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Human error will be the problem. People not getting their phones ready and thereby getting to the turnstile and then trying to log in to their CCFC account to get the barcode/digital pass.
Once you get used to it it's great. I have my Barnsley and Sutton tickets downloaded ready for the games. I've had to speak to the ticket office for paper tickets to be sent out to family members who don't have the tech to do it via mobile, but (after waiting for an hour for them to answer) they were very helpful and said the tickets would be posted today.
Little story
About 4 years ago, we were playing Fulham away, on a Saturday. Our coaches stopped at out usual haunt, just outside London
Now a husband & wife, wanted to meet friends in London, so they decided to catch the bus in, as it was only a short journey.
I might add that the husband works in IT and the wife is a tax inspector.
Now they waited about 20 minutes, bus turns up, they get on.
It's "cashless", not a problem for these young forward going people, she takes her card out, "two to Fulham" she says confidently.
"Sorry love", says the driver, "I can take for you, but hubby will have to use his own card"
"What's the solution" they say, the driver says "go over that shop and buy two PAPER TICKETS"
You couldn't make it up, straight out of a Peter Kay comedy !!!!!!
If that's the future, you're welcome to it
Any season ticket holders received their text / email link for their Barnsley ticket yet?
Nothing yet.
Not sure why they choose to leave it so late?
The club is most definitely not skint. They're just not doing the right thing - which is to have opened the ticket office. fully staffed, as soon as they knew they could fill the stadium on Saturday. A supporter should be able able to go and buy a ticket, with cash, if they want, and the club, being a business, should welcome that.
It's immoral that after the catastrophic economic downturn the country has seen, that they're not laying out the red carpet to fans as well as being responsible and compassionate to the grassroots staff of their football club.
As Blue_Tit has correctly pointed out on a number of occasions, other businesses are open.
You can go into Argos and buy a sofa with cash. But you can't go down to CCS and buy a bloody ticket.
There's absolutely no defence or excuse for that - only feeble ones.
Of course they are skint. What makes you think that Cardiff City is closed for business? I am sure that plenty of people here have tickets for Saturday, and there were fans at recent home friendlies.
How do you think fans that live away from Cardiff get tickets? Do you go to a cinema a week before watching a movie to get a ticket, then go back a week later to watch the movie?
Plenty of people here say the club is offering to print tickets.
The problem here isn't the club, it's a handful of fans who want a team of staff sat around waiting for them to call in. That is not feasible for a club that has lost its main income stream for the last year. Nothing feeble about what the club are doing in my opinion.
BTW, you don't tell the driver where you are going. Once you swipe your card, you are charged a fixed price. I think it's about £1.50. If you don't have an Oyster card, you can use your bank card or credit card. You don't even have to get on at the front of the bus, the card readers are also in the middle and the back of the bus. No conductors.
They could have walked on and sang the chorus of Dancing Queen if they wanted. What is stopping them? They can say what they like.
If they are not from London then getting on a bus and trying to do what busses do back home, pay the driver and tell him where you're going, it isn't that far fetched is it?
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Both of them are seasoned travellers away with Wales