This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteWe don’t have the numbers travelling to away games to require a ballot for most of them, and the fact we rarely sell out our away allocation is exactly why we should have a scheme of sorts in place to ensure those supporting the club on the road most regularly get priority for the more in demand fixtures.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Thread: Loyalty Points
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10-10-2018 08:02 PM #121
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10-10-2018 08:18 PM #122
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Fans who paid at the gate for away matches missed out on points.
Fans tried to pull a fast one or didn’t understand how it worked and felt they missed out on tickets.
Ticket office staff were abused.
Leeann was bombarded with complaints about the system and how it was unfair.
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10-10-2018 08:24 PM #123This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-10-2018 08:38 PM #124
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10-10-2018 09:15 PM #125This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-10-2018 09:30 PM #126This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Yeah thats fair enough.
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10-10-2018 10:13 PM #127This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-10-2018 10:18 PM #128This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We seemed to have one and then we started giving points because someone can pay more than the next person by subscribing to HLS.
You probably summed it all up in the last sentence. If you create the problem by get the complaints. That's not the reason to scrap it - it's the prompt to sort it.
We class ourselves as a big club. Time we started behaving like one. Smaller clubs than us have loyalty points schemes that work so why not us?
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11-10-2018 01:52 AM #130This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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11-10-2018 02:10 AM #131
I would like to know how many tickets the ticket office staff get for these big games or is it a case of as many as you like, seems nowadays its all about who you know.
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11-10-2018 07:14 AM #132This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
People can do it at Parkhead easily enough, but will have no chance (unless they have friends from the dark side) for next games at Tynecastle or Ibrox because there wont be any tickets to buy in the home end, so it's not a good solution.
Heres the problem though as well with your last sentence. When we are doing well, everyone wants to go to big games. A loyalty system could and should recognise the fans who consistently watch the team away from home when things arent going so well.
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11-10-2018 07:39 AM #133
Loyalty points are probably the fairest way to go, but it isn’t perfect.
I’m a Scotland travel club member and generally go to 2 or 3 away games per campaign. With last the last campaign being my most active and was at 4 of the 5 games only missing Slovenia away. The travel club is a closed shop and for years I’ve been stuck in the cycle of sitting in the home end as can’t get into the away end, which gets me no points and so the cycle continues. I know people who have bought tickets for games they have no intention of going to just to keep their points total. While I’ve been in the home end.
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11-10-2018 12:39 PM #134This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
tbf that was quite funny, supposed uber fans threatening to turn their backs on the club....aye very uber
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yep i'm being serious, i've mentioned this point a few times on here over the years just because someone has the cash to splash out on a ST doesn't mean he/she is any more loyal than someone who can only(or chooses to) pay at the gate for all home games, some seem to think those that buy a ST and choose to go to only a handful of games a season are somehow more loyal but i did read on an earlier post that one of our special fans thinks it's perfectly fine to dish out 0 loyalty points to walk-upsLast edited by cabbageandribs1875; 11-10-2018 at 12:42 PM.
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11-10-2018 12:50 PM #135This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Attendance points. Points for attending games. You can be the most loyal Hibs fan in the world by whatever interpretation you want but if you don’t go to the games then you don’t pick up the points.
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11-10-2018 12:51 PM #136This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I thought the Scottish FA selected people at random who'd bought tickets for away games meaning they had to go and collect them at a certain point in the city of the game?
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11-10-2018 12:54 PM #137This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
fair points, agree with all of this
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11-10-2018 01:01 PM #138
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11-10-2018 01:04 PM #139
Thankfully the club have decided to maximise the money given to the manager for improving the team rather than spend it on a scheme to improve distribution of tickets for other clubs grounds. It’s a good decision.
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11-10-2018 01:10 PM #140This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Given that you continually mention the cost I'm assuming you have some rough idea and guide to what these costs are.
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11-10-2018 01:20 PM #141
We've had this discussion many times, but it seems that ship has sailed. I think some form of loyalty scheme is a good idea, but there will always be folk who find fault. No system is perfect, and the endless arguments get tiresome. Looks like we'll just have to endure the free for all.
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11-10-2018 01:33 PM #142This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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11-10-2018 01:42 PM #143This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You can't buy an away season ticket, there is no upfront cost involved like a home season ticket. By signing up for the away season ticket you commit to purchasing a ticket for every single away match regardless if you can make the game or not. Numbers were limited and not everyone who applied was successful I believe.
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11-10-2018 02:29 PM #144
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But if you actually think that a loyalty points system akin to the one that Hearts manage to run with zero fuss is somehow unfair or costly to Hibs, then you are wrong. Just plain wrong.Last edited by HibeeHibernian4; 11-10-2018 at 02:38 PM.
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11-10-2018 03:34 PM #146
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This thread has got me thinking. I've been a regular at ER since the 50s, before loyalty point schemes, and when you could only buy a season ticket for the centre and north sections of the old stand. There's only been a couple of seasons when I haven't missed a game home or away and both were at times when I didn't have a season ticket (in my case pre 1970).
These days, although I rarely miss a home game, I only manage a few away matches due to family commitments.
I've no axe to grind over loyalty points, one way or the other, but it seems fair to me that regular attenders, home and away, should be given priority when it comes to acquiring tickets for games when we only have a small allocation.
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11-10-2018 04:00 PM #147This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He is right however to say that there will be a cost involved.
If every penny raised through HSL is important to us then surely the same applies to every penny spent?
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11-10-2018 04:06 PM #148
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Honest question and not trying to stir things. How many people do you know that want tickets but miss out on Tynecastle, Ibrox or Parkhead?
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11-10-2018 04:14 PM #149
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I have a st and have had it for a gd few years, i would like to see a loyalty system in place.
A simple idea would be points added for cup tie tickets ie, home tickets in league and scottish cup ties, it may help more people to buy tickets for less glamoures games. This could also help walk up fans who are on the system
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