Ticket queues in Glasgow

[East Level 2]

To add to this, and the increasing hurdles being put before us, they continue to merrily hand out tickets and wristbands on the Thomas Cook package mid-flight - it wouldn't surprise me to see TC travel banners on social media news feeds blatantly advertising "avoid the queues in the cold and the rain"

At least those on the TC travel weren't adding to the queues.

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

WTF they hand out City tickets regardless of who's who? Is that why there's always the same clusters of empty seats in the North stand?

You still have to produce your ID on their trips.
Use them when I can't be arsed sorting anything else out.
It's not just City by all accounts - but they needed more staff yesterday for sure.

 

[jrb]

Ironically, I was asked 3 times within the space of 5 minutes last night, (just outside the stadium)
Never been asked once on previous trips.

I wasn"t asked.

I just held my ticket up and went through the stewards.

Perhaps I just got lucky?

Still got my wristband on. :-)

 

[East Level 2]

Did anyone show their wristband outside the ground? Or were you asked to?
I wasn't asked. Just showed my ticket.
The same happened in Madrid.
The stewards aren't interested in checking wristbands. No doubt the same will happen in Barcelona.
So there's no need for a wristband. Getting rid of the wristbands is one way to speed the ticket collection up.

I was asked to show the wristband on two occasions at the ground last night. The only other away Euro I've seen since this system was introduced was PSG and I wasn't asked to show it even though general security seemed much higher in Paris.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Your wasting your breath mate.
I made exactly the same point a few weeks ago, but some people just don't get the logic.
In fact, the £30 cap on away tickets has increased the market. I've already received requests from mates, checking that I'm definitely going to West Brom and Burnley

A pound to a penny that they're soon going to start the same system they have at the rags where random buyers are told that have to collect their ticket at the away ground and prove they're the buyer.

 

[Tam_O_Shanter]

I travel to a lot of Scotland away matches and when points whoring became an issue, they introduced a random collection process where about 10% of those travelling have to pick their ticket up in person. Surely a scheme like this where a percentage have to pick up, cuts out some of the points whoring and cuts down the queue.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

It was said to me and my mate. I don't appreciate being called a liar either!

I don't know whether you're a liar or not because you're a stranger on a forum. But having spent too much time on here I'm not going to believe that quote without hearing the other side of the story and the context. And it doesn't change the point anyway: it's a straw man argument, it isn't relevant, it's a "Do Not Pass Go" free ticket to the moral high ground, which everyone uses in a "won't somebody think of the children" manner when they feel wronged.

It's nothing personal mate, it's just my experience of the internet and the context in which quotes are used. And just to be clear, I'm outraged at this "pick up "system.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

A pound to a penny that they're soon going to start the same system they have at the rags where random buyers are told that have to collect their ticket at the away ground and prove they're the buyer.

Perhaps if the Ticket Office communicated their reasons and motives?
We might nor like it, but at least we'd know why it was imposed.

 

[BlueKingEll]

Did anyone show their wristband outside the ground? Or were you asked to?.

Ish.. there was three staggered lines of security / police with one or two asking, however everyone was just walking past them without being stopped. Very similar to Lokeren

 

[squirtyflower]

To offer a different view point on this, a friend of mine works for a company that have corporate seats in the Colin Bell stand. Long standing, established Manchester company so a very good corporate client for the club.

For the Real Madrid semi, my friend asked for 6 tickets and got them no problem. But he had to submit the names of the people the tickets were for and they had to be collected through the usual channels in Madrid and proof of identity was needed.

You mean just like normal people?
Well I never.