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Membership scheme

Not needed.

The stable 'core' of fans who stuck with this club through thin and thin are all sorted - season tickets guaranteed and away ticket points accumulated to ensure no one misses a game.

Yes, we need a new younger generation to always come through the doors, but if people think it's a way of getting away tickets, which it looks like they do, then it's not going to happen. The points system means they'd never accumulate enough to move the people who went to the shit games to enable them to be able to go to the better away games.

You would be chucking money away - a random chance of a match ticket. Better off building points in the crap cup games and going to Bournemouth/Brighton away etc.

Put the miles in.
 

FoldingStars said:
The only way I'd be fine with it is if they said its £20 and you get a £20 voucher each season for the club shop but that still doesn't sit right with me. If we wouldn't do it in League 1 I'd rather we didn't do it in the Premier League but its a business so morals dont come into it sometimes.
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Get the first couple of home cup games free until you break even.
 
Wearside Wanderer II said:
So those that couldn’t be arsed in league 1 now get a chance 🤔

Nah, not for me, put the miles in you get the medals.
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I meant a small %age for every game, taking nothing away from fans who went to a lot of games thro them years (myself included). But now theres loads of fans sitting on mega points selling tickets every away game, while others cant get a point for their effort.
 
YES WE GYAN said:
Get the first couple of home cup games free until you break even.
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Issue with that is if its somebody like Liverpool who I guess would have 200/300k members you cant even do that, its basically a scam.
Definitely Maybe said:
I know, it's shady as fuck. Todd Boehly has shares in one of the reseller sites that loads of Chelsea tickets end up on too. So fleecing fans either way.

I was thinking actually, there's going to be a generation of fans of certain clubs who will never get to see their team play. They have a remote chance of even being able to buy tickets in the first place then are priced out anyway because clubs can charge what they want knowing the touts will snap them up and sell then to tourists for a profit. The last couple of years have really opened my eyes about the reseller market and how many people come from abroad and pay over the odds for Premier League tickets without much of an interest in football because it's a tourist attraction, like someone who isn't normally into musicals buying Broadway tickets when they go to New York. There's been a real shift over the past 5-10 years of kids following players rather than teams and it's easy to see why when they're getting their football fix from Fifa and YouTube.
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Spurs are masters at it, you'd see 100 South Korean flags every match, each one will have bought an official scrap, top, pencil case and the lot. Why try and keep john from London happy who will buy a shirt (if youre lucky) once a season and nothing else when you can have some random from South Korea each match who will spend £200 plus a stadium tour every week then £50 a season in membership fee's.
 
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If they did this (I think its taking the piss) and I couldn't get an ST, I think I'd just stop coming up for games. Its an expensive round trip anyway.

So If I'm going to spend a bit of cash, I think I'd spend my money on trips abroad with a footie match or two thrown in.

Enjoyed my trip to the Netherlands. Plenty of other new places to visit and go to games.
 
Those who success through the current system will of course wish for it to continue. Others closed out for whatever reason might selfishly wish for change to potentially open new doors. That’s all human nature.

There’s no easy answer. We have way too many people wanting to go to home games which is almost unprecedented and away games seem to becoming a closed shop. It really does show far we’ve come.
 
Select coaches said:
I will give you a good reason, I like to go to the match, but not every match.

I have a life outside of football, when someone says to me do you fancy a week or weekend away, or even a day away, I like to say yes without consulting the football fixtures.

I know I get it there are some uber fans that like to tell everyone they haven’t missed a match for 150 years, a bit like the bores at gigs who delight in telling everyone they saw this band and there was only 4 other people there, where were these 25,000 people then.

I’m sure these people would be delighted if only the 24,000 people who turned up against Accrington on that cold Tuesday night were allowed tickets for the arsenal game.
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As I said mate it’s class listening to the stories/excuses/reasons
 
Hank Scorpio said:
I’ve said for a while that a membership scheme is a good thing (if it’s done correctly).
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I agree. I think people are focused on it being only related to ticket availability but I think there's an opportunity for people like me who can't justify a season ticket at the moment (distance/ family etc) but want to still be part of the club. I'm happy joining a membership scheme if there's a few nominal benefits without expecting guaranteed tickets
 
I’d rather the club we’re just honest about any sort of membership scheme for what it is as a way of raising revenue, if you can’t go for whatever reason like you live abroad, have commitments, or would just rather watch it on the TV then have the opportunity to contribute to the running of the club and compete through the scheme with a few perks thrown in. If I didn’t have a season ticket I’d happily pay a yearly fee to help the club (for a reasonable amount like)
 
BaconButty said:
I’d rather the club we’re just honest about any sort of membership scheme for what it is as a way of raising revenue, if you can’t go for whatever reason like you live abroad, have commitments, or would just rather watch it on the TV then have the opportunity to contribute to the running of the club and compete through the scheme with a few perks thrown in. If I didn’t have a season ticket I’d happily pay a yearly fee to help the club (for a reasonable amount like)
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They do cover in the minutes that it wouldn't be a queue jump! Sounds more about connections with the club
 
krisread said:
They do cover in the minutes that it wouldn't be a queue jump! Sounds more about connections with the club
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To be fair, the person who says it shouldn't be a queue jump is one of the RAWA reps. The way Bruce said about a thing for international and junior fans possibly suggests it wouldn't be a queue jump, but the club haven't ruled it out. Quite honestly, if demand for home tickets exceed supply, it wouldn't surprise me if they see an opportunity to launch a membership you need to have if you want match by match tickets
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
To be fair, the person who says it shouldn't be a queue jump is one of the RAWA reps. The way Bruce said about a thing for international and junior fans possibly suggests it wouldn't be a queue jump, but the club haven't ruled it out. Quite honestly, if demand for home tickets exceed supply, it wouldn't surprise me if they see an opportunity to launch a membership you need to have if you want match by match tickets
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It will happen. They'll angle it as a necessity to stop arsenal/liverpool/mags getting tickets in general sale.
 
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