I know there's more demand for Premier League matches but now that you can get tickets on General Sale for Champion's League games at the Emirates, isn't it about time that the club got rid of the £30-£33 fee for Red Members, etc?

Fans should be able to just register some details to get tickets as it is with Gen Sale now because it's just another excuse to fleece us for money that Arsene won't spend!in the transfer market!!

Could you imagine how much harder it would be to get a ticket if the membership fee was scrapped and there were double the members?

Tell you what is a nifty fleece job, the season ticket waiting list, went on it anyway but I'll be dead before I get one.

Point taken. Is that where you have to pay £15 and get it refunded if you ever get one?

Yeah.

Harsh.

Ok another rant topic. Why are general sale members allowed to buy 10+ tickets for a game, e.g. Sheffield United H CC when Red Members only get one?

[quote]isn't it about time that the club got rid of the £30-£33 fee for Red Members[/quote]

Is this the fee for the membership alone? My Silver TRS is £26 per year

If it goes to genral sale then that will mean that the Reds have bought all that they want so they will be just trying to fill the ground after that.

I'm sure.

However, Red members only get to buy one initially anyway and then get trumpted by general sale members.

[quote]isn't it about time that the club got rid of the £30-£33 fee for Red Members, etc?[/quote]

Well not that i love spending money or anything, but for the sake of argument that 30-33 quid usually gets you a pack of some sort - this year it included the perry groves book - which is decent plus highlights of the 89 season and it all comes in a decent wee collectors box (for 20quid tho you can just renew memebership)

If there wasnt a memebership there would be no staggering of tickets bein released and the online boxoffice would never cope with everyone trying to get tickets at the same time. Loyal fans would have the same chance as Joe Tourist over seeing the house of parliament and bucks palace (money = loyalty to big clubs sadly)

Also paying the memebership over general sale means you get first priority on the cheaper tickets.

Games going to general sale in champions league jsut means its an indicator that the demand is not necessarly there due to travelling fans like myself cant always make it to midweek games for a start plus group stages are often dead rubber/rountine matches. That's more to do with the competition more thn the support.

Matches going to general sale should be dearer, to encourage red memebers etc to buy them (as in discounted for red memebers)

Ilford

If you think you can get all the tickets you want without being a member don't pay the membership

I know that I cannot get all the tickets that I want without having a season ticket but if I was happy to go to just most home games then I could JUST become a red member.

Most moans on this board are about the fact that people are waiting for a ST or waiting to get silver, so if people don't want to pay the membership fee then that will be better for fans who are more keen to get better access to games.

I think the membership scheme is brilliant and stops people just cherry picking the Man United, Spurs and Chelsea games because they have to either be ST holders, silvers to have a guarantee and at leats red to have any chance at all.

[quote]Matches going to general sale should be dearer, to encourage red memebers etc to buy them (as in discounted for red memebers)[/quote]

Not a bad idea in all honesty, but do the regulations allow for general sale tickets to be priced more than members' tickets?

Maybe ticket booking fees shoudl be reduced heaving for members (say 50p) and increased for General Sale tickets (say £3).

We pay our m'ship fees, so that'd be a nice benefit for us, and the General Sale people should cover that cost IMO.

[quote]Ok another rant topic. Why are general sale members allowed to buy 10+ tickets for a game, e.g. Sheffield United H CC when Red Members only get one?[/quote]

Red memebers can still buy those GS tickets, so theres no real advantage there

Very few games go on GS anyway to be fair

It should be less for the membership without the pack.

They don't even replace the card.

[quote]It should be less for the membership without the pack.[/quote]

it is isn't it? Difference between red/silver full and lite