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Post by tank11 on Jan 4, 2015 13:06:09 GMT 12
How did the seating go the second night?
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Post by muncho on Jan 4, 2015 14:17:18 GMT 12
Interesting to see how these so called premium tickets are being sold by the club on Trademe. This method seems has some obvious advantages. Firstly the club can rake in a few extra dollars than from general admission sales, plus more importantly, it can get a gauge on demand. The fact that they are at this stage still promoting the 'strait terraces' and 'grandstand' seats indicates that these areas have not sold out. Therefore I assume they are not going ahead with the unnecessary cost of additional temporary grandstand seating, which makes economic sense. However for some fans I'm not sure this is such a good deal. For example we were told '... Pre-sold Premium tickets allow a reserved seat..'.Actually these tickets are in a reserved area, but you have no idea where your seat will be. Some punters who have paid a premium for grandstand seating expecting a seat '... in prime viewing positions....and above this we have our main grandstand. This is elevated and provides the best view in the facility...' may in fact find that they are allocated a seat on lowest level of the grandstand, which actually has a average view, and moreover limited foot room compared to the terrace area. I guess these kind of issues are not the end of the world and will get sorted over time with more experience. Perhaps next time the club could come up with a plan or map that clearly identifies each seat location, and then individually auction each seat on Trademe, rather than a blanket $10 premium for all seats in a so called premium area. I personally would bid more for my preferred seat somewhere up high in the a top three rows of the grandstand, rather than end up with a seat at ground level on random chance. Unfortunately this is what happened to us. We paid a little extra to get reserved seats (both nights) in the grandstand only to find out we we were actually sitting right at the front on the bottom row. What pissed us off more was after the first race on night 1 they let every tom dick and harry just run on up and sit wherever they pleased. And this was after me asking the lady seating everyone if it was ok if we sat up a bit further as there were a lot of vacant spots. I like your ideas Phil B. Another idea would be to advertise sections.Get rid of seat numbers.Basically Section A B C etc on a first in first serve basis.That way people who actually enjoy sitting at the bottom can do so and vice versa for people who enjoy being up top. Would entice people to arrive a bit earlier therefore increasing revenue oppurtunities for clubs by grabbing something from the caterers or purchasing merchandise........ |
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Post by muncho on Jan 4, 2015 14:28:43 GMT 12
How did the seating go the second night? Ended up being a free for all. Ticket holders were turning up late (some at 8pm but that's beside the point) to find their seats were taken. Simply not enough policing or staff to enable ticket holders to take their seats. |
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Post by muncho on Jan 4, 2015 15:09:57 GMT 12
Interesting to see how these so called premium tickets are being sold by the club on Trademe. This method seems has some obvious advantages. Firstly the club can rake in a few extra dollars than from general admission sales, plus more importantly, it can get a gauge on demand. The fact that they are at this stage still promoting the 'strait terraces' and 'grandstand' seats indicates that these areas have not sold out. Therefore I assume they are not going ahead with the unnecessary cost of additional temporary grandstand seating, which makes economic sense. However for some fans I'm not sure this is such a good deal. For example we were told '... Pre-sold Premium tickets allow a reserved seat..'.Actually these tickets are in a reserved area, but you have no idea where your seat will be. Some punters who have paid a premium for grandstand seating expecting a seat '... in prime viewing positions....and above this we have our main grandstand. This is elevated and provides the best view in the facility...' may in fact find that they are allocated a seat on lowest level of the grandstand, which actually has a average view, and moreover limited foot room compared to the terrace area. I guess these kind of issues are not the end of the world and will get sorted over time with more experience. Perhaps next time the club could come up with a plan or map that clearly identifies each seat location, and then individually auction each seat on Trademe, rather than a blanket $10 premium for all seats in a so called premium area. I personally would bid more for my preferred seat somewhere up high in the a top three rows of the grandstand, rather than end up with a seat at ground level on random chance. Unfortunately this is what happened to us. We paid a little extra to get reserved seats (both nights) in the grandstand only to find out we we were actually sitting right at the front on the bottom row. What pissed us off more was after the second or third race on night 1 they let every tom dick and harry just run on up and sit wherever they pleased. And this was after the lady seating everyone said no when I politely asked if it was ok if we sat up a bit further as there were a lot of vacant spots. I like your ideas Phil B. Another idea would be to advertise sections.Get rid of seat numbers.Basically Section A B C etc on a first in first serve basis.That way people who actually enjoy sitting at the bottom can do so and vice versa for people who enjoy being up top. Would entice people to arrive a bit earlier therefore increasing revenue oppurtunities for clubs by grabbing something from the caterers or purchasing merchandise........ |
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Post by mattd on Jan 4, 2015 15:24:38 GMT 12
We were fortunate enough both nights to have the people in front of us leave to sit down below on the terraced seating below the back straight grandstand so we had leg room. Tempted to buy the terraced seating for the NZ Super Saloons, despite the view not being as good down there, just to have more comfortable seats.
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Post by tiroto on Jan 4, 2015 15:43:27 GMT 12
How did the seating go the second night? Night two I didn't bother with my premium seat and sat on the grass with my blanky and pillow on turn three and had a great time! Lots of space and could come and go! On my right was a family of five who came from Auckland to Te Marua - first timers to Wgtn speedway and great company! On my left a father and son from Napier. Normally wouldn't bother posting issue such as this as always want the best for speedway but how my wife and I afforded the money for Xmas holiday trip and the NZ Superstock Champs meant value for money including hospitality was important. I enjoyed the meeting and all best Wgtn speedway for the future and go the Wildcats and Young Guns!  |
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Post by sadandbad on Jan 4, 2015 20:11:54 GMT 12
We were fortunate enough both nights to have the people in front of us leave to sit down below on the terraced seating below the back straight grandstand so we had leg room. Tempted to buy the terraced seating for the NZ Super Saloons, despite the view not being as good down there, just to have more comfortable seats. We did as well. We had a family of four crammed in front of us and there was no leg roon whatsoever. The family in front (for the comfort of everybody) decided to sit in the blue seats down the front so we could all enjoy the racing which incidently in my opinion was fantastic. It is a real shame that a fantastic weekend of racing is tainted by the memories of uncomfortable seating that as a family we paid a premium for. Another annoying thing was that over the years, the NZ Superstock champs have become the nucleaus of a once a year reunion with friends that we have made in the stands at previous championships, some of these friendships going back to Christchurch when Booty won his first title in the mid ninties. We come from all corners of the country and over the years what started out as a group of 6 has now expanded to a group of this year 32 with another couple wanting to join us at Stratford next year. this year, we booked a motel out had drinks,dinners and breakfasts together that made the local bars and cafes a bit richer, Air NZ and the rental car companies cashed in and the fairer sex went off on their annual shopping sprees which made the Upper Hutt retailers smile. When we bought our tickets on trademe there was no way of making sure we were all together as we have been previously. As it turned out on the first night we were able to relocate as the stands had gaps but were unable to do that on the finals night and for us that was a dampener on the whole weekend. Not wanting to be too negative, Wellington Speedway you hosted a fantastic championship with worthy winners, Unfortunately you dropped the ball big time when you made firstly the decision to sell the tickets the way you did without some sort of seating plan and more importantly you tried to jam paying spectators into a granstand that with unrealistic leg room. Stratford please don't make the same mistake, the motels are tentatively booked as we are awaiting a date confirmation and we can'twait for Peter Rees to defend his title. |
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Post by fastrota78 on Jan 4, 2015 20:38:55 GMT 12
When we arrived on the Saturday night with our "Premium Seat Tickets" we asked one of the people that were seating people, will it be the same as last night, will GA be able to sit in these stands again for their GA price and his reply was "not sure, you will have to see".
Wellington Speedway, you just don't do this sort of thing to people as it is not what you advertised !!!!!
It is very unprofessional how the people in the club that were keen on posting on here leading up to the meeting have gone away into hiding. Still waiting for a reply to my email I sent as well !!!
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Post by chris13w on Jan 4, 2015 22:06:46 GMT 12
Well, what can I say, what a fantastic meeting, despite 16+ hour days - and to be honest, most of today has been spent asleep on the couch, so the rest of the weekend has now vanished... So, issues with seating: Firstly, let me just point out that we have spent a Lot of time and money improving the seating in the facility over the off season, to the tune of $150,000 dollars plus, and it is a huge improvement over what we had before. Regarding the main grandstand, this however is 30 plus years old (second hand when we got it) and is basically what it is, we can't easily change the size or shape of its seating THIS WAS MADE APPARENT IN ALL TICKET ADVERTISING - "IT HAS THE BEST VIEW, BUT LIMITED LEG ROOM". The ticketing team (and I was with them all day both days, so I know how much this happened) were swapping tickets around for anyone who had a problem, putting groups back together, or just trying to fix peoples problems - I saw some people come back 3 times before they were happy with the seats, all greeted with a smile and sorted out Friday night we had a couple of problems... Firstly, tickets had been sold in blocks, from the top down a few rows, then across to the next block, so the grandstand/terraces filled from the middle top and out and downwards, seemed the best way to give people the best view in the order they purchased them. On Friday night an "administrative oversight" (that's a cock up...) meant tickets for the three end bays weren't distributed to the ticket boxes, so those blocks were staying empty as the others filled up (which also couldn't be seen from the ticket gate as its behind the stand and it was busy there). At some stage someone decided to "fix" this by taking down the tape that was controlling access, people saw this and decided to swamp in and fill the spaces up... something akin to a "pitch invasion" then happened... Not much we could do to change that once it happened, there are only so many security people, but seats weren't full and there was still space. Night two went far smoother, tickets were spread around and filled up from top to bottom equally, pre-sold tickets got the best view, as said, if someone didn't like the grandstand, we put them somewhere else, filled up much more smoothly. Sure any event with thousands of people is going to get tight, luckily we are a pretty reasonably sized stadium, so I've been to far worse myself. So, what were the other hassles? I heard chairs was one of them - I personally went around with security both nights telling people to put these down, I was the short grumpy guy in the hi-vis... By the way, nice behaviour from the people who were racially abusing our security staff, seems they will listen to a short fat white guy though - if I'd heard it myself you would have found yourselves escorted off the facility, we're not taking that sort of crap to our staff. Other than that, you may have seen a few chairs 2 or 3 deep in some areas, we looked at that and in most cases found they were family groups and were only blocking their own family members, so we let them carry on. Also later on some people put their chairs up behind others on the gravel, again, we said no chairs on the grass, and these people weren't blocking anyone else who was there first, so that was OK. If you were at the end of the grandstand you will also have found that security and I moved the chairs forward so you could see past the grandstand, if you arrived later, you may have misunderstood this - second night we put cones and bars across there to make it obvious. To help people out who were arriving late we also had the carpark staff (who also did a fantastic job, notice how they pointed the cars in the right direction to get out, had cones set up, etc, etc?) and the gate security to turn people with chairs around so they didn't get all the way in then have to take them back to the car, same with chilly bins (yes, a couple got in early on, the problem with people using pit gate before all the security arrives, but pretty much we kept the place clear to maximise spectator space). What else can I say, that's pretty much how it went down, and overall it seemed to work out OK - the place wasn't 100% full, or 120% full as I've heard of other events, and all the terraces and stands seemed to have some gaps for people to spread out in even on finals night. Now, why did we do this?? Not as people think to sting people for extra money, it cost us a fortune to organise this, printed tickets, auction fees, numbering every single seat, extra staff, extra time at the ticket boxes, extra hassles - would have given us a much bigger return if we just made everything General Admission and let people sort it out themselves... However, we heard there was a big call to do this as people don't want to have to turn up 6 hours early to find a good spot. Oh well, if it didn't work, I'm sorry we did the best we could and tried to make what people had asked for happen. To be honest, I doubt we would bother next time - you can please some of the people some of the time and all that... As to the NZ Supersaloons in two weeks time, of course this isn't quite as big an event, and its been a bit further away, so not so many tickets have been pre-sold yet. For this event we are now going to limit this to only the top row of the grandstand, blue plastic seats on the start/finish straight terrace, and the blue seats in front of the grandstand - so if you haven't got one yet, get in quick if you want it. These will have a reserved sticker on them for the ticket holders, otherwise get in early and sit wherever you want, we're not going through the same hassles again. Anything else? Just ring me like all the people who can't read a website and wanted to know the ticket prices, its ok, I didn't have much else to do  |
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Post by superstock on Jan 4, 2015 22:18:37 GMT 12
that explains all well said you've got 19 years until the next one  |
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Post by petero on Jan 4, 2015 23:12:29 GMT 12
Thanks for your response Chris
from first walking into the venue on practice day one could see the improvements plus time and effort gone into getting the palce ship shape. On night two you could see changes had been made from what was learnt from night one.
Yes there were negatives with the system of reserved seats hwoever overall beter than none at all so well done for going down this road.
As for reserved grandstand seating for the Super Saloons, as nowhere as full, picking on your suggestion of reserve top row only, then may I suggest you also block off the next row for there foot room as well and then you have "premium" reserved seats that all should easily be happy with.
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Post by chris13w on Jan 4, 2015 23:17:25 GMT 12
Thanks for your response Chris from first walking into the venue on practice day one could see the improvements plus time and effort gone into getting the palce ship shape. On night two you could see changes had been made from what was learnt from night one. Yes there were negatives with the system of reserved seats hwoever overall beter than none at all so well done for going down this road. As for reserved grandstand seating for the Super Saloons, as nowhere as full, picking on your suggestion of reserve top row only, then may I suggest you also block off the next row for there foot room as well and then you have "premium" reserved seats that all should easily be happy with. Correct, my thoughts also - get in quick if you want them |
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Post by knowtoomuch on Jan 4, 2015 23:22:44 GMT 12
Well said Chris 13W. There will always be some who will complain regardless.
With regards to the leg room on the grandstand it is no less than the leg room that one gets in the grandstand at Arena Manawatu during the Team Champs and I have yet to hear many complaints about that.
As it was made very clear in your advertising on Trade me that one was not able to select seats it surprises me that anyone that wanted to sit with a particular group would buy their tickets in this manner as it is obvious that they would quite possibly not be allocated tickets together so to be incensed about it after the fact seems to be a bit ignorant.
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Post by superstock on Jan 4, 2015 23:36:07 GMT 12
Palmy seats are awful. they are I said it. bludy horrible plastic things. Ok if you're tiny
ps the stand at temarua has been there for how long and everyone starts moaning about legroom must be aucklanders
or panther supporters...
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Post by fastrota78 on Jan 5, 2015 9:38:35 GMT 12
Well, what can I say, what a fantastic meeting, despite 16+ hour days - and to be honest, most of today has been spent asleep on the couch, so the rest of the weekend has now vanished... So, issues with seating: Firstly, let me just point out that we have spent a Lot of time and money improving the seating in the facility over the off season, to the tune of $150,000 dollars plus, and it is a huge improvement over what we had before. Regarding the main grandstand, this however is 30 plus years old (second hand when we got it) and is basically what it is, we can't easily change the size or shape of its seating THIS WAS MADE APPARENT IN ALL TICKET ADVERTISING - "IT HAS THE BEST VIEW, BUT LIMITED LEG ROOM". The ticketing team (and I was with them all day both days, so I know how much this happened) were swapping tickets around for anyone who had a problem, putting groups back together, or just trying to fix peoples problems - I saw some people come back 3 times before they were happy with the seats, all greeted with a smile and sorted out Friday night we had a couple of problems... Firstly, tickets had been sold in blocks, from the top down a few rows, then across to the next block, so the grandstand/terraces filled from the middle top and out and downwards, seemed the best way to give people the best view in the order they purchased them. On Friday night an "administrative oversight" (that's a cock up...) meant tickets for the three end bays weren't distributed to the ticket boxes, so those blocks were staying empty as the others filled up (which also couldn't be seen from the ticket gate as its behind the stand and it was busy there). At some stage someone decided to "fix" this by taking down the tape that was controlling access, people saw this and decided to swamp in and fill the spaces up... something akin to a "pitch invasion" then happened... Not much we could do to change that once it happened, there are only so many security people, but seats weren't full and there was still space. Night two went far smoother, tickets were spread around and filled up from top to bottom equally, pre-sold tickets got the best view, as said, if someone didn't like the grandstand, we put them somewhere else, filled up much more smoothly. Sure any event with thousands of people is going to get tight, luckily we are a pretty reasonably sized stadium, so I've been to far worse myself. So, what were the other hassles? I heard chairs was one of them - I personally went around with security both nights telling people to put these down, I was the short grumpy guy in the hi-vis... By the way, nice behaviour from the people who were racially abusing our security staff, seems they will listen to a short fat white guy though - if I'd heard it myself you would have found yourselves escorted off the facility, we're not taking that sort of crap to our staff. Other than that, you may have seen a few chairs 2 or 3 deep in some areas, we looked at that and in most cases found they were family groups and were only blocking their own family members, so we let them carry on. Also later on some people put their chairs up behind others on the gravel, again, we said no chairs on the grass, and these people weren't blocking anyone else who was there first, so that was OK. If you were at the end of the grandstand you will also have found that security and I moved the chairs forward so you could see past the grandstand, if you arrived later, you may have misunderstood this - second night we put cones and bars across there to make it obvious. To help people out who were arriving late we also had the carpark staff (who also did a fantastic job, notice how they pointed the cars in the right direction to get out, had cones set up, etc, etc?) and the gate security to turn people with chairs around so they didn't get all the way in then have to take them back to the car, same with chilly bins (yes, a couple got in early on, the problem with people using pit gate before all the security arrives, but pretty much we kept the place clear to maximise spectator space). What else can I say, that's pretty much how it went down, and overall it seemed to work out OK - the place wasn't 100% full, or 120% full as I've heard of other events, and all the terraces and stands seemed to have some gaps for people to spread out in even on finals night. Now, why did we do this?? Not as people think to sting people for extra money, it cost us a fortune to organise this, printed tickets, auction fees, numbering every single seat, extra staff, extra time at the ticket boxes, extra hassles - would have given us a much bigger return if we just made everything General Admission and let people sort it out themselves... However, we heard there was a big call to do this as people don't want to have to turn up 6 hours early to find a good spot. Oh well, if it didn't work, I'm sorry we did the best we could and tried to make what people had asked for happen. To be honest, I doubt we would bother next time - you can please some of the people some of the time and all that... As to the NZ Supersaloons in two weeks time, of course this isn't quite as big an event, and its been a bit further away, so not so many tickets have been pre-sold yet. For this event we are now going to limit this to only the top row of the grandstand, blue plastic seats on the start/finish straight terrace, and the blue seats in front of the grandstand - so if you haven't got one yet, get in quick if you want it. These will have a reserved sticker on them for the ticket holders, otherwise get in early and sit wherever you want, we're not going through the same hassles again. Anything else? Just ring me like all the people who can't read a website and wanted to know the ticket prices, its ok, I didn't have much else to do
It was one of your security people (that is at every meeting) that took the tape down and was telling people they can go up there into the stands  |
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Post by chris13w on Jan 5, 2015 10:11:13 GMT 12
Well, what can I say, what a fantastic meeting, despite 16+ hour days - and to be honest, most of today has been spent asleep on the couch, so the rest of the weekend has now vanished... So, issues with seating: Firstly, let me just point out that we have spent a Lot of time and money improving the seating in the facility over the off season, to the tune of $150,000 dollars plus, and it is a huge improvement over what we had before. Regarding the main grandstand, this however is 30 plus years old (second hand when we got it) and is basically what it is, we can't easily change the size or shape of its seating THIS WAS MADE APPARENT IN ALL TICKET ADVERTISING - "IT HAS THE BEST VIEW, BUT LIMITED LEG ROOM". The ticketing team (and I was with them all day both days, so I know how much this happened) were swapping tickets around for anyone who had a problem, putting groups back together, or just trying to fix peoples problems - I saw some people come back 3 times before they were happy with the seats, all greeted with a smile and sorted out Friday night we had a couple of problems... Firstly, tickets had been sold in blocks, from the top down a few rows, then across to the next block, so the grandstand/terraces filled from the middle top and out and downwards, seemed the best way to give people the best view in the order they purchased them. On Friday night an "administrative oversight" (that's a cock up...) meant tickets for the three end bays weren't distributed to the ticket boxes, so those blocks were staying empty as the others filled up (which also couldn't be seen from the ticket gate as its behind the stand and it was busy there). At some stage someone decided to "fix" this by taking down the tape that was controlling access, people saw this and decided to swamp in and fill the spaces up... something akin to a "pitch invasion" then happened... Not much we could do to change that once it happened, there are only so many security people, but seats weren't full and there was still space. Night two went far smoother, tickets were spread around and filled up from top to bottom equally, pre-sold tickets got the best view, as said, if someone didn't like the grandstand, we put them somewhere else, filled up much more smoothly. Sure any event with thousands of people is going to get tight, luckily we are a pretty reasonably sized stadium, so I've been to far worse myself. So, what were the other hassles? I heard chairs was one of them - I personally went around with security both nights telling people to put these down, I was the short grumpy guy in the hi-vis... By the way, nice behaviour from the people who were racially abusing our security staff, seems they will listen to a short fat white guy though - if I'd heard it myself you would have found yourselves escorted off the facility, we're not taking that sort of crap to our staff. Other than that, you may have seen a few chairs 2 or 3 deep in some areas, we looked at that and in most cases found they were family groups and were only blocking their own family members, so we let them carry on. Also later on some people put their chairs up behind others on the gravel, again, we said no chairs on the grass, and these people weren't blocking anyone else who was there first, so that was OK. If you were at the end of the grandstand you will also have found that security and I moved the chairs forward so you could see past the grandstand, if you arrived later, you may have misunderstood this - second night we put cones and bars across there to make it obvious. To help people out who were arriving late we also had the carpark staff (who also did a fantastic job, notice how they pointed the cars in the right direction to get out, had cones set up, etc, etc?) and the gate security to turn people with chairs around so they didn't get all the way in then have to take them back to the car, same with chilly bins (yes, a couple got in early on, the problem with people using pit gate before all the security arrives, but pretty much we kept the place clear to maximise spectator space). What else can I say, that's pretty much how it went down, and overall it seemed to work out OK - the place wasn't 100% full, or 120% full as I've heard of other events, and all the terraces and stands seemed to have some gaps for people to spread out in even on finals night. Now, why did we do this?? Not as people think to sting people for extra money, it cost us a fortune to organise this, printed tickets, auction fees, numbering every single seat, extra staff, extra time at the ticket boxes, extra hassles - would have given us a much bigger return if we just made everything General Admission and let people sort it out themselves... However, we heard there was a big call to do this as people don't want to have to turn up 6 hours early to find a good spot. Oh well, if it didn't work, I'm sorry we did the best we could and tried to make what people had asked for happen. To be honest, I doubt we would bother next time - you can please some of the people some of the time and all that... As to the NZ Supersaloons in two weeks time, of course this isn't quite as big an event, and its been a bit further away, so not so many tickets have been pre-sold yet. For this event we are now going to limit this to only the top row of the grandstand, blue plastic seats on the start/finish straight terrace, and the blue seats in front of the grandstand - so if you haven't got one yet, get in quick if you want it. These will have a reserved sticker on them for the ticket holders, otherwise get in early and sit wherever you want, we're not going through the same hassles again. Anything else? Just ring me like all the people who can't read a website and wanted to know the ticket prices, its ok, I didn't have much else to do
It was one of your security people (that is at every meeting) that took the tape down and was telling people they can go up there into the stands That's not likely - we had a brand new security company for this meeting that have not worked at the Speedway before, so won't have been usual security people - and they did an excellent job even though they were new to the track. I believe it was actually a committee member who thought they would do a good deed by filling up the completely empty section with people who were starting to crowd the grass. It wasn't the best thing to do in hind sight as it started an avalanche into other areas as well. It wasn't done in consultation with the ticketing staff, which is why we made sure it didn't happen the second night. Best of intentions sometimes go astray, we're all human. |
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Post by BarryB on Jan 5, 2015 10:26:28 GMT 12
that explains all well said you've got 19 years until the next one Will be much sooner than that, providing they keep meeting the criteria!! Barry B |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2015 11:40:15 GMT 12
I note in the Wellington Speedway Trademe ad it said...
"...GA tickets will be limited to our free standing capacity, so when sold the gates will be closed for walk up ticket sales".
Are these claims credible, puffery (exaggerated advertising), or just plain nonsense?
Can anyone recall when fans were last turned away or declined access at the gate for a NZ Title at Te Marua (or any other NZ track for that matter), due to a full house?
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Post by kessa on Jan 5, 2015 12:02:28 GMT 12
I do hope it's sooner than 19years as I waited that long for its return then when it did I'm overseas!! Any word on the attendance both nights Chris13w???
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Post by chris13w on Jan 5, 2015 12:31:48 GMT 12
I note in the Wellington Speedway Trademe ad it said... "...GA tickets will be limited to our free standing capacity, so when sold the gates will be closed for walk up ticket sales". Are these claims credible, puffery (exaggerated advertising), or just plain nonsense? Can anyone recall when fans were last turned away or declined access at the gate for a NZ Title at Te Marua (or any other NZ track for that matter), due to a full house? As stated before, we were never 100% full - so didn't have to enact this - what we wanted to avoid was the complaints of profiteering by uncomfortably filling the facility to 120%, which has caused grief at other tracks. I'd say we were about 95% full on Saturday night? |
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