The bottom tier has sold out except for the family stand,There are limited tickets in the North Bank,East and West Stand upper tiers.There are seats available in the Clock End upper but tickets have only gone on sale to red members today
I am not suggesting ANYBODY should be put below me in the pecking order. Forget my personal circumstances. I am speaking for the hundreds of fans who travel long distance to home games. I am saying the current system is not fair to all. I believe season ticket holders, club members, fans who travel to away matches etc etc should get extra loyalty points. I strongly disagree that paying £35 should entitle you to go to the top of the queue when it comes to away tickets. Also distance travelled to away matches should not be used as a criteria but the fact you attended away matches should be rewarded in some way, just not based on how far the match is from London. Say for example, if you got 4 loyalty points for away games all over the country as opposed to say 1 for an away game in London and 7 for an away game in Liverpool. Are those fans going to Arsenal less loyal than those going to Liverpool? No is the answer and thats my point. As regards me going to Everton away or Wigan away to get the points to get Arsenal tickets. I spend so much money going to the home matches I really cant afford to go to many away games.
Unfortunately Fingal there is no perfect solution. I now reside in Sheffield so a LR season ticket is a non starter for me on geographical and cost grounds (plus the wife would divorce me for a second time). I do however try to get to as many away matches as possible especially those from the Midlands upwards and generally this is the first time I can recall where I struggle to get tickets - but then we all knew it would be didn't we? The points are useless to me as every LR seaon ticket holder has a massive head start on me. In past seasons I've not usually bothered as you could always get a ticket at the gate at away games plus without paying the bloody booking fee! You've gotta get creative mate, cultivate those old friendships, hassle the box office for returns (thanks Northy) and ultimately end up in the wrong end! My brothers a Gooner and I'll be at the game, in the wrong end unfortunately. Going to Wigan and Everton was great but it doesn't guarantee an Arsenal / Chelsea or Liverpool ticket though. I have struck it lucky for Liverpool though after a fair bit of wangling.
I reckon that gathering the snacks required for my 6 year old and trying to keep my 4 year old entertained for the whole game is worth 1 million points per visit! I see more of the game on MotD than when im there as im constantly picking something up or getting something out of a bag
Lots of talk about distance travelled being a factor - imo it's the one thing that the club SHOULDN'T factor in. Reason: Say you live in Sheffield (sorryWBA, just taking you as a for instance) and you travel down to every home game (courtesy of an obliging bank manager and an understanding missus). How is the club to know that your mileage has been done just for the game? How are they to know you've not been car-sharing? How are they to know whether or not you've got a cousin that lives 2 minutes away, and are just using the Sheffield address as a mailing address? There's no way that the club would, or should, know that amount of information, and using it to judge who gets first dibs at ticket sales would mean just one thing: every QPR fan would open a PO Box in Lerwick and pay the GPO for redirection of mail that arrives there down to London. Far cheaper than the travel costs, way more convenient than moving, and you don't have to live next door to a caber-tossing shepherd.....
Personally I've passed the 160 mark through simply attending matches as I refused to buy that "Super Hoop" thing on principle. To be honest although the system is far from perfect you can work it to your advantage. For instance booking a ticket in advance to that Rochdale Carling Cup match gave me 8 loyalty points whereas Everton was just 5. Yeah it was a dull game but it was cheaper than a normal away day and gave me more loyalty points than even the longest of long hauls. For instance if we were to get a home draw in the FA Cup and it was Basingstoke tickets will be dead cheap with loads of loyalty points on offer. Snap it up and decide whether to go later. Finally for a few of you may know that the youngsters are playing at Loftus Road on Wednesday. Tickets are £4 with four loyalty points on offer. For many of you im guessing that's the difference between Arsenal ticket or no Arsenal ticket and it's one more than going to Stoke which was three. It's a bit cheeky but I cant bare missing the big games so I do what I can to ensure a ticket.
It's strange, two of my sons are Liverpool supporters one 40 on Dec 3rd the other 31 on 29th Nov. So as soon as the fixtures came out, 10th December was an absolute must. I kept going on the Liverpool site and the tickets were always shown as Sold Out from the minute they became available. I was told that there would be a very limited number available on Tuesday 22nd. So there I was with the laptop and the phone trying to get tickets finally getting 3 but not all together. The reason I mention this is that all along there were Tickets for the Man City game but not QPR, this must say something that everyone wants to see us play. So if anyone sees a Hoops shirt hanging from the Anfield Lower Stand I will probably still be in it.
Agreed willy there is no simple way of working it out that suits everyone. I just wish I could combine living in the beautiful confines of the Peak District with a 5 minute walk to LR
Just paid £55 for a seat in the Arsenal end. Going up with a Gooner mate and a Spurs fan, so if anyone does clock on he's getting outed as well.
