Whitecaps MLS season ticket seating

[Regs]

The time is rapidly approaching for seating selection for MLS 2011 in Vancouver.

Mid-October is when the pricing and seating chart comes out and November is the time to make your selections.

Is there enough interest here for me to set up a group section?

I'll need to make a decision soon so as to get it sorted with the Caps - let me know here.

Cheers,

Regs.

PS. I'm getting 4 tickets so any section I set-up is going to be in the cheap/low range.

 

[STD]

Any word on when they are getting the price and seting charts out.

 

[Regs]

Mid-October.



Southsiders have a pretty good deal coming up... watch for a new thread on that within the next couple of days.

Cheers,

Regs.

 

[STD]

Yeah I read there forum but I don't want to become a member. They said it would be the end of last week. Whitecaps have sold over 15,000 tickets and people don't know what they are going to be on the hook for. Minimum $320 maximum over $1,000 I assume.

 

[johnnybluenose]

I'd make an educated guess that the southsiders and the other supporters groups seating in their vicinity will be priced in the 450-500 range for a seasons tix (No real word yet, but that's my guess) and the fact is that area/end will be the only real way of being at the game and not get sneered at/hassled etc by seniors and soccer moms if you were to want to stand for the full 90, be a bit drunk, swear, sing, chant, etc.

Also, the MLS have new rules coming down the pike next year whereby you need to be with a club and MLS Sanctioned Supporters Group if you want to follow your team on the road at rival grounds, like the roadies to Portland and Seattle. Basically if you are in the normal masses by buying scalpers tix etc and then are reported to security for wearing away colours etc you can be tossed. Thus being a member of the Southsiders or any other group that may pop up gives you the ability to go to away games which will be awesome parties.

 

[Polska]

Basically if you are in the normal masses by buying scalpers tix etc and then are reported to security for wearing away colours etc you can be tossed.

Thats the stupidest thing i've heard.. Limit your target market with a new product.. Nice

 

[italian_stallion21]

Yes, because I'm sure Seattle is having so much trouble selling tickets to its own fans it needs to put more tickets on hold for random away fans.

 

[johnnybluenose]

No no... I mean if you are at Qwest or PDX (Away games) and are visibly supporting the Whitecaps with the normal crowd(Because you bought scalpers tix etc) you could be and most likely will be tossed if you haven't procured your tix through the away ticketing methods approved by the league (Which is through the sanctioned supporters groups)

 

[Polska]

what i am saying is acting on impulse , say me and the boys decide to take a road trip to take watch a game, you are telling me i run the risk of getting kicked out for buying scalpers tickets and sitting in a section i chose while wearing my teams jersey because iaint in the southside gang?. Maybe I want to sit with the other guys. Heckling is half the fun.. Tell me what other pro sport in north america does this? These guys aint college football ..

Maybe its just me and i dont like being told what i can and cant do.

Fcuk it. i'll bring both teams jersey's to wear

 

[dutch13]

I have to agree with Polska, this is a pretty ridiculous policy. I could see it if hooliganism was as bad as other countries, but Seattle/Toronto excluded, the MLS shouldn't be limiting the sale of tickets to anyone.

Lets say you're in another MLS city on business and coincidently there is a whitecaps game that night. Are you telling me you can't go support your team, in jersey?

 

[johnnybluenose]

Pretty Much.

You have to remember that this league is mostly owned a run by former NFL folks, not Footy people.

They see the Green Street Hooligans and Football Factories and think any ticket buyer is a potential nutter.

Toronto and Columbus have had issues, as have KC and Chicago...

Also, for the most part, getting access to tix in Seattle and Portland, our natural roadies to make/take based on close proximity sell out every game or are damn close to it...