Yes I've already posted this . I booked on the hope I'd get tickets under the new scheme not that I think it's perfect but now there is a chance people on a lot less points will get tickets instead of me .
I am only on page 32 of this thread so a lot of points will have been made that I have not seen yet but the last couple of pages have made me smile - with a lot of those moaning in the previous 32 pages now moaning about the possibility of a ballot.
Just goes to show that no matter the righteous indignation, like everyone else on this thread, they just want what is best for them.
FWIW I would be totally against a ballot, almost to the level that I am utterly against the ‘previous system’, now retuned to, which sees people with a low points total attend matches at the expense of fans that have shown loyalty for many years.
There are of course blues on here of longer-standing than me – but not many. I also have a good points total, but not as high as I could perhaps have due to having to take a couple of years out for personal reasons.
I therefore fully accept that blues with nowhere near my level of ‘overall’ following in the last 50 years have a higher priority in the loyalty points system – that’s life.
What I cannot accept is that proper JCLs jump ahead of me because they get tickets from someone that ’maintains’ a high points total through basically cheating the system.
So queuing up in Kiev, Madrid, Celtic etc. was inconvenient but that new system was at least fair and that is evidenced by the fact that the level to qualify went much lower than previously. I do agree that the process needs changing / improving, but we should not be going back to the old one.
Just watch now as the tickets sell out at a higher level meaning that many loyal and long-standing fans miss out in favour of proper JCLs.
As I said – I would be totally against a ballot – but most systems would be better than the old one.
