Priority points system

InglebyUTB said:
Yes because they'd have the exact same odds of getting a ticket.

Do you think it would be fair if we got promoted, and those who've only had a season ticket for a few years would have next to zero chance of getting an away ticket as they'll never be able to catch up to the points that those at the top have already accrued?
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They can though....

If they started on 140 and if they went to 10 away games over the 2 years then they'd be up there on 160 (along with gold card holders). (not including any potential home cup games in which you bank 3 points).

5 away games per season is doable, and most fans who attend away games will probably do 5 or so a season.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
I agree, being a season ticket holder is all that should matter for first dibs on tickets like this.
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I don't have a season ticket so none of this really affects me but I agree. Being a season ticket holder should give everyone an equal opportunity of getting a ticket. It obviously doesn't please the people that think they are entitled to go to every single game but it is fair. I would scrap 1st come 1st served as well and do it as a ballot. Anyone that applies and misses out goes to the front of the queue for the next game. I refuse to believe that the technology to do this easily doesn't exist.

Even the most frequent away fans must recognise that arguing that they should be able to go to every single game when other people want a turn is just greedy.
 
Marvanelli said:
You're asking MFC to make a small proportion of tickets available to all fans (including those who don't attend home games), when there's fans out there who have travelled all over England and been to most games?

Have a word.
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Are you saying they have a moral right to a ticket over me? Or are you saying it's a purely financial thing?

I can understand the club doing it for financial reasons. As I say it would greatly sadden me if I were unable to attend. But that's life. Money over everything.

Surely you can understand that would be a massive shitter for me? Maybes you aren't the overly sympathetic type.

If you are saying they have some sort of moral right to a ticket over me. Well I don't really agree with that. It isn't a hardship to follow your football team around the country. If you've the money to do that I envy you.

Under Strachan and mowbray I was able to rock up at the ground and buy a ticket at the gate. I'm not taking a ticket from some "superfan". I'm taking them from someone who has bought a season ticket for one season because we are doing well and wants to go to an away game.
 
Marvanelli said:
They can though....

If they started on 140 and if they went to 10 away games over the 2 years then they'd be up there. (not including any potential home cup games in which you bank 3 points).

5 away games per season is doable, and most fans who attend away games will probably do 5 or so a season.
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You don't seem to understand.

Fulham opening day of this season the threshold started at 160 points.

If we got Chelsea away opening day next season (for argument sake) we'd get 3,000 tickets.

What do you think the points will start at? I know some will have reset but you'll get your 70, 75 or 80 added again, I certainly can't see it starting low, as those with loads of points will boot off.

Chances are the number will start high, and those tickets would be snapped up on the opening day of sales.

Next away game then ends up being Leeds away, again 3,000 snapped up on opening day.

You can see where I'm going with this, demand would be ridiculous for most games, and if you've got 140-150 points how are you ever going to catch-up on the people above you?

Good luck to those people as they won't be getting to many if any away games if we get promoted.
 
Nano said:
I don't have a season ticket so none of this really affects me but I agree. Being a season ticket holder should give everyone an equal opportunity of getting a ticket. It obviously doesn't please the people that think they are entitled to go to every single game but it is fair. I would scrap 1st come 1st served as well and do it as a ballot. Anyone that applies and misses out goes to the front of the queue for the next game. I refuse to believe that the technology to do this easily doesn't exist.

Even the most frequent away fans must recognise that arguing that they should be able to go to every single game when other people want a turn is just greedy.
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The ballot is a good shout
 
InglebyUTB said:
Chances are the number will start high, and those tickets would be snapped up on the opening day of sales.
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I highly doubt that.

The first season in which we had the loyalty scheme, Luton was the first away game and very much in high demand and the first batch went on sale to 70+ priority point holders - so that meant basically everyone who was a season ticket holder.

They'll probably so the same next season (start off at 140)....and then as the season goes, depending on the demand, they may increase this to 150? 160? .....by that point, those at 140 could've had the opportunity to reach the 150/160 points needed.
 
Marvanelli said:
I highly doubt that.

The first season in which we had the loyalty scheme, Luton was the first away game and very much in high demand and the first batch went on sale to 70+ priority point holders - so that meant basically everyone who was a season ticket holder.

They'll probably so the same next season (start off at 140)....and then as the season goes, depending on the demand, they may increase this to 150? 160? .....by that point, those at 140 could've had the opportunity to reach the 150/160 points needed.
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You said it yourself, in the first season.

This season, once it had been running it didn't go down to 140+ (2 standard season cards worth) it was set at 160 which is two standard season tickets + 20 away fixtures in the last two seasons.

Why would they then bring it down to 140 points if we got promoted and demand would be at it's highest, yet they didn't do that this season? That's illogical.

The very idea of a "loyalty" scheme then makes no sense as you'll then have people who've been told they should have priority whining and complaining that they should be first in line as "Last season I went to loads of away games the likes of Bristol City, Cardiff and Nott Forest on a Tuesday night and now someone who hardly went to any away games can get a ticket to our first Premier League away game".

The bar would be set at 160 minimum.
 
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InglebyUTB said:
You don't seem to understand.

Fulham opening day of this season the threshold started at 160 points.

If we got Chelsea away opening day next season (for argument sake) we'd get 3,000 tickets.

What do you think the points will start at? I know some will have reset but you'll get your 70, 75 or 80 added again, I certainly can't see it starting low, as those with loads of points will boot off.

Chances are the number will start high, and those tickets would be snapped up on the opening day of sales.

Next away game then ends up being Leeds away, again 3,000 snapped up on opening day.

You can see where I'm going with this, demand would be ridiculous for most games, and if you've got 140-150 points how are you ever going to catch-up on the people above you?

Good luck to those people as they won't be getting to many if any away games if we get promoted.
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quite simply you go to Everton away on a Tuesday night, or Burnley away or Mansfield at home in the 2nd round of the carabao cup etc. You've cherry picked x 2 high demand fixtures. Plenty of opportunities to get your points up if you wanted to. Almost all of our away games this season have had tickets go to general sale or low priority points holders
 
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