Strong rumours that away tickets will be:
10% for GA+
20%? (Loyalty points)
70% ballot.
Not sure if anybody else has heard this, but have to say it's really put an absolute downer on the end of season. I feel like 30+ years of loyalty and effort, when for a good 25+ of those it was easy to get a ticket, is being flushed down the toilet.
The likes of Goughie, Hatchet and Julian who run the biggest independent coaches/clubs will be decimated. Mates for decades and decades linked by a common addiction and dedication.
I feel more gutted at the possibility of this than when we got relegated.
I’ve a lot of respect for your post and you as a poster Ads.
Through work and living abroad recently my away history has been hard to build back up and it doesn’t sometimes feel like a closed shop. Anecdotally and others have said, there are always away tickets available; not suggesting these are being touted for profit but it’s clear there are tickets routinely bought with an ID with that person having no intention to attend.
There has to be some sort of better allocation method though, I feel the massive drop for each release doesn’t help. I’ve a season ticket holder and probably miss 3/4 games a year at home for various reasons, work, holiday etc but o can reassign or sell it back to the club with no loss of booking history per se since I can renew at the end of the year. I guess if I’d reassigned my seat for every game there’s an argument I should lose my right? That being said the years I worked and lived in the US I kept my season ticket (and others using it was seen as less as an issue given it was 2014-2016 and demand was much lower!
Certainly the booking history needs to be more long term, I feel the Championship years skewed things a lot since the number of tickets we’d be allocated then vs the average 3k now means supply now is massively lower. But can understand going further back in the Lambert years it was much easier to get tickets (when I did lot of London games due to living there)
The percentages you are quoting are way too high, the trouble with such a low percentage ballot is if you are trying to break into the club it can be difficult, especially if you want to go with 2/3 others all in the same boat - you can’t enter as a group to share costs of travel etc.
The allocation to GA+ for a start is a total joke. You pay more for you ticket as you get extra benefits; why this gives you a leg up to the away scheme is nonsense.
Its disappointing that after what has been another great year hopefully finishing on a high it’s left you feeling this way.
