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.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?
Away Direct never stopped, it was just not publicised at all such that only existing subscribers could benefit.
Is having Away Direct a good thing for fans?
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.
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?
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 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.
I don't think there is a downside.
Or an upside.
It's completely sideless....
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 ....................
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
61.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.
Probably just because of our season ticket sales dropping so much.
James was good on RH talking about building bridges and doing things better etc, but it will all go out the window when the FA reject the name change in a couple of weeks and our owner goes off on one his bonkers rants again.