Supporters clubs ticket allocation

[Alex the Blue]

Don't have much time for anyone who's a member of one but even worse are the committee members. I've met a couple and they've always come across as slimy self-serving bastards enjoying all the perks - like guaranteed tickets, whilst doing as little as possible, especially the treasurers.[/quo

You are cordially invited to discuss your opinions with us at our next committee meeting

Skashion can also come to one of our meetings and tell us to our faces what we are, especially our treasurer who is often out of pocket like all other committee members at most branches.

 

[Why Always Ste]

Ticket allocation for Branches isn't actually based on the amount of Loyalty Points, it's based on the amount of ticket requests from the branch.

Example:

We applied for 8 tickets for Swansea, recieving 4.
if we would of applied for 16, we may of recieved the required 8.

Anyway the amount of tickets that goes to SC's is lower, the issue you should have is with the distribution of tickets to Club Staff and how many staff I'm aware of regularly sell their tickets on... but most notably: the amount of tickets that do go to employees of club sponsors or whoever they sell the tickets on to and so on... which is why you'll see people in the away end at the Swamp for the 6-1 who don't have any points whatsoever yet get tickets.

This is more of an issue, at the SC's you can more or less guarantee the ticket applicant has somewhat of a longterm interest in supporting man city, or atleast claims to have.

But yea From all of this season theres been around 40 ticket applications the whole season, this is from a membership base of over 130 members.... Jaguar probably get 40 tickets per match.

And it'll be rags sat in the seats who just happen to work for Jaguar

 

[cyberblue]

I've been a critic of the way tickets get allocated to supporters clubs. The system is open to abuse as, although the branch has to have sufficient members with x loyalty points, the tickets they get don't necessarily go to the people with those points. So the branch might have 20 people with 6000 or more points and apply for and get 20 tickets but the tickets can go to anyone once the branch have them. That's not all branches but there do seem to be some that work that way.

However I now believe the big enemy is hospitality. The points requirements for games like Arsenal suggest very clearly to me that a large number of tickets are going to hospitality customers directly or via sale of blocks of tickets to third-party companies. you won't find these people at Wigan on a wet, cold Monday night but you will find them at the Swamp, White Hart Lane, The Emirates & Stamford Bridge.

Regarding your change of tune it is quite refreshing but there is no difference to a branch member getting a ticket through his alocation & giving it someone else than you getting a ticket for a match then giving it someone else because you cant go .all the players get an alocation of tickets they can give them to anyone thay want .ex players can get tickets & again dish them out likewise directors .board members .staff ect ect

 

[Colins Bellend]

Don't have much time for anyone who's a member of one but even worse are the committee members. I've met a couple and they've always come across as slimy self-serving bastards enjoying all the perks - like guaranteed tickets, whilst doing as little as possible, especially the treasurers.

What a complete idiot you are
I've edited this because i think really i should back it up.
Our SC chairman and his non City supporting wife put in numerous hours of work for members.He has not been to an away this season and has missed a few homes because he can't afford time off work. So maybe you should turn up at a supporters club meeting at the Etihad speak to a few of these people
before making a sweeping statement.

 

[fathellensbellend]

all away tickets should be allocated to those with the most number of loyalty points, otherwise it makes a mockery of city fleecing fans for an extra 50 pounds for platinum loyalty.

supporters clubs should get tickets in exactly the same fashion as any other supporter.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

Before i start, i hav'nt a clue how they work out the allocations. This is a thread to try to justify the allocations, based on some previous threads about our out of town support, or plastics/glory hunter support. I will use myself as an example, only because i dont know everyone elses background.
Born Stretford, raised Stretford,season ticket in 76 when they first came out ( £40 ) had a stint in the Army and kept my season ticket even though i was based in Southampton, saw 80% of home and aways. Posted to Germany, saw only a handful of games for 14 months, then bought myself out of the Army, yes, cos i was missing too many matches. Another 14 years season ticket holder living in Stretford, Higher Openshaw and Warrington. Went to live in France for 6 years, still kept season ticket for first three years. 31 years as a season ticket holder. Hav'nt had one now for 5 years and i live on the Isle of Wight. My kids, born in Manchester and Warrington, will be at Arsenal away, assuming we get our branch allocation. We have asked for 12. A lot of Blues have said on here that they cant justify £51 plus travel, food, a drink etc, and this is where i am asking,.... based on what ive said, and based on the economic climate, can we give the Blues who go the the southern based games a bit of slack. It's going to cost me...........£51 + £23 + £23 + three ferry tickets, (£42 ) 3 return train tickets to London, ( £60 ) food, a couple of pints, programmes, etc. Were talking nearly £300 for one game.
( God i wish i lived nearer home, but dont begrudge my kids ( southern accents ) their 4 or 5 games a season. )

Just don't expect people to sit. We stand up at all our midlands and Northern games with no hassle from fellow Blues until we go down to that London.

 

[Tellison87MCFC]

Some thick cunts on here... I recently joined a supporters club in yorkshire for cheaper travel and ticket access... This does not make me a glory hunter, always been a blue and always gone to games, fact it is now very difficult to get tickets for aways and I will get a ticket by any means necessary to watch city...
... Went down to the semi final with no ticket, got one outside, managed to get a spare of someone for the final...
What the fuck does it matter how people get tickets, if YOU want to go to a game that badly, you get a ticket by any means neccessary, or travel down without one. I used to be able to get away tickets through the club, this is now not possible most games.

 

[squirtyflower]

all away tickets should be allocated to those with the most number of loyalty points, otherwise it makes a mockery of city fleecing fans for an extra 50 pounds for platinum loyalty.

supporters clubs should get tickets in exactly the same fashion as any other supporter.

This is all I ask for

 

[Tellison87MCFC]

See where your coming from, but over years I've used other peoples cards at times to get tickets or for the cheaper option, which i now know was a mistake but not much i can do about it.. So my loyalty points doesn't reflect the number of games I've been too, so that's why I really couldn't give a shit how I get my tickets

 

[fathellensbellend]

Some thick cunts on here... I recently joined a supporters club in yorkshire for cheaper travel and ticket access... This does not make me a glory hunter, always been a blue and always gone to games, fact it is now very difficult to get tickets for aways and I will get a ticket by any means necessary to watch city...
... Went down to the semi final with no ticket, got one outside, managed to get a spare of someone for the final...
What the fuck does it matter how people get tickets, if YOU want to go to a game that badly, you get a ticket by any means neccessary, or travel down without one. I used to be able to get away tickets through the club, this is now not possible most games.

it is possible to get tickets for away games, but to do this you have to earn loyalty points, mine were built up watching city losing to portsmouth at 5.30 on a saturday night, or joining the cup schemes and turning up for the early rounds of the cups. Up until this season over 80% of away games have made open sale in the last decade, and a vast number didnt even sell out, most people have had the chance to build up points, but couldn't be arsed when we were shit (which ironically was the time when the club only gave 10 loyalty points for trekking all over the country)

Good luck to anyone who gets away tickets, but the notion they are impossible to obtain is a myth, its just a case of doing the time.