: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:14 pm
eddievan wrote:
This might be the intention but it does not work. The old system had each ticket checked once. The new system might mean the same ticket needs to be checked three or four times allowing for trips to bar, food and wee breaks. The number of actual transactions could be quadrupled and the free flow of people much worse.
The system is also open to people abusing it and getting people into the stand for free which is bad for the club. There was a family sat near to me (four fans all season ticket holders) who showed their tickets to get in and then sent the tickets (with one of them) to the back of the stands to allow three other people in for free.
I go to all away games and I have seen nothing like this. If it aint broke why try to fix it.
I go to all the away games too and I have seen worse, far far worse.
To be honest the way it was supposed to work was not the way it did, first home game of the season and all that, I'm not excusing how things were but the theory behind it is sound and once the stewards are positioned correctly and are doing what they should be doing and not being 'Checkpoint Charlie' it will be easier and make getting around the ground easier and a bit more cost effective for the Bulls.
I know you only got your tickets checked once when you were at the Stand but how many times did you have to wait to have parts of your tickets taken just to get into the Stand using the old system.
I come in from Car Park D and you were stopped once at the top gate, bit of ticket taken, just to enter the ground, then you were stopped again, to hand over another bit of ticket, at the turnstile and gate at the bottom to enter the Stand.
Once you were in the Stand if you did not like what was on offer at the concessions behind the Stand, there not enough room for everything there, you had to then go through another gate to get out of the Stand to walk round get whatever food you wanted and run the same gauntlet on the way back. Also anyone in the Coral Stand who wanted anything from the concessions or to use the shop etc could not do get there, they were stopped.
The Stewards should be at the top of the aisles in the Stand and just check the tickets on entry, not every time you go for a beer or the loo. If people are abusing season tickets to get more people in then that is something the Club will look at and they will, they as you say cannot afford to lose that money.
As I've said I'm not defending how things were but it 'should' if things are done as they should be make it easier and make the game day experience better.
It was though a real nightmare yesterday I agree.
The only reason I can see why they've changed the system is so people who aren't sitting in the stand can get to the facilities, toilets, shops, bar etc.
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