Well said! I hate all these ****ing 'where were you when we were ****' fans on here, as if they're God Almighty. Many of us, me included, watched us in the old 4th division with just 1 stand operating. Some on here think being stuck in the Champs was the end of the world. I can assure it wasn't! Some remember Aldershot. These holier than thou fans **** me off big time.
And me.......and I did Aldershot away as well.....don't question me pal.....and I went all the way to Armenia...
Can I ask, assuming 3k is about the average away ST allocation, at a guess how many fans total Gold AST down to SThs with 1040 pts? I know they won't all go for tickets but it gives me some idea. The reason I ask is if I renew my deferred ST next season, which gives me 1k pts is there any realistic chance I could get to any away games?
Ahhh, but were you at Scarboro and Chorley?
Scarborough yes . . Chorley home games yes......
Yes . Trains seemed to have doubled since pre covid days ...an away day is best part of £80 before you have gone out the door......about 3 hours kip after Brighton and then up for work....it isn't easy. ... arsenal away has been a right ball ache........
I was lucky enough to become a new ast this season based on games attended during the Euro season, including some points for China. I try and get to all homes, aways and pre seasons, but I wish we could play Brighton twice a year - it's only 3.5 mins drive away
I understand it . It’s *******s
Erm because they’ve paid for the privelige?!?!??
What are you going on about? Of course people who have paid for a AST (I’m not one of them) should have priority. What’s next? Let’s just scrap home season tickets shall we and let anyone have my seat I’ve had for 20 years through thick, thin and in between.
Why should certain people be entitled to home match tickets?
For the same reason that they shouldn't have scrapped the home loyalty points because everyone wants a ticket to the big games but not so much the less glamorous ones.
That’s the point though. Why should people that have asts be allowed to go 1/2 games a year ahead of people who have gone to 15.
How many people who go to 15 away games haven’t got an AST??
Quite a few I imagine as the band is already 1150 points and we’ve had a couple of cup games . I missed out on a BrentFord ticket purely because I refuse to pay 50 quid or however much it is to guarantee the right to buy a ticket for one game .
Brighton’s ground isn’t 3.5 minutes from anywhere.
I'm currently on 1110 and can just about squeeze in the 3k games. Couldn't get a Watford ticket, chose not to go to Palace as was very busy, no way I could get to Brighton,obviously no Brentford ticket. So that's 4 missed (hopefully no more) so if you don't do about 15 then you'll only get the difficult ones (Brighton, Norwich, Newcastle and any stupid KOs). That's why the 75% rule was right in principle, but in practice just leads to (even more) selling on.
Oh so you want it scrapped because you can’t get the tickets you want, I get it now.
Depends if you speed.. from my house in north Woodingdean Google maps says 5.0 mins
Still gewin strong now.
They were available for anyone to buy until a few years ago. The only criteria was that you also had to have a home season ticket
I do, but thats because I live down the road from the AMEX
I wasn't gonna join the debate ,But I remember we used to pay a lump sum upfront,and then we paid summat like £7 when purchasing the ticket.But that's bin years agew.
First started in 94-95. Think there was a maximum number even back then but not sure that maximum number was necessarily reached.
The club were only too happy to bin off home loyalty points just to sell a few more memberships.
That one away game i went to was brighton away...
I have to agree with the last paragraph.. it just might let a few others attend an away game for once. My kid wants to go to one he doesnt care about the glamour games he just wants to watch his team away against whoever.
We all agree with you....but we had no choice in buying them and passing them on, if we didn't we would lose the away season ticket. ..no problem nw not aving the tickets....
It’s 15 games out of 19 league games, if you missed 4 away games in all comps over a season without an AST you’d struggle to get tickets for nearly any away game, nevermind losing priority for all.
Doesn’t locking 1,500 away to ASTs encourage this just as much for the other 1,500, if not even more so, given that group don’t even have a 4 league game buffer?
And the 25% buffer has allowed this to be done for up to 4 games for each AST over the season, I’d be amazed though if this change would materially impact that and as said, this only worsens the impact for the other 1,500 or so tickets we regularly have left and encourages this behaviour to move to that group even more.
900 or so gold, but then the silver band takes it above usually half of all available tickets, even without the clubs cut for family and friends ect.
Respectfully, I think they’ve made a terrible one and one that’ll please just a handful of people who couldn’t make more than 14 away league games in a season.
