I was way up on the left side, around row 20-23 (not presale tickets), last time in Portsmouth, and it was still a good view.
Last pre-sale I found out that if it doesn't get through after a few seconds, you probably need to get off the site and then re-try. There were not a lot of tickets, assuming they had all of the first 10 rows, that's 131 seats.
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