Last time I was at the KC to buy tickets for an away game, I offered my season card so they could cross reference it with the transaction, only to be given a blank look. When I asked whether the old style system still operated re registering all the games you have attended, the answer was in the negative. To my knowledge, no system is in place that captures your away game attendance etc
The old loyalty scheme related only to previous away matches attended, you got priority for tickets for away games, if you had a history of attending away games.
Make a public statement of some kind to support the fans and show solidarity, and help exert media pressure on the WYP? Crazy, I know.......
Almost all other clubs have this loyalty scheme so fans who have attended many away games got the first peck at 'massive' away games.. My friend is a man city season holder for the past 8 years, and due to the loyalty scheme, he got first peck for the trip to real madrid and trust me, a heck of a lot of people applied for that! They really need to bring it back especially if we gain promotion this season!
Made sound financial sense for Duffen to section off a big chunk of away tickets for our big money sponsor, which is what he did. You can't have your cake and eat it.......
When we moved to the KC, everyone's away attendance records were lost. For at least the first five years at the KC, the records were built up again, but I think they were then messed up again(they definitely had records at the time of the play-off final, but I think something went wrong after that).
I know what the old one was, I just haven't worked out what these points we get actually do so I thought I'd take a punt.
Personally, I'd like us to return all the tickets and make a stand, but Assem isn't a traditional football fan and is nervous about his promotion plans being damaged by having a game with no fans at it. I can understand that, even if I'd rather it wasn't the case.
Your original customer number continued to exist right up until the introduction of the new system in summer 2012. Now each transaction appears to be discrete and unrelated. It's not looking good for a ticket scramble...... (Happy to be proved wrong on this)
The ballot just gave tickets out randomly, it was nothing to do with looking after sponsors, I couldn't even get tickets from either of City's two biggest sponsors.
Millwall did that and got nothing out of it. Why try what has already failed for someone else when we've previously had a success against WYP from adopting a different approach?
The number of tickets that went to ballot depending on how many the sponsors wanted. They had first dibs, hence the ballotable tickets for LFC, MUFC away was very small, and the number for Portsmouth and Fulham away was very large, as most sponsors had never even heard of those clubs.
I agree, AP's stance got WYP to back down last time and I wish we'd done the same again, but it's fairly obvious we're not going to go down that route this time.
The Allems leave the day to day running of HCAFC to Nick Thompson, hence they won't be making any comment about WYP any time soon. Why get a dog and bark yourself? Anyway why should they?
I'm sure that's true to a point, but the sponsors didn't get the amount of tickets they wanted for the big games either and whatever tickets were available were balloted, rather than going to those who'd traditionally gone to all games(other than those who were in Away Direct). In addition, when Premier Club memberships were originally being sold, it was on the basis that you got to use the members bar, got a car parking space and priority for away tickets. Considering that the Premier Club memberships were for five years and cost double the amount of a normal season ticket, it was a bit irritating to have one of those three perks withdrawn(I appreciate many will not be all that sympathetic to Premier Club members).
I got offered tickets for most of the PL games by at least two sources indirectly linked with the club and by the club directly. I have to say that it was easier for me than many and I could not understand why, every ticket I applied for I got. It was probably just luck, but in the second season at times it was embarrassing, when posters on HDM couldn't get tickets and I could.
Man United and Liverpool were the only two games where it was really difficult to get tickets, I know some missed out at Arsenal, but the other two were the only ones I couldn't get tickets from either the club, the sponsors, or the players.
Second season was a piece of piss. Many away games not sold out...Everton,Blackburn, Fulham, Pompey, Bolton etc Applied as soon as they were advertised and you were guaranteed a ticket (except big 2 games). The club extrapolated their eventual request/take up from that first wave in the first few days, so the initial ones always got a ticket for the game in question. City would guess the take up from the initial demand and hope it was about right.
I was at Man U in the City end and sat near people that were at their first ever football match. We worked out sticking kids and womens names on the block booking sheet seemed to be a factor in getting tickets.
