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chav_corner 10:31 Mon Sep 30
to all West Ham's away following.

Following concerns expressed by many of our members we are putting the following statement out on Social Media.

Calling all West Ham’s Away Following.
The Club has appointed a committee to look into away games ticket distribution. Unfortunately this has been done without getting your direct views.
Suggestions made by those appointed have included removing away season tickets, ending priority points and entering everyone into a ballot for high demand games. There are also suggestions of bondholder abuse and the selling on of tickets.
Our away fans are our most loyal fans. It is unbelievable that these suggestions are being made without a survey of us.
There are genuine concerns about away ticket allocation that include the increased amount given as a priority to corporate, for example, and a lack of transparency as to how the allocations are made.
We urge you to have your say. For many of us travelling to and being at away games is a big part of our lives and there have been many hard earned miles.-And many thousands of pounds spent.

Sean Whetstone is running the survey.
It is worrying that the OSB are running this, it will be heavily biased as it's run from that site and not sent to the wider audience.

Sean has been asked to postpone the meeting to allow a greater canvassing of the fanbase and more fans to have their view but he has refused.

Please contact those running this survey to make your thoughts, whatever they are, clearly known. The survey does not reflect the concerns being expressed or allow for other questions. We suggest e mailing those appointed directly and copying to our e mail address below so we have a record and can publicise the findings.
If you go on the official site they have contact details for the OSB members
https://www.whufc.com/fans/osb/profiles
Sean Whetstone’s Email address is mrwesthamfootball@gmail.com
Hammers United Email is awaytickets@hammersunited.com


Thank you.
Hammers United Committee.

We are doing our best to improve things for West Ham Supporters.Please check out our website at www.hammersunited.com.

Huffers 10:51 Mon Sep 30
Re: to all West Ham's away following.

Not getting involved. If the club fuck this up then they can fuck themselves.

Takashi Miike 10:54 Mon Sep 30
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mrwestham 😂

North Bank 10:59 Mon Sep 30
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"Sean Whetstone is running the survey"

This in itself is everything that's wrong with this, he's a Club stooge who has about as many priority points that you can count on one hand yet always manages to get a ticket for the better away fixtures, courtesy of WHUFC

Huffers 10:59 Mon Sep 30
Re: to all West Ham's away following.

Why would the club have to appoint a committee to look into one of their own processes. Surely they know what they’re doing.

Johnson 11:00 Mon Sep 30
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Of course they know what they’re doing, that’s why that weirdo Whetstone is fronting it.

The cleansing of the West Ham fan base continues.

Hermit Road 11:02 Mon Sep 30
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The current system isn't great, but it is the best and only way of doing it. Messing about with people who have accumulated points by travelling for years would be a shambles. A massive nail on the coffin if they do this

bruuuno 11:06 Mon Sep 30
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Huffers 10:59 Mon Sep 30

Are you being serious?

ironsofcanada 11:14 Mon Sep 30
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I would like a chance to accumulate some more points but honestly the system needs to be weighed heavily towards people that have gone for years and make the atmosphere.

bruuuno 11:21 Mon Sep 30
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You got your point for Oxford away though eh ioc


Do you even get points for cup games? I’ve not bought a ticket from the club for about ten years

ironsofcanada 11:38 Mon Sep 30
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Bruuu

I might have been with friends in the home end. Making an awful night even better.

Theoretically I might have been behind Roberto in the second half and have been a bit nervous since.

SDKFZ 222 11:41 Mon Sep 30
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I always preferred the first come, first served system of posting a completed form or arriving at the ticket office in person. As a result I always managed to get tickets for whatever away match I wanted to attend and I always counted myself as attending 2/3rds to 3/4’s of our away matches per season.

As it now stands, I have had to miss a few over the last few years due to the points system, especially because, due to illness and a cancer scare, three years ago, I was unable to attend away matches for the majority of 2016.

As it happens, I have only just managed to start catching up with the points again and I have been to most away games so far this season. Like most Hammers, I love going away and it will be a bitter pill to swallow if this is taken away from loyal supporters in order to placate some corporate types.

Any Old Iron 11:46 Mon Sep 30
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The system is too weighted in favour of those who have accrued large numbers of priority points.
There needs to be more opportunities for away tickets to go to a wider range of supporters, not just the same old middle-aged faces.
Just because you've been going away for years should not mean that you have priority over more recent supporters ie., younger fans.

bruuuno 11:46 Mon Sep 30
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I hope you stood your grouynd and foighted

bruuuno 11:49 Mon Sep 30
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Aoi why not those Middle Aged faces you see every time are are our loyalist supporters. Younguns will be Middle Aged soon enough

The Fonz 11:54 Mon Sep 30
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I would be very disappointed if this happened.

I have been going to most away games since our season in the Championship with Big Sam and have a decent points total.

What fucks me off is that since the move to the OS all of a sudden everyone wants to go and it can be a nightmare to get tickets.

They should have kept the forms system or keep it the way it is.

Will be a nightmare if we actually get to Europe.

Huffers 12:03 Tue Oct 1
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There are a hundred spares for most games floating around. They need to incorporate random ID checking against tickets a couple of times a season. If you've not got your ticket then point taken off and can't apply for the next game. That will allow the points to be spread out again.

Peterboroughiron 12:40 Tue Oct 1
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As long as all the new supporters who want to go to away games in place of the same old middle aged guys who been going for years remember that away matches aren’t always in and around London and the south east ⚒

ChesterRd 1:47 Tue Oct 1
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It's bollocks to say only middle aged people can be on PP.

Anyone who started going away on 0 points 4 years ago would now have more than enough points for virtually all games.

There are plenty of fans under 30 at away games.

If you applied for an away season ticket 3 years ago, you would have got one. No age limits of applicants.

Where were all those people desperate for tickets then?

Now any home STH can apply through the ballot so there are chances there to buy an away ticket. But of course, they only want a ticket if they can go with their mates.

Everton away is likely to go on general sale. But of course that means getting up at the crack of dawn and spending several hours getting there.

Seriously, what has become of our fan base.

Best place to start looking at where all these spares are coming on is from the allocation dished out before it even reaches bondholders.

Huffers 7:40 Tue Oct 1
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Everton has sold out to anyone with 11 points. This has been one in recent years to have a few empty seats.

I suspect a few have purchased with no intention on using.

10% goes to the ballot.

w4hammer 10:16 Tue Oct 1
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where is the public notification that the OSB is running this?

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