I would imagine he will be ok for the vast majority, as that should be around where I was at the same age.Good post. My lad too is as priveledged as you due to my points have always been able to get him a ticket via the ‘pull through’ he’s 15 with 17k points and had a season ticket since he was 3. I accept I can’t do this from next year so hoping he will be in the bracket when he qualifies in his own right for most always, be a shame and very unfair if this is snatched away by reducing the allocation to us seasoncards holders who have put the miles in.And spent f###ing thousands getting him to this stage with always being platinum on all the cup schemes. Not to mention the money virgin trains and the other rail companies have had out of me
I know platinum, cup schemes etc is not right but we were forced into this by city so how can they stop it now?
Where were our corporate ‘friends’ when we were shit ?
Im 16. Ive had a gold season ticket for 9 years (since 07-08) that's 190 points/season + cup games - total = 2915 points. At what age am I gonna be able to buy away tickets from the club?I don't think anyone has an issue with the Euro away's because of the cost in both time and money.
Which games would you ballot, say the 4/5 that have historically gone to the highest points or those that sold out at the lowest points without going to open sale? What about away cup games, do we have a ballot for those too?
Im 16. Ive had a gold season ticket for 9 years (since 07-08) that's 190 points/season + cup games - total = 2915 points. At what age am I gonna be able to buy away tickets from the club?
My dads loyalty in the 80s has been rewarded with around 7000 points.
The average game sells out at 12,000 and above
tell me why balloting a small number of tickets for non top 4 games is not a good idea.
Loyalty points and Platinum were already in place when we moved to the Etihad or no later than the season after. So that's well before 2011.The Club played on our heartstrings when they introduced Loyalty Points, it was to make us feel even more part of the Club that we love. Introducing Platinum meant that those who desired to go to away matches or wanted to be near the front of the queue for Final tickets paid more; remember this came in off the back of winning the FA Cup for the first time in 42 years. I think we can be sure at that time the Corporate take up for away tickets was minimal bar the usual suspect and the odd London match and this is why tickets now sell out at relatively high point levels. On that basis it would be appropriate to redress the balance to what we originally signed up for, and therefore any re-allocation of tickets should come out of the Corporate pot!
Platinum was introduced the week we won the FA cup 2011 to start the following season as I was offered Superbia (which I declined)Loyalty points and Platinum were already in place when we moved to the Etihad or no later than the season after. So that's well before 2011.
I'd say that loyalty points were introduced to encourage people to buy tickets for less popular games. We struggled to sell out any game, home or away, bar the derby in those days. Mancini's first FA Cup game was at Boro in January 2010 and the City end was maybe a third full if that. Nowadays we'd probably sell that out in 5 days. You could build your points up quite quickly in those days as you could get tickets for virtually every game. Bill was right in some of what he said but you simply can't do it these days. So I'd say it was 90% encouragement and 10% rationing before 2012, whereas now it's 100% about rationing and people are having to find ways to beat the system.
Platinum was, I'd say, just a money making scheme when we were desperately short of cash. In the early days it would have contributed about 5% to our matchday income stream and maybe 2% to our overall revenue. Now it's 1% and 0.1% respectively.
Loyalty points and Platinum were already in place when we moved to the Etihad or no later than the season after. So that's well before 2011.
I'd say that loyalty points were introduced to encourage people to buy tickets for less popular games. We struggled to sell out any game, home or away, bar the derby in those days. Mancini's first FA Cup game was at Boro in January 2010 and the City end was maybe a third full if that. Nowadays we'd probably sell that out in 5 days. You could build your points up quite quickly in those days as you could get tickets for virtually every game. Bill was right in some of what he said but you simply can't do it these days. So I'd say it was 90% encouragement and 10% rationing before 2012, whereas now it's 100% about rationing and people are having to find ways to beat the system.
Platinum was, I'd say, just a money making scheme when we were desperately short of cash. In the early days it would have contributed about 5% to our matchday income stream and maybe 2% to our overall revenue. Now it's 1% and 0.1% respectively.