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squirtyflower said:
I see so the people who just missed out aren’t genuine blues?

In your world the only genuine blues are in the Supporters Club, the rest are charlatans
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Hahaha. Keep making it up as you go along Squirty.

Take the few tickets that were returned for Newport. Time constraints would have meant a they could have only offered to people tomorrow on the website on a general sale basis!
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Hahaha. Keep making it up as you go along Squirty.

Take the few tickets that were returned for Newport. Time constraints would have meant a they could have only offered to people tomorrow on the website on a general sale basis!
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Why couldn’t they go back on sale at the level they sold out at or just below so if they sold out at 19,000 put them back on at 18750
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Hahaha. Keep making it up as you go along Squirty.

Take the few tickets that were returned for Newport. Time constraints would have meant a they could have only offered to people tomorrow on the website on a general sale basis!
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I don’t have to make anything up
Just pointing out your hypocrisy, its not difficult when you post the Parker will make sure they go to genuine blues.
 
Eds said:
Why couldn’t they go back on sale at the level they sold out at or just below so if they sold out at 19,000 put them back on at 18750
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It’s about the time available to put the tickets back on the website, select the points range (given a lot of people will have made alternative plans after missing out on a ticket) and time for tickets to be posted out and arrive or be collected. If Schalke had instead been a domestic cup game I expect the tickets would have been put back on same on the website.

I think other posters are driven by bitterness about allocations for Supporters Club Branches. Maybe all tickets should go to points (or more than currently happens) and that’s a debate we’ve had on this a forum many times. What I don’t like is posters picking on a guy who is going the extra mile to help more Blues get in to away games. I’ve posted before about the frustrating site at Bournemouth and Paris Away of rows of empty seats that weren’t made available to our fans. Posters can of course ask the Club to make last minute tickets available by points etc but it’s nit the Supporters Club’s problem.
 
squirtyflower said:
Supporters clubs sent back their Everton ticket allocation.
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When a game is moved to midweek, SC Branches have the choice to change the number of tickets they requested. That’s standard policy.

Btw, I got a few extra Blues in the game by travelling around Manchester on match day to pick up spares from Blues who couldn’t get the time off work.
 
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There is no need for supporters club allocations in this day and age. It is simply not a fair way of distributing tickets no matter how many people defend it and fress it up. Somebody please give me a reason why there should be a separate allocation to the the supporters clubs.

This is a fight that needs to be fought on behalf of all season ticket holders
 
wolfie1988 said:
There is no need for supporters club allocations in this day and age. It is simply not a fair way of distributing tickets no matter how many people defend it and fress it up. Somebody please give me a reason why there should be a separate allocation to the the supporters clubs.

This is a fight that needs to be fought on behalf of all season ticket holders
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Here’s one Wolfe1988 and I can see arguments on both sides. I reckon there will be about 15,000 Supporter Club Members at Wembley a week on Sunday. If a third dropped out because it was much more difficult to plan transport etc then that’s about 5,000 empty seats for a Wembley Cup Final
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Here’s one Wolfe1988 and I can see arguments on both sides. I reckon there will be about 15,000 Supporter Club Members at Wembley a week on Sunday. If a third dropped out because it was much more difficult to plan transport etc then that’s about 5,000 empty seats for a Wembley Cup Final
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I'm not talking about Wembley tickets. That's a whole different entity to the away tickets thread.

Why do we need supporters club allocations for away league, cup and European games?
 
wolfie1988 said:
I'm not talking about Wembley tickets. That's a whole different entity to the away tickets thread.

Why do we need supporters club allocations for away league, cup and European games?
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Supporters Clubs also distribute home tickets.
What do we say to them you can't do that any more home tickets only? And forget the travel arrangements you do..
 
wolfie1988 said:
I'm not talking about Wembley tickets. That's a whole different entity to the away tickets thread.

Why do we need supporters club allocations for away league, cup and European games?
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I answer these sort of questions all the time mate and I can see both sides of it.

It’s not just Wembley though is it. Nine Aways have gone to general sale this season. My mate reckons it’s 10. Our biggest demand away games are the rags, Liverpool (at weekends), Burnley and Huddersfield (and maybe Fulham). Anyone can get to the rest of the games if they have been a regular season ticket holder and gone to aways with minimal points. Huddersfield, Burnley and Fulham might get relegated meaning that calls for radical reform of the ticket allocation system is based on 2 or 3 or possibly 4 League games per season. I think improvements are needed but there is a danger of taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

I also think there are bigger priorities for City Matters like addressing the organised touting for home games by ticket agencies.
 
mcfcmatt said:
Supporters Clubs also distribute home tickets.
What do we say to them you can't do that any more home tickets only? And forget the travel arrangements you do..
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Another non-valid reason in an away tickets thread.

If you're a supporters club member, you're highly likely to be a club member too either as a Seasoncard holder, Cityzens member or just somebody with a purchase history. I'm sure people are capable of sorting their own home tickets out through official channels.

With regards to travel arrangements, if we're just talking away games, how does a branch who gets allocated 4 tickets for an away game fill a 50+ seater coach? Where do the other 46 people get their tickets from? Travel arrangements is not a valid reason for there to be a supporters club allocation for away matches
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I answer these sort of questions all the time mate and I can see both sides of it.

It’s not just Wembley though is it. Nine Aways have gone to general sale this season. My mate reckons it’s 10. Our biggest demand away games are the rags, Liverpool (at weekends), Burnley and Huddersfield (and maybe Fulham). Anyone can get to the rest of the games if they have been a regular season ticket holder and gone to aways with minimal points. Huddersfield, Burnley and Fulham might get relegated meaning that calls for radical reform of the ticket allocation system is based on 2 or 3 or possibly 4 League games per season. I think improvements are needed but there is a danger of taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

I also think there are bigger priorities for City Matters like addressing the organised touting for home games by ticket agencies.
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But then surely all away tickets should go to points with the exception of the corporate and internal allocations?
 
I think there are other issues that haven’t really been discussed in this thread.

Here’s one. Why do Slirts Options get such a easy ride but Tommy Cook’s get plenty of grief. Btw I have used both for several European aways and thought they both offer a good service.
 
wolfie1988 said:
Another non-valid reason in an away tickets thread.

With regards to travel arrangements, if we're just talking away games, how does a branch who gets allocated 4 tickets for an away game fill a 50+ seater coach? Where do the other 46 people get their tickets from? Travel arrangements is not a valid reason for there to be a supporters club allocation for away matches
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The branch I'm in were actually allocated 2 tickets for Newport not 4 however the travel secretary for the whole of the supporters clubs is putting on coaches for Newport away.
Does that answer that question?
 
wolfie1988 said:
But then surely all away tickets should go to points with the exception of the corporate and internal allocations?
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I see you are up for looking after the Corporates mate. Which players do you think we will be able to sign if we don’t provide tickets for their families?
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I think there are other issues that haven’t really been discussed in this thread.

Here’s one. Why do Slirts Options get such a easy ride but Tommy Cook’s get plenty of grief. Btw I have used both for several European aways and thought they both offer a good service.
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Sports options don't appear to have an agreement to sell a plane and take a percentage of an allocation for a Euro away
 
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