Istanbul travel and ticket information

[AV82EC]

Without wishing to prolong this further I think we can safely assume with what happened at the FA Cup semi last year and now the EL Final this year, for these “showpiece” Neutral venue matches where there are limited tickets the club are prioritising ticket access to those who’ve attended games rather than your “status” and being an ST over a member doesn’t matter, though you obviously need to be either an STH or a Member. 

We can debate until the cows come home whether that’s right or not but that seems to be the rationale. I personally disagree as it should be STH priority over Members imv but the bit that annoys the most is the fact the club haven’t explicitly said this is how they’re going to be doing this moving forwards and to me that’s not fair on STHs who should have been told.

[PeterWithesShin]

This is the first time demand outstrips supply at VP though, and by that I mean the 5 last years. So just as away tickets is a fairly closed shop, so are season tickets. There will be plenty of members that would love a ST but instead spend more than a ST costs to go to league games in a season, and their cup tickets cost more. There is no system that is fair to everyone and would mean that everyone that deserves a ticket gets one.

[olaftab]

Like other things in life the rich get what they want!

[tomd2103]

My only question back for people who feel extremely hard done by at not getting a ticket for the final despite being an ST holder and going to all 7 home games, is that there are ST holders who are willing to travel overseas from group stage games etc, whereas for a final many many more are suddenly happy to travel that weren't in earlier rounds.

Good question, but the away allocations have been pretty limited since we've been back in Europe, making the away tickets difficult to get. 

[tomd2103]

Without wishing to prolong this further I think we can safely assume with what happened at the FA Cup semi last year and now the EL Final this year, for these “showpiece” Neutral venue matches where there are limited tickets the club are prioritising ticket access to those who’ve attended games rather than your “status” and being an ST over a member doesn’t matter, though you obviously need to be either an STH or a Member. 

We can debate until the cows come home whether that’s right or not but that seems to be the rationale. I personally disagree as it should be STH priority over Members imv but the bit that annoys the most is the fact the club haven’t explicitly said this is how they’re going to be doing this moving forwards and to me that’s not fair on STHs who should have been told.

If I recall correctly, the semi-final last year prioritised memberships with a certain number of FA Cup games over season ticket holders who had attended fewer games in the competition, so a bit different to this criteria.

It is what it is though and we're just unlucky that it's staged at a considerably smaller capacity ground the season we get there.   

[PeterWithesShin]

The rich get richer.
The poor are getting poorer.
Fascist, chauvinistic government fools.

[astonvilla82]

People have mentioned about shortage of season tickets at the present time, well there was no shortage of tickets when we were shit and had to close the Trinity Road stand because we were playing shit,we put our money up front season after season regardless, so do we now have our own glory hunters?

[PeterWithesShin]

Of course we do. Do you think we'd selling out every week and expanding the ground if we were still in the second division? We'd be averaging less than 30k and dippimg into the low 20s for Rotherham at home midweek.

[basavfc]

Of course we do. Do you think we'd selling out every week and expanding the ground if we were still in the second division? We'd be averaging less than 30k and dippimg into the low 20s for Rotherham at home midweek.

Well said

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

What pisses me off is that I have a large number of home programmes from the 70s and 80s with a 1" square missing.

[astonvilla82]

Of course we do. Do you think we'd selling out every week and expanding the ground if we were still in the second division? We'd be averaging less than 30k and dippimg into the low 20s for Rotherham at home midweek.

That the point those that have supported club through the bad times with a season ticket miss out on Cup final tickets because someone attended 7 games

[sid1964]

I agree it cannot be correct that a person gets a ticket because they are a member and have attended the 7 Europa games - STH should get priority

IF I renew next season it will be my 39th consecutive season as a STH - I did manage through the ballot to get a final ticket - the ballot should have only been open to STH in my opinion

Maybe we need to ask the club why members were included?

[astonvilla82]

I agree it cannot be correct that a person gets a ticket because they are a member and have attended the 7 Europa games - STH should get priority

IF I renew next season it will be my 39th consecutive season as a STH - I did manage through the ballot to get a final ticket - the ballot should have only been open to STH in my opinion

Maybe we need to ask the club why members were included?

I intend too

[Nunkin1965]

Ridiculous venue for a European final anyway.
What was our allocation? 11,000?

[The Man With A Stick]

Ridiculous venue for a European final anyway.
What was our allocation? 11,000?

I think so.  Begs the question why they're playing it at the 4th largest stadium in Istanbul.