FANS COMPLAIN TO BOSSES ON TICKETS

30 August 2005

Angry Swans fans have complained directly to club bosses about ticketing problems for games at The New Stadium Swansea, it has emerged. It follows angry rows during the first few opening games at the £27 million showpiece stadium in which some supporters had major problems getting their correct ticket allocations.

It left some with too many and others with none at all.

Members of the club's supporters' trust have now made their views known to Swans chairman Huw Jenkins in a meeting last week.

Nigel Davies, who writes the club's unofficial fanzine A Touch Far Vetched, and who was at the supporters' meeting with Mr Jenkins, claimed the ticketing issue had turned into a fiasco.

He alleged: "It is proving to be a disaster.''Another fan said: " The stadium is great, a real showpiece.

"But I know a lot of people have been left very unhappy at the way ticketing for it has gone.''

A spokesman for stadium operators Stadco said 50,000 people had gone through the turnstiles to watch soccer and rugby games in its first month of operation.

He added: "Some initial issues with the ticketing did occur as the system bedded in and these are being resolved.

"Friday night's Ospreys match was a huge success, and suggests that the early teething problems are being overcome.

"Obviously Stadco will continue to monitor the situation in order to make sure customers get the best possible service."