A s**t away end full of tourists

[Eccles Blue]

Pep has spoken a lot about vocal away support being a big help to his players after big wins on the road.

And they've just sent us an email asking for that support again. :-)

 

[bainy]

Been following the thread on and off all day. This away ticket ballot rumour, bollocks or not, would finish the OSC’s off, as there is no guarantee anyone in a branch would get an away ticket, let alone fill a car, never mind a 50+ seater coach. Or am I totally not understanding how an away ticket ballot system works? The Rags have one, don’t they.

Rags have 2 systems. They have a protected loyalty pot(legacy high pointers) and a ballot other fans can enter (there are some rules to this).The loyalty pot have to apply for every game and a small proportion pick up in destination. You can transfer ur ticket (once or twice) but can easily be stripped of ur status if u break rules. When they introduce this over 10 years ago there were around 1300 legacy fans with protection. This group is now 600 or so. Rags published data for every away game detailing the number of tiks allocated to each group.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Ahhhh, the old flexi gold ticket fiasco where the club acted like it was doing everyone a favour and provided home tickets with a non returnable deposit of £150.00.

Just to be clear here I am not having a pop at those fans who bought the tickets I am having a pop at the cheek of the club in openly taking advantage of loyal blues desperate for a ticket.

And those flexi-gold tickets, 600 I believe, sold out in 10 minutes, so will be deemed by the club to be a success. Will the club try it again for next season as there are a lot more seats to fill? It bodes badly for future full season tickets.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Bish bash bosh sounds a keeper

 

[Franny 1234]

I dont care if its 8 seperate. Fuck the tourists.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts

 

[Blue Til Death]

Rags have 2 systems. They have a protected loyalty pot(legacy high pointers) and a ballot other fans can enter (there are some rules to this).The loyalty pot have to apply for every game and a small proportion pick up in destination. You can transfer ur ticket (once or twice) but can easily be stripped of ur status if u break rules. When they introduce this over 10 years ago there were around 1300 legacy fans with protection. This group is now 600 or so. Rags published data for every away game detailing the number of tiks allocated to each group.

Rag.. ! :-)

 

[Blue Til Death]

The worst I’ve ever seen it is the rags away a few seasons back, there was literally about 10 Chinese lads in our end, all carrying bags full of rag shit from their club shop … Cheeky twats..!

 

[Blue Mist]

i help run knutsford. we were told our "home" fixture was norwich...

Years ago a bloke I worked with was sent to pick something up from a different depot. Hours later, about 5, he rang up and said they had no knowledge of it.
He was in Norwich........he was meant to go to Northwich !
Perhaps they have made the same mistake?

 

[Dodge]

Years ago a bloke I worked with was sent to pick something up from a different depot. Hours later, about 5, he rang up and said they had no knowledge of it.
He was in Norwich........he was meant to go to Northwich !
Perhaps they have made the same mistake?

I've had exactly the same with Swinton & Swindon with one of our fitters. We also had a fitter once who called us from Hull saying he couldn't find Cheshire Oaks anywhere....he'd turned right onto the M62, not left.

I kid you not.

 

[Blue Mist]

Good point. We often complain that the media are effectively inciting aggression towards City fans. While I understand peoples' feelings, perhaps we're doing the same vis-a-vis these "tourist" stereotypes.

Good advice is to only worry about the things you can control, not the things you can't. Unless we turn to shit again, and we struggle to sell out games, or we go back to removing limits on the numbers of away fans and paying on the gate, it is what it is.

Even if all 2,800 tickets went to season ticket holders (and it's pretty certain that's not going to happen) 2,801 and lower on the list would still be moaning the system was unfair.

No, no and no again. It isn't a problem if Blues of any country qualify for tickets.
It is a problem when 8 people turn up at an away game in Barca shirts.
An away game that sold out to Blues at circa 27k points.
Like the Real Madrid disgrace of 2 years ago, it is our club saying fuck you.