This electronic ticket system / caper is in my opinion, a
massive own goal. All well and good taking the club forwards by introducing the facility, but my opinion alone, it will have detrimental consequences.
As said by many others, I can't see how making it even dearer to attend on the day will take the club forward. Look either way down the M65, better football on offer with better facilities at much the same price.
I think the added cost for walk on prices is massively influenced by paying for this system and in all honesty I can't see why we need it. It's not like it would be needed every week, would only be worth it's while for a couple of games a season, ala games like Bury, Bradford & Rochdale or a big cup game (bearing in mind Rochdale won't be here next year and Bury might not be if they go up in the play-offs.) If we were to spend money improving anything it would be better spent improving facilities.
How does making it even dearer and inconveniencing folk by making them to have to think about getting tickets in advance, in order to get football at the price they pay at the moment, to use poor facilities, attract more folk onto the ground???
I can see it putting folk off, having a negative impact on attendances and in turn exasperating the problem. Lower attendances meaning less income, lower budget, etc, etc, etc.
Seriously, have the powers that be thought this one through ???