Overcharge legacy delivery routes to drive less willing users to the app for their tickets (assume they will have one). Far cheaper in the long run to send e-tickets to a mobile app from automated server side systems then pay someone to move paper around sending physical tickets to people, especially as they likely need to have a QR code on then anyway to get through the turnstile. Plus the QR code on the app can be made more secure by rotating it every few minutes so can't copy it etc
It's all paper tickets for their game here, a lot of people on their forum are moaning that we've not provided digital.
Yeah loads of clubs do them. Presumably just requires some integration between the club apps but we've obviously not done that yet. Suspect this will be the last season of paper away tickets which I find extremely sad.
I assumed most clubs have a ticket app now and also assumed that wrexham's owners would have done one asap and as I've never been an away fan just assumed the other clubs ticket app could be provisioned the ticket from us in some way. lots of assumptions in there and you know what Samuel L Jackson has to say on that matter....
Shocking to see that there ate still basket case clubs around like Sheffield Wednesday and Morecambe.
The Sheffield Wednesday players are refusing to play in a behind closed doors friendly game against Burnley, arranged for tomorrow. I wish we were playing them first game of the season, instead of playing a motivated and newly promoted team. Looks like Leicester will have a good chance to pick up 3 points against a team that won’t be as match fit as it should be.
I read that they only have 10 senior players and they haven't been paid for months and they're not having coaches or hotels paid for them for their opening game. Doesn't surprise me in the least that Leicester have avoided newly promoted teams on both opening fixtures back in the Championship whilst we have got newly promoted sides both times. Nor that they have landed what is likely the easiest possible fixture under current circumstances when they themselves have had a bit of a turbulent summer. But yeah, the bigger story is how ****ing awful the Sheffield Wednesday owner is and how a great club is being left to rot.
Even if they make the first game of the season, as things stand it is unlikely they are going to survive until the end of the season so any points made against them are quite likely to be wiped out. They are going to be the largest English club to die unless something dramatic happens. Of course the EFL's incredibly intelligent approach to clubs in this situation is to make them even harder to sell with punishments that will be transferred over to any prospective owners.
I think points deduction are fair enough in the main if clubs are seen to be gaining an advantage with regard to finances but in this situation you might hope that the EFL would look at it a little differently. They are in a difficult situation in terms of being consistent but no-one wants to see any club go under let alone a big club like Wednesday. I hope they can find a solution.
Birmingham beat Forest today 1-0, Ipswich beat Auxerre today 3-0 though have lost Harry Clarke for several weeks, and Philogene came of injured with Hutchinson not even travelling to France as head not In the right place. Just a few snippets from today’s friendlies.
Ipswich have given Ed Sheeran a shirt number. Ipswich Town: Why has Ed Sheeran been given a shirt number? - BBC Sport
The BBC championship prediction article is really interesting. It is more like pin the tail on the donkey than serious analysis. Quite interesting to see Birmingham unfancied and for Saints to come in second. I think Ipswich will win it but expect a battle between Birmingham, Coventry, Ipswich, Norwich, Leicester and WBA for other promotion places. I do not think Wrexham will be far off either and Portsmouth will surprise a few Relegation is easier to predict but cannot see Portsmouth struggling. I think QPR may be surprise relegation candidates. God knows what will happen to Sheff Wed.
