A disgraceful undermining of the Ticket Points system - again

jrb said:
Each club got 28,500 tickets.

57,000 tickets in total.

Wembley’s capacity is 90,000.

So once again, the same question every season, where are the other 33,000 tickets going?

The lieing FA will tell us most are going to grass roots officials and people who support football, but that’s a load of bollocks. How many of those people who don’t support City or Chelsea will buy the tickets and traipse to Wembley to watch the match, hardly any. A large percentage of those tickets will end up on ticket touting websites. There’s your answer..
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Even for the FA Cup Final a lot of those level 2 seats are never filled. There are always some empty seats in that central tier.
 
3 of us going. All ST holders in the Cup scheme. Had to wait until 4pm when we all became eligible. I've been to every final and semi-final at the new Wembley and have never struggled to get 3 decent seats together at the second-cheapest price. Today was very different. Really not easy at all and the only reason must be the monumental fuck-up by the Ticket Office's handling of the OSC allocation (and I say this as a member of an OSC). I hope our fan representatives are prepared to take the club to task about this as it's right up there with the Real Madrid fiasco a couple of years ago in terms of pissing off loyal fans.
 
jrb said:
Each club got 28,500 tickets.

57,000 tickets in total.

Wembley’s capacity is 90,000.

So once again, the same question every season, where are the other 33,000 tickets going?

The lieing FA will tell us most are going to grass roots officials and people who support football, but that’s a load of bollocks. How many of those people who don’t support City or Chelsea will buy the tickets and traipse to Wembley to watch the match, hardly any. A large percentage of those tickets will end up on ticket touting websites. There’s your answer..
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It’s happened @EastMidlandsBlue . I actually can’t be arsed with it. This guy has been told before.
 
jrb said:
So once again, the same question every season, where are the other 33,000 tickets going?
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I went to both Trafford finals, courtesy of tickets given to a non league FA affiliated club. IIRC that club got 5-7 tickets , split between City and United ends.
They were on level 1, two sections along from the section behind the bench. 1st year I was right at front (I have a screen grab of close-up akanji throw-in with me in pic), 2nd year further back.
The tickets were given to the club, but to use them they/you still had to buy them - I presume if they weren’t sold, they’d go back to FA to re-sell… but who knows, as I didn’t have to do much to get them handed onto me, other than say ‘I’m a city fan’.

So, this was a single non league FA affiliated club, getting 5-7 tickets. Multiply that by every FA affiliated club, and that’ll be a fair whack of that 33k. Let alone the sponsors corporate ones.
 
jrb said:
Each club got 28,500 tickets.

57,000 tickets in total.

Wembley’s capacity is 90,000.

So once again, the same question every season, where are the other 33,000 tickets going?

The lieing FA will tell us most are going to grass roots officials and people who support football, but that’s a load of bollocks. How many of those people who don’t support City or Chelsea will buy the tickets and traipse to Wembley to watch the match, hardly any. A large percentage of those tickets will end up on ticket touting websites. There’s your answer..
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I twice bought Club Wembley tickets from a bloke at the golf club, 300 quid, he wasnt making money on it , it was the stipulated price, His corporate Club Wembley franchise or whatever they were called were a ridulous figure.
It seems they will never pay off that stadium, but I bet those FA people make a few quid out of it.
 
M18CTID said:
This is not true at all. While 1894 have had around 230 seats ringfenced, fans can only buy them when they qualify in their own right. For last year's final the singing section was about double the size that it is this year but dozens of fans who signed up to it never got a ticket because they didn't meet the criteria for buying a ticket before it sold out, and any tickets unclaimed went back onto the planner for qualifying fans to buy.

I can't speak for your rant about the OSC because I'm not au fait with that particular process but I suggest you stop spouting false information.
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Whilst I didn't know the details, my point still stands and I believe your response is disingenuous.

If it goes on sale to cityzens members which it usually does as level 2 is always slow to sell, there will still be £80 tickets ringfenced for 1894 group members, therefore non season card holders will be buying cheaper level 1 seats whereas season ticket holders who qualified beforehand will be paying £125 minimum.

Not to mention the atmosphere group has chosen that area as it's cheaper, not to help atmosphere.
 
hallsteve62 said:
3 of us going. All ST holders in the Cup scheme. Had to wait until 4pm when we all became eligible. I've been to every final and semi-final at the new Wembley and have never struggled to get 3 decent seats together at the second-cheapest price. Today was very different. Really not easy at all and the only reason must be the monumental fuck-up by the Ticket Office's handling of the OSC allocation (and I say this as a member of an OSC). I hope our fan representatives are prepared to take the club to task about this as it's right up there with the Real Madrid fiasco a couple of years ago in terms of pissing off loyal fans.
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I normally need 2 together for Wembley however my son can't go this time. If he could then we would have been way back in Level 5. As it happens in the Cup Scheme 4pm window I managed to get a single seat near the front so I'm OK. I am a member of a SC Branch however always prefer to select my own ticket and I know for a fact that there are many in our Branch who don't go to many games, have very few points, aren't in the Cup Scheme and yet had first dibs today. It was the same for last season's FAC Final. Ridiculous. Ticket points and Cup Schemes mean absolutely Fcuk All now.
 
cityutopia said:
Whilst I didn't know the details, my point still stands and I believe your response is disingenuous.

If it goes on sale to cityzens members which it usually does as level 2 is always slow to sell, there will still be £80 tickets ringfenced for 1894 group members, therefore non season card holders will be buying cheaper level 1 seats whereas season ticket holders who qualified beforehand will be paying £125 minimum.

Not to mention the atmosphere group has chosen that area as it's cheaper, not to help atmosphere.
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You say you don’t know the details yet you stated that anyone signed up to the 1894 singing section will get a ticket in there, regardless of whether they’re a season ticket holder or not. You basically thought anyone who had applied to go in that section could log on at 10am today and buy a ticket even if they didn’t qualify for a ticket, and instead of being disingenuous I pointed out that you’re utterly wrong on that.

Oh, and the reason why 1894 ringfences tickets in that area of the ground is because it’s the ideal place to do displays - it’s not practical to do a display up in Level 5. I don’t know how long you’ve been a City fan or how long you’ve been going to our games at Wembley but 1894 were organising singing sections on the front 10 or so rows of Level 1 in that stadium as far back as the 2017 FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal. I didn’t see you complaining back then about it.

Moreover, when all is said and done they’re still not the cheapest tickets in our end so I don’t know what your point is.
 
I've been to every Wembley game apart from one community shield when I was on holiday. 4 of us on the cup scheme and been to every game. The semi final we got a 3 hour window before everyone else could jump in. I've got to wait until Tuesday to get ours whilst a mate of mine living down South, not a season ticket holder and has done about 2 home games all season, one against Madrid, goes to a few aways through his supporters club has already got his and his lads Cup final ticket. I've had a season ticket since 1977 and am seriously thinking whats the fucking point in it anymore.
 
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aka blue jambo said:
Genuine question
Considering we get 30k odd tickets does it really make much difference?
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Got ours in first window on points pick of seats, hope those blaming the OSC all attended the semi. There are good branches and bad I assume, most branches I know give tickets for big games to those who travel on a regular basis and fill the transport.
 
hallsteve62 said:
3 of us going. All ST holders in the Cup scheme. Had to wait until 4pm when we all became eligible. I've been to every final and semi-final at the new Wembley and have never struggled to get 3 decent seats together at the second-cheapest price. Today was very different. Really not easy at all and the only reason must be the monumental fuck-up by the Ticket Office's handling of the OSC allocation (and I say this as a member of an OSC). I hope our fan representatives are prepared to take the club to task about this as it's right up there with the Real Madrid fiasco a couple of years ago in terms of pissing off loyal fans.
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Yeah. same here, 4pm window and where nornally the £50 and £80 seats in level 5 are quite ok for choice It was pretty much booked for a lot of the blocks, never seen that before
 
Blue2112 said:
I've been to every Wembley game apart from one community shield when I was on holiday. 4 of us on the cup scheme and been to every game. The semi final we got a 3 hour window before everyone else could jump in. I've got to wait until Tuesday to get ours whilst a mate of mine living down South, not a season ticket holder and has done about 2 home games all season, one against Madrid, goes to a few aways through his supporters club has already got his and his lads Cup final ticket. I've had a season ticket since 1977 and am seriously thinking whats the fucking point in it anymore.
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Blimey you've had a season ticket since 1977 and haven't managed 10k points
 
hallsteve62 said:
3 of us going. All ST holders in the Cup scheme. Had to wait until 4pm when we all became eligible. I've been to every final and semi-final at the new Wembley and have never struggled to get 3 decent seats together at the second-cheapest price. Today was very different. Really not easy at all and the only reason must be the monumental fuck-up by the Ticket Office's handling of the OSC allocation (and I say this as a member of an OSC). I hope our fan representatives are prepared to take the club to task about this as it's right up there with the Real Madrid fiasco a couple of years ago in terms of pissing off loyal fans.
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It was ok in top tier for me at that time. Got 3 together in row 8.
 
aka blue jambo said:
Was it not the same for the semi?
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Yep branches got as many as they asked for initially 20% of allocation, then got offered more whether they took them I don't know. To be honest for League cup final and charity shield we were surrounded by tourists who'd never attended a game. Against Utd 50% of our row were gutted Utd lost, I assume those attending final with at least be blues.
 
I’m sure it happened for palace last season and the semi final this season
 
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