The second part of your response is a case in point. Quite a few have felt that way about the £64 a ticket and I understand that but now I cant go in 2 weeks time because it is sold out despite having gone and paid that £60 odd despite our record there on numerous occasions. So that demonstrates to me that the cap is having an unintended consequence. Whereas before the tickets kind of found their level in that people just decided it wasn't worth the money so it nullified to a degree the points aspect, now it is so much cheaper that people apply and may not even go but will sell their ticket and keep the loyalty point.
This is how I see it. Along similar lines I've been going to my "local" away games for the last 20 years. I haven't had a problem getting a ticket for Saudi Sportswashing Machine/Sunderland/Middlesbrough until last season. Saudi Sportswashing Machine, obviously was because we thought we might be lifting the title on the last day but it continued into the Middlesbrough game this season.
It doesn't sit right with me that I've sat through 0-4, 1-5, 1-6, 1-7 defeats up here and now because we've improved (and add in the cap) I'm now being bumped because guys who go to home games have decided they fancy the trip north despite not bothering for the last 20 years.
I think the cap has accelerated something that has been happening anyway over the last 2-3 years.
Up until the cup semi-final against Sheff Utd in 2014 I could basically apply for and get a ticket for any away game outside of London. For that game I was unsuccessful until Spurs got a larger allocation later on. I then applied for Wembley and expected to get a ticket, having had enough LPs for the finals and semi-finals of 2008/9/10/11. I nearly fell on the floor when I discovered I wasn't successful. From that point forwards its been proving more & more difficult to be successful to get tickets.
My LPs have remained pretty constant over the last 10 years, I go to something between 10-15 games per season. As I say that's been enough to go to Wembley cup finals etc but it appears that I'm being overtaken by people who are able to attend more games. My theory is that there is now a younger generation of Spurs fans who are going to games, have few outgoings so can spend more heavily on attendance and as a bonus are seeing Spurs at their most successful since the mid 80s. Add that to the £30 cap and you've got a perfect storm.
I can't see a fair way to solve things for people like me as it would be unfair to genuine ST holders who do want to attend more away games. I'll just have to suck it up and get on with it and use accounts like @hotspurtickets to get any spares. I have tried to go to more away games this season but have found pretty much every away game has gone to ST holders only! If you can't get a ticket how can you increase your LPs??
What I don't like is that there seems to be a significant number of people who are buying away tickets with no intention of attending the game. They are using it to accrue LPs to keep them at the head of the queue for games they do want to go to. That cannot be fair in anyone's book.
