The remaining 300 tickets

So no online, phone sales for the remaining tickets.

I can understand that being so close to the match to a point ( next day delivery option would of been nice) but with the hundreds of southern  exiles couldn't the club sort out some sort of collection arrangement at Braintree? I would of gone with my boy if I could get my hand on some tickets, as I'm sure a lot of other exile would.

Although the team and manager don't deserve our support at the moment a 1000 town fans is better than 700 to have a slim chance of getting through

Surely the Trust can look into organising something here?

After that absolute shower of shite last night the club should be busting a gut to get tickets to anyone who wants to go.

Some players could do a lot worse than donate their weekly wage towards DHL delivery!

Feel like going anyway. Bet there will be tickets on the day. Otherwise therell be people round the town carrying out random acts of vandalism.

Should be laying on free coach travel imo not just for last night but as a thankyou to the great travelling fans this season .

As a southern based Town fan I find Braintree's attitude to this distateful (this is not a comment relating to the result from last night) These tickets should of been available From Tueday morning not 9pm last night They are turning into Fg without the money on there treatment of the away support They obviously have a problem with us so sad

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Should be laying on free coach travel imo not just for last night but as a thankyou to the great travelling fans this season .

Which will be took out the budget for next season on players.

Phoned the ticket office earlier to ask what their plans are if we have left over tickets and they suggested they were wandering about this and were thinking of contacting Braintree to see if something can be organised to collect tickets.  Hope they are trying to follow through with this, said she would try to get something on the website if it is arranged.  

However as Eastend says Braintree's attitude on this is very poor, creating a fiasco out of what should be a relatively simpe matter. Their team deserve massive credit and I hold no disrespect towards the team and management side, but the administrative side are letting the team on the pitch down.  As a result I doubt we will be able to do anything different with regards the tickets.  

5 Simple Steps

1 Get people to buy them on the phone

2 Put them in envelopes as if they where being collected from the office

3 Put them in a box  

4 Put them on Terry's bus with someone from the Trust or ticket office

5 Collect them from the bus on the day.

I would be very surprised if the lady who has been in the office for years (Lisa?) is not going she tends to go to most big away games.

It's so simple!

As the ticket office staff got first dibs on the tickets anyway surely the least they can do is take any unsold ones down with them??

Quoted from HertsGTFC

5 Simple Steps

1 Get people to buy them on the phone

2 Put them in envelopes as if they where being collected from the office

3 Put them in a box  

4 Put them on Terry's bus with someone from the Trust or ticket office

5 Collect them from the bus on the day.

I would be very surprised if the lady who has been in the office for years (Lisa?) is not going she tends to go to most big away games.

It's so simple!

Spot on mate, I was just going to suggest the same.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

5 Simple Steps

1 Get people to buy them on the phone

2 Put them in envelopes as if they where being collected from the office

3 Put them in a box  

4 Put them on Terry's bus with someone from the Trust or ticket office

5 Collect them from the bus on the day.

I would be very surprised if the lady who has been in the office for years (Lisa?) is not going she tends to go to most big away games.

It's so simple!

If they don't make any sort of effort regarding the left over tickets then shame on this Football club

Quoted from Caesar

Phoned the ticket office earlier to ask what their plans are if we have left over tickets and they suggested they were wandering about this and were thinking of contacting Braintree to see if something can be organised to collect tickets.  Hope they are trying to follow through with this, said she would try to get something on the website if it is arranged.  

However as Eastend says Braintree's attitude on this is very poor, creating a fiasco out of what should be a relatively simpe matter. Their team deserve massive credit and I hold no disrespect towards the team and management side, but the administrative side are letting the team on the pitch down.  As a result I doubt we will be able to do anything different with regards the tickets.  

Braintree are 100% to blame for this. I've been to a good few all ticket away games over the period of time in this league and a lot of clubs want/allow Town to print on GTFC ticket paper. As Braintree were obliged to give us 600 as per the rules the go ahead could've been given from Tuesday onwards. This would've allowed tickets to be posted out where necessary. For them to arrive at well past  5 p.m. yesterday is beyond ridiculous. Spare a thought for ticket office staff who would be expected to stay after the match for longer than normally would be the case. I hope that the club can sort something with Braintree but I'm not holding my breath.

Can always go there and brick a few houses if we cannot get in

Quoted from barralad

Braintree are 100% to blame for this. I've been to a good few all ticket away games over the period of time in this league and a lot of clubs want/allow Town to print on GTFC ticket paper. As Braintree were obliged to give us 600 as per the rules the go ahead could've been given from Tuesday onwards. This would've allowed tickets to be posted out where necessary. For them to arrive at well past  5 p.m. yesterday is beyond ridiculous. Spare a thought for ticket office staff who would be expected to stay after the match for longer than normally would be the case. I hope that the club can sort something with Braintree but I'm not holding my breath.

Barra see my post above if GTFC really wanted to sell the remaining tickets we could if we cared

Exactly it's really that simple after all if Braintree had played ball and sorted this out Last Sat eve ( they were at home weren't they ) Town could had the tickets sold The Club should put a complaint about this later in the summer it's a wind up at the loyal fan's expensive so unnecessary.Dont we have enough problems without having to mess about getting tickets to stand at a ground that's not really up to scratch

Braintree could have sold a couple of hundred tickets from their end to Southern based Mariners

Pathetic would happily pay way over ticket price just to get in

Quoted from grimps

Braintree could have sold a couple of hundred tickets from their end to Southern based Mariners

Of course they could. Sadly they are well and truly focused on their home support-despite them being in the position of keeping all the money.

Quoted from barralad

Of course they could. Sadly they are well and truly focused on their home support-despite them being in the position of keeping all the money.

I can not make it myself but I do know somebody who went to Braintree for some match tickets,

He had a big choice of seats so unless they sell any on the gate I doubt if we will sell our 1,000 tickets,

BUT

I bet there will be a few in the home end.

250 left. Still going to be 200 tickets available which could have been took up by exiles. Stand up the trust!

Quoted from 1739

250 left. Still going to be 200 tickets available which could have been took up by exiles. Stand up the trust!

5 Simple Steps

1 Get people to buy them on the phone

2 Put them in envelopes as if they where being collected from the office

3 Put them in a box  

4 Put them on Terry's bus with someone from the Trust or ticket office

5 Collect them from the bus on the day.

I would be very surprised if the lady who has been in the office for years (Lisa?) is not going she tends to go to most big away games.

It's so simple!

Quoted from HertsGTFC

5 Simple Steps

1 Get people to buy them on the phone

2 Put them in envelopes as if they where being collected from the office

3 Put them in a box  

4 Put them on Terry's bus with someone from the Trust or ticket office

5 Collect them from the bus on the day.

I would be very surprised if the lady who has been in the office for years (Lisa?) is not going she tends to go to most big away games.

It's so simple!

Right here goes:-

As I'm the only member of the Trust board who posts on here I'll take a punt that the highlight of the word "Trust" was aimed at me.
If it wasn't no matter but I'd like to outline my reasons why I wouldn't have been prepared to volunteer to do it.

When I go to Town matches I usually have my "Town fan" head on. I enjoy away days particularly because I can do what I want within reason. I have in the past collected tickets for individuals from the ticket office but only after conversation with them about where to meet etc. I also took several bags of stuff from Operation Promotion to people who couldn't get to B.P. What is being proposed here is something quite different. The O.P. is asking someone to take responsibility for 200 (the figure quoted on here not my figure) tickets and arrange distribution. Firstly I'm sorry but I don't want the responsibility of keeping those safe and secondly even if I got there with them I wouldn't fancy the job of distributing that number of tickets in a relatively small window of time. The O.P. makes no mention of the security angle. How exactly would the exchange take place? There is no mention of I.D. to be brought. What happens if someone comes to me and says I've ordered and paid for a ticket but there isn't an envelope with their name on it? Whose ticket shall I give them as they have me up against a wall by the scruff of the neck? How long would you like me to wait for the last half dozen to discharge themselves from one of Braintree's many pubs so that I can hand over their tickets?
I'm all for "Where there is a will there is a way" but the time factor has been against the club from last Saturday night. As I said earlier in this thread there is only one source of blame for this fiasco and it lies squarely at the door of Braintree Town who, I personally believe, wanted to make it as hard as possible for Town fans to avoid the realistic possibility of their home leg being turned into an away leg by our ability to outnumber their fans.

Quoted from WokingMariner

Pathetic would happily pay way over ticket price just to get in

Check your p.m's Woking....

Re tickets,

Ian if you charge them only £1 for your time,

That's £200 in your back pocket mate,

I bet they would be willing to pay £2 per ticket

You could go on holiday with that amount mate.

Quoted from barralad

Right here goes:-

As I'm the only member of the Trust board who posts on here I'll take a punt that the highlight of the word "Trust" was aimed at me.
If it wasn't no matter but I'd like to outline my reasons why I wouldn't have been prepared to volunteer to do it.

When I go to Town matches I usually have my "Town fan" head on. I enjoy away days particularly because I can do what I want within reason. I have in the past collected tickets for individuals from the ticket office but only after conversation with them about where to meet etc. I also took several bags of stuff from Operation Promotion to people who couldn't get to B.P. What is being proposed here is something quite different. The O.P. is asking someone to take responsibility for 200 (the figure quoted on here not my figure) tickets and arrange distribution. Firstly I'm sorry but I don't want the responsibility of keeping those safe and secondly even if I got there with them I wouldn't fancy the job of distributing that number of tickets in a relatively small window of time. The O.P. makes no mention of the security angle. How exactly would the exchange take place? There is no mention of I.D. to be brought. What happens if someone comes to me and says I've ordered and paid for a ticket but there isn't an envelope with their name on it? Whose ticket shall I give them as they have me up against a wall by the scruff of the neck? How long would you like me to wait for the last half dozen to discharge themselves from one of Braintree's many pubs so that I can hand over their tickets?
I'm all for "Where there is a will there is a way" but the time factor has been against the club from last Saturday night. As I said earlier in this thread there is only one source of blame for this fiasco and it lies squarely at the door of Braintree Town who, I personally believe, wanted to make it as hard as possible for Town fans to avoid the realistic possibility of their home leg being turned into an away leg by our ability to outnumber their fans.

Barra firstly in no way was this aimed at you as this board is pretty anonymous (if you want it to be) I would/could not be 100% that you where the only one from The Trust Board who posts on here, how could I be? For the record I also 100% agree with what you posted above.

I also fully agree that this situation is down to Braintree's inexperience in handling games of this size but I suspect it's more that they are either very greedy or just wanted to p1ss us off, never mind our 700 - 800 will make more noise than all of them.  

As someone who has spent most of his career handling large amounts of cash over counters I fully understand the security options involved in carting tickets to away games on buses in reality it is not something that we would offer the many but maybe we could make exceptions for the few.

As a season ticket holder who lives 30 miles outside of London I at times have found it difficult to get tickets to away games, some of those difficulties as discussed on previous recent threads have been created by GTFC and have usually involved my 70 dad who does not drive due to heart trouble and is not in the best of health going to BP to collect and produce my season ticket in the process despite info contained on our database etc........all that we would need to do is store a password on the system with my name, address etc.. and posting out whilst under season ticket holder restrictions could be done.

The point I was trying to make was that the club and its associates need to be "can do" if that means that Town fans who live away from Grimsby and have to have tickets posted can get to games. Yes I know and appreciate the time lines for this game are ridiculous and prohibit all sensible options.

A couple of weeks a go you sent me a PM which I only picked up yesterday about feeding back issues, I appreciate that as it was a legitimate request for feedback, so please take the above as a piece of feedback rather than a personal attack.    

UTM!!!

Quoted from barralad

Check your p.m's Woking....

Nice one!!

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Barra firstly in no way was this aimed at you as this board is pretty anonymous (if you want it to be) I would/could not be 100% that you where the only one from The Trust Board who posts on here, how could I be? For the record I also 100% agree with what you posted above.

I also fully agree that this situation is down to Braintree's inexperience in handling games of this size but I suspect it's more that they are either very greedy or just wanted to p1ss us off, never mind our 700 - 800 will make more noise than all of them.  

As someone who has spent most of his career handling large amounts of cash over counters I fully understand the security options involved in carting tickets to away games on buses in reality it is not something that we would offer the many but maybe we could make exceptions for the few.

As a season ticket holder who lives 30 miles outside of London I at times have found it difficult to get tickets to away games, some of those difficulties as discussed on previous recent threads have been created by GTFC and have usually involved my 70 dad who does not drive due to heart trouble and is not in the best of health going to BP to collect and produce my season ticket in the process despite info contained on our database etc........all that we would need to do is store a password on the system with my name, address etc.. and posting out whilst under season ticket holder restrictions could be done.

The point I was trying to make was that the club and its associates need to be "can do" if that means that Town fans who live away from Grimsby and have to have tickets posted can get to games. Yes I know and appreciate the time lines for this game are ridiculous and prohibit all sensible options.

A couple of weeks a go you sent me a PM which I only picked up yesterday about feeding back issues, I appreciate that as it was a legitimate request for feedback, so please take the above as a piece of feedback rather than a personal attack.    

UTM!!!

No worries mate regarding the original post. As it happens I think the point about use of a password system for exiles is excellent and will be feeding it back to the rest of the Trust Board at the earliest opportunity. IF we get promoted there may be more games where the problem presents itself (although I don't ever envisage a repeat of Braintree's fiasco (there is no other word for it).
Any organisation should love feedback!!

I would have thought that all the tickets would have been snapped up on Thursday if we hadn't been so excrement and lost.

UPDATE:- Just been in the shop to buy another ticket. Steve Wraith is holding the fort as a volunteer. A steady stream of people buying-now circa 180 left. Talking to the people in there they were mainly buying for exiles. It was this thread that prompted Steve to volunteer to come in as originally the office was shutting at 5 p.m. Friday. As a result to date 70 more Town fans have the chance to go.
I asked him about the delivery in envelopes to the ground and Lisa did it for Alfreton and Lincoln last season. She was delayed in traffic and then had to put up with some abuse when she arrived late so exercised her right not to do it again.

Quoted from barralad

UPDATE:- Just been in the shop to buy another ticket. Steve Wraith is holding the fort as a volunteer. A steady stream of people buying-now circa 180 left. Talking to the people in there they were mainly buying for exiles. It was this thread that prompted Steve to volunteer to come in as originally the office was shutting at 5 p.m. Friday. As a result to date 70 more Town fans have the chance to go.
I asked him about the delivery in envelopes to the ground and Lisa did it for Alfreton and Lincoln last season. She was delayed in traffic and then had to put up with some abuse when she arrived late so exercised her right not to do it again.

Thanks for the update Barra, well done to Steve (again) who over the years has demonstrated a fair amount of flexibility with such things. It sounds like WE are doing all we can despite our opponents best efforts. Feels like Lisa has made the right choice on this one based upon previous experience.

Know after all that "above and beyond" stuff off the pitch wouldn't it be nice if we got some on the pitch tomorrow?