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Post by Peter Parker on Apr 26, 2015 12:46:36 GMT
Subsequent posts imply it really was a bit of a confused shambles. Why can't we have a system that rewards people who've put in the miles to support the team? Its easy as well. Get an away card from the shop. Retain ticket stub , hand in at home game get a stamp. Simples. More stamps = more chance for away tickets
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Post by DudeLebowski on Apr 26, 2015 12:52:49 GMT
Sounds like a shambles to me. What is so hard in having one ticket office as 'AWAY PLAY OFF TICKETS ONLY' & another as 'HOME PLAY OFF TICKETS ONLY'?? Stuff the raffle tickets.
Oh so simple.
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Post by mjhgas on Apr 26, 2015 12:57:45 GMT
The club were never going to please everyone! In my opinion, the 1st leg should have been next Sunday.
The timescales for getting things organised are too tight!
Time to get resourceful Gasheads and head to FGR when they go on general sale!!!
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Post by ricardo on Apr 26, 2015 12:59:54 GMT
So they must have given out more raffle tickets than there were away tickets? You couldn't make it up!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 13:02:01 GMT
Subsequent posts imply it really was a bit of a confused shambles. Why can't we have a system that rewards people who've put in the miles to support the team? Its easy as well. Get an away card from the shop. Retain ticket stub , hand in at home game get a stamp. Simples. More stamps = more chance for away tickets Stop that right away, you're anti-board you are. Lock this thread to stop yourself posting such heresy. Seriously though, anyone who wants to defend how this club is run is bonkers. This is right up there with Santa's Grotto. I feel genuinely sorry for anyone who has dragged themself around the country all season and now misses out on the biggest game of the year so far.
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Post by mehewmagic on Apr 26, 2015 13:03:36 GMT
Sounds like a shambles to me. What is so hard in having one ticket office as 'AWAY PLAY OFF TICKETS ONLY' & another as 'HOME PLAY OFF TICKETS ONLY'?? Stuff the raffle tickets. Oh so simple. if that had been done everyone would have whinged about having to queue twice. The Basic idea of selling seats in the shop and terrace at the portacabin DOES make sense. The problem seems to be exactly how that was advertised and organised. PLUS the issue of how many away tkts were physically at the shop and how many at the portacabin
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 13:05:04 GMT
So they must have given out more raffle tickets than there were away tickets? You couldn't make it up! Not necessarily. But they would have given a ticket to someone who was there with several season tickets to get tickets for their mates. I know of groups who do this, saves on everyone having to trek up for tickets. So away tickets would have sold out before all the raffle tickets were redeemed
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Post by ricardo on Apr 26, 2015 13:07:22 GMT
So they must have given out more raffle tickets than there were away tickets? You couldn't make it up! Not necessarily. But they would have given a ticket to someone who was there with several season tickets to get tickets for their mates. I know of groups who do this, saves on everyone having to trek up for tickets. So away tickets would have sold out before all the raffle tickets were redeemed they gave a raffle ticket per season ticket, my group does this.
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Post by GasPanic! on Apr 26, 2015 13:10:46 GMT
T.WATola: "This has nothing to do with me and it's not my fault".
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Post by Peter Parker on Apr 26, 2015 13:11:21 GMT
If it was clearly marked get a raffle ticket for an away ticket, i would happily queue twice to have secured by tickets
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Post by mehewmagic on Apr 26, 2015 13:13:26 GMT
Subsequent posts imply it really was a bit of a confused shambles. Why can't we have a system that rewards people who've put in the miles to support the team? Its easy as well. Get an away card from the shop. Retain ticket stub , hand in at home game get a stamp. Simples. More stamps = more chance for away tickets easy to say. hard to organise / administer. In fact it's a bit of bureaucracy in a world already full of bureaucracy. so many 'what abouts...' e.g. what about all the grounds where we weren't given tickets when we went in? what about gasheads in hospitality? what about a gashead with, say, a Nuneaton friend, who goes in the home end for that match. TBH these 'loyalty' schemes do work quite well at big clubs with expensive computer systems, lots of staff, and where nearly every ticket will go through the club. As a simple example my best friend is a Norwich fan and as they have an all-seater stadium that is sold out pretty much every match [they even have one of those buy-back schemes, where ST holders who can't go to a match, will tellthe club, who then sell it on to someone who wants it] AND they have more fans who want to travel away than nearly all allocations they are given. In effect, therefore, nearly every seat at everymatch, home and away, is sold via the club. Quite easy to operate a loyalty / away type scheme in that situation.
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Post by Peter Parker on Apr 26, 2015 13:18:11 GMT
Its easy as well. Get an away card from the shop. Retain ticket stub , hand in at home game get a stamp. Simples. More stamps = more chance for away tickets easy to say. hard to organise / administer. In fact it's a bit of bureaucracy in a world already full of bureaucracy. so many 'what abouts...' e.g. what about all the grounds where we weren't given tickets when we went in? what about gasheads in hospitality? what about a gashead with, say, a Nuneaton friend, who goes in the home end for that match. TBH these 'loyalty' schemes do work quite well at big clubs with expensive computer systems, lots of staff, and where nearly every ticket will go through the club. As a simple example my best friend is a Norwich fan and as they have an all-seater stadium that is sold out pretty much every match [they even have one of those buy-back schemes, where ST holders who can't go to a match, will tellthe club, who then sell it on to someone who wants it] AND they have more fans who want to travel away than nearly all allocations they are given. In effect, therefore, nearly every seat at everymatch, home and away, is sold via the club. Quite easy to operate a loyalty / away type scheme in that situation. I appreciate that. Nothing is perfect but more could be done for regular away travelers and the basic principle works. Short of using the SC coaches every game and retaining the ticket nothing is fool proof. I dont go away often, but would have hated to take away an FGR ticket from someone because i fancied it, not far and a big game
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Post by mehewmagic on Apr 26, 2015 13:19:51 GMT
as usual the venom seems to be aimed at our club and loyal workers/volunteers, rather than outside factors out of our control.
Ok, so maybe our club isn't perfect, BUT what about
1 - the fact we are in a division with lots of little grounds
2 - that one of those clubs gave us a pathetic allocation, even by their standards. I'm interested to know if we had any seats [info so far suggests no] and if we weren't why on earth are we giving them seats, when they won't even sell out their terrace. that's a digression though...
3 - the fact that FGR will sell theirs slowly, thus suggesting we should have had more. Blame them, not our club.
4 - the fact that having to do all this within a week is a joke as well. Why so fast? That's the Conference's fault not our clubs.
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Post by Rex on Apr 26, 2015 13:20:46 GMT
They only gave us 800 tickets, the club sold them to priority one memberships, all pretty straight forward, so if you had a priority membership it made sense to get to the ground early. Although there was a touch of confusion about having two queues, and rumours circulating in the queues about how many tickets were available didn't help, talk of a shambles is well wide of the mark.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 13:25:45 GMT
Not necessarily. But they would have given a ticket to someone who was there with several season tickets to get tickets for their mates. I know of groups who do this, saves on everyone having to trek up for tickets. So away tickets would have sold out before all the raffle tickets were redeemed they gave a raffle ticket per season ticket, my group does this. That'll teach me to give them the benefit of the doubt
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Post by falsenumber9 on Apr 26, 2015 13:31:11 GMT
They only gave us 800 tickets, the club sold them to priority one memberships, all pretty straight forward, so if you had a priority membership it made sense to get to the ground early. Although there was a touch of confusion about having two queues, and rumours circulating in the queues about how many tickets were available didn't help, talk of a shambles is well wide of the mark. Touch of confusion? No one knew where exactly to go and there were no club officials on hand to clarify. The club stated that tickets would go on sale from midday yet seemingly handed out raffle tickets to people in both queues earlier on in the morning and failed to communicate this. It was a really poor way of managing the situation, and it's certainly not the first time we've said that.
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Post by falsenumber9 on Apr 26, 2015 13:33:50 GMT
as usual the venom seems to be aimed at our club and loyal workers/volunteers, rather than outside factors out of our control. Ok, so maybe our club isn't perfect, BUT what about 1 - the fact we are in a division with lots of little grounds 2 - that one of those clubs gave us a pathetic allocation, even by their standards. I'm interested to know if we had any seats [info so far suggests no] and if we weren't why on earth are we giving them seats, when they won't even sell out their terrace. that's a digression though... 3 - the fact that FGR will sell theirs slowly, thus suggesting we should have had more. Blame them, not our club. 4 - the fact that having to do all this within a week is a joke as well. Why so fast? That's the Conference's fault not our clubs. And who was it that got us in a 'division with lots of little grounds'? I take my hat off to the loyal workers and volunteers, they deserve a lot of credit. I'm in no doubt though that a club with the supporter base we have should be managed far more efficiently and professionally than we see.
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Post by Henbury Gas on Apr 26, 2015 13:35:22 GMT
And people wonder why the BoD are questioned over their professionalism Jesus Christ Nothing to do with the board sack the stadium manager ! its not as if he has anything hard to do is it ?
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Post by Rex on Apr 26, 2015 13:36:18 GMT
They only gave us 800 tickets, the club sold them to priority one memberships, all pretty straight forward, so if you had a priority membership it made sense to get to the ground early. Although there was a touch of confusion about having two queues, and rumours circulating in the queues about how many tickets were available didn't help, talk of a shambles is well wide of the mark. Touch of confusion? No one knew where exactly to go and there were no club officials on hand to clarify. The club stated that tickets would go on sale from midday yet seemingly handed out raffle tickets to people in both queues earlier on in the morning and failed to communicate this. It was a really poor way of managing the situation, and it's certainly not the first time we've said that.
Well I knew exactly where to go- I asked someone rather than listen to what other people in the queue were saying. The raffle tickets were handed out to ensure that people didn't queue when they had no chance of a ticket.
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Post by falsenumber9 on Apr 26, 2015 13:39:27 GMT
Touch of confusion? No one knew where exactly to go and there were no club officials on hand to clarify. The club stated that tickets would go on sale from midday yet seemingly handed out raffle tickets to people in both queues earlier on in the morning and failed to communicate this. It was a really poor way of managing the situation, and it's certainly not the first time we've said that.
Well I knew exactly where to go- I asked someone rather than listen to what other people in the queue were saying. The raffle tickets were handed out to ensure that people didn't queue when they had no chance of a ticket.
Who did you ask? A club official? The point being that people, and lots of them, were queuing for hours when they had no chance of a ticket. Handing out raffle tickets in both queues without communicating their intention to do so isn't the most foolproof system, is it not?
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