New season ticket cards

[dougcollins]

Is this still happening?

Cutting it a bit fine?

[AGENT_CLARET]

26 days away from the season starting isn't cutting it fine

[4midable]

2 weeks before isnt cutting it fine

[BurnleyFC]

Thought they’d arrive before the new kit launch, seeing as you get incentives for spending money in the club shop if you’re a season ticket holder.

[Flying Without Ings]

Yes, it’s still happening and no, it’s not cutting it fine.

[dougcollins]

Considering how many away tickets weren't posted to my house last season I'll reserve judgement.

[Brucefanclaret]

When I called in at the ticket office last week, I was told they are being printed.

[wilks_bfc]

Said this before, but I really don’t understand the need for new cards to be issued every two years.

Unless your price category has changed or you’ve moved seats then there’s nothing wrong with your existing card.

It’s just a waste of time, money & resource

[AGENT_CLARET]

Said this before, but I really don’t understand the need for new cards to be issued every two years.

Unless your price category has changed or you’ve moved seats then there’s nothing wrong with your existing card.

It’s just a waste of time, money & resource

Plus ink and plastic

[Bosscat]

Plus ink and plastic

JSO will be apopleptic

[wilks_bfc]

Plus ink and plastic

Was covered in the “resource”

[fidelcastro]

Does anyone know when they're being sent out?

If they already have, then I haven't got mine.

[claretandy]

Does anyone know when they're being sent out?

If they already have, then I haven't got mine.

None been delivered so far.

[claretburns]

Take it no one has received it yet?

[gandhisflipflop]

Not got mine yet

[arise_sir_charge]

Ridiculous state of affairs. Club need to get a grip of things like this. It’s just less than 3 weeks now until we need the cards.

[Leisure]

Relax. They're not needed/useless until 11th August.

[RickyBobby]

Relax. They're not needed/useless until 11th August.

What if you are off on Holiday and won’t be back until the day before and find out the card hasn’t come? Or what if you are coming back on the same day as the game and want to go straight from the airport to the turf and aren’t able to go home first as you don’t live close? Despite what many seem to think not all season ticket holders live close to the turf.
I don’t know anyone in either situation but wouldn’t be surprised if someone is. Will be very little time to arrange new cards to be printed if any get lost in the post/they get send to old address as the club has done in the past.
They have had 2 years to sort it out. Leaving it to 2 weeks before when so much could go wrong and people going on holiday and not knowing if they have arrived is not is a bit bizarr and ill thought out.

[wilks_bfc]

Said it before and I’ll say it again, there’s no need to have this cycle of reissuing cards every 2 years.

[Bosscat]

Said it before and I’ll say it again, there’s no need to have this cycle of reissuing cards every 2 years.

Agree ... although mine would be ... due to changing categories to "Old Git" from adult

[holdyourfire]

Agree ... although mine would be ... due to changing categories to "Old Git" from adult

Me too join the oap club

[GetIntoEm]

I remember my first season ticket

[fidelcastro]

I remember my first season ticket

Me too. No bigger than a book of stamps.

[IanMcL]

What if you are off on Holiday and won’t be back until the day before and find out the card hasn’t come? Or what if you are coming back on the same day as the game and want to go straight from the airport to the turf and aren’t able to go home first as you don’t live close? Despite what many seem to think not all season ticket holders live close to the turf.
I don’t know anyone in either situation but wouldn’t be surprised if someone is. Will be very little time to arrange new cards to be printed if any get lost in the post/they get send to old address as the club has done in the past.
They have had 2 years to sort it out. Leaving it to 2 weeks before when so much could go wrong and people going on holiday and not knowing if they have arrived is not is a bit bizarr and ill thought out.

I am in Scotland and ST card will go to Salisbury. I hope for a reprint type arrangement. Left my old ST at home too!

[The Priest]

Hi mate, just a thought to save you some hassle, could you not get a redirection set up by Royal Mail as I’m guessing that’s how they’re delivered?
I just moved and it’s been a godsend, can do a 3 month redirection for about £35 I think and we’ve had quite a few to the new address already so it works.
Hope this helps

[Leisure]

I am in Scotland and ST card will go to Salisbury. I hope for a reprint type arrangement. Left my old ST at home too!

Just give the TO your new address.

[dougcollins]

No home friendly to test the cards either.

Opening night might be fun.

[ClaretTony]

No home friendly to test the cards either.

Opening night might be fun.

That’s assuming people can get there through the roadworks

[summitclaret]

Getting there will be fine. Getting away though?

[ClaretTony]

Getting there will be fine. Getting away though?

It will be a nightmare after the game

[Burnley1989]

No home friendly to test the cards either.

Opening night might be fun.

I'd get there 30 minutes early, I did last year and still missed the first 15 minutes trying to get my card sorted Ended up having to ask the steward to just let me in as it became a joke going back and forth.
The reaction from the lady in the ticket office was 'there's nothing wrong with it' then 'have you been paying your direct debit?' By this point I really wasn't in the mood

[CaptainKirk]

Me too join the oap club

I know I could ring the Club but thought I would ask here first - what is the qualifying age for an old codger ticket (presumably 65) and does the month you turn old have a bearing in relation to this Season?

[Bosscat]

I know I could ring the Club but thought I would ask here first - )what is the qualifying age for an old codger ticket (presumably 65 and does the month you turn old have a bearing in relation to this Season?

probably my 65th was in May and so next season was automatically changed to an "old git card" ... If I remember my Brothers was January 2015 when he turned 65, and I don`t think it didn`t change until the following season

[Eloise Laws]

I think you have to turn 65 before the first game of the new season??? I renewed in early bird period, but did not hit 65 until early this month. My new ticket automatically appeared in my basket as an OAP one

[CaptainKirk]

One more season to go then.

[gawthorpe_view]

I think you have to turn 65 before the first game of the new season??? I renewed in early bird period, but did not hit 65 until early this month. My new ticket automatically appeared in my basket as an OAP one

You have to be 65 or older on 1st August to qualify as a senior citizen.

[ClaretTony]

I know I could ring the Club but thought I would ask here first - what is the qualifying age for an old codger ticket (presumably 65) and does the month you turn old have a bearing in relation to this Season?

I think it’s 1st August to qualify for a senior ticket.

[Claret Till I Die]

I think it’s 1st August to qualify for a senior ticket.

My youngest son's birthday is 2nd August and we got an extra year out of his u8 ticket in years gone by. I presume it will be the same for all age groups

[ClaretTony]

My youngest son's birthday is 2nd August and we got an extra year out of his u8 ticket in years gone by. I presume it will be the same for all age groups

He will pay for that on his 65th and still has to pay for an adult ticket

[Claret Till I Die]

Up till recently it would've been me still paying for it....

[ClaretCliff]

I think it’s 1st August to qualify for a senior ticket.

It is the 1st of August. However the season I turned 65 on the 2nd of August I rang the ticket office and said that as I would be 65 before the first match of the season then it would only be fair if I could have an OAP ticket and the ticket office agreed.

[alki claret]

How much longer will the club keep offering a reduced price for a season ticket just because they reach 65 ?

[ClaretTony]

How much longer will the club keep offering a reduced price for a season ticket just because they reach 65 ?

It used to be 60 but they changed it when I reached 59.

[wilks_bfc]

It used to be 60 but they changed it when I reached 59.

My dad was well ****** off when he turned 60 in December and then the prices came out in January saying it had gone up to 65

[Jimmymaccer]

It will be a nightmare after the game

No it won’t CT……………I’ll be straight in to the Park View and when I come out the roads will be clear!

[dsr]

It used to be 60 but they changed it when I reached 59.

I think it flipped about quite a bit just after the time when my Mum turned 60, which was 30 years ago. Some bitter bloke in Brighton sued the council because they offered discounts for pensioners at state pension age - 60 for women, 65 for men. He said it was sex discrimination to offer all pensioners a discount, because men get theirs later, and the courts (illogical beings that they are) decided that was right - it's not sex discrimination to give women 5 years' extra pension, but it is sex discrimination to give them a discount sooner.

So all organisations had to equalise their rates, and I think Burnley went to 60 all round shortly followed by 65 all round, but allowed those who had already got a pensioner ticket at say 62 to carry on the discounted rate. (Which is why I think it was when my Mum was in her early sixties.)

[ClaretTony]

I think it flipped about quite a bit just after the time when my Mum turned 60, which was 30 years ago. Some bitter bloke in Brighton sued the council because they offered discounts for pensioners at state pension age - 60 for women, 65 for men. He said it was sex discrimination to offer all pensioners a discount, because men get theirs later, and the courts (illogical beings that they are) decided that was right - it's not sex discrimination to give women 5 years' extra pension, but it is sex discrimination to give them a discount sooner.

So all organisations had to equalise their rates, and I think Burnley went to 60 all round shortly followed by 65 all round, but allowed those who had already got a pensioner ticket at say 62 to carry on the discounted rate. (Which is why I think it was when my Mum was in her early sixties.)

Some clubs still use 60. Leeds last time we went and I think Huddersfield & Sheffield United last season.

[Bosscat]

One or two in our whatsapp group starting to panic about new season cards ... one has rung the club up and been assured they will be coming in the post in the next two weeks ... he said "its only 2 weeks to the start of the season" and was told "don't panic"

[arise_sir_charge]

Only time there is any point in panicking is if everyone has there’s and yours hasn’t come or if it’s Friday morning on 11th August and nobody has them.

Until that point, it’s a wasted worry. But very typical of this forum.

[dougcollins]

Only time there is any point in panicking is if everyone has there’s and yours hasn’t come or if it’s Friday morning on 11th August and nobody has them.

Until that point, it’s a wasted worry. But very typical of this forum.

Yeah, it's called planning.