Fixtures and match threads

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 19-07-2017, 14:14 by Lord Snooty.)

Oooh. Been upgraded to Priority 2. Which is no use to me as Chaffers is still P3. Rolleyes

I wonder how this priority lark is gonna work next season. Not much chance of newbies ever getting upgraded because they'll not get any away match credit cos they won't have been to any.

Premier League problems hey. Big Grin

WakeyTerrier · 19-07-2017, 16:31

All will become clear when they announce how many are in each category.
Anyone who is in P1 should have no real problems getting a ticket I would have thought with the possible exception of maybe Bournemouth
The real problem will be P2 where we could have 4000+ all scrapping for tickets
I'd assume it will become a first come first served policy until games sell out, at that point you'd have to register for the ballot.

Other things to take into consideration.
Not all P1 will want to go and some will be waiting for friends in lower categories, the same applies for P2. So I expect many games will go down to P3 but be quick off the mark, and weigh up how much you want to go to games and how much you value sitting next to your friends and family at the game.
Mitzi and I had to go in a ballot for Slovakia (England away) and lost out but when the second chance sale came along we had to buy tickets in separate areas. We just came to the conclusion it was small price to pay to see the game.

Terrier1987cas · (This post was last modified: 19-07-2017, 17:22 by Terrier1987cas.)

The club needs to act on a couple of things:
1. Anyone who allows someone else to use their reference to book tickets needs an automatic ban, as does the person booking. Man United do this and it's a 3 year ban. The club won't be, but should be, monitoring social media as we speak as there are tonnes of people already allowing people to use theirs which shouldn't happen.
2. The scheme should be updated as the season goes on. If a P1 fan doesn't buy tickets for the first 4 games they shouldn't be P1 when it comes to the 5th game, which happens to be Anfield. No picking and choosing - points accumulated throughout the season for fans who actually go to away games.

EastLondonTerrier · 19-07-2017, 18:06

I'm P5 and I would go to all if not majority of away games this season if I had the chance. I would be disappointed if people in higher categories just doing it to get to Burnley or whoever. Won't happen now, hoping to get Arsenal away at least. How many realistically are going down on a Wednesday night?

jjamez · 19-07-2017, 18:43

If push comes to shove with the arsenal game, it'll be relatively empty, so just take a pew in the home end with your best london accent Whistle

theo_luddite · 19-07-2017, 20:26

I think I know what you mean Cas, but given that I use my mates reference numbers (as well as mine) to book us all tickets together I'd seriously object to any ban for doing that. I know you really mean giving it to someone who isn't a season card holder and is only after the prawn sandwiches but it doesn't say that the way you wrote it and could be misinterpreted. It looks like there will be some scheme for letting home fans notify the club so the club can resell the seat if they can't make it to a match or 3 but letting a day-tripper get an away seat at the expense of died in the wool Town fans isn't on.

I've already had our local Arsenal fan asking about tickets for the last game of the season and told him to join the queue with his Arsenal supporting mates when the 2000 tickets are released to Arsenal. He's got no chance. I've been to the Emirates more than him, in fact we've probably all been more than him, let alone watched them away. As far as I'm concerned our ends are full of Town fans - freeloaders and selfie-stick wielding day trippers can go do one.

WakeyTerrier · 19-07-2017, 22:07

It's almost impossible to police.

At England away games we have to collect tickets in person from a hotel either on the day or the day before. We have to show our membership card(with a photo on) or our passports. Town aren't going to those lengths and then you have got to have proof that the tickets are being misused.

Any system put in place is open to abuse.
Ticket stubs, I can remember driving round Kirklees getting stubs off people who weren't going to Arsenal just so others who hadn't enough stubs could buy tickets
Points system, you would still buy the tickets and pass them on to others unless you have a name on the ticket and checks at the turnstile...same applies for the current system.

**Lord Snooty** · 19-07-2017, 22:59

When you look at it, the new priority system isn't that much different from the old system. Main difference being the ballots and the fact that there are a hell of a lot more season card holders now.

EastLondonTerrier · 20-07-2017, 11:12

I think 10-12k of those season ticket holders won't go to away games either tbh.

Terrier1987cas · 20-07-2017, 13:31

Other clubs police it so I don't see why we can't. There are obvious ways around it if people are clever, but from experience the majority of Town fans aren't, so the club would catch plenty out if they bothered to try. It shouldn't be a case of 'it's my ticket I can do with it what I want' - you get your ticket if you go to the game, if not you don't buy it.

Time consuming, but not at all difficult to police.