Away Priority Cards

I dunno, £2000 seems a lot but for someone who absolutely will go to all 46 games and needs a coach ticket for away games I think it’s probably good value

 

First in the queue doesn't work anymore since the advent of selling tickets online, it is just luck of trying to connect just at the exact time the website starts selling

 

So my solution for next season would be this.

priority away card replaced with a home and away season ticket priced at £999.
This would offer the highest priority and generates additional income to the club of around £200 based on average away tickets being £25

The points system then comes into play as the next priority.
This should ensure that regular travellers are able to get a ticket.

then season ticket holders

then general sale

 

Like I said, I would expect an extremely low take up on that offer. Especially if it's the price quoted, which equated to £34 per match.

 

Don’t those same issues hold for a home season tickets?

 

The priority arrangement is needed for a handful of games at best, if you want a ticket to 95% of games this season you will probably get one without issue.

Some games will sell out, but if you act quick enough you will secure tickets.

I see Harrogate as the game with the highest take up due to it being so easy to access and in a small ground.

Sutton will only become difficult if we are in the mix, otherwise the distance will put some off.

We only need priority once in a blue moon, so when that blue moon comes around, those who have built up points will be fine, infact many who only have a handful of away games to their name will see themselves handily placed for tickets as our average away following over an entire season is probably around 1,000 (stats from 19/20 season until suspension)

 

Have they said how long points are valid for in the new scheme? Eg do they only last 12 months and then drop off or do they stay for ever so in 10 years time those old enough to travel now will be at an advantage?

 

I don't think that has been made clear, however if you follow us round the khazi league, you would hope it counts for something should we end up in say the championship in a number of years.

 

but it gives an advantage to the older fans. I think England used to have never ending points but have changed it now due to an aging travelling fan base

 

I slept in the ground to queue.
Got there about midnight , there was a few hundred in front of me.

Some people were turning up at 9am and still getting tickets

 

How do you check your loyalty points?

 

On the ticket site

 

Lightweight got there at 5.30 pm, got the Mrs to bring me a fold up chair, also slept at the ground( me, not the Mrs), getting tickets fairly early on, to be honest I was a bit miffed that I had to apply for a priority card this time

 

How?

 

I really don't know why the club can't use the existing technology, if you go on your purchase history the record of all away tickets bought is there for about the last ten years!
I've been to the vast majority of the away games since the 70s and I've never not got a ticket for a game I wanted to go to, although I have had a Priority card since there inception to avoid queuing all night in the snow for (Chelsea!) tickets.