Missed out on a ticket for the derby?

samharris said:
Why do posters on here only have digs at OSC's on away derby week ?? seems the rest of the season this issue doesnt come into the equasion.
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Simply because if you have say 5000 points. You are guaranteed to get to all the other games in the season.

However the away derby week despite having 5000 points the chances of getting a ticket are very slim. This isnt because all the top points holders want a ticket. Its because the people within the supporters clubs with 2000, 3000 or even 4000 less points get them.

I have had no problem getting tickets to the 14 away games i have been to so far this season with my 5130 loyalty points. But for the derby i have missed out.
 
swp80 said:
samharris said:
Why do posters on here only have digs at OSC's on away derby week ?? seems the rest of the season this issue doesnt come into the equasion.
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This is exactly it, I'm a proud member of a supporters club, they do a hell of a lot for the club with the branch managers not getting a penny out of it. I got a ticket through my own points as you have to have enough points to qualify to get a ticket anyway. where was this thread last week when we didnt sell out for Birmingham?

Also not sold out 800 tickets for Aris?

Just because its united everybody wants to go, try going to the lesser games and maybe youll stand a chance!
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These attitudes really piss me off, you are so patronising and blinkered. You assume that we fall into a category of missing out because we only want to go to glamorous games. Well that ain't true.
I have always been able to get a derby ticket on my points however, thirty months ago I only just scraped a Schalke away ticket with the last few sold. I made my mind up that from then on I'd go to as many games as I could to make sure i'd not b in the same situation again.
I have only missed a handful of away games in two and a half years.
I have been a member of every cup scheme.
I have had to buy cup tickets even though I haven't been able to attend.
I even bought a ticket that we didn't need on my daughter's card to get her ten loyalty points so she moved up a bracket for a euro away.
We've been to the 'not sold out' away games that you keep throwing around.

And yet, after doing all of this I find that I have slipped further down the pecking order and the tickets for the derby went at my level.

I know one of you SC apologists will spout that I can catch up if I go here or there but, just for once, read the bit where I say I have been to them all but a handful.

This year some tickets have gone astray, and for my own piece of mind I'd like to know where.
 
im a member of a branch and i got two tickets without any points, in fact i dont even have a seasoncard, so most of the above can not be true and i am going with my rag mate coz he has never seen them in the flesh, he is wearing his rag shirt under a jumper though.
 
Colins Bellend said:
jrb said:
Makes me piss.

All these OSC members: Where you at Spurs? Where you at Chelsea, etc.

You're missing the point.

Nobody has a problem with OSC members who have the required loyalty points. If they've been to those matches fair enough. They deserve a derby ticket. The gripe is with OSC members who don't have enough loyalty points (for United, etc), but still get a derby ticket because they are a member of that branch or happen to be in with the secretary.

My other gripe is about pre-odering derby tickets. Yeah, I know. Boring. However, why should OSC members be able to order their debry tickets 5, 6, or 7 weeks in advance via the OSC secretary, when the rest of us have to wait until the day when the points criteria drops, and then have to queue up, taking a chance.

When you see a OSC secretary walk out/away with a handful of Derby tickets, and the rest of us who have been waiting in the queue, and some in front of him are told derby tickets are sold out, it leaves a very bitter taste.

No doubt I'll get the usual reply from OSC members. It doesn't happen. Join a branch. Blah, blah......

PS. And yes, I didn't go to Spurs or Chelsea. But I'm going to Aris.(hopefully) It's all swings and roundabouts. I can't make every away match as I work till 1.30 pm on a Saturday. If an away match is in the North West, North Or Midlands, I always try and get out of work early, which means losing pay, on top of ticket and travel prices.
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Have you got many points yourself then mate ?
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As of today I've got 5385 Loyalty points.

I've also got another 180 points *pending*. Whatever that means? Don't know if they have been added or haven't been added yet.
 
I think it's a bit shit, that OSC's get preferential treatment, regarding the derby. However, the OSC'S go to games, that are not seen as 'glamorous' and represent the club all year, so why can't they get a little bit back for 'the big one'? (i'm not in one btw) Since being a member of this board, i have not seen ONE thread about people struggling to get tickets at the hawthorns or molineux.
 
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