It seems stewards are now preventing people from pushing in the queues outside the stadium. In the South East corner, fans would walk from the north in push in the queue when people were queuing around the fencing from the south. Anybody know of anybody complaining and so they made this correct changes? One guy tried to push in today at around 2:35 walking from the North. The steward stopped him and told him to join the queue. The man ignored him and tried walking in but he was stopped by three stewards when he started shouting "take your hands off me. I'm a police officer. Get off me". I don't know what happened after this as I went into the stadium but what a ridiculous excuse for pushing in.
This situation is ridiculous. The queues shouldn't need managing. We've got no more fans than before. But our wonderful new state of the art 'Tiger Turnstiles' lock people out. We actually went out of our way to install a new system which causes these delays that didn't previously exist. If you don't push it immediately after scanning you can't go in through the turnstile at all. The clubs solution? A series of patronising videos explaining their ****e system like its our fault and statements telling us to arrive earlier and earlier to make sure we're in the ground by kickoff. Shambles. Whoever designed a system that assumes you've gone in when the turnstile hasn't been moved wants shooting. What a ****ing moronic idea. The turnstile exists for the very purpose of counting you in but no let's ignore that and assume they've slipped between the bars.
The video played at half time said if you don't go through within 5 seconds it'll lock you out. I think it possibly needs to be double that.
It needs to not lock you out at all. It's unbelievably daft not using the click of the turnstile to determine if someone has gone in but instead just counting seconds and assuming. It seems to be different areas every week. Coming over the bridge yesterday there was loads at the SE corner, massive quese going right round both ways, luckily not mine this week though.
Or just certain thick ****s. Its a piece of piss. Scan card, see enter, push turnstile, walk through.
My ticket in North Stand didn't work for whatever reason, had to get the supervisor to let me in, steward said it was happening quite often.
They showed us, the intelligent few who managed to successfully operate the system, the video showing us how to successfully operate the system. They should have had a screen outside the ground showing it to the people who failed, so they could see the error of their ways, realise what thickos they are, and leave them to negotiate the steps up to the bridge and back home. Or riot in anger. But no, we got it. Why?
We had Ched Evans in front of us, trying to enter before he was given permission. It caused all kinds of problems, he didn't think he was doing anything wrong, apparently he thought because his mate had entered first, with permission, he didn't need to ask as well. He wouldn't let it lie, appealing to one steward after another & then to anybody else who'd listen. The queue behind him were getting quite irate, we all had tickets too & were happy to wait for permission before entering.
I've never had a problem with the card scanning thing, it couldn't be much easier. I've watched people putting there card in upside down, I mean for god sake there was people doing it for you for months and months and not once you didn't notice which way up the card needs to be?
**** me yeah it's the fans fault. Course it is, like everything else. The club install this amazing new system and it's the fans' fault there's suddenly huge queues every game since it was installed with the same fans as before. They've been in about 2 months now and it's getting no better. The club needs to do something to address it. Patronisingly telling us to get there at 2pm every week is just passing the buck. Sort your problems out City and stop blaming the fans for everything. If it was as simple as you make out Chazz, there wouldn't be queues. The system is obviously failing a significant number of people.
Wembley has the same system don't they? Scan ticket barcode then few seconds to enter. We have never have had any queues in turnstiles we use. So what is the problem that is holding the queues up? It is a simple sytsem. But obviously is also easy for people to get it wrong. Not sure how else the club can help fans use the system really. I've seen people try and enter turnstiles with tickets for the wrong entrance. This holds queues up. People need to take some responsibility for getting into the ground themselves. Check your ticket is for the right turnstile for a start. If in doubt ask before you do it. Doesn't have to be a steward, can be another fan.
Walk up scan walk in, I don't even think I broke pace. If the flaskers in the west Stand Upper can grasp this new fangled device, it cannot be all that bad.
