Ticket Points Sales Tracking

Ive had a season ticket since 1977, my wife and 2 daughters have had theirs for approx 25 years. Paetly out of principle as well as the added cost as a family we didn't pay for platinum so stayed on gold. Ive got the grand total of 8770 points. My daughters on 8060 and 7360 and wife on 6210. By hook or crook we always manage to find tickets for whatever game we want and we do a number of aways every season and have never missed a wembley game. But we don't always get the points as we have to ask around some of the time.

After paying £675 for 3 tickets this morning this is quite possibly my last FA Cup Final, my first was in 1981. The expense and hassle just gets more difficult every season and so we'll maybe have a party in future and watch it at home. Let some of the new fans have a go we've enjoyed a good run.

Let's go and win a double Blues!
 
Blue2112 said:
Ive had a season ticket since 1977, my wife and 2 daughters have had theirs for approx 25 years. Paetly out of principle as well as the added cost as a family we didn't pay for platinum so stayed on gold. Ive got the grand total of 8770 points. My daughters on 8060 and 7360 and wife on 6210. By hook or crook we always manage to find tickets for whatever game we want and we do a number of aways every season and have never missed a wembley game. But we don't always get the points as we have to ask around some of the time.

After paying £675 for 3 tickets this morning this is quite possibly my last FA Cup Final, my first was in 1981. The expense and hassle just gets more difficult every season and so we'll maybe have a party in future and watch it at home. Let some of the new fans have a go we've enjoyed a good run.

Let's go and win a double Blues!
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This is getting into my thinking these days as well, I’ll do the scheme until it seems it’s a fuck about to get a ticket then I’ll just come out of all schemes and do the league, I’ve seen us win the lot now so anything else is just a bonus. If we win the league and beat the rags again I don’t think there’s much left if I’m honest.
 
Project1 said:
You are correct we did indeed get 100 points for Reading 5/03/2011.
Also got 100 points for Aston Villa FA Cup on the 21/02/11.
Talking of Reading the away game that I always remember is a Tuesday Night after we got beat by Wigan in the FA Cup final. No Manager an abundance of empty seats and it absolutely pissed down all night.
Got a win though.
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Probably the game when it was almost exclusively the true diehards. Set of early morning on the coach, mainly soft drinks in the pub. Arrived back around 2am, quick change into work clothes and off to finish the rest of my night shift ( the last 6 hrs), having paid cash in hand for someone to do the first 4 hrs.
 
Surely for the cup finals the supporters on the cup scheme should get the choice of the cheaper tickets before they are farm out to supporters clubs etc. The club obviously give priority to cup scheme holders but towards the lower points the cheapest ones were £115. And I'm thinking the 45 and 70 had already been allocated to OSC
As soon as we got to the final you could register your interest in a ticket if on the cup scheme and the price category you wanted. Then the club can offer what ever is left to the osc
 
swinton blue said:
Surely for the cup finals the supporters on the cup scheme should get the choice of the cheaper tickets before they are farm out to supporters clubs etc. The club obviously give priority to cup scheme holders but towards the lower points the cheapest ones were £115. And I'm thinking the 45 and 70 had already been allocated to OSC
As soon as we got to the final you could register your interest in a ticket if on the cup scheme and the price category you wanted. Then the club can offer what ever is left to the osc
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From what I have heard, supporter's clubs got £115 tickets.
 
swinton blue said:
Do we know how many of the tickets are 45 and 70 ?
As I was on the cup scheme with low points and could only get 115 ticket
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Dunno how many in total but I bought a few late on Thursday afternoon with a card with only about 10,000 points on it and there were hundreds of £45 ones left then.
 
swinton blue said:
Surely for the cup finals the supporters on the cup scheme should get the choice of the cheaper tickets before they are farm out to supporters clubs etc. The club obviously give priority to cup scheme holders but towards the lower points the cheapest ones were £115. And I'm thinking the 45 and 70 had already been allocated to OSC
As soon as we got to the final you could register your interest in a ticket if on the cup scheme and the price category you wanted. Then the club can offer what ever is left to the osc
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Can confirm our supporters club got the £115 tickets
 
swinton blue said:
Surely for the cup finals the supporters on the cup scheme should get the choice of the cheaper tickets before they are farm out to supporters clubs etc. The club obviously give priority to cup scheme holders but towards the lower points the cheapest ones were £115. And I'm thinking the 45 and 70 had already been allocated to OSC
As soon as we got to the final you could register your interest in a ticket if on the cup scheme and the price category you wanted. Then the club can offer what ever is left to the osc
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Most OSC's I have spoken to got the £115 tickets but nice try.
 
CTID1999 said:
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Thats brilliant work. I have had my season ticket since 1980 and have 22000 plus points so dont think I will ever attend a derby at OT unless its a cup game.

Have no problem with that as long as its deserving Blues ahead of me who have put in the hard yards but when I see some of our away support nowadays I dont think most are.
 
Project1 said:
Firstly you are telling me that nobody involved with City Matters at the time could not see what was going to happen and that the removal of points for the away games was going to make absolutely no difference what so ever. It amazes me that a group of people actually thought by not awarding 20 points for a game people were not going to attend. Hate to break it to you but those that have enough points still get there tickets and pass them on like they used too previously.

The clubs success has made platinum worthless. Reduction in away tickets due to increase in corporate and 18/25 allocation means all those that have been paying for this for years have and will never see the benefit for what they were promised. There used to be ticket allocations based on Platinum members then Gold. Can not remember when this removed probably teh same time as teh stupid points removal.

They should just fuck off the 18/25 allocation and increase that pot to 20% and allow everyone to apply that has a season ticket. Why should someone who is in their 30s who has had a season ticket for say 10 years not have a chance of an away ticket.

Liverpool away this year was a classic example of how the club has been able to use the naivety of the City Matters group to their own advantage. Looked to the right at anfield from the away end and it is like a United Nations summit.
Go down to the bar at half time and its like the United Nations Canteen in the away end.
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And it was one of the quietest away ends I’ve ever been in
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
City Matters did not ask for it. The club suggested it but we agreed, as the case for doing it was sound. The system encouraged people to buy away tickets and pass them on. I don't see how anyone can think that's a good idea. The people who regularly do away games do it because they want to go to the games, not because they want the points.

You simply cannot complain about the 'wrong' people getting tickets while also complaining about measures to mitigate that.

But I absolutely agree that the points system as it stands needs significant reform. It was originally meant to encourage sales of tickets when we weren't successful , but isnoe being used to ration them. It should be based on no more than the most recent 5 years attendance, which we talked about with the club pre-Covid, but they bottled, as they felt someone who had the 100th highest number of points might fall to 105th place under a sensible system. Shame they didn't apply the same sympathy to people who had their seats taken away by yet another hospitality offering.

Points should also be based on attendance rather than just buying a ticket, then not turning up.

Platinum needs fucking off, which we urged them to do but they refused, despite us suggesting alternative ways of replacing the relatively miniscule revenue (less than 0.1% now) it brings in.

They need to look at the whole system of allocation of away tickets. What worked years ago is not what works today.

But people also have to accept that, as things are, supply is not going to meet demand for most games. We're even struggling to meet demand for home games.
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The points system wasn’t brought in to encourage people to buy tickets. In the 3rd tier with small away ends you had to keep your ticket stubs from previous games to buy for the next away game. For example Bristol Rovers away (the last regular season away game) you needed to have 22 away ticket stubs from that season. That obviously wasn’t sustainable. So they brought in points tracking the following season. I think everyone started on 0 points.
 
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