Oinkers tickets

[Sean Thornton]

If there's a five year cap it will just encourage the old ones with max points to buy tickets for every game and then sell them to mates, just so they keep their points total up. It won't change anything, it may even make it worse.

I do think giving low points for home and local games and high points for long away trips is a good idea.

The scenario you describe should be perfectly acceptable to those who want a ticket despite not having enough points. So it's win win for those most loyal/not so loyal. So me need to change anything!

The likes of Cardiff away should attract a much larger points award though.

Anyway, I'm boycotting the Leeds game yadda yadda yadda.

 

[nopigfansintown]

I wasn't being specific about anybody in particular but I do get fed up of continually hearing about how unfair the system is from those who don't have enough loyalty points and especially how smug people are that have sufficient loyalty points to get a ticket, don't go, and give a mate their ticket whilst still keeping the loyalty points for themselves and telling all who will listen that it is a reasonable thing to do.

Is that fair?

And I get fed up of people thinking that youngsters should get some sort of preference option against older folk that have followed the Blades for decades.

Is that fair?

The problem we have now is that ticket allocations are much lower than in League 1. 2009 tickets at Forest is ridiculous and as I said elsewhere, many on 42,500 may not get a sniff of a ticket.

Capping it every 5 years IMO benefits nobody as those that have loads of LPs will still have (relatively speaking) loads of LPs.

I'd like to see system whereby matches that are oversubscribed (Pigs away) give only, say, 10, LPs whereas Cardiff away on a Tuesday night should be worth 250 LPs maybe?

Perhaps home matches and season tickets should be allocated fewer LPs and, overall, away matches, more, except when over subscribed as I said previously.

No system is perfect

Thanks for the thoughtful response.There are winners and losers to every system, so a solution is an ambiguous concept (solution for who?) My point, really, is just to point out the losers and that it doesn't really fit in with the the club's own emphasis on incentivising "current ticket sales" or the club's "family club" schtich. You can't exactly tell someone with their first season ticket that there doing it to help them get a ticket for the big away games anymore. Not with a straight face anyway. I've seen both sides of the coin, as I've got 53,000 points, whilst my young uns have points in the 30s. All I can say is every home game including cup and friendlies, and fifteen, sometimes more away games has not been enough for them to catch up. They had their first season tickets during the relegation season. This will only be exacerbated by the points you've raised above, and the fact that people will jump back onboard who maybe stopped attending so regularly after relegation and our time in league one.How many points could have been accumulated before league one - maybe 30,000? They'll probably be knocking twenty when they have a chance for Hillsborough under their own steam. No such problems for many other grounds in league one!. My lad has used my points for his Swillsborough ticket (hypocrite that I am).

 

[blade too long]

no matter which way you distribute tickets when the ticket allocation drops from 8000 from our last visit to 2300
theres going to plenty of disappointed blades
5700 who went last time wont get in

its going to have an effect

 

[Dec]

Life ain't like that mate black or white there's winners and losers doer's and people who get there in the end

Cop out.

If one person falsely claimed benefits... they're fucking over the system and everyone else that pays into it.

Same premise. Easy to turn a blind eye to it though. Doesn't make it right.

 

[Freethinker]

Cop out.

If one person falsely claimed benefits... they're fucking over the system and everyone else that pays into it.

Same premise. Easy to turn a blind eye to it though. Doesn't make it right.

am not saying it's right or wrong mate same as a lot of things in life ain't some things are beyond our control unfortunately it's a dog eat dog world we live in fortunately I got my ticket second day and have been watching the blades for over fourty year's so I personally think I deserve one also a family member works at the sty so I managed to blag another six tkts which I have distribute to blades who couldn't get one at face value it's how it is mate

 

[Angef1Blade]

I didn't say I deserved a ticket, that's why I've not tried to get one. If others want to try that's up to them.
PS I've been going since 1981 and watched us in every division....through thick and thin

Newbie then?

 

[Wapping Blade]

Greenwoods mens outfitters are a good shout and usually have a partial sale on.

Ray Allan's sale stock would be a godsend today for you , with all that beige stuff he had.

Elasticated waist trousers. The best thing since sliced bread.

Greenwoods went TU last week...