Woops, Ibrox club beg season ticket holders to sell back tickets after hospitality blunder!
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Despite reducing Celtic’s derby day ticket allocation by 6,200 the club from Ibrox have found themselves short of tickets for Saturday’s Glasgow derby.
Accountancy has never been a strong point with more tickets promised than available meaning that some sponsors, special guests and former players may miss out on the action.
Less than 48 hours before kick off the club SLO was forced to go onto twitter with the age old cry of ‘any spares?’
If for any reason you can’t make the Old Firm game and don’t have a way to get the tickets used please put it up for secondary ticketing https://t.co/gfYZLy39hA
— RangersFC SLO (@RangersFCSLO) December 27, 2018
The club are still short on fulfilling all our obligation so every ticket will be taken and used
— RangersFC SLO (@RangersFCSLO) December 27, 2018
Hospitality, sponsors, staff allocations, former players etc. We are short of having all of the requests ticked off
— RangersFC SLO (@RangersFCSLO) December 27, 2018
I’ll sell them mine for £900
— Zurab ???????? (@_SquirrelNutkin) December 27, 2018
I’d say it’s still surprising considering there’s a sale for every game except this one. Talking a couple thousand for these sort of requests once you take into account segregation and away fans.
— Andy McIntyre (@andy_mcintyre) December 27, 2018
So you want people to take a hit on their ticket to keep a corporate or ex player happy instead of another fan who doesn’t have a season ticket for whatever reason? Bizzare and a bit embarrassing the club have put this out tbh
— Neil (@afootballnomad) December 27, 2018
How can that possibly be?
Why promise tickets you don’t have?— George MacDonald (@geomac24) December 27, 2018
I hope no one uses secondary ticketing for this game then. Either the ticket office have made an arse of it or there’s been a last minute request from ex players that have decided they fancy going to this game. I take it there was no issue with hibs tickets?
— Greg (@gsteve54) December 27, 2018
Out of interest, what did we do when they were given the whole stand and people had to be reallocated?
— Dean Hunter (@DeanoCrues95) December 27, 2018
For the previous four fixtures against Celtic 7,000 Broomloan Road seats were made available to the good guys but Dave King opted to alter that during the summer in a bid to increase season ticket sales. It’s understood that any extra 2,000 season tickets were sold bringing in around £800,000 which is similar to the income from two visits by Celtic fans.
A number of changes have been made in the commercial and hospitality departments at Ibrox with tickets sold that aren’t actually available.
Unless some season ticket holders opt to sell their tickets it looks like some fat cats will be due an apology, refund and tickets for January’s glamour friendly with HJK Helsinki.