Why so many empty seats in the Hampden Main stand last Sunday? (Rangers section)
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Battlefield Bear
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Debentures and Hearts failing to sell corporate packages I think.
Milel Bohsni
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I thought the seats were in the Hearts end ? That section is mainly hospitality. That's why Rangers got the extra seats in the South upper along towards the Hearts end as well for unsold tickets
MrStruth
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The Hearts section of the stand looks completely full. It's the Rangers section that has empty blocks.
Lots of prime seats all lying empty. It makes little sense.
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The lower empty bit is hearts section apart from a few rows in the middle of the Rangers section to the rightThe Hearts section of the stand looks completely full. It's the Rangers section that has empty blocks.
Actually I think what looks like empty seats in the middle rows of the Rangers section are media desks
Milel Bohsni
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£6k ! You'd want a 21 year old model riding you every time Dessers missed a chance for that kind of cash
Butterbean
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We were hospitality in South Stand Upper and seated well over the half way line towards the Hearts end.
Sticky Fingers
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I was over in the North Stand hospitality and I thought it was the Hearts end that looked empty to be fair.
Some amount of empty seats there, quite embarrassing for Hearts who kicked and screamed about getting half and then not selling all their tickets. All while the filth got about 3/4 of Hampden the day before.
Strange, eh?
Some amount of empty seats there, quite embarrassing for Hearts who kicked and screamed about getting half and then not selling all their tickets. All while the filth got about 3/4 of Hampden the day before.
Strange, eh?
rangeral
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I don't see our end with empty blocksThe Hearts section of the stand looks completely full. It's the Rangers section that has empty blocks.
Left of the picture is the Hearts section of the Hampden Hospitality area
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rangeral
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Like us they got additional tickets
Both from the Aberdeen allocation in our end and unsold Debenture area in the Upper
nasalsinatra
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I think the days of the automatic 50/50 splits are now over. Dundee United started this nonsense in 2014 when they insisted on 50/50 for the semi played at Ibrox but could get nowhere near it. The SFA and SPFL have now made their point on this.
Big Ash
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You must be some stud if you can go that many times in 90 minutes.
wee bud's pit boots
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Hampden was 5,000 short of a full house for the SC final of 2003, because of Dundee's want of a 50/50 allocation.
I get the want of a half and half split, even though I don't get why a club with less than a 10k average attendance should be allowed it?
The blocks of tickets should be sold in blocks/increments but also these clubs should be given a deadline for selling them.
If their fans can't be @rsed buying them, then the tickets go to us.
MrStruth
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It's maybe just the camera angle but there does also look like a few empty seats above the Rangers fans in the stand as well.
mummymonkey
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I was in the west stand and there were loads of empty seats beside me.
rangeral
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That is what happens after what happened in 2003
Aberdeen were allocated the entire Rangers end but in the end didn't over halfway - Section A
Section B of the West ended up with Celtic instead
Hearts agreed to pay the whole supporters allocation I never have heard that before happening with any of these clubs
rangeral
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wee bud's pit boots
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Well, I hope Hearts are out of pocket.
It might make them think again in similar circumstances.
Few empty beside us but then you walked to stairs and couldnt move, folk standing beside their mates on the stairsI was in the west stand and there were loads of empty seats beside me.
WATP
rangeral
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Aberdeen were allocated upto 19k for Saturday sold under half of that around 7k/8k
LCF got the same plus some extra but the selling was total different - 200+ loyalty points then straight to a general sale where you could buy upto 4 tickets including no purchase history and it sold out very quickly as you would gather
Saturday there was a sale point based on loyalty points with the last selling point was you needed a purchase history
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rangeral
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It probably has cost them something
A lot of people, myself included just stand with their pals in the West Stand.I was in the west stand and there were loads of empty seats beside me.
wee bud's pit boots
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The more the merrier.
Asked this on another thread. The part in the middle of the lower (just to the side of the tunnel in our end) was part of our hospitality seats. Or it certainly used to be. I was in there for the Aberdeen semi.
Be interesting to know if we sold out of those and if we didn't, why the tickets weren't offered to 'ordinary' punters. I'm fine with us offering hospitality as it's clearly a big revenue generator but, not at the expense of the seat lying empty altogether.
Ginger Bear
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I had a seat in the 'empty' section shown in post #4. Loads of empty seats round about me.
rangeral
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Section o2 the area you describe is handed for the club to use
There is a small metal fence that separates that area from the general seating of Section P1
So yes it would be interesting if we did sell out and maybe just when these pictures/videos are done that people to make they to their seats?
ELGers
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I’d be interested to know if Aberdeen were offered the same deal as Hearts re. 50/50 but you pay for them.
As I imagine Cormack would turn that down.
rangeral
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If they had they probably said something like Hearts did
I was in the west stand and there were loads of empty seats beside me.
Very few people stand at their own seats in the West Stand.
Hampden is an absolute toilet of a stadium.
Someone’s pockets were certainly lined refurbishing it.
Withambear
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I sit in section N debentures and there were plenty of empty seats around me
I have sat there for 25 years and any unsold debenture seats go to Rangers
I know Rangers also got tickets for section m &k debenture areas
There were plenty of tickets for sale outside so disappointing that many missed out
I have sat there for 25 years and any unsold debenture seats go to Rangers
I know Rangers also got tickets for section m &k debenture areas
There were plenty of tickets for sale outside so disappointing that many missed out
Nah those seats were empty the full game mate. It was very noticeable as it was a block of seats right in front of the press area.
FWIW the last time I was in hospitality there, our seats were in P2 (I was in O2 previously) So they do take a very substantial amount of the South Stand as it is, as well as seats in the North.
If the seats were going to lie empty I dunno why they couldn't have been sold to ST holders. Surely it's not a coincidence that all of the people in those seats together, just didn't turn up on the day?
Agree - there weren't a lot but there definitely looked to be some empty seats in the Rangers corporate section
Any idea why they didn't do the same for their Scottish cup match?
Probably because rakes of Rangers fans bought tickets in their end for the last one, which caused them a lot of fannying about cancelling loads of orders, including actual Aberdeen fans.
Maybe don't didn't want a repeat of that?
rangeral
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Does seem strange unless the club actually no longer are given them to issue themselves?
Hence why they have moved into Section P for hospitality
PolmontLoyal1872
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rangeral
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Probably because the club took a bit of flak of how they were sold - mainly because the club didn't get the 50/50 allocation for the final and stuck 2 fingers at the SPFL but at the same time shafted their own fans
That would be like us saying 2000+ MyGers points then a free for all after it isn't right what they done back in December
Barca Bear
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Think you have the wrong team mate.
Rangers section full hearts hospitality empty
Barca Bear
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2-30Was few empty from the photo I got
I didn't sit in my seat in the west Stand because it was shite. I moved to a better seat. I do this nearly every time at Hampden.I was in the west stand and there were loads of empty seats beside me.
Ginger Bear
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The Rangers section was far from full mate.
Greig
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That’s almost where I was sitting , two seats in on row G , noticed the first 3 full rows were taped off , was that for safety reasons ? It is a cracking view from up there.We were hospitality in South Stand Upper and seated well over the half way line towards the Hearts end.
I was in the west stand and there were loads of empty seats beside me.
Possibly Union Bears who ignore their seats and crowd into the central area. Not criticising them by the way.
Ranger1003
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Take into account the racing on sat and people not making it from being hungover lol
They are seats sfa/hampden keep and sell
Prices are mental for hospitality at hampden
Normally if they don't sell they move the debenture holders closer to the middle and give the other seats to the clubs
Ie gold into hospitality seating, silver into gold bronze into silver.
Sheamaker
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To be fair to Hearts I thought they had a great turnout. What is embarrassing is screaming for 50/50 in a cup final, then next time you come to Hampden a few months later you sell a measly 8k.
