Junior pull-through tickets are limited to, I think, 100 tickets.
I though I might have figures for the numbers in various points brackets from City Matters meetings but can't find them if I have.
The only thing I do have is that when we played Everton in 2019, which was the first post-lockdown game and where attendance was limited, there were 650 tickets allocated to those on over 22k points. I'm assuming that was the number who said they wanted one, rather than everyone who had over 22k. So your guess is probably a reasonable one.
My view was, and still is, that points are better than ballots, but we need to change the process. There were discussions about introducing a 5-year rolling system, as they have at Spurs but the big disagreement was about how we achieved that. There are various ways of doing it that were talked about:
- Just take the last 5 years points from Day 1;
- Divide the points by a factor (say 50 or 100) and use the result as the start point, so high points holders kept their advantage.
- Every season, drop the earliest 4 or 5 years points until you got down to the last 4 or 5 years;
- Weight points so that the last 5 years are weighted at 100%, down to a much lower weighting (10 or 20%) for the earliest years.
We simulated a few of these, using the top 100 points holders as our sample, in order to see if there was any significant impact on these people. Then we got into lockdown and the discussions petered out.
