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It's a scheme for away tickets, what you describe is really about something else.

By your own comment you are suggesting the more you spend with BCAFC, the more up the pecking order you go in order to give money to another club.

Lets be hones if loyalty points didn't exist, there is a fair chance that a large majority of tickets would fall to fans who haven't even attended an away league fixture this season.

 

Can you imagine the furore if Man Utd suddenly announced a new scheme which meant the rich Johnny come lately’s got a ticket for the Manchester derby in front of long term travelling fans!
BCFC should stop trying to piss about with it. It works just fine as it is.
Fans who want to guarantee access to big away games should make the effort and get to more non attractive away games. It’s that simple

 

If it is a loyalty scheme for just obtaining away tickets then they might as well kept the priority ticket membership. Because as far as I can see the current scheme is no better. I can't accumulate more points to qualify for away games if I don't already have the points because I can't get a ticket for an away game. It's a catch 22.
I'm not just talking about away games here that loyalty points are used for. I'm suggesting that the more you spend, that directly benefits BCFC, the more points you get.
Those points can be used in a variety of ways. Yes, moving up the pecking order for away games is one. But offers for home games such as upgrades, or getting discounts on merch.

 

Maybe but there's also a point when 'taking the absolute p1ss' will override any loyalty you previously had.

 

I suggested that, and leave the loyalty scheme for all purchases that the club make money from

 

Because we never want to see fans having to camp out overnight at VP ever again.
The priority scheme stopped that happening on Sunday night.

 

And also, the only reason Carlisle tickets went on sale to season ticket holders was because the club allowed it to in the interests of some fairness.
They only put 1400 on sale to points holders and kept 400 back for everyone else.
I don’t think that was the right thing to do but at least it gave people a chance

 

because he can not. In his mind he was read one thing and decided that it means something that it doesn’t actually say.

 

Behave!

 

What alarms me about this points system is that it is divisive. It is dividing supporters into groups with one set claiming to be the best supporters because they can attend all the away matches and the lowest of the low is supporters who can only attend a few home matches.

For me if you support your team we should be all together regardless of how many away games you attend. Money invested into the club is money they can spend on players etc etc.

I have been a supporter of this club since 1967, and the OH even longer, I have no idea how much time effort and money we have invested and I don’t regret a penny or a minute. Obviously we were very active when we were younger like all the younger fans are now. We still buy a season ticket and attend when we can.

There is no fair way to distribute limited away tickets. I would prefer the old scheme where you bought an extra ticket so you get first dibs on the away tickets. As it is now these points are useless to thousands and have every body squabbling about whether they have had all their allocation or not.

 

I know as I said no system is fair. It could be tinkered with. You still have to attend a percentage of away games before qualifying for the big games. Also once you have completed say 75% of away matches you get a refund of your money. I don’t think the old system was as divisive as this scheme. Fans accepted that it was reasonably fair that if you paid for a season away ticket you were entitled to go to the front of the queue for away tickets.

 

That's EXACTLY what we have now and the very thing you're arguing is divisive?

 

And his point isn't true.

Every away ticket sold at the BCAFC ticket office they get a small percentage of - think it's 5%.

 

Perfect, so long as points gained for buying a scarf in the shop aren’t greater than that of travelling to an away game.

 

to be honest, im not sure points should be reset.

I have a fair number of points admittedly, but still not enough to reach the top 2 brackets. I just think that if someone has run up enough points for those brackets by attending away games, why should they lose them? Imagine someone has gone to 10 or more away games this year, but cannot next year because the club have chopped off a chunk of his points that they have accrued over the years. Can you imagine putting a £1000 year in a bank account and after 5 years you only have £3000 in there because the first two years no longer count.

 

If you don't have points expiring at any point then in 10 years time people who are new to the club or they are children now will have no chance of catching up to fans who have been going to a few games for the last 10 years so they would end up in a ballot. Circumstances change over time so points could reflect that, it should be too hard to set them on a 2 or 3 year rolling basis so others have the chance to catch up and new fans have a chance of the bigger games in a couple of years.

 

They can't keep them up to date on weekly basis, I couldnt imagine the carry on with them trying to delete a years worth of points

 

Absolute no resistance though is there? The queues for the tea bars on a match day are long for the entire half time interval, we announced record shirt sales this season, and the attendance for the Blackburn League Cup game was just shy of 8000, whereas the Harrogate FA Cup game was almost 7000, so pretty bloody decent for first round matches

That doesn't come across as resistance to me

 

Most games to season ticket holders anyway Kevin to be honest. Only barrow, Harrogate and perhaps Salford this year didn't get snapped up before the all ST holders had an opportunity to get one. It may have 13500 fighting for 300 tickets in some cases, but that's always going to happen regardless.

We could draw man utd in the cup and get 9000 tickets which would still mean 4500 and more missing out

 

They can catch up though if they are willing to travel to unpopular games on Tuesday nights.
There were plenty of tickets available for Colchester, Gillingham, Swindon, Walsall and Tranmere.
That’s 100 points right there not to mention the weekend / bank holiday away games such as
Crawley, Newport, Stevenage, Carlisle.