as expected no priority for away travellers who aren't vg or season ticket holders, hopefully tickets make it to 14th sept, don't hold much hope though. did get a response from the club who inform me that a points system isn't very common practice.
can you imagine the carnage on Monday, there can only be about 2000 fans eligible to buy today
You have to question the wisdom of giving two tickets per eligible supporter, anyone willing to play devils advocate and argue why it might make sense for this fixture ?
Palace would be daft not to give us another 1,000. We'd easily sell them.
hope they do as it is a business and there will be clearly demand so cant see why they wont unless police advise them not to.
I think they've already inexplicably started selling the other side of the Arthur Waite so the chances are probably slim of an increase in our allocation.
Palace would be daft not to give us another 1,000. We'd easily sell them.
hope they do as it is a business and there will be clearly demand so cant see why they wont unless police advise them not to.
I think they've already inexplicably started selling the other side of the Arthur Waite so the chances are probably slim of an increase in our allocation.
and some question why we call them nasty names haha!, bit of a wanky move, but the police bill could outweigh the extra ticket revenue I suppose.
can you imagine the carnage on Monday, there can only be about 2000 fans eligible to buy today
You have to question the wisdom of giving two tickets per eligible supporter, anyone willing to play devils advocate and argue why it might make sense for this fixture ?
The origin of this is that children can't be Valley Gold members. If a VG member could only buy one ticket and wants to go with their child then they could never make use of their ticket priority as they'd never get seats together.
Originally it was one adult and one child for VG members, but people would buy the child and then change it for an adult later, so in the end the club decided VG season-ticket holders could have two adults.
I agree that it is dubious to offer other qualifying season-ticket holders two tickets each on the same basis, and both potentially give priority to non-season-ticket holders over season-ticket holders (and priority to people who didn't travel to Peterborough over people who did), but to go to one-each would be to make an assumption about the overall demand that the club may not share. It also wants to sell the tickets efficiently.
There will be very few VG members who are not season-ticket holders AND want to go to Palace, so I don't think it matters much that they get joint second priority with STs.
The stipulation excluding people who bought Peterborough tickets on the night will just be to make life simpler for the staff.
2.1 The Club's supporters are allocated tickets for away league matches for which there is expected to be excess demand. The following groups will enjoy priority status:
• Season-ticket holders who are Valley Gold members; supporters who regularly attend away games and via recognised supporters' groups; remaining season-ticket holders and Valley Gold members; Red Card holders with an adequate purchase history who are not season-ticket holders.
These groups also enjoy priority status for away cup fixtures or those staged at neutral venues, but this is subject to variation dependent upon the allocation of tickets received.
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Good luck all
VERY helpful young man efficiently took my request for 3 x Palace, 3 x Blackburn and 2 x Cardiff , taking CON numbers for all concerned .
Well done, Mandy & her staff .Credit where credit's due.
Any ideas?
*Bites tongue.*
Good thing I'm not on ticket duty for Monday!
Originally it was one adult and one child for VG members, but people would buy the child and then change it for an adult later, so in the end the club decided VG season-ticket holders could have two adults.
I agree that it is dubious to offer other qualifying season-ticket holders two tickets each on the same basis, and both potentially give priority to non-season-ticket holders over season-ticket holders (and priority to people who didn't travel to Peterborough over people who did), but to go to one-each would be to make an assumption about the overall demand that the club may not share. It also wants to sell the tickets efficiently.
There will be very few VG members who are not season-ticket holders AND want to go to Palace, so I don't think it matters much that they get joint second priority with STs.
The stipulation excluding people who bought Peterborough tickets on the night will just be to make life simpler for the staff.
2.1 The Club's supporters are allocated tickets for away league matches for which there is expected to be excess demand. The following groups will enjoy priority status:
• Season-ticket holders who are Valley Gold members; supporters who regularly attend away games and via recognised supporters' groups; remaining season-ticket holders and Valley Gold members; Red Card holders with an adequate purchase history who are not season-ticket holders.
These groups also enjoy priority status for away cup fixtures or those staged at neutral venues, but this is subject to variation dependent upon the allocation of tickets received.
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