Booked time off work to go to a night match in Liverpool?! Do you walk to away games?! It was announced about 10 days before the game - similar time frame with what would happen from qualifying from the Quarters of the CL to the Semi's.
hi Gary
probably not significantly. I still want to watch City away from home however it will make me think about the midweek aways when I need to book holidays from work.
I am now defo not going to the Charity Shield. I have another event that day but intended to prioritise City and go however as its now a friendly in london, against the scousers and no detriment in relation to ticket points i wont bother.
Not quite that would mean we had 120 million in the ballot assuming 3000 tickets were available! If 40k applied you would have a 1 in 13.33 chance of a ticket.Imagine the derby tickets going to an open ballot. Lol! A 1 in 40,000(guessing) chance of getting a derby ticket.
What kind of impact will a possible ballot have on supporters branches?
For supporters branches to exist they have to attract enough members. Most people join a supporters branch because they stand a chance of getting an away ticket, travel is arranged, is more convenient, and is cheaper.
It’s fair to say City take more coaches to away games than United from the Manchester area. That is probably down to the fact that United use a ballot system to spread their away tickets out across the country, whilst City allocate most of the away tickets to Manchester based supporter branches.
Well in that sense, @UUJblue can't state the opposite either.
Bluemoon and the supporters I have spoken to about it may well not be representative of the whole supporter base, but I believe it is a far more accurate representation of supporter views than the views of just 8 City Matters representatives that are making terrible decision after terrible decision on everyone elses behalf.
Maybe I am mistaken and its not the majority, but can you explain what the downside of the rolling system is? The system we have (or had) is the envy of every other clubs supporters, but the criticism is that younger supporters are at a disadvantage. The rolling system fixes that problem.
But whether it's taking time off work (or not), a lot of people need to make preparations and if they're not expecting it to go down to their points level or on general sale, they don't make preparations and they don't go. When was the last time Everton went to general sale? I think it's fair to say it probably surprised a lot of people, especially with it being a last minute fixture.
Imagine the derby tickets going to an open ballot. Lol! A 1 in 40,000(guessing) chance of getting a derby ticket.
What kind of impact will a possible ballot have on supporters branches?
For supporters branches to exist they have to attract enough members. Most people join a supporters branch because they stand a chance of getting an away ticket, travel is arranged, is more convenient, and is cheaper.
It’s fair to say City take more coaches to away games than United from the Manchester area. That is probably down to the fact that United use a ballot system to spread their away tickets out across the country, whilst City allocate most of the away tickets to Manchester based supporter branches.
But surely if you were keen to go you would be on the look out for it? All I know is when I was 18 in 2006 I knew that any game I could get on my own ticket I had to go to because I wanted to be at Old Trafford or Stamford Bridge, and who knows if some billionaire takes over I might even have the chance to go to over 30 European away trips.
Reading away on a Monday night when Dabo was sent off - that's the sorta shit you had to put yourself through to get up the points chain when I was a teenager, and I was fortunate to be right at the end of decades of shite.
If I told myself in 2006 that in 2019 we would have won the league 4 times and been the first team to win the domestic treble yet we had 8 league games to general sale I wouldn't have believed you.
It wouldn't be anything close to 1 in 40,000 chance if you restricted it to season-ticket holders and if your chances were increased the more loyalty points you had. If 40,000 season ticket holders applied and you've got 2,500 tickets available for a ballot system, a season ticket holder with no loyalty points has got a 1 in 16 chance.
Not quite that would mean we had 120 million in the ballot assuming 3000 tickets were available! If 40k applied you would have a 1 in 13.33 chance of a ticket.
But If 40,000 City fans applied, and I applied, l’d have a 1 in 40,000 chance of get 1 ticket, regardless if there were 3000 derby tickets. Do you know what I mean? :-?
What about Citizen card holders? Should they be allowed in the ballot?
After all, they are City fans, and they pay for the privilege of having a Citizen card.
Whatever the odds, having a possible ballot system is going to be very interesting.