fathellensbellend said:
your fears are based on something that could easily be resolved with communication.
Not really, unless I'm misreading it, what you are suggesting is that City invite early applications, before they know the ticket prices (set by the home club at their leisure), take your payment details, then put it in their request for tickets based on applications from people who don't know what the price would be.
Say City got 3000 applications for Spurs next year, so put in for the full allocation, but then 4 weeks before the game Spurs (being the cheeky c***s they are, and knowing City's policy), sent City 2800 tickets priced at £100 each, no concessions (yes I know its not realistic, just an example), your system would mean 2800 people would have to pay the price as charged, or City would have to pay for the tickets.
The system is dictated by the home clubs selling arrangements, and pricing, not by City.
As it is we hardly ever sell out away these days, and City know that there is a price that some people just won't pay, so they take an allocation based on the facts as presented at the time the home club tell City, and to my knowledge we've rarely got it far wrong.
You are worrying about City not taking the full allocation for a game that will in all likelyhood be very important for both clubs. I don't doubt City will take, and sell, the full allocation, so why change a system that seems to work fine as it is to me.
