jonnie_makem
Striker
It's a vicious circle really. Season ticket sales are now down to around 25,000 meaning that there are 23,000 seats going spare for every game. They keep putting these offers on in the hope of trying to fill as many of them as possible but by doing so are making the season ticket an even less attractive purchase so no doubt season ticket sales will fall again next summer.
What they should have done, and this is one of the reasons I am against moving the away fans, is to close off the Upper bowl of the stadium entirely and concentrate on filling up the Lower bowl because lets face it, there's only going to be 2 or 3 games this season where the seats in the Upper bowl would be required. You get a sense of a fuller stadium, the fans are more packed in together which makes for a better atmosphere and we would have more fans behind the goals.
Is that true? I thought ST sales had been fairly consistent around the 28k mark for the last few years but its match day sales which are slow.
On your other point, the Premier Concourse has some of the best seats in the ground and all the executives and such go up there so you couldn't close off all of the upper bowl. By moving the away fans, they're effectively closing off the NWU and NSU who should hopefully relocate to the lower bowl. On the subject, I've always felt that they should discount the shitter seats on a match-by-match basis, like the first 10 rows of the North Stand. Fair enough, they end up paying less than ST holders but the view is poorer.