We bought the Loyal 18 membership as we live 100 miles from Wigan and due to work commitments cannot always attend every home game, so a season ticket is not practicable. With the half price magic weekend tickets it saves you the price of the Loyal 18 membership so it's a bit of a no-brainer in that respect. We sold the spare handbook and season review DVD on Ebay and with the £2 per ticket savings on match tickets we feel as if we have a good deal. The only problem with the system is that you have to ring the ticket office to take advantage of the saving - you can't buy tickets online and get the £2 discount. Oh, and we haven't received our actual membership cards yet and we were promised them before the first game of the season!

Paul

1st thing I will ask is "Why have those 7k who won't get tickets not bought any of the tickets that have been and currently are on sale?"
Could that be that they don't want to go and haven't tried? Stop quoting 10k ST holder because it doesn't matter, for Every game we've got there will always be more ST holders at Wigan than what the away club gives us.
How would any Loyalty system change that?

Your mistaking the issue here in that more than 3k "May" want to go and we do have 10k ST holders

BUT

Those 10k ST holders have all had a chance to buy tickets and Less than 3k actually bought them Without a Loyalty system in place!!! How would the loyalty system have helped with these particular tickets?
PLUS at what point in your Loyalty scheme does it make the Away team give us more tickets if they don't want to?

Saints have give us 3k, every ST holder has had the chance to buy one and any non-ST holder has had the chance to get one from Saints.
Whether they should have been allowed to put them on general sale at Saints before giving Wigan ST holders a chance to buy them is another issue.

Having any Loyalty system in place will not change the FACT that Saints will give us what they want to and in this instance Demand "may" outeigh supply but not to the extent that it has affected anyone that would benefit from the loyalty system you would put in place.
Not to mention you've ignored leyther matt's insight onto the situation i.e it would be a logistical problem for the club to run which in turn could have major detrimental knock on effect for future attendance to games and cost to the club.

if you feel so strongly about the situation I would suggest that you write a letter with your suggestion and send it to the club?
I for one would "Love" to see any response you get to that.

PS

You said you could name me 1 occasion were supply of tickets for ST holders was not enough and you named this game.
Well your wrong, there are still Tickets left, that's not an opinion That's Fact.
Even if they do sell out in next couple of days any ST holder will have had over a week to get one and I would suggest they've had more than enough time to get one and could still get one from Saints if they wanted.

Would you be having this argument if Saints had a decent sized stadium? The root cause of this is a ground which is too small, the rest is just detail; attempting to manage difficulties caused by the inadequate capacity of Trailer Park Stadium....

The game is 5 weeks away, people are still having to fork out for Widnes and a lot probably havn't thought about Saints yet.

Another example is Cup finals, if your happy that people who have missed 70% or more of games in the season are just as entitled to you, that have probably missed none to a ticket in the FIRST sale, this means probably getting better seats, then thats fine, but I know a lot that aren't.

I dont feel "strongly" about it, I just think that its the fairest way to sell tickets for games with smaller allocations, hence the reason why every premier league football club in the country use the said system.

Loyalty system regarding away tickets would never work. On the basis of what's been said, the allocation of away tickets are going to go to the same fans every time as its based on the number of games attended.

I managed to get a ticket for the Saints game no problem and I'm not a season ticket holder!

Anyway this thread is based on the Loyal 18 Membership and for me it has been great and I have already returned what I have spent on it through the discounts and offers available. Its a great idea!