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No matter what you say SS Apollo and the like there is a timeline to all this.
The OWP on the 28th regarding ticketing “dialogue will continue on Wednesday with club officials and their Rochdale counterparts including fan base who operate at both clubs”
To then the next some 17 or so hours later the next being a statement you can purchase up to 6 tickets, that statement first come on at 5,15pm and within an hour at 6pm they would go on sale.
That just doesn’t last the sniff test, all bloody day and that’s the best solution to it all.
Did our club negotiate with them (they have told us porkies before) but let’s say they did one would then would question today why the hell are these paid officials still in a job.
York got to sell their Rochdale tickets why didn’t we, they did it old school queuing one season ticket one match ticket pretty simple really.
Wouldn’t be so bad if the people operating were volunteers or the manager chairman at some piddly part time outfit did all and sundry, but we’re not we’re talking a supposedly professional full time club with said officials getting a good salary.
With let me say the fans at the forefront of their minds.
A one off then ok but let’s go through the previous on ticketing alone.
Let’s start off with The Boston playoff.
Told the NL wouldn’t let the club sell tickets till we knew who we were playing leaving a similar time frame to sell them as this time, low and behold once fans started moaning the club then told us they got the NL to change their mind, many on here believed the club but bearing in mind the NL hadn’t told clubs in previous seasons to do the same. I didn’t.
Then we move on to Chester 4 tickets allowed per season ticket holder, maybe fair enough, if they stuck to there timescale and rules where any left would be on sale from a certain day at a certain time, only for the club to go out their way to sell all remaining tickets to fans who’d emailed the club, shafting the others who were waiting for the correct arrangement a few bruers missed out I recall.
Sorry Hereford should have been first!
Hereford gate a similar rushed decision with Hereford selling the tickets, with our club sending an email link out to tickets selling within minutes of announcement. No chance of fans getting the link if not registered for marketing hence hundreds of season ticket holders had a chance of purchasing, do much so Unity Stu spat his dummy out and called it a day (well for the first time anyway) when he didn’t get one. Scunny could and should have done the ticket selling it was a perceived promotion winning game at the time after all.
Then today we’re there again,surely Apollo you can see the club aren’t that community family feel club after all, they don’t change they don’t learn they just want your money and that’s about it.
An apology is a must, and for me someone head should roll it really isn’t good enough in any form whatsoever.
