On my way to the match two Wolves fans outsidethe ground complaining that the turnstile staff wouldn't accept their tickes and they had been refused entry. Looking at the numbers of Wolves supporters standing at the front and the apparent lack of empty seats I wonder if some had got in with 'dodgy' tickets?
Yes there were fakes about at a tenner each, speaking to a Wolves fan who reckoned that there were around 3000 travelling up without a ticket! We could learn from this and use it to move our whole ticketing set-up into the 21st century, Bar-Code readers etc.. Obviously there would be an initial outlay but by the end of the season Im sure there would be a massive cost saving on not having to man the turnstyles every game.
And huge queues of people trying to get in when the system doesn't work, like it doesn't work at Man City (if memory serves we were 5-0 down by the time I got in to that match).
It works perfectly well at Celtic, I know they're slightly bigger than us but they seem to manage barcodes well enough.
I'd rather spend the money on players and you do have to man the turnstiles. There are just people stood supervising outside the turnstiles where I've been. OK that requires fewer than one per turnstile but I'd rather see the money spent on new players, the academy or something else football related given that usually we have no such problems as yesterday and a promoted team visiting is a long shot. Otherwise with the crowds we get the system is not a problem. It's true that the one big improvement is that if you lose a credit card they can deactivate it and give you a new one but again, if it means better investment in other areas I'm willing to take extra care of my book or just bring one match ticket (never been turned away doing it yet) if it aint broke, don't fix it
</p> Or planks like my mate last week that tried to get into Reading with his London Underground ticket!! ( i know that couldn't happen up here but shows things can crop up when a few people have had a couple shandies!!) </p>
But that wasn't my point It failed the only time I ever went to Man City so I don't know how regularly it fails but judging from the fact that there were people employed to stand around by the turnstiles with card readers to try to resolve problems I suspect it wasn't an isolated event. And it's still open to abuse. My ticket on that day was for a female Man City supporter (which I can assure you I'm not).
yeah i got offer a Fake for £10 most did get in with these tickets thats why the front and all up the sides was ramded why the police just couldent give us that side stand i dont know.
Bet it cost more to policing than they made from away ticket sales. If they'd have opened up the West Stand lower, you'd have needed 50+ more coppers on about £200+ a shift.
My mate's dad is in riot squad and said it will have cost roughly 70k, that obviously doesn't include stewards, just police and mainly oakwell, most of police in tarn are subsidised by council
