Bredbury has nearly 500 paid up members...Fom OAP's to kids knee high...some are season card holders, some are not.
The reason they have so many members is because it is one of the most well run branches and has the organisation of a great bloke called Arnie and a committee of people behind it.
This guy LOVES City more than anyone I know...He will do anything to help anyone get to watch City. He doesn't have to put coaches on for non members...the club are not even making a profit on it!- he's doing it because he wants to help blues get to that there London.
Bredbury is based at the Crown 250 yards from Bredbury train station...but they still take a 70 seater bus, and 2 16 seater minibuses to EVERY home game.
They take at least 1 coach to EVERY away match...Usually two...sometimes upto 5.
The criteria for Wembley tickets is the same for any other fan...You need to have the points to be able to get one!
The only advantage is that the tickets are given in a block, that's the point of an OSC, do you expect all 500 members to go down individually and buy tickets?..If you do then there's not point in reading on because you obviously cannot see sense.
Members had to put their names down the day after the Reading game...The sec holds a list of SC holders and their numbers...this is provided to the club and the club checks it...every game.
The same goes for access card holders...who will have no chance on getting one for this match.
The branch are taking HUNDREDS of non members to Wembley...That's the reason for the 11 coaches...and to be honest, it could have been 15 with the amount of people wanting transport.
If you want to go away and form a branch-do so...the opportunity is there for all...don't moan because you aren't involved or don't want to be...Form one or join one, have a committee, publish your accounts and run it properly with regular meetings,AGM, fundraisers, xmas do's, end of season do's, social days out, foreign trips, booking systems, websites, form unions with other clubs such as Schalke or Poznan etc etc etc.
But for fucks sake stop moaning about it...it's tiresome and smacks of typical whinging from people who just cannot be arsed to do anything but moan about something they just do not either agree with or understand.