To Mits and Suitman - thanks for the info.
I still have an issue, which I guess my hastily written initial post didn't address.
I bought a membership. It wasn't ticketed because i won't be here for a good chunk of the year. So it was a Blue-blood pack. And yet no-one has communicated to me what sort of tickets I might be able to get, and when they might be available, and for which seats the discount tickets can be purchased etc etc.
I could have bought in the window for members, but didn't as i was still sorting out how many tickets I needed. I didn't know that was my only chance to get cheaper tickets.
That is disappointing that you didn't know that, I have been a blue and gold army member for a few years (Since 2006 until this year) and I have always known that discount tickets are normally only available via the Leagues Club Ticketek up to 7 days before the game. Also considering there is no more leagues club ticketek, they as the email said have moved it to a on-line ticketing with the pass code that members received in the e-mail.
I could have bought during the ticketek members window, but didn't because i saw that they still weren't selling stands or west terrace.
Now I'm left not knowing when the stands or west terrace might go on sale, and what sort of tickets I am liable to get when they do. And what happens to my cheap tickets that i was promised if I bought the blue-blood pack? Are they only available for the cheap seats?
No they are off any seat in the house that is not sold as a ticketed membership, but at the moment, we have sold a lot of the "Good" seats to members.
Look, i don't want to whinge, and I am glad that the delay is because we have more ticketed members, but a little communication wouldn't go astray. It seems to me that they are pushing for more members without a thought to how late additions to ticketed membership should be administered. Surely they can think of better ways than this? If you purchase your season ticket after a certain date surely you have relinquisehd the right to the best seats for the first game?
Speaking from experience, in 1997 when I first purchased my season tickets, I did so on the day of the First game, and didn't get my tickets for the first game, indeed they had all been released to ticketek and I had to line up at the stadium to get my tickets.
Anyway, so that I didn't have to come on here and sound like a whinger I looked on the site to see who to contact but at the time I couldn't find a "contact us". I just found it a few minutes ago so I will email them and see if I can get some answers, but I get the feeling that its gonna be easier to get info from this site than the club.
That was always going to be your best option if you couldn't take part in the initial release as mentioned in the E-mail from the club on the 18th of February.
Basically, my whole issue boils down to a point I've made before to people - the NRL keep pushing the "become a member" angle, yet what are they offering us? Bad communication, terrible administration, a crappy hat and some fake tattoos?
But you are a Football club member now, and that makes all the difference, you can have your say on this stuff, to the club and at the AGM, I look forward to hearing about it next December.
Don't get me wrong - I'm more than happy that the new executive team have started to come uo with new ideas, and I am happy to pay my money to keep my club going, but I bloody hope that they sort it out better next year. If you've got people working 12 hour days - hire some temps! Put that in the budget for next year Ossie!
Well I guess that is what happens when memberships double, you can plan for the best but all in all occasionally things go wrong.
