Digital ticketing gets a bad wrap.
I sit with a group of about a dozen. We’ve been going together since the 90s, starting as unruly teenagers to now as mostly-ruly middle-aged plonkers with kids in tow. The vicissitudes of life mean none of us – or our kids – make it to every game. Tickets get swapped around all over the place. In the olden days you’d actually have to make a plan to meet up to swap tickets. Now, there’s a whatsapp group where people offer their tickets if they can’t go, and they get picked up by those who can and it takes seconds.
“Got a mate or relative in town – whose got a spare ticket? – I can’t go the kids are sick - thanks I’ll grab yours – cool, got it thanks – make sure you heckle [insert opposition player for me]”
It’s done in minutes, and it’s awesome.
Remember when someone would lose their season pass? It would cost you money, you’d have to wait around for two weeks to get it. You’d have to pick up a paper ticket at a gate for losers who lost their tickets. It sucked.
