dibo
Well-Known Member
Food for thought if nothing else: we've talked about reserved seating a number of times on this forum and the old one and I doubt we'll have anything on for this year, but through my browsing around I found that the SFC website has a really neat system for reserving the seats in the Cove - you can check it out here. You hop on the site and select your bay and seat from these really neat menus. It's like a worked example of what we could maybe try in the future:
Select your category
Select adult or concession
Select your bay and your seat. Here Im looking at bay 27, and it shows available seats, taken seats and those that are restricted view. Bay 27 at the SFS is a funny shape, so it also shows the seats that aren't available because they don't exist...
...then confirm your payment
Obviously I didn't buy a ticket, but I did have a look and am a little jealous of the setup - it's a smart way of doing things and I think it's the sort of thing that could work for us - we'd be able to organise to get our core crew of people tight and up the back with a degree of regularity and organisation that's not really there at present. Itd also be easier to organise whole of bay tifos and stuff if we were able (through the club) to organise things on the basis of people we *know* will be in a particular spot.
Itd be interesting to know if we'd be able to sort a similar thing with our ground and if the club's considered it in any great detail. The self-selection side of things is the thing I find most attractive about it (you and your mates can organise to be in a particular place in the bay), though it comes with a disclaimer -
"To avoid single seats and to optimise seating availability for members, Sydney FC reserves the right to amend members pre-selected seating."
That said, it also has an "Associate with another member" option on the confirmation page, presumably so that if they do any re-arranging it's still keeping the same peeps roughly together.
What do other folks think?
Select your category
Select adult or concession
Select your bay and your seat. Here Im looking at bay 27, and it shows available seats, taken seats and those that are restricted view. Bay 27 at the SFS is a funny shape, so it also shows the seats that aren't available because they don't exist...
...then confirm your payment
Obviously I didn't buy a ticket, but I did have a look and am a little jealous of the setup - it's a smart way of doing things and I think it's the sort of thing that could work for us - we'd be able to organise to get our core crew of people tight and up the back with a degree of regularity and organisation that's not really there at present. Itd also be easier to organise whole of bay tifos and stuff if we were able (through the club) to organise things on the basis of people we *know* will be in a particular spot.
Itd be interesting to know if we'd be able to sort a similar thing with our ground and if the club's considered it in any great detail. The self-selection side of things is the thing I find most attractive about it (you and your mates can organise to be in a particular place in the bay), though it comes with a disclaimer -
"To avoid single seats and to optimise seating availability for members, Sydney FC reserves the right to amend members pre-selected seating."
That said, it also has an "Associate with another member" option on the confirmation page, presumably so that if they do any re-arranging it's still keeping the same peeps roughly together.
What do other folks think?
