Wales Away, Oct 9th 2017 - Ticket Thread

That's a positive sign. You could read it as containing an indirect reference to the Scotland game, where match attendance history was inexplicably overlooked, and they are clearly stating it will be looked at this time. 

Also, one of the SC's has sent an email to their members stating that they will be applying various criteria to applications, paid up membership, previous match attendance etc. That too is a good sign, as obviously that SC has been told they can't just ring up the FAI, ask for 800 and duly get them, if they didn't think there was going to be a restriction on tickets available to them, they wouldn't be applying criteria to their members. 

There will still be someone overlooked by mistake, and this place will still be full of lads who went to only Vienna & expect a ticket, then whinge when they don't get one, and lads who were at Italia 90 and quite fancy this one, but I don't think it is going to be Scotland II, if nothing else, the FAI don't particularly need the hassle. 

The honest answer is that nobody outside the ticket office knows for sure as they have never publically communicated how the system works.

Bar a handful of people (excluding Andorra which was out of FAI's control) missing out on an odd game or 2 here & there, the overwhelming majority of regulars were always sorted for most games,including Estonia playoff and the Euros in 2012 pre Scotland. Since Scotland, and including France Euros, it has been much the same. 

There isn't too much point in dragging up Scotland again, everyone has their own theories there, and none of them coincide with the variety of official versions told to us by the FAI,  but one thing I will say, and have said before, is that this whole ''there is no system'' thing was pushed by a lot of posters involved in SC's, at a time where the FAI wanted people to go down that route. 

It suits a whole lot of agendas for certain people to keep bringing up that line, and barring one game, it doesn't really stand up to much scrutiny in the bigger picture. The other line pushed here by certain people was ''the FAI have no records'' - when even this week, when you logged into ticketmaster to pay for ticket, there is a record of invoices there if you click on that option, mine from the Faroes is still there, and that game wasn't today or yesterday. That was also something I called bullsh*t on at the time, and tis still bullsh*t now. 

All the above is generally true, I do accept there will be replies saying 'I was denied a Gibraltar ticket' or whatever, but I'm going to disagree with the ''no records/system''  every time I see it. Just ask the question - who stands to benefit if that is true ??. I'll give a big clue, they let other lads write statements for them & stand over tham, no matter how ludicrous and are 100% delighted with 40% of the overall away ticket allocation. Think a bit before posting. 

Emailed for this Wales match and their FB is telling everyone else that the portal is now open. It's like they want to get too many applications. Seeing the comments on FB of people saying 'lets go to Cardiff for the weekend' who have interest, it will come as a shock when they find out it's on the Monday.