A disgraceful undermining of the Ticket Points system - again

It should be simple

If join a supporters club you can apply for away tickets, if you are a season card holder from the pot allocated to them (max 1 per tickets per 100 OSC members. so if 300 memember they get 3) if you are elogible under the normal criteria why would you need to go through a OSC anyway

However for finals you should have to meet the criteria of the ticket allocation as well before being able to get one.

or as with previous years the Cat 2 tickets in one block are the allocation and you don't get to choose, again if you qualify through normal means why apply through an OSC anyway, that just seems pointless

From what I know from a few who are in some joined to get a seat on a coach for aways as well as a chance of a ticket.
 
BillCarlisle said:
We have more than a hundred members in our SC Branch, probably one third of whom we never see. We normally have 40 to 50 on our matchday bus for PL games. For Cup games it's much less, in fact for the Exeter FA Cup Tie we had only 14 (yes only 14) the great majority of us being being cup scheme season ticket holders.
Now, from out of the woodwork, came many of the no-shows who were given priority for the final over most if not all of us who went to those earlier rounds. I would like to hear how the club justifies this sort of arrangement.
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It’s easy Bill don’t take the tickets surely a SC can self manage ?
 
If OSC members not on the cup scheme were able to buy tickets ahead of those who are on the cup scheme then it would seem that City are in breach of their own Terms and Conditions: https://www.mancity.com/meta/media/pntpioep/final-2025-26-season-ticket-tcs.pdf

Given that as a members of the Cup scheme we had to purchase tickets for an FA cup game that we couldn't attend in the earlier rounds (due to other commitments made before the fixture was even drawn) and for which we were unable to even give our tickets away then will the club provide a refund?

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pottsy said:
the bloke from India won fair and square though, democratically based upon the rules set out by the club at the time ?

He could have theoretically have joined meetings remotely ?

There is an argument to say club meet OSC (KP) all the time anyway so there is no need to be on another panel. Otherwise it looks like a stitch up. Mr Parker is also on the Citymatters ticketing sub committee so good luck anyone hoping for an investigation
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I don't mind sensible discussion but this post is pure stupidity. What could some guy in India, who's never been to a game, and couldn't find Gorton, Brooklands or Bredbury on a map sensibly contribute?

The club fucked up, because they don't think things through properly.
 
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urban genie said:
It should be simple

If join a supporters club you can apply for away tickets, if you are a season card holder from the pot allocated to them (max 1 per tickets per 100 OSC members. so if 300 memember they get 3) if you are elogible under the normal criteria why would you need to go through a OSC anyway

However for finals you should have to meet the criteria of the ticket allocation as well before being able to get one.

or as with previous years the Cat 2 tickets in one block are the allocation and you don't get to choose, again if you qualify through normal means why apply through an OSC anyway, that just seems pointless

From what I know from a few who are in some joined to get a seat on a coach for aways as well as a chance of a ticket.
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Just on this:
" 3) if you are elogible under the normal criteria why would you need to go through a OSC anyway". The answer (in my OSC anyway) is that older members with loads of points want to travel and sit with other OSC members who don't - so they apply through the branch and we travel together.

Appreciate the wider questions/concern ref. OSC's in context of the Final - but think this is an important aspect to why clubs exist, meet and travel together
 
kippaxed54 said:
Just on this:
" 3) if you are elogible under the normal criteria why would you need to go through a OSC anyway". The answer (in my OSC anyway) is that older members with loads of points want to travel and sit with other OSC members who don't - so they apply through the branch and we travel together.

Appreciate the wider questions/concern ref. OSC's in context of the Final - but think this is an important aspect to why clubs exist, meet and travel together
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Which my last sentence was saying, some join to travel together and ensure tickets can be grouped if possible
 
jrb said:
No, that bit isn’t news, you’re right. Did Sir Kevin tell you in person Tim?

As for the 3 week gap, that’s an excuse. And that’s all it is. That won’t wash as the reason for this sorry mess, if that’s what you’re trying to imply?

Hopefully Hearts will in the SPL. It would make a nice change from the two Old Firm clubs winning the SPL all the time.
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I am a nobody in terms of decision making in the OSC mate. Yes Sir Kevin was incredibly kind when my mate had terminal brain cancer. Support like that, you don’t forget in a hurry.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I don't mind sensible discussion but this post is pure stupidity. What could some guy in India, who's never been to a game, and couldn't find Gorton, Brooklands or Bredbury on a map sensibly contribute?

The club fucked up, because they don't think things through properly.
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Spot on PB
 
BillCarlisle said:
We have more than a hundred members in our SC Branch, probably one third of whom we never see. We normally have 40 to 50 on our matchday bus for PL games. For Cup games it's much less, in fact for the Exeter FA Cup Tie we had only 14 (yes only 14) the great majority of us being being cup scheme season ticket holders.
Now, from out of the woodwork, came many of the no-shows who were given priority for the final over most if not all of us who went to those earlier rounds. I would like to hear how the club justifies this sort of arrangement.
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Isn't this a matter for your local branch? Presumably they applied for the block tickets and distribute them to branch members?
Yes of course it remains an issue that they have prior access over many others but this issue and thread wouldn't exist if supporter clubs didn't dish tickets out to the non deserving. That's not a Kevin Parker issue (though he and the committee could maybe vet more as to who each ticket goes to) but a local branch issue.
 
So there’s hundreds of £50 tickets left and there might be more to follow, if we get an expanded allocation. (Possibly returns would be more expensive).
 
leithblue said:
My experience of the OSC is me and my eldest applying to join one. Me with a season ticket and 20k+ points was told I could join.

My eldest with 3k points was told he couldn’t.

Ironically I was secretary of a branch in the 90s that we had to wind up as it was just a handful of us turning up and going to games.

Seems very different now.
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Guessing it was the same one i applied to. the questionnaire said (to paraphrase) 1) do you have a season tickets and enough points for away tickets - YES 2) do you use your season ticket yourself for away games - ALWAYS. And as a result i wasn’t accepted - because i was of no use to the Edinburgh supporters club
 
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