Seeing as none of us had heard of MP until 20 minutes before he was on the OS I would definitely not pay too much attention to that.
Actually, I posted it in the rumours thread a couple of days before. It was universally rubbished - including by me!!
I'm a ST holder who doesn't tend to go to away games except very occasionally, and I agree with you totally. It's barmy that I could get a ticket for Reading before you. I disagree with your order; it should be Day One X away games (number played so far), day two X-1, etc, etc, all regardless of season ticket or not. If that starts to drag it out over too many days then X-2 or greater, X-4 or greater and so on. I don't think ownership of a season ticket should affect away game tickets at all. However, I guess the club would see it as another reason for you to buy one, so they may sell extra STs this way - I assume that's their logic. Vin
As a ST holder who qualifies easily for the first round of tickets I try not to be too biased in this, however it's completely right that all ST holders, whilst there is no away season ticket, get the opportunity to purchase before other fans, it's not a question of who deserves it more in my opinion, it's more about the fact that any club relies on the several thousand ST holders as the guaranteed revenue along with tv etc at the start of the campaign. If there was no priority system then it would make no difference to me but I think it would to a lot.
Spent hours on one of my days off queuing for the Arsenal tickets but glad I did as it meant I was able to get tickets for QPR etc and therefore this game. I have been to Arsenal, West Ham, QPR, Fulham and Aston Villa and got tickets for Reading easily, despite them being well over priced. Having been a season ticket holder throughout Saints's lower league expeditions, I felt having my 'Loyalty' questioned was a bit out of order really but I suppose this was the only way of doing it!
