Return of Supporters

[Tonster]

let’s be honest about it, every city fan hated ffp because it was designed to keep the rich clubs rich and everyone else had no chance to catch up......the loyalty points system is the same thing!

All you moaning fuckers complaining that you didn’t get a guaranteed ticket and you should because you’ve got 18,19,20,000 points ....your all just the Ac Milan in this equation.

How can anyone build points when away games are double and sell out 3,000 tickets above 22k points.

I may have mentioned this before (ahem) but in our last full season 8 games made open sale so there wasn’t a clamour then for people to only go to one of ‘Newcastle away at Christmas’ or ‘Oxford away in the Cup midweek‘ and nobody was arsed when all the usual faces turned up and supported the team even when ‘it was cold’, ‘there were no trains back’, ‘I couldn’t get the time off’, ‘I was doing my hair’. Loyalty point system isn’t perfect but it’s the fairest way possible. This argument when demand is greater than supply airs every time. For Everton home or CL final now, read Old Trafford or Anfield in previous seasons.

 

[East Level 2]

Pre covid the last home game I missed was Villa, 7th Feb 1976.
My run of 1108 consecutive first team home games began with Everton, 21st Feb 1976.
I have 21660 loyalty points.
Feel physically sick at the thought of missing the game.
If I do miss out and my personal record is lost I'll be adopting a saner (less fanatical) approach to supporting City.

Blimey! I thought missing 6 home games in 30 seasons was good going.
I know several people in similar position to you. They've had season tickets for 40 years but not done the away games to generate the extra points. I really think the bar should have been set lower, say 19,000 or 20,000.

 

[Gingers Dad]

let’s be honest about it, every city fan hated ffp because it was designed to keep the rich clubs rich and everyone else had no chance to catch up......the loyalty points system is the same thing!

All you moaning fuckers complaining that you didn’t get a guaranteed ticket and you should because you’ve got 18,19,20,000 points ....your all just the Ac Milan in this equation.

How can anyone build points when away games are double and sell out 3,000 tickets above 22k points.

Vast majority of most people's loyalty points come from home games. I go to every single home we play so I joined the cup schemes. I go to as many away games as my points allow through the season. I can't get a ticket for some away games because I haven't done enough over the years. I don't complain about it because there a people ahead of me that have earned it. Now I'm in a ballot with a lot of people who really just couldn't be arsed going to home games over the years.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Pre covid the last home game I missed was Villa, 7th Feb 1976.

My run of 1108 consecutive first team home games began with Everton, 21st Feb 1976.

I have 21660 loyalty points.

Feel physically sick at the thought of missing the game.

If I do miss out and my personal record is lost I'll be adopting a saner (less fanatical) approach to supporting City.

And this is a perfect example of why it shouldn't be a ballot

 

[Gingers Dad]

What's the betting there'll be tickets available online before its even sold out?

 

[Impeccable One]

It's only fair some guy who had his first season card last season gets the same shot at a ticket as you though...

I think you’re correct. I mean he’s getting on a bit, how many games has he got left in him ? And, I bet he never does selfies in the ground and post them to his instagram and twitter. Hardly contributing to the expansion of the club. Whereas the newbie will be in the club shop, tweeting and he has lots of years ahead of him. Sound logic by the club, if you ask me.
















JOKING ! :O

 

[fivercider]

I’ve heard that the ticket office have already got a system in place for who gets a ticket and who doesn’t.

CCTV from all around the ground has been capturing the seat and row numbers of all the early leavers for the past 5 years.

The 10,000 loyal supporters that stay until the final whistle every game have already been allocated their ticket and the balloting process is just a formality.

 

[GortonBlue62]

Pre covid the last home game I missed was Villa, 7th Feb 1976.

My run of 1108 consecutive first team home games began with Everton, 21st Feb 1976.

I have 21660 loyalty points.

Feel physically sick at the thought of missing the game.

If I do miss out and my personal record is lost I'll be adopting a saner (less fanatical) approach to supporting City.

I regret posting this as it smacks of self pity and that's not me. If I don't get a ticket in the ballot tough shit.

I'll make the following points though:-

To the club: what is the point of having a loyalty points system for the last 20 years if at the time when it's most relevant and necessary you chose to ignore it?

To the members of City Matters: you don't matter and you don't do any good. If you had any self awareness you'd realise that the club are taking you for a ride and if you had any integrity you'd resign from the charade.

 

[ysmsa]

If there is one thing that annoys me more than any about City its loyalty points. Yet I can nip onto various FB sites and send a message then meet a guy who can sell me a ticket. Its a closed shop going via City, but somehow its an open market on social media. I've often wondered how those tickets become available? Maybe someone with 22k points is keeping it that way so they get to whatever games they want and then act as an unofficial 3rd party distributing tickets they just happen to have available. Meanwhile City turn a blind eye to it.

I don't have 22k points that's for sure, like most in my position life got in the way of me achieving that. 40 years of attending games and I'm left to scrabble across unofficial social media sellers trying to get tickets. Yet when I watch a game at the swamp or canalfield I see kids and teenagers and wonder just how they qualify for tickets. This isn't a slight on kids at games, they are fans like the rest of us regardless of age, but it does make me wonder and consider that maybe City can do this a better way.

What the answer is I don't know, yes loyalty should be rewarded, but I think there's a hint of piss taking going on that I have never liked the whiff of.

Course that happens, the same memberships will be applying for tickets for every game, it wont be the same fans using the tickets though.

Its shit but really no other way with all ticket games and restricted away fan numbers.

 

[ysmsa]

I’ve heard that the ticket office have already got a system in place for who gets a ticket and who doesn’t.

CCTV from all around the ground has been capturing the seat and row numbers of all the early leavers for the past 5 years.

The 10,000 loyal supporters that stay until the final whistle every game have already been allocated their ticket and the balloting process is just a formality.

If that were true I'd be laughing. What about the late arrivals and the bar hangars.

Actually maybe they should sell more tickets for concourse only.