As Dutch suggests, suggests , I'm not sure how the club benefit financially from away direct. There will be some agenda, if there wasn't it wouldn't be important enough for them to put on the website, but it can't be financial can it?
People who sign up for Away Direct get a ticket for every away match, it encourages them to go to matches that they might otherwise not bother with. City benefit from whatever fraction of away ticket sales they receive, plus it enhances sales in the case of clubs that insist on up front sale of blocks of the away end. Away Direct never stopped, it was just not publicised at all such that only existing subscribers could benefit.
I can see me and our kid getting to a number of hand picked away fixtures but very little at the KFC. Vern
It was scrapped completely, but when those who'd been with it for years kicked up a fuss, they started it again for anyone who'd been in it since the very beginning, which I think was only about fifteen people.
Is having Away Direct a good thing for fans? I used to be on it, but can't commit the time now, but I know some fans asked for it to be reinstated.
Personally, I don't really see the point, hardly anyone is on it and hardly anyone will join it, I think this is a largely symbolic and ultimately pointless promotion.
It's perhaps the Allams/clubs way of countering those who are saying they're only doing away games? If Away Direct gets a take up of perhaps 400/500, after pass holders have taken their share there's not going to be too many tickets left for anyone else. Just the cynic in me thinking out aloud ....................
I don't think even at its peak it's had anywhere near those numbers has it? I thought there were perhaps 70-80 of us.
I don't know the numbers involved Dutch - I'm at the point now where I think EVERYTHING that the club does has some nefarious, ulterior motive.
A lot of things have been invented, imagined or associated with the same logic. Irrespective of anything else, I'm curious toward what the downside of the action itself is in reality.
No downsides. Seems like no problem then. I'd say the upside is there for those that have asked for it to be brought back.
they can look forward to Brighton away on the Saturday and Cardiff away three days later - may as well, stay down there
said that on post 5 - and fully agree - Allams way of trying to prevent the Allam Out brigade from getting tickets and protesting at away matches - it was cancelled a couple of years or so ago except for the 60+ who continued because the club said they were not allowed to hold credit card details for anybody
[ Never saw it Charon - a case of cynical buggers thinking alike, it's a bit of a ****ter how we've got to the position where we're looking for an angle on everything coming out of the club, personally I ****ing hate it.
Mooney wasn't good, he was his usual self, saying what he thinks is appropriate yet doing the opposite. There's nothing good about him or his master.
