Supporters clubs

[AlthamBlue]

Yes - And Twice. Liverpool away a couple of seasons back and the 6-1. Difference is i will not deny it.

Face it. It's a system, which for the most part, works. It's open to abuse, but in the main is fine. Like I said earlier, no-one complains

Wow is that a extract out of Mein Kampf...
if somthing for the most part seems to work whilst those who run things are telling you it works then, it most Likly doesn't work all, which is highlited when it matters...


Nothing wrong with bettering any system never mined a corrupt one..

The loyalty points system does work. How is it corrupt? You go to games, earn points. Not rocket science.

 

[Alex the Blue]

After reading through this thread and following a PM from a poster I think I have to accept that some tickets allocated to SCs are going to others.

However, I'm convinced that the vast majority of SCs play it by the book, I believe my own local branch to be whiter than white like most other branches.

I accept people will keep quite if they're getting a ticket from somewhere they shouldn't. What I don't accept is that so many on here claim to know corrupt branches but nobody has ever named one. I guess it's just another opportunity for some to knock the SCs that do so much good work.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Really struggling to see what the problem is with people having a go at supporters clubs on here clubs tend to get an allocation of tickets yes but its based on tickets they take for away games during the season the Readings and Swanseas away etc ain't seen threads on here regarding i can't get a tickets for these so supporters clubs are all corrupt. And to be honest anyone who was interested in the F.A.Cup enough to join the cup scheme got a ticket and so did anyone with more than 3500 pts. By and large supporters clubs do more good work than bad and if anyone knows of a branch that's selling tickets at a profit name and shame.

 

[bainy]

if you live outside manchester, having access to a supporters branch in your area is a superb way of meeting other blues and also enables the opportunity to travel to games with them. South Yorkshire blues have been around for a good 20 year (now relauched under a new chairman). If it wasnt for branches like this, supporting city from out of town would be less enjoyable and harder to do, considering most branches organise transport. Now i dont know the ins / outs of ticketing as i have enough points to get me own, what i do know is that because of the supporters club i have a load more city mates to travel up and down the country with!!

 

[mad4city]

if you live outside manchester, having access to a supporters branch in your area is a superb way of meeting other blues and also enables the opportunity to travel to games with them. South Yorkshire blues have been around for a good 20 year (now relauched under a new chairman). If it wasnt for branches like this, supporting city from out of town would be less enjoyable and harder to do, considering most branches organise transport. Now i dont know the ins / outs of ticketing as i have enough points to get me own, what i do know is that because of the supporters club i have a load more city mates to travel up and down the country with!!

Well said. I'm in exactly the same boat as you and I don't remember any of this animosity when folk like you and I were slogging through the turnstiles back in the bad old days.
Picking on OSC's is an easy target when you're living within walking distance of the Etihad but, for some of us, they are more or less the only way to meet other blues.

Seven tickets or thereabouts seems to be the going rate for OSC's. A quick bit of multiplication arrives us at a figure of about 250 tickets overall. Not a lot out of 35,000. If any OSC is profiteering, shame on them but the vast majority almost certainly aren't and I don't think it's fair to tar everybody with the same brush.

And just to clear one glaring error up: it's been repeatedly suggested in this thread that fans can apply both through the supporter's club and as an individual. You can't. MCFC have been quite clear on this and anybody attempting to do so would have had both applications binned.
But hey, let the witch-hunt continue!

 

[Eccles Blue]

And just to clear one glaring error up: it's been repeatedly suggested in this thread that fans can apply both through the supporter's club and as an individual. You can't. MCFC have been quite clear on this and anybody attempting to do so would have had both applications binned.
But hey, let the witch-hunt continue!

I can vouch for this as I inadvertently got our SC Chairman into trouble when he kindly asked for a ticket for an away match for me because I hadn't been at the meeting and I got my own and the club sent him an email 'telling him off'!! He had been trying to do me a favour and it backfired on him. I now get all my own tickets because I can and it means that the SC can get an extra one if necessary.

 

[peoffrey]

This is simply not true, anyone applying via a Supporters Club has to meet all the criteria as laid down by the club as with any other fans. It's such a shame when people post this without knowing the truth, almost like a journalist.

You're wrong. There's people without Seasoncards who have tickets for Wembley purely because their Branch obtained them.

 

[AlthamBlue]

if you live outside manchester, having access to a supporters branch in your area is a superb way of meeting other blues and also enables the opportunity to travel to games with them. South Yorkshire blues have been around for a good 20 year (now relauched under a new chairman). If it wasnt for branches like this, supporting city from out of town would be less enjoyable and harder to do, considering most branches organise transport. Now i dont know the ins / outs of ticketing as i have enough points to get me own, what i do know is that because of the supporters club i have a load more city mates to travel up and down the country with!!

This is why we started ours. I've met some good mates through our branch.

 

[mad4city]

This is simply not true, anyone applying via a Supporters Club has to meet all the criteria as laid down by the club as with any other fans. It's such a shame when people post this without knowing the truth, almost like a journalist.

You're wrong. There's people without Seasoncards who have tickets for Wembley purely because their Branch obtained them.

You're possibly right, Peoffrey. I don't know of any but you may well be right.
Going slightly off topic here but if a new supporters club were to be formed in, I dunno, let's say San Francisco. That'd be a good thing, right? Because we all agree that the club has to expand its global fanbase to compete.
But hang on, they've not got any points history, do they? Tell you what, they can fly from California to New York and on to Ringway for the Tuesday night clash at home to WBA because whisper it but, we need all the help we can get in selling that one to our loyal hard core support. They can piss right off if they want to pop over for anything grander, mind!

Look, I know I'm being a smartarse with that line if argument and I honestly apologise if it seems that I'm picking on just you but the thing is, City are a big club these days with massive (yup, I used the M word!) ambitions and this situation isn't going away. A few hundred tickets out of 35,000 might be a small price to pay for world domination.

 

[Franny Lee's Barrel Chest]

Not read all the posts but what I do know is that people who are not going to a particular game but qualify points wise will allow the Supporters club to use their supporter number (points whores I think I've heard them called ;o) ) so someone else gets their ticket. It's bound to happen.

But if a member doesn't qualify then they might not get the ticket.