Tickets for the derby

[dronny_blade]

but all the many matches she been down the years have all been bought through my season ticket & my name

same issue with my old man, never got him a customer number because I've always bought him a ticket or someone else has, he goes to about 10 games a season and has done since his last season ticket years ago. Not seen this before about having 'x' amount of points for a home game and for it not to go on general sale but I guess that's my fault for not registering him. Strange one though, my daughter and niece have enough points but have been to 4 games between them in 18 years and have no intention of going to the pigs game...the benefits of registering them as junior blades all them years ago!!

 

[South Bucks]

I don't understand why you wouldn't buy a membership if your not a season ticket holder, it's free if you go to 5 games afterall??

Only if there were any cat B games to redeem the freebie on and unlike last season there aren't any so far this season so its basically a supporters tax for those who are not ST holders. I have a membership but its a bit of a con now with the freebie out of reach.

 

[Barry Butlin]

It won't sell out and we're top of the league, so the policy is crazy!!!!

 

[bartman]

It won't sell out and we're top of the league, so the policy is crazy!!!!

Why does it matter if we sell out?

 

[essexblade73]

It won't sell out and we're top of the league, so the policy is crazy!!!!

It will sell out. If people cant be arsed to go to other games but can be arsed only for this, then do they deserve a ticket? Imagine how pissed off you would be if it was a free for all, youd gone to a very large proportion of games, but couldnt get a ticket...only to find out that Gail the glory hunter has got one despite her last match she went to being the Zenith Data Cup game vs Bury in 1988. It is a fair policy and people need to stop being luddites, understand that this will be the policy for such games in the future, get themselves registered online, then start going to games and build up pts.

 

[SwissBlade]

It will sell out. If people cant be arsed to go to other games but can be arsed only for this, then do they deserve a ticket? Imagine how pissed of you would be if it was a free for all, youd gone to a very large proportion of games, but couldnt get a ticket...only to find out that Gail the glory hunter has got one despite her last match she went to being the Zenith Data Cup game vs Bury in 1988. It is a fair policy and people need to stop being luddites, understand that this will be the policy for such games in the future, get themselves registered online, then start going to games and build up pts.

We've had the loyalty points system for over 10 years and people still don't realise that they need to sort themselves out for points

 

[Danetheblade]

Got my ticket today. Hallelujah for 15k loyalty points!

 

[essexblade73]

We've had the loyalty points system for over 10 years and people still don't realise that they need to sort themselves out for points

I really don't understand it. Baffles me

 

[brownie4583]

I attend the majority of home games but due to work shifts I do miss some Tuesday night games thru the season so I don’t buy a season ticket,I buy my ticket online as and when.
I tried to buy a ticket for Wendy game when they came on sale but couldn’t get 1 as I’m not in the £30 membership scheme.
To buy the membership and the ticket would have cost me £66 for that game.
I have bought 1 today,luckily there some left,but I didn’t need to be a member for Hull,Stoke,Wigan etc

 

[Danetheblade]

I really don't understand it. Baffles me

You gain points for going to matches, becoming a member etc I believe. I had a season ticket from being 8 to 20 (stopped buying as I work in retail management so I work 99.999% of weekends.) And I have 15k. Assuming that's from the season tickets I've had in the past. (Also think I got some points for the brooks Spence fight)

 

[guancheblade]

True but what about neutrals/ football lovers who want to witness a big event.
The Steel City Derby attracts interest from fans who don’t support either United or Wednesday.

I was chatting to a Blades season ticket holder on Monday.
He was telling me he rang the ticket office to buy a ticket for his wife, she doesn’t normally like football but said she’d try her first Steel City Derby. The ticket office refused to sell him a ticket, said his wife needs to become a member.

He explained that his wife rarely goes to any match so it wasn’t worth it buying a membership so no ticket was bought.
You never know the wife might have caught the football bug but we are turning our back on potential fans.

But do it the other way and we'd be turning our back on actual fans

 

[Danetheblade]

But do it the other way and we'd be turning our back on actual fans

Exclusivity for a members scheme is pretty bollocks. I enquired about a ticket last week, got told I needed to be a member. When I pressed the woman on the phone to tell me the benefits of said scheme she couldn't answer as she hadn't a clue. Summed it up to me.. I waited until today.

 

[mattbianco1]

After a quick scout on the OS Ticket site, it looks like there are around the following tickets left:

West Corner ~40
South ~100
Kop ~700
Pukka Corner 30
Family ~200
BL Upper ~900

So ~2k unsold. Long way to go until the game. Should be ok!

 

[SwissBlade]

I attend the majority of home games but due to work shifts I do miss some Tuesday night games thru the season so I don’t buy a season ticket,I buy my ticket online as and when.
I tried to buy a ticket for Wendy game when they came on sale but couldn’t get 1 as I’m not in the £30 membership scheme.
To buy the membership and the ticket would have cost me £66 for that game.
I have bought 1 today,luckily there some left,but I didn’t need to be a member for Hull,Stoke,Wigan etc

If you go to a lot of home games then a membership gets you a free ticket for one game per season and £1 off for each ticket you buy.

On the Kop the free ticket is £23 for a B/C cat game.
It looks like you'd only have to go to 7 other games a season to make your money back

 

[mattbianco1]

but I didn’t need to be a member for Hull,Stoke,Wigan etc

But none of those teams will try to buy tickets in the home end

 

[essexblade73]

You gain points for going to matches, becoming a member etc I believe. I had a season ticket from being 8 to 20 (stopped buying as I work in retail management so I work 99.999% of weekends.) And I have 15k. Assuming that's from the season tickets I've had in the past. (Also think I got some points for the brooks Spence fight)

Nah I meant I dont understand people who haven't bothered to get reg'd and accrue points

 

[Danetheblade]

Nah I meant I dont understand people who haven't bothered to get reg'd and accrue points

Ohh! I mean. I'll be honest, I didn't think I had accrued any. Was only when my stepdad mentioned it to me.

 

[Barry Butlin]

Neither will the Pigs!!!!

 

[Caveblade]

I buy a membership each season for me and my daughter. I work away a lot so don't get a ST anymore.

It gets me a discount in the shop, £1 of a ticket and supposedly a free ticket (never managed it).

It does mean I can use my loyalty points and get a ticket to big games.

The system works, whatever the club does there will be people who lose out.

 

[FlamingLip]

Personally, I think the policy is OTT, can anyone share stories where away fans in wrong areas have caused mayhem in last 10 yrs?

I also know a few blades who for a number of reasons have attended odd games over a number of yrs but don't have points as I've always been the buyer. Hopefully this will kick em into gear in future.

That all said, the club must have done their homework as they will want every seat sold. All things considered, itd be odd if we didn't .

 

[BigBed]

I will spend £30 on a [to me] worthless membership straight after you chuck your £30 in the SUFC "charity bucket" and see how The Sheikh spends it.

No need, I bought a useless membership n got my ticket to the derby the day they were released.
Thank God for useless memberships, or I wouldn't be going...

 

[BigBed]

Why would anyone do that? It’s a wank, spineless club with no ambition whatsoever.

I would only make such a donation if we were top of the Championship and playing some sublime football with a team full of character and pride in the shirt. Fat chance of that.

But your not a Blade are you!

 

[axel smeets]

Every time we play PCR, there is the same debate about loyalty points, people wanting tickets, people who have bizarre arrangements for buying tickets, people who want a ticket for their neighbour's Llama etc.

It wouldn't be so tedious if we had the same debate on a weekly basis, but we don't. The same can be said for away matches - maybe once or twice a season there might be a match where demand outstrips supply and then we have the usual suspects bleating on about it and how unfair the loyalty points system is.

I cannot ever remember these discussions taking place when we played away at Coventry or Southend in our 5th straight season in Division Three.

 

[Bladeloyal]

Every time we play PCR, there is the same debate about loyalty points, people wanting tickets, people who have bizarre arrangements for buying tickets, people who want a ticket for their neighbour's Llama etc.

It wouldn't be so tedious if we had the same debate on a weekly basis, but we don't. The same can be said for away matches - maybe once or twice a season there might be a match where demand outstrips supply and then we have the usual suspects bleating on about it and how unfair the loyalty points system is.

I cannot ever remember these discussions taking place when we played away at Coventry or Southend in our 5th straight season in Division Three.

well said ,that man

 

[Topplayersleave]

Personally, I think the policy is OTT, can anyone share stories where away fans in wrong areas have caused mayhem in last 10 yrs?

I also know a few blades who for a number of reasons have attended odd games over a number of yrs but don't have points as I've always been the buyer. Hopefully this will kick em into gear in future.

That all said, the club must have done their homework as they will want every seat sold. All things considered, itd be odd if we didn't .

The thought that large numbers of pigs will join our membership scheme to get a ticket is stupid, not gonna happen.
Every seat won't be sold either, there's already a five seat gap on BLUT because the netting canopy that is above the pigs is obviously not enough to stop our rabid fans from scaling down the walls and killing them. The bottom section of G&H on Cherry Street will be empty and a section on the West End of John Street will be empty too. 28,500 maximum

 

[FlamingLip]

The thought that large numbers of pigs will join our membership scheme to get a ticket is stupid, not gonna happen.
Every seat won't be sold either, there's already a five seat gap on BLUT because the netting canopy that is above the pigs is obviously not enough to stop our rabid fans from scaling down the walls and killing them. The bottom section of G&H on Cherry Street will be empty and a section on the West End of John Street will be empty too. 28,500 maximum

I meant every available seat but point taken.

 

[Topplayersleave]

Every time we play PCR, there is the same debate about loyalty points, people wanting tickets, people who have bizarre arrangements for buying tickets, people who want a ticket for their neighbour's Llama etc.

It wouldn't be so tedious if we had the same debate on a weekly basis, but we don't. The same can be said for away matches - maybe once or twice a season there might be a match where demand outstrips supply and then we have the usual suspects bleating on about it and how unfair the loyalty points system is.

I cannot ever remember these discussions taking place when we played away at Coventry or Southend in our 5th straight season in Division Three.

The loyalty points system has been discussed many times, even as a League One club when we had small allocations at away grounds. it's not because of the loyalty points system itself but how it's implemented.
Our away support is chronically down on what it used to be and the loyalty points system is to blame, we get a small allocation which the biggest loyalty points holders fuck about with because they're allowed to, they wait for two or three days so that they can sit with Dad, Brother, Uncle, Grandad, Cousin, Friend etc who don't have as many points.
This gives the impression that sales are slow, so the club doesn't get another allocation.
Under normal circumstances and especially when doing exceptionally well we'd have taken 5,000 + to places like Blackburn, Wigan, Preston, Bolton etc who can cater for that many, but we end up with 2,000 maximum at each of them because of the time it takes for our honoured fans to sort themselves out.

I'm sure the club can work out how many loyal fans there are with 20,000 + points and then ask for an allocation big enough to satisfy them, and just sell to anybody with 20,000 points so that those with 50,000 can buy with those friends with 20,000 immediately. It might leave a bit of time for lower points holders to get something arranged

It doesn't matter for the home game against Wendy at all because 25,000 seats are already accounted for by those that go every week, and 2200 are taken by pigs.
This only leaves about 4000 tickets up for grabs to the more occasional fans after segregation and it shouldn't matter who the hell gets them first

 

[Topplayersleave]

I meant every available seat but point taken.

Yeah, I know what you meant mate

 

[dublin 10 blade]

I’m finding some of the posts on here at the moment a bit disingenuous and quite frankly disappointing in there views towards Blades , who like me don’t go to every home game , who get there tickets for the games they attend from friends who are able to purchase them for me ,
My points total is too low to get a ticket ( I still haven’t got one ) although I’m trying hard to ensure I’m able to support our team by being at the Lane , instead of London road .
I don’t have to justify my support to anybody on this site as a “ true Blade “ as I’ve put in the hard yards of close to 50 years of supporting our team.
Through thin , thinner , and slighter thicker times
This in no way entitles me to anything or a ticket for any game
But what it does entitle me to say is this ticket policy for one of our biggest games of the season is wrong , this assumption that the pigs are going to come anywhere into our ground mob handed is a fucking fallacy , the only time I saw any pig fans in Sheffield at the last derby at the Lane was on the Lane end itself .
I understand people who go week in week out ( I used to do it ) when I lived in Sheffield , how many points do ya get for traveling from Carlisle to Exeter , to Southend (3 times btw ) Wales to Newport / Wrexham and to every other shit hole we had to go to throughout the 80’s
That’s when for 8 Years I used to travel by ferry on a Friday night catch 2 trains to Sheffield, then do the same to get to work on Monday morning
How many fucking points did I get for that
This was in divisions 3 and 4 ( more glory hunting)
I’m not a fucking glory hunting fan as some ( just because I don’t go to a FEW home games a year )
are posting.
Reading in February will be next “ glory game “
This club and our team got me through a lot of low points in my life , I’m back in touch with people I used to go to school with and the lane with when we stood on the kop together . And we get fucking hammered together when I’m home
Once a Blade always a fucking Blade ( although a pissed off one )
UTB FTP
Darren D10Blade

 

[Sean Thornton]

The loyalty points system has been discussed many times, even as a League One club when we had small allocations at away grounds. it's not because of the loyalty points system itself but how it's implemented.
Our away support is chronically down on what it used to be and the loyalty points system is to blame, we get a small allocation which the biggest loyalty points holders fuck about with because they're allowed to, they wait for two or three days so that they can sit with Dad, Brother, Uncle, Grandad, Cousin, Friend etc who don't have as many points.
This gives the impression that sales are slow, so the club doesn't get another allocation.
Under normal circumstances and especially when doing exceptionally well we'd have taken 5,000 + to places like Blackburn, Wigan, Preston, Bolton etc who can cater for that many, but we end up with 2,000 maximum at each of them because of the time it takes for our honoured fans to sort themselves out.

I'm sure the club can work out how many loyal fans there are with 20,000 + points and then ask for an allocation big enough to satisfy them, and just sell to anybody with 20,000 points so that those with 50,000 can buy with those friends with 20,000 immediately. It might leave a bit of time for lower points holders to get something arranged

It doesn't matter for the home game against Wendy at all because 25,000 seats are already accounted for by those that go every week, and 2200 are taken by pigs.
This only leaves about 4000 tickets up for grabs to the more occasional fans after segregation and it shouldn't matter who the hell gets them first

How many away games have we sold out this season?

I'd say see a doctor, but I fear it's too late.