Re: Good Friday : Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:58 am  

MattyB wrote:

Lots of comments on social media from disgruntled supporters accusing season ticket holders where they have been allowed to get away with a 'free for all', buying tickets for mates/family or even selling them on for financial gain.

I wonder how many of these disgruntled supporters were at Salford on Thursday night?

i'm a non ST holder after having one for many years

I've no issue with missing out as simple maths says we have approx 7.5k season ticket holder and were given between 3-3.5k tickets, so there could be 4k ST holders missing out too. It has always been a correct perk of buying a ST that you got priority on all tickets sales, so again i've no issue

Now we all know that lots of ST holders may only attend the games they've paid for up front and they dont do home cup or play off matches. When i sat in the East stand, you knew which ST holders would be there for the games that werent season ticket matches. I'm not criticising anyone by this either as we all have choices to make, whether to go to ST home games, all home games, or all games home and away.

I cant remember if i posted on here or other forum, that we should be praising our away support as we've had full houses at Leigh, Salford and Warrington last year, and quite rightly, sold out for GF this year. The club has reconnected with the fans over the last 2 years or so, and you can see with the examples i've just given. Winning helps, but the club needed to start reconnecting well before and thats credit to Matty Peet and the club for recognising where they were

Re: Good Friday : Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:37 am  

I'd just like to reiterate that i do have massive sympathy for any season ticket holders who have missed out on Good Friday tickets due to system issues where they haven't yet received their four digit code and therefore couldn't order online.

Re: Good Friday : Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:29 am  

MattyB wrote:

Lots of comments on social media from disgruntled supporters accusing season ticket holders where they have been allowed to get away with a 'free for all', buying tickets for mates/family or even selling them on for financial gain.

I wonder how many of these disgruntled supporters were at Salford on Thursday night?

100% you couldn't do this buying on line, first thing you had to do was log in then enter the no. of tickets you wanted, these then appeared in a drop down. the first was allocated to me and under the second ticket it said enter code to allocate.
You then have two options "network" for those who've gone through the palaver of looking after all your mates/family's tickets or from the same spot you can "search for member" . You then have to enter the surname and client code of the person you're buying a ticket for, only then would it add the second ticket to your basket.
When you think about it it's not bad because I assume that would knock one off the second persons allocation if they decided to buy some as well.

Re: Good Friday : Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:49 am  

I get people being miffed, especially with the ticketing site issues but I think a lot comes down to the fact that we as rugby league fans are not used to missing out on games. I have total sympathy for anyone who hasn't got a ticket but on the flip side, it's fantastic for the sport in a way to see people missing out. That will only help ensure sales are strong again next year and in future years and hopefully in none Good Friday Derbies as well.