NorthumberlandBoro
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It's about 25 minutes walk
Bournemouth Tickets - On Sale 4pm to 190+ Points
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ConcourseColin
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I have the same issue with my wife and kids tickets, i have over the required 190pts but they fall just short. I have hotels booked to make a weekend of it but im a bit worried we may miss out on tickets which will really put a spanner into the plans.
afcb_acklam
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but be aware, not all trains stop at pokesdown. the walk from the main station is straightforward, if not great on the eyes! it passes a great little pub, the firkin shed, great for people who appreciate good quality beer & company.
Redwurzel
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Plenty of tickets still available either not many people have 190 plus points or Live TV or fans cashed out.
Live TV has put me off and I have to be careful with the pennies - I have enough points (over 190) and I guess there will be around 4/5,000 that do have enough points.
Live TV has put me off and I have to be careful with the pennies - I have enough points (over 190) and I guess there will be around 4/5,000 that do have enough points.
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InglebyUTB
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It’s hard to judge at the moment, looking at the site there’s around 850 (ish) tickets still available.
They’ve said our allocation is final and they haven’t greyed out any blocks, so I’d assume what’s there is all there is.
I don’t think many will have 190 points, I might be wrong but anecdotally I know maybe 2 people with 190+ points. It’s a lot of points to have, the real scramble (if there is one) is going to come tomorrow.
Most people I know have 170+ points which is opening up at 10am tomorrow, then there’s a further three points tiers to come before general sale on Monday.
Those who are waiting for general have the whole weekend to wait after people have been paid on Friday.
The distance will put many off, but I don’t think many who intended to go will have been put off by TV, if you were planning to make a weekend of it down there then watching it on your sofa or in a pub isn’t a substitute for that.
They’ve said our allocation is final and they haven’t greyed out any blocks, so I’d assume what’s there is all there is.
I don’t think many will have 190 points, I might be wrong but anecdotally I know maybe 2 people with 190+ points. It’s a lot of points to have, the real scramble (if there is one) is going to come tomorrow.
Most people I know have 170+ points which is opening up at 10am tomorrow, then there’s a further three points tiers to come before general sale on Monday.
Those who are waiting for general have the whole weekend to wait after people have been paid on Friday.
The distance will put many off, but I don’t think many who intended to go will have been put off by TV, if you were planning to make a weekend of it down there then watching it on your sofa or in a pub isn’t a substitute for that.
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Norman_Conquest
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I've just been on and don't have anywhere near enough points (85 points) to buy yet I could have bought two tickets.
Worth a try if you are after a ticket.
Worth a try if you are after a ticket.
InglebyUTB
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It’s all guess work as they’ve never given us a breakdown of roughly how many supporters are in which tier, but looking at previous games I don’t think there’s that many on 190.
They’ve mostly used 140 or 160 points to sell away tickets, Millwall was the highest in a long time and that was 170 for just under 2,000 tickets.
They skipped 180 for this fixture and went to 190 due to the low amount of tickets, so they must have thought it was needed due to demand and that everyone who wanted one in that top tier would be able get one.
It’s hard to know as there’s not a great deal of transparency around it.
Joninho
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It’s not just 20 years though, I’ve had mine longer than 20, but I’m still a regular ST, with only 186 points
DCI_Gene_Hunt
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Gold Season Ticket cards are people who've held a season ticket consecutively from the first season at the Riverside.
Joninho
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Exactly- a closed group, which can only be accessed if you were old enough/born, nothing to do with loyalty!
DCI_Gene_Hunt
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Transparency!
There is nothing transparent in anything MFC do with regard to things like this.
It would be so easy to provide a break down of how many fans have how many points but they would never do it.
The recent furore about Season ticket holders bypassing the points system to buy friends/family tickets for the Spurs/Chelsea match - was there any communication from MFC about how they came to decide to do his other than saying to @rob_fmttm that "many" season ticket holders had asked for it - no idea how many "many" is though - none at all.
DCI_Gene_Hunt
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Stupidest reply I've seen in quite a while - if you don't think buying a season ticket every year for 25+ years is not a show of loyalty I can't imagine what you would think is.
Joninho
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I’m not saying that, what I’m saying is that I’m not counted as loyal and never will even though I’ve had mine 23 years and go to plenty of away matches. My son who is 9 and had a season ticket for 4 years already can never be as loyal as I am now, he is stuck on 70 points a season. In 25 years time in the current system I will have had mine for almost 50 years and still on 75 points. Therefore it is not only loyalty that is taken into account.
DCI_Gene_Hunt
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You are counted as loyal - you are awarded points appropriate to how the points system works - each year presumably you go up a level, each year Gold card holders get older/die/give up their season tickets and drop out of the system - there were only a couple of years ago approx 3000 Gold card holders of whom I doubt many go to away games.
If you don't like how the system works then hassle @Mark_MSF @rob_fmttm to do something through the Supporters Forum - if nothing else get the club to explain how they see the system working year on year, campaign to get the system changed if you don't think it's fair.
Joninho
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That was my point, there is nothing in the rules for moving up levels. I can’t remember exactly but I think it was the first season at the riverside I tried to get my ST, and was on a waiting list until the corners got filled in. I’ve always been counted as second class (white book holder rather than red etc…)
I might send him an email, the issue is I’m not sure how exactly to fix the system, especially when it comes to young fans. Like I said my son get penalised more than me, just because he wasn’t born until 9 years ago. How do you put that into the rules? Btw he is the one who pushes me to go to more away games, he’s Boro mad and lives in Leeds.
DCI_Gene_Hunt
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Clearly there are issues with the system, ie how do kids with less points than their parents get tickets together - I've no idea how its fixed other than fans pushing the club to do something by working together to come up with a system that's fair to everyone.
The points system is ran on a two year cycle so there is some levelling out take place.
I'm a Gold card holder with currently 188 points but in reality I will not be going to many away games in future, I'll drop of the radar and I'm sure I won't be alone in that.
Zoophonic
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Wouldn’t worry about the “restricted view”. It puzzled the Villa fans here too but didn’t exist.
clay
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A Standard ST holder would have to go to five away games every season just to be treated as equal to a Gold ST holder who hasn't bothered with an away match since we got relegated.
I get what the club are doing with the scheme, and I don't know what the perfect solution is (probably because it doesn't exist) but I do think that a scheme primarily used for allocating away tickets needs to do more to reward attendance at away games.
I get what the club are doing with the scheme, and I don't know what the perfect solution is (probably because it doesn't exist) but I do think that a scheme primarily used for allocating away tickets needs to do more to reward attendance at away games.