I know that some of you feel that 2,912 tickets is going to be more than sufficient for the trip to the Emirates but it's the principal I'm more concerned with. Why should someone with the ability to pay a tenner a month and not go to a single away game have the ability to purchase a ticket for this particular game ahead of someone who has attended every away game. Whichever way you look at it it is just not right. I can argue this from a position of strength as because although I am VG I will not get my ticket until after the VGolders have had their turn as a number of those I go with are not VG and we want tickets together. I am in it to support the Club and hopefully win a prize and not to guarantee ticket priority. I can understand why the Club offer this as a VG incintive but it is totally unfair. Why can we not offer priority to VG but also ask them to produce stubs as well. At least the tickets would be going to people who attend away games regularly. Why not :
1) ANY season ticket holder with the maximum possible away stubs (currently 10)
2) Valley Gold Season Ticket holders with 4 away stubs
3) Other Season Ticket holders with 4 away stubs
4) Valley Gold Season ticket holders with 2 away stubs
5) Other season ticket holders with 2 away stubs
6) Valley Gold season ticket holders
7) Other season ticket holders
any objections ? Especially interested in the views of Valley Golders.
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Henry, over to you
People know the set-up prior to the season.
Pay £10 a month if you want to guarantee going to the more high profile games.
If you pick and choose that seems fair enough system. You can get tickets for most other away games with no trouble at all
what a non event that was.
Go for a loyality system, Valley Gold buys you a certain amount of points, but not enough to carry ourself through a season without going.
For example Newcastle away on a Monday night would be worth 75 points, compared to 20 for a London away game. Reward the people who go, but also gives people a reason to join Valley Gold
I am in it solely for ticket priority. If that carrot is taken away then I will cancel my VG. I have been VG for years and having never won a bean, I can only believe that they dont even bother putting my number in the drum!
I am VG purely for the unlikely event that we draw say, Salisbury in the cup and only get 500 tickets, I rarely spend in the club shop.
I think its a myth about Valley Gold anyway. Even at Reading only 400 out of 2200 tickets were sold to the Valley Golders before they went on general sale.
Its not just the fact that we are playing badly but I would be amazed if we sell out at Arsenal this season. Ive done every away game other than Newcastle this season and ive had enough, if it wasnt for the fact that there is a day on the beers with mates beforehand I would sack it off.
I want to get a couple of extra tickets for Arsenal and will have to wait for general sale, surely the fact that im in VG and have done 8 away games should mean I have some priority??
Defo one for Henry.
Forget the league game at Arsenal anyway, we'll get them in the Carling Semi's. Locked on.
Exactly!!
double exactly!!!
their souless sparkly new ground will always be there so im in no rush to go... even if it wont be next season.
i've got 4 or 5 away stubs that i've kept too.
it really isn't hard to get a working, fair system in place, yet we always seem to go about it arse about face.
There was something about keeping your Aston Villa stub, but that was all.
Why are we consistently so bad at these things? HENRY!
Solidgone
BTW - I've only won once on the Valley Gold draw and very nice is was too!
anyone actually got any evidence of this? no, didn;t think so.
I was in VAlley Gold from the start but cancelled three years ago when my son was born - decided to put the money into a savings account for him instead. So, does that mean that I was a Plastic but aren't anymore? Oh yeah, and I sit in the West Stand too - anyone want to have a pop at that or question my loyalty???