Not all away grounds would use the same system or scanners - so that wouldn't work.
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Not all away grounds would use the same system or scanners - so that wouldn't work.
This.
I know that tickets for the cheap cup games are being bought by purchasers who have no intention of going to the match. The £10 was just to buy the loyalty points for the bigger games to come.
If the club endorses a system that is not fit for purpose and is open to such blatant abuse, there will always be those eager and willing to abuse it.
Nope. Leicester went on sale to season Ticket holders and Watford went down to 188+ points - everyone loves a moan !
I'm not sure of a system that could be much fairer though? The problem is it is all new to us. I am pretty sure West Brom, Stoke, Burnley have the same 'problem' as us
theboybilly
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Charging £25 would have sorted it
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Hence my "ideal world" caveat.
But I don't see any reason why it couldn't just be a requirement of all PL clubs to have the same ticket scanning equipment installed at their turnstiles so that something like this could be accommodated. There's various other mandatory PL requirements already in place that clubs have to adhere to, from floodlighting, to advertising hoardings, to camera positions, to goal-line technology. So why not a standard across-the-board turnstile scanner that registers if the away ticket has actually been used, and can retain the info for loyalty point purposes ?
Can't see that being overly popular, having to sacrifice pub time and turn up extra early to stand in a queue somewhere for a ticket you bought weeks ago. Its a no from me, Dermott.
Charlies Shinpad
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I went in the Watford end for that game and we sat in seats right next to the Albion fans
Silent Bob
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Bournemouth should have charged £25 for a reserve game in the cup so that Brighton fans wouldn't buy the tickets?
Thunder Bolt
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It would only need to happen once or twice, when people realise they have to sacrifice drinking time, and others realise they haven't got their loyalty points. It would be a deterrent.
the wanderbus
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It seems to me that the problem isn't with the Leicester and Watford type of game but the bigger more glamorous games. Arsenal, Man U, City, Spurs ect will all sell out in no time. The thing is , all these clubs have capacities double those of most of the others yet still only have to offer us 3000 tickets. Maybe there should be a rule that say all clubs have to offer 3000 or 10% of capacity, whichever is greater.
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Bold Seagull
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I'm all for a debate, but anyone suggesting fans should pay higher ticket prices is 
in my book.
This is a conversation, which I am sure is happening at Albion HQ, about how best to run a loyalty system. Last night highlighted how the current system can be abused, to the detriment of actual fans not being able to go to a game that had 700 empty seats. Has to be debated, and looked at.
in my book.This is a conversation, which I am sure is happening at Albion HQ, about how best to run a loyalty system. Last night highlighted how the current system can be abused, to the detriment of actual fans not being able to go to a game that had 700 empty seats. Has to be debated, and looked at.
Bold Seagull
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Club need to insist that every fan has an iPhone X, the club develop an app that knows you are at the said ground using GPS, then using facial recognition software confirms we are there at that location at a set time sending the data back to the club. Simples.
Perhaps we should've charged £30 initially, and then had a few club employees inside the turnstiles handing back crisp £20 notes to the good guys who turned up.
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nicko31
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Indeed, shame on those we stayed away. Would have happily gone but as a non STH no chance
Wardy's twin
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I am not sure what the issue is.... I was in the second tier for West Ham, logged on at 09:30 and got a ticket. Anyone in second tier of loyalty points could have done the same...There were still tickets for sale at 11:30..
No system is perfect but this system is not that broken.
Regards the game last night, i bought a ticket for the points and went. Do I care about those who did not attend , personally no, but I do believe some locally based fans would have liked tickets that could not get them which is a pity.
No system is perfect but this system is not that broken.
Regards the game last night, i bought a ticket for the points and went. Do I care about those who did not attend , personally no, but I do believe some locally based fans would have liked tickets that could not get them which is a pity.
A friend has just pointed out that the 'Buy' option was there for most of this week, so that if people had wanted to purchase a Bournemouth ticket, then they could have. He's suggesting that certain 'loyal' fans are more interested in the fact that others might be catching them up with loyalty points rather than the fitness or otherwise of the loyalty system, so everyone should just grow a pair.
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Bens Grandad will love that
Goring-by-Seagull
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This is true. I bought my friend one (with his details) on Monday at about 1pm. He collected from the Amex later that afternoon.