Suggestion: Would a ticket application system work at BFC?

For games such as this, or are these 'big games' too few and far between to justify it?

Say give ST holders 2/3 days from when game date is decided to submit an application to the club online - first come first served there, one per person. Included in the application would be your card details to make the payment for the ticket (obviously a secure payment system would be used) and your 'patron code' that's on the ST.

The tickets could then be made available for collection at the ground (much quicker than queuing up to pay), or posted out to people living outside Barnsley (hereby not penalising these people and people who can't get time off work to queue for tickets). The postage could be covered with an extra £1 charge say.

Then once this time has expired, people with for example 10 or more match ticket stubs would have the next day to apply, 8 or more the day after and so on. Finally any remaining tickets would go on general sale.

Then everyone who regularly attends should get a ticket as I'm sure a number of the 8000 or so regulars won't want to/be able to go to the game.

Maybe such a system would cost too much or something, but I'm simply offering a possible suggestion to use in some way. I think 2 and a half weeks between the game being announced and the day itself should be long enough to implement the above?

 

But why go to the expense and bother when you can just sell them to ST holders over 1 and a half days and not have to worry about it.

Cheaper and less work.




Oh, but it may upset a few folk.. But nevermind. Money comes first!

 

What if some ST holders don't use the internet?

 

Well they could go to the ground to apply I guess

No problem there.

 

My reasoning was...

It saves all the ridiculous queues, and allows people who don't live in Barnsley but are ST holders or those who can't get time off work to get a ticket.

'Big' clubs do something similar, so I guess it must work.

 

we only have this demand once at most a year all they need to do is 1 Per st holder

 

They did that years ago and it worked well

 

What if you can't get to the ground to queue though?

Tough luck?

Wouldn't be hard to make such a system or indeed cost a lot and would save all the queues and furore.

Making payment online cuts out the queues as well.

 

what if you cant get on internet

 

Everybody CAN get on the internet

And knows someone who uses the internet if they're not computer literate.