Headline for me is their default move to mobile tickets with supporters able to buy a season ticket card for £25 if they choose.
Brain dead idiocy as usual. Especially as 93% of supporters have specifically chosen to use cards this season.
General point of 5% increase seems fair enough.
****ing morons. Is the 93% accurate?
****ing morons. Is the 93% accurate?
The evidence from my own eyes this season and last tells me that this is wrong. Every turnstile I've been through this season, almost everyone has used the phone for entry.1,600 out of 23,000 season ticket holders have the digital phone access. The FT shared those numbers a while back.
They've tried to test it more in cup ties and every one has resulted in huge queues and issues.
Difficult to achieve when you are sleepwalking though.The evidence from my own eyes this season and last tells me that this is wrong. Every turnstile I've been through this season, almost everyone has used the phone for entry.
I genuinely can't fathom what your issue is with this.
Just for clarity on how easy this is for a ST holder:
- once a season the club will email you your season ticket.
- you press the 'add to wallet' button in the email.
- when you attend a match you unlock you phone and then touch your phone to the pad.
- walk through the turnstile.
The evidence from my own eyes this season and last tells me that this is wrong. Every turnstile I've been through this season, almost everyone has used the phone for entry.
I genuinely can't fathom what your issue is with this.
Just for clarity on how easy this is for a ST holder:
- once a season the club will email you your season ticket.
- you press the 'add to wallet' button in the email.
- when you attend a match you unlock you phone and then touch your phone to the pad.
- walk through the turnstile.
The evidence from my own eyes this season and last tells me that this is wrong. Every turnstile I've been through this season, almost everyone has used the phone for entry.
I genuinely can't fathom what your issue is with this.
Just for clarity on how easy this is for a ST holder:
- once a season the club will email you your season ticket.
- you press the 'add to wallet' button in the email.
- when you attend a match you unlock you phone and then touch your phone to the pad.
- walk through the turnstile.
The technology works absolutely fine.The evidence from my own eyes this season and last tells me that every time someone is delayed by a queue at the turnstile, it's because someone is stuck fiddling about with this.
I have no issue with anyone that wants to use it to do so. I just believe that the technology is not good enough and the bulk of supporters are not ready, willing or able to use it.
The evidence from my own eyes this season and last tells me that every time someone is delayed by a queue at the turnstile, it's because someone is stuck fiddling about with this.
Agree with this. Obviously, it's better that people choose to use it because it's faster and easier to use.The technology works absolutely fine.
Forcing people to use it when the blip of an nfc card takes exactly the same time and costs the club pretty much the same is an issue in my opinion.
As a club we will charge supporters for absolutely anything that we can. Let’s say half the season tickets holders buy a card. That is , what, 10,000? So the club makes £250,000 from selling cards.
Not a huge revenue stream and a great way to piss off 10,000 people for no good reason
I don't understand how getting a phone out, opening the wallet, finding the right option and then using it is any faster than simply getting a car out and holding it in a turnstile, but I can definitely see that it's easier to forget - most people always have their phones on them - and remove the admin of having to print temporary tickets.With a maximum of 7,000 home fans using it according to your (obviously incorrect) numbers, I'm surprised it's caused any kind of an issue at all.
Agree with this. Obviously, it's better that people choose to use it because it's faster and easier to use.
That said, I could well imagine that printing, setting up and posting the card would probably cost about a tenner.
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1 | Liverpool | 11 | 28 |
2 | Manchester C | 11 | 23 |
3 | Chelsea | 11 | 19 |
4 | Arsenal | 11 | 19 |
5 | Nottm F | 11 | 19 |
6 | Brighton | 11 | 19 |
7 | Fulham | 11 | 18 |
8 | Newcastle | 11 | 18 |
9 | Aston Villa | 11 | 18 |
10 | Tottenham | 11 | 16 |
11 | Brentford | 11 | 16 |
12 | Bournemouth | 11 | 15 |
13 | Manchester U | 11 | 15 |
14 | West Ham | 11 | 12 |
15 | Leicester | 11 | 10 |
16 | Everton | 11 | 10 |
17 | Ipswich | 11 | 8 |
18 | Palace | 11 | 7 |
19 | Wolves | 11 | 6 |
20 | Southampton | 11 | 4 |