Rotherham Sold Out

[Cerberus Blade]

geen today and had it changed to Hammonds sauce is ace

Did you pay for it on HP?

 

[NotFallowfieldBlade]

Has anyone actually seen what he put ? What was it about ?
What can we say ? Are we allowed to slag players of ? Can sufc say what we can and can’t say now who are they the thought police , the club have been great recently with local activities , making the club probably one the best family clubs in the country. But might be takin it a bit far banning someone for hardly anythin

 

[ucandomagic]

As suggested above - sitting together issues are easily solved by making away seating unallocated. Then If you want to sit together you just have to get there early, like we had to at home in the past to get our favourite standing space! My experience away though, is that there are often empty seats together as many people stand together at the back if they are allowed.

Regarding the loan of points to get tickets - a simple statement that random identity checks will be carried out by Blades stewards, anybody breaking the rule will be excluded and the owner of the points deducted 50% of their points. That should make them think twice.

Putting some time limit on loyalty does seem sensible as well - I went to almost every game home and away for 6 years in the 70’s, but of course that counts for nothing, so there is effectively a time limit - it just doesn’t roll. Why is one period from the past more important than another?

So for me - 10 years rolling points - tickets all for unallocated seats - initially say 25K and above points apply by a certain date (all treated equally) If over-subscribed then tickets awarded completely at random to those who have applied. If under-subscribed then move down the points as now.

Job’s a good’un.

 

[Foxy]

You should stop receiving loyalty points at say 60,000 so that other fans can catch up.
Once we have 10,000 fans with 60,000 points important away games can be on a first come first served basis, it will also give the club a better gauge for demand.

So I'd have been capped long ago and while we were still in league one... I generally have to work the entire opening hours of the ticket office and they'd be unlikely to create a free for all online.

This would mean I'd effectively be punished for going to the number of games I have. Sounds fair.

I'd probably have missed Hillsborough last year, due to an inability to join the massive queues that would have happened.

They have a gauge for demand and a handy set of stats on the number of people who tend to go to fixtures (the popular and unpopular ones)... It's called the Loyalty Points system

Appreciate I'm in the 'i' m alright' camp, but how did that happen? Nobody on large points totals has simply been gifted them.

Long term, if we carry on being better, we'll have to do something for kids... But thats about the extent we could go without simply making the 'problem' worse for everyone.

 

[jt64]

Feel gutted
Could have got mine yesterday as I have over 40k points but left it until today so I could sit with my mates.
Phoned at 9am prompt but is took 33 calls before they stopped cutting the calls off.

This is why the way the club administers the loyalty point system is so stupid. How is it helpful to balancing their workload, or providing good customer service to fans, to have a whole bunch of people call up (really? Call up in 2018?) at the same time when they go down to a new tier? It's really simple:

a) Have a week window where, if you only have 2500 tickets, you only sell immediately to the 2500 fans with the most points on the system
b) During said window, everyone else puts in a request for everyone in their group, including indicating if they want to partially fulfil the order if the lowest fan(s) don't end up having enough points - solving the "want to go but want to sit with mates if they can get one as well" issue
c) As you have a whole week to put the order in and they will not sell out, nobody is in a phone queue for ever, nobody is queueing back to Heeley overnight and the website will not crash
d) If demand exceeds supply, then run subroutine on orders received and allocate tickets else start general sale

d sounds like a piece of piss to do, I'm sure many of us on here, myself included, could code something that does that extremely quickly, my consultancy rate is one Forest ticket

Good support though.

Not that it's ever an issue with away games, but let's not confuse attendance or ticket sales with support, shall we? We had ten times as many of our fans on Saturday as we will have at Rotherham and the support was as away fans often describe it

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

It's different circumstances, but I'm also in the England Supporters Club loyalty scheme. Loyalty points are called Caps (high fives all round in the creative department when they came up with that). The Club works on 2 year campaigns starting just after a Summer EUROs or World Cup. When the 2018-2020 campaign started, I kept all my Caps from 2016-2018, but lost all my previous Caps. So, that is very much the "recent loyalty" model.
Also, it is virtually impossible to use someone else's Caps/Points for away games. Tickets are distributed in the city where the game is played. So, if you use the website to buy a Spain v England in Seville ticket. You need to go to a hotel in Seville, show photo ID (Membership Cards have photos), and pick your ticket up in person. No person, no matching photo, no ID, no ticket handed over. If someone does an impersonation, both actual Member & actor Member risk being binned out of the Club.
Obviously, I'm not advocating that for SUFC. Although, I have been to one SUFC Away Game where all tickets had to be picked up at the away venue. Any guesses?

 

[I should coco]

So I'd have been capped long ago and while we were still in league one... I generally have to work the entire opening hours of the ticket office and they'd be unlikely to create a free for all online.

That's the least of youir problems as this is not Topplayersleave's only 'wonder contribution' this week.

You would also have to prove you are not 'a scumbag' or risk being lined up against the wall. I'm not sure the exact current scumbag definition and I've a feel the movement of the goalposts may be alcohol linked.

 

[Sean Thornton]

This is why the way the club administers the loyalty point system is so stupid. How is it helpful to balancing their workload, or providing good customer service to fans, to have a whole bunch of people call up (really? Call up in 2018?) at the same time when they go down to a new tier? It's really simple:

a) Have a week window where, if you only have 2500 tickets, you only sell immediately to the 2500 fans with the most points on the system
b) During said window, everyone else puts in a request for everyone in their group, including indicating if they want to partially fulfil the order if the lowest fan(s) don't end up having enough points - solving the "want to go but want to sit with mates if they can get one as well" issue
c) As you have a whole week to put the order in and they will not sell out, nobody is in a phone queue for ever, nobody is queueing back to Heeley overnight and the website will not crash
d) If demand exceeds supply, then run subroutine on orders received and allocate tickets else start general sale

d sounds like a piece of piss to do, I'm sure many of us on here, myself included, could code something that does that extremely quickly, my consultancy rate is one Forest ticket



Not that it's ever an issue with away games, but let's not confuse attendance or ticket sales with support, shall we? We had ten times as many of our fans on Saturday as we will have at Rotherham and the support was as away fans often describe it

I may be missing something here but of you only have 2500 tickets and you only sell therm to the top 2500 points holders, you don't have any left unless some of the top 2500 don't want them.

 

[jt64]

I may be missing something here but of you only have 2500 tickets and you only sell therm to the top 2500 points holders, you don't have any left unless some of the top 2500 don't want them.

You're not missing anything, no - but I doubt that every single person with the most points will go to every single game - work, holidays etc, and supply and demand will affect who goes where. I wouldn't get close to a ticket for Pigs away even if they gave us 6k, but easily got one for Sunderland who gave us half that. You could ignore that first step and just do everything as one batch job, but why hold up processing an order which you 100% know will have the points?

 

[Boxer Blade]

It's on the telly

 

[Topplayersleave]

That's the least of youir problems as this is not Topplayersleave's only 'wonder contribution' this week.

You would also have to prove you are not 'a scumbag' or risk being lined up against the wall. I'm not sure the exact current scumbag definition and I've a feel the movement of the goalposts may be alcohol linked.

No. it's not alcohol linked, I don't drink very much at all. In fact the last time alcohol passed my lips was October 5th
I still stay the same, scumbag wastes of oxygen die, simple as that.
Humanity, the animal world and the planet would be better off without them

 

[Sean Thornton]

No. it's not alcohol linked, I don't drink very much at all. In fact the last time alcohol passed my lips was October 5th
I still stay the same, scumbag wastes of oxygen die, simple as that.
Humanity, the animal world and the planet would be better off without them

Or you just don't remember ?

 

[Topplayersleave]

Or you just don't remember ?

What a sad twat you are

 

[Sean Thornton]

What a sad twat you are

Not me who thinks about mass murder. And posts about it as if it's normal behaviour to do so.

 

[PaulHalfway]

When you have a game 7 miles away and we are playing well in theory we could sell circa 10,000 tickets if they were available, so thousands who would love to go to this game have in reality zero chance of getting a ticket