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ID checks for away tickets

Scratton in the mud.
BigGSta said:
Im fortunate to be on 75 points but have done the miles to get them but I do feel we need to allocate say 10% to those on sub 20 points via a ballot, otherwise it will become a closed shop and deny a generation of supporters the opportunity to get to away games.
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Just a silly suggestion, want the tickets do the miles. It’s like me saying you’ve been to loads of games you shouldn’t be able to go and let someone else have a chance.
 

BigGSta said:
Im fortunate to be on 75 points but have done the miles to get them but I do feel we need to allocate say 10% to those on sub 20 points via a ballot, otherwise it will become a closed shop and deny a generation of supporters the opportunity to get to away games.
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For England away games they have a 70/30 ballot where 70% of tickets go to people with the most points, and 30% of tickets go into a ballot. Probably fair overall as the majority of tickets go to the people who put the miles in, but without it being a closed shop.

There is a possibility that someone with zero pounts gets tickets in a ballot and someone higher up misses out, but there's no easy way when supply doesn't meet demand.
 
Raich Carter said:
Scratton in the mud.


Just a silly suggestion, want the tickets do the miles. It’s like me saying you’ve been to loads of games you shouldn’t be able to go and let someone else have a chance.
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Isn’t this just a Man City thing? Aligned with their policy for home fans?
 
Raich Carter said:
Scratton in the mud.


Just a silly suggestion, want the tickets do the miles. It’s like me saying you’ve been to loads of games you shouldn’t be able to go and let someone else have a chance.
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Can you suggest to someone how to "do the miles"?

Like how should a bunch of 16 and 17 year old season ticket holders currently on a dozen points go about doing these miles?
 
steven said:
For context - even the Mags (and I reckon everyone agreed this was bad when they introduced it) allow you to transfer tickets twice a year to someone in your network up to 5 hours before kickoff
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Is it not worth poaching some of their ticket office staff?

They seem to know their arse from their elbow.
 
Hulkster said:
Can you suggest to someone how to "do the miles"?

Like how should a bunch of 16 and 17 year old season ticket holders currently on a dozen points go about doing these miles?
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Unfortunately it's just bad luck. I feel for them. If they'd had turned 18 around 2018 era they'd have had a free for all for about 6 years
 
ClassicDom said:
How do you propose new people “do the miles” if they can’t get a ticket?
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Well the 15+ games last season that went down to season ticket holders would be a cracking start.

The first season back was always going to be hard for tickets. Next season the longer trips (Brighton, Bournemouth etc) will go to general imo. Once the 3 year cycle rolls around with the championship dropping off and the prem years which mostly guarantees 3k, it’ll be massively easier to sort tickets.
 
Raich Carter said:
Well the 15+ games last season that went down to season ticket holders would be a cracking start.

The first season back was always going to be hard for tickets. Next season the longer trips (Brighton, Bournemouth etc) will go to general imo. Once the 3 year cycle rolls around with the championship dropping off and the prem years which mostly guarantees 3k, it’ll be massively easier to sort tickets.
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They could have gone to all of those 15 games and still wouldn't get a single ticket this season.

A lot of those games that went to season ticket holders only did so barely, even Blackburn where we had 7k tickets was still fastest finger first for only a few hundred tickets.

I'll use my lad as as example. He's 11 now, he's had a season ticket since he was 4. Last few years he's wanted to start going to away games. We've been to as many as practical, but the vast majority of games that have gone to season ticket level have been midweek games, not practical for a 8, 9,10 year old. The non-midweek games that have gone to that level have been the super long trips to places like Portsmouth - and we've done most of those. Still only on 10 points though.

The way things are now, he'll simply never be able to go to another away game in his life. You couldn't get a bigger Sunderland fan, but fair enough, he didn't "put in the miles" and he deserves it because I wouldn't let him miss school to travel to an away game on a Tuesday night.
 
scott934 said:
It's honestly reasonable, if you aren't artificially keeping your points high then it's nowt to worry about. I say that as someone who has helped out mates in the past.
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As an exile it’s screwing up my only way of getting away tkts but I think it’s a good thing to do anarl. Obviously a few things will need to be ironed out before it eventually sinks in to almost everyone that it’s a fair system.
 
Raich Carter said:
Scratton in the mud.


Just a silly suggestion, want the tickets do the miles. It’s like me saying you’ve been to loads of games you shouldn’t be able to go and let someone else have a chance.
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I fully agree that those with the highest loyalty points should get priority, however, I've had my mind swayed on this in the last couple of months. If we stick with the current format young fans who are just starting to follow the lads will never have a chance to get to go to an away game.

I do think we need to put between 5 and 10 percent into a ballot to make sure the next generation are able to go to 1 away game every season or two.
 
brains said:
Yes, many of them will just buy every game regardless now, if they can't make the game - whatever the reason. It's easy to get rid of tickets for every game now.
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It won’t be as easy to get rid when every potential secondary buyers knows there’s a chance they’ll be turned away. Which is the entire point of the exercise.
Iamme said:
Person buys kids or oap ticket to rip the club off the club he supports. Has been found out and blames someone else. Ok.
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The away club make no money from selling away tickets.
Iamme said:
Person buys kids or oap ticket to rip the club off the club he supports. Has been found out and blames someone else. Ok.
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The away club make no money from selling away tickets.
Safc1987 said:
It’s just being awkward for awkward sake
Who really cares if someone can’t go and a mate wants to and uses that loyalty point, again who gives a shit?
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The home clubs, home police and those on the verge of almost getting away tkts for starters.
 
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