When you get to the turnstile do you put your phone in the slot like a seasoncard? Everyone seems to do that but you are supposed to hold your phone a cm from the reader because it works by radio transmission. Using the phone as a bar code is not very reliable. You can have problems with screen brightness for example.
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Queues
- Thread starter moggymoz
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Seem to be fewer buses to the ground this year. I used to get bus in and walk back but now I just walk it. Tiring but reliable.I arrived a bit earlier yesterday and it was better. Got there at 1:15 and was straight in and got served for a pint within 5 pints. The travel too and from is still a nightmare though. The same journey I’ve taken for 15 years is taking me 30/45 mins longer , same on the way out. Also finding Parking is harder don’t know why and I’ve tried mixing up my routes this season with the same outcome.
blue b4 the moon
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Phone in the hole is the way forward Marvin. The NFC has never worked on my phone at the ground but does elsewhere. I don't even bother with it now, just open the barcode in my Google Wallet, shove it in the hole, wait 1 or 2 seconds and I'm in.When you get to the turnstile do you put your phone in the slot like a seasoncard? Everyone seems to do that but you are supposed to hold your phone a cm from the reader because it works by radio transmission. Using the phone as a bar code is not very reliable. You can have problems with screen brightness for example.
Spent ages fucking about trying to enter the 'right way' first couple of games. It's not helped by the club saying 'Just the barcode' won't work to get in when it does. The NFC stuff has probably put quite a few off going as their phones don't support it.
ell
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Was running late on Sunday and thought I'd miss KO couldn't believe it when they had opened more turnstiles like an answer to our prayers, still I was too late for a pint of amstel, not because I was late but because they'd managed to sell out before kick off, oh well hopefully they can work on that one for next weekend. Well done city.
blue b4 the moon
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I was in early, didn't have a pint of piss/froth* but there was a girl & lad flogging beer tokens, well sort of, they seemed scared to approach anyone. Wonder how that works at HT if they've sold out?Was running late on Sunday and thought I'd miss KO couldn't believe it when they had opened more turnstiles like an answer to our prayers, still I was too late for a pint of amstel, not because I was late but because they'd managed to sell out before kick off, oh well hopefully they can work on that one for next weekend. Well done city.
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Invisible Man's Bandage
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Big improvement at SS yesterday. I enter via M1 but there was a steward directing people to N1 as the queues were shorter (there has never been that option previously). I got in fairly quickly having got there at 1.45 and was in my seat for KO. I thought the searches could have been a bit quicker as once I got to the now three turnstiles, two had no-one at them and the other just two people. Ideally they need to have a short queue at every turnstile to get to maximum efficiency but I think they will sort this out easily.
I don't know if new scanners have been installed or if I entered via the new turnstile but presenting my phone to the scanner worked far quicker than previously. This has been hit and miss and sometimes I've had to go to the QR code and insert my phone in the slot.
In summary, a big step in the right direction and potentially a solution to the queues that have dogged M1 since SS3 opened.
I don't know if new scanners have been installed or if I entered via the new turnstile but presenting my phone to the scanner worked far quicker than previously. This has been hit and miss and sometimes I've had to go to the QR code and insert my phone in the slot.
In summary, a big step in the right direction and potentially a solution to the queues that have dogged M1 since SS3 opened.
That was Neverton fans! Given that it was a Sunday afternoon ko what is th rush to disappear at 80 mins or before. Will be interesting to see how many people leave on Wednesday night that early if we are 3-0 up.No trouble getting out of the ground
Every home game there is a mass exodus on about the 85th minute
It's embarrassing
BillCarlisle
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Phone in the hole is the way forward Marvin. The NFC has never worked on my phone at the ground but does elsewhere. I don't even bother with it now, just open the barcode in my Google Wallet, shove it in the hole, wait 1 or 2 seconds and I'm in.
Spent ages fucking about trying to enter the 'right way' first couple of games. It's not helped by the club saying 'Just the barcode' won't work to get in when it does. The NFC stuff has probably put quite a few off going as their phones don't support it.
I suspect that for whatever reason the NFC at the Etihad doesn't work with older phones. I had this problem although NFC worked perfectly well elsewhere. Had to use the QR code in the slot method, ditto my son has the same issue with his. I changed my phone recently for a new Samsung and now NFC entry works fine. Its a crap system that apparently requires 50-odd thousand people to each have a bang up to date phone.
Gordyola
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NFC (near field communication) I have been holding my phone a cm from the reader just like a PDQ for a bank card however, since I put my phone in the slot, saw a guy doing it a few games ago, its works quicker and Im not in QR mode its definitely NFCWhen you get to the turnstile do you put your phone in the slot like a seasoncard? Everyone seems to do that but you are supposed to hold your phone a cm from the reader because it works by radio transmission. Using the phone as a bar code is not very reliable. You can have problems with screen brightness for example.