Man City Tickets

[PEARCEY]

On a side note, with the exception of Arsenal (05/06 Carling Cup) I can't recall us taking a 6,000+ allocation to any league/cup/playoff semi-final match (happy to be corrected though)

How many away FA Cup quarter-finals have we been involved post-war?

[leicsRoyal]

Can't change anything now but maybe an idea for the future if we make an away Qtr final again.

Take the full allocation and each ticket guarantees a seat for the semi if successful.

Still use the points system to reward loyal fans.

5,800 sold.

[LWJ]

Why can't the club price for those who went to Everton get first come first serve? Then do 1600, etc..?

[moo]

Once again loophole in the online ticketing, booked my ticket already. Fingers crossed they aint cancelled.

[Ian Royal]

On a side note, with the exception of Arsenal (05/06 Carling Cup) I can't recall us taking a 6,000+ allocation to any league/cup/playoff semi-final match (happy to be corrected though)

How many away FA Cup quarter-finals have we been involved post-war?

Bear in mind the Villa one last season, my mum could get a ticket with about 50 points for her first game in about 8 years. It's a pig of a journey so whilst I reckon we'll definitely sell the 2,800... I'm not sure we'd get much over 4,000.

[Ian Royal]

Why can't the club price for those who went to Everton get first come first serve? Then do 1600, etc..?

Because then there's no point in a points system.

[SLAMMED]

^ Exactly.

[RoyalBlue]

Why can't the club price for those who went to Everton get first come first serve? Then do 1600, etc..?

Because then there's no point in a points system.

But with such broad bands this time around, there's little point in the points system anyway!

It would be illogical for me to moan about those who took the trouble to go to Everton and/or those who go to virtually every away game getting a ticket to Man City before me. However, what sticks in the gut is that someone who only attends home games and has just 600 points stands as much chance of getting a ticket as those of us who have accrued 1,500-1599!

[LoyalRoyalFan]

The club has made two key problems.

Not meeting the demand.
Setting the points brackets completely wrong.

[RoyalBlue]

Radio Berks asked Craig Mortimer from the RFC media office for an answer regarding the ticket allocation during their post M'Boro match interview with McD.

As you might expect from a PR bod, he avoided any suggestion of any form of culpability on the part of RFC whilst at the same time failing to give any form of definitive answer.

In short the club will go back to Man City to ask for more tickets if the demand is there but it would be wrong for him to say they will definitely be able to get any. He would therefore encourage everyone to do their best to get hold of one of the 2,800 if they can.

I am sure the club genuinely were keen to reward their loyal supporters. But surely the best way to reward them is to do their utmost to ensure that as many as possible can actually get in to see only our third ever appearance in an FA Cup quarter final. If achieving that posed a financial risk, then that is what the club's money should have been allocated towards covering, not providing free transport to less than 2,800 of their 'loyal supporters'.

As usual plenty of moans about a nothing issue really. Club taken inital allocation, more available if needed. The lack of selling time has changed the selling bands. On top of that the club offer free public travel which for the first time has been offered so without STAR getting involved so those who do wish to take it don't have to sign up for a membership.

You are so wrong. Even the club themselves (Craig Mortimer) will not guarantee that more will be available if needed.

They also brought the problem regarding lack of selling time on themselves. Why weren't they able to start selling them on Friday? I can't believe City wouldn't have had them available by then and it's less than 4 hours by courier bike from Manchester to Reading.

thats my oxf*rd point. You make the choice, on the basis that being able to get cup ticket isnt worth not living away. Then you cant get one,and all of a sudden the clubs at fault for not tailoring you a perfect personal solution.your choice you dont want to go in the home end.its all your choice.the club are just trying to help as many people as they can, in the best way they can organise. If jm decides unilaterally to suddenly pay for coaches, theres not alot club or ticket office or you or i can do apart from say thanks, thats very kind.

Honestly Brendy, what are you on about today? It's hardly expecting a perfect personal solution is it? What we want is enough tickets to meet demand for a FA Cup quarter final in a massive half-empty stadium where RFC could basically ask for any number of tickets they wanted (up to 7000 or whatever). You also make out like a little bit of communication between arms of the club regarding the free travel and number of tickets is too much to ask. So with one hand the club make a gesture which will massively increase demand for tickets, while on the other hand they take a very conservative approach buying tickets, in the knowledge the tight timing of the whole thing will make ordering and selling more extremely difficult. Have we really come to the point where this braindead b*llocks is taken as the best we can hope for from the club.

If we were only allowed 2,800 tickets, I'd accept that missing out is the price I pay for living away. But there's room enough for everyone.

Precisely. After we won at Everton the reaction of my family, and that of many other supporters I'm sure, was 'fantastic, with 15% of that stadium's capacity, at least we will be sure of getting a ticket. We clearly hadn't factored in the supreme incompetence of those involved in the ticketing arrangements at our 'incredibly well run club'. No it would appear that statistically we have less chance of getting to see the game than we did at Stevenage's tiny ground!!!


Anyway, I shall declare a cease fire on this issue for now. Come Tuesday we will see whether the club, either by luck or good judgement have call the level of demand correctly.

[RoyalBlue]

Once again loophole in the online ticketing, booked my ticket already. Fingers crossed they aint cancelled.

Have you got 1,600 points or is it open to all?

[Royal Lady]

i hope he's got over 1600 points or there will be carnage!!

[Sarah Star]

Radio Berks asked Craig Mortimer from the RFC media office for an answer regarding the ticket allocation during their post M'Boro match interview with McD...

In short the club will go back to Man City to ask for more tickets if the demand is there... He would therefore encourage everyone to do their best to get hold of one of the 2,800 if they can...

...and as soon as they can.

Well, they're hardly going to go back and ask for more if we don't sell the original 2,800 are they.

What I've quoted is all we need to know.

[Rex]

I haven't seen you for ages Sarah. Good to see the program still says initial so i'm happy with that.

[Sarah Star]

Hi Rex. I hope I can make it to Man City, but it depends more on my being able to sweet talk relatives than anything else.

[philM]

Anyone know how many people actually have 1600 royalty points? We could work out roughly how many will be left on Tuesday

I suspect it's slightly less than 2800, and that's why they chose 1600 points.

The o/s says they have enough tickets for everyone above 1600.

[North Somerset Royal]

Anyone know how many people actually have 1600 royalty points? We could work out roughly how many will be left on Tuesday

I suspect it's slightly less than 2800, and that's why they chose 1600 points.

The o/s says they have enough tickets for everyone above 1600.

But have they taken into account that several people I know did not have 1600 last week but do now as a result of renewing their ST's once they heard the man City allocation.

[philM]

Probably not, and there must be thousands of people who could potentially do that. Anyone between 1345-1599 points and who hasn't renewed yet, if I've got the maths right.

[Svlad Cjelli]

Absolutely your choice that you dont have the points for monday.
If man city won on wednesday we wouldnt have been able to talk to man city till thursday and couldnt guarantee wed get them till saturday at some point, so its monday.the end. Calling me a tool isnt going to change the facts.and personally im ok with the idea that if i dont have the points then i cant go,and maybe i should have got more points by going to more away games which would coincidentally would mean wed have astked for more tickets in the first place.

But surely you can see that if we had asked for more tickets, you me and unto 3,000 other fans would ave been able to watch RFC in the Qtr final of the FA Cup.

But if they'd asked for more tickets they'd have had to pay for them all, whether they sold them of not. Big financial risk to the club.

Buying in tranches of tickets once they know the actual demand is much less risk - assuming that others are available. I'd be amazed if there won't be a further allocation - once demand has been proved to be there.

[RoyalBlue]

Just a thought, and I don't intend to fight anyone on this - I wonder whether the club have asked Man City what their response is likely to be if they go back to ask for more tickets? If so, what was their response and if not, why not?

It would be useful to know whether Man City have kept back an area that could still be sold off to travelling supporters.

View of some City supporters I have spoken to is that they haven't kept any areas back and therefore any further tickets to Reading would involve moving City ticket holders.