shows how much certain people at ITFC know about football... very little

dalianwasexciting. ME bought the debt. So as a club I guess we owe ME £30 something plus million pounds. I assume we pay interest ? And if we lose money as a club it presumably comes off ME Group as a loss?

As the Yanks have it - Do the Math.

Could be wrong of course..

I am a pensioner who because I am involved in other sports as a coach only manage to watch 3 or 4 times a season always buy tickets on the gate so can't prove I have bought tickets before ..........How do I get in......1st watched ITFC in 1957

For those of us living a fair way from Ipswich, of which there must be many, this arrangement seems ill-advised. For this particular fixture, I will not be absolutely sure if we (myself and several family members and friends) can all make it to PR until the day itself due to work schedules and the like. Travel by both train and by air needs to be planned and tickets bought well in advance; furthermore, travel from London - or indeed from Gatwick and Stansted - is never quite reliable enough.

So, yes, we probably do not "have thousands deciding to go after 13:30 on Saturday" as MarcusEvansReborn comments, most understandably, but there are a very significant number of supporters who will think twice about attending this weekend if no tickets are available on the day.

The ticket office should realise that the days of mostly local support have gone forever. We are now far more sociably mobile and I should guess that a huge proportion of those Ipswich-based fans who witnessed our better days in the top flight now live away from Suffolk. Many current Suffolk-based supporters will have jobs away from home too.

Please, Police and Club, both of you get together and make such arrangements well in advance! All this smacks of a hastily called meeting on Monday morning with the agenda headed by "We will have a big crowd on Saturday - what the hell do we do?*

Surely, if security is such a major problem, fans could be required to produce a passport at the turnstiles (which could be photocopied quite easily these days on site) and this would perhaps deter potential troublemakers significantly?

Sibelius8 - you can buy tickets online up to 13:30 on Saturday and the club will allow you to collect them when you arrive if you can't print off beforehand.

Ways around it, even on the day of the game

some people on here appear a hit dim. OP a prime example

Do people in England really still go to a football match in 2016 with a view to giving someone bother because they support another team... i mean seriously get a life !!
I know so called leeds utd have always had that thick head imbecile who would punch a kid for wearing the wrong scarf, but in this day and age with cctv etc surely the way forward in the future is to have stands where all fans are mixed in ,would make for a better atmosphere than the current library around most grounds.

Nice thought. However, Wet Sham Utd have put pay to that idea.

Can't see a massive problem with this. Tickets can be bought an hour and a half prior to the match. Most intending to buy a ticket will have almost certainly bought by then or be at the ground.

There are some very strange people on this site!
Should have tried queuing the day before they went on sale for tickets for the F.A. Cup final.
Town fans were made of harder stuff then.

happybeingblue

If you had stood where I did at the Reading game then YES there are still people who go to games "with a view to giving someone bother because they support another team" -