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2 minutes ago, ramboacdc said:

Hold the phone im reading this through again. so half home tickets go through the priority system at first come first served and the other half go into pot luck? 2% of away tickets go to members at the same time as P1 ST holders. You have finite time to buy any tickets and priority points higher doesnt mean priority. it just means you have more?

 

......the **** is this shower of shit? 

Precisely. 

As I understand it half of home tickets will go on sale to members in priority order: eg.

Wednesday: Those with 25+ points

Thursday: Those with 20+ points

Friday: Those with 15+ points. 

The other half will be up for a ballot which all members can enter (unless they have purchased via the priority system). 

2% of away tickets will be available for all members who enter the ballot. 

All tickets bought for home PL games will mean members receive 1 loyalty point after the fixture has taken place. 

Now I've wrote that out it doesn't look nearly half as bad. Maybe the club have just over complicated the literature. The one major flaw is those who will buy tickets to sell on just to maintain their priority status. 

2 minutes ago, SydenhamFox said:

Really not happy about this. My loyalty points score after three years of being a Gold member is now just 17 points, which is now basically worthless. It is a joke that AWAY games, cup games and Champion's League games don't count. I really don't want to spunk £120 (to renew two memberships) up the wall to enter a ballot with God knows how many other thousands of people for a chance not even to choose where I sit and who I sit next too (should I be lucky enough to win in the ballot). That is a big departure from being able to log in at 9am and select two seats together for any home fixture.

BUT if I don't renew out of principle I will not be able to attend again until the next time we get relegated! FFS! Talk about between being between a rock and a hard place.

They know that we love our club and will all probably end up renewing. They have a gun to our head and they know we will empty the vault to see our club. Until demand dies down they will continue to exploit it for all its worth. However I've said it before and I'll say it again....LCFC should be nice to those of us who travel hundreds of miles to watch our club on the way up, because they'll need us on the way down again.

Just now, Bayfox said:

Isn't that the same as last season 1500 for golds and 500 for silvers wasn't it.

Yep, but at least those membership numbers were capped. So although they were only promising 2,000 tickets-there was an absolute cap of 10,000 (6,000 silver and 4,000 gold). They are now not capping memberships and apparently this season we had 15,000 members. All in the one ballot for 1,000 tickets. 

I have just been told that the club will only guarantee a minimum of 2,000 tickets will be released to members for every home game.......that would be a hell of a lot of corporate/freebies given away. 

Just now, SydenhamFox said:

That sounds like a load of bull to me. If the club really do frown upon that kind of behaviour they'd have done something about all those P1 STH who sell on more than they attend.

It more than certainly is bull. 

So only home PL games count towards this seasons points.....but do we know going forward whether a point will be allocated for ALL match tickets bought (whether home, away, cup), or will it just be home PL games?

I raised my concerns with Jim yesterday, who got back to me this morning and assured me that points would be monitored closely and anyone found to be buying and then selling tickets simply to increase their loyalty points would be suspended from all other purchases and possibly from holding a membership going forward. Not sure how much I believe this but seems like a hell of a risk by members who do want to buy and sell tickets. 

One concern is that membership numbers will not be capped. So unless you are in the top tier of members, you could realistically be entering a ballot with 15,000+ members for 2,000 tickets.

3 minutes ago, SydenhamFox said:

It's also going to be a nightmare to get two seats together. Especially as I have bought more tickets on one membership than the other. It was hard enough getting two together anyway in the last two seasons. 

Yep you're right. Essentially a typical match day will have about 4,000 tickets released to members. So 2,000 will be taken by the top priority members, with the other 2,000 being sent to a ballot for the 13,000 other members. It's going to be hell. 

1 minute ago, SydenhamFox said:

It's actually dawning on me that it might be a waste of £120 (I have two Gold memberships) to renew as my points tally will be so low. I attend much more frequently in the two seasons before last season. Gutted. 

I'm in exactly the same boat. I said above with me and partner both having gold memberships (and both due to be on 19 points), I'm not sure it's worth £120 just to enter ballots. 

It's such a shame because like you, it is only because of the Champions League games that I missed so many league games last season. I normally go to far more. 

Just now, SydenhamFox said:

I only went to two Prem home games last season (and 3 away purchased directly from the club). I went to all the Champions League games, but the group package I bought for the group stages is not showing in my purchase history. Just the Atlético game (I bought the Sevilla ticket on here). Not sure if they Champions League tickets will count. I make that 17 points. I think I'm screwed.
A good run while it lasted though. I saw the Premier League trophy being lifted, but will miss days like these: 
 

 

I feel your pain!

Just now, SydenhamFox said:

Are they on sale now?
I fear the worst for next season. I have been a Gold member since those memberships came out and didn't make as many games last season as I did in the two seasons before. Would have been nice to get some loyalty points for the previous years. As it stands I don't have that many points. Gulp. 

Out of interest mate how many points are you on/how many games do you normally make. 

I only ask as I seem to remember you're in a similar position to me. I'll be on 19 points next season. I'm gutted. 

Just now, Sambiasso said:

The ballot just for away tickets isn't it??

The way I read it was home tickets are still on a priority tiered basis, priority is now numbers not Gold, Silver City members ala the away ticket sales used in previous years.


 

Nope. Available tickets will be equally split. Half will go to a top priority of members the other half will go into an all member ballot. 

To be honest I'm absolutely gutted. As I've said previously, I live over 100 miles away so it's a 200+ mile round trip for me, so I try to get to 1 game a month. Because of the CL this year (I went to all 5 home games), I have been financially limited to attending 5 premier league games. This means I will be going from gold member to probably middle priority. 

Therefore I am essentially being asked to pay £120 for me any my other half to enter a ballot for tickets, with no guarantees at all. Not only that, but the times I have to go on my own (as my partner works a lot of Saturdays), I will be unable to select a seat next to or near my dads ST because by the time the ballot takes place it is likely to be the last seats that are remaining.  

For the first time in my life I am seriously considering not bothering with a membership just out of principle, but I know the consequences of that will be watching no more of the club I love next season. ?

I suppose the first question is.....what will be classed as first priority?? Over 15 points?....20? more?

I feel the price is far too steep. Who in their right mind as a City Fox member last year is going to pay £60 to enter a ballot?

What an absolute rip off. 

Good old Birch! 

We simply have to address the CB issue this summer, it should have been addressed last summer. 

I also think we need a quality CM signing to really push the group. 

We also obviously need to replace those that leave (I fear Kasper will).