New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[Harryflashman]

I have noticed a growing animosity to this attack on the traditions of match day. Last moment drop outs happen, and sometimes a spare set of tickets would turn up, and suddenly a day at the match would fall out of the sky and be a great day.
This digital conversion has completely killed that, it has taken away from the fluid nature of match days and the currency of attendance via sheer luck in the right pub at the right time on the phone to the right person.
Homogenised access I appreciate is a whim of the H&S bunch and the accountants, but the working class, blue collar, friend of a friend network has been finished and it sucks.

We get further away from what football was seemingly more with each passing day. Give the game back to the people.

I hate digital tickets , within our group the use of an old mobile to have purely for the ST has made it easier for the last minute handing over of a ticket particularly to younger /older family members or supporters who aren’t regulars . Honestly without that I think I’d have been driven even more mad by it .

Unfortunately as has been said it’s going nowhere

 

[Rita_Poon]

Yes, back to chicken burger, sausage roll, pie, or hot pot at £11.50 yesterday

Never going to happen I’m afraid, the change has been made, no going back.

£11.50? Was it a banquet?

So far as 'no going back', it's turning into 'not going at all'.

 

[mickefc]

People are feeding back their experiences, good or bad. Not sure id class that as 'whining' but each to their own.

I have a ST, but know a few who don't and they've managed to get tickets for every game this season through resale. They say it's much easier than Goodison was. Not sure why you're finding it so difficult?

Our non season ticket holding, non match going fans are starting to do what the kopites have done for years. Moan about not being able to go the game because they can't get a ticket when the fact is it is simple if they really wanted to go. There's about 3000 on the re-sale site right now for Wednesday.

 

[Iana]

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The irony is, we'd have sold a 60k in the immediate by increasing season tickets.

For me, the killer is the digital tickets, and 1 paid membership (seasonal too, not annual) = 1 ticket.

It means the game is 'sold out', but there's gaps as people can't readily transfer tickets. When that happens a few times, people will reassess their season ticket. It's happened elsewhere for years - like at Man City;



There's people who go the game, who have no idea how to transfer their ticket to someone else. Nor do they know yet, that if they want to, that person would need to buy a membership to receive the ticket.

In a few years, if we have a decade like the last - with the current system, I think we'd struggle to sell the season tickets we currently have once new stadium novelty wears off, and fatigue/frustration of digital ticket kicks in.

The club discriminates between premium seats and general admission as I am able to transfer my 2 Village St season tickets to anyone regardless of membership status.

There is a separate portal which allows me to nominate someone to receive a ticket if I provide name and email address and then the ticket for the game is sent to them and they download to their digital wallet and it is automatically removed from mine.

The club should offer the same facility to all ST holders as they will still have a paper trail of where the ticket goes to provided they have some protective mechanism to stop further onward forwarding and touting.

Based on personal experience most of the ST holders I know only share tickets with family and friends so the risk to the club should be minimal.

 

[SJB]

One good thing about supply outstripping demand is that there's lots of STH's reselling their tickets online for the price they pay for them (about £40) and not making profit on them by selling them at full price.

 

[Jacko93]

The gates queues into the Plaza were cause by the re-introduction of the metal detectors.

Was this due to a national security threat the Police acted on?

As for electronic tickets, its not a great leap from a plastic card to using your phone. Besides which the PL are making it a requirement next (?) season for all clubs.

All the above are mute points as the team expected to just turn up and win. If they got their backsides into gear from the off and won all the excuses on the fringe of the match disappear.

Its not the existence of digital tickets that is the issue, it is the management of the transfer of them that is. By all means only allow transfer to registered fans for se unity purposes, but the requirement of a membership to be purchased so thatI can transfer my ST to a mate is ridiculous. Im mot bothered about getting any money for it, I've never asked for payment when letting somebody on my ticket, so I'll likely leave it empty rather than messing with the resale thing if I cant make it at last minute.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

The gates queues into the Plaza were cause by the re-introduction of the metal detectors.

Was this due to a national security threat the Police acted on?

As for electronic tickets, its not a great leap from a plastic card to using your phone. Besides which the PL are making it a requirement next (?) season for all clubs.

All the above are mute points as the team expected to just turn up and win. If they got their backsides into gear from the off and won all the excuses on the fringe of the match disappear.

Saw coverage recently regarding Liverpool now searching each fan (apparently introduced November) and wondered the same.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Its not the existence of digital tickets that is the issue, it is the management of the transfer of them that is. By all means only allow transfer to registered fans for se unity purposes, but the requirement of a membership to be purchased so thatI can transfer my ST to a mate is ridiculous. Im mot bothered about getting any money for it, I've never asked for payment when letting somebody on my ticket, so I'll likely leave it empty rather than messing with the resale thing if I cant make it at last minute.

It's also how it closes 3 hours before kick off.

Been going the match 30+ years, in the early days, most of my tickets would come as spares within that window.

 

[Bluesnapper]

Its not the existence of digital tickets that is the issue, it is the management of the transfer of them that is. By all means only allow transfer to registered fans for se unity purposes, but the requirement of a membership to be purchased so thatI can transfer my ST to a mate is ridiculous. Im mot bothered about getting any money for it, I've never asked for payment when letting somebody on my ticket, so I'll likely leave it empty rather than messing with the resale thing if I cant make it at last minute.

The digital tickets argument was raised further up on this thread, the allowing of movement of tickets is completely different.

However there are ways and means of doing it, which I know others have done without a problem.

 

[Bluesnapper]

Saw coverage recently regarding Liverpool now searching each fan (apparently introduced November) and wondered the same.

They started the season using them, after a few matches it was dropped.

It would be good to know the UK National Security Status over the last few weeks. I suspect it has been raised.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

The gates queues into the Plaza were cause by the re-introduction of the metal detectors.

Was this due to a national security threat the Police acted on?

Was a pain in the arse for me. It beeped when I went through, the lad made me go through again, again it bleeped. Got called over to another lad who frisked me with one of those wands. Kept bleeping, the only thing I had metal was keys but I had already taken them out when I first walked through the detector. The lad ended up just telling me to get off.

 

[James Patrick]

Our non season ticket holding, non match going fans are starting to do what the kopites have done for years. Moan about not being able to go the game because they can't get a ticket when the fact is it is simple if they really wanted to go. There's about 3000 on the re-sale site right now for Wednesday.

I can't blame anyone not wishing to pay £65 to watch a game of football tbh.

 

[windymiller]

Only other ground I've heard something similar at is Anfield though. Not that it overly bothers me - just curious as to why we're the ones to have it.

Council requirement?

 

[Sharpy9]

Anyone have any advice on how to tell the woman behind me at the match to stop shouting 'Cmon Everton, every 10 seconds in the same whiny voice? It's not cheering the team on, I'm sure even the players find her voice annoying. Actually puts me off the game more than that performance yesterday. Hopefully I can move seats in the summer. Vent over.

 

[Ragnar]

I can't blame anyone not wishing to pay £65 to watch a game of football tbh.

Yep. It’s been pretty easy to get a ticket every single game. Yesterday morning before Brentford there was a load still.