Ticket Collection Today

[Burt]

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but what on earth happened there?

 

I go to collect a pre-paid ticket (from AFC Wimbledon's website), only to get told the tickets hadn't arrived from Vale yet.

 

1 - Why did Vale have those tickets, if they were due to be collected from AFC W's ground?

 

2 - Why on earth did they get taken down by Paul Humphries on the day of the game, only arriving half an hour before kick-off?

 

3 - Why on earth was there no plan B? ie accepting our proof of purchase as a ticket, or giving us a random stub/raffle ticket/anything to use as a ticket?

 

What would have happened if Paul had been even later?

 

A complete mess, seemingly from both clubs.

[woodyatuniinreading]

It was acomplete shambles and very, very non league.

[Macc Lad]

There was a long wait (almost 20 mins) for the online ticket queue but they had mine, ordered off their website on Thursday as an away fan. Although when I first asked a steward about the ticket office he said there was a problem with tickets being delayed, coming from the Vale. When I said they were ordered from their website he said it would be ok and it was. Apart from the long wait.

 

After all the stick people were giving Vale on here about not having online ticketing it brought a wry smile to my lips. Some people would have slagged Vale off hugely for the situation at Kingsmeadow today if it had happened at Vale Park.

[Tumbleweed_MVF]

my mate had mine and he was inside the ground i met him at emergency gate which was open the steward let me in without a ticket as i said my friend had mine? so i gained entry without a ticket?

[Spunk Trumpet]

Why did Paul Humphries have them???

 

I thought he was just an average fan nowadays??

[Vale]

Why did Paul Humphries have them???

 

I thought he was just an average fan nowadays??

 

It would seem some fans are more equal than others

 

I wonder how else he's still involved and I wonder how much other directors that may have been booted out are involved in things club related ?

 

Talking of ex directors, what's Plant up to these days at the club

 

Come back Billy Bell, at least ye knew exactly what you were getting with him, even bought a cheap car off Billy, wouldn't buy a used snot rag off this lot

[melv]

Why did Paul Humphries have them???

 

I thought he was just an average fan nowadays??

 

Maybe non of the other director's were going as they were to busy talking to the many investor's.Or they stayed behind to plan the next pile of BS that they are going to come out with which would protect the SPS.

[Andyregs]

Why did Paul Humphries have them???

 

I thought he was just an average fan nowadays??

 

That does seem odd to me.

[Bede]

There was a long wait (almost 20 mins) for the online ticket queue but they had mine, ordered off their website on Thursday as an away fan. Although when I first asked a steward about the ticket office he said there was a problem with tickets being delayed, coming from the Vale. When I said they were ordered from their website he said it would be ok and it was. Apart from the long wait.

 

After all the stick people were giving Vale on here about not having online ticketing it brought a wry smile to my lips. Some people would have slagged Vale off hugely for the situation at Kingsmeadow today if it had happened at Vale Park.

 

So because another club is amateurish makes it excusable for Vale also to be amateurish? Christ almighty, ever likely we're stuck in a time warp, never to improve.

[ValeOatcake]

Was the mix up over tickets something to do with the police's late 'advice' to make the game all ticket for Vale fans???

[Andyregs]

There was a long wait (almost 20 mins) for the online ticket queue but they had mine, ordered off their website on Thursday as an away fan. Although when I first asked a steward about the ticket office he said there was a problem with tickets being delayed, coming from the Vale. When I said they were ordered from their website he said it would be ok and it was. Apart from the long wait.

 

After all the stick people were giving Vale on here about not having online ticketing it brought a wry smile to my lips. Some people would have slagged Vale off hugely for the situation at Kingsmeadow today if it had happened at Vale Park.

 

How do you know it wasn't vale's fault yesterday? But seeing as we were to bring the tickets with us, probably because they were sent to us before the police changed the match to all ticket, and we only got them there on hour before kick off, I'd question the need for a wry smile.

[Macc Lad]

It wasn't Vale's fault that there was such a big queue for both sets of fans who had bought their tickets online. My comment is directed more at the Wimbledon system generally. It's ok having online ticketing but when the distribution has to be done manually by two people looking at small brown envelopes in what looked like shoeboxes, it's hardly a smooth operation.

 

The Wimbledon fans were complaining too about the length of the queue. I've never had to wait so long to pick up tickets. So yes, online ticketing sounds wonderful on the surface but if the execution on match day is as amateur as two people with shoeboxes standing at a trestle table checking people's computer print-outs, then it is hardly cutting-edge. Good job it was a nice, sunny day and they could have the trestle table outside -- what would they have done if it was raining?

[Fosse69]

Give them a chance, they are only lodgers. Where will both clubs be in 10 years time? Who will have swipe card tickets or bar codes on the printouts?

[N.kent]

I didn't even bother getting mine in the end and bought another one of somebody who had a spare.It was a complete shambles.

Somebody tried to wind me up by saying they where waiting for Glenn Oliver to deliver the away tickets.

[Paul H]

Why did Paul Humphreys have them???

 

I thought he was just an average fan nowadays??

 

Simple.

 

I went to the ticket office late on Friday only to be told that they'd cashed up and I couldn't have one - I'd have to buy online.

 

I went in the shop to buy the new goalkeeper's top, told Joan what had happened and said I cba'd to go online. She suggested I take the tickets down and ask for two when I got there.

 

I left in time to get to the ground by 1.15, used the M1 as it was only 3 miles more and got stuck in a load of traffic on the M25 - then diverted through a load of towns and got to the ground 2.20 ish.