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« Reply #8700 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 09:50:22 » |
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Where he is right in that it is impossible to police the correct tickets are being by bought by the correct people. If you buy your ticket on line there’s nothing to stop you clicking on the over 65 concession and paying £22 instead of £27. Nobody can check your age at all.
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« Reply #8701 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 09:50:32 » |
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I’d be amazed (well I actually I wouldn’t) if the January window discussions only started in December. I assume that some thought has been put into it but the finer details still need to be ironed out because we don’t know exactly who will and won’t be there come January.
Also, imagine thinking season ticket holders are getting ‘free games’ for fuck sake. They aren’t, they are getting a discounted price per game for committing to 23 home games up front. Do they think anyone would buy a season ticket of the cost was pay on the day prices x 23. No fucking chance and would those people then still go paying pay on the day prices every week. Hell no.
It’s not like selling something (anything) for a discounted price with a longer term commitment / higher quantity is a purely football specific thing. It happens in any sort of business. Every business man should know that (even the shite ones)
Like, the club couldn’t have come out of this any worse could they?
Next season it’ll be blanket prices all over £30 per ticket - no matter what age or what stand or you can buy a season ticket for £690 but that includes 2% off in the club shop when you purchase £50+ worth of merchandise on a Wednesday.
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« Reply #8702 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 09:53:48 » |
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Like, the club couldn’t have come out of this any worse could they? It's only Tuesday morning, give them time... |
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« Reply #8703 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 09:54:34 » |
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Where he is right in that it is impossible to police the correct tickets are being by bought by the correct people. If you buy your ticket on line there’s nothing to stop you clicking on the over 65 concession and paying £22 instead of £27. Nobody can check your age at all.
Pretty fecking easy to check at the turnstiles. I had mine checked before entering for the Mansfield game “Hi, can you prove you’re the right age for that ticket? No? Ok, you can’t come in” It’s not hard |
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« Reply #8704 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 09:55:02 » |
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Can someone explain why the club couldn't just publish the accounts, or a version of them, if they are, in theory, prepared for the Trust to do that?
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« Reply #8705 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 09:55:21 » |
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Where he is right in that it is impossible to police the correct tickets are being by bought by the correct people. If you buy your ticket on line there’s nothing to stop you clicking on the over 65 concession and paying £22 instead of £27. Nobody can check your age at all.
No idea if it's just me, but the guys at the Town End security always ask to check my ticket before I go in to make sure I've got the right ticket (prior to even reaching the gate). No idea if they just think I'm an untrustworthy looking bloke or just bad luck  |
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« Reply #8706 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 09:59:25 » |
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Pretty fecking easy to check at the turnstiles. I had mine checked before entering for the Mansfield game
“Hi, can you prove you’re the right age for that ticket? No? Ok, you can’t come in”
It’s not hard
I sit in the DRS nobody asks to see your ticket at all. You get to the turnstile scan your ticket, whether paper or digital, and go in. The person operating the turnstile has no way of knowing what sort of ticket you have just that the bar code lets you in. |
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« Reply #8707 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10:01:56 » |
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I sit in the DRS nobody asks to see your ticket at all. You get to the turnstile scan your ticket, whether paper or digital, and go in. The person operating the turnstile has no way of knowing what sort of ticket you have just that the bar code lets you in.
Doesn't it light up a different colour for concessions or am I imagining that's how it works? I haven't been a concession for a decade so could easily be wrong. |
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« Reply #8708 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10:04:28 » |
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No idea. Can’t really expect a young lad operating the turnstile to try and guess the age of everybody who goes in.
‘Sorry sir, you only look 63 not 65, off you go’.
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« Reply #8709 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10:04:31 » |
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Send out Anthony Hall to smooth things with the fans. Anthony Hall "load my gun"....  |
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To the cells of Warrington
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Cos we all follow the Swindon
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« Reply #8710 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10:07:27 » |
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Send out Anthony Hall to smooth things with the fans. Anthony Hall "load my gun".... Surely, knowing you’ll be facing questions from fans rep you’d have a good idea what the questions are likely to be and prep accordingly. I asked earlier what the duties of a CEO are supposed to be - would you need some footballing knowledge? |
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« Reply #8711 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10:11:08 » |
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No idea. Can’t really expect a young lad operating the turnstile to try and guess the age of everybody who goes in.
‘Sorry sir, you only look 63 not 65, off you go’.
I mean, that's how alcohol and cigarette sales enforcement works in every retail shop in the land, no? |
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« Reply #8712 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10:11:25 » |
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Everyone including Ex CEO Rob Angus, Michael Flynn and others claim Morfuni is consistently in contact them discussing everything from players, performances and opportunities including day to day issues etc.
In fact Morfuni stated this in one of his many BS interviews.
I fear Swindon have been taken as mugs yet again.
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Bogus Dave
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« Reply #8713 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10:16:44 » |
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I sit in the DRS nobody asks to see your ticket at all. You get to the turnstile scan your ticket, whether paper or digital, and go in. The person operating the turnstile has no way of knowing what sort of ticket you have just that the bar code lets you in.
It literally happened to me in the DRS My point is they can a) expand that operation or b) invest in turnstile technology to use the functionality properly to validate concessions |
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« Reply #8714 on: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10:17:57 » |
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In case anyone is wondering, the below is how many "free games" each of us season ticket holders are getting
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