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SoL To Undergo Multi-Million-Pound Investment Programme

Blyth said:
Who cares? Like that’s the same whether 45k, 55k. It just is. It’s like small time mentality. Birmingham, Leeds, Villa, Forest etc aren’t thinking like that.

I’ve spoke to 2 fans this week saying they’ve tried for tickets and haven’t got them so they’ve kinda given up. They had season tickets previously up until 3 year ago and tried to get new ones this season. Aye bandwagon etc but these aren’t tourists.
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Spot on.
Football clubs want tourists. They spend more per visit than ST holders. It’s the business model of every club in the PL. SAFC can’t sit on its hands for a few years before deciding to make a decision.
 

shootsitgoeswide said:
Yea but with an extension you talking an extra 5000 seats.

Look at the stadium plan now, there’s loads of hospitality seats available and has been for every game this season. When sales aren’t great the club have sold “padded seats “ …..still on sale for Bournemouth and have been on sale for every game this season ….Yes they’re a little bit more expensive than your standard ticket but if we had crazy demand then even these seat will sell straight away.


The new extension won’t be just standard seats, it will only be worth while doing if we can offer hospitality as well . We not selling out the hospitality we have now never mind adding more.

Just my opinion
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There’s hospitality and there’s hospitality. The hospitality that ends up unsold is vastly overpriced for what it is. The club know this but are obviously not gonna abandon it midseason.
 
shootsitgoeswide said:
there’s loads of hospitality seats available and has been for every game this season.
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That’s not true. Vast majority hospitality isn’t available in most games. Yes there’s some available but that doesn’t mean you can’t offer more and have more variation.

5 out of the 7 hospitality experiences against Bournemouth are sold out. Similar story for Man City and that will probably sell out.

Not every single seat has to be sold to justify increasing the capacity and hospitality offerings.
Sgt Pepper said:
That’s unfortunate and I genuinely feel for people who want to get in and can’t, and I don’t at all mean for this to sound as brutal as it will come across, but it is what it is really and a simple case of supply and demand. They had their tickets, gave them up when things weren’t so great, and then had to wait in the line with everyone else when they decided they wanted to return after promotion. I’m sure them and many others like them will get the opportunity again if the newcomer fans either: a) stick it out with the rest of us for the longer haul meaning an extension will definitely be needed beyond doubt, or b) wrap in again at the first sign of any struggle - in which case the seats become free again.

All I’m saying is I think committing to an extension after just 3 months of consistently selling out the stadium for the first time in 20 years is premature. Not that we shouldn’t be aspiring to do it and putting early plans in place to look into it, just that it is premature.

I obviously hope this doesn’t happen but say this season tailed off and we finished 15th and rather than every match selling out, it was only the occasional one, and that then carried on into next season where we hung around the bottom half of the league for most of it and again crowds were a healthy 43k-45k or so but without selling out every time. Would it really be worth it?
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Nobody has said the club will commit to extending after just 3 months. Makes all your other points irrelevant really.
shootsitgoeswide said:
the extra Bournemouth tickets 1500 of them were on sale for just short of 8 hours before they all got bought so plenty of opportunity.

i personally think we getting ahead ourselves by pushing for an extension, a few bad results and the demand will drop.

we are about right now capacity wise to keep the steady demand for home tickets going.
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8 hours? What happens if you don’t know. What happens if you’re at graft all day. Of course where there’s a will there’s a way but if people have tried and failed like these has you just switch off to it.

Sorry but we’re not at the capacity for a club that wants to compete well in the prem. that’s the way the club think. Some fans don’t. Fair enough.

End of the day the club need as much revenue for PSR. They can increase this by selling more tickets and hospitality.
 
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shootsitgoeswide said:
Yea but with an extension you talking an extra 5000 seats.

Look at the stadium plan now, there’s loads of hospitality seats available and has been for every game this season. When sales aren’t great the club have sold “padded seats “ …..still on sale for Bournemouth and have been on sale for every game this season ….Yes they’re a little bit more expensive than your standard ticket but if we had crazy demand then even these seat will sell straight away.


The new extension won’t be just standard seats, it will only be worth while doing if we can offer hospitality as well . We not selling out the hospitality we have now never mind adding more.

Just my opinion
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Probably because the hospitality is over priced
 
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