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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:03:57 GMT
I dont understand all this chat about not getting a ticket. Just pay 15 quid and join the supporters club at the start of the season and surprise surprise you wont miss out on tickets anymore. Here we go again. Why do people who go all the time have to pay another £15 to ensure that a glory hunter doesn't get a ticket and they miss out?
Remember NWS, its not profiteering though.....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:05:44 GMT
Where are all these people wanting tickets at ksc & Robert dyers cup games in middle of winter when it's about minus 3 and the attendance is about 250-300 people Yes. I have been to a few of those types of games. My next game will be the league cup game against Herne Bay. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:06:01 GMT
I dont understand all this chat about not getting a ticket. Just pay 15 quid and join the supporters club at the start of the season and surprise surprise you wont miss out on tickets anymore. Here we go again. Why do people who go all the time have to pay another £15 to ensure that a glory hunter doesn't get a ticket and they miss out? I'm not sure how many glory hunters actually acquire one? And at the start of every season I get my self a fan club membership card, now look I have a ticket and hundreds are moaning that they do not. You pay the extra because in the long run over the course of the season, guess what... It really is worth it. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:08:38 GMT
If you want to get really picky with loyalty then surely you would travel anywhere to try and get a ticket for Thursday??? Wink wink nudge nudge, Stevenage have a couple of hundred left over... If Stones beat Stevenage and you can't get a ticket to the next round can I put my order in with you for a Wrexham ticket when you nip to the racecourse ground |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:11:49 GMT
I dont understand all this chat about not getting a ticket. Just pay 15 quid and join the supporters club at the start of the season and surprise surprise you wont miss out on tickets anymore. Here we go again. Why do people who go all the time have to pay another £15 to ensure that a glory hunter doesn't get a ticket and they miss out? It goes back to the old argument of how do you define loyalty. I haven t been all season but I went when we were in exile in Sittingbourne and Ashford. That's what I d define as loyalty. By the same token, going every week shows the same loyalty. The club will never be able to please everyone all the time but what they re saying is, become a member of the fan club and you ll have the option to get tickets for these games. Is paying £15 really that much of a problem? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:15:08 GMT
If you want to get really picky with loyalty then surely you would travel anywhere to try and get a ticket for Thursday??? Wink wink nudge nudge, Stevenage have a couple of hundred left over... If Stones beat Stevenage and you can't get a ticket to the next round can I put my order in with you for a Wrexham ticket when you nip to the racecourse ground Stevenage really isn't as far as Wrexham... And hey, I'm not complaining about loyalty, there is non in football, as long as people get the money they want, do they really care who goes and who doesn't??? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:15:58 GMT
Here we go again. Why do people who go all the time have to pay another £15 to ensure that a glory hunter doesn't get a ticket and they miss out?
The price isn't the issue, it's the fact the club is effectively saying priority can be bought rather than being earned. If we get to Conference National, are you going to say those who go to the likes of Barrow and Gateshead away on a Tuesday night need to pay another £15 to prove their support, despite the hundreds of pounds they will have spent to get to those games?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:16:22 GMT
Here we go again. Why do people who go all the time have to pay another £15 to ensure that a glory hunter doesn't get a ticket and they miss out? I'm not sure how many glory hunters actually acquire one? And at the start of every season I get my self a fan club membership card, now look I have a ticket and hundreds are moaning that they do not. You pay the extra because in the long run over the course of the season, guess what... It really is worth it. "I'm not sure how many glory hunters actually acquire one?" Reading some of the things being said on here tonight, a few do. The second part really doesn't answer the question. Personally, I have understood from the various people on here that the years of watching Maidstone United now count for very little. I really have got that bit. Hence, although I will come along every so often to support a club that I was following from far away places when others were simply not interested, I will now spend more time with my family or going to different games and finally completing my lifetime goal of going to every ground in the football league. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:17:49 GMT
I dont understand all this chat about not getting a ticket. Just pay 15 quid and join the supporters club at the start of the season and surprise surprise you wont miss out on tickets anymore. Here we go again. Why do people who go all the time have to pay another £15 to ensure that a glory hunter doesn't get a ticket and they miss out? But that 15 quid goes towards financing the club not paying for the owners new cars ! Why would you NOT want to join the supporters club - I would still join even if it did not guarantee tickets ! I dont understand the term 'glory hunter' when applied to us either ! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:20:50 GMT
I feel really sorry for all the persons who haven't got a ticket and who wanted to go. We're all fans so bad luck to all those who missed out, maybe the lucky ones can sing extra loud for them....I am sure the club is sorry too but there are only 2000 spaces...
Am suprised that the real special old fans like NWS couldn't have somehow secured a ticket...
The Fan Club is a normal kind of loyalty scheme for clubs with small grounds. Loads of clubs allocate this way. It raises money for the club and simplifies ticket allocation. Not sure what else is feasible without creatibg lots more work and cost...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:21:13 GMT
I'm not sure how many glory hunters actually acquire one? And at the start of every season I get my self a fan club membership card, now look I have a ticket and hundreds are moaning that they do not. You pay the extra because in the long run over the course of the season, guess what... It really is worth it. "I'm not sure how many glory hunters actually acquire one?" Reading some of the things being said on here tonight, a few do. The second part really doesn't answer the question. Personally, I have understood from the various people on here that the years of watching Maidstone United now count for very little. I really have got that bit. Hence, although I will come along every so often to support a club that I was following from far away places when others were simply not interested, I will now spend more time with my family or going to different games and finally completing my lifetime goal of going to every ground in the football league. The point I am trying to make is that fifteen quid is not that much to guarantee you a ticket. Fair enough you have been going for years and fair enough you have an ambition to go to every ground in the football league, good for you (not sarcastic by the way), but the club have chosen to take this route and all the time they are taking this route we have to follow... |
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Post by binsey on Nov 15, 2014 21:23:17 GMT
Why should someone that goes to loads of games who is not a member or a season ticket holder get priority? That's why the scheme is in place for these sort of games . That's the way the club sets it up so dwi .
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:27:06 GMT
Here we go again. Why do people who go all the time have to pay another £15 to ensure that a glory hunter doesn't get a ticket and they miss out? It goes back to the old argument of how do you define loyalty. I haven t been all season but I went when we were in exile in Sittingbourne and Ashford. That's what I d define as loyalty. By the same token, going every week shows the same loyalty. The club will never be able to please everyone all the time but what they re saying is, become a member of the fan club and you ll have the option to get tickets for these games. Is paying £15 really that much of a problem? Surely you should be telling me to ask the club  I agree you cannot please all the people all the time but it is abundantly clear that there are regulars missing out on the big games. You have had a season ticket holder who was told that nothing could be done because he physically couldn't get to the ground. I wouldn't disagree that the majority of people who will be at the Stevenage game will be fairly loyal regulars but there are increasing stories coming where, on one hand, there were people getting tickets who were obviously turning up for the first time and then people who have been going all the time missing out on the big game. My point is that there needs to be a way of trying to ensure people who go to games get tickets or those that turn up to the ksc/league cup games start not to bother. When people stop going to football by habit it soon becomes a habit not to go. To answer your question about loyalty, (ask the club - just joking) I would see you as somebody loyal. I have no clue as to why you have not been going all season but I suspect it has not been entirely through choice. I also see the people that go regularly now as loyal. My suggestion is that you should be ale to get on some priority list if you have been to a certain number of games (e.g 10) at the Gallagher. After all that would be an expenditure of £100. Once again, I am pains to point out that the argument hasn't been about fan club tickets or season ticket holder tickets but about general sale tickets. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:28:35 GMT
It goes back to the old argument of how do you define loyalty. I haven t been all season but I went when we were in exile in Sittingbourne and Ashford. That's what I d define as loyalty. By the same token, going every week shows the same loyalty. The club will never be able to please everyone all the time but what they re saying is, become a member of the fan club and you ll have the option to get tickets for these games. Is paying £15 really that much of a problem?
The price isn't the issue, it's the fact the club is effectively saying priority can be bought rather than being earned. If we get to Conference National, are you going to say those who go to the likes of Barrow and Gateshead away on a Tuesday night need to pay another £15 to prove their support, despite the hundreds of pounds they will have spent to get to those games?
[/font]The club isn t saying that priority can be bought, that is what you re saying. That is YOUR opinion. You ve twisted it to suit your argument. What they re saying is, if you pay £15 BEFORE you go to places like Barrow and Gateshead then you have the option to get to big games such as these. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2014 21:33:33 GMT
Fact of the matter is, realistically the club are not going to just say 'newbies go home' any time soon, there is a slim chance that they may come back injecting more money into the club. Its the big games that they see as an advertising scheme to seduce more and more through the gates on a weekly basis.
P.S, if the stadium was increased to capacity of 6,000 I honestly think there would still be people who missed out on a ticket, we'd fill the stadium no matter the max. cap.
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