A disgraceful undermining of the Ticket Points system - again

Needs a rethink. Season tickets and loyalty points should entitle you to buy league away matches. There should be other means of buying cup tickets. In the event of getting to any final why not allow priority to those who are season ticket holders but have also attended most cup matches at home and/or Wembley that season irrespective of points? Eg. This season we’ve played ten matches in cups at home plus two so far at Wembley.
Window 1: STH + 12 cup games
Window 2: STH + 11 cup games
etc.
Will encourage attendance in the early rounds and exclude those who can’t be arsed joining cup schemes until they crawl out of the woodwork for the final.
When all demand has been satisfied the window is then open for whatever the club decides.
 
cityutopia said:
The first time it happened in this way was 4 hours ago where they have a pick of any seat during the first window. This is a new level of fuckery.
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The whole thing stinks from top to bottom, how has this been allowed to happen? I've got my tickets now albeit in a place I didn't initially want, but the point is that people who are part of OSCs who have done next to fuck all games this season have jumped the queue ahead of me. Needs explaining by the club.
 
didsburyblu said:
Yep I agree however for a standard away game you're all stuck in the same area be it behind goals, down sides, lower or upper tier. Here you have loads of different options all over the west side of the ground to hoover up the best views before those who have bought into the FA cup scheme on the promise of 'priority' to find that the citizens matchday member with 100 points whose attending his first FA cup game of the season is sat in the seats he wanted.
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Fair enough, I do think it's a common debate here, however I certainly see your point. The club have got this one badly wrong
 
I'm a ST holder and on the FA Cup scheme (I did Exeter & Salford). My purchase window is 13:00 on Tuesday and it looks like I could be feeding on scraps, while OSC chancers get what they want when they want. FRO City.
 
ftg89 said:
All 21 of our branch got one, there are people who applied who haven’t been to a single game this season and I know a few who have been to 1/2 in the last few years!
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That's on the branch chairman surely. If he doesn't give a fuck about Blues who put the miles in all season and join the schemes to qualify, neither will the branch members.
 
I sorted my tickets today at 10 via points but we received a message yesterday from our branch saying that everyone who applied (I have no idea how many that was) has received a ticket. It's wrong and whilst I have no issue with tickets being allocated to branches it should be done fairly. And there is a strong argument for most UK branches that everyone should apply for a final via the loyalty system.

Is the original questions asked by the OP something that City Matter can take up with the club. They fucked up not that long ago with the Real Madrid tickets, IMO they fuck up most away games by giving far too many to sponsors / corporates. If these companies are only involved with the club to pick up away tickets then there is something wrong with the sponsorship. Give them more home tickets, leave the away tickets for genuine fans not hangers on. Now they have fucked up the FA Cup final allocation.
 
I’m a season ticket holder, not on the cup scheme and a member of an OSC. I’ll wait my turn and see what left next week. My brother in law is not a season ticket holder but has got a Wembley ticket through his OSC. The same way he gets away tickets, Champions league tickets etc. Why bother to pay out for a season ticket, cup scheme and watch inconvenient early stage matches when you can have pick of the crop?
 
Our club asked for bids I assumed they would get them later or the more expensive ones turns out you could get what you wanted at 10am! I didn’t apply as I assumed been on the cup scheme I’d have more chance, seems not, I could’ve applied and had first pick. It’s not right, you should only get one if you’re on the cup scheme first.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Our club asked for bids I assumed they would get them later or the more expensive ones turns out you could get what you wanted at 10am! I didn’t apply as I assumed been on the cup scheme I’d have more chance, seems not, I could’ve applied and had first pick. It’s not right, you should only get one if you’re on the cup scheme first.
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Was it not the same for the semi?
 
Blue Maverick said:
Our club asked for bids I assumed they would get them later or the more expensive ones turns out you could get what you wanted at 10am! I didn’t apply as I assumed been on the cup scheme I’d have more chance, seems not, I could’ve applied and had first pick. It’s not right, you should only get one if you’re on the cup scheme first.
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Completely undermines the cup scheme and having first dips and choice of final ticket.
 
aka blue jambo said:
Genuine question
Considering we get 30k odd tickets does it really make much difference?
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Yes.

There will be season card holders paying minimum £125 potentially £200+ on Wednesday to snap up the last remaining tickets whilst big game Bob from Bacup gets a front row £80 ticket for his 2nd game of the season.

It's about fairness and respect of our long standing system.
 
There's 3 of us, all high points (>20K) Season Cards, 1 on the cup scheme, 2 not. Before we get the "you should have all joined the scheme" comments the restrictions on transferring tickets makes this unattractive if you're unsure whether you'll be able to attend all rounds, given it might end up as some random Friday night game. As its turned out, we've been to all the home FA cup games this season.
For the past 3 FA cup finals (2 of which have been against Trafford Red Sox, a "local derby" and allegedly very high demand) and the Carabao Cup Final vs our new fiercest rivals we have had no trouble at all getting 3 good Category 2 tickets together at the side of the pitch. But for this more "standard" one we don't qualify until next Tuesday 4pm, a full 3 and a half days after every single random OSC member who may or may not have been to a few games. From what others have said we'll be looking at scraps or way up in the gods.

After the Real Madrid fiasco a few seasons ago I thought they could never screw things up as badly again, but I have been proved wrong.
 
To add insult to injury, there are loads of OSCs that don't even really vet members. I know of clubs where some of their members have neither visited them once nor live anywhere near them. They've simply been joined to circumnavigate ticket allocation criteria. I know of people who get tickets for pretty much every big game this way.
 
antspider said:
All 44 people at my local supporters that applied for a ticket got one..
I must admit I was surprised ..
I didn't apply even tho I probably won't get a ticket with my points
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It’s like they don’t have a fucking clue mate.
Let’s hope the arse doesn’t fall out of English football like it has in Italy.
They are trying their best to piss off the wrong people.
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
The points scheme should have carried on as it did (minus the platinum and gold bullshit) with points awarded for all away games.
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I actually disagree with this even though i disagreed with them stopping it when they did and essentially dreezing everybody in place. There has been a small but noticeable downturn in people buying every available away ticket for points and passing them on if needs be. Not a massive difference but a small one in the right direction.

JOGAMIGMOG said:
Needs a rethink. Season tickets and loyalty points should entitle you to buy league away matches. There should be other means of buying cup tickets. In the event of getting to any final why not allow priority to those who are season ticket holders but have also attended most cup matches at home and/or Wembley that season irrespective of points? Eg. This season we’ve played ten matches in cups at home plus two so far at Wembley.
Window 1: STH + 12 cup games
Window 2: STH + 11 cup games
etc.
Will encourage attendance in the early rounds and exclude those who can’t be arsed joining cup schemes until they crawl out of the woodwork for the final.
When all demand has been satisfied the window is then open for whatever the club decides.
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You've just reinvented the cup scheme mate.

aka blue jambo said:
Genuine question
Considering we get 30k odd tickets does it really make much difference?
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£45 per person difference.
 
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