While that’s undoubtedly true, guess which two away games are easiest to get to and safest to attend if you want to introduce a younger child to away games. And guaranteed that child wouldn’t have 280 points.
You really think the clubs owner would bother himself with such matters? Barber gets paid handsomely so he doesn’t have to get involved with the trivial daily issues.
Something went wrong with the Brentford tickets that the club never told us. If it was allocated properly it would have gone to the second day of sales. At about 8:45 when I was waiting to get someone in a lower group a ticket it flicked over to sold out, I think they miscalculated the allocation and points.While that’s undoubtedly true, guess which two away games are easiest to get to and safest to attend if you want to introduce a younger child to away games. And guaranteed that child wouldn’t have 280 points.
I took my boy to Charlton for his first one in 2014 and in some ways it was lucky that we were having a shit season. We couldn’t get Brentford tickets this season, eight years of loyal support later, which is an equivalent game, because apparently every single person in T1 bought one
I think the non-transferable ticket rule was introduced by the FA as one of the measures to curb hooligan problems and the club is now also using the rule to stop loyalty point abuse. So, assuming the lad’s girlfriend behaved herself, then the punishment is harsh. It will be interesting to see what greater level of punishment the club might impose where an unauthorised ticket holder had been arrested for causing trouble.
Not overblown (I agree I don’t think we have that rep, I do a fir number of aways and have seen very little in the last few seasons), but Barber and crew have a duty to stop what they can I guess - simple fact is almost every away ‘incident’ was involving someone who had been there on a ticket that someone up the LP tree had obtained for them. Random checks at Arsenal do make sense in that context, the guest tickets are a bit of a red herring - LPs still being allocated to the ST holder for their ticket. What if I bought myself one plus 4 for my yobbo mates, and gave all 5 to my yobbo mates and stayed at home ? The threat of mine being checked would have stopped that. Also, if they’ve stated a policy of checking, then they need to follow it through otherwise people start taking the piss again.
Don’t think so. Problem is T1 holders were allocating seats to people in T2 before 9am (which you could do at the time) then clicking through to purchase after 9am, so all the available tickets were allocated well before they actually went on sale.
The two you will struggle to get will be Brentford and Bournemouth. Then the rest of the London games will drop down to the first few tiers everything else I think you could get one without much effort.
They’re trying to prevent future trouble. They have banned those caught already apparently. How can they preven it happening again without making sure they can’t get tickets ?
Theoretically you could stay at home, but I think this is a very long and convoluted way to get 5 yobs into the ground. A lot of the people who I would imagine are being painted as yobs by some on here are actually STH with the points, I think stops at the games like Brentford are correct because half of my mates couldn’t get tickets, it’s Man City during the train strike is where I think improvements could be made on the system, I don’t have any right to demand the system is changed, but it would be great if they listened to some feedback, as missing 20 minutes of a game for this system (like my mate at Arsenal), just is inconveniencing people for the sake of it, and not really fair as he’s done nothing wrong.
So everyone who picks up a last minute ticket is a trouble maker.
How do you take that to get to ‘everyone’ ?
To be clear, you have every right to demand the system is changed.
This was disappointing as this is what I didn’t want to happen, most likely people on here and other social media made a point that we were making a fuss over essentially a 5 minute wait, and they’ve just ended up inconveniencing some of their dedicated away fans.
To be fair, I myself argued it was a fuss over nothing.
It really isn’t ‘a simple discussion about how it’s a stupid system if you can’t return tickets.’ That perception of yours is probably why you think I’m rattled because I disagree with you. You are still ignoring the skewing of the loyalty points system that the club are addressing with their approach. There are clear abuses going on and you haven’t said how you would address them. How else would you prevent people gaining undeserved loyalty points and thereby further priority in buying tickets ? Our discussion is about this issue as much as anything but you don’t seem to want to talk about it.
Presumably everybody at Fulham nicely queues up to collect their tickets from the nice person at the ticket office, and then they all give them to their nan, because she's so nice and that's what nice people do and they are all so awfully nice.
Agree with you.'Ticket awareness course'
Agree with the poster who says every time they hear a story like this part of their albion mojo dies a little. (Soon to be resurrected by a good performance of course). Yes I know Rules are Rules. Yes I know he broke them and thus Deserves To Be Punished, but jeez, talk about OTT. I personally think the rules are heavy-handed, cumbersome and stupid and stories like this just confirm that view. I know others will disagree.
But this is all a part of addressing it, the reason why people had been passing them on is because, people want to secure tickets for a game, but you have to buy tickets up to two months in advance. If people can’t make it, then they have no incentive to do anything but sell the ticket on, without contacting the club. If you have a system where people can return the tickets, then people won’t buy up all the tickets as a safety net, and won’t sell them onto randoms. Putting them back into the system where people with the required loyalty points can repurchase the tickets and sell them on again. The name on tickets system is just inconveniencing people who have done nothing wrong (not 5 minutes, 20 minutes). I will accept though people should not buy tickets if they don’t know if they can 100% make the game with the rail situation and other factors this isn’t always possible.
