squirtyflower
Well-Known Member
I don’t write a lot on Bluemoon put I always read and it interesting how people think about away tickets, we paid for platinum for loyalty points ( which I don’t agree with) but if you want to go these away matches you do have to put the hard yards you can’t expect to just go to the big games and people say young ones can’t catch up my lad is on 22740 pts and he’s 17 years old (it helps his mum and dad have got him his s/t at 2years old platinum as well) so it can be done.
Similar pro rata my lad is 15 and has just over 18k I could see this coming years ago when the platinum came in you had to be in it to win it and the same with the cup schemes which we were in when it was an additional 75points per season but cheaper than paying a booking fee of £2-50 when kids were £1 a cup match
He comes to every game with me apart from Europe away but couldn’t get him a spurs ticket
Still think tho that more tickets should be available to point holders
It seems you both had the foresight to see what was going to happen.
I think it was fairly obvious following the takeover that away tickets would be in short supply.
The first game I remember struggling to get tickets for was Schalke away in 2008, they sold out 20 minutes after my daughter got ours.
I woke up,and realised there were a lot of people had overtaken me in the pecking order.
Since that game I’ve been to about 90% of the away games and been in all of the cup schemes. I don’t pick and choose the biggest games, didn’t go to Liverpool,Spurs or Chelsea this year, I make the effort to go if I can.
The people against the points system are those who were slow off the mark, or want to pick and choose selected games (advise going corporate or join a Supporters Club) or have just joined their City journey.
The scarcity of tickets for the big games are the issue, and that’s because the cartel top slice 40% of the ticket allocation before they go on sale.
Five years ago they were creaming off 25% from the allocation, and next year it’s going to 45%. You don’t have this issue for the lesser games, where they take a smaller number of tickets as they can’t be arsed with them.
Most clubs give us 3000 tickets or so.
Five years ago that meant the 30,000 seasoncard holders were allocated 2,250 tickets, 1 ticket for every 13 seasoncard holder.
Now there are 42,000 seasoncard holders allocated 1,800 tickets, that’s 1 ticket per 23 seasoncard holder. Your chances of getting a ticket have halved.
Yet corporate have currently got a 1 in 4 chance of getting a ticket.
There’s an old adage that says “always follow the money to get to the route of the issue”.
It’s harder to get tickets because more are creamed off.
Just look how easy it was to get tickets for Cardiff, Hoffenheim, Spurs, Shakhtar, Lyon, Leicester (Cup), Southampton, Newcastle, Everton, the League Cup Final (!), Swansea, the FA Cup semi final (!) and Palace. The cartel didn’t need help or want help for those games, hence the rest can get them.