Sevilla away sold out!

[Dogtanian]

As a member of a SC I know that this season the SCs have been told if they have supporters who have enough points to get their own tickets for the branches to encourage them to do so as the SC allocation has not only fallen but there are now a heck of a lot more branches!!

I have been getting my tickets on my own points for a few years now; I'm in the SC because of the social side, but what I find puzzling, and something that has not been mentioned as far as I can see, are the tickets that are for sale on Facebook. And I am not talking individual tickets here I am talking what seems to be quite a lot from what appears to be an individual source.

Do people who have Superbia tickets get more than one ticket allocated to them for away matches?

Loads and loads every away game are got by the guys with high points and sold on facebook to people with zero loyalty points never mind the guy with 12k in a supporters club, many take orders before even buying them.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Unless over 12000 points, I don't see the point of platinum anymore. Waste of money.

 

[stadiumcat]

When we are at the swamp later this month just have a look at the City fans; how many of those will we have seen at other away games in the past two years? I would put money on it that there will be a number wearing half and half scarf and maybe using a selfie stick! you will not have seen them at Sunderland last month.
The points system works the failure is with corporate and the club.
The rolling cycle of either 10 or 5 years on points is an improvement and would allow others to catch up and take others down the order.

The Club should come clean on percentage allocations to the different groups.

 

[Paulpowersleftfoot]

Unless over 12000 points, I don't see the point of platinum anymore. Waste of money.

I'd be surprised if anyone made any inroads on the 14k + points as everyone i know who does all the aways also went platinum.
Ive got 15k and i dont see how anyone with less will ever catch up unless i decide to stop going so unless something is done to make the system fairer for all(whatever that is),the gap will only become wider.
I would say though that to a man,every one of us with high points has been in a similar position,missing out on games like Utd away but back then it was easier to get tickets for all the other games to catch up the ones above you if you were willing to do the tuesday nights at places like Reading.
Its highly unlikely the club will release the actual number of tickets going to supporters through the main loyalty point stream because i suspect we wont like what we see

 

[squirtyflower]

As a member of a SC I know that this season the SCs have been told if they have supporters who have enough points to get their own tickets for the branches to encourage them to do so as the SC allocation has not only fallen but there are now a heck of a lot more branches!!

I have been getting my tickets on my own points for a few years now; I'm in the SC because of the social side, but what I find puzzling, and something that has not been mentioned as far as I can see, are the tickets that are for sale on Facebook. And I am not talking individual tickets here I am talking what seems to be quite a lot from what appears to be an individual source.

Do people who have Superbia tickets get more than one ticket allocated to them for away matches?

Hi EB
If you recall I raised this issue about five years ago.
At the time There was a long line of Supporters Club members , including your good self, that said this categorically did not happen. Yet I knew it did in at least four branches that I had contacts in. Now it seems all of the branches have joined in on the same scam to boost their allocations for the big games.
Eg. United next week
The SC get an usually larger allocation for this game than Sunderland away, even though we are often told it's the SC taking up the slack at the unattractive games!
So they take out 500 tickets to distribute amongst the branches. The branches then get their high points earners to get tickets on their points through the ticket office, therefore doubling their allocation to 1000 tickets.
Take out the corporate, sponsors, guests and families and the fans not a part of the SC are left with about 1500 tickets to scrabble over.
Add in the treble bubble of Superbia and they are left with 1400 tickets.
This is why the United game sold out at 1750 points more than last season, even though there have been less than 1350 points available since the last game. You can't even catch up if you go to every game.

This is why the large branches are able to charter their own plane to Barcelona. A game that sold out at more than 9000 points and yet you end up drinking with 'fans' who are at their first away game.

Meanwhile on to Sevilla; there has been about 1200 tickets made available to fans on Ticket Points, and half of those getting them are members of the SC bumping up their allocation. About 1000 has gone to corporate, families, SC etc.

It's the independent fans who are not members of the Supporters Club, Superbia or Joe's bar that are being left behind and yet are gullible enough to buy the Cup schemes and Platinum when in fact over the last two seasons they have fallen further and further behind, even if they had been in very scheme and gone to every game.

I'll be in Sevilla with mates from a large branch.
Some of them rarely go to aways these days but like the Euro trips. Few of them are in the cup schemes.

The independent fan is being mugged off.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

So the complaining has moved from us fans with mid-points who the 'I'm alright Jack' loyalty points holders told to go to rainy aways in mid winter to catch up so we could get to the swamp in years to come, which patently was never going to happen.

Hurts doesn't it realising the boat has sailed and you're not on it.

I'm genuinely sorry for people missing out but as we were told 'That's progress'.

This post isn't aimed at ANY particular poster and isn't going to be popular.......

 

[allan harper]

So the complaining has moved from us fans with mid-points who the 'I'm alright Jack' loyalty points holders told to go to rainy aways in mid winter to catch up so we could get to the swamp in years to come, which patently was never going to happen.

Hurts doesn't it realising the boat has sailed and you're not on it.

I'm genuinely sorry for people missing out but as we were told 'That's progress'.

This post isn't aimed at ANY particular poster and isn't going to be popular.......

Not really, as the I'm alright Jack's ' got tickets for Sevilla and United away.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Not really, as the I'm alright Jack's ' got tickets for Sevilla and United away.

At the moment mate, but there are loads in this and the rag thread about tickets who due to the imbalance of tickets for the masses who have missed out.

 

[DiscoSteve]

I'm alright Jacks's DID NOT get away tickets for rags unless they had sufficient points - this year is significantly worse than previous years

 

[allan harper]

At the moment mate, but there are loads in this and the rag thread about tickets who due to the imbalance of tickets for the masses who have missed out.

Yeah see what you mean, I thought Sevilla would sell out Friday afternoon, it was always going to sell out at high points. No corporate would turn down an United ticket, likewise sell out high. Wait till Bournemouth away go on sale, that'll be interesting !