jackalbion
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I do however agree that the points brackets are often too large. Its a scramble often of about 6,000+ people trying to get about a hundred tickets for some away games in the second bracket.
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[Albion] Europa League Round of 16 tickets on sale
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Mellor 3 Ward 4
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100% this.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
How would the Club decide which STH with the necessary points missed out?
Games, 15 pointers, such as Sheff Utd and Burnley will be easily available.
The biggest games would be Dublin (say, 13k), Wembley (38k) and Europe (5k at a big stadium). With three ballot chances (one with a 1 in 3 chance, one with a 1 in 6 chance), the chances of a ticket for a such a person would be about 100 times better than someone who goes 5 times a season.
The risk is that when the halcyon days disappear and we're back to league one, there will be a rump of people who no longer go "because we're shite these days" and the club will presumably need those who were there last time we were in league one but owing to circumstance were somewhat locked out of big games when at the top of the pile. You wonder how many of them will think they now have better things to do as they are out of the habit.
Anyway I had said I was out. Little point in continuing this really as most STHs who express an opinion will disagree with me, and understandably so.
…..but also can’t be right that someone who has been to every home and away game for the last 10 years doesn’t get to go to Dublin yet some that have barely been to a game in the same period get a lucky ballot ticket. Why shouldn’t it take two seasons to penetrate the seal ?
Surely the answer is to make all games PotG?
Beach Hut
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Exactly but will people actually go, no they just whinge can't get a ticket for the games they pick and choose
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
In the unlikely event of us getting completely dry-humped in the first leg, being as this will clearly sell out, I wonder if the club will open the ticket exchange for this one.
I'll be going regardless, but I can remember going to a Rumbelows Cup midweek 2nd leg vs Middlesbrough at the Goldstone, in the pouring rain, when we were already 5-0 down from the first leg and thinking "WHY am I here ?". The rain was so torrential, the stewards opened the gates from the East Terrace to allow us to troop through under the roof into the North.
We lost, 3-1.
I'll be going regardless, but I can remember going to a Rumbelows Cup midweek 2nd leg vs Middlesbrough at the Goldstone, in the pouring rain, when we were already 5-0 down from the first leg and thinking "WHY am I here ?". The rain was so torrential, the stewards opened the gates from the East Terrace to allow us to troop through under the roof into the North.
We lost, 3-1.
At what minute in the 2nd leg did you decide to head for home or did you stay on to the end to clap the players off?
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Yup.
KJP
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Managed to get 3 tickets next to each other in N1L block,
jackalbion
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To an extent I understand this, where you give everyone a chance to go to an away game, but everyone does have a chance, everyone thats my albion plus, got the chance for a Stoke ticket, Forest ticket, City ticket, Chelsea (Cup), Man United Ticket, Villa Ticket, Marseille Ticket, Wolves Ticket, Everton Ticket. So that only left, Chelsea (?), Palace, Arsenal and West Ham (?) that weren't available to my albion plus. This data is collected from someone I know who is my albion plus who has been to all these games away from home, so it doesn't seem such a closed shop and IMO everyone gets a chance for away games.
I imagine it’s a hot topic at most clubs where demand exceeds supply. I saw that Villa have a ‘ticket consultation group’ and recently made some changes but it didn’t sound like anything that Albion weren’t already doing and it seems their fans are not happy bunnies on the system either:
Aston Villa announce away ticket changes to avoid ‘closed shop’
Latest Aston Villa news as it emerges club have been in talks with Away Ticket Consultation Group over potential changes
www.birminghammail.co.uk
Exactly this. If you want to go to 'an away game' you can. If you wanted to go to Marseille you could. If you only want to go to Ajax, Palace, Brentford and Chelsea you'll be shit out of luck unless you start going to 'an away game'. It couldn't be more simple.
Exactly.
The "closed shop" debate only ever comes up when there's a big glory game and someone who rarely goes feels hard done by that they're at the back of the queue for tickets.
Like many on here, I'm a STH, but my away day attendance has waned considerably over the past couple of seasons, yet I still got a ticket for all three European away games, and my away day appetite has come back so I was at Arsenal, West Ham and I'm making the trip to Stoke tomorrow.
I won't have a chance of Luton nor Bournemouth and rightly so - there's a whole load of people, like you in fact Jack, who trek the country every other weekend in support of the club, who all deserve those holy grail tickets.
But this afternoon's debate came about because of @Tooting Gull mentioning the points cut-off for non-STH for this specific game and concern for those who lie between 1 and 180 points. They've been able to buy since 2pm and there must still be c3,000 tickets left. To me at least, that suggests the club have got it right.
None of us have access to the club's data on A+ members and points held, but the threshold's suggest the club wanted to reward the most frequently-attending A+ fans with the pick of seats, then allow all those who have been to any game ever a chance ahead of the speculative joiners (0 points). Without having access to the club's data, it feels like a sound methodology, doesn't it?
Sorrel
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Exactly - the current system seems fair to me. I had quite a lot of points, then dropped out of membership for two years and started again from the floor.
This year I've been to plenty of home games and to Wolves, Villa and (tomorrow) Stoke away. I can't get tickets for London away matches, but I'll be getting closer to that next season hopefully. Would love to go to Sheffield United, so if you're a STH please don't buy them!
You'd surely stay until the bitter end. If you go to a 2nd leg at 5-0 down you can't give up when we start losing, can you?At what minute in the 2nd leg did you decide to head for home or did you stay on to the end to clap the players off?
Sorrel
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Also, if loads of people go early there's no point anymore. You'll already be queuing for ages.