Quote: HamsterChops "
As much as people can no doubt see the reasoning they're doing this, the fact remains that putting the price up on matchday, and having these convoluted ways of selling tickets instead of just letting people pay on the gate, means some fans will be put off. I know a lot of that is purely down to people's laziness or stubborness, but people want their matchday to be an enjoyable one, not a frustrating one (save what happens on the pitch)..'"
Bang on.
Aside from my own specific situation, how many people are there - largely at the... ahem.. 'older end' - who simply have no means of ever buying a ticket via 'that new fangled Internet thing'? Are we really expecting a 75 year old bloke who lives in, say, Baildon or Greengates, to get two buses to Odsal to buy an advance ticket? Clearly not. So why should that person have to be penalised (and however you dress it up, it does feel like that)? It feel annoying at best.
I just don't see an upside to it. All it does it make it much less likely that you'll get a decent 'walk up' support. I mean, how many people might there be who (obviously not in January) who look out of the window at lunchtime on a sunny Sunday and say to their missus: 'It's a lovely day, shall we go and watch the Bulls?' Then they find out it will cost then an extra tenner...