Just Had E-mail From Club Ref.

[Never to the dark side]

This is it

Hello,

Please be advised that prices for away fans are £25. Preston North End have a membership scheme which entitles some of their fans to a discount making tickets £21 FOR THEM ONLY.

Hope this clarifies matters

CAN I JUST ASK EVERY ONE TO HOLD FIRE BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR TICKETS

I WILL BE SENDING A COPY OF THE E-MAIL TO THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE

[Haster]

This is it

Hello,

Please be advised that prices for away fans are £25. Preston North End have a membership scheme which entitles some of their fans to a discount making tickets £21 FOR THEM ONLY.

Hope this clarifies matters

CAN I JUST ASK EVERY ONE TO HOLD FIRE BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR TICKETS

I WILL BE SENDING A COPY OF THE E-MAIL TO THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Hello mate how many have we sold ?????

[Bristol Boy]

Sounds like a fiddle.

Buy a membership for £1 and then they can charge away fans more.

Without a memebership scheme they couldn't do that.

[bartolona]

Sounds like a fiddle.

Buy a membership for £1 and then they can charge away fans more.

Without a memebership scheme they couldn't do that.

Every club in the Championship should do the same for Preston's visit.

[giles_23_bcfc]

Every club in the Championship should do the same for Preston's visit.

Or only give them about 500 tickets.

[Taunton_City]

Fair plays for what you are trying to do mate! But Try going Russia away with England £7 for locals, £50 or £60 for England fans!!!!!!!!!!

[cheshire_red]

Or only give them about 500 tickets.

More than enough for PNE they don't travel in numbers.

[rockin-robin]

More than enough for PNE they don't travel in numbers.

Just bought 2 tickets for PNE. Cant see us taking more than a 1000 to this one.

[Redtucks]

I sent the following e-mail to PNE on saturday morning:

"I have already purchased tickets at £25 each from the Bristol City ticket

office for the Preston v Bristol City game due to be played at Preston on

29th September 2007.

However I believe that home fans are able to obtain tickets for the same

game at substantially reduced prices via a £1 "membership" scheme.

As my understanding is that tickets for away fans should be available at no

more than the price for home fans, I would be grateful if you would confirm

whether Bristol City fans are able to obtain a similar reduction in price by

paying a similar £1 "membership" fee.

If not, I can only conclude that this is an example of sharp practice to

fleece away fans."

I have just received the following reply:

"We have introduced a new membership scheme for the home supporters only, we

do not offer memberships to away fans.

The away seating is priced differently to the home seating, this decision

was made by the club and is in accordance with the rules set by the football

league.

If you wish to speak to someone about this matter in more detail then please

contact 0870 442 1964 and ask for the General Manager

Regards

Ticket Office"

Not very satisfactory.

So they are fleecing away fans!

[Dan Of The Dolman]

In response make them pay the extra £4 difference when they come down here.

[Never to the dark side]

This is not a dispute between our fans and Prestons fans

This is a dispute between PNE footy club and City fans

Charging 25 quid for PNE to visit us will only harm OUR club

as less PNE's will be inclined to travel

A better solution, would be for our club to not supply any complimentry tickets

to those from preston who request them from

For those who are still thinking about traveling to Preston

give it another thought and maybe not attend

Radio Bristol will have FULL LIVE COVERAGE

Don't never say I never give credit(where its due) to Radio Bristol

Having said that I wil be going as I have my plane booked

at 8:30am to manchester airport (journey time 60 minutes) then the train to preston

If you decide not to go I'll bring the official match day programme back

with me as long as you pay me in advance for the programmes

I'll even deliver it free in the Bristol area on saturday night or sunday morning

How about that for an offer?

Possibly the club could issue a free membership card just before the Preston game

so if want to buy your match day tickets in advance and get the discounts

For those who are not a season ticket holder

On the official front I was hoping for an e-mail from football league on monday

Hoping it might arrive now on tuesday

I have also contacted the National FSF, again hoping I get some good news

As many city fans could post on other official or unofficial footy message boards

what PNE are doing

Any other ideas you might think could bring attention to what PNE are doing

[rockin-robin]

This is not a dispute between our fans and Prestons fans

This is a dispute between PNE footy club and City fans

Charging 25 quid for PNE to visit us will only harm OUR club

as less PNE's will be inclined to travel

A better solution, would be for our club to not supply any complimentry tickets

to those from preston who request them from

For those who are still thinking about traveling to Preston

give it another thought and maybe not attend

Radio Bristol will have FULL LIVE COVERAGE

Don't never say I never give credit(where its due) to Radio Bristol

Having said that I wil be going as I have my plane booked

at 8:30am to manchester airport (journey time 60 minutes) then the train to preston

If you decide not to go I'll bring the official match day programme back

with me as long as you pay me in advance for the programmes

I'll even deliver it free in the Bristol area on saturday night or sunday morning

How about that for an offer?

Possibly the club could issue a free membership card just before the Preston game

so if want to buy your match day tickets in advance and get the discounts

For those who are not a season ticket holder

On the official front I was hoping for an e-mail from football league on monday

Hoping it might arrive now on tuesday

I have also contacted the National FSF, again hoping I get some good news

As many city fans could post on other official or unofficial footy message boards

what PNE are doing

Any other ideas you might think could bring attention to what PNE are doing

How about.....LET IT GO MATE!

I will be going to support the lads. I'll just have one and half pints less. Yeah, its annoying but there you go!

[Never to the dark side]

How about.....LET IT GO MATE!

I will be going to support the lads. I'll just have one and half pints less. Yeah, its annoying but there you go!

Okay, I'll just wait for the e-mail to arrive from the football league

and then I'll post the reply

[Chappers]

How about.....LET IT GO MATE!

I will be going to support the lads. I'll just have one and half pints less. Yeah, its annoying but there you go!

It's why Clubs continue ripping off fans, they just accept it and convert the rip-off into pints of beer. This is a total rip-off as they are using a dodgy loophole to breach Football League rules, but it seems that the authorities and fans just put up with it. Personally I think the idea of giving no Comps to PNE is best, hit those responsible, I'm sure that Club officials can afford a ticket, after all it's only 10 G&T's!!

[Guest]

How about.....LET IT GO MATE!

I will be going to support the lads. I'll just have one and half pints less. Yeah, its annoying but there you go!

Agree, could well put of some from making the trip

[rockin-robin]

Well, I think NTTDS has a valid point in raising this, and thanks to him for doing so.

I'll be going but I won't be buying their progamme or spending any dosh at their ground - ticket only.

That's my litte insignificant protest, but it makes me feel better.

Yeah, i'll second that. I wasn't having a go at NTTDS but I think what he is doing will be in vain. It will only discourage people from going and supporting the team in what is another very hard game.

Surely another mini protest some way may help get the point across?

[Never to the dark side]

We could all turn up early say 2pm and refuse to go in till 2:55pm

Then the security forces could say it was a football riot

get big peices of cardboard say two foot by three foot with I am owed fourds pounds on them

not buy the programmmes if you are going

try and get some thing in yer belly before you go in the ground

don't buy any grub teas coffess bovril pies crisps

if you are desperate to eat/drink at the ground make sure you all have TWENTY POUND NOTES

returning to the programmes if you might be put off going to preston

the offer is still there if you want me to buy you a programme

private message me

[rockin-robin]

We could all turn up early say 2pm and refuse to go in till 2:55pm

Then the security forces could say it was a football riot

get big peices of cardboard say two foot by three foot with I am owed fourds pounds on them

not buy the programmmes if you are going

try and get some thing in yer belly before you go in the ground

don't buy any grub teas coffess bovril pies crisps

if you are desperate to eat/drink at the ground make sure you all have TWENTY POUND NOTES

returning to the programmes if you might be put off going to preston

the offer is still there if you want me to buy you a programme

private message me

I like the cardboard idea....might seem a bit scabby to the home supporters though?

[Taunton_City]

Its only £4!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest Tafkar]

must admit having skimmed this forum for months before joining, NTTDS was a member I found slightly eccentric at times (no offence mate!) but he is onto something here, this is a disgrace by the Preston lot, whether it is within the rules or not, whether coming by car, train or coach the away fans from City will end up paying probably over double what the Preston fans will for their match-day, this coupled with a £4 hike on ticket charges! It's a sham and Preston are a disgrace to the Football League for taking this approach, in my opinion.

Saying that - I will be there!

[Bristol Boy]

Dead Easy-Merchandise + Food & Drink Boycott.

Don't buy and extra thing apart from your ticket that way you can cheer the lads on and punish PNE in a very well behaved way.

Wouldn't hurt to do the same at AG and then all of these robdogs would get the message.

I noticed that the number to complain on is 0870 as well

[Never to the dark side]

Taunton cider I know its only four quid,its not a problem for me and most likely a few others

Please consider those who have two and three children

Ever been to a football match with a couple of kids its not a cheap day out

As kids don't understand the purpose of a boycott of the catering outlet

when they just want thier crisps choccy bar and washed town with a fizzty drink

[screech]

Its only £4!!!!!!!!!!!

Well. next year it may be 5 then 6 then 7 etc....

The point is the away fans have no choice but to pay the extra, it can add up quite quickly if the whole family are going, the home fans don't pay it so why should we.

The £4 extra is not much on its own, everyone can afford that, but if your work colleagues were getting paid extra for doing the same thing as you, wouldnt you demand the same pay. It's the principle of the whole thing at stake, not the money.

[Taunton_City]

Taunton cider I know its only four quid,its not a problem for me and most likely a few others

Please consider those who have two and three children

Ever been to a football match with a couple of kids its not a cheap day out

As kids don't understand the purpose of a boycott of the catering outlet

when they just want thier crisps choccy bar and washed town with a fizzty drink

Well. next year it may be 5 then 6 then 7 etc....

The point is the away fans have no choice but to pay the extra, it can add up quite quickly if the whole family are going, the home fans don't pay it so why should we.

The £4 extra is not much on its own, everyone can afford that, but if your work colleagues were getting paid extra for doing the same thing as you, wouldnt you demand the same pay. It's the principle of the whole thing at stake, not the money.

Yeh point taken!!

[Geoff65]

I noticed that the number to complain on is 0870 as well

www.saynoto0870.com

BCFC Ticketline number: 0871 222 6666 or 0117 9630607 (Ticket office manager)

PNE - 01772 693300 - ask for the ticket office manager.

Just a note - most large organisations have a fax number which isnt an 0870 number in PNE case their fax number is : 01772 693366 - usually the whole of their telephone numbers are on the same prefixes with the number 00 at the end for the switchboard - just ask for the ticket office manager.

[Never to the dark side]

I did not want to start another thread on my own subject

SO A REQUEST TO THE MODS TO ALLOW THIS TO POSTING TO

REMAIN ON ITS OWN FOR AFEW FOR A FEW HOURS

BEFORE IT IS MERGED INTO THE OTHER PRESTON TICKET POSTING

John

Thank you for your further email, which has been referred to the relevant personnel for attention. We will contact you again when we receive a response.

Patricia

[giles_23_bcfc]

I did not want to start another thread on my own subject

SO A REQUEST TO THE MODS TO ALLOW THIS TO POSTING TO

REMAIN ON ITS OWN FOR AFEW FOR A FEW HOURS

BEFORE IT IS MERGED INTO THE OTHER PRESTON TICKET POSTING

John

Thank you for your further email, which has been referred to the relevant personnel for attention. We will contact you again when we receive a response.

Patricia

So they're at least looking into it. Fair play to you. Nothing will probably happen but fair play for fighting for what you, any many others believe in.

Would be quite funny though if Preston got some sot of punishment all because of you though

[cheshire_red]

The Chief exec and board of directors should be put in stocks in front of the away end where we pelt them with rotten fruit.

[North Lincs Red]

So they're at least looking into it. Fair play to you. Nothing will probably happen but fair play for fighting for what you, any many others believe in.

Would be quite funny though if Preston got some sot of punishment all because of you though

Or they could give us the 3 points

[havanatopia]

Fair plays for what you are trying to do mate! But Try going Russia away with England £7 for locals, £50 or £60 for England fans!!!!!!!!!!

that is a recipe for trouble.