Fairer Loyalty Points Scheme?

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Even if you dont have enough points for a semi or final ticket, I would suggest going down there anyway. The pre match build up is usually the best bit in these type of games and of course the post match is if we win! You may even pick one up whilst there!

I went to Germany for the World cup without tickets and had a great couple of days.

All a bit premature yet though isnt it!!!

 

[Skashion]

C'mon, we all know what the real problem is. It's those shitbags in the supporters clubs who even when they can't get to a game offer it to someone else and still get the points. All of us who aren't in a supporters club are up against commies who believe everyone in their club has equal access to those points but no-one outside it. Orwell said it best, all animals are equal but some are more equal than others. They all need a slap.

 

[blue dallas]

people who go to the early round cup games should get preference over anyone for the future bigger games in the comps, when all the serial cup 'no - shows' suddenly want a ticket.

But that serial 'no show' has more loyalty points than say me or you...so therefore why should someone who has been to all the cup games for 1 season only have priority over someone who has gone for years.

ive plenty enough points, but i dont think its fair that someone who hasnt been to notts, leicster and villa games or any euro games gets pref for a semi or final ticket to someone who hasnt been to those games .
if youve got the points req and these 3 games under your belt then you should be in pole position !

points + certain games !!!

 

[alib]

perhaps we should ask UEFA to draw up some Loyalty Points Fair Play Rules?

 

[Matty]

Those currently at the top of the loyalty points ladder have spent decades getting there. They were once in the same position as those newer fans who struggle to get tickets for the bigger games. The fact it looks like we'll have more "bigger" games going forward than we had in the past is just something we've got to deal with.

Everyone has to serve their tiem before they get the rewards, why should the newer fans be any different to the older ones in that regard?

 

[manc_andy]

we'll always need an indicator of loyalty, and who is entitled to tickets first. If we did introduce a 10 year loyalty point scheme i think we'd end up with too many people at the top bracket of points for the bigger matches like Utd or Blackpool and we'd end up queing up at 5.30 in the morning to be at the front of the que like the old days.

we used to have 'regular seasontickets' which were 5 years plus (i think) and you used to collect ticket stubs for the bigger cup matches. but you stil had to que up in the wet and cold, al least now we que at home kowing we have a certain date we can apply.

the points system, as it is, might not be the fairest possible but neither is the alternatives being put forward. someone will always miss out, it's just decided who - the young or the old, the rich or poor, the fat or thin ect...

 

[liamctid]

Those currently at the top of the loyalty points ladder have spent decades getting there. They were once in the same position as those newer fans who struggle to get tickets for the bigger games. The fact it looks like we'll have more "bigger" games going forward than we had in the past is just something we've got to deal with.

Everyone has to serve their tiem before they get the rewards, why should the newer fans be any different to the older ones in that regard?

The ones with the highest points will be the ones who have been going home and away for the past 10 years. Even if the points were worked out differently on a five year basis then they would still be top.

Some fans might have been going a lot around 2001-2005, but then got other interests although they kept their season ticket. They would still have more points than someone who was lets say born in 1989 and could only afford to buy their own season ticket and do all the aways at the start of the 2007/08 season.

Similarly:

Someone might have gone to the majority of the aways in 02-04 and then gone to about 5 of the local ones since every season, and they would have more points than someone who wants to go everyweek but is only 19 now.

Example: My uncle has had a season ticket for 30 odd years, and from 2001-2007 went to around 6-10 aways a season. He's not been to one since Wigan 2009 (1-1, Petrov) but he'll still be more entitled to a ticket to United away (although he won't go there again) than a 17 year old I know who travels far and wide to all the 'lesser' games.

For me, that's unfair. I know that I (even at 23) will struggle to be in the top bracket of fans for a few more years purely because of my age. I haven't missed a league game this season, and I don't intend on doing so (Blackpool, United and now Chelsea have all been bought off people who have dropped out) and last year I did all but two (one having been bought, but I was too hungover to travel up to Burnley).

It needs changing IMO.<br /><br />-- Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:34 pm --<br /><br />Another thing I would say is:

Proof that they've gone to enough over the past 3 years and allow them to buy an away season ticket.

Chelsea have one, don't see why we can't do the same.

 

[Superbia]

any system just not going please eveyone but
it does need sorting sooner rather than later

Think this might work put coupons in the home program and save them & also collect the front page of the away program......or....just put on open sale first come first serve,,,,

Could work?

So yet another way to hit fans in the pocket then?

 

[manc_andy]

Another thing I would say is:

Proof that they've gone to enough over the past 3 years and allow them to buy an away season ticket.

Chelsea have one, don't see why we can't do the same.

i think the idea of an away season ticket is worst than the current system as the people with the top loyalty points will buy them - and just sell the games they can't make back to people with the less points thus creating an even bigger gap.

 

[GStar]

Those currently at the top of the loyalty points ladder have spent decades getting there. They were once in the same position as those newer fans who struggle to get tickets for the bigger games. The fact it looks like we'll have more "bigger" games going forward than we had in the past is just something we've got to deal with.

Everyone has to serve their tiem before they get the rewards, why should the newer fans be any different to the older ones in that regard?

Not quite true, the loyalty points kicked in properly when we moved to CoMS iirc, so 2003, everyone started equal so we've never really had this issue before, where the next generation are unable to catch up with the previous.<br /><br />-- Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:49 pm --<br /><br />

Another thing I would say is:

Proof that they've gone to enough over the past 3 years and allow them to buy an away season ticket.

Chelsea have one, don't see why we can't do the same.

So all the people you want the system changing because of, could then simply pay a one off fee to block you out of the game for the season?

Think that would be an awfull idea, the travelling and changing of dates means it'd be virtually impossible imo.