Sooner away tickets are on a open ballot to all season ticket holders the better.
Loads will fuck off if or when this happens.......except us daft cuntsThe day those who have barely missed a match since they started tracking it, aren’t more or less guaranteed a ticket for the most popular games, will be a very sad day in club/ fan relations.
And then when this current cycle of success ends and no fucker is interested in a ballot anymore, you might find that a lot of those who were always there every week, have also lost interest.
i hate the effort jibe, most of us have gone to every game we can get a ticket for since weve been old enough to. we will never catch up and especially not now theres no points on offer. the majority of younger people on bigger points are those that have had parents that used and sometimes abused the junior pull through scheme, otherwise theres no way.The 18-25 thing is a ballot in effect, but even lacks that random nature, the worst of both worlds.
Lots of games have gone low this season, but the ballot boys only want the big games with zero effort.
The complaints only come when a high demand game sells out with no interest shown in other games.i hate the effort jibe, most of us have gone to every game we can get a ticket for since weve been old enough to. we will never catch up and especially not now theres no points on offer. the majority of younger people on bigger points are those that have had parents that used and sometimes abused the junior pull through scheme, otherwise theres no way.
i appreciate that, but my point is we arent all starting from the same point which i believe to be unfair for younger fans. a parents circumstances shouldn't change a younger fans "loyalty". two kids could have seasontickets for 10 years. one on platinum, one without, in the eyes of the club the platinum holder is more loyal... the whole system needs reforming.The complaints only come when a high demand game sells out with no interest shown in other games.
It took money and effort for the under 16 pull through too. You had to go to the ticket office as there was no other way until 11/12, and on the first day of sale normally.
Yep, sure you can go to southampton away on a week night in the cup but that doesn't even increase the chances of getting the popular aways even though you are putting in effortwe will never catch up and especially not now theres no points on offer.
Sooner away tickets are on a open ballot to all season ticket holders the better.
If people are talking of reforms the first thing that must be scrapped is the platinum / gold tickets. The £50 extra is just a scam, a money making scheme. Just because you are wealthier than someone else shouldn’t mean you have more chance of an away ticket. Next thing to go should be the selling of away tickets via an agency. Next thing should be that hospitality shouldn’t receive a guaranteed number of tickets for away games. Give them extra home tickets. Again tickets shouldn’t be linked to wealth
Point 2 should be first to go.If people are talking of reforms the first thing that must be scrapped is the platinum / gold tickets. The £50 extra is just a scam, a money making scheme. Just because you are wealthier than someone else shouldn’t mean you have more chance of an away ticket. Next thing to go should be the selling of away tickets via an agency. Next thing should be that hospitality shouldn’t receive a guaranteed number of tickets for away games. Give them extra home tickets. Again tickets spoint 3 shoyld be point 1houldn’t be linked to wealth.
Point 2 should be first to go.
Point 3 should go next.
Point 1 should go after that and should also incorporate, that all available tickets should be sold through the loyalty scheme.
But there is no chance of that because its easier to shaft the loyal fans than upset the money people .
The loalty points system is a disgrace. For a Gold member you get 190 points for bbuying tickets for 19 games but if you are a platinum member, as I understand it, on a cup scheme where you might not even attend a single match get you 200.
Points should also only get counted over a shorter period of time. Going to matches in 2004 should not be the decider of whether you get a ticket to Old Trafford or Liverpool etc in 2022. Its not fair a fight and risks a whole generation of fans accessing tickets for the biggest of matches due to there year of birth.
We have seen it with euro aways, when ticket checks were introduced, how demand fell because some were buying and then passing on to keep their points total up. It should not be a closed shop.
The corporate stuff just sums up the clubs priorities sadly and as much as I agree with you think it will only get worse.
Wasn’t the stopping of points for aways to stop people abusing it (buying them for the points and selling them on)?Or..... you could go back to collecting tokens from home and front pages from away programmes.
Oh hang on..... that would cost you £150+ a season!!!!!
The last bright idea was to stop away points which meant you would never catch up. Carry on moaning.
Or..... you could go back to collecting tokens from home and front pages from away programmes.
Oh hang on..... that would cost you £150+ a season!!!!!
The last bright idea was to stop away points which meant you would never catch up. Carry on moaning.
Not really sure what your point is to be honest. Each to their own but if you think buying loyalty points each season is a fair system that is on you.
And the thread is not really about me its the next generation coming through and their access to away tickets.
The next generation you mention is the same as the next generation I was behind 20 years ago. You'll get there in the end. Unless you want something for nothing.