[Albion] The annual loyalty points decimation

[Herr Tubthumper]

Tier 1 will buy all the tickets then a significant number of them will be re sold online for 10 times the price. Pretty similar to normal really, just a bigger profit.

Maybe the club should ask all supporters to collect tickets from the ground; this all resolve this issue and also maybe address the issue of people buying tickets then not using them as they can’t get time off work, flights or hotels.

 

[dazzer6666]

Maybe the club should ask all supporters to collect tickets from the ground; this all resolve this issue and also maybe address the issue of people buying tickets then not using them as they can’t get time off work, flights or hotels.

Worked well at Charlton

 

[blockhseagull]

There are 6 away games plus the final. Probably about 1500 tickets available for those first 6 which means there is still only about 9k fans that will get to an away game. Personally, just apply the same scheme we have now. There are plenty that have worked their way up through the tiers so I don't see why someone lower down who has chosen not to go to any or enough domestic games should get to effectively jump the queue.

Could be 7, there is a play off round for the group runners up.

 

[Roadrunner]

The only way would be if the club ran organised packages. Time off work shouldn't be an issue as we all know the dates already. My daughter has already provisionally booked the six Thursday/Fridays off with a view to cancel the dates she doesn't need.

I wouldn't be surprised if the club outsource organised away travel to someone like Sportsworld, who run it for England away games. I imagine the club have got more than enough on their plate......

 

[blockhseagull]

Maybe the club should ask all supporters to collect tickets from the ground; this all resolve this issue and also maybe address the issue of people buying tickets then not using them as they can’t get time off work, flights or hotels.

A number of English clubs make their fans collect from a location on match day in Europe. Chelsea did it for the Milan match, it’s not normally at the ground and open all day for ticket collection to stop the chaos like at Charlton.

 

[Roadrunner]

Maybe the club should ask all supporters to collect tickets from the ground; this all resolve this issue and also maybe address the issue of people buying tickets then not using them as they can’t get time off work, flights or hotels.

Or follow the example of England, who require fans to collect away tickets in person at a pre-arranged venue (usually a hotel) in the host city over the 48hrs leading up to the match.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Or follow the example of England, who require fans to collect away tickets in person at a pre-arranged venue (usually a hotel) in the host city over the 48hrs leading up to the match.

This makes perfect sense.

 

[Arkwright]

Or follow the example of England, who require fans to collect away tickets in person at a pre-arranged venue (usually a hotel) in the host city over the 48hrs leading up to the match.

Or just pay extra to have tickets sent by special delivery. Saves mucking about in a foreign city.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Or follow the example of England, who require fans to collect away tickets in person at a pre-arranged venue (usually a hotel) in the host city over the 48hrs leading up to the match.

Definitely what we should do, and probably will.

 

[Roadrunner]

Or just pay extra to have tickets sent by special delivery. Saves mucking about in a foreign cit

Or just pay extra to have tickets sent by special delivery. Saves mucking about in a foreign city.

It does, but the England approach has the added security of preventing tickets from being re-sold in this country.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Or just pay extra to have tickets sent by special delivery. Saves mucking about in a foreign city.

As posted above, there is a security angle as well. These tickets will be like gold dust and I think it’s only fair the club do as much as possible to ensure they are used by the person who bought them.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Worked well at Charlton

True. But very different circumstances.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Or follow the example of England, who require fans to collect away tickets in person at a pre-arranged venue (usually a hotel) in the host city over the 48hrs leading up to the match.

This is the correct answer. Works perfectly for England.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Or just pay extra to have tickets sent by special delivery. Saves mucking about in a foreign city.

Cost of postage is not the issue here.

 

[Sheebo]

Decimate = I always thought it meant one in ten taken away - so, reduced by a tenth rather than reduced to a tenth?

Hmm - but having checked 'wiki' it seems to mean (or have meant) almost anything!!

Another oddity of the English Language (however - it's not 'halve').

decimate (third-person singular simple present decimates, present participle decimating, simple past and past participle decimated)

1. (archaic) To kill one-tenth of a group, (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers. quotations ▼
2. To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything. quotations ▼
3. (loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely. quotations ▼
4. (obsolete) To exact a tithe or other 10% tax quotations ▼
5. (obsolete, rare) To tithe: to pay a 10% tax. quotations ▼
6. (obsolete) To decimalize: to divide into tenths, hundredths, etc.
7. (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of anything. quotations ▼
8. (computer graphics) To replace a high-resolution model with another of lower but acceptable quality. quotations ▼

Usage notes[edit]​

Senses of decimate other than "to reduce by one in ten" are occasionally proscribed but "to devastate" has now become a more common usage.[1][3] The sense "to reduce to one in ten" is etymologically unsound and omitted by the OED but increasingly common.

Synonyms[edit]​

• (to kill 10% of): tithe
• (to kill 90% of): tithe
• (to lay waste): See devastate
• (to pay a 10% tax): See tithe
• (to divide into ⅒s): See decimalize

It’s one of those words that’s not used literally often is it. Just means smashed to pieces when most use it.

As for away games in Europe I think there will be plenty of tickets for certain matches - depending on the opposition (stadium).

 

[Nicks]

It does, but the England approach has the added security of preventing tickets from being re-sold in this country.

Plus you need to show your passport as proof of ID

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

As for away games in Europe I think there will be plenty of tickets for certain matches - depending on the opposition (stadium).

Quite a number of stadia are around the 30,000 mark which means only 1,500 tickets.

 

[drew]

Could be 7, there is a play off round for the group runners up.

Could be but I'm expecting us to win the group!!

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Plus you need to show your passport as proof of ID

Goodness, don’t tell that section of our support that will feel OPPRESSED and DISCRIMINATED against by that.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Plus you need to show your passport as proof of ID

I think this could happen. Didn’t Paul Barber used to work for the FA when the England Supporters Travel Club was brought in?