Repost, now it's actually Friday. Still 400+ left for all season ticket holders. Plenty of opportunity for people to get points outside of the top tiers.
I agree with this. It definitely did happen a lot. However I personally don't think there was many buying with no intention of going. The tickets are normally sold so far ahead of the game that things change. We typically buy for 5 of us, occasionally one of us couldn't go so yes we offered to...
I do concur with this. But just not sure why they weren't just banned. See my post above about drug taking. Seems like this is being completed ignored.
I agree with that and understand the issues of doing it, just think as a result the current policy is a sledgehammer to crack a nut with the negatives outweighing the benefits. I suspect it was targeted at a certain group who were also acting like idiots at games.
If I was to highlight a real...
Okay my issue with it is as follows:
I buy a ticket in good faith (approximately 4-6 weeks ahead of the game). Something happens, family stuff, illness, work, which means I can no longer go. That ticket now becomes redundant, an empty seat. In the old days I'd have passed to another Albion fan...
On the point of this perceived closed shop by the way I just don't accept that is a reality. If you want to be in tier 1 you just need to go to a lot of games. My wife got a season ticket 4 years ago, she was already going to quite a lot of away games so continued with that and got in tier 1...
That is just a game in Europe though isn't it. Not dissimilar to what England fans have to do for away games, albeit it's 100% collection. Liverpool don't have this policy for normal domestic away games.
I wouldn't be surprised if we have to do something for European away games depending on the...