Yes I do EVERY city
I think ALL city fans should have exactly the same chance of a ticket.......there is no such thing as a special or super fan!
If 5000 of us would like to go to Brighton then we ALL want to go with the same level of desire. What happened twenty or thirty year ago is irrelevant!
That is the argument WE level at Liverpool isn't it? All the history bull......it is today that matters.
The game itself fights for equality? Why do we love football? Because on the pitch we are all the same?
Your argument says but in the stands we not all the same.....some of us are special cos we went to York away!
Equality,transparency and that solves it . To argue different makes you look a little foolish.
The atmosphere was good before the introduction of the loyalty point system is a myth.When I started from scratch I wasn’t 23000 points behind the people at the front. I was at scratch with everyone else.
Anyone starting from scratch now will take them more years to get to 10000 points than it did for me to get to 10000 points because they won’t be able to go to as many games as I could at the same stage. By that time they will be even further behind the people at the front than they were when they were at scratch.
It’d take someone about 250 years to catch up to be able to go to every game if they started from scratch now even if they were in a position where they could go to every game because of age/finances/family responsibilities/hunger and they are no less deserving of being able to do what I’ve done over the last 19 years of the Loyalty Points system, just because I happen to have started from scratch at a better time than someone doing so now.
I think our away support has become a boring stale old-boys club who often bring no atmosphere to away games. We had a better away atmosphere before they Loyalty Points system came in. We always have better atmospheres away from home when it goes down to low points or open sale or when we used to get full away ends when bigger away ends were available like Blackburn or Bolton. Because it’s not the same old same old who are deep down fed up of bouncing around and making a racket.
Just because I have a healthy number of Loyalty Points doesn’t mean I think the system is what should remain just because it suits me and I’ve “put the years in”. Putting the years in means precisely nothing. My support for City doesn’t mean any more than an 18 year old who’s just starting out buying his own tickets away from his Dad now, he’s just like I was when I was 18 and should have the same opportunity to watch City as I did from that age, not be limited because people like me have put the years in.
You must be that special, super fan I mentioned.....sorry to offendThere is hardly a word or phrase on your post I agree with. We will have to agree to disagree.
Looking at the number of young uns at high point games when they can't possibly have enough points, and they can't have all come from supporters clubs so they must be getting them from people that aren't going to aways but want to keep there points highHonestly time for a random lottery for aways....sorry.
You may have started going 30 years ago but love city no less/ or more than say a 18 year old fan!
If it was totally random and all you had to do was registered interest to be in draw how could anyone complain it's not fair......
You must be that special, super fan I mentioned.....sorry to offend
Honestly time for a random lottery for aways....sorry.
You may have started going 30 years ago but love city no less/ or more than say a 18 year old fan!
If it was totally random and all you had to do was registered interest to be in draw how could anyone complain it's not fair......
That’s better than me. I didn’t so much disagree and not even understand most of itThere is hardly a word or phrase on your post I agree with. We will have to agree to disagree.
Not sure platinum has been going for 15 years. You must have taken him to plenty of away games when he was very youngI 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 matchI 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.
Well when platinum was introduced he was on it but I bet it’s close to 15 yearsNot sure platinum has been going for 15 years. You must have taken him to plenty of away games when he was very young
We have only been at the new stadium that length of time but I take your pointWell when platinum was introduced he was on it but I bet it’s close to 15 years
The start of the 2011/12 seasonWell when platinum was introduced he was on it but I bet it’s close to 15 years
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Sorry to point this out again but this only comes up when its the more sort after games, I'm sure there are people dipping in and out of this thread who probably weren't reading it constantly when over 10+ games this season have gone on sale to any season ticket holder.
One of the biggest issues was City putting the word "loyalty" on to points all them years ago, as it is still something people call them. The word itself makes this issue more emotive than it already is.
I sound like a broken record on the subject but it is not a closed shop, if you want to get to the higher points you have to put the graft in with the less attractive fixtures. I was 5/6 years behind away game regulars when I was 18 in 2006 and as I have said much earlier in the thread, I was lucky that when I started to go a lot City were only taking half allocations and apart from (like now!) the more sort after games.
If it goes to a ballot then I reckon we'll take less than we are now, I don't think it will encourage more people to go, you'll just get the people who went to TNS away and the final vs Wigan claiming a conspiracy when they cannot get a derby ticket in a ballot
Come on not all games sell out at that loads go below thatThats not exactly right thougg all games sell out before 16500 points so anyone below has no chance of getting a shout I went home and away for years as did many of my mates, but took a year or two off aways for financial reasons and unavoidable, it was the same time platinum kicked in and so others passed me by them 2 season (did maximum 5 aways each) left me hamstrung, plus refusing to go platinum.
I know people now who cannot affford all aways but are so worrid of dropping out of the chance that they buy a ticket and sell it at face or lend their points out to mates so not to fall behind.
The system is broken and was even more fucked up by hospitality suites getting automatic away tickets