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Post by BishopstonBRFC on Aug 7, 2018 10:34:49 GMT
So it looks like the new east stand hasn't arrived yet. I know they said it was quick to put up, but surely 4 days before the game is cutting it a bit fine. We already know the SW stand is delayed, and people will be moved to the south stand instead. Will the people who have a ticket for the NE stand be directed back to the family terrace? Presumably some of them will need the seat they paid for and will therefore go to the South Stand. The away fans who bought seats will need their segregated area in the south stand. That's a lot of people being redirected to the south stand. Combine that with a new automatic turnstile system that has never been match tested, it could be a fun Saturday. Surely by now they should be at least being built? It makes me wonder if you can just smash them up in two days as if they aren't going to be ready the club should already have a contingency plan in action to tell fans in these stands where to go.
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Post by jhgas on Aug 7, 2018 10:44:24 GMT
Genuine question (and i'm sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere), now that Rovers do not have an early bird ticket available online is it now cheaper to buy on the gate?
Just went to book two tickets for Saturday but you get charged a £1.50 admin fee on top the ticket price (£18 x 2 + £1.50). (Edit: also 65p charge for postage)
So i'm thinking is it better to pay on the day or am i missing something here (2x £18)?
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 11:42:47 GMT
Why ! Me and my family have no stand to which we have purchased season tickets to watch the football from. If this issue is not sorted during the coming week we will be asking for a full season ticket refund and will go to games on a pay on the day. All of this is totally unacceptable when a family of working class rovers fanatics are so disenfranchised by the lack of a simple statement from the club . Question ? Why is everything so hard to get any information.. players injuries. Training ground. Stadium progress .it's 2018 not 1973 without fans such as us you have nothing please ROVERS communication let me down and that was in the eighties ...but you only need a seat! Which you will have! Relax! Deep breath! Ok, yes, a few deep breaths are probably needed but also do you know what it's like bringing kids (maybe young ones) to football? Def is good to know where you are sitting etc.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 11:49:35 GMT
Simple question; clubs with electronic ticketing options (including the sheeds). How many have pay at the turnstiles, or do you need to queue separately at a ticket office? I thought the whole point is to not have staff in the turnstile, but to have stewards outside (and/or just inside the ground) who sort out any problems. Every away ground I've been to who have electronic turnstiles make you but a tkt at an office. Also, the point is to take cash away from turnstile operators / have less cash to bank in general.
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 7, 2018 11:56:40 GMT
Simple question; clubs with electronic ticketing options (including the sheeds). How many have pay at the turnstiles, or do you need to queue separately at a ticket office? I thought the whole point is to not have staff in the turnstile, but to have stewards outside (and/or just inside the ground) who sort out any problems. Every away ground I've been to who have electronic turnstiles make you but a tkt at an office. Also, the point is to take cash away from turnstile operators / have less cash to bank in general. But ours aren't electronic turnstiles but just card machines to count the number of spectators using each turnstile in order to meet the latest FA rules, the turnstile operator as still got to let you in. I sense you can just stick a Tesco clubcard etc in the new machines and they'll still work!!
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Aug 7, 2018 11:56:44 GMT
Fans are advised to purchase tickets in advance of Saturday's game against Accrington Stanley at the Mem, to avoid queues.
We are anticipating a busy day at the Ticket Office and recommend purchasing ahead online; this is the easiest option.
If you do end up buying tickets on the day, we'd like to remind you to do this at the Ticket Office situated outside the ground between the North Terrace and West Stand.
We also advise getting to the ground early to avoid queueing for your ticket and would like to point out that we cannot accept cash on the turnstiles.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 11:58:43 GMT
Simple question; clubs with electronic ticketing options (including the sheeds). How many have pay at the turnstiles, or do you need to queue separately at a ticket office? I think the Teds have the option to buy online, and print the ticket out at home - otherwise, you have to queue at the ticket office. There needs to be several operators selling tickets, at different windows, in order to keep the queues moving quickly - not sure that we have that sort of set-up at The Mem. Make sense. Everything else in life can be done like that. Print at home is quite normal. Or QR type tickets. I'm not the most technologically savvy person but having a (free) oyster type card for Bristol buses is amazing. Also, bought a train ticket the other day whilst on the bus to get to the train station. held phone to scanner & bingo, straight in the station. As someone who often does have to go to the portacabins for my tkt, I'd say they don't have much space capacity. Sat could be a nightmare. They do their best but always queues & club make it a little over complicated by charging 1 fee (a flat fee) if you use debit card, a different type of fee if you use a credit card, and free for cash. Finally, ending early bird tkts, yet still charging for postage & transaction fees online is a serious step backwards for fans who don't have STs.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Aug 7, 2018 11:58:56 GMT
I thought the whole point is to not have staff in the turnstile, but to have stewards outside (and/or just inside the ground) who sort out any problems. Every away ground I've been to who have electronic turnstiles make you but a tkt at an office. Also, the point is to take cash away from turnstile operators / have less cash to bank in general. But ours aren't electronic turnstiles but just card machines to count the number of spectators using each turnstile in order to meet the latest FA rules, the turnstile operator as still got to let you in. I sense you can just stick a Tesco clubcard etc in the new machines and they'll still work!! Not saying you're wrong about the turnstiles, but if you're not, then it seems a bit ridiculous. But the bolded bit, I'm sure that's entirely incorrect.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 12:03:04 GMT
Genuine question (and i'm sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere), now that Rovers do not have an early bird ticket available online is it now cheaper to buy on the gate? Just went to book two tickets for Saturday but you get charged a £1.50 admin fee on top the ticket price (£18 x 2 + £1.50). (Edit: also 65p charge for postage) So i'm thinking is it better to pay on the day or am i missing something here (2x £18)? It may depend on whether club have changed anything at the ticket office. For several seasons the tkt office portacabins have been a little over complicated by charging 1 fee (a flat fee) if you use debit card, a different type of fee (per ticket) if you use a credit card, and free for cash. Ending early bird tkts, yet still charging for postage & transaction fees online is a serious step backwards for fans who don't have STs. I don't think that one was thought through!
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 12:07:49 GMT
I thought the whole point is to not have staff in the turnstile, but to have stewards outside (and/or just inside the ground) who sort out any problems. Every away ground I've been to who have electronic turnstiles make you but a tkt at an office. Also, the point is to take cash away from turnstile operators / have less cash to bank in general. But ours aren't electronic turnstiles but just card machines to count the number of spectators using each turnstile in order to meet the latest FA rules, the turnstile operator as still got to let you in... Fair enough. Disappointing but I guess it is at least a start towards a more integrated system in the future? And will take cash away from the turnstiles / operators that currently take it.
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 7, 2018 12:10:29 GMT
But ours aren't electronic turnstiles but just card machines to count the number of spectators using each turnstile in order to meet the latest FA rules, the turnstile operator as still got to let you in... Fair enough. Disappointing but I guess it is at least a start towards a more integrated system in the future? And will take cash away from the turnstiles / operators that currently take it. Problem I can see is the present cards seem basic so for cup games you still have to buy a ticket rather than have the game charged to the card. Whether it's cheap upgrade is anybody's guess.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2018 12:12:06 GMT
Fans are advised to purchase tickets in advance of Saturday's game against Accrington Stanley at the Mem, to avoid queues. We are anticipating a busy day at the Ticket Office and recommend purchasing ahead online; this is the easiest option. If you do end up buying tickets on the day, we'd like to remind you to do this at the Ticket Office situated outside the ground between the North Terrace and West Stand. We also advise getting to the ground early to avoid queueing for your ticket and would like to point out that we cannot accept cash on the turnstiles. It's going to be chaos mark my word....
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Aug 7, 2018 12:59:54 GMT
"Fans are advised to purchase tickets in advance of Saturday's game against Accrington Stanley at the Mem, to avoid queues.
We are anticipating a busy day at the Ticket Office and recommend purchasing ahead online; this is the easiest option.
If you do end up buying tickets on the day, we'd like to remind you to do this at the Ticket Office situated outside the ground between the North Terrace and West Stand.
We also advise getting to the ground early to avoid queueing for your ticket and would like to point out that we cannot accept cash on the turnstiles."
It's going to be absolute carnage on Saturday, we've got the untried and untested new cards. No more cash on the turnstiles, so they've made the wise decision to get rid of the early bird prices to encourage people to buy tickets online.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2018 13:04:36 GMT
Do you have to order your sausage rolls in advance? Will they accept cash for them?
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 7, 2018 13:07:38 GMT
But ours aren't electronic turnstiles but just card machines to count the number of spectators using each turnstile in order to meet the latest FA rules, the turnstile operator as still got to let you in. I sense you can just stick a Tesco clubcard etc in the new machines and they'll still work!! Not saying you're wrong about the turnstiles, but if you're not, then it seems a bit ridiculous. But the bolded bit, I'm sure that's entirely incorrect. Neither am I but there's no magnetic strip or sign of a electonic chip on the card, it just looks like a bit of plastic to me plus if they are now just producing them in the club shop(?) I can't see there is anything high tech about them.
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Post by BrightonGas on Aug 7, 2018 13:08:22 GMT
...but you only need a seat! Which you will have! Relax! Deep breath! Ok, yes, a few deep breaths are probably needed but also do you know what it's like bringing kids (maybe young ones) to football? Def is good to know where you are sitting etc. I guess so, although my son and I had no idea where we would be sitting last Saturday before we arrived!
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Aug 7, 2018 13:23:07 GMT
Not saying you're wrong about the turnstiles, but if you're not, then it seems a bit ridiculous. But the bolded bit, I'm sure that's entirely incorrect. Neither am I but there's no magnetic strip or sign of a electonic chip on the card, it just looks like a bit of plastic to me plus if they are now just producing them in the club shop(?) I can't see there is anything high tech about them. The stuff is inside, these days. They don't make them in the club shop, they just activate them (ie notify the database that the card is now in use). You could re-shape it and turn it into a ring, for example, and it should still work: Or even insert it into your body, and you'll never forget your ticket again. www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/585131/Man-NFC-Chip-Embed-Hand-Operation-Contactless-Card-Oyster-TFL
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2018 13:24:15 GMT
Not saying you're wrong about the turnstiles, but if you're not, then it seems a bit ridiculous. But the bolded bit, I'm sure that's entirely incorrect. Neither am I but there's no magnetic strip or sign of a electonic chip on the card, it just looks like a bit of plastic to me plus if they are now just producing them in the club shop(?) I can't see there is anything high tech about them. Think you will find our new season ticket cards are like several other clubs, Fulham for example. Just because you can't see chips or magnetic stripes does' not mean you can knock one up in your garage!
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 14:19:41 GMT
Neither am I but there's no magnetic strip or sign of a electonic chip on the card, it just looks like a bit of plastic to me plus if they are now just producing them in the club shop(?) I can't see there is anything high tech about them. The stuff is inside, these days. They don't make them in the club shop, they just activate them (ie notify the database that the card is now in use). You could re-shape it and turn it into a ring, for example, and it should still work: Or even insert it into your body, and you'll never forget your ticket again. www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/585131/Man-NFC-Chip-Embed-Hand-Operation-Contactless-Card-Oyster-TFLI know whose ring I'd like to insert one in 😂😂
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Post by matealotblue on Aug 7, 2018 14:22:55 GMT
I thought the whole point is to not have staff in the turnstile, but to have stewards outside (and/or just inside the ground) who sort out any problems. Every away ground I've been to who have electronic turnstiles make you but a tkt at an office. Also, the point is to take cash away from turnstile operators / have less cash to bank in general. But ours aren't electronic turnstiles but just card machines to count the number of spectators using each turnstile in order to meet the latest FA rules, the turnstile operator as still got to let you in. I sense you can just stick a Tesco clubcard etc in the new machines and they'll still work!! Do you think a Sainsbury’s card would work......just asking like....🤭
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