I think you might be off with that one mate, I'm sure our average has been nearer 2.3-2.4k for the past few years.
We were in the top 6 of the Championship away support for the past few seasons and I'm sure that's roughly the figure we were hitting.
Basically, these people aren't bandwagon jumpers, the away support was there when we were shit too.
Rab C NesbittWe really haven’t averaged 2600 for 2/3 years. It’s around 2k which is great but it’s not 2600
Yeah, just more random numbers.
But whatever the real number is, I know who has been in those followings...people like you, Tandy and the other same old non-existent ticket bots.
SpikeAbsolutely mate. People think we’re talking tosh but you must see me at games regularly, I must see you and as I keep saying those midweek games at Hull, Cardiff, Blackburn etc you know who you will see and that’s pretty much guaranteed. They’re the games people would buy a ticket for and not go just to top up their history. They don’t though, they go. To then have people suggest that some games are done as a ballot for STH only or general sale is mentalGreebo joeNothing to do with winning a few games. People who deserve a chance of a ticket are missing out because the system is being played. Everybody knows it but some just dont like it or play it down.
You could equally say that a lot of people play it up.
It happens, nobody has ever disputed that.
It just doesn't happen as much as a lot of people would like to suggest, and Platinum Plus people are the least likely to do it - because when you talk about us having 2600 away followings - those same people have been part of that following. And followings a damned sight more sparse than those.
The perception that Platinum / Plat Plus members in significant numbers are only pretending to go to matches, are selfishly guarding their status and will return the tickets as soon as challenged, is frankly ludicrous and just isn't happening. Resale tickets come from a variety of sources, I'm not sure why some people are so desperate to blame the most loyal (in terms of following the team round the country over a great length of time) of supporters? The massive majority of Plat and especially Plat Plus supporters wouldn't dream of giving up their tickets and would be mortified at the suggestion.
The club is responding to complaints they have received based on that incorrect perception.
H's suggestion early in this thread that droves of Plat Plus members have returned their tickets when challenged, based on what somebody from an OSC has told him - is daft as well. Because last season OSCs were given tickets for no good reason, people moaned about that - and it was stopped this season because the club identified it as an issue and unfair in light of lower allocations.
Then you get people throwing around loads of daft numbers based on nothing, trying to show that Plat Plus members don't actually exist, they are just ticketing bots.
It's all just so silly.
Nikola Zigic- FEANah mate. Trust me it’s been around 1800-2000 the last few seasons. Midweek aways make the difference and winter Saturday trips to places like Boroand Blackburn often don’t sell outI think you might be off with that one mate, I'm sure our average has been nearer 2.3-2.4k for the past few years.
We were in the top 6 of the Championship away support for the past few seasons and I'm sure that's roughly the figure we were hitting.
Basically, these people aren't bandwagon jumpers, the away support was there when we were shit too.
If it was really about people taking some moral stance about others manipulating the system then there would also be demands that checks on making sure Plat Pluses and Plats that buy tickets for BSM Trophy games are definitely going, because that is still adding to the loyalty points.
But the whingers won’t mention that, because nobody is arsed about going to those games really.
effing hypocrites.
Nikola Zigic- FEAI think you might be off with that one mate, I'm sure our average has been nearer 2.3-2.4k for the past few years.
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Just over 2k according to this, not very scientific I know.
But again - random numbers Bartley says 2.6 - Rab reckons 2.0 - you say - nah, 2.3 /2.4.
There were away games last season where we got nowhere near those numbers which drags the average down because that how averages work of course.
This season our allocations will only be average 1500 maybe? The odd higher.
We do have good away support, but this season, short of forcing people at gun-point to hand their grounds over to us, what's to be done? You can only try to make it as fair as possible and still people will miss out. They will just have to get in on games where we do have bigger allocations, like Bolton, Wigan and Wembley.
Literally gone on nearly half a dozen pages because the OP just basically spread a fib.
In other news, it looks like we are now selling tickets to all statuses on the site if anyone wanted one
My Blue HeavenThis thread is phenomenal
Stand by, there will be another one - with the same moaning, making the same arguments, using the same misinformation, when the next away game goes on sale.
Until MAD comes up with his formula for getting 37000 Blues fans - because soon that will apparently be our average away attendance - attending a game at Exeter with a 950 allocation, we are just killing time.
😂
I think the bandings are the fairest we will ever have.
There are/were definitely people padding out their status by buying and reselling, a few not a lot.
But it’s only a problem this year
Next year most the games will be easily attended
Only observation from me really is this season a considerable amount of Blues fans seem to want or turn away games and blues in general to their own little boys club/royston vasey
Going to have a shock when we grow
that suggests either we've got more tickets or we've had a significant number returned
In other news, it looks like we are now selling tickets to all statuses on the site if anyone wanted one
Selling to Silver