FA Cup Final 2024 | Manchester Derby | Sat 25 May 3:00pm

[Chappie]

The OSC is taking 20%. What they do with that is irrelevant to any non member of the OSC as regardless of how many points or how long they've been a season ticket holder, the OSC will still receive 20% of the tickets.
Now you may question / challenge why the OSC receives 20% but that is a different issue. Do I think someone's first game should be a Cup Final? No. But if the allocation is 20% to the OSC, then non members are not going to get one of those tickets no matter how many points / years the recipient has been a season ticket holder / match day goer or may not have been a season ticket holder / non match day goer.
Kevin Parker said the OSC has 40,000 members and received 20% of City's allocation. Im sure someone can do the maths as to how many menbers of the OSC got a ticket

It's certainly not irrelevant, what they do with them.
Loyalty points holders are getting their allocation diminished virtually every game and are being threatened,with various sanctions by the club if they hand their ticket onto another supporter,yet you think that's its alright for supporters clubs to hand out tickets to all and sundry.
So many on here think that the loyalty system is outdated and needs revamping, having read your comments and listened to Mr Parkers rambling, its quite clear the way the supporters club allocate their tickets needs revamping.
At least the loyalty points scheme rewards supporters by attendance.

 

[117 M34]

Does Kevin Parker have a job or his role as Head of the OSC his paid job?

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Does Kevin Parker have a job or his role as Head of the OSC his paid job?

Sir Kevin does all the hours for City fans for free. He is also a business man and a self made millionaire. He’s usually available 7 days a week to help fellow Blues and has doubled the membership of the OSC in recent years

 

[Edghill OG]

So if everyone goes on the cup scheme next year you’ve no guarantee of getting a ticket if it carries on this way, OSC should be allowed to apply if your members are at least season card holders, but only after all those on the cup scheme have had a chance first. There will be more and more overseas supporters clubs popping up the more successful we get, so that will be more tickets taken away from people over here, who in my opinion have more claim to them.

This is the thing. The performances and achievements on the pitch are what's really growing the fanbase these days.

The OSC could become a victim of its own success if they're getting every single ticket they request. I can understand that that's how things were done in yesteryear and when we were less successful, but as with anything times change.

I do worry if the OSC allocation was cut as to whether they'd actually get put back in the pot though.

 

[Chappie]

I stated and ran canal street blues for 5 years attended every exec meeting and most agms of the OSC 214-2019 it's operating model is not far from royal patronage one day blue moon will facilitate a in depth enquiry in the OSC. Who it benefits who it fails and exactly why it exists compared to other PL fan forums it's more of a shop front for the club not an independent advocate for fans
Same with city matters before I gave up trying trying to knit fog I had a lengthy debrief with Omar and Danny Wilson about rigged elections the bizarre way tickets were allocated eg at the time Didsbury Blues 300+ members got 2 CSB often got 3 or 4 . On away match days leading lights in the OSC would have 8 or 9 spares despite the game being sold out . I can understand why having got the power and privilege the OSC won't reform but the club know about this .The reaction. From Danny and Omar when discussing this minor league corrupt and dubious practices was so what .The OSC have been gaslighting fans for decades , when the MMU offered Kevin some students on placement to work towards a better fair and more equal operating model based on transparency he baulked at that claiming they didn't know how things worked. Funny the Club has had the same MMU placements over the last ,8 years who have done great work and many are now are employed by city so clearly they know there stuff . Shining a light on the OSC might just expose how bad things are . So Blue moon mods this is key issue for fans yet and before we get the whataboutery stand for the OSC it's like Russia those who want to do different things find themselves excluded or seen as political .
Another year another moan fest on here . You know Gary James would be an idea candidate to lead an review of the OSC he knows the club history is fair minded and did an ace job with the badge just a thought the mods could act on

I don't know this poster and I don't know if he has an axe to grind with the supporters clubs executive committee, but if half of what he says is true, it is a very sad indiment of the club and the Official Supporters Club.

 

[Theblueguy]

I agree with a lot of what you say.
I dont think anyone disagrees with people on the cup scheme getting final tickets.
I think a simple and fair improvement would be allowing members onto the cup schemes.
Last season a ST member could have gone to no cup matches at all and still have shot of getting tickets for both finals. That doesn't seem fair to me.

The privilege the ST holder gets is being able to go on the cup scheme.

Or it could be seen from another point of view.

Supporter A as an ST Holder pays £860 for 19 premier league games, due to work commitments attends 14 of those, sells 3 on the exchange but can't sell off 2 of them as they are mid week against Burnley or someone. Also joins a CL Cup scheme, pays for 3 group stage games at £40, R16 at £50 and then a QF at £65. Drives 50% of the the time so 10 lots of £40 fuel and £10 parking. That's £1380 spent so far following the team before budgeting for potentially 3x trips to Wembley. The FA Cup semi is the obvious one to drop. CL visit to Wembley no longer on the cards, but then can't get a ticket for the FA Cup final, despite never having issues in previous seasons.

If the club allowed cup schemes for members then Supporter B pays for a £35 membership, pays for the heavily discounted 2x FA cup home games that season, but is now entitled to get a FA Cup final ticket. They don't even need to turn up for the FA cup games as City's system is all based on purchases rather than ownership or attendance. That doesn't seem fair to me.


Saw a tweet from the club that all tickets have sold out. Never even went down to the ST Holder with 3000 points. That doesn't seem right to me based on all the previous seasons.

 

[bennyboy]

Or it could be seen from another point of view.

Supporter A as an ST Holder pays £860 for 19 premier league games, due to work commitments attends 14 of those, sells 3 on the exchange but can't sell off 2 of them as they are mid week against Burnley or someone. Also joins a CL Cup scheme, pays for 3 group stage games at £40, R16 at £50 and then a QF at £65. Drives 50% of the the time so 10 lots of £40 fuel and £10 parking. That's £1380 spent so far following the team before budgeting for potentially 3x trips to Wembley. The FA Cup semi is the obvious one to drop. CL visit to Wembley no longer on the cards, but then can't get a ticket for the FA Cup final, despite never having issues in previous seasons.

If the club allowed cup schemes for members then Supporter B pays for a £35 membership, pays for the heavily discounted 2x FA cup home games that season, but is now entitled to get a FA Cup final ticket. They don't even need to turn up for the FA cup games as City's system is all based on purchases rather than ownership or attendance. That doesn't seem fair to me.


Saw a tweet from the club that all tickets have sold out. Never even went down to the ST Holder with 3000 points. That doesn't seem right to me based on all the previous seasons.

No matter how you work it out if you are a season holder join the cup schemes.

 

[VOOMER]

It's certainly not irrelevant, what they do with them.
Loyalty points holders are getting their allocation diminished virtually every game and are being threatened,with various sanctions by the club if they hand their ticket onto another supporter,yet you think that's its alright for supporters clubs to hand out tickets to all and sundry.
So many on here think that the loyalty system is outdated and needs revamping, having read your comments and listened to Mr Parkers rambling, its quite clear the way the supporters club allocate their tickets needs revamping.
At least the loyalty points scheme rewards supporters by attendance.

Agreed firstly anyone with a terminal illness that can travel, should get a ticket. Then all veterans, of WW2, and all subsequent wars. I could go on, my lists is pedantic, A fair system would 42,500 tickets to each of the finalists, not 30,000.

 

[cibaman]

Would you like an even £100 on the result

Just to be clear on what you are suggesting. If City win I pay you £100, if United win you pay me £100?

The bookies are currently offering odds of 7-1 against a United win. If I were a betting man, which I’m not, why would I accept your offer of evens?

 

[i kne albert davy]

What they do with the 20% is relevant, they should not be getting them in the first place and secondly those tickets should not be going to people who hardly ever go to a game ! That is the whole crux of the debate. Secondly, it's nothing to do with " non members ".Members who are getting tickets and never been or barely ever been should not be getting tickets !Also, that 20% fig does seem lower than what people have said ?

Which people ? Could you enlighten me