Well the Port Vale ticket arguments have already started

InglebyUTB said:
Newcastle do it by contacting the home club and stopping 100 tickets out of say 3,000. If you’re selected then you go to the away ticket office, present your ID and get your re-issued ticket to get in.

If you don’t have ID for the corresponding ticket you will be refused entry and the person who’s ticket it is will be deducted priority points. If they’re caught again at another fixture, the persons season card is cancelled.
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Well that's took them a while. A Newcastle fan I worked offshore with about 30 years ago used to buy every away game ticket when he was offshore just so he could get priority for bigger games. Not sure if it was priority points in those days but if not it must have been something similar.
 
asredastheycome said:
Well that's took them a while. A Newcastle fan I worked offshore with about 30 years ago used to buy every away game ticket when he was offshore just so he could get priority for bigger games. Not sure if it was priority points in those days but if not it must have been something similar.
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The penalties were only introduced this season
 
What is happening is exactly what I predicted would happen when the system was mooted.

The system is abused and by allowing it to happen unchecked, the club and all those who buy and sell on whether to family friends or a stranger, are complicit in allowing it. It works against the season ticket holder who only travels to the odd away game when it comes to matches where the capacity is limited. It may not be many games, but to support a system that gets abused at all is wrong. I am not surprised one iota mind, I do wonder if the fact that the most vociferous about it remaining as is, unchecked, have companions travelling with them who may occasionally benefit in some way from it.

I find it amazing how people get on their high horse about politicians, by demanding social fairness, equality for all, rightly speak up against anyone cheating the systems etc, but are quite happy to do so themselves on the QT if it is for tickets to see the Boro so they can have a day out on the booze with their mates and not give a toss if someone else misses out as a result. Anyone abusing the system is being selfish and duplicitous as is anyone supporting it going unchecked, morals don’t apply when it comes to such matters eh?
 
The whole point of a priority points system, which I disagree with anyway, is so the people that go regularly get to go when demand outstrips supply. If people don't go regularly but their ticket is used by others to accumulate points then they are going to the limited supply games when they don't deserve to ahead of someone else that does. That means the priority system isn't working as it is supposed to.

This won't get any traction because the people that can do something about it (the fan representatives) are already at the the top of the points league so will never be in a position where they will miss out. They handily also have relationships with the people at the club to ensure they can get something sorted if something goes wrong for them.

The priority points system is there to appease a very small number of people that go to the majority of games and don't think they should ever miss a game.

SCG said:
The whole Priority points thing is a mess.

I think it should be:
Season card holders 5+ years
Season card holders 1-5 years
My Boro members
General sale
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I agree with this. This should be all that is needed and if a superfan misses the odd game through luck of the draw then so be it.
 
coluka said:
What is happening is exactly what I predicted would happen when the system was mooted.

The system is abused and by allowing it to happen unchecked, the club and all those who buy and sell on whether to family friends or a stranger, are complicit in allowing it. It works against the season ticket holder who only travels to the odd away game when it comes to matches where the capacity is limited. It may not be many games, but to support a system that gets abused at all is wrong. I am not surprised one iota mind, I do wonder if the fact that the most vociferous about it remaining as is, unchecked, have companions travelling with them who may occasionally benefit in some way from it.

I find it amazing how people get on their high horse about politicians, by demanding social fairness, equality for all, rightly speak up against anyone cheating the systems etc, but are quite happy to do so themselves on the QT if it is for tickets to see the Boro so they can have a day out on the booze with their mates and not give a toss if someone else misses out as a result. Anyone abusing the system is being selfish and duplicitous as is anyone supporting it going unchecked, morals don’t apply when it comes to such matters eh?
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You tell em!
I find myself having to ask a pal, whose been a card-holder since the Riverside opened and got about 1849 points - because the points barrier is so high, normal ordinary SC holders hardly get a look in.:(
 
Normanby_Red said:
Even if I wasn't "cheating the system" I still wouldn't see an issue with it, maybe because I know loads of other people do it too. I don't have many mates who have season tickets. The way I see it is if I want to enjoy an away day with my mates, and if my family have season cards which I can use to allow me to have a good day out, I'm more than entitled to do so, irrespective of what the club or anyone else thinks.
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You’ll be the first person to complain when facial recognition comes into it
 
It would be good if Boro awarded loyalty points for every fan who has had a season ticket from 1995. Travel up from Nottingham had a season ticket from m 1995, would love to go to port vale away but will more than likely miss the points cull again
 
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