A couple of questions that relate to subjects covered in the threads relating to tickets sales via priority groups;
How do people propose that the club instigates a system that recognise's a supporter who 'attends every home game', but pays on the gate, when it comes to allocating tickets for these rare one-off type games?
I'm sure that somebody will say vouchers, but then how do they propose distributing these vouchers. In days gone they were printed in the programme every week and numbered so at a time like this you would have to present vouchers A, B & C to buy your ticket. But then that makes it unfair on those supporters who do not wish to, or cannot afford to, buy a programme. So we're back to square 1 again with some form of priority system.
While in principle i think TVR is heading in the right direction with his 'points system', one again we come to the age old problem of how do you administer it when it might only be used twice in 10 years? Of course then you'll get the old, 'well i attended 4 work parties and traveled to Stevenage [for which you definitely deserve a ticket without a doubt!] or well i swept the away end of the ground of all the blue and yellow pieces of paper after the AFC Wimbledon FA Cup tie, and traveled to Hartlepool on a wet Tuesday night in February when we lost 4 - 0 and such like arguments.
The basic fact is that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but at least we can attempt to make it look as if we're at least trying to. Sadly what seems fair to one person won't seem fair to another and visa versa.
My opinion, for what it's worth, is only 1 priority number per fan, regardless of how many different groups you belong to and 1 ticket per priority number. Less 'Animal Farm this way then after that general sales, on a first come first served basis as with anything else in life.
It's quite amusing to note that, with the amount of ' I've attended every home game for X numbers of years and i deserve a ticket' posts there have been on Exeweb since this all started, it would have meant that we'd been playing in front of capacity crowds every home game for at least the last 8/9 years! Hmmmmm.
Andy_H
How do people propose that the club instigates a system that recognise's a supporter who 'attends every home game', but pays on the gate, when it comes to allocating tickets for these rare one-off type games?
I'm sure that somebody will say vouchers, but then how do they propose distributing these vouchers. In days gone they were printed in the programme every week and numbered so at a time like this you would have to present vouchers A, B & C to buy your ticket. But then that makes it unfair on those supporters who do not wish to, or cannot afford to, buy a programme. So we're back to square 1 again with some form of priority system.
While in principle i think TVR is heading in the right direction with his 'points system', one again we come to the age old problem of how do you administer it when it might only be used twice in 10 years? Of course then you'll get the old, 'well i attended 4 work parties and traveled to Stevenage [for which you definitely deserve a ticket without a doubt!] or well i swept the away end of the ground of all the blue and yellow pieces of paper after the AFC Wimbledon FA Cup tie, and traveled to Hartlepool on a wet Tuesday night in February when we lost 4 - 0 and such like arguments.
The basic fact is that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but at least we can attempt to make it look as if we're at least trying to. Sadly what seems fair to one person won't seem fair to another and visa versa.
My opinion, for what it's worth, is only 1 priority number per fan, regardless of how many different groups you belong to and 1 ticket per priority number. Less 'Animal Farm this way then after that general sales, on a first come first served basis as with anything else in life.
It's quite amusing to note that, with the amount of ' I've attended every home game for X numbers of years and i deserve a ticket' posts there have been on Exeweb since this all started, it would have meant that we'd been playing in front of capacity crowds every home game for at least the last 8/9 years! Hmmmmm.
Andy_H
