I’d rather be walking than stood in a queue for half an hour or more……often my tactic. I guess I’m lucky to not always be needing to look for the quickest way there/home (most of the suggestions above seem aimed at how much quicker it can be), would rather have a more leisurely trip and get a...
Thameslink straight to St Pancras, Victoria Line to Seven Sisters. Stroll back after and the queue at SS won’t be too bad anyway. Like you I don’t mind walking and particularly enjoy it in London. St Pancras to Spuds is about 6 miles - I walked back to St Pancras after the Arsenal game.
At the moment the 1901er (corporate or personal) does, whether they go to the game or not. I don’t know for sure but assume a 1901 ticket has a fan number ?
….or it’s just been missed as ticket policies were altered and there hasn’t been any meaningful noise about it (until now). TBF it didn’t really matter until the last couple of seasons, either in terms of availability or ability to transfer away tickets
My misunderstanding inferred from what has been posted……So essentially 1901ers can basically do what others were doing prior to the ID checks were introduced (buy tickets, pass them on, keep the points and maintain tier status) - if so the second part still stand for me, they shouldn’t get...
I have no problem with 1901ers getting priority access to purchase away tickets, that’s part and parcel of the premium they pay. They shouldn’t get points for games they don’t attend though……..whether they go to the attendee or not I’m not fussed either way.
It’s partly a factor of our evolution I guess…….it’s not (or at least wasn’t) an unreasonable benefit for someone paying a significant premium for their season ticket on the face of it (there are all sorts of ‘membership schemes’ that have increasingly better benefits as you spend more) but last...