Priority points system

NorthumberlandBoro said:
It's good that all those who regularly travel away have had the chance to buy a ticket for man utd.
Their loyalty has been rewarded.
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So supporter A has been going to home games regularly for the last 25 years, with the odd away game. Although supporter B has been to going home and away games regularly for the last 3 seasons.
Who deserves priority?
 
asredastheycome said:
But 9000 plus fans are going to Man U and thats a bit father away. We got a flight to Bristol for the price of one and a half Man U tickets. Better time for us hopefully.
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Again a 2 hour car journey away. Had we drawn Arsenal or Spurs away going wouldn't even have been a consideration but each to their own ...
 
Everything I said would happen has happened with this scheme, as it's happened at other clubs who implemented similar schemes.

You end of with the tickets going to the same people every time, whether they attend the game or not. I know plenty of people with season cards who buy tickets to games they have no intention of going to and then re-sell them at face value for the points, often to friends/family or on Facebook or Twitter to fans who wouldn't have had enough points.

Then there's people in groups who can't attend games as some may have 160+ points and others are on 158 points, etc,

I never saw the issue with the previous system, and I say this as someone who has had no issues getting tickets under either system. You pay your season ticket money and you get a *chance* of an away ticket, everyone had a equal chance so it was fair. It was people with a sense of entitlement who demanded this.

*If* you bought one this season and *if* we got promoted good luck getting an away ticket next season, you'll have no chance whatsoever and when the same people are snapping up the tickets to Premier League games you will simply not have the opportunity to build-up enough points to catch them.

That's when the closed shop forms.
 
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Nano said:
It won't allows happen. Snoop Dogg was talking earlier this week about using NFTs as tickets. It was about forged tickets because you would be able to verify that the ticket was genuine as it would be on the blockchain but other rules could be put in place such as no transferring etc. The current system is exploitable in loads of ways which might be removed in the future with technology.
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Tickets are not transferable now but someone at the front of the pecking order buys a ticket, Mfc post it to the registered address, purchaser gets ticket and posts to a mate/family member who buys ticket off the season ticket holder.

You aren't going to stop that in the short term. Especially when the home team have zero interest in who turns up with a ticket.

Nearly 10,000 tickets sold for this game. I bet its not even three figures that don't get used by the actual person who bought them.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
Tickets are not transferable now but someone at the front of the pecking order buys a ticket, Mfc post it to the registered address, purchaser gets ticket and posts to a mate/family member who buys ticket off the season ticket holder.

You aren't going to stop that in the short term. Especially when the home team have zero interest in who turns up with a ticket.

Nearly 10,000 tickets sold for this game. I bet its not even three figures that don't get used by the actual person who bought them.
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I know at least four people who are staying at home or watching it in the pub, but have banked the points as someone else is using their ST.

That's just in my tiny circle of Season Ticket holders.
 
Nano said:
I really don't understand the mindset that people who go regularly deserve to go as if they are suffering by partaking in a leisure activity of their choosing. Some people are lucky enough to be in a position to go to every single game, most others aren't. I don't understand why people with all of their privileges think they deserve more than other people.

It's in the terms and conditions of the season ticket and priority system so I have no problem with it but the mindset is silly. Thank yourselves lucky that you can go home and away every week instead of complaining that you might miss a game here or there and heaven forbid somebody "less deserving" gets to go.
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I get where your coming from with the privilege mindset but that’s fact.
Are people lucky that they go to every game home and away or is it about sacrifice?
personally I spend most of my expendable income on boro. I don’t smoke, I hardly drink, I drive a 16 year old car and I use most of my leave at work getting saturdays off.
I know most who go are in the same boat.
Loyalty has to be rewarded somehow.
 
Facefuzz said:
I get where your coming from with the privilege mindset but that’s fact.
Are people lucky that they go to every game home and away or is it about sacrifice?
personally I spend most of my expendable income on boro. I don’t smoke, I hardly drink, I drive a 16 year old car and I use most of my leave at work getting saturdays off.
I know most who go are in the same boat.
Loyalty has to be rewarded somehow.
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It is with a points system.

Buy a season ticket & put money into the club & get points.

Go to away games and get points.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
Possibly - what number would you put on it??
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Comfortably hundreds. Most likely into the thousands given the number of young and old season ticket holders that won't travel, those that couldn't travel with it being a night match, those put off by the price and those that just don't travel to away games at all. We would've had to have sold ALL the tickets to approximately two thirds of the season ticket fan base. I don't see it at all.
 
Humpty said:
Comfortably hundreds. Most likely into the thousands given the number of young and old season ticket holders that won't travel, those that couldn't travel with it being a night match, those put off by the price and those that just don't travel to away games at all. We would've had to have sold ALL the tickets to approximately two thirds of the season ticket fan base. I don't see it at all.
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I'll accept 100's but not 1000's - this is the glory match that everyone wants to go to.

But as I said elsewhere this isn't new. What ever system we've had in the 50+ years I've been following the Boro has been open to abuse.
 
Humpty said:
I'd give priority to all season card holders. At least that way everyone that's put money in the clubs coffers gets an opportunity to buy an in demand ticket. Under this system, we have season card holders with high priority points giving away their card to allow non-season ticket holders the chance to purchase tickets. This has prevented other season card holders (season card holders with 70 points in this instance) the opportunity to buy tickets.
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But for a high demand game for example Sunderland away where we would get limited tickets, a season ticket holder who goes to every game home and away could loose out to someone with a season ticket but never does an away game. Thats not exactly fair
 
Why not? Both have put the same amount of money into the club.

A season ticket is supposed to confer the benefit of the option of buying in demand tickets. It hasn't done so in this circumstance.
 
I don't give a **** about going to the big games. I just want to be able to go to the London matches. I go to all the matches on my doorstep, just like a season ticket holder. I am concerned that I will not be able to attend London matches for seasons at a time if we are doing well, should all the season ticket holders start going to away games. If I can't go to the games I'll stop supporting the club. This saddens me greatly. Used to be a big F1 fan until sky priced me out of it. Don't want to lose football too.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
I don't give a **** about going to the big games. I just want to be able to go to the London matches. I go to all the matches on my doorstep, just like a season ticket holder. I am concerned that I will not be able to attend London matches for seasons at a time if we are doing well, should all the season ticket holders start going to away games. If I can't go to the games I'll stop supporting the club. This saddens me greatly. Used to be a big F1 fan until sky priced me out of it. Don't want to lose football too.
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Are you a season ticket holder?

If so, you shouldn't have a problem.

Where you live is your choice, not MFC's
 
JM14 said:
But for a high demand game for example Sunderland away where we would get limited tickets, a season ticket holder who goes to every game home and away could loose out to someone with a season ticket but never does an away game. Thats not exactly fair
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Exactly.

Points are rewarded for loyalty.

It should've been brought in decades ago.

At least MFC saw sense and brought it in 2 years ago.
 
Humpty said:
Why not? Both have put the same amount of money into the club.

A season ticket is supposed to confer the benefit of the option of buying in demand tickets. It hasn't done so in this circumstance.
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How could it? We have more than 9000 season ticket holders I believe so no system would ever guarantee all ST holders a ticket (as I found out to my chagrin vis a vis Eindhoven)
 
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