Vale of Belvoir Canary

Bottesford, North East Leicestershire (nr Grantham)

Crewe tickets are supposed to be sent out by Friday 23rd April - didn''t think any were supposed to be allocated until all applications were in (closing date is end of Saturday). However, I did notice that according to Neil Doncasters bit on EDP24 yesterday, less than 1000 applications had been received at that point so it may be that the club has already allocated some to ''high priority'' people based on the slow take up so far - my money has not yet been taken. I wouldn''t expect the club to take the money and then return it later if you failed in the ballot - but then again...

I believe an article on this site a few weeks ago indicated that the away allocation would be 2000 for division 1 teams (can be reduced to 1000 if insufficient demand for more), approx 2500 for premiership teams if/when we get promoted and something like 3500 for cup games. This allows the segregation area to be kept to a minimum (i.e. minimises unusable seats). I think these figures are about right - I''m working from memory. I assume they''ll be housed roughly where they used to be in old South Stand.

My understanding is that there will be 18,750 season ticket holders, 2000 away fans (thats the number allocated to West Ham according to their official web site) with the remainder available for members/general sale. The club put around 2500 tickets on sale for each game. This gives a total of 23,250 per game which is about 1000 short of capacity.

The article also indicates that the 2 rows of temporary seats and the wall in front of the stand have been removed. Where will the Sheffield United fans be seated in 2 weeks time? According to their official website they''ve been allocated the 286 seats - not a great view from the carpark!!

I believe the scheme was extended to all areas of the ground at the beginning of this season - you have to be registered with the scheme in order to sell back a seat - this ensures you cant just phone up and sell back someone elses seat. I''ve used the scheme for my seat in the River End so I assume it''ll work anywhere now.