I'm comfortably top tier now. Hopefully still am after Swansea as I'm not allowed to go!
But the last few seasons for the games that needed points (Brentford etc), I was always just outside but always managed to get tickets by being on the ball.
I didn't like that (for example) I had 1145 and...
I think they're finally shortening the brackets, so people who are (say) 10 outside of top tier aren't lumped in with the people who are 60 behind. This is what has always got my goat.
According to the announced ticket on-sale dates that I have saved, they're releasing them a week early
Edit: apologies, didn't know the article specifically stated that!