European night ticket policy

I'm sorry but that's just ridiculous, to suggest that a somebody without a season ticket has priority over a season ticket holder depending on their attendance is crazy.

 

Thank * you don't run the club. So season ticket holders don't only need to shell out £400-500 quid but they also must attend at least 80% of home games and 25% of away games.

That isn't even possible. We have about 40,000 season tickets so how can they all go to 1/4 of the away games? The only time I remember us getting over 10,000 away tickets recently was Kilmarnock when we won the league in 2012 and had 3 stands. Also it's hard to get tickets for a good few away games e.g. Hearts, Inverness, Aberdeen, Ross County, St Mirren

 

The incentive is you get tickets cheaper.

My season ticket was £430 and I get 21 games on it £20.50 per match, then the 3 match package at £84 instead of £115. Im pretty sure we got Karagandy and Elfsborg tickets for £5 cheaper each too.

So those 26 games cost £544.

If you didnt have a season ticket they'd cost £707 so by having a season ticket your saving £163 a season + when you take into account youd hypothetically need to pay £40 for the Clubcard, split it into £20 each season then you'd really be saving £183 with a season ticket.

 

What about all the years without CL football? CL football isn't guaranteed an people pay out large sums of money before they have any idea they'll make any savings and should be highly rewarded for doing so when CL football an other big games come our way.

Lets face it, it's an absolute fact that a lot of the people moaning can't be arsed to go to SPL games or cup games and save their money to try and get tickets solely for the big games.

 

Spot on.

 

As has been noted, I sign up in May. Before the new season starts or we know anything about the CL. No players signed etc. I basically sign up blind. So I think that I should be given a lot more than someone who fancies the CL games alone and the odd SPL game. Then I suppose they usually always want Semi Final and Final tickets as well.

No one is going to go to all the SPL games and not bu a season ticket so your argumejt fails at the first hurdle.

If you want to guarantee your seat at CL games then buy a season ticket. If not then you have to deal with not being there, potentially.

 

This. Some genuinelly can't afford to get a season ticket but some just can't be arsed with SPL games.

 

I can't afford to buy a season ticket or go to every game which i would love to do. My hours at work also prohibits that as well.
So, although being a Celtic supporter for the last 44 years, and able to go to games for 37 of those years, i shouldn't be able to get a European away ticket because i can't afford the ST. * that.

 

No you shouldn't. The length of time you've been a supporter doesn't matter. If you invest in the club through a season ticket you should get priority above non STHs for all tickets.

If you can't afford a season ticket, how can you afford a European away? Surely that costs at the bare minimum £250 all things included. You could get a season ticket for £366 this year

 

I think we are talking about two different things now. I thought the thread was about how the tickets for home games were dished out and specifically the preference season ticket holders have. For European aways( for the bigger games) having a season ticket doesn't come close to guaranteeing you a ticket. How can it if we get say 2500 tickets for a game ?

 

Let me rephrase. I could afford the ST itself but not the associated costs of going to every home game as i live just outside London. I have a crap paid job with * hours but its all i could get at moment.
If i had a much better paid job with better hours i wouldn't be having to post this comment.
I should at least have the chance to go to away European games but will not waste my hard earned cash on a ST knowing that i would only be able to afford to go to a few games a season.

 

Fair enough if you live in the south of England and are unable to afford a season ticket but current STHs should still be the only ones able to get European away tickets

 

To be fair if we get reasonable allocation somewhere, such as Barca, you'll get a ticket for that no danger. Just turn up at the ground and you'll get in.

 

I would be really annoyed if a non season ticket holder got CL tickets in front of me.

 

Spot on. That's the elephant in the room, regarding this issue. Some Celtic fans can laugh at Sevco all they want and say 'Ach the league is as clean and free as its been forever', the club then offer a £100 discount on season tickets and yet still - not all, some genuinely can't buy a season ticket for various circumstances - some complain that they can't just turn up and be willing to pay roughly a quarter of what a season ticket costs on 3 UCL games mid-week (even more money on ebay et al), when they complain that they can't make SPL/Domestic Cup mid-week games because of work etc.

There's a clear glory hunting element going on, that wouldn't change with Sevco's eventual promotion to the Scottish Premiership but it would lessen, and I can say that as I managed to get my own 2 cousins UCL packages using my season ticket and they are also glory hunting. It's not a perfect system in place but if we had closer to 50,000 season ticket holders rather than 40,000, and didn't have to pathetically use banners to hide empty seats in the Lisbon Lions upper, then it wouldn't be such an issue. It's sad to see.

 

We've sold our full allocation for something like 1 out of the last 19 European away games! We'll do so for Ajax but that is now very much the exception rather than the norm. If people want a ticket for the vast majority of European away games then they'll get one with little effort needed. Talk of us only taking around 1000 for Wednesdays game sums things up.

The crying over Ajax away tickets from folk that rarely go to European aways but who think they are entitled to one will be fun.

 

But season ticket holders are already rewarded in getting a seat and getting it cheaper (and rightly so). Giving the season ticket holder more tickets only benefits those who he gives those tickets to - and they are not season ticket holders. Unless of course he decides to buy 4 packages to sell them and pay for his season book.

I dont think it is a "glory hunting" issue. Of course people will be attracted to the bigger games, and if have a choice of spending money going to four league games at £26 each, or 3 champions league games at £110 then most will pick the bigger games.

All that is going to happen is that people will either start buying up season tickets at the start of the year as it is the only way of getting a seat for the champions league, regardless of whether they can actually make the games every week. Or the most causal fan will give up going as he knows unless he forks out £500 at the start of the year he has little chance of every seeing a big game. I gave up my season book last season as while I go to a lot of games (most I think), I couldnt make them for at least a couple of months a year due to work stuff. Next season I will likely buy a book just so I can get tickets for sure in the games I want to go to. But that just means my seat will go empty for a good portion in the season (though obviously I will try to give it away where I can).

If you look at teams like Arsenal it is already happening. Their "sold out" stadium has thousands of empty seats every week because so many people buy season books to guarantee seats at the big games, but they dont go or cant make every other weekend. So you have people priced out who want to go, while you have others paying hundreds of pounds up front but their seats sit empty. Of course it keeps the boards happy, but it is a poor way to run a club.

Any policy that only sells tickets to the only people who already have a ticket is just mental.

 

OKAY I am a ST holder and have my CL tickets but I wanted to but 2 packages for family who can't get to the games, I got up early on the day they were available to ST holders and had 2 packages in my basket. I didn't get them as when I clicked on 'confirm purchase' it wouldn't do anything as a result losing my extra tickets. I'm saddened by those who sell these CL tickets for hundreds, its not the Celtic way..
(If you have a reply PM me as i'm going to bed-have a lecture at 9 tomorrow)
Cheers

 

If your family can't get to games then why do they need tickets for these matches ?

they should get themselves over for the mid-week Morton cup match, i am sure they will have no problem getting entry

 

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