pemill wrote:E-mailed Macc last night, someone was still there and answered me straight away. Instructed to ring ticket office this morning after 9.30am which I did. Both seating and standing available, paid over phone, pick up ticket from office - simples. I'll go and get my ticket before going to pub/bar to avoid any unnecessary queuing therefore avoiding the need to complain about leaving it to late to get my ticket, whoops that would be my fault anyway but complain none the less. However it's the other MTFC so no one might not complain.
pemill wrote:E-mailed Macc last night, someone was still there and answered me straight away. Instructed to ring ticket office this morning after 9.30am which I did. Both seating and standing available, paid over phone, pick up ticket from office - simples. I'll go and get my ticket before going to pub/bar to avoid any unnecessary queuing therefore avoiding the need to complain about leaving it to late to get my ticket, whoops that would be my fault anyway but complain none the less. However it's the other MTFC so no one might not complain.
Bradders wrote:pemill wrote:E-mailed Macc last night, someone was still there and answered me straight away. Instructed to ring ticket office this morning after 9.30am which I did. Both seating and standing available, paid over phone, pick up ticket from office - simples. I'll go and get my ticket before going to pub/bar to avoid any unnecessary queuing therefore avoiding the need to complain about leaving it to late to get my ticket, whoops that would be my fault anyway but complain none the less. However it's the other MTFC so no one might not complain.
This is the problem with football really - I know that it's quite common now and not just a MTFC problem. Your idea of "simples" is;
Step 1. Read various websites and forums to get info about tickets, which turns out to be ambiguous
Step 2. Send an email asking for clarification and hope that somone replies in a reasonable timeframe.
Step 3. Remember to phone after 9.30 the next day.
Step 4. Make the phone call, give out credit card details to stranger (and hope that he or she doesn't pass them on). Commit to going to the match even though it's still a couple of days away.
Step 5. Go to football ground at the time you guess should allow for any queuing for prebooked tickets but not so far in advance that you have to hang around too much.
Step 6. Locate office for visiting fans' tickets - perhaps queue up
Step 7. Show ID to prove that you have a ticket order - obtain ticket
Step 8. Go to turnstile and enter ground.
My idea of "simples" is more like the good old days;
Step 1. Go to football ground allowing at least twenty minutes to get in.
Step 2. Go to turnstile, hand over cash and enter ground.
Bradders wrote:pemill wrote:E-mailed Macc last night, someone was still there and answered me straight away. Instructed to ring ticket office this morning after 9.30am which I did. Both seating and standing available, paid over phone, pick up ticket from office - simples. I'll go and get my ticket before going to pub/bar to avoid any unnecessary queuing therefore avoiding the need to complain about leaving it to late to get my ticket, whoops that would be my fault anyway but complain none the less. However it's the other MTFC so no one might not complain.
This is the problem with football really - I know that it's quite common now and not just a MTFC problem. Your idea of "simples" is;
Step 1. Read various websites and forums to get info about tickets, which turns out to be ambiguous
Step 2. Send an email asking for clarification and hope that somone replies in a reasonable timeframe.
Step 3. Remember to phone after 9.30 the next day.
Step 4. Make the phone call, give out credit card details to stranger (and hope that he or she doesn't pass them on). Commit to going to the match even though it's still a couple of days away.
Step 5. Go to football ground at the time you guess should allow for any queuing for prebooked tickets but not so far in advance that you have to hang around too much.
Step 6. Locate office for visiting fans' tickets - perhaps queue up
Step 7. Show ID to prove that you have a ticket order - obtain ticket
Step 8. Go to turnstile and enter ground.
My idea of "simples" is more like the good old days;
Step 1. Go to football ground allowing at least twenty minutes to get in.
Step 2. Go to turnstile, hand over cash and enter ground.
Chimney wrote:pemill wrote:E-mailed Macc last night, someone was still there and answered me straight away. Instructed to ring ticket office this morning after 9.30am which I did. Both seating and standing available, paid over phone, pick up ticket from office - simples. I'll go and get my ticket before going to pub/bar to avoid any unnecessary queuing therefore avoiding the need to complain about leaving it to late to get my ticket, whoops that would be my fault anyway but complain none the less. However it's the other MTFC so no one might not complain.
Just called into the Macc ground on my travels, got a dozen no problem, couldn’t be more helpful.
halifaxstag wrote:Bradders wrote:pemill wrote:E-mailed Macc last night, someone was still there and answered me straight away. Instructed to ring ticket office this morning after 9.30am which I did. Both seating and standing available, paid over phone, pick up ticket from office - simples. I'll go and get my ticket before going to pub/bar to avoid any unnecessary queuing therefore avoiding the need to complain about leaving it to late to get my ticket, whoops that would be my fault anyway but complain none the less. However it's the other MTFC so no one might not complain.
This is the problem with football really - I know that it's quite common now and not just a MTFC problem. Your idea of "simples" is;
Step 1. Read various websites and forums to get info about tickets, which turns out to be ambiguous
Step 2. Send an email asking for clarification and hope that somone replies in a reasonable timeframe.
Step 3. Remember to phone after 9.30 the next day.
Step 4. Make the phone call, give out credit card details to stranger (and hope that he or she doesn't pass them on). Commit to going to the match even though it's still a couple of days away.
Step 5. Go to football ground at the time you guess should allow for any queuing for prebooked tickets but not so far in advance that you have to hang around too much.
Step 6. Locate office for visiting fans' tickets - perhaps queue up
Step 7. Show ID to prove that you have a ticket order - obtain ticket
Step 8. Go to turnstile and enter ground.
My idea of "simples" is more like the good old days;
Step 1. Go to football ground allowing at least twenty minutes to get in.
Step 2. Go to turnstile, hand over cash and enter ground.
Or
Step 1 Walk to newsagent to buy Chad for match info. Fixtures may have changed since start of season-perhaps queue up.
Step 2 Locate cheque book or bank passbook.
Step 3 Go to bank on Friday lunch(the bank is only open 9-3) to get ticket and travel money. Probably queue because the banks were always busy.
Step 4 Go to ground and locate correct turnstile leaving 20 minutes to get in
Step 5 Find queue is longer than normal because more people have turned up than normal/expected and the turnstile operator has to take cash, give you change and give you a ‘ticket’. Get into ground late?
Step 5 (alternative) Get to ground and find out the match is postponed. You missed the bit on the radio while you were travelling and nobody had a mobile phone so couldn’t call you having checked on Ceefax (old alternative to the internet)
part time pete wrote:Chimney wrote:pemill wrote:E-mailed Macc last night, someone was still there and answered me straight away. Instructed to ring ticket office this morning after 9.30am which I did. Both seating and standing available, paid over phone, pick up ticket from office - simples. I'll go and get my ticket before going to pub/bar to avoid any unnecessary queuing therefore avoiding the need to complain about leaving it to late to get my ticket, whoops that would be my fault anyway but complain none the less. However it's the other MTFC so no one might not complain.
Just called into the Macc ground on my travels, got a dozen no problem, couldn’t be more helpful.
ticket touting now, hey Chimney
Bradders wrote:halifaxstag wrote:Bradders wrote:pemill wrote:E-mailed Macc last night, someone was still there and answered me straight away. Instructed to ring ticket office this morning after 9.30am which I did. Both seating and standing available, paid over phone, pick up ticket from office - simples. I'll go and get my ticket before going to pub/bar to avoid any unnecessary queuing therefore avoiding the need to complain about leaving it to late to get my ticket, whoops that would be my fault anyway but complain none the less. However it's the other MTFC so no one might not complain.
This is the problem with football really - I know that it's quite common now and not just a MTFC problem. Your idea of "simples" is;
Step 1. Read various websites and forums to get info about tickets, which turns out to be ambiguous
Step 2. Send an email asking for clarification and hope that somone replies in a reasonable timeframe.
Step 3. Remember to phone after 9.30 the next day.
Step 4. Make the phone call, give out credit card details to stranger (and hope that he or she doesn't pass them on). Commit to going to the match even though it's still a couple of days away.
Step 5. Go to football ground at the time you guess should allow for any queuing for prebooked tickets but not so far in advance that you have to hang around too much.
Step 6. Locate office for visiting fans' tickets - perhaps queue up
Step 7. Show ID to prove that you have a ticket order - obtain ticket
Step 8. Go to turnstile and enter ground.
My idea of "simples" is more like the good old days;
Step 1. Go to football ground allowing at least twenty minutes to get in.
Step 2. Go to turnstile, hand over cash and enter ground.
Or
Step 1 Walk to newsagent to buy Chad for match info. Fixtures may have changed since start of season-perhaps queue up.
Step 2 Locate cheque book or bank passbook.
Step 3 Go to bank on Friday lunch(the bank is only open 9-3) to get ticket and travel money. Probably queue because the banks were always busy.
Step 4 Go to ground and locate correct turnstile leaving 20 minutes to get in
Step 5 Find queue is longer than normal because more people have turned up than normal/expected and the turnstile operator has to take cash, give you change and give you a ‘ticket’. Get into ground late?
Step 5 (alternative) Get to ground and find out the match is postponed. You missed the bit on the radio while you were travelling and nobody had a mobile phone so couldn’t call you having checked on Ceefax (old alternative to the internet)
Very good!
Actually the last time I travelled to Macc wasn't that long ago, and I turned up for the evening match to find everything closed up and nobody there. Match postponed at the last minute, and I had no reason to check so didn't bother. It seemed a long drive back...
There are plenty of things better now than the old days, but all-ticket rules for routine league fixtures isn't one of them. I'm not saying that we can't cope, but we had something fixed that for the customer wasn't actually broken.
DoomMerchant wrote:Some forgetting that the whole point of this 'simple procedure' was that the lady in the Mansfield Town Football Club office told a few people that the away end was "Sold out ".
my name is jonas wrote:Guessing the macc ticket office is open up until kick off?
Also is the away ticket office at the away end or apart of there general ticket office?
Chimney wrote:my name is jonas wrote:Guessing the macc ticket office is open up until kick off?
Also is the away ticket office at the away end or apart of there general ticket office?
As you arrive at the ground you are at the home end. If you walk up the side and turn left that's the away terrace,turn left again and you are on Moss lane which is under the new stand. There is a club shop and next to that is a shuttered area which is the ticket office.
Also if you continue up moss lane past the ticket office and a steady ten minute walk brings you to the Golden Lion, a pub we have been welcome at previously
Chimney wrote:my name is jonas wrote:Guessing the macc ticket office is open up until kick off?
Also is the away ticket office at the away end or apart of there general ticket office?
As you arrive at the ground you are at the home end. If you walk up the side and turn left that's the away terrace,turn left again and you are on Moss lane which is under the new stand. There is a club shop and next to that is a shuttered area which is the ticket office.
Also if you continue up moss lane past the ticket office and a steady ten minute walk brings you to the Golden Lion, a pub we have been welcome at previously
halifaxstag wrote:Chimney wrote:my name is jonas wrote:Guessing the macc ticket office is open up until kick off?
Also is the away ticket office at the away end or apart of there general ticket office?
As you arrive at the ground you are at the home end. If you walk up the side and turn left that's the away terrace,turn left again and you are on Moss lane which is under the new stand. There is a club shop and next to that is a shuttered area which is the ticket office.
Also if you continue up moss lane past the ticket office and a steady ten minute walk brings you to the Golden Lion, a pub we have been welcome at previously
Last time we went the ‘Away ticket office’ was on the corner of the ground on the main London Road next to their small car park and the away terrace.
HitchcocksShins wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:Some forgetting that the whole point of this 'simple procedure' was that the lady in the Mansfield Town Football Club office told a few people that the away end was "Sold out ".
hang on, doomie, try not to get in the middle of a classic Stagsnet "thread topic hijack"! (which i may have accidentally started, sorry about that!)
where you got your 5 tickets pal? not sure where i'll be yet but would be good to see you, been a while.
back on off topic, i miss the good old days of:
1: hope that someone creates a football team in your local area so you can go watch this sport you've heard a bit about
2: try not to die of the plague before step 1.
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