Ballot comes in and that’s me done fucking awful system that.
When you find out you get a ticket transport will be expensive so then you decide oh well I can’t afford that. So you get penalized and fucked to the bottom or banned from applying
"As a point of principle, we want young fans to be able to go to away games"If people are arguing for that reason then no. But if people are arguing because the system quite clearly needs reforming and means that younger fans will always be at a disadvantage then I'd say they were arguing out of principle.
It affects the minority now, whereas you want it to affect everyone, forever.Same applies for people on low/no points now. They find out that they're gonna be able to buy a ticket at the last minute and prices go up. They don't buy a ticket, fall further behind in the loyalty points race, and potentially miss tickets for the next match. Just because it doesn't affect you now doesn't mean it doesn't affect others.
It affects the minority now, whereas you want it to affect everyone, forever.
I think the issue is that personal circumstances could put you at either end of a rolling 5 year spectrum in terms of points.
Imagine we all started on Zero tomorrow, 35,000 STHs. Say half are on Platinum (£ 50)they go to 380 points and half on 190. Then cup schemes and so on. So before a ball is kicked, Jimmy who has a deeper pocket then most and in the position to expend on travel and schemes who got his ST in 2019 could be in the top 5% of points and therefore able to get all away games.
A Spurs mentioned it a few pages back (pg13) and they tried it between stadium changes and appeared to not show daylight between Loyalty and "Lately". He also pointed to different financial and family situations which we all go through at one point or another.
- family, financial ability, travel, Career and others things can all affect the ability of a city fan to build points over any 5 year period. So many stories of fans saying they cant go because they are overseas, getting married, kids, retired/retiring etc. Personally @ 27yo my money goes to holidays and the house these days that im limited to Home league games only with no aways or cups. (odd Champions league).
Yeah the minority. 54,000 can't go to away games and most of them dont want to (which is why half the games went to general sale).The minority?
How many people can guarantee they'll be able to go to every single away game? About 1,500 maybe? We get 54,000 a week and probably have a fan base at least 10 times that number.
Supporter Services dont seem to want to reply however I have had a response from Colin / PrestwichBlue as follows
"We thought it had been decided some time ago but it seemed the club were having second thoughts at the end of last season. However they told us at a meeting on Monday that they were doing it. Could’ve been communicated better tbh."
so the new shit system which benefits very few is going ahead, no Ticket Points for away games. really please we were all included in the consultancy of this
Great news I don't have to go to all the crap night matches away at the other end of the country just to keep in front of the Johnny come latelys and the I only want to go to the big matches brigade.
Thank you City and our City reps you have made it impossible for anyone to catch up with the top point holders as they will maintain their points differential by attending home matches
The notion that people who buy platinum have deeper pockets is another myth peddled, I have never wanted to pay for it, but accepted if i didn't i would lose my place, to alter the criteria is very wrong, and bordering on illegal, and that's why it has stayed in its now token status.