Birmingham (A)

[RG30]

16 days until the start of the season and still no ticket information or prices. Having scanned the Birmingham website they are still yet to announce any matchday prices for the upcoming season so would guess the issue is with them and not our Ticket Office.

[Hound]

Too busy spaffing a fortune on new players

[Clyde1998]

I've been wondering this too. Expected them to be announced a couple of weeks ago.

I'd hope they'll be announced tomorrow ahead of going on sale on Monday.

[Sutekh]

Colchester (a) too I would have expected by now. We'll be 2 weeks away from the season starting on Saturday so would expect the details for both to be available by the middle of next week at the latest.

[Dirk Gently]

I wonder if the delay is down to a possibility of these clubs being a bit reluctant to allow Reading to sell tickets on their behalf in case Reading cease to exist between them getting the ticket money in and passing it on to the home club...

ISTR (but can't tell you where/when it was) of clubs in financial crisis not being given away tickets to sell in advance, but instead all their fans had to pay on the day at away club so that there was no inter-club credit going on.

[RG30]

Birmingham still haven't got the game on-sale for home fans as well for context.

[Sutekh]

Birmingham still haven't got the game on-sale for home fans as well for context.

For the record, Colchester are selling tickets to home fans:

Tues 13 Aug, 7.45pm - £12 adults, £10 concessions in their south stand (behind goal, so presumably Reading fans will be in the North Stand at the opposite end).

[RG30]

Spoke with the Ticket Office. Club now in possession of Colchester tickets. Still no price information or physical tickets sent from Birmingham but they'll be going on-sale on points basis when they do.

[Clyde1998]

Spoke with the Ticket Office. Club now in possession of Colchester tickets. Still no price information or physical tickets sent from Birmingham but they'll be going on-sale on points basis when they do.

Makes sense the club haven't been given details from Birmingham for them not to have gone on sale yet.

I imagine they'll want to avoid putting the Colchester tickets on sale at the same time, which may have delayed those going on sale. It may be they'll be on sale before the Birmingham ones now seeing as the club have received them.

Seems unbelievably poor from Birmingham to not even provide pricing details this close to the game, let alone not have tickets ready to go on sale.

[Whore Jackie]

Finally come through!

2,227 allocation

Adult £25
65 and Over £20
16 to 24 £15
15 and Under £5

Selling criteria
10am, Wednesday 31st July – Season Ticket holders with 1350+ points
2pm, Wednesday 31st July – Season Ticket holders with 1000+ points
10am, Thursday 1st August – All Season Ticket holders
2pm, Thursday 1st August – Members with 500+ points or Gold/Silver Legacy Status
10am, Friday 2nd August – Members with 50+ points or Bronze Legacy Status
2pm, Friday 2nd August – General Sale

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2024/j ... y-tickets/

[RG30]

IN! x3

[Clyde1998]

I haven't got an exact estimate, as I didn't get a number of greyed out seats in block GML2 (there may have been 150 greyed out seats). That said and based on the fact we're at 500+ point and Silver+Gold legacy status, there's little to no chance we'll sell our allocation.

With that estimate of 150 greyed out seats, I'd suggest we've sold just over 800 so far.

The fact the game's on TV and we've played at Birmingham a lot over the past 10/20 years is likely what's keeping the crowd down. For context, 933 is what I've got for our average there since 2014 and we took 1,406 on the opening day of the 2015-16 season.

I imagine we'll have a pattern of lower away followings this season consider we played at a lot of grounds people hadn't had the opportunity to go to last season.

[Royal_jimmy]

Birmingham have pretty much sold their end out. Fair play to them.

We really should try and sell this out. It's a good kick off time, can get back on train, it's only a couple of hours to get there, our away support has been good in the last year, the players need our support with the ownership saga and after all the shit they've had to deal with off the pitch.

Brum isn't an away day I enjoy though either although I'm going.

[Royal_jimmy]

I imagine we'll have a pattern of lower away followings this season consider we played at a lot of grounds people hadn't had the opportunity to go to last season.

Yeah probably based on the context of the season. I still expect us to sell out for the likes of Leyton Orient, Charlton, Bristol Rovers, Crawley Northampton and Stevenage based on their proximity. I don't see us taking the likes of 900 to Lincoln, 1.4k to Bolton, 1.3k to Shrewsbury and selling out Exeter and Burton unless we're near the top of the table.

[RG30]

Home end practically sold out. Could be a full house if we shift the last few tickets we have remaining.

[Clyde1998]

Home end practically sold out. Could be a full house if we shift the last few tickets we have remaining.

It would be good if we shifted more, but worth saying those available on the website aren't all the tickets we have remaining.

Initially tickets could only be bought in GML1 and GML2. The tickets in Block GML3 have been made available six columns at a time (roughly 200 ticket batches), with the next batch being made available when most of the tickets made available to that point had been sold. Not all the tickets in GML3 have been made available yet.

Blocks GML1, GML2 and GML3 total to 1,944 tickets (including greyed out seats in GML2 when they went on sale), so we must've also been allocated tickets in Block GML4 to have a total allocation of 2,227.

I think we've sold around between 1,300 and 1,400 tickets to date (around 60% of our allocation).

[Clyde1998]

I imagine we'll have a pattern of lower away followings this season consider we played at a lot of grounds people hadn't had the opportunity to go to last season.

Yeah probably based on the context of the season. I still expect us to sell out for the likes of Leyton Orient, Charlton, Bristol Rovers, Crawley Northampton and Stevenage based on their proximity. I don't see us taking the likes of 900 to Lincoln, 1.4k to Bolton, 1.3k to Shrewsbury and selling out Exeter and Burton unless we're near the top of the table.

I'd agree with this. Possibly not Charlton selling out (as we'd probably get up to 3,000 tickets), but that's dependant on what our situation is when we actually play them. Relatively local games (Orient, Bristol Rovers, Crawley, etc.) with small allocations will sell out (especially on a Saturday).

Almost no chance we'll take as many to Lincoln (especially with it on TV) or Bolton (especially as tickets were cheaper last season as it was a bank holiday). I think we play Shrewsbury towards the end of the season, so could sell more if we're having a good year.

Exeter and Burton are both Tuesday night this season, so we'd probably take fewer than last season even if we're doing well.

[Clyde1998]

Around 80 additional sales on my update yesterday, so around 1,450 sold; an additional 64 seats have opened up since.

[RG30]

Club email said yesterday less then 200 tickets were left so must have returned some to Birmingham to sell.

[Clyde1998]

Club email said yesterday less then 200 tickets were left so must have returned some to Birmingham to sell.

I did wonder if that might happen given Birmingham have sold out what they have. Based on their forum, they put a small amount of additional tickets on sale near the away section which have been sold (I wonder if it was due to some tickets being returned).

'Less than 200 left' yesterday implies the area in red (around 200 seats) won't be going on sale (the 64 seats below the red box were the seats that went on sale today and around 100 were left prior to those going on sale):


Although I wonder if those seats could have been allocated to players' friends and family as 200 seats sounds like a reasonable figure for that purpose. If that's the case, it would suggest we've given around 500 tickets back and end up with around 1,700.