29 15th August 2020 Rochdale

 This  was  a  bit  of  a  disaster.  The  idea  was  to  do  another  walk  from  the  Paul  Hannon  book  after  a  visit  to  Spotland  to  buy  a  season  ticket  for  next  year.  Unfortunately  that  was  to  take  4  hours.

The  problem  was  caused  by  two  things. One, the  club  unwisely  put  on  the  website  that  demand  might  exceed  supply. Two, the  club  had  prepared  a  seating  plan  based  on  who  they  thought  would  renew   and  then  abandoned  it  when  the  first  person  didn't  like  where  they'd  been  put. This  meant  the  plan  had  to  be  reconfigured  with  each  subsequent   purchase  so  each  transaction took  10  minutes. When  we  got  there,  the  queue  wasn't  enormous  but  horrendously  slow  moving. 

In  mitigation, the  stewards  were  giving  out  free  water  and  Fruit  Shoots  and  one  of  the  directors, Tony  Pockney  was  chatting  to  spectators  and  doing  his  best  to  move  things  along. By  the  time  we  got  the  tickets  at  2.30pm , Simon  had  no desire  to  do  the  walk  and instead  we  went  to  The  Winston  Churchill  for  some  lunch. It's  not  my  favourite  place  to  dine  but  my  scampi  and  chips  was  fine.

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