If you can manage to post on here and have access to a printer it's not that difficult. However I'd prefer to pay at the turnstile too and wonder if this way of doing things is actually saving any money.

At the end of the day, the club will be utterly mad if they spurn money from folk who simply want to turn up and pay on the gate. For sure, I can understand that they prefer fans to buy up front (what business wouldn't?) but we're not some homogenous lump that can be taken for granted; we're individuals, with individual reasons for choosing different options, including the choice of paying match by match. The club have to respond to that need or lose money and I'm far from sure we can afford to throw potential income down the drain.

I go to most games home and away and i always pre-purchase a ticket for a mate that comes with me most of the time. I love the new system online. Its so much easier that i can print the ticket. My mate doesn't use computers and has an old Nokia! So i do it for him.

If people are really that bothered about going, i'm sure they could either ring the club and purchase a ticket over phone and collect on the day or get someone to order online for them.

This time last year we just had a club, i personally think the club are moving forward.

I don't have a printer. I'm almost completely paperless. But it has now bitten me on the backside when my smartphone had it's tumble.




I think that's the key.

If it is saving the club a ton of money on turnstile staff. If it's getting them the same amount of money they'd normally get on a Sunday, but they're getting it earlier in the week, then it probably does justify the decisions as a bigger picture thing. Sure it might be inconvenient for me and some others, but if overall it's better for the club, I fully expect them to do that. Without access to that information though, it's difficult to know. You would hope someone at the club has done the maths and worked out it's the better option. But considering the way some others things have been dealt with in the last 12 months or so, it's hard to have that confidence.

Try to think of it as a £5 discount for booking early, rather than a £5 penalty for deciding late

No turnstiles open Sunday. 3 gates open for entry.

Yep, heard this in the shop this morning, although think they said just two gates with 2 stewards with hand held scanners on each.

can't they do it like on the buses now with those QR codes?

They are doing, Season tickets and all tickets now have QR codes on them

they can be read off a phone though so no need to have a piece of paper

Yeah, if you buy your tickets online, they send you an e-ticket with the QR code on it

I did this for the first time on Sunday (didn't attend Boxing Day). I have one or two points about it:

1. I went with 4 tickets. 3 tickets on 1 E-Mail and another ticket on a separate E-Mail due to my little sister wanting to come after we'd already booked. As there was no turnstiles (only the big green gate with 2 stewards on) it helped me personally as I didn't have to stand there and flick through 2 different emails and wait for them to be scanned. Instead the steward glanced at my email and just let me in. So for me it was quick and efficient as I have grown up with technology and it's second nature for me to use and can quickly open documents (like the tickets) however and older person doing this might struggle and might cause queue times to be longer so I do think a physical ticket would be better for those not clued on with technology to improve efficiency and fan preference. There should be at least 2 pay on the gate turnstiles for me. And at least have it as an option. Even if the club edges more people to buy online.

2. I can't speak for anyone else but the stewards didn't actually scan my E-Ticket. With that being said couldn't I just get a friend to E-Mail me his ticket and use that to get in? I mean how will they know if a ticket is being re-used if they aren't scanning them? I won't do this like but I feel like the club could face this problem in the future.

They didn't scan mine either. Someone else could have easily gained entry with a photocopy of my ticket.

One thing someone told me was that there was a very slow queue in the shop as a lot of people turned up on the day without tickets. Obviously some came on a whim and some hadn't know there were no turnstiles open. Anyway the queue was slow as two members of staff were dealing with ticket sales, season ticket collection and merchandise all at once. I was told that a few decided not to bother when they saw the queue.

Not sure this is the result the club wants.

Clearly not

And the whole 'not scanning the e-tickets' thing is an open invitation to people to ..ummm... 'game' the system for their own nefarious purposes.

Even though the majority won't, you only need a few that will for the whole system to end up costing the club a lot of money. In fact it could (will?) cost the club far more than whatever is saved by not opening up a couple of cash turnstiles.

I'm still struggling to understand why the club thinks its a good idea not to have cash turnstiles. No matter how much they push people to buy in advance online (and I'm not against that at all), there WILL still be quite a few people who don't know to do that, or simply don't want to. If those people end up being lost to the supporter base then it is surely counter-productive.

Just open a couple of cash turnstiles. Problem solved.