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Will you pay £25 for a ST card?

By Bert, in Leicester City Forum

Will you pay £25 for a ST card?  

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  1. 1. Will you pay £25 for a ST card?

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      187
    • No
      253

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An Away Move

An Away Move

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4 hours ago, LaCiudad said:

Yeah, and pretty much anyone else

You don’t speak for anywhere near the majority, let alone ‘anyone else’. 

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davieG

davieG

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1 hour ago, Daggers said:

We aren’t the only club. 
 

At least I’m guessing we aren’t as I can’t make out almost everything he says. @The Bear, can you translate?

 

 

Some in here - 

 

The Bear

The Bear

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Daggers said:

We aren’t the only club. 
 

At least I’m guessing we aren’t as I can’t make out almost everything he says. @The Bear, can you translate?

 

 

Jeff Shi's a willy puller. 

 

Can't say I agree with this £25 season card fee either. Robbing gits. 

 

How will it stop people sharing tickets any way? Surely a screenshot of the barcode/QR code will work just as well on the scanners? 

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fazzyfox

fazzyfox

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13 hours ago, Clarkielcfc said:

Is there a cut off date for the applying of cards, can’t remember?

5pm on Weds 5th of June. It’ll come out of my June food budget and budget for cat biscuits for Mr Tiddles (violin music)…...well ok 5 less pints for me in June but still, would have preferred an option to add it to the direct debit instead. 

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LaCiudad

LaCiudad

Posted
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44 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I've never seen Mount Everest with my own eyes. Doesn't mean it's not there. 

Right. So you're saying you haven't actually seen it but it does happen. 

 

The only times I've seen massive queues are cup games when people had print at home paper tickets. Paper is even further back in history than cards. You can't fight the march of time.

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CosbehFox

CosbehFox

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1 hour ago, LaCiudad said:

Right. So you're saying you haven't actually seen it but it does happen. 

 

The only times I've seen massive queues are cup games when people had print at home paper tickets. Paper is even further back in history than cards. You can't fight the march of time.

System went down for some at Norwich home this season. Thing is the take up is so low in certain parts of the ground, it didn’t overwhelm any particular turnstiles. 

Number 6

Number 6

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Think the issues with mobile tickets are being exaggerated to be honest. I have seen people have issues but they're usually pulled out the queue to sort. Also the figures showed around 1600 mobile tickets? Can't be causing that much chaos with those numbers.

Matt

Matt

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11 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

Think the issues with mobile tickets are being exaggerated to be honest. I have seen people have issues but they're usually pulled out the queue to sort. Also the figures showed around 1600 mobile tickets? Can't be causing that much chaos with those numbers.

Not just 1600 STH's though is it, I'm not sure what the case currently is with members - have they been made to use mobile ticketing? STH Guest options, e.t.c.

 

I used the ST Guest option twice earlier in the season, they wouldn't send a ticket out to me and forced me/the only option was a mobile ticket, so on one occasion I let the guest use my ST card while I used my phone, it failed and I had to run down to the ticket office...where they printed off a ticket despite being told from the off they couldn't do that. The second occasion it did work but it took me around 3 attempts to scan my phone.

Number 6

Number 6

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5 minutes ago, Matt said:

Not just 1600 STH's though is it, I'm not sure what the case currently is with members - have they been made to use mobile ticketing? STH Guest options, e.t.c.

 

I used the ST Guest option twice earlier in the season, they wouldn't send a ticket out to me and forced me/the only option was a mobile ticket, so on one occasion I let the guest use my ST card while I used my phone, it failed and I had to run down to the ticket office...where they printed off a ticket despite being told from the off they couldn't do that. The second occasion it did work but it took me around 3 attempts to scan my phone.

I suspect the group you mention probably do have more issues if forced through that route as everything is maybe just less familiar. Even then though STs make up the bulk of people trying to get in, and the vast majority of those apparently had a card.

StanSP

StanSP

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4 hours ago, LaCiudad said:

Right. So you're saying you haven't actually seen it but it does happen. 

 

The only times I've seen massive queues are cup games when people had print at home paper tickets. Paper is even further back in history than cards. You can't fight the march of time.

No. I'm saying I've seen it. I'm using your own logic against you. You refuse to believe it happens just because you've never seen it. 

 

 

dsr-burnley

dsr-burnley

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I haven't read the whole thread, only the first 3 and last 3 pages, so I may be making points that have already been made.

 

But for one thing, there can't be a problem with ticket touts with a season ticket card.  Nobody is going to pass their card to a stranger for asingle match because they wouldn't be sure about getting it back.  Season tickets lent out, would be to family and friends only, and more so - family and friends who you trust to behave and not get chucked out and ticket removed.

 

And there is the problem with restricting ticket transfers.  How many of us (at our respective clubs) first went to a match by borrowing someone else's tickets?  Not me, because my mother was a supporter long before I was born (long enough ago that she wondered if she was excluded from the "ladies and boys" half price tickets!).

 

But I've been going on Turf Moor for 40 years, and I know of 5 (no exaggeration) people who are now season ticket holders who can be traced to a ticket borrowed off my family.  Three who borrowed tickets directly from me, and two more who now attend with those people.  If you stop this sort of freebie "trial run", so to speak, you're denying yourself a lot of potential future customers.  It's all very well saying that "we have plenty of supporters, let's keep it a closed shop" but the time may come when you (or we or any other club) don't have plenty of supporters and would regret having turned them away.

 

Incidentally, one of the issues they had at Burnley several years ago when they tried to make tickets non-transferable, was that they were surprised how many of them are shared.  Shift workers who miss half a season but share with someone else who can't / won't attend every game.  Parents with shared custody of fanatical child fans, or parents who aren't interested in football but take turns to accompany their fanatical children. Brighton (among others) have put an absolute stop to that sort of sharing, because if someone turns up with the wrong i.d. the ticket is banned for 6 months.  What are Leicester doing about that?

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Foxes_Trust

Foxes_Trust

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10 hours ago, Matt said:

Not just 1600 STH's though is it, I'm not sure what the case currently is with members - have they been made to use mobile ticketing? STH Guest options, e.t.c.

 

I used the ST Guest option twice earlier in the season, they wouldn't send a ticket out to me and forced me/the only option was a mobile ticket, so on one occasion I let the guest use my ST card while I used my phone, it failed and I had to run down to the ticket office...where they printed off a ticket despite being told from the off they couldn't do that. The second occasion it did work but it took me around 3 attempts to scan my phone.

The club said 7,000 were currently using mobile tickets (of which it is known that for the 22/23 season 1,600 were ST holders). Yes the members were not offered a choice.

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Foxes_Trust

Foxes_Trust

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36 minutes ago, dsr-burnley said:

I haven't read the whole thread, only the first 3 and last 3 pages, so I may be making points that have already been made.

 

But for one thing, there can't be a problem with ticket touts with a season ticket card.  Nobody is going to pass their card to a stranger for asingle match because they wouldn't be sure about getting it back.  Season tickets lent out, would be to family and friends only, and more so - family and friends who you trust to behave and not get chucked out and ticket removed.

 

And there is the problem with restricting ticket transfers.  How many of us (at our respective clubs) first went to a match by borrowing someone else's tickets?  Not me, because my mother was a supporter long before I was born (long enough ago that she wondered if she was excluded from the "ladies and boys" half price tickets!).

 

But I've been going on Turf Moor for 40 years, and I know of 5 (no exaggeration) people who are now season ticket holders who can be traced to a ticket borrowed off my family.  Three who borrowed tickets directly from me, and two more who now attend with those people.  If you stop this sort of freebie "trial run", so to speak, you're denying yourself a lot of potential future customers.  It's all very well saying that "we have plenty of supporters, let's keep it a closed shop" but the time may come when you (or we or any other club) don't have plenty of supporters and would regret having turned them away.

 

Incidentally, one of the issues they had at Burnley several years ago when they tried to make tickets non-transferable, was that they were surprised how many of them are shared.  Shift workers who miss half a season but share with someone else who can't / won't attend every game.  Parents with shared custody of fanatical child fans, or parents who aren't interested in football but take turns to accompany their fanatical children. Brighton (among others) have put an absolute stop to that sort of sharing, because if someone turns up with the wrong i.d. the ticket is banned for 6 months.  What are Leicester doing about that?

Many of these points were raised by the Fans Groups during the 2 meetings that were held after the policy was announced.

 

In terms of the shared tickets scenario, we asked for more flexibility on the allowed 5 for resale & 5 for transferring, so it would become 10 games overall used in either way, therefore those who have shared for years would still be able to do so via the digital ticket route,  but the change wasn't made.

Daggers

Daggers

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Fighting the march of time?

 

Maguire here saying pretty much what I’ve been saying - and if no one is objecting, if absolutely no opposition is being mounted, then you can kiss goodbye to any semblance of being a fan. 
 

The future King Power are aiming for is one purely based around plastics and tourists, with no season ticket holders or singing sections. 
 

Cue meme: Where were you when they were fighting for the soul of football, Daddy?

 

 

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