Blue Mooner said:
Supporters clubs apply at least 7 weeks in advance of the actual game and well before anything is known about the number of points that may be required and tickets are allocated to the supporters club before the tickets go on official sale so any idea that points come into the equation is a fallacy. How can the club allocate tickets to SC's when they don't know how many points will ultimately be required? Because they don't have to - its irrelevant. The club allocate a number of tickets to each SC its then up to that SC how they allocate them. However, the attendee must be a member. It couldn't work any other way, otherwise they would have to release tickets to each SC in dribs and drabs as points are met - an administrative nightmare
In fact many of the members applying at my club are city card holders and I dare say a number of those who are going to OT
If that weren't the case what is the advantage of applying through a Supporters club? If anything its worse because you have to make your mind up about going sometimes before you know the definite date of the match. I call up for my own tickets and it takes less than 2 mins for me to get a ticket so this idea that the branch is more convenient is nonsense because somehow you have to get your money to the secretary anyway.
The advantage of being in a SC is that if you are on low points you are more likely to get a ticket for the big games.
Blue Mooner said:
I'm sorry Cleavers 20 is a guess but I know for a fact that if I didn't have enough points then 90 percent of those in my branch wouldn't have qualified so how do you explain over 35 tickets being allocated to our branch? There is never in a million years 35 people in our branch with over 5250 points. FACT.
So any idea of tickets being tied to points in the SC's is nonsense. I'm not going to report anything I class many of these people as friends. its not there fault they're using the system to their best advantage but the club need to look at it because there is a lot of loyal blues who have missed out to JCL's
Nail. On. The. Head. Anything the likes of cleavers and FG would like to add to that?
It does says a lot about the supporters clubs that the only people defending them are the very same people benefiting from their warped allocation of tickets. If members of the supporters clubs themselves lambasting them for their ticketing policy doesn't tell you there's a problem, nothing will.
It's endemic among the supporters clubs, it's practically the sole reason they have any members. Join a supporters club, all but guarantee yourself a ticket for the 'big' games.
But you've got to admire the barefaced fucking cheek of all those people who have benefited from the SC banging the drum questioning the loyalty of those who are criticising the SC.
The majority of us buy tickets of our own accord via the club, every fortnight. I missed a handful of aways last season, and this season has been no different. I travelled to WHL this season and the week before Christmas last season, I travelled to Stamford Bridge last season, Craven Cottage , St Andrews, Upton Park, Fratton Park, all of the so called 'lesser' games which generate little demand.
But lo and behold, once the derby at the swamp comes around the supporters clubs' demand increases ten fold, and people like myself miss out. People who attend every week regardless of the opposition, and people who have narrowly failed to quality for tickets via the club this season.
And we've missed out to people who rarely attend, or who have even jumped on the fucking bandwagon (see the above quoted post). All those people gain their tickets courtesy of some supporters club or another.
It's funny though, that on being told there will be JCLs and even rags in the away end on Saturday, some posters see fit to question the loyalty of other blues in an attempt at defending the supporters clubs.
A prime example of the good ol' 'I'm alright fuck everyone else' attitude that perpetuates bluemoon.
Quite predictable, and depressingly so. Tossers.
