FA Cup 24/25

Be interesting to see what they price the Luton game at. Obviously should be £15 or less but I'd guess something around 20,000 will probably be the attendance regardless, so they'll probably be similar price to Newcastle.

Last year round three I paid £23 for me and the older daughter (adult £20, child £3) against Blackpoo. That game sold out, so I'd expect it to be priced a bit higher.

Well, we’ve stayed Saturday at 3pm, but this schedule is bonkers.
FA Cup R3

Nice to see both Welsh clubs getting bonus TV money as well.

Fully digital tickets, so get there early, the queues will be horrendous.

Do you think there's any chance of Luton tickets making general sale, or is that not even a thing these days?

I appear to have the option to buy, despite having no membership. £8 for adults, £4 for kids, Peter Taylor stand.

edit. For the girls.

Can’t see it selling out, so I expect it to go to general sale. Might need a customer reference but you’d hope a call would sort that out.

You remember when the Thatcher government wanted to bring in id cards for football fans to be able to attend games and there was a massive hop has about it, preventing casual fans etc...

Depends how they price it. I would say a good chance.

Do digital tickets cause an issue for casual fans? I don’t remember that last time I got a physical ticket for anything. My season tickets are digital, and so are gig and other event tickets that I am attending ‘casually’. They can all be delivered by SMS. I guess casual boomers who don’t know how to do anything on their phone except casual racism on Facebook might have an issue… but, generally, the ability to get a ticket instantly on a phone, rather than queuing up for a printout, should be overall better for casual fans, no?

Currently at Forest you can only transfer/buy a ticket if you are a member which I think costs £50+.

There are currently ways around it but won't be if everything is linked to your phone and phone number (from what I read print at home will not be a thing under the new Prem.riles).

Are they really saying it’ll be mandatory to have a mobile phone and have it charged and with you to attend a football match? Seems unlikely. What about the visually impaired, for a start?

I don't think that's a too unreasonable or unrealistic requirement in Q2 of the 21st centrury, to be honest.

It's really no different from it being 'mandatory' (i. e. your responsibility) to remember to bring your your paper ticket to the event for which you've purchased attendance or remembering the paper train ticket you bought 2 weeks ago for cheaper travel.

At the risk of sounding disablist, how do visullay impaired navigate those situations? Often with the help of a fully sighted person. If anything digital tickets offer more scope for visual impairment considerations than a mass produced physical piece of paper.

And, for point of pendantary, I think we passed the point a while ago whereby phones stopped becoming phones and became necessary personal multi functional digital connectivity and multi media devices that also make phone calls.

As Noodle says that's already the case for concert many venues, Twickenham, the O2, Wembley Arena are all mobile ticket only.

But they all allow you to download their app for free and transfer tickets to anyone with the app., or have more than one ticket on a phone.

Forest already don't allow you to forward tickets to anyone, only to people who have paid the membership fee. But forwarding to a member sends them a printable ticket currently that you can then send on to anyone so can get around the system as long as you know a member who isn't attending.

I'm going to wager that mobile ticketing will close that loophole and mean you've got to pay to be a member to be able to have the ticket on your phone, one ticket pet phone.

I think when we went to Spurs their mobile tickets aren't QR codes (that you can screenshot and give to someone else) they were like a contactless payment card. Bring it up and tap on the turnstile rather than something being scanned. So yeah, much harder to transfer - and I remember om you can only add it to one phone.

Yeah that's right, but they do allow you to transfer tickets to anyone, not just paid up members (cos we aren't), where Forest don't allow that now.

Maybe I'm wrong and it will open up ticket transfers to anyone with a phone, let's hope so.