Away tickets

OB1 said:
Wrong.

I have no problem not going to Anfield: my car would get wrecked if I parked it near there, given my number plate.

I'd like to be able to go to the odd league game at the Swamp as I've not been to one for many years; having once been someone who never missed a Derby.

However, it's games like West Ham and Bournemouth that trouble me. WHU will be third year in a row I've had to sit with the Hammers' fans. Bournemouth is an absolute no hoper yet it's a decent journey for me.

Watford is probably nearest away ground to me but I've had to sit with home supporters in last two seasons. Last two league games at WBA, I've sat with their supporters.

Thank goodness Our Kid knows some Brighton season ticket holders.
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All your posts are just a howl of frustration. It's so unfair.

They are devoid of any objectivity or logic.

You don't have enough points. Tough. The new 'fairer system' does fuck all to help you.
 
liamctid said:
Which is why they've stopped calling them loyalty points and they're now just ticket points.

This thread will keep going round and round in circles but it will always come back to the following:

We have had a system in place for almost 20 years
There are around 700 people who are top of the tree
Most seasons we have at least 7 or 8 league games that go to general sale
The only time people with lesser points feel that "the system doesn't work" is when they cannot get a ticket for Old Trafford/Anfield/cup game with small allocation.
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Not strictly true mate as I qualified for every game last season, but still think the system was flawed.

I always found it weird that having qualified for Bournemouth, United and Liverpool, I was then rewarded with more loyalty points, which pushed me even further ahead of those who hadn’t

However, my main gripe has always been the Old Trafford derby, when I regularly find myself surrounded by people who are never visible at other away games.

The most noticeable was the 2-1 night match in 2013 when I was on the same row as 8 French speaking tourists, all wearing half n half carves.

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M18CTID said:
I'd say that while that's generally correct it's not quite as simple as that, and the definition of a points whore for me would be someone who does what you've described all the time for pretty much every away match. I don't think it's fair to group someone in the points whore category who goes to the vast majority of away games they apply for but every now and then helps a mate out for a game that they themselves are missing. I remember there was outrage on here from certain posters when a hugely in-demand European away game sold out at high points. I think it was Barcelona first time round in 2014. I couldn't afford to go to that one but a lot of my ticketless mates were on it. I let one of them get a ticket on my seasoncard and there were posters saying that anyone helping their mates out was out of order (because of course none of those posters would ever accept a ticket off a mate would they?). Personally, I think anyone refusing to help a mate out in that situation is a bigger c*nt!
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I was in the neutral / Barca end for that game.


I’ve not got a problem with either definition. Neither have I got a problem with a Blue being a few points short for a rags away or (one day) a Champs League Final Ticket accepting a bit of help off a mate. I would take the ticket all day long.
 
liamctid said:
Which is why they've stopped calling them loyalty points and they're now just ticket points.

This thread will keep going round and round in circles but it will always come back to the following:

We have had a system in place for almost 20 years
There are around 700 people who are top of the tree
Most seasons we have at least 7 or 8 league games that go to general sale
The only time people with lesser points feel that "the system doesn't work" is when they cannot get a ticket for Old Trafford/Anfield/cup game with small allocation.
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How many people who say they can't get ticket went to Newcastle, Bournemouth, spurs,all night matches, and did not sell out ?
 
OB1 said:
Wrong.

I have no problem not going to Anfield: my car would get wrecked if I parked it near there, given my number plate.

I'd like to be able to go to the odd league game at the Swamp as I've not been to one for many years; having once been someone who never missed a Derby.

However, it's games like West Ham and Bournemouth that trouble me. WHU will be third year in a row I've had to sit with the Hammers' fans. Bournemouth is an absolute no hoper yet it's a decent journey for me.

Watford is probably nearest away ground to me but I've had to sit with home supporters in last two seasons. Last two league games at WBA, I've sat with their supporters.

Thank goodness Our Kid knows some Brighton season ticket holders.
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Fair enough mate, as a former "out of towner" myself I get that but generally if you asked people "would you want the points system to change purely so you had a better chance of getting a ticket for West Ham away?" I don't think the answer would be a resounding yes.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Not strictly true mate as I qualified for every game last season, but still think the system was flawed.

I always found it weird that having qualified for Bournemouth, United and Liverpool, I was then rewarded with more loyalty points, which pushed me even further ahead of those who hadn’t

However, my main gripe has always been the Old Trafford derby, when I regularly find myself surrounded by people who are never visible at other away games.

The most noticeable was the 2-1 night match in 2013 when I was on the same row as 8 French speaking tourists, all wearing half n half carves.

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No I get that, which is why going back over 10 years ago you used to only get 10 points for Old Trafford but used to get 40 points for Charlton away for example.

You must have been unlucky for the 2-1 game as my memory of that was it was one of the best ends we've had at Old Trafford in my years of going.
 
M18CTID said:
Did United have their fans collecting from the opposing team's ticket office though, or was it from a location nearby?
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Not sure but if clubs won’t let city do it they will do it near by. They already use other clubs ticket office to collect duplicate tickets so I wouldn’t see a problem adding another 30 or so people onto the list
 
The 2-1 was a great night. The rag stewards had to push us out 30mins after the final whistle because we couldn’t stop celebrating.
 
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