I’m genuinely concerned that people are struggling with the concept of putting a few hundred point threshold on it to prioritise people who’ve actually been to a game at all recently.
I'm glad someone has pointed this out as this seems to have increasingly happened over the season. I suspect that if the tickets for this game had been sold on a staggered points basis, then there would have been plenty of cases of people with enough points buying for mates who don't, which doesn't end up being any fairer. In my opinion it would also have been wrong to change the means of selling home tickets for a single game, when they haven't done so for any other games earlier in the season.
Agreed. I wonder if we might do something like 2500 based on tiered points then a small allocation done another way . I’ve never had an issue with missing out on away tickets due to a them going to those who make the effort to go to every away game though. Still pick up the odd one but is what it is
Indeed a fair approach would have been (due to there only being ~5k tickets for general sale) to introduce a points threshold and not allow season ticket holders to purchase more.
I suspect they don't have that information easily available and have no desire to create more work for themselves.
Think the season ticket points get added manually hence every season we get the 'have your season ticket points been added yet' and it seemingly taking weeks for everyone to get them.
You could pull the data to work out who had points and who to take off as season ticket holders but then how do you make a sale only available to them?
Crazy to think that the last time we were in the PL even for games like Villa you could just rock up to the ticket office whenever you liked and get one no bother.
Remember paying on the gate at places like Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea.