Its a no win situation , if you want a pint before the game then buy a ticket first then you can turn up at 2-50 and go straight in , I do





A town centre ticket office is out of the question posssibly due to running costs and H&S logistics so its back to square one





And no modern stadium has pay on the gate facilities these days .

It's easy turn up early buy a ticket (yes I ahve a season ticket) and go to Leigh East, cheap, beer, chips, burgers, curry then go to the game.

the only reason for the queues last sunday was that so many saddos wanted to watch the waste of space on TV before the REAL game, it was their own fault.

No sympathy for them ones.

Rarely have successful businesses been built on the philosophy of making it as hard as possible for the consumer to obtain a product. Successful businesses take great care to give good value products. Value is not only measured against money but the difficulty in obtaining the product too.



One time I was at the ticket office on Saturday and the bloke in front said he’d travelled from Northwich to get the tickets as he couldn’t get there in time to pick the tickets up on the Sunday. This fan, then, made two return trips from Northwich to Leigh in order to go and watch Leigh. He and three friends had only decided to go the day before (probably down the pub) so posting tickets out wasn’t an option. If I’d have been this bloke, I would have sacked the idea. For me, the extra car journey would have tipped the balance and I’d have stayed at home.



Value per Investment = (Quality of Product) / (Cost of Product) = (Matchday Experience + Quality of Rugby + Results)/(Price of ticket + time spent obtaining ticket)



Common sense says that we need to increase the Value per Investment which means increasing Matchday Experience, Quality of Rugby and Results whilst reducing the price of tickets and time spent obtaining tickets as far as possible. Since it’s probably unrealistic to reduce the price, you’re left with the following as a strategy....



[listLook at ideas of monitoring and improving the Matchday experience.

Improve Quality of Rugby and Results (namely, keep Ian Millward at the club)

Make it easier for people to get to the games (improve ticketing purchase options, implement a cash turnstile)[/list:u



Simples.

arrive ten minutes earlier, even simpler.

And if everyone arrived 10 minutes earlier there would still be a queue.

Fred, I suspect that even you realise you're talking rubbish here.

If the only answer to the problem is to get there earler then we should be looking at ways to intice fans to come earlier (cheaper beer, and I know it's not the clubs area)). Personally I hate being on the last minute.

Oi watch it big boy with the saddo skit

Our kid picked our tickets up at 12-30 and was back in the pub for 12-40 ( what some folk will do to be last at the bar ) we then watched Loonypools cup final , laughed a lot , and went into the match no problem





Granted the ground was half full with scouse fans who'd left 30 minutes earlier









But seriously Fred / Andy / Dave are there any plans to sell tickets on-line or is it not cost productive ?

Although I don’t have a problem (being a season ticket holder) not everyone arrives late because of Pub/Football, I watch my son play on Sunday’s usually scheduled to kick off at 11:45, but with late KO's, stoppages/injury time, it can sometimes be 13:15-13:30 before it finishes, then wait for him to pamper himself, get fed etc, it’s often gone 14:00 before we’re heading home.



Having said that this season we’ve done well, Leigh’s home games have coincided with his home games, so I’ve been on the last minute because I’ve had time to go for a pint.

In Limerick you can buy Munster tickets in any pub displaying a Munster flag.



Centurion/East/Miners/Golborne additional ticket outlets?



Canning's is still petitioning on behalf of Leythers, ask them to support the club by flogging tickets?