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Lord Alfred said:
But 20,000 have only just thrown the towel in. The best time to get some of them back is before they get totally out of the habit.

It’s a new era and the owners should do everything they can to start that era on the front foot. Ffs people were creaming their pants at the thought of being given a paintbrush and a turnstile to paint yesterday but filling the stadium at no extra cost and creating an atmosphere is seen as ridiculous.....people on here man :lol:
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I've already stated on the pod cast thread, that, if the new owners walk as good as they talk, I might just pop over the SOL this season, I'll wait a while, I've heard all the same stuff spoutted before, magic carpets , Gus busses and the like, just give me a team I don't begrudge paying to see and players that play for the shirt, they can leave the ticket price the same, I couldn't give a shite about that.

Lord Alfred said:
But it wasn’t against Chelsea and Everton.
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Aye, winning football.
 

Lord Alfred said:
But 20,000 have only just thrown the towel in. The best time to get some of them back is before they get totally out of the habit.

It’s a new era and the owners should do everything they can to start that era on the front foot. Ffs people were creaming their pants at the thought of being given a paintbrush and a turnstile to paint yesterday but filling the stadium at no extra cost and creating an atmosphere is seen as ridiculous.....people on here man :lol:
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20,000 have been out of the habit for over a season. A season in which we finished rock bottom of the Championship - we need to win some games first and foremost.

"Ffs people were creaming their pants at the thought of being given a paintbrush and a turnstile to paint yesterday but filling the stadium at no extra cost and creating an atmosphere is seen as ridiculous.....people on here man :lol:"

Interesting. I'm sure that you've done the analysis and can show the correlation between those that were creaming over a paintbrush and those that think this is ridiculous. No? You've made up a meaningless statement? Well bugger me.
 
OohBaldyBally said:
Doesn’t need to happen. The tickets are already reasonably priced.

Make a statement by using the transfer budget well, bring in a manager that can introduce a style of play, win a few games. They’ll come back.
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There is a definite correlation between winning football games playing exciting football and big crowds. My Dad used to say that if Shack was playing he'd put ten thousand plus on the attendance.
 
Lord Alfred said:
But 20,000 have only just thrown the towel in. The best time to get some of them back is before they get totally out of the habit.

It’s a new era and the owners should do everything they can to start that era on the front foot. Ffs people were creaming their pants at the thought of being given a paintbrush and a turnstile to paint yesterday but filling the stadium at no extra cost and creating an atmosphere is seen as ridiculous.....people on here man :lol:
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You've lost it here like. ^
 
The Sheepfolds End said:
Season tickets are very reasonably priced. Match day tickets are not.

Vast majority of games were £30 last season by the time booking fees were paid online. Fewest games I’ve ever been to in a season and still spent £200 to watch the absolute dross that was served up.
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I think they'll have to look at the cost of matchday tickets next season.
 
gazza.1990 said:
Taking away the away fans allotted allocation up the top, as well as the closure of the home section of the concourse, does anyone know what our actual total saleable seats are? The total of just the lower bowl? ~35k at a max guess i'd say, which there is no reason why that is not achievable if we get a decent manager in, some decent signings and hit the ground running.
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The home section of the concourse is not "closed" closed.

It can be re-opened at any time if the demand is there. If the lower bold sold out and there was still enough people asking for tickets then they'd sell tickets up there. There's just no season tickets, so they only have to open it when it's needed.

I can't see that happening in the third division like, even if we are doing well. Maybe for the final hame game if we have won the title or if we get drawn against the mags in the FA Cup.
 
The price of season ticket already gone up to 370 from 310 for people who waited. Bad move by the club they should reopen at original prices and get as many sold as possible.
 
rocky said:
I'd charge those who want to return double what us renewers are paying
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You’ll be getting a rebate dear....and don’t forget you were “broken” by them just recently. I really don’t think you’d have renewed if it hadn’t been for “the don”.
 
The cost of a ticket is only one small part of the day out. For someone to decide to return, they will be thinking, as well as the ticket price, about
  • spending time off work attending a match instead of doing something else with the family
  • cost of getting to the ground
  • cost of programme/pie/pint etc
 
Safc88 said:
OP looking for another excuse not to go imo

Ticket prics are not a problem at all. Spennymoor charged £15 to get in the other week ffs
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I’m happy to hand £1500 over mate...just waiting to see if there’s a bit of ambition on offer first. Showing a bit of proactive thinking would be a good start.
 
Safc88 said:
OP looking for another excuse not to go imo
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Looks like it. The offer under Short of a reduction in ticket prices and price protection for 3 years to people committing early is as good a deal offered by any club. I’d be happy for the new regime to maintain the reduced prices for this season to new sales. I’d assume the current pricing strategy was part of the due diligence process and budgets have been produced based upon it. The prices are pitched at a very reasonable level, match day prices will need adjusting to encourage ‘walk-ins’ though. The fact that getting on for 17000 people have already committed to season cards before the end of May in our circumstances is quite frankly amazing.

The abject failure to deliver a decent match day experience is fundamentally the major reason people have stopped going. Many will return to watch a team playing decent football and winning a few games. There are those who prefer to watch PL football and they won’t come back, probably even for free. Others will come back, it’s been proven before and I’m pretty confident that should we win games and challenge for promotion we will end up with big crowds.
 
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