Queues

Not a big fan of the new system being introduced without any alternatives for those without iPhones, printers etc, but we arrived at 12.15 (drinking elsewhere til then) at Entrance B and were in by 12.18. No Qs, no hassle no problem. Shows it can be done.
 
WNRH said:
Is there any reason why there can't be a perimeter ring around the ground that includes turnstiles?

You could probably fit double or even treble entrances that would help people entering and also those who leave City Square 10-15 mins before KO would already be in.

There is a lot of fans who just mingle outside round the catering vans before joining a que to enter the ground.

They have something similar like this at Hamburg SV and it works perfectly.
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There was v Everton, no turnstiles,just staff.
Didn’t work out
 
colinthewindowcleaner said:
Strangest thing...if you arrive by tram, they now have barriers that force you into the crowd coming up from the gas works...where’s the logic?
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They stopped a couple of people yesterday because of the size of their bags in that ‘kettling’ thing at top of the stairs from the tram! It is strange though because why would they need the barriers?
But it’s a very weird system altogether this season.
Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die… ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
 
colinthewindowcleaner said:
Strangest thing...if you arrive by tram, they now have barriers that force you into the crowd coming up from the gas works...where’s the logic?
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They had that there against Everton in the first match after covid. I understood it then but I have no idea why it was there yesterday. A total joke and bloody irritating. It's getting like a fucking East European dictatorship just going to a match these days. I have complained about it in the latest survey they sent me.
 
We have a ground that is shockingly served by local transport. We have a ground 1 mile from one of the largest cities in the UK. We have a new ticket entry system that demands we get to the ground at some ridiculous fucking hour. We have 90% of those ticket holders thinking “fuck that I’ll stay in the boozer and rock up ten mins before ko” and we have an utterly shit number of turnstiles. It’s an amalgam of many things, some within our ability to change (don’t booze until 2:55) most not. As I walked back into town after the game I looked at the shambolic traffic and the buses crawling into Piccadilly. We’ve been at the etihad for nearly 2 decades. Getting in and getting home have been a perennial issue from day one. Shuttle buses in and out. Hundreds of them. Loads of turnstiles. Park and ride. It’s not fucking rocket science
 
johnnytapia said:
We have a ground that is shockingly served by local transport. We have a ground 1 mile from one of the largest cities in the UK. We have a new ticket entry system that demands we get to the ground at some ridiculous fucking hour. We have 90% of those ticket holders thinking “fuck that I’ll stay in the boozer and rock up ten mins before ko” and we have an utterly shit number of turnstiles. It’s an amalgam of many things, some within our ability to change (don’t booze until 2:55) most not. As I walked back into town after the game I looked at the shambolic traffic and the buses crawling into Piccadilly. We’ve been at the etihad for nearly 2 decades. Getting in and getting home have been a perennial issue from day one. Shuttle buses in and out. Hundreds of them. Loads of turnstiles. Park and ride. It’s not fucking rocket science
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The tram system is horrendous. I used to be able to get on a tram at Altrincham and go straight to the game. Now I have to get off at Cornbrook and wait with loads of other people unloaded there, sometimes for 15 minutes, for an already crowded tram to arrive. The tram goes to Piccadilly station anyway, why can't it just carry on to the stadium? All trams that go in that direction should just carry on to the stadium on matchdays.

The 216 bus is just as bad. The traffic is horrendous and against Norwich I got off and walked it was so bad. After the game it is ludicrous. We all wait in one long queue with loads of stewards standing around clueless until one bus is full. Then the door opens on the next bus and we start again. Even in the pouring rain they just fill one bus at a time. The speed, or lack of it, isn't helped by utter fuckwits who still don't know how much it is or have their money ready when they board. Then the other knobheads who won't move from near the door so people can't get past or get upstairs. Once the bus eventually moves hundreds of people walk in the road so it is a snails pace.

We had no games for 18 months and everywhere closed, an ideal time to make some improvements and perhaps give some work to people struggling. Instead we are just as bad as before.
 
On leaving SS3 at full-time (v Norwich I walked into town as I was drinking) on the way back to my car the queue for the tram to Manchester was 'really' small, usually by the time I get round there it's queued up onto JMW but on Saturday there was nothing outside the station itself which was surprising.

Re buses did I hear over the much improved tannoy system that buses to town were free?
 
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