New Away Ticket Scheme

[Stu]

£40 to access a scheme to give you the right to buy tickets is clearly a shakedown for free money. Complete bullshit.

[cdbearsfan]

It sounds like the sort of scam Karen Brady used to pull on the Nose fans.

[CT]

We've become like Legoland. Pay for your ticket and then pay even more when you get inside so you can be quicker in the queue than the others.

[sirlordbaltimore]

£40 to access a scheme to give you the right to buy tickets is clearly a shakedown for free money. Complete bullshit.

Isn't it exactly what Fan Clubs have been doing in the music industry since year dot ? Join up pay a fee and get first dibbs on tickets

It's no different.

[Stu]

£40 to access a scheme to give you the right to buy tickets is clearly a shakedown for free money. Complete bullshit.

Isn't it exactly what Fan Clubs have been doing in the music industry since year dot ? Join up pay a fee and get first dibbs on tickets

It's no different.

And no less shit. Doesn't excuse it.

[Ads]

The away scheme has always been about rewarding loyalty. You go to all the away games, you out to be guaranteed a ticket.

They've just changed it to add booking fees and give you the hassle of sorting the tickets.

[London Villan]

It will pay for Micah for 3 days.

[cdbearsfan]

The away scheme has always been about rewarding loyalty. You go to all the away games, you out to be guaranteed a ticket.

They've just changed it to add booking fees and give you the hassle of sorting the tickets.

This doesn't reward loyalty. If we are in a crucial battle in our last away game, someone who hasn't paid the surcharge to be in the away scheme but has been to every away game will be behind someone who hasn't been to any aways but has forked out forty quid in the queue.

[Ads]

Whose going to spend £40 to not purchase?

[cdbearsfan]

Noone. That was an extreme example. But if you could only be bothered to go to, say, Blose, Albion and Burton, you could pay forty quid and get to jump the queue ahead of those who intended to attend loads of away games.

[wittonwarrior]

You can just cringe at the stupidity of the people making the decisions  at the club.

[amfy]

Noone. That was an extreme example. But if you could only be bothered to go to, say, Blose, Albion and Burton, you could pay forty quid and get to jump the queue ahead of those who intended to attend loads of away games.

whch is particularly odd given that they blocked new entrants to the away sxheme last year becauae Blues,Wolves & Burton fell so early & they thought people would just join the away scheme for those 3 & then leave!

[sirlordbaltimore]

Am i right in thinking supporter clubs can get their hands on away tickets even if the punters aren't all season ticket holders ?

I've never been in a supporters club so please correct me if wrong obviously

[in exile]

Am i right in thinking supporter clubs can get their hands on away tickets even if the punters aren't all season ticket holders ?

I've never been in a supporters club so please correct me if wrong obviously

Do you mean this kind of thing?
https://tickets.avfc.co.uk/en-GB/memberships/claret%20membership/info?utm_source=display&utm_medium=home&utm_campaign=Memberships

[sirlordbaltimore]

Nah, i mean like the 'Black Country Lions' supporters club (as a made up example)

Who would take a coach away to all away matches. I was somehow under the impression they all got their hands on as many away tickets as needed. I don't know why i have that impression and it could be miles off, hence asking