Ticket Loyalty Points

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16 seconds in shows the big hole in the fence but not people steaming through

 

[mancityvstoke]

16 seconds in shows the big hole in the fence but not people steaming through

They did though and there was footage once somewhere

 

[City Mike 1969]

I don't think that's right mate.

For the last twenty years or so of Maine Road, we had five tiers of season ticket holder: you were a 1st year, 2nd year, 3r year, 4th year or a Regular. For away games with demand like that Wigan one which had enormous demand, tickets went down the tiers in order, usually a day for each. It was only when that was exhaused that they would sell to people with ticket stubs. That also happened for Wembley that year.

I was a regular ST holder from 93/94 onwards and I'm sure that it was when we ended up in the third tier (98/99) that extra measures were introduced because the size of the grounds we'd be visiting meant the allocations wouldn't even cover the amount of regular ST holders that wanted them.

I don't remember it being just massive demand games they asked for ticket stubs, just that it varied how many ticket stubs were required according to the size of the allocation we'd received.

It was always a toss up between which was worse... standing in the middle of Moss Side in the pissing rain waiting for a ticket office that wasn't even going to open for another half a day... or the postal ballots, where they wouldn't accept away ticket stubs that had been stapled together - but then you'd have to spend half a day ripping the ends of your fingers to pieces removing the 576 staples they'd put through your tickets before posting them back.

 

[Corky]

I was a regular ST holder from 93/94 onwards and I'm sure that it was when we ended up in the third tier (98/99) that extra measures were introduced because the size of the grounds we'd be visiting meant the allocations wouldn't even cover the amount of regular ST holders that wanted them.

I don't remember it being just massive demand games they asked for ticket stubs, just that it varied how many ticket stubs were required according to the size of the allocation we'd received.

It was always a toss up between which was worse... standing in the middle of Moss Side in the pissing rain waiting for a ticket office that wasn't even going to open for another half a day... or the postal ballots, where they wouldn't accept away ticket stubs that had been stapled together - but then you'd have to spend half a day ripping the ends of your fingers to pieces removing the 576 staples they'd put through your tickets before posting them back.

They added a year to make it 6 to become a regular in the latter days.

You had people at the ticket officer turning up with 23 stubs, "which do you want" ticket office staff "just give me the lot"- stamps the lot, then does the same for the partner. Claim for an RSI.

 

[City Mike 1969]

Yeah remember watching City storm in.....cant find any footage now.

only footage I could find:



Fucking Wigan......

I've seen footage quite recently, but I can't locate it at the moment... I think the bloke looking through the gap in the fence (that appears to have been made out of old internal house ddors) in this clip is just have a reccy before a full on assault starts

 

[James2401125]

Yeah the failure to add the carabao cup points could mean I miss out on a forest ticket ( should be OK for arsenal) I've got 21,475. Just the 25 short of 21.5k which would guarantee me one :(

They must of listened to me complain on here. Got my 200 points will be alright for both now

 

[Silva2021]

Anyone got 2 Forest that would like to swap for 2 Arsenal?

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Bring back the tokens from the back of the programmes

You want to pay an extra £4/£5 a game?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

They did though and there was footage once somewhere

I watched it at Maine Road too and when all the blues were breaking in a massive cheer went up in the Kippax.

 

[Tier2Blue]

Sooner away tickets are on a open ballot to all season ticket holders the better.