This thread saves me starting the one I was about to.
I'm a season card holder so it doesn't impact me, but I think those fans who don't have season cards but have been collecting priority points have every right to feel aggrieved that the club are allowing season card holder's mates to get tickets before them.
They could have gone to many home and away games this season and someone's mate who just wants to see Chelsea can get a ticket before them.
It's wrong IMO, and again is an example of the priority system not being used correctly.
This is making it almost impossible for fans to support the club from a distance, it’s fine for the likes of me who live 20 mins away but those who live down South are screwed.
They got away with this offer vs Spurs as many of these fans will have watched it at home or in their local with it being a midweek game with potential for extra time and penalties.
I don’t see how me getting an extra ticket for friends or family is rewarding my loyalty. It isn’t, it’s an offer that makes no sense and shouldn’t exist. If you want to reward my loyalty give me a discount, I personally think the tickets are too cheap for the bandwagon jumpers.
Not to rub it in for people who haven’t being able to get one, but I know loads who haven’t been since we were in the Prem who are going, some taking their missus who claimed to like football for the Euros, then went back to hating it and now wants to go “for the atmosphere and drinks”.
How on Earth is it right these people get tickets before fans who’ve travelled home and away, and their only crime is not having a season card?
It’s just wrong, I’d say I can’t believe nobody at the club saw the issue with this but previous experience tells me not to be surprised.
I wouldn’t blame any of our distance fans who are just as much of a fan as those of us who go every week if they told the club to shove it, why have a priority points system and abandon it for the most popular home game in years.
Farcical.