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Post by Midsomer Murderer on Aug 13, 2018 10:56:55 GMT
I'll have a pint of what you've been drinking if you're being serious, automated turnstiles would cost thousands per turnstile, which would be all dead money when they are eventually knocked down. There's no reason why you can't get decent kit and move it when the time comes? The times they are a changing
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Post by baggins on Aug 13, 2018 10:59:13 GMT
I had the feeling we’d be seeing fully automated turnstiles soon. Given the paranoia over the introduction of these things and as a training exercise (for fans on how to use the cards) it seems a sensible step. I'll have a pint of what you've been drinking if you're being serious, automated turnstiles would cost thousands per turnstile, which would be all dead money when they are eventually knocked down. So they can't be moved and used again then?
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 13, 2018 18:53:49 GMT
When they introduced the electronic turnstiles at Bournemouth last season it was fairly chaotic for the friendlies and the first couple of league matches but it soon settled down. Having a person on each gate on Saturday sounds a sensible precaution by the club to cut down problems and reading this thread it seems to have worked. Sounds like congrats to the club for avoiding any major disruption and having a plan B. Should be ok tomorrow night, I hope. UTG!
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Post by Baxtinho on Aug 15, 2018 10:37:30 GMT
Apart from Babestation, my highlight last night was the opening of a cash turnstile at the North Terrace.
I tweeted Mr. Gorringe asking about it, but no reply as yet - I guess he's feeling a little sheepish.
Despite everyone knowing we had to buy in advance, yet hundreds of people leaving it until the last minute. Typical Rovers to backtrack on a policy because of a few angry gammons!
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Aug 15, 2018 10:41:25 GMT
Apart from Babestation, my highlight last night was the opening of a cash turnstile at the North Terrace. I tweeted Mr. Gorringe asking about it, but no reply as yet - I guess he's feeling a little sheepish. Despite everyone knowing we had to buy in advance, yet hundreds of people leaving it until the last minute. Typical Rovers to backtrack on a policy because of a few angry gammons! Are you sure everyone knew they had to buy in advance? Not everyone comes on here, or goes on the website.
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Post by amgas on Aug 15, 2018 10:49:47 GMT
In all honesty I looked at buying before on the weekend. Too late for the tickets to be physically delivered, would have to collect anyway. No option to add the ticket to my season card or to do a print at home. A charge to order in advance when I would have to queue at the ground to collect. Decided may as well pay ( less ) on the night, suspect many others did the same......
Guess now we all know we will be more inclined to buy earlier, but not really fair to blame fans - making a decision to go a few days before should be enough.
Also I normally sit in East Stand. Closed for some reason. I had £30 ready in my hand for two West stand seats. "Sorry sir sold out." - stood on the very busy West Enclosure instead as better than a South Stand seat. Given how Wael has told us we need to raise revenue, how many others would have spent more on a seat if any decent ones had been available ? Accept they might have saved money on cleaning stewards etc, but if they wanted to do that why not close the south stand and perhaps charge £12 a seat to fill the East ..... After all they say they want to give us a better match day experience, and IMO the east stand is the only decent one we have .....
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Post by Baxtinho on Aug 15, 2018 11:01:34 GMT
Apart from Babestation, my highlight last night was the opening of a cash turnstile at the North Terrace. I tweeted Mr. Gorringe asking about it, but no reply as yet - I guess he's feeling a little sheepish. Despite everyone knowing we had to buy in advance, yet hundreds of people leaving it until the last minute. Typical Rovers to backtrack on a policy because of a few angry gammons! Are you sure everyone knew they had to buy in advance? Not everyone comes on here, or goes on the website. Well I can't speak for literally everyone, but the talk all summer was of the new upgraded turnstiles, customer database and cards replacing old-fashioned tickets. I'm sure they were covered in print media too. If the club mentioned it everywhere they were able to (Twitter, website, paper) as well as things like this place, people can't complain they didn't know - though I'm not saying you were.
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Post by Baxtinho on Aug 15, 2018 11:04:55 GMT
In all honesty I looked at buying before on the weekend. Too late for the tickets to be physically delivered, would have to collect anyway. No option to add the ticket to my season card or to do a print at home. A charge to order in advance when I would have to queue at the ground to collect. Decided may as well pay ( less ) on the night, suspect many others did the same...... Guess now we all know we will be more inclined to buy earlier, but not really fair to blame fans - making a decision to go a few days before should be enough. Also I normally sit in East Stand. Closed for some reason. I had £30 ready in my hand for two West stand seats. "Sorry sir sold out." - stood on the very busy West Enclosure instead as better than a South Stand seat. Given how Wael has told us we need to raise revenue, how many others would have spent more on a seat if any decent ones had been available ? Accept they might have saved money on cleaning stewards etc, but if they wanted to do that why not close the south stand and perhaps charge £12 a seat to fill the East ..... After all they say they want to give us a better match day experience, and IMO the east stand is the only decent one we have ..... Nobody is blaming anyone. Not everyone had opportunity to get to the ground in advance, I was lucky in that I had a spare hour on Monday. It was communicated in good time that you have to get a ticket to get in, and that some areas of the ground were closed. You can't blame the club, or bizarrely, Wael. There were around 2300 people there, so why open the entire ground and have to pay the increased stewarding/staffing costs?
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Post by faggotygas on Aug 15, 2018 11:22:50 GMT
In all honesty I looked at buying before on the weekend. Too late for the tickets to be physically delivered, would have to collect anyway. No option to add the ticket to my season card or to do a print at home. A charge to order in advance when I would have to queue at the ground to collect. Decided may as well pay ( less ) on the night, suspect many others did the same...... Guess now we all know we will be more inclined to buy earlier, but not really fair to blame fans - making a decision to go a few days before should be enough. Also I normally sit in East Stand. Closed for some reason. I had £30 ready in my hand for two West stand seats. "Sorry sir sold out." - stood on the very busy West Enclosure instead as better than a South Stand seat. Given how Wael has told us we need to raise revenue, how many others would have spent more on a seat if any decent ones had been available ? Accept they might have saved money on cleaning stewards etc, but if they wanted to do that why not close the south stand and perhaps charge £12 a seat to fill the East ..... After all they say they want to give us a better match day experience, and IMO the east stand is the only decent one we have ..... Rubbish, there's no evidence at all that Rovers clean the stewards.
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Post by amgas on Aug 15, 2018 12:18:20 GMT
I guess my point is if you are going to close parts of the ground why close the only decent stand we have?
Plus given East stand seats would sell for £5 per person more, how much do we pay our stewards and cleaners ? A couple of hundred extra at £5 a pop pays an awful lot of people who I dare say are not paid much more than minimum wage.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Aug 15, 2018 12:37:12 GMT
I guess my point is if you are going to close parts of the ground why close the only decent stand we have? Maybe it was coz the East Stand bar isn't finished (if it is still not finished).
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Post by BishopstonBRFC on Aug 28, 2018 18:01:08 GMT
FFS can't we get anything right? The only thing I could do was laugh as the guy watched me beep my card at the machine before pressing a pedal to let me through! QPR just had the same system. Stupid tinpot ex Prem club.
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Post by lpgas on Aug 29, 2018 0:10:08 GMT
On Saturday I got "waved through" as the beep machine wasn't working. The bloke said as long as you have the card you are in.
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