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United Away Sold Out
- Thread starter Goater666
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cleavers said:Goater666 said:A fairer loyalty system wouldn't award any "loyalty" points for the high demand games. That would at least make it a little easier to catch up.
Take this situation for instance, i got 10 points (i think) for travelling all the way to Romania for the Timi game, yet got 50 points for the bloody home game. Yeah nice one.
You contradict yourself.
The Timi away game is relatively high demand, the home game won't be, especially if we win away, therefore maybe they have it about right ? They want to attract people to the home game so give a bigger incentive.
:)
Relatively high demand? 200 fucking people, we could have taken much much more. If there had been demand.
Manchester la la la la
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LCBlue, it took me about 5/6 seasons of going to 10+ aways, all the cup homes, friendlies etc to get a United away ticket
And that was back when you only needed 2800ish points.
So yeah, gonna be difficult for you, but not impossible.
BTW, isn't most away games 20 points instead of 10?
And that was back when you only needed 2800ish points.
So yeah, gonna be difficult for you, but not impossible.
BTW, isn't most away games 20 points instead of 10?
LCBblue
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jrb said:LCBblue said:That's preposterous! If my ashes are buried anywhere it'll be in the centre circle at CoMS!
Perhaps you could do COMS and OT. That way you would see both Derbies, each season. You might even be able to affect the results in our favour. :-)
Hahahaa! Anything for us to beat that scruffy lot.
cleavers
Moderator
jrb said:Cleavers.
The thing is.
Everybody doesn't want to join a supporters branch. Many supporters like me are quite happy driving to away games, with partners or friends.
Regardless. Just because you're aren't a branch member, that shouldn't mean you're at a disadvantage when it comes to away tickets. The playing field should be level, for branch and none branch members. Currently it isn't.
Branch members get the chance to pre-order thier tickets through/via their secretary. Non-branch members can't pre-order their tickets. It isn't allowed. Why? If I have the same or more loyalty points than a branch member, why am I and others not being allowed to pre-order our tickets, just like branch members?.
BTW. I have nothing against branch members. I just want a fair crack of the whip.
I think you are missing the point.
Manchester City have an official supporters club, its part of the club, they encourage people to join it, there aren't many ways to encourage membership, the pre-ordering of tickets so a group can be together is one, and the only time it ever gets complained about is before the away derby match. Maybe the club see it as an extra bit of loyalty to the football club, and feel they want to reward it, however to get a full explanation you need to ask the club not me. All I was doing was defending the supporters club, and those who have earned the points previously.
I'd love to know what the great attraction with the old trafford derby is anyway, its a shit hole place to go, shit view, its only 3 points available, we rarely get them. You're pissed about by police and stewards, inconvenienced at the end, often abused outside before and after, and surrounded by rags. Can't say I miss it, not been for about 5 years now, and I don't see me going again any time soon, but that's personal choice.
LCBblue
Well-Known Member
Manchester la la la la said:LCBlue, it took me about 5/6 seasons of going to 10+ aways, all the cup homes, friendlies etc to get a United away ticket
And that was back when you only needed 2800ish points.
So yeah, gonna be difficult for you, but not impossible.
BTW, isn't most away games 20 points instead of 10?
Cheers. I think this is where the loyalty points system falls on it's face a little. I've never claimed to be a bigger City fan than anyone else or to have a right to be able to go to any game but for younger fans like myself and many others it's going to become increasingly difficult to get a ticket when fans have 3,000/4,000 more points than you, rightly or wrongly.
:(
cleavers
Moderator
Sorry misread your post, I thought you were talking about the Aris game.Goater666 said:Relatively high demand? 200 fucking people, we could have taken much much more. If there had been demand.
It was nigh on impossible to get to Timi at reasonable cost, and I can't remember how many tickets we were actually offered.
However City offered the points for the home game to get a decent home crowd, I do agree that those who made the journey deserved more than 10.
Not sure how to qoute back a few pages but i don't think I have missed the point.
If person A has 4000 points and person B has 4500 points and person A goes to all the games this season, there is no way that person B is moving ahead of them in terms of loyalty points no matter how many games they go to. They can catch up to the people who don't go to every game or remain in the same positon compared to person B if person B also goes to every game.
If person A has 4000 points and person B has 4500 points and person A goes to all the games this season, there is no way that person B is moving ahead of them in terms of loyalty points no matter how many games they go to. They can catch up to the people who don't go to every game or remain in the same positon compared to person B if person B also goes to every game.
cleavers said:jrb said:Cleavers.
The thing is.
Everybody doesn't want to join a supporters branch. Many supporters like me are quite happy driving to away games, with partners or friends.
Regardless. Just because you're aren't a branch member, that shouldn't mean you're at a disadvantage when it comes to away tickets. The playing field should be level, for branch and none branch members. Currently it isn't.
Branch members get the chance to pre-order thier tickets through/via their secretary. Non-branch members can't pre-order their tickets. It isn't allowed. Why? If I have the same or more loyalty points than a branch member, why am I and others not being allowed to pre-order our tickets, just like branch members?.
BTW. I have nothing against branch members. I just want a fair crack of the whip.
I think you are missing the point.
Manchester City have an official supporters club, its part of the club, they encourage people to join it, there aren't many ways to encourage membership, the pre-ordering of tickets so a group can be together is one, and the only time it ever gets complained about is before the away derby match. Maybe the club see it as an extra bit of loyalty to the football club, and feel they want to reward it, however to get a full explanation you need to ask the club not me. All I was doing was defending the supporters club, and those who have earned the points previously.
I'd love to know what the great attraction with the old trafford derby is anyway, its a shit hole place to go, shit view, its only 3 points available, we rarely get them. You're pissed about by police and stewards, inconvenienced at the end, often abused outside before and after, and surrounded by rags. Can't say I miss it, not been for about 5 years now, and I don't see me going again any time soon, but that's personal choice.
The OSC's might be part of the club(?), but there is no requirement to join them. At a guess, I'd say would there are more none members, than members.
The point I'm making is about a level playing field. Just because you're not a member of a supporters club, that shouldn't weight against you when applying for away tickets, especially if they are difficult to come by.
(United away)
Again my point being. If an OSC can pre-order derby tickets for it's members under 4500 points (for today) and pick them up, why can't I and other none OSC members do the same thing? Why are we banned from doing that, just because we're not in a branch.
Let's have a level playing field for OSC members and none OSC members.
cleavers said:Sorry misread your post, I thought you were talking about the Aris game.Goater666 said:Relatively high demand? 200 fucking people, we could have taken much much more. If there had been demand.
It was nigh on impossible to get to Timi at reasonable cost, and I can't remember how many tickets we were actually offered.
However City offered the points for the home game to get a decent home crowd, I do agree that those who made the journey deserved more than 10.
There were ways of doing it cheaply, it just involved long train journeys (or a horrific coach journey) to get there. The away end we were in was about 10-20% full (at most), so had more people shown interest we would have taken more.
I think an improved loyalty system needs to reward the away games with low demand more than say United/Chelsea/Arsenal away games. Games that go on open sale year in year out should offer higher points for example.