An Apology to all those on the Kop next season

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I have just renewed my season ticket for next season, and for the first time decided not to pay extra for a card, but have gone digital. My IT skills are almost zero, and the passing years are making them worse. I will be 79 by the start of the season, and I thought it only fair to warn you that if you see an old guy, tall, with plenty of hair for his age, standing near a turnstile looking very puzzled, go at once to a different turnstile and get in the ground while you can. There will soon be a long queue behind me as I try every way I can think of to make my phone and the turnstile communicate with each other, and then, given my usual dealings with machines, the turnstile will stop working. Before long the whole system will have crashed, and nobody will be able to get in. This will all be because I decided to save £15, and spare myself the embarrassment of a recent match where I went to my pocket to get my season card, and found my bus pass instead 🤣 To be fair to the ticket office staff, they solved the problem quickly, with no extra charge, and without humiliating me. So, my advice for August: get to the Kop early, and my apologies in advance to those queuing behind me. Your patience will be appreciated.
 



HodgysBrokenThumb said:
I have just renewed my season ticket for next season, and for the first time decided not to pay extra for a card, but have gone digital. My IT skills are almost zero, and the passing years are making them worse. I will be 79 by the start of the season, and I thought it only fair to warn you that if you see an old guy, tall, with plenty of hair for his age, standing near a turnstile looking very puzzled, go at once to a different turnstile and get in the ground while you can. There will soon be a long queue behind me as I try every way I can think of to make my phone and the turnstile communicate with each other, and then, given my usual dealings with machines, the turnstile will stop working. Before long the whole system will have crashed, and nobody will be able to get in. This will all be because I decided to save £15, and spare myself the embarrassment of a recent match where I went to my pocket to get my season card, and found my bus pass instead 🤣 To be fair to the ticket office staff, they solved the problem quickly, with no extra charge, and without humiliating me. So, my advice for August: get to the Kop early, and my apologies in advance to those queuing behind me. Your patience will be appreciated.
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HodgysBrokenThumb said:
I have just renewed my season ticket for next season, and for the first time decided not to pay extra for a card, but have gone digital. My IT skills are almost zero, and the passing years are making them worse. I will be 79 by the start of the season, and I thought it only fair to warn you that if you see an old guy, tall, with plenty of hair for his age, standing near a turnstile looking very puzzled, go at once to a different turnstile and get in the ground while you can. There will soon be a long queue behind me as I try every way I can think of to make my phone and the turnstile communicate with each other, and then, given my usual dealings with machines, the turnstile will stop working. Before long the whole system will have crashed, and nobody will be able to get in. This will all be because I decided to save £15, and spare myself the embarrassment of a recent match where I went to my pocket to get my season card, and found my bus pass instead 🤣 To be fair to the ticket office staff, they solved the problem quickly, with no extra charge, and without humiliating me. So, my advice for August: get to the Kop early, and my apologies in advance to those queuing behind me. Your patience will be appreciated.
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Reminds me of the Everton game in our last PL season. went to get onto BL upper and a man had gone through the turnstiles and was then passing his phone back to his wife/girlfriend who kept accidentally locking the phone when she was trying to scan the pass. after about 5 minutes, the queue was backing up and this man was getting more and more pissed off with his lady friend, you could tell he was about to tell her to f off, and she was about to walk off anyway! 🤣

At least you can hear whats going on in the ground whilst you try and work out the technology... ;)
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
I have just renewed my season ticket for next season, and for the first time decided not to pay extra for a card, but have gone digital. My IT skills are almost zero, and the passing years are making them worse. I will be 79 by the start of the season, and I thought it only fair to warn you that if you see an old guy, tall, with plenty of hair for his age, standing near a turnstile looking very puzzled, go at once to a different turnstile and get in the ground while you can. There will soon be a long queue behind me as I try every way I can think of to make my phone and the turnstile communicate with each other, and then, given my usual dealings with machines, the turnstile will stop working. Before long the whole system will have crashed, and nobody will be able to get in. This will all be because I decided to save £15, and spare myself the embarrassment of a recent match where I went to my pocket to get my season card, and found my bus pass instead 🤣 To be fair to the ticket office staff, they solved the problem quickly, with no extra charge, and without humiliating me. So, my advice for August: get to the Kop early, and my apologies in advance to those queuing behind me. Your patience will be appreciated.
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Believe me, if I can do it, you can do it HBT!
 
dexter101 said:
Reminds me of the Everton game in our last PL season. went to get onto BL upper and a man had gone through the turnstiles and was then passing his phone back to his wife/girlfriend who kept accidentally locking the phone when she was trying to scan the pass. after about 5 minutes, the queue was backing up and this man was getting more and more pissed off with his lady friend, you could tell he was about to tell her to f off, and she was about to walk off anyway! 🤣

At least you can hear whats going on in the ground whilst you try and work out the technology... ;)
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Do you know I think I went that day and it does ring a bell. Didnt she drop it on the floor at one point which resulted in a few curses from the bloke ?
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
I have just renewed my season ticket for next season, and for the first time decided not to pay extra for a card, but have gone digital. My IT skills are almost zero, and the passing years are making them worse. I will be 79 by the start of the season, and I thought it only fair to warn you that if you see an old guy, tall, with plenty of hair for his age, standing near a turnstile looking very puzzled, go at once to a different turnstile and get in the ground while you can. There will soon be a long queue behind me as I try every way I can think of to make my phone and the turnstile communicate with each other, and then, given my usual dealings with machines, the turnstile will stop working. Before long the whole system will have crashed, and nobody will be able to get in. This will all be because I decided to save £15, and spare myself the embarrassment of a recent match where I went to my pocket to get my season card, and found my bus pass instead 🤣 To be fair to the ticket office staff, they solved the problem quickly, with no extra charge, and without humiliating me. So, my advice for August: get to the Kop early, and my apologies in advance to those queuing behind me. Your patience will be appreciated.
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Just remember your bus pass before leaving for the Lane.
 
Varkanoid said:
Do you know I think I went that day and it does ring a bell. Didnt she drop it on the floor at one point which resulted in a few curses from the bloke ?
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I think so! It was one of those where the bloke was just getting more and more angry (I think it was quite early in the season and actually the game might have even kicked off...)

Lesson learned that if I ever go with someone, I scan their ticket and they go through, they I do my own!
 
PageHallBlade said:
in all seriousness i believe that seniors should be given a card free im going card free next year but my dad (senior) has paid for one
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In fairness to the system it works well for my wife and I with a combined age of over 150, so I don’t think our generation should shy away from simple technology. Finding my digital railcard when an inspector comes is a different matter !!
 
dexter101 said:
Reminds me of the Everton game in our last PL season. went to get onto BL upper and a man had gone through the turnstiles and was then passing his phone back to his wife/girlfriend who kept accidentally locking the phone when she was trying to scan the pass. after about 5 minutes, the queue was backing up and this man was getting more and more pissed off with his lady friend, you could tell he was about to tell her to f off, and she was about to walk off anyway! 🤣

At least you can hear whats going on in the ground whilst you try and work out the technology... ;)
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She's better off without him, any gentleman with a bit of sense would have let her go first.
So much easier to scan someone in and then yourself.👍
Note to one's self, learn to type faster .
 



prince albert said:
She's better off without him, any gentleman with a bit of sense would have let her go first.
So much easier to scan someone in and then yourself.👍
Note to one's self, learn to type faster .
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It's even easier to just send the ticket to the other persons phone and let them scan themselves in
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
I have just renewed my season ticket for next season, and for the first time decided not to pay extra for a card, but have gone digital. My IT skills are almost zero, and the passing years are making them worse. I will be 79 by the start of the season, and I thought it only fair to warn you that if you see an old guy, tall, with plenty of hair for his age, standing near a turnstile looking very puzzled, go at once to a different turnstile and get in the ground while you can. There will soon be a long queue behind me as I try every way I can think of to make my phone and the turnstile communicate with each other, and then, given my usual dealings with machines, the turnstile will stop working. Before long the whole system will have crashed, and nobody will be able to get in. This will all be because I decided to save £15, and spare myself the embarrassment of a recent match where I went to my pocket to get my season card, and found my bus pass instead 🤣 To be fair to the ticket office staff, they solved the problem quickly, with no extra charge, and without humiliating me. So, my advice for August: get to the Kop early, and my apologies in advance to those queuing behind me. Your patience will be appreciated.
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You’ll be fine. It’s easier than you think 👍

GLTTHodgy
 
Ive retained a card despite the cost . Its just easier to pass to my daughter when I cant go so I dont mind .

Note of caution ⚠️ though.

It'll not effect us but citeh monitor how many times you transfer a ticket , over a certain number and your ST is removed .

Worse than that over the last 12 months they've put facial recognition cameras on the turnstiles to stop illegal transference ( kids tickets for example) .

What a world eh .
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
I have just renewed my season ticket for next season, and for the first time decided not to pay extra for a card, but have gone digital. My IT skills are almost zero, and the passing years are making them worse. I will be 79 by the start of the season, and I thought it only fair to warn you that if you see an old guy, tall, with plenty of hair for his age, standing near a turnstile looking very puzzled, go at once to a different turnstile and get in the ground while you can. There will soon be a long queue behind me as I try every way I can think of to make my phone and the turnstile communicate with each other, and then, given my usual dealings with machines, the turnstile will stop working. Before long the whole system will have crashed, and nobody will be able to get in. This will all be because I decided to save £15, and spare myself the embarrassment of a recent match where I went to my pocket to get my season card, and found my bus pass instead 🤣 To be fair to the ticket office staff, they solved the problem quickly, with no extra charge, and without humiliating me. So, my advice for August: get to the Kop early, and my apologies in advance to those queuing behind me. Your patience will be appreciated.
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The annoyed man stood behind shaking his head in despair is his son!
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
I have just renewed my season ticket for next season, and for the first time decided not to pay extra for a card, but have gone digital. My IT skills are almost zero, and the passing years are making them worse. I will be 79 by the start of the season, and I thought it only fair to warn you that if you see an old guy, tall, with plenty of hair for his age, standing near a turnstile looking very puzzled, go at once to a different turnstile and get in the ground while you can. There will soon be a long queue behind me as I try every way I can think of to make my phone and the turnstile communicate with each other, and then, given my usual dealings with machines, the turnstile will stop working. Before long the whole system will have crashed, and nobody will be able to get in. This will all be because I decided to save £15, and spare myself the embarrassment of a recent match where I went to my pocket to get my season card, and found my bus pass instead 🤣 To be fair to the ticket office staff, they solved the problem quickly, with no extra charge, and without humiliating me. So, my advice for August: get to the Kop early, and my apologies in advance to those queuing behind me. Your patience will be appreciated.
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I still have a book with individual numbered tickets in it
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
I have just renewed my season ticket for next season, and for the first time decided not to pay extra for a card, but have gone digital. My IT skills are almost zero, and the passing years are making them worse. I will be 79 by the start of the season, and I thought it only fair to warn you that if you see an old guy, tall, with plenty of hair for his age, standing near a turnstile looking very puzzled, go at once to a different turnstile and get in the ground while you can. There will soon be a long queue behind me as I try every way I can think of to make my phone and the turnstile communicate with each other, and then, given my usual dealings with machines, the turnstile will stop working. Before long the whole system will have crashed, and nobody will be able to get in. This will all be because I decided to save £15, and spare myself the embarrassment of a recent match where I went to my pocket to get my season card, and found my bus pass instead 🤣 To be fair to the ticket office staff, they solved the problem quickly, with no extra charge, and without humiliating me. So, my advice for August: get to the Kop early, and my apologies in advance to those queuing behind me. Your patience will be appreciated.
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You'll be fine pal. The best thing to do is leave your phone in your pocket right until you're inside the turnstile.

Then when inside the turnstile get it out and navigate to your phones wallet. This is usually somewhere hidden on your phone... it's definitely not EXACTLY where it was last time.

If for some reason the NFC isn't working, make sure your phone brightness is really really low so you can barely see the screen, then generate a QR code to enter.
 
I haven’t had a single issue since switching my season ticket to my phone. It’s a piece of piss.

Near enough every year I had to walk round to the ticket office first game of the season because my card hadn’t been activated to let me into the stadium on the old cards. Missed several kick offs. There was always a queue of people with the same issue too. I must have had it 5 seasons on the bounce. Even stopped drinking a pint early in anticipation
 



ben1987 said:
I haven’t had a single issue since switching my season ticket to my phone. It’s a piece of piss.

Near enough every year I had to walk round to the ticket office first game of the season because my card hadn’t been activated to let me into the stadium on the old cards. Missed several kick offs. There was always a queue of people with the same issue too. I must have had it 5 seasons on the bounce. Even stopped drinking a pint early in anticipation
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The sacrifices people make just to see the kick-off 🙄
 
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