are a lot of questions and teh forums, whilst a good idea, aren't enough as people might not be able to get there at that time.

TV adverts are another issue. Wigan have used TV advertising for individual matches, so if the economics work for one match, surely they would also work for a season ticket push?

I disagree. But I do think that should be their approach for the opening match of the season/opening festivities/whatever they plan to do when they are finally ready to welcome everyone in. THAT should be the big splash, and I'll volunteer to hand fliers and stuff out myself!

Brochures to current season ticket holders are a bit of a waste of time IMO, not many won't renew next year.

Also the forums are a bit of a waste, the queue on Wednesday was over an hour long at 6pm. Two stewards were attempting to turn people away due to it. Good customer service from their point of view, they didn't want people to waste their time, but terrible from a selling point of view. I was also given duff information on the seating arrangements by a chap in glasses who didn't appear too enthused about answering my questions when I did go in, meaning a wasted journey for a mate to the shop to sort out tickets that didn't need to be.

Having said that, this is the renewal period, I'd expect a much bigger push once the early bird period starts and they are pushing to new fans.

Whereas although I had to wait for an hour to renew my ticket (and I only got there at 6pm), I found it all very friendly, helpful and informative. I also enjoyed watching the matches!

The early bird period has already started.

I took his advice, asked the incorrectly answered question and then didn't queue at all in the shop the day after

So it has, my mistake.

bored this evening so took a closer look at capacities of sections and tickets sold in the reserved sections.

These are my figures for the various blocks

North Stand
C= 542 tickets sold
D= 523 tickets sold
E = 522 tickets sold
F= 507 tickets sold
G= 425 tickets sold

I make it 2519 tickets sold out of a possible 2787 capacity within the reserved seating area.

South Stand

C= 13 tickets sold
D= 212 tickets sold
E= 149 tickets sold
F = Corporate prawn sandwich only
G= 251 tickets sold
H= 123 tickets sold
I = 158 tickets sold

This amounts to 906 sold

Hence in just the reserved seating areas we would appear to be looking at 3425 season ticket holders at present.

This is significantly greater than the seating capacity at Knowsley road which was only 2300. So already the club will be benefiting from the greater income generating capacity of the new stadium as seats are more expensive than the terrace.

On top of these figures we need to add in people who have purchased season ticket seats in unreserved blocks of the north and south stands, also the family seating areas, the Western terrace and also the premium seat holders in the South stand.

. Looking at the Western terrace side of things. The East stand At Widnes were current season ticket holders for the new West stand will be located, has a capacity of 2443. This is pretty much filled by season ticket holders, infact i recall that early in the season someone commented that only a couple of hundred tickets for this stand go on general sale for each match.
Therefore its quite feasible to assume that we will be automatically transferring 2000 season ticket holders into the Western Terrace in the new stadium from this current season.