Away tickets

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Sounds like the club use the supporters clubs to get rid of tickets quickly. They obviously can’t be arsed with the supposed hassle of allowing us nobody’s the chance of getting tickets to some games.

Didn’t this happen for a midweek game at Newcastle last season? Think the fixture was near Christmas and the club were concerned about getting rid of the allocation so offered them out to supporters clubs and subsequently they sold out at a higher points level than anybody expected.

I seem to remember missing out by a matter of a few hundred points then finding out that this happened.

The whole relationship between the club and the SC is a bit wrong imo and in many cases tickets are getting in the hands of fair weather blues and not the die hards that SC defender TOTO claims
 
mcfcmatt said:
Well Wolfie we must go to different games pal as the ones I go to see empty blue seats...
For Burnley FA Cup game the other week supporters Clubs were allocated the Legends area.
For West Ham home I've had an email about Legends area and a price special offer.
The supporters clubs distribute more home tickets than you can think of however you are happy for corporates to take the away ones? which is puzzling indeed.
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This is a ridiculously bizarre take on this whole situation. At no point have I said I'm "happy" with the corporates taking an away allocation. I'm not happy about it in the slightest but I'm fully aware that this is not something we can change not the club have an appetite to change because of the revenue stream hospitality brings.

With regards to supporters clubs sorting home tickets, you're just proving all that is questioned about the supporters clubs. Why do only supporters club get offered these tickets in Legends? Are you telling me that members of supporters clubs are happy to dedicate themselves to a supporters club but not to a football match? That's unless they get a secret handshake ticket from the supporters club in a semi-hospitality area.

You've literally just proved with that post all that is flawed with supporters clubs. A case of your scratch mine and I'll scratch yours from the club. The club need to take a look at themselves if they are rewarding some fans different opportunities to others just because they are too lazy to be innovative and proactive in the sale of all tickets
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Here’s one Wolfe1988 and I can see arguments on both sides. I reckon there will be about 15,000 Supporter Club Members at Wembley a week on Sunday. If a third dropped out because it was much more difficult to plan transport etc then that’s about 5,000 empty seats for a Wembley Cup Final
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And about 30,000 at Wembley will be Seasoncard holders, what’s your point?
 
Tim of the Oak said:
When a game is moved to midweek, SC Branches have the choice to change the number of tickets they requested. That’s standard policy.

Btw, I got a few extra Blues in the game by travelling around Manchester on match day to pick up spares from Blues who couldn’t get the time off work.
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Just pointing out that the myth of ‘taking up the slack’ is bollocks.
Branches sent them back in droves, hence it going to lower points and the better atmosphere.

It’s disengenous to try and twist the discussion into hatred of the Supporters Club, it’s far from it. I’ve been a member of four different branches in my time and done a lot of work for them, some of which has been published.

However this thread is about away tickets and was requested in order to not detract from the City Matters thread.
Tickets is what the discussion is about, not the Supporters club and not the work of the Supporters club, it’s about ticket allocation. No one is criticising the Supporters Club or their members, we’re having a discussion about Manchester City’s ticket allocation, which some of us believe to be unfair to people with the points. Why is that so wrong?
One question that needs answering though “is the Supporters Club’s allocation an inalienable right and therefore not allowed to be discussed”?


The other myth being ‘you only get a ticket if you have the points if you are in a Supporters Club’.

You know that’s not true and have admitted it on here, as has Prestwich Blue and liamCTID. So why this pretence from members that all SC members have the right points to get a ticket?
Just the fact that you get your allocation before they go on sale to the plebs proves the point to be inaccurate and untruthful.

What independent seasoncard holders (at 44,000, double the members in the SC) are asking for is a fair crack of the whip.
Corporates and player allocation should be cut. There’s no need for a SC allocation with the new technology we have. Modification of Friends & Family could be a Supporters Club page for each branch with their members on it. The members log in to say they want a ticket and they are then allocated together so you don’t have to sit own your own, provided they have the points.
It really doesn’t matter how the tickets are sourced for making arrangements to sort travel, yet another myth.
 
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squirtyflower said:
Just pointing out that the myth of ‘taking up the slack’ is bollocks.
Branches sent them back in droves, hence it going to lower points and the better atmosphere.

The other myth being ‘you only get a ticket if you have the points’.

You know that’s not true and have admitted it on here, as has Prestwich Blue and liamCTID. So why this pretence from members that all SC members have the right points to get a ticket?
Just the fact that you get your allocation before they go on sale to the plebs proves the point.

What independent seasoncard holders (at 44,000, double the members in the SC) are asking for is a fair crack of the whip.
Corporates and player allocation should be cut. There’s no need for a SC allocation with the new technology we have. Modification of Friends & Family could be a Supporters Club page for each branch with their members on it. The members log in to say they want a ticket and they are then allocated together so you don’t have to sit own your own, provided they have the points.
It really doesn’t matter how the tickets are sourced for making arrangements to sort travel, yet another myth.
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Prestwich should invite you to assist on this matter for the meetings.
 
The first thing that needs to be addressed above all is how various tickets sites are obtaining away tickets. It can’t be right that home fans or declared neutrals are able to buy tickets for our away games and there have been many examples over the years. Supporters with high loyalty points are missing out and it’s not right. The second thing that needs addressing is the returns from sponsors, players etc. These need to be back with the club at least 10 days prior so that they can be sold to supporters with correct loyalty points. Get these two things sorted first and then deal with other ticketing issues.
 
I recently worked out from a table on my account on the fa website regarding attendance of England games how many fans have more caps/points than me. This is simply because if there was a game of very high demand (tournament) would I qualify? There are just over 6000 fans above me.As I said previously it is now a rolling system with points dropping off. While some information has been made available on here it would be nice for city to do something similar which would give us an indication of where we stand. The Info is just just numbers to points. Obviously if we are moving from the current system in a big way then it could be irrelevant.
 
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