If we all convinced at least 2 newbies to come then we'd have over 20k there including Leeds fans. How good would that be for TV!!!!! We've all probably tried to get new fans to come to a game but let's give this an extra push this week. Ken deserves it from each and every one of us.

Like I said, I'm coming with 8 when there might be 1 before.

Our usual four has 6 extras!

The idea of selling the tickets at a cheaper price is an excellent one but the cost of the tickets is not actually £8 since they must be bought on the day before the match. The actual cost is £8 plus the cost in time and expense of going down to the stadium before match day. Alternatively it is £8 plus the £2 booking fee or alternatively it is the £8 plus the cost of booking them by telephone and queuing up to get them on the match day.
What I do not understand, given that Town and Fartown both use the same online booking service is why I can print out tickets for Town matches at home when I book them and avoid these additional fees but cannot do the same for Fartown matches. What is the point of tickets for SL matches being £3 cheaper if booked before the day when there is a £2 booking fee? Before anyone replies, “then become a season ticket holder,” I should add that I already am one. It is the effect on the occasional spectator such as the ones for the Leeds match that I am concerned with.

It took me less time to call the ticket office and order my tickets than it did to type your post I bet

And if you don't want to queue then pay 50p more and have them posted

What the hell do you want? For it to be delivered on a red velvet cushion carried by the priestesses of Avalon to the strains of some Wagnerian music?

£8 and 5 minutes on the phone. Fer crying out loud

A massive two pound- no how matter how many tickets you order, a phone call, 50p or a queue.
Either way it's less than half the price.
Some people are never happy eh!

Exactly !!

for a game like this the clubs could have easily charged £20 and some would have considered it reasonable.

It's £8 a ticket, or at most £10 inc fees and a trip to the stadium, which unless you live in another far distant town/county is nowt, what more do people want ?

?I want to be able to book it online and print it out at home in just the same way as I can for a Town match. Why can I not do it for a Fartown match

Perhaps it's because the giants aren't daft enough to leave the system open to fraud.

I haven't seen electronic turnstiles in use for the Giants. There would be nothing to stop you printing off copies. Not sure how Town combat this.

Perhaps I put my original post on the wrong thread. Let me be clear. The idea of a £8 ticket for the match against Leeds is an excellent one. We know that we are having a problem attracting crowds this season. The cost for the occasional spectator at a SL is £24 on the day of the match which is substantially more than it was last year. However it appears to be £21 if booked ahead of the match but in reality it is not £21 it is £23 with the booking fee. Trumpeting a saving of £3 if tickets are booked ahead of the match when there is not such a saving is not a way of winning customer goodwill and will not result in repeat orders, ie people coming again. Town and many other organizations seem to be able to solve this problem without fraud on tickets so why cannot we?

Whenever i get tickets to the theatre or a gig online I've had to pay a booking fee- (often more than £2) however when i ring the venue direct it cost me nothing- the giants is no different to how many other online ticket systems work. But it's not necessary to pay the booking fee. You can ring up and collect which costs the price of a phone call- which for me at least costs nothing. So £21 really can be £21 if you want it to be.

When Ken was in charge of both clubs, an electronic ticketing system was investigated and more or less agreed upon.

Since the takeover, Mr Hoyle has gone down a different route not agreeable to the Giants. To now go down the electronic route would necessitate a huge financial outlay.

The system could quite easily accept giants going down the electronic route as its the same system run by ticket master when you buy online! As for fraud the system in place only allows the bar code to be scanned once if anyone was to try and print out more than one copy the system wouldn't allow it and the ticket would be denied!

Do the turnstiles have electronic ticket reading equipment?
If so they could use that

Unless Hoyle is putting an exorbitant price on using it.