European away games ticketing policy

Photo on your season card - Stamp Away ticket with Customer number - Match them up close to the ground

Failing that everybody change their name to Millwallawayveteran1998 and beat him to the ticket office queue ;-)
 
It all sounds a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Buy your ticket. Go to the match, spend nearly two hours queuing up in the rain and ten go to the match in a bad mood.

I am glad I got my ticket from Celtic last night and avoided all that crap.
 
Thumb print ticket entry is the way forward like passport control in the USA or Iphone unlocking.

You buy your ticket, the club activate your thumb and you press it on an entry system at the ground.....

If a whore wanted to sell on his ticket he would have to chop his thumb off! Extreme....

In fact Im off to dragons den with this one!
Or go to a second hand shop.
 
Thumb print ticket entry is the way forward like passport control in the USA or Iphone unlocking.

You buy your ticket, the club activate your thumb and you press it on an entry system at the ground.....

If a whore wanted to sell on his ticket he would have to chop his thumb off! Extreme....

In fact Im off to dragons den with this one!
Get in the queue mate I've mentioned this before and it'll be happening before we know it.

Biometrics are being used in all sorts of businesses and it wouldn't take much to introduce it across football grounds with a national database.

It's the way forward...........
 
The events in Paris will not be stopped by making people queue up for two hours to collect tickets.

A very simple solution is to stop giving loyalty points for away European ties.


I don't see how that solution would stop the problem. People not intending to go will still buy and pass to friends and family that do not have the necessary points - perhaps I am missing something
 
I don't see how that solution would stop the problem. People not intending to go will still buy and pass to friends and family that do not have the necessary points - perhaps I am missing something

If anything I'd up the Euro points given. More travel, expense, effort and holidays taken etc.
 
Thumb print ticket entry is the way forward like passport control in the USA or Iphone unlocking.

You buy your ticket, the club activate your thumb and you press it on an entry system at the ground.....

If a whore wanted to sell on his ticket he would have to chop his thumb off! Extreme....

In fact Im off to dragons den with this one!

Great idea! Let's stop moaning about the odious controlling authorities monitoring our every move at Euro aways with secretly-filmed ticket collections. Bring in a fingerprint database in its place, that'll stop the bastards keeping an eye on us.

Oh, and we can keep the fingerprint data in the i-cloud, it'll be as safe as Pippa Middleton's arse up there.
 
I agree with you 100%. Whilst it's a ballache picking up the tickets, at least I can now attend the match whereas I would have had no chance for Celtic before the new system was introduced. I don't really care why it was brought in but it's made things fairer.

Agree. Whats wrong with a system that actually supplies a ticket to someone who is going to go to the game!!!!!
 
I don't think many disagree with the principle, the issue is with the implementation, It is unacceptable to ask people who have already paid £50 for a ticket, incurred travelling and hotel expenses and taken time off work, to then queue for a couple of hours in the rain. In any other world, the though of having your paying customers inconvenienced in this way is incomprehensible. I'm sure some of our older or less mobile fans could make a case under disability rights or age concern because attending a football match should not involve standing for 2 hours in the rain.
 
Absolutely nothing wrong with the new system. They just need to sort out a much slicker operation when it comes to collecting the tickets which would involve having a lot more staff at peak times. It can't be too difficult for them to work out when those peak times are.
 
Agree. Whats wrong with a system that actually supplies a ticket to someone who is going to go to the game!!!!!
I don't like the system but a benefit is definitely that tickets go those attending the match...my main issue is about how it's done, if we are having to live with this going forward it has to be done well ie efficiently, quickly and without the moody 'welcome' from the door staff' ( although it must have been s**t for them on Wednesday ....but at least they were getting paid)
 
Absolutely nothing wrong with the new system. They just need to sort out a much slicker operation when it comes to collecting the tickets which would involve having a lot more staff at peak times. It can't be too difficult for them to work out when those peak times are.
I agree in principle but it might take quite a time to plan for busy periods as I'd guess they'd vary depending on the distance etc. Glasgow is a busy city and there are a fair number of trains to the ground. the same could be said of Paris but the ground was much further from the collection point. BMG is different again as there's sod all in MG and we want to take advantage of free travel included with the match ticket. - And not everybody will stay in Dusseldorf.
 
It's not that difficult, as my flights and hotels are already booked for Barca and BMG.
I take printed confirmation to the Ticket Office, and they post the tickets special delivery to my hotel.

That's the exact system that served me well at Portugal 2004 and Germany 2006.
 
I agree with JGL07 - The easy way round the points whoring would be to stop giving points out for Euro aways, it wont eradicate people giving mates and family their ticket but i don't see that as a massive issue and its always gone on.
 
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I don't like the system but a benefit is definitely that tickets go those attending the match...my main issue is about how it's done, if we are having to live with this going forward it has to be done well ie efficiently, quickly and without the moody 'welcome' from the door staff' ( although it must have been s**t for them on Wednesday ....but at least they were getting paid)

Totally disagree with the system why can the club not put your passport number on the ticket, and you have to show your passport with your ticket at the ground,could be checked by City staff (supported by local police to stop any trouble)before you get to the turnstile.
 
Absolutely nothing wrong with the new system. They just need to sort out a much slicker operation when it comes to collecting the tickets which would involve having a lot more staff at peak times. It can't be too difficult for them to work out when those peak times are.
bet they will get enough volunteers for barca and gladbach sun & Christmas markets
 

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