Away tickets

thats out of order changing rules having taken s/t money and more particularly the platinum money

if thats the case, thats the Community Shield sacked off. I am not spending the time and money to watch a friendly in London
 
Hi We had a Ticketing working group meeting with the club yesterday & they announced this was going ahead. There is a communication going out about this & a couple of other agreed changes but we said they should have announced this prior to renewal (typical City tbh). They did agree that if anyone wants their £50 refunded they’ll do that although of course it also applies to seasoncard renewal & Cup schemes/home cup games and these account for more points than away games. Personally I’d love to see the back of Platinum altogether as I think it’s one of the daftest & most divisive things we’ve ever done. That’s the unanimous view of the rest of the City Matters committee as well so there’s no dissent among the group on that.

That is from our rep
 
I might be missing something here but how does anyone benefit from this new system?

A 5 year rolling points system was the answer imo.
 
We'll the whores are fucked now.

It'll be interesting to see how low points go for aways now.

I know it's all been done but it's a shame the Supports Clubs allocations aren't also put in the pot.

As usual the independent fans who go to aways are being treated like shite & I have no axe to grind as I'm not a regular away attender these days.
 
bluesmith said:
I might be missing something here but how does anyone benefit from this new system?

A 5 year rolling points system was the answer imo.
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The rolling points system was the best solution.

It would have allowed those who wanted to, to catch up and preserved the meritocratic nature of the system (which was it's biggest strength).
 
blue b4 the moon said:
We'll the whores are fucked now.

It'll be interesting to see how low points go for aways now.

I know it's all been done but it's a shame the Supports Clubs allocations aren't also put in the pot.

As usual the independent fans who go to aways are being treated like shite & I have no axe to grind as I'm not a regular away attender these days.
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I'm not sure how whores are fucked everyone of them has improved their position without any come back.
 
bluesmith said:
I might be missing something here but how does anyone benefit from this new system?

A 5 year rolling points system was the answer imo.
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I guess the benefit they see is they assume everyone with 20k points is a points whore who no longer goes to away games but buys the tickets to pass on in order to retain the esteemed title of 'points whore'
As those of us in this points category can no longer claim that title we will not bother to buy tickets leaving more for the real fans who joined us post 2008
 
Just a thought. City have not given points for pre-season friendlies for quiet a few seasons now. Have they judged this as a friendly and will start awarding away points for competitive games when the season begins???
 
berryblue said:
Just a thought. City have not given points for pre-season friendlies for quiet a few seasons now. Have they judged this as a friendly and will start awarding away points for competitive games when the season begins???
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Doubt it.... Given they marketed us as the fourmidables last season be a bit naive to now class one of our trophies as a friendly the following season
 
bluesmith said:
I might be missing something here but how does anyone benefit from this new system?

A 5 year rolling points system was the answer imo.
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It benefits the ones with the points already as it stands (fine by me), but people will understandably begin to kick off more so than up to this point.

I've tried to make sense of it, and the only way I can is as follows. The wish of the club is to try to manipulate opinion to justify getting rid of loyalty points altogether. That way the tickets can be sold to whoever is willing to pay the most.

Thomas Cook being guaranteed tickets in Europe is the thin end of the wedge.
 
Hypothetically, you have over 20,000 points and ...

... much as you love watching City home and away, part of the motivation to do Sunderland away in the League Cup in November, which for many of us involves using a day's holiday from work, is (was) the 'pull' of qualfying for tickets for Anfield and Old Trafford. If your place at the big games is guaranteed, because you've done the hard miles over the last 20 years or so, perhaps you'll now decide to skip a few of these less glamorous midweek games and use the money and time off work you save to take a holiday, after all you've been to the King Power 10 times now and there's no downside to missing the odd one.

... perhaps the moaners who 'can never catch up' will pick up the slack and our away support won't suffer at all.

One things for sure, if you want to destroy something that worked really well,but needed minor tweaking at most, then the new system should be designed by a commitee and have major input from an accountant with limited intelligence.
 
Surely if the platinum points are to end, it would be easier to let it carry on for the forthcoming season rather than refunding the £50.00, to various supporters.
 
colinthewindowcleaner said:
Surely if the platinum points are to end, it would be easier to let it carry on for the forthcoming season rather than refunding the £50.00, to various supporters.
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If they have scrapped away points I can see the 13k that have spent £50 being sold platinum for absolutely no advantage forming a queue.
Nice slice of income City have lost themselves!!
 
GortonBlue62 said:
Hypothetically, you have over 20,000 points and ...

... much as you love watching City home and away, part of the motivation to do Sunderland away in the League Cup in November, which for many of us involves using a day's holiday from work, is (was) the 'pull' of qualfying for tickets for Anfield and Old Trafford. If your place at the big games is guaranteed, because you've done the hard miles over the last 20 years or so, perhaps you'll now decide to skip a few of these less glamorous midweek games and use the money and time off work you save to take a holiday, after all you've been to the King Power 10 times now and there's no downside to missing the odd one.

... perhaps the moaners who 'can never catch up' will pick up the slack and our away support won't suffer at all.

One things for sure, if you want to destroy something that worked really well,but needed minor tweaking at most, then the new system should be designed by a commitee and have major input from an accountant with limited intelligence.
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Bingo
 
Looks like it might be a case of “dead mans shoes” for the big games if you don’t already qualify.
 
Have points been scrapped for certain or are people just guessing. Why was Platinum just not scrapped or is the club hoping people won’t notice or won’t ask for the money back?
 
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