Sunderland away general sale

Prestwich_Blue said:
I really don't get why people feel the need to have a go at fellow blues. It's rare that games get to general sale these days but far more common that fewer tickets are available to normal fans, having been snapped up by corporates, sponsors, Belgians, points whores, the OSC, an £99+Vat audience with Brian Marwood, etc, etc. These are things that people are quite entitled to complain about.

But it's a Tuesday night, a few hours drive, just after an FA Cup game and before a possible Wembley final. Not everyone can do it and we know that, if it had been a weekend game, it would have easily sold out. I went to the cup game but I had just finished a piece of work and was taking some time off so I didn't mind getting home at 2am. So great if you're going (and I assume the three of you having a pop will be there) but no need to have a go at those who aren't.
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except if it was liverpool away or in fact even bournemouth away it would sell out. there will no sign of our growing fairweather fans. they will crawl back under their stones and come out moaning about loyalty points we draw the rags in a cup etc. best bit is the excuses, "i'm working". or "i'm skint" funny that neither of those hinder the chance to watch a game v the rags. go to work, i would and i did, save your money, i would and i did, what i didn't do and never would was come along moaning about a system that is clearly there to build points by attending the shittier games.
 
Blackcrowes said:
They all add up - my lad is just 14 and he is already on 13,000 - enough said
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Only because you can buy junior tickets with an adult ticket. If the adult ticket has enough to get to any away game the kids never going to miss a game.

Just missed out on a ticket for United and Watford, been to every single other away game this season but this will be the first game i'm missing when i can get a ticket. I simply can't get there in time. We usually have a bus running every away game and it's full of people who haven't missed a game in years but there's just 1 person going to this from it, all the rest just can't make it with it being midweek. It will be the same for Newcastle and Norwich which will both be moved to midweek should we progress in the cups. It's all well and good for people to say this is a chance for the people on lower points to catch up but it's not really. One it's 40 points, the people on more points that miss this will make that up the next game and they're back to moving further and further away from being able to get a ticket. It's not a chance for them to catch up, it's simply an every dwindling opportunity to get to an away game


Bill said:
except if it was liverpool away or in fact even bournemouth away it would sell out. there will no sign of our growing fairweather fans. they will crawl back under their stones and come out moaning about loyalty points we draw the rags in a cup etc. best bit is the excuses, "i'm working". or "i'm skint" funny that neither of those hinder the chance to watch a game v the rags. go to work, i would and i did, save your money, i would and i did, what i didn't do and never would was come along moaning about a system that is clearly there to build points by attending the shittier games.
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I agree with your point, but only for the home games, where the vast majority live close by and travel isn't much of an issue. The semi final for example would of been like golddust if we had the rags buti don't think your argument is really valid for away games. Or at the very least, not the examples you've picked. Liverpool is substantially easier to get to than Sunderland for a midweek game, it's an hour on the train, it's cheap and there's trains all the time. Bournemouth we will get substantially less tickets, if we only got the numbers we will get for Bournemouth for Sunderland, it would of sold out a while ago.
 
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Well he's a lucky lad that he has a dad to take him to so many. I get to half a dozen aways per season, a lot of them aren't easy from Barrow in Furness, and I've had a season ticket since we moved in 2003 and had platinum and every cup scheme since that little money spinner started and I'm still only on 11,000. I think a lot of people feel hard done to because, in recent years, despite jumping through all the hoops they aren't getting anywhere nearer getting tickets for a lot of aways. I haven't had enough points for eight games this season.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I really don't get why people feel the need to have a go at fellow blues. It's rare that games get to general sale these days but far more common that fewer tickets are available to normal fans, having been snapped up by corporates, sponsors, Belgians, points whores, the OSC, an £99+Vat audience with Brian Marwood, etc, etc. These are things that people are quite entitled to complain about.
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Totally agree, if I was available to go to this (I'm not I've work), I would get home at about 4am, having set off before midday. No thanks.

The OP is obsessed with this subject.
 
Bill said:
except if it was liverpool away or in fact even bournemouth away it would sell out. there will no sign of our growing fairweather fans. they will crawl back under their stones and come out moaning about loyalty points we draw the rags in a cup etc. best bit is the excuses, "i'm working". or "i'm skint" funny that neither of those hinder the chance to watch a game v the rags. go to work, i would and i did, save your money, i would and i did, what i didn't do and never would was come along moaning about a system that is clearly there to build points by attending the shittier games.
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It's a lot harder to catch up now though. My lad has been to 80% of the aways in the last 3 years. Unfortunately he has had no choice but to buy the vast majority off someone with a lot higher points who goes to 4 away games a season (you can probably guess the four) but buys tickets for 19. The lad was at Sunderland last season in the week and it was one of the ones he could buy himself.

He has found it even harder this season now that the club itself whores out tickets to Belgium supporters clubs, City in the City and god knows who else.

Doesn't bother me as I don't go to aways now bar two or three a season but he has tried to get up the ladder by doing platinum etc and it's a long slog for him.
 
God we have some boring fans. I wouldn't dream of driving to Sunderland on a work night. Does that make me less of a blue? No - city are a huge part of my life but a 5 hour round trip midweek to watch us? No thanks.
 
you are all missing the point. it's not the life choices or work schedules that i have no sympathy for. its the moaning about the system of loyalty points. as i say, its a life choice whether to go or not, if that lessens your chance of attending games in the future dont moan about it.
 
Arsenal sold around 10k points £30 And half price compared to Sunderland being full price at £34

Any London game sells out mid week (palace last season excluded as moral was pretty low) mainly because there are lot more southern based blues compared to north east based blues
I.ll be there easier journey than London on a tues don't mind driving plus my daughter is based at Newcastle Uni who is a season ticket holder so I catch up with her too and she boosts her points
 
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