Brentford away tickets

Rayman said:
I’m hopeful of a ticket tomorrow especially as I’ve bought the train tickets! I’ve been several times and love the terrace but not too keen on the seats. They’re unsafe in my opinion. Brentford will also go down as the coldest game ever, a couple of March’s or so ago.
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The Ayala 0-1? Blackburn is the coldest ground for me.
 
I think it was when Adama scored. I remember going and freezing my knackers off!

Bloody love Brentford away. Will miss that ground after this season. One of my favourite grounds in the Championship.
 
Humpty - I cannot forsee any game next season where you wouldn't get a ticket next season with the points from buying a season ticket from scratch. Unless we draw Billingham Town away in the 3rd round of the FA Cup.
What I would like to see is the last band of tickets before General Sale being around 8 - then any fan, living anywhere in the country would have had opportunity of making that mark. And rather than the scramble of General Sale would feel rewarded and part of the club.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Humpty - I cannot forsee any game next season where you wouldn't get a ticket next season with the points from buying a season ticket from scratch. Unless we draw Billingham Town away in the 3rd round of the FA Cup.
What I would like to see is the last band of tickets before General Sale being around 8 - then any fan, living anywhere in the country would have had opportunity of making that mark. And rather than the scramble of General Sale would feel rewarded and part of the club.
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In which case what's the point in having a priority system? I just think the two season span needs adjusting to one season.
 
In Aberdeen, using precisely the same system, the fans have voted for a 3 year cycle. The system ensures that fans who actually go to games are ahead of those that don't go to matches. So, when glamour games like Spurs come along someone that has never been to a Boro game in years has less chance of getting a ticket than you or I. Isn't that right? What I would like to see is the last category being below 10 points, maybe even 4 points. You have been to 2 games you have a better chance than someone that is a friend of a friend that works in London. There were a good few of those at Spurs. But that is all well and good them getting tickets as well but you would feel really hard done by had you wanted to get a ticket and you were beaten to it by someone that wasn't even a fan. That is what it is all about.
And never ever would you allow someone to get points by buying stuff in the shop or something like that it has to be all about going to matches. We need to protect that, as so much is moving away from that - the gaming community, the online community who are not part of the match going community. We have to find ways to make people part of this and making someone that even goes to one game a season feel that way. It is a start.
 
fmttmadmin said:
In Aberdeen, using precisely the same system, the fans have voted for a 3 year cycle. The system ensures that fans who actually go to games are ahead of those that don't go to matches. So, when glamour games like Spurs come along someone that has never been to a Boro game in years has less chance of getting a ticket than you or I. Isn't that right? What I would like to see is the last category being below 10 points, maybe even 4 points. You have been to 2 games you have a better chance than someone that is a friend of a friend that works in London. There were a good few of those at Spurs. But that is all well and good them getting tickets as well but you would feel really hard done by had you wanted to get a ticket and you were beaten to it by someone that wasn't even a fan. That is what it is all about.
And never ever would you allow someone to get points by buying stuff in the shop or something like that it has to be all about going to matches. We need to protect that, as so much is moving away from that - the gaming community, the online community who are not part of the match going community. We have to find ways to make people part of this and making someone that even goes to one game a season feel that way. It is a start.
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A season ticket used to allow for all of the above though. All season ticket holders had the opportunity to purchase an in-demand ticket because they'd paid their money up front. That was part of the benefit. In no way am i saying that non-season ticket holders should have the same priority as season ticket holders, i'm saying that the two year cycle devalues the season ticket in the current guise. Priority ticket purchasing used to be a fundamental benefit of the season ticket and now as of the second year of the cycle, that no longer applies. God forbid you move to a three year cycle and that's season 2 and 3 where a season ticket will not provide you with a priority position to purchase away tickets.

I live out the area and don't see a monetary benefit from buying a season card as i can't attend a large proportion of games, even so if the priority system was a one season cycle or back to the original method i'd purchase a season ticket. It's not so i won't because i won't see any benefit.
 
Yes, it does.
But people who've been to more away games than you and have the season ticket are going to benefit more.

I have a season ticket and go to 1 away match a season, I don't begrudge people who go to dozens of them having the opportunity to buy tickets before me, they've invested more in to the club.

Not one match this season has sold out before it's went to standard season ticket priority points, and I doubt many will next season either. As far as I know they've all reached general sale too.

We've got something like 18,000 season tickets holders this year, only a small percentage of them regularly go to away matches.
 
Humpty said:
In which case and again, what's the purpose of a priority system? :)
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Obviously it's ensuring those who invest the most money in to supporting the club are the first to have the opportunity to purchase tickets.

It's bound to be less of an issue when we're not particularly successful on the pitch, but that won't always be the case.
 
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