Away tickets

[mcfcmatt]

I'm suggesting a fair system where the normal non-corporate fan gets their away ticket through the same channel with a ticket in their name

Well that doesn't seem very fair to us none-corporate fans? I'm guessing you are corporate?

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I have no issue with the corporate or the internal allocations. I have issues with the splitting of the allocation between normal matchgoing supporters.

We will have to agree to disagree on this Wolfie. The Corporates will continue to get a bigger slice if the cake unless we object.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

What do you call minimal points?

Pretty sure arsenal, West Ham and Chelsea all sold out at around 16000.

If your under 16000 then unless it’s cardiff or Southampton you’ve no chance unless it’s midweek for the majority of games, not the few you’ve mentioned.

I’ve overlooked England's Second City there!

 

[Chappie]

So we now understand that a supporters club member is getting 3 bites at getting a ticket for an away fixture as opposed to a normal fan on the loyalty scheme
1 supporters club
2 loyalty points
3 any tickets that you can scrounge off the club
How many more options do you want, to obtain a ticket.
All we ask is a level playing field .

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

There is no need for supporters club allocations in this day and age. It is simply not a fair way of distributing tickets no matter how many people defend it and fress it up.

I appreciate there are opposing views on this but you simply can't say that giving tickets to people who are by definition supporters isn't "fair".

Branches were getting tickets long before we had points or hospitality customers, because it was an easy way of distributing tickets in the pre-internet days. They probably get far less currently than they used to. Personally, as I've said before, I'd like us to look at the whole way we distribute tickets in light of where we are now, both technology and demand-wise.

My own preference would be to reduce hospitality to 10%, like they do at United (who've got many more hospitality customers than we have) and give the rest to season ticket holders, bar the club allocation of around 5%, which would mean 85% of tickets going to ST holders. I'd give 75% to points and put 10% to a ballot.

 

[Chappie]

I appreciate there are opposing views on this but you simply can't say that giving tickets to people who are by definition supporters isn't "fair".

Branches were getting tickets long before we had points or hospitality customers, because it was an easy way of distributing tickets in the pre-internet days. They probably get far less currently than they used to. Personally, as I've said before, I'd like us to look at the whole way we distribute tickets in light of where we are now, both technology and demand-wise.

My own preference would be to reduce hospitality to 10%, like they do at United (who've got many more hospitality customers than we have) and give the rest to season ticket holders, bar the club allocation of around 5%, which would mean 85% of tickets going to ST holders. I'd give 75% to points and put 10% to a ballot.

.If I am reading this correctly I totally agree with you
Are you advocating that the supporters clubs no longer get an allocation for away matches

 

[wolfie1988]

Well that doesn't seem very fair to us none-corporate fans? I'm guessing you are corporate?

No I'm not a corporate. Not until I win the Euromillions anyway. I'm just a bog standard season ticket holder with enough points to get me to pretty much every away game bar the ones with extremely low allocations.

The corporate allocation is a fight none of us are winning. Corporate is clearly a great source of guaranteed income for City and something us normals are not going to be able to change, as much as we want to.

 

[wolfie1988]

We will have to agree to disagree on this Wolfie. The Corporates will continue to get a bigger slice if the cake unless we object.

It's a fight we're never winning that one I'm afraid. I'd rather they got 0% of the allocation but we all know City will pander to them. Them selling them on to 3rd parties is something that City will never have an appetite to sort either as they don't want to upset those spending the big bucks on hospitality.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

.If I am reading this correctly I totally agree with you
Are you advocating that the supporters clubs no longer get an allocation for away matches

I don't really mind how it's done but I think hospitality get far too many and we are out of line with what other big clubs do, plus people without the points shouldn't automatically be excluded from getting tickets for away games. If that's via a ballot of SC's then I'm not too bothered. I'd look at giving SC's near away grounds some tickets though.

 

[mcfcmatt]

No I'm not a corporate. Not until I win the Euromillions anyway. I'm just a bog standard season ticket holder with enough points to get me to pretty much every away game bar the ones with extremely low allocations.

The corporate allocation is a fight none of us are winning. Corporate is clearly a great source of guaranteed income for City and something us normals are not going to be able to change, as much as we want to.

However these Corporate Jonny come laters who flash the cash you are more than willing to allow away tickets to..
however a supporters Club who got 2 tickets you want to close down as it's worthless and unfair?