Ticket Zone - A lifeline or a nightmare?

[Jason H]

For pay on the day games, they have to pay a turnstile operator, by your reasoning then the club should be adding a charge for this.

I assume this is all part of the ticket cost. Naturally the additional cost of a ticket employee or two could be incorporated into the price of the ticket rather than as a "visible" extra.

 

[shabbashaz]

Why all the fuss? There are 4 to 5 thousand city fans we were there last season. We wear red and white, we are Trust Members. Plenty of room. Just pay on the gate on the day. More will miss out through fancy systems. If you have a trust card it's your club so you get in. Trust Card is a membership card everyone should have one, including ST holders and other Priority groups. Oh and another thing lets have no more of this nonsense of letting away fans into the Big Bank as with Tottenham. That was a big mistake that someone luckily got away with.

Why was it a big mistake???? The demand from the Tottenham fans was immense, so were we meant to turn them away. If so, how were we going to do this, by asking them a list of questions to see if they were a City supporter, if they failed to answer the questions properly then they would have been refused tickets????

 

[Ecfc man]

If it's OK to mix opposing supporters now then do it at every game. If not then it should never happen. There's no such thing as a friendly game for some folks especially if they are provoked.

 

[shabbashaz]

If it's OK to mix opposing supporters now then do it at every game. If not then it should never happen. There's no such thing as a friendly game for some folks especially if they are provoked.

So please explain, how we were going to stop the Tottenham fans from going into the home end

 

[Strongbow]

I assume this is all part of the ticket cost. Naturally the additional cost of a ticket employee or two could be incorporated into the price of the ticket rather than as a "visible" extra.

That is exactly the point I am trying to make, the cost of selling tickets should be part of the purchase price, meaning that the method of purchase wouldn't make a difference to the price paid.

 

[Ecfc man]

Direct them to the away end. It doesn't normally happen.

 

[Poultice]

Why was it a big mistake?

Beause mixing fans of different clubs inside the ground is entirely different from those same fans mixing in a pub before a game, well most pubs. Pre-season friendly with nowt on it or not there was still the possibility of it kicking off, see the Jewish chants thread, on this occasion it didn't happen but there is no reason, other than money grabbing, why we should be subjected to even the merest possibilty.

Segregation of fans is a fact of life and has dramatically changed the way in which we watch football, I was there in the 70s when it was easy for crews of thugs to get in to the "home" end and kick off, it was not pretty, at ECFC we are particularly prone to the problem because we have a scabby hole at one end of our ground where we expect the visitors to make the best of a bad lot, at the other end we have the best end terrace left in League football, don't be suprised if crews from around the country are already targetting it. Do we really think the old guy in the Hi-viz who couldn't get people to leave the front of the BB or clear the aisles Wednesday is gonna cope when a decent sized crew pile in ?

I don't want to be a portender of doom, I truly believe that times have changed to a greater extent and most people have moved on, but that ol' monster is still out there and ignoring it is the best way of getting bitten.

 

[shabbashaz]

Direct them to the away end. It doesn't normally happen.

It wasn't pay on the gate *sigh*

 

[Strongbow]

It wasn't pay on the gate *sigh*

From the ground regulations...

15. Any individual who has entered any part of the Ground designated for the use of any group of supporters to which he does not belong may be ejected from the Ground either for the purposes of his own safety or for any other reason

 

[shabbashaz]

From the ground regulations...

What about any City fans who were also Spurs fans, and wearing their Spurs top, then that would've been right for them to be ejected from the ground.

It happened, it can't be changed, it was a friendly, and aren't we going away from the OP