Amazing all this & that about tickets. Mansfield complain they only get 4000 tickets when they give away fans less that 2000 tickets & still have empty seats in all home sections of the ground ,
you have a 1 off family day out each year to Nottingham , you will even have fans there asking each other which is Mansfield & which is Notts because they have never been to a game before
trying to give the we are a big team.. you are a small town with a small ground. with small crowds, Who at the present time are fortunate to be able to watch a team that's playing well at the moment & 2nd in the League
sadly next saturday you will al go home pissed off. but a few thousand of you wont care as you wont go to another Mansfield game again until you play Notts
CYA
Allow me to explain.
Stags received 3900, which Notts said would be all they got. These went on sale on a Monday to season ticket holders and then on the Thursday to supporters association members. The following Monday they then went on general sale, by which time there were less than half left. Within a couple of days of general sale they were all gone. On the Wednesday, MTFC requested more tickets, but fans had been told by Notts that there would be no more. Stags fans then started buying tickets in the home ends. Notts took a week to then release more tickets to match the allocation Lincoln had been offered. These sold within 40 minutes of going on sale at Field Mill.
The point is not about giving another stand or allowing Stags fans to sit in the home ends, it's about information. Notts could have avoided a safety issue of Stags fans being in the home ends by not labelling the 3900 tickets first given as the 'total allocation' and by releasing the extra 300 tickets when they were requested on the Wednesday. Better still, they could have given us more tickets in the away stand. Sorry if that's a long explanation, buy my sixth finger wanted to get involved. Hope you understand it all. x
Thnk you might find its the Authorities which decide how many tickets you are getting & when they released not Notts. Alan Hardy has said many times in the past they would love to give away fans 5000 tickets but they are not allowed to
as for away fans in home ends simple really keep quiet & you will have a normal day. play it big & chant and jump up & down you either get a kicking or kicked out . simples really , but I guess that goes for any fans going in homes fans stands at any ground.
Is it not normal for an away club to be given an initial allocation and if that is sold out to then be given more?
It sounds like a storm in a tea cup because Mansfield fans got impatient and started panicking about missing out so will now sit with Notts fans, unable to chat, clap or celebrate if you score.
But surely any Stags fan who actually attends games could have obtained a ticket from the initial allocation which was after all much larger than their average home crowd?? if not the way they allocated their tickets should be looked at!! It seems to me that this is an excuse for "yobs" to have a day out as I doubt if any true Mansfield fan has struggled to get a ticket nor would fancy sitting among home fans. We have seen these stories circulating before & normally they come to nowt so hopefully we will all be able to enjoy our normal amount of banter in safety.