City had a separate window and it took us 3 minutes to collect our tickets that hadn't turned up.
There was a 15 minute pat down queue at the end of bridge 5 first. It will be different if it is 10% collecting rather than 1% failed post.
City had a separate window and it took us 3 minutes to collect our tickets that hadn't turned up.
Spot on although if they weren't able to return them what would happen to the tickets, either end up on a reseller site or just not used as what is £30 to some of these peopleits obvious that the Corporates are getting too many tickets and they aren’t given a strict deadline to return these by!
The tickets should be reaching people with lower points than the cut off
Spot on although if they weren't able to return them what would happen to the tickets, either end up on a reseller site or just not used as what is £30 to some of these people
Bit of a separate issue to the away tickets I suppose but I started the Istanbul song quite a few times on Saturday and it barely caught on. It was sung more than Bluemoon only 10/11 years ago, looks like people able to get tickets to away games have changed that much that they do not know it.
The atmosphere was strange all round I thought - both in the home and away ends - and it felt like too many people were still on holiday and couldn't be arsed getting up for the match. I was on the back row of the upper tier and needed my binoculars I was that far away from the action, but I still tried getting plenty of songs going - including the Istanbul one - and most of the time they fell on deaf ears. No doubt some of that was to do with the the make-up of our support though not all of it. There were still plenty of old faces in attendance but that said, a lot of those old faces don't bother singing either. When the atmosphere did get going, it was decent. I left bang on the final whistle and I was making my way up to Hackney Wick, you could hear the City fans still inside the ground making their way out loud and clear.
Back on topic, if collect at destination had been in operation for this game I reckon it would've been a complete disaster. There were huge queues for security checks at some of the entrances to the area surrounding the stadium 20-30 minutes before kick off. We were lucky - we left the 'spoons in Stratford at 11.40-ish for the 20 or so minute walk through the shopping centre to the stadium and the entrance we landed on wasn't too bad, but there was another one to the left of us that had a horrendously long queue and there wasn't a chance in hell that a lot of the fans in that queue were going to see the kick-off. If you'd dropped on that one AND then had to go and collect your ticket, you'd have been fucked.
That’s the block we were in and they’re the empty seats I saw, i thought a lot more than 40, it was as if a large group of people had not turned up.40 empty at least in Block 117 rows 16. 17 and 18. I thought it was a group that didn't make it on the day, if so they didn't arrive all day.
I picked up tickets from ticket office, no probs, a third of the way round the ground, pleasant (these days) through the crowds.
One week before the match is the deadline. Otherwise you are stuck with themits obvious that the Corporates are getting too many tickets and they aren’t given a strict deadline to return these by!
The tickets should be reaching people with lower points than the cut off
That’s the block we were in and they’re the empty seats I saw, i thought a lot more than 40, it was as if a large group of people had not turned up.