EFC Away

[JelavicBrate2]

Im against the hoarders and touts myself but how would this restart thing work in practice? If the club just went 'every ones credits are reset to zero' you would have far more than 3000 applying for them on day one and that would not be fair on the people who have actually been going to them all for decades. The solution is to find a way to distiguish the people who attend and those who don't. Like I said earlier, one way is to do a collection at the away stadium with ID for a random 300, even that would be difficult with the all digital ticketing from next season though.

I don't think there's an easy answer, credits is fairest as long as people don't abuse system. Ideal system would be your name on ticket and you have to produce ID at turnstile. If that was brought in for let's say 1st 8 away games, then it would stop hoarders. It also wouldn't affect those who actually attend. Another idea I'd bring in is to abandon stubs for unpopular games such as Sunderland away meaning that, credit hoarders can't get stubs for these types of games. Credit hoarding is problem not credit system per say.

 

[TraffordBlue]

The atmosphere in the away end is mostly linked to the performance/outcome on the pitch.

I think over a 5-10 year period or even going back 30 years I doubt there has been a set of away fans that have been in and around the Premier League that have endured a more frustrating/tedious or miserable experience as us Evertonians.

It's the same every season with us. We never beat the Sky 6 away (the COVID season was blatantly down to there being no fans so we managed to beat Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal in the same season).

We very rarely pull off dramatic comeback wins.

Those smaller clubs who have been up and down will have a miserable time once in the PL but in their promotion seasons will have been having a great time winning most weeks. And nearly all of them will have beaten the Sky 6 away more recently than us (the big games).

Look at the atmosphere at Leicester away a few seasons ago when we won. That away end was bouncing and the credit system was exactly the same as it is today. It's nothing to do with the credit system.