Exeter away - Ticket info

viv_andersons_nana said:
Actually, and this isn’t meant to be flippant or controversial or disparaging in any way, but why should anyone be ‘rewarded’ for travelling to a football match of their own volition?

Like people who go away to Southampton or Leeds and get walloped 6-1 and go online demanding their money back. It’s weird.

If someone is travelling from Boro down to Devon twice in 4 or 5 days then that’s amazing support and I commend it but it’s still a personal choice. Is a reward really necessary. It just ends up arbitrarily dividing up supporters into even smaller groups.
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Give over, it’s a low cost goodwill gesture to people spending a fortune in time and money to provide support that is clearly valued.
Hats off for making the gesture. Those travelling deserve some recognition.
 
I doubt the offer would really influence that many more people to travel, in the scheme of things, the cost of transport, possibly accommodation, far outweighs the cost reduction, so they would be going anyway, what this cost reduction will do, is encourage people to buy for priority points, who have no intention of travelling to the game.
 
fmttmadmin said:
So how do you reward all those travelling to Devon twice in a week?
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By the team winning the football matches.

They don't need rewarding. They're choosing to have a few days out watching a football team, they're not going to war. Most would love to do that but they're not in the fortunate enough position to have the time and money to be able to do it.

I feel for the Boro fans in the Devon area, at £27 a ticket they were pretty much guaranteed a ticket.

Now at £10 ticket their odds of getting one have been slashed.
 
indeedido said:
Give over, it’s a low cost goodwill gesture to people spending a fortune in time and money to provide support that is clearly valued.
Hats off for making the gesture. Those travelling deserve some recognition.
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I’ve already acknowledged the club’s gesture, if you read back you’ll see that.

My overall point is about ‘rewarding’ supporters generally. Rob asked how you reward supporters for travelling to Devon twice in 4 or 5. days. My answer is that I don’t think you do. To my mind you choose to go to football matches. I don’t really see why clubs are rewarding people for it. If the club chooses to do something then that’s great.

But maybe clubs should just put all the tickets on general sale to begin with and give everyone an equal chance to buy one.
 
InglebyUTB said:
By the team winning the football matches.

They don't need rewarding. They're choosing to have a few days out watching a football team, they're not going to war. Most would love to do that but they're not in the fortunate enough position to have the time and money to be able to do it.

I feel for the Boro fans in the Devon area, at £27 a ticket they were pretty much guaranteed a ticket.

Now at £10 ticket their odds of getting one have been slashed.
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I doubt that, people aren’t going to be influenced that much by a slight reduction, the travel costs are going to be much greater.
 
the_holgate_roof said:
I doubt that, people aren’t going to be influenced that much by a slight reduction, the travel costs are going to be much greater.
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Your previous post stated the reason why this will be the case. The price will encourage people to buy for priority points, who have no intention of travelling to the game.

Haven't we sold 1,300 tickets for Norwich midweek? At £26 a ticket.

I'm not saying they won't make general sale (though the chances are now reduced) but there will be unquestionably less tickets available for Boro fans based in that area who want to attend, because it's only £10 a ticket.
 
InglebyUTB said:
Your previous post stated the reason why this will be the case. The price will encourage people to buy for priority points, who have no intention of travelling to the game.

Haven't we sold 1,300 tickets for Norwich midweek? At £26 a ticket.

I'm not saying they won't make general sale (though the chances are now reduced) but there will be unquestionably less tickets available for Boro fans based in that area who want to attend, because it's only £10 a ticket.
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Sorry, yes, there maybe a lesser chance of people in the area not getting tickets due to the cost reduction but this won’t be necessarily due to people attending, more by people just purchasing.
 
exeterboro said:
This wasn't the match to do a ticket offer, bad advice to the club if they took any. There will be several hundred in the south west who stand little or no chance of going who for them this match is very big as is the Plymouth match, many of them go a handful of matches so are very proud Boro fans who were looking forward to a big day out, I know I will get a ticket but that is because I went down the path of assuming I would not be getting into the away end and what could I do to ensure my access.
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It's a fixture where the club actually share a percentage of the profits, where numbers will be lower because we play Plymouth on the weekend too and it's on a Tuesday night.

I think it makes perfect sense to pick this one.

Most other matches we have left are on weekends or nearby, will be much easier to sell tickets for and the subsidy will cost the club even more.

This benefits the fans whilst minimising the loss to the club.
 
Is it just me or does this priority points system seem to cause more angst than it's worth? I know Man Utd fans who have similar issues with ticket ballots. Ultimately going to the game, home or away becomes more of a closed shop......oh for the days where those prepared to camp out all night in the snow were rewarded!
 
Marvanelli said:
Not really.

I believe every away game, except Sunderland away, this season, has made general sale?

So it's hardly a closed shop.
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That's good to know, so we'll be ok for Rotherham away and Huddersfield away as it seemed to get a bit tricky last year?
 
priority system works we’ll fans who go to all away matches should get first choice to purchase. I think the problem with the Exeter offer is that some fans will buy tickets with no intention of going and sell them on taking away the opportunity of fans purchasing them who want to go themselves. Maybe it might have been a better idea of the club subsidising the coach travel instead.
 
Marvanelli said:
Why Rotherham and Huddersfield?

We have Exeter, Plymouth, Bristol City, Leeds Utd, Swansea...all away, before those games...
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Those are the games that are most convenient for me and my son, who is in Manchester. I might do the others just depends on circumstances.
 
TeaCider said:
It's a fixture where the club actually share a percentage of the profits, where numbers will be lower because we play Plymouth on the weekend too and it's on a Tuesday night.

I think it makes perfect sense to pick this one.

Most other matches we have left are on weekends or nearby, will be much easier to sell tickets for and the subsidy will cost the club even more.

This benefits the fans whilst minimising the loss to the club.
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You're right from the club's financial point of view, but from benefitting the fans, the Blackburn away game would have been perfect, add a couple 1000 more to a large away crowd and no one would have missed out.
 
Think the club should look at setting up an away ticket priority system by region. Would also improve the clubs carbon footprint as be reduced travel for the fans attending games. As think issue people are having with current priority system is you've got to have a season ticket to get anywhere. Feel for the fans in the South West who attend the Bristol, , Cardiff, Swansea and now Plymouth games every season but they never get any priority and will probaly miss out on this game on their doorstep
 
TeaCider said:
It's a fixture where the club actually share a percentage of the profits, where numbers will be lower because we play Plymouth on the weekend too and it's on a Tuesday night.

I think it makes perfect sense to pick this one.

Most other matches we have left are on weekends or nearby, will be much easier to sell tickets for and the subsidy will cost the club even more.

This benefits the fans whilst minimising the loss to the club.
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It was actually far more complex to work out than a league game precisely because the money has to be divided three ways, between the clubs and the EFL. This came out of an honest intention from the football club/chairman to want to help fans out with the prospect of two Devon trips in a week. In talks with the forum we all agreed doing the easy thing - provided discounted club travel would only help those on coaches, no one else. We all wanted to explore a way whereby all fans got the benefit. This was not straight forward. It took a couple of weeks to work out the mechanics behind it.
Everyone involved wanted a way of helping ALL Boro fans going to this match.
 
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