Away tickets

[squirtyflower]

I've searched an old thread and found the list compiled by @squirtyflower

Chelsea (CS), Cardiff, Hoffenheim, Spurs, Shakhtar, Lyon, Leicester (Cup), Southampton, Newcastle, Everton, the League Cup Final (!), Swansea, the FA Cup semi final (!) and Palace.
Didn’t not sell out or sold out at general sale.

Arsenal, Wolves, Liverpool, Chelsea, West Ham, Watford, Leicester (league) and Schalke, and Fulham all sold out at 17k or less (a lot less for some).

By my reckoning we played 31 games away from home/neutral. You could have gone to 14 out of the 31 with no points. So I suppose you're right, its not quite half.

If only I’d read this 12 minutes ago

 

[Wilmslow Road]

The new system isn't to my liking, no. But there are positives to it and the fact that the clubs are trying to reform the existing system and water down platinum is a step in the r

This is a step to abolish the points system.
Heaven help us with what they will come up with next season.
Probably hand over distribution of all away tickets to Ticketmaster. Sell out in under 2 mins only to find them all for resale immediately on Ticket Tout Sites.

 

[GortonBlue62]

6 league games
3 Euro aways
2 cup finals
1 league cup away game
1 fa cup away game
1 cup semi final
1 charity shield

And a partridge in a pear tree


Raise it to 16000 points at the start of the season though and it’s
12 league games
4 Euro away games, possibly 5
2 cup finals
1 league cup game
1 fa cup game
1 fa cup semi final
1 charity shield

Awesome. You're a bigger geek than I am. Seriously though, it just goes to show how many games the people in the 5K to 15K group could have attended on relatively low points.

In that mid points group I think you have two distinct groups; the mainly younger ones going to every game they can in a genuine attempt to catch up (see @Mike Brock 's earlier post) and people of my age and above, who couldn't be arsed going to all the games they could have gone to over the last 10 years, but now feel aggrieved that they can't get tickets to the swamp.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Can anyone on here make a positive case for not awarding ticket points for away games?

What problem does this solve?

Which section of our fan base does it help?

Can anyone on here make a positive case for not awarding ticket points for away games?

What problem does this solve?

Which section of our fan base does it help?

corporate ?

 

[BlueSkyBlue]

Where does it say that the away ticket points are being abolished and an under 25s ballot available?!

Personally, I don't go to many aways as can't afford it - but I cannot see where it says either of the above.

 

[Fame Monster]

I've searched an old thread and found the list compiled by @squirtyflower

Chelsea (CS), Cardiff, Hoffenheim, Spurs, Shakhtar, Lyon, Leicester (Cup), Southampton, Newcastle, Everton, the League Cup Final (!), Swansea, the FA Cup semi final (!) Palace and the FA Cup Final.
Didn’t not sell out or sold out at general sale.

Arsenal, Wolves, Liverpool, Chelsea, West Ham, Watford, Leicester (league) and Schalke, and Fulham all sold out at 17k or less (a lot less for some).

By my reckoning we played 31 games away from home/neutral. You could have gone to 15 out of the 31 with no points. So I suppose you're right, its not quite half.

Assuming this is true, I have to say I'm surprised it's as many as 6 league games (or 15 in all comps) but even still, that's a side point.

How long do you think it would take someone born today to get a ticket for Old Trafford on the loyalty points system even if they went to every single away game they could (before the abolition of loyalty points for the aways)? What about someone born in 20 years time when the people at the top are on about 100,000K points? Or have they got to wait for the people at the top and the generation after them to die before they can go? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that the system favours people of a certain generation and will eventually leave us with the oldest away supporters in the league (although we're probably already there). It simply isn't fair and even though the recent change has problems of its own, the fact that the club are beginning to realise its inherent unfairness means its a step in the right direction.

 

[Fame Monster]

Awesome. You're a bigger geek than I am. Seriously though, it just goes to show how many games the people in the 5K to 15K group could have attended on relatively low points.

In that mid points group I think you have two distinct groups; the mainly younger ones going to every game they can in a genuine attempt to catch up (see @Mike Brock 's earlier post) and people of my age and above, who couldn't be arsed going to all the games they could have gone to over the last 10 years, but now feel aggrieved that they can't get tickets to the swamp.

None of the above.

 

[GortonBlue62]

Where does it say that the away ticket points are being abolished and an under 25s ballot available?!

Personally, I don't go to many aways as can't afford it - but I cannot see where it says either of the above.

@Cheshire Blue73 's post from earlier in the thread is what we're basing it on...

Hi We had a Ticketing working group meeting with the club yesterday & they announced this was going ahead. There is a communication going out about this & a couple of other agreed changes but we said they should have announced this prior to renewal (typical City tbh). They did agree that if anyone wants their £50 refunded they’ll do that although of course it also applies to seasoncard renewal & Cup schemes/home cup games and these account for more points than away games. Personally I’d love to see the back of Platinum altogether as I think it’s one of the daftest & most divisive things we’ve ever done. That’s the unanimous view of the rest of the City Matters committee as well so there’s no dissent among the group on that.

That is from our rep

..seems like we will be told officially when the club has banked our Platinum money.

 

[GortonBlue62]

None of the above.

Apologies, I forgot to mention the 'terse cryptic' faction who lurk in mid point territory.

 

[jrb]

Has the club ever told any working fan group or the reps the breakdown in away ticket allocation? Supporters clubs, Corporates, Sponsors, employees, individuals, etc.

Will the removal of loyalty points allow the club to direct more away tickets to certain groups? Corporate, Sponsors.