SWP's back said:I still don't understand why you worry. If you went to Norwich ten years ago and to reading in the cup, them you lose nothing.Corky said:If you offered 40 points for the reading game 99% would still have gone.
100 and the other 1% buy tickets and don't turn up.
Why so precious over loyalty points? The club want to reward current loyalty as it's what earns them the dough.
As figures on who and wouldn't have gone, what's your source?
Corky said:The total of:
Norwich, Ipswitch, Wimbledon, Palace, Pompey aways in 2001/02
Plus
West Ham, Soton, Spurs, Chelsea, Charlton 2002/03
= Same loyalty points as Reading Qtr at home 2010/11
Ignore that twat. He's been banned before god knows how many times, as his username alludes to.
Incorrect, why because you say so?machiavellian said:Incorrect.
That's partly true, but the loyalty point system has always been the club's way of separating the most 'loyal' fans from the fair-weathers in order to allocate the tickets to the most deserving fans for the correct matches.
Which is why it's wrong to undermine the whole system with such examples as individual games earning ten times as many points as they would under normal circumstances, and the pretty shameless alterations to the seaconcard holder's points in the summer.
That is when the loyalty point system became about money. And that is why its days are numbered.
And this is symptomatic of initiatives the club are introducing which revolve around money, at our expense, and are not particularly subtle in that fact.
Which, believe it or not, concerns many match going blues.
I've just received a pm with regards to this thread from another poster, who feels uncomfortable posting about his circumstances in this thread publicly, because, I imagine, of the potential reaction of some of the more vocal apologists among the forum's loud mouth contingent.
You won't get any joy out of this lot mate. They're too busy taking trying to be funny and slagging other blues off to see what's happening here.
I didn't join the CL cup scheme for financial reasons- baby on the way, made redundant a while ago, and trying to start my own business. Had a s/t for 25 years but don't even get a chance to get my regular seat for the CL, they automatically allocate it to a scheme member apparently. By the way, I haven't missed a home cup game for donkeys years, I just cannot allow the club to have access to my account.
The club now think none of those 25 years matter as I can't give them free access to my bank account. It stinks as far as I'm concerned.
Cheers
Pretty sad when someone is made to feel a lesser blue, or is labelled a 'moaner', X Y Z, because he voices his discontent towards something which has a negative impact on his attendance to games.
I'm almost positive it's not BlueNowhere, Balotelli the Bison, Silva is the new gold etc. if that's who they're referring to.SWP's back said:Ignore that twat. He's been banned before go knows how many times, as his username alludes to.
*clappy hands gif*<br /><br />-- Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:39 pm --<br /><br />Skashion said:Incorrect, why because you say so?machiavellian said:Incorrect.
That's partly true, but the loyalty point system has always been the club's way of separating the most 'loyal' fans from the fair-weathers in order to allocate the tickets to the most deserving fans for the correct matches.
Which is why it's wrong to undermine the whole system with such examples as individual games earning ten times as many points as they would under normal circumstances, and the pretty shameless alterations to the seaconcard holder's points in the summer.
That is when the loyalty point system became about money. And that is why its days are numbered.
And this is symptomatic of initiatives the club are introducing which revolve around money, at our expense, and are not particularly subtle in that fact.
Which, believe it or not, concerns many match going blues.
I've just received a pm with regards to this thread from another poster, who feels uncomfortable posting about his circumstances in this thread publicly, because, I imagine, of the potential reaction of some of the more vocal apologists among the forum's loud mouth contingent.
You won't get any joy out of this lot mate. They're too busy taking trying to be funny and slagging other blues off to see what's happening here.
I didn't join the CL cup scheme for financial reasons- baby on the way, made redundant a while ago, and trying to start my own business. Had a s/t for 25 years but don't even get a chance to get my regular seat for the CL, they automatically allocate it to a scheme member apparently. By the way, I haven't missed a home cup game for donkeys years, I just cannot allow the club to have access to my account.
The club now think none of those 25 years matter as I can't give them free access to my bank account. It stinks as far as I'm concerned.
Cheers
Pretty sad when someone is made to feel a lesser blue, or is labelled a 'moaner', X Y Z, because he voices his discontent towards something which has a negative impact on his attendance to games.
Your definition of fair-weather simply assumes anyone who didn't go didn't go through choice rather than financial or life circumstances. Funny thing is that you imagine you're on some moral high ground and can't see the irony in your own argument about it now being about the money.
The loyalty points system is now about money... and that's why its days are numbered... How does that work about in your wonderfully self-contradictory mind? So, the club, greedy loss-making bastards that they are, are trying to get money out of us with the loyalty points system... which they're going to do away with - thus losing their money-making ploy.
Too busy slagging off other blues? Nah, you're too busy slagging off the club and dismissing people who don't go home and away as fair-weather fans. Oh, no, poor anonymous PM bloke, he can't afford it now, what about those who couldn't afford it when loyalty points were reserved only for the decent non fair-weather blues.
Well it was a mod so I'm sure they know.Skashion said:I'm almost positive it's not BlueNowhere, Balotelli the Bison, Silva is the new gold etc. if that's who they're referring to.SWP's back said:Ignore that twat. He's been banned before go knows how many times, as his username alludes to.
Could well be someone who's banned many times but I don't think it's BlueNowhere. Maybe it's a well tanned individual... ;-)SWP's back said:Well it was a mod so I'm sure they know.
Obama?Skashion said:Could well be someone who's banned many times but I don't think it's BlueNowhere. Maybe it's a well tanned individual... ;-)SWP's back said:Well it was a mod so I'm sure they know.