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Cheylesmore ITK

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Bertola said:
Rocked up about 7:15 last night and got through pretty smoothly compared to recent weeks. It seems to be the luck of the draw with which turnstile you get, but that shouldn't be the case

It's shit, the ground always has issues with big attendances, whether that's for Football or concerts. IT's as if the ground isn't capable of actually holding its attendance
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It's not, if built in 2024 it would be built with more turnstiles
 
SBAndy

SBAndy

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hamertime said:
Why not just to a happy hour on food and drink in the ground, fans will be like pigs at the trough in there.
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This is the thing: people spending in the casino/Dhillons/wherever could be spending that money in the stadium instead. Granted, there’s the disconnect between club and stadium but from a pure business perspective it’s in the stadium’s interests to get people in as soon as possible and keep them there for as long as possible. Spurs’ new stadium was designed round this concept.
 
Flying Fokker

Flying Fokker

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Perhaps they need to go back to basics with paper tickets (the season cards work well).

a system similar to park run scanning and then funnelling for security.
They could even do that similar to other community events. Anyone entering the area near the stadium Will have gone through checks before even getting to the turnstiles. season cards fly through.
 
Tommo1993

Tommo1993

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They need to stop telling people, who are queuing for B14/15/16/17, that queues are shorter up towards the north stand. This is completely false. Even if was the case, you are then just congesting the concourse with people shuffling through crowds and back towards the corner area. It’s a shit show all over.
 
Nick

Nick

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It is shit every week. The stewards are so slow, they will search then turn round and watch you go in and thisn'en search the next person.

Then towards kickoff time they just let everybody through as quick as possible anyway so it's pointless. If you are going to smuggle stuff in you just go close to kick off and get waved through.

It isn't so bad when it's decent weather but last night standing there in the rain wasn't nice.
 
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hamertime

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It’s got me thinking, one thing I really do miss is the the old school stewards. The ones at Highfield Road were brilliant. Same guys every week they knew everybody, the ones in the West Terrace were sound and had everybody’s respect and sorted out any trouble with a quiet word.
 
Grendel

Grendel

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edgy said:
7.15pm, 4 people in the queue for the first North Stand turnstile we came across. People do realise you can use any turnstile, right?

I was the only cause of delay, as the rain on my screen was messing with the barcode scan.
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I have tried using other turnstiles and the ticket didn’t work and was told I could only use the ones on the ticket
 
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hamertime

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Grendel said:
I have tried using other turnstiles and the ticket didn’t work and was told I could only use the ones on the ticket
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I followed the advice on here you can use any turnstile. I tried to get into the executive box area with my family stand season ticket but they wouldn’t have it.
 
skybluepm2

skybluepm2

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It was a tad farcical getting in last night. The poor bloke in front of me was told in no uncertain terms that he had to leave his umbrella outside because ‘it had a spike on it’ 🙄 seems a bit OTT to me. He was hardly going to use it to ram up the opposition keepers arse…How very ridiculous of him to bring a rain protective mechanism during a monsoon.

They’ll take your bottle caps off your drink but are happy to provide you with a knife for a pie. A bit of consistency wouldn’t go amiss chaps.
 
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SBT

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skybluepm2 said:
It was a tad farcical getting in last night. The poor bloke in front of me was told in no uncertain terms that he had to leave his umbrella outside because ‘it had a spike on it’ 🙄 seems a bit OTT to me. He was hardly going to use it to ram up the opposition keepers arse…How very ridiculous of him to bring a rain protective mechanism during a monsoon.

They’ll take your bottle caps off your drink but are happy to provide you with a knife for a pie. A bit of consistency wouldn’t go amiss chaps.
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Umbrellas have been on the list of prohibited items for ages tbf.
 
skybluepm2

skybluepm2

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SBT said:
Umbrellas have been on the list of prohibited items for ages tbf.
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Thought as much but I still find it bonkers. Wouldn’t be half as bad if they’d let us in the ground within a decent and acceptable timeframe 😝
 
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SAJ

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pusbccfc said:
Worst yet last night. A bad mix of people arriving late, soggy printed tickets and the usual overzealous checks.

They put barriers up to stop the queues moving too far out and that helps at the bars but created a lot of frustration for some. It got quite tense when people had missed kick off and were nowhere near in the stadium. Stewards panicked and stopped searching and checking tickets.

I previously argued people are turning up late but there's clearly something else. They check the bags too late. At other stadiums, they have a table or stewards at the start of the queue checking which then allows people time to get their ticket ready at the turnstile. At the CBS, stewards are searching right up by the door.

@Sky Blue Pete I know this has been discussed multiple times but I don't think the unopened turnstiles under Block 14 have been mentioned. Clearly, SAG have never been keen on fans entering there as it's past the (stupid) fence. Surely reopening these has to be something on the radar soon.

The early food and drink deals aren't enough to get people in early. Does anyone really want a stadium pint at 1pm?
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It would help if those with paper tickets actually folded them where the lines are to put it in the ticket machine. There were 4 in front of us trying to feed the scanner with A4 paper.
 
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SAJ

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pusbccfc said:
Worst yet last night. A bad mix of people arriving late, soggy printed tickets and the usual overzealous checks.

They put barriers up to stop the queues moving too far out and that helps at the bars but created a lot of frustration for some. It got quite tense when people had missed kick off and were nowhere near in the stadium. Stewards panicked and stopped searching and checking tickets.

I previously argued people are turning up late but there's clearly something else. They check the bags too late. At other stadiums, they have a table or stewards at the start of the queue checking which then allows people time to get their ticket ready at the turnstile. At the CBS, stewards are searching right up by the door.

@Sky Blue Pete I know this has been discussed multiple times but I don't think the unopened turnstiles under Block 14 have been mentioned. Clearly, SAG have never been keen on fans entering there as it's past the (stupid) fence. Surely reopening these has to be something on the radar soon.

The early food and drink deals aren't enough to get people in early. Does anyone really want a stadium pint at 1pm?
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You don’t have to go in where your seat is even though your season tickets gives you 3-4 turnstiles to use. If you go in the North side you can get in virtually straight away then walk through the concourse.
 
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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Tommo1993 said:
They need to stop telling people, who are queuing for B14/15/16/17, that queues are shorter up towards the north stand. This is completely false. Even if was the case, you are then just congesting the concourse with people shuffling through crowds and back towards the corner area. It’s a shit show all over.
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But at least you wouldn't be standing out in the rain.
 
skybluepm2

skybluepm2

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hamertime said:
Why not just to a happy hour on food and drink in the ground, fans will be like pigs at the trough in there.
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I could be talking out of my arse here, but I’m sure they did something like this at the start of the season for a couple of games. Didn’t seem to last very long which is a shame. But you’re spot on, give someone a reason to enter the ground early and they’ll reduce these issues significantly
 
Nick

Nick

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skybluepm2 said:
I could be talking out of my arse here, but I’m sure they did something like this at the start of the season for a couple of games. Didn’t seem to last very long which is a shame. But you’re spot on, give someone a reason to enter the ground early and they’ll reduce these issues significantly
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The beer in the outside bars is much better to be fair!
 
skybluepm2

skybluepm2

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Nick said:
The beer in the outside bars is much better to be fair!
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what do they sell? Have never ventured there. Might have to give it a try. Usually go to anecdote or Dhillons. Beer in the ground is shite, had to resort to a HT Stella last night as the anecdote was closed again 😫
 
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