Away tickets

GortonBlue62 said:
The system that existed until the end of last season was not a monopoly, people rose and fell in the hierarchy depending on the effort they put in.

It was truly meritocratic and the people at the top deserved to be there; that's equitable.

In hindsight it was a wonderful thing, and as we're all stuck in the same position now, it will continue to be so.
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Prime bovine excrement. Bravo.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
There were still queues for a Celtic tickets around teatime because I was in one mate.

I think the wrist bands were shite anyway. If you’ve travelled. 5 hours each way to an away game I’m sure you’ve got 2 minutes to tell some ticket checker your name and the first line of your address.
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Okay I get it I will play along - maybe the queues for Bournemouth next month will be shorter if they can be picked up at a Malaysian friendly in July 2020. Seems like Northern rail has had a bastard child with city matters and it is defecating ideas, and the Socratic nonsense is not intentional.
 
Q-Blue said:
One thing we never seem to hear is the club pushing the opposing club into giving us more tickets. So many clubs have built new grounds or had extensive extensions and yet they never increase the away allocation. Bournemouth have had 4 or 5 years at the top table now, so the FA should be putting pressure on them to extend the away end or allocate more tickets as they must've had a fair few million out of the PL.
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This is Bournemouth last season in top flight xx
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I thought the Celtic collection would have been a lot easier if all the Blues who were down at Bournemouth the week before could have picked up their Celtic tickets then. That would have knocked a third off the queue for starters (and probably more given the privileges to Tommy Cook’s and Corporate).
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Celtic queuing in the rain was disgusting, Madrid away was a pain in the arse to get to,and spoiled other plans, not sure this is the answer unless a better more flexible central location is selected. Away European games especially are matches where people take gambles on late flights due to costs and people want to enjoy the trip, why should we ruin the journey
 
Maybe the answer is X% away tickets capped at £30 and the rest whatever is available at rate away club defines.

So for example £30 for 1000 tickets then £60 for over 2000 tickets for clubs that don't sell full home allocation, maybe mean we get 5000 for some matches

Might mean we get bigger allocation, ticket price Is usually much less than travel and sure we would all prefer bigger allocation where possible.
 
Corky said:
There were no queues for Celtic collections on the night of the game, everyone queued up fro 2/3 hours during the day.

I know what point you were trying to make and it was rubbish, especially with the paper wrist band that would not last long, and the assumption that fans have any time to queue at the 5 hr each way aways. 250 may stay over for Bournemouth from the NW, and maybe 50 tops for Swansea. You must have be glutton for punishment if you stayed over 4 nights in Swansea that year.
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I stood in the pissing rain for about 2 hours when it seemed some buses just jumped straight front of queue. A great away match spoiled by shitty weather and poor planning
 
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MadchesterCity said:
Celtic queuing in the rain was disgusting, Madrid away was a pain in the arse to get to,and spoiled other plans, not sure this is the answer unless a better more flexible central location is selected. Away European games especially are matches where people take gambles on late flights due to costs and people want to enjoy the trip, why should we ruin the journey
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I agree with you Manchester City that the queuing at Celtic was unacceptable and it was unnecessary in Madrid. I don’t think there should be any pick ups from separate locations to the game. One problem was checking everyone for European Aways was checking everyone, when a small sample (say 5 percent our away following) could be checked at the away grounds before people go through the turnstiles.
 
Corky said:
Okay I get it I will play along - maybe the queues for Bournemouth next month will be shorter if they can be picked up at a Malaysian friendly in July 2020. Seems like Northern rail has had a bastard child with city matters and it is defecating ideas, and the Socratic nonsense is not intentional.
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I’d be worried if Northern Rail was on my birth certificate lol.

Btw, I reckon a super fan like you could fit in a Malaysian friendly between Prem games!!
 
RACHACE said:
I'll be very surprised if checks are made on more than 4 Premier league away games this season.
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IMO it will be more than that, at least it will officially. The fear factor of being the one that gets 'selected' will stop people from abusing the system. I don't think they will ever announce how many are going to be selected, again for the fear factor to work. In reality I don't expect the amount 'selected' will be more than twenty or thirty people, it doesn't need to be.
 
Jordie said:
IMO it will be more than that, at least it will officially. The fear factor of being the one that gets 'selected' will stop people from abusing the system. I don't think they will ever announce how many are going to be selected, again for the fear factor to work. In reality I don't expect the amount 'selected' will be more than twenty or thirty people, it doesn't need to be.
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That fear factor doesn't work when they tell you before the tickets go on sale that it won't be 'collection at destination' such as West Ham.
 
worth a listen - Cheesy interviewing a few fans regarding ticket point changes including Matty Dove (18-25 City matters representative) -
 
There’s a huge difference between a few people abusing the system regularly and hundreds of people abusing the system occasionally.

In order to punish the former (if they really exist), we’ve put the fear of god into lots of blues who buy a ticket merely to help a friend.

That’s the reality, regardless of whether it’s good or bad.
 
Jordie said:
IMO it will be more than that, at least it will officially. The fear factor of being the one that gets 'selected' will stop people from abusing the system. I don't think they will ever announce how many are going to be selected, again for the fear factor to work. In reality I don't expect the amount 'selected' will be more than twenty or thirty people, it doesn't need to be.
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Fear factor??

Do we know the sanctions that will be imposed yet to create any 'fear factor'

Football is losing it big time now. Fear factor, I despair
 
Tonster said:
It's a premier league rule on away fans, nothing to do with the police for prem games. 10% of the ground capacity or 3,000 whichever is the least.
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It is yes, but the fa cup ruling used to be a minimum of 15% of tickets for away fans. United gave us less than 15% (Allegedly) due to police restrictions,
 
What exactly is a points whore? Is it someone who can’t attend a game but buys a ticket because a mate has asked if it would be possible? Is it someone who buys a couple of tickets for them and their mate who then on match falls ill and doesn’t go. The other person then comes on here and says they have a spare? Is it someone who buys a ticket and is then told two weeks later by their wife that the6 can’t go as she has booked a romantic night away. Guy moans and groans but sells the ticket at face value to his best mate’s son? Can someone let me know the definition of this so called person!
 
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