Membership scheme

[Jabberwocky]

Wait til you get this BS over there.

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Insane that mind. Billionaires exploiting local government and regular fans and the people just take it.

When a franchise moves thousands of miles away, are the locals just happy to have a big league team and instantly start supporting them and do the original fans stick with them or look for another team? It's such a weird concept to me that a team isn't intrenched geographically or culturally and people are willing to support what is basically a corporate entity with some branding.

 

[Hawkings Boots]

The only membership scheme I vaguely have any knowledge of is the Man City one.

Its £35 to have access to tickets but that does get you tickets for u21 games (which I know we give to STH but you wouldn't need a membership if you have a ST anyway), £15 to spend in the shop, 10% off in the shop and discount on womens tickets

You also get £5 off each match ticket you buy and various other discounts

In my opinion if we go down this route it needs to be something like this. If you buy a couple of tickets, a kit and some other bits in the shop its a net zero cost

 

[tunstallhill]

The only membership scheme I vaguely have any knowledge of is the Man City one.

Its £35 to have access to tickets but that does get you tickets for u21 games (which I know we give to STH but you wouldn't need a membership if you have a ST anyway), £15 to spend in the shop, 10% off in the shop and discount on womens tickets

You also get £5 off each match ticket you buy and various other discounts

In my opinion if we go down this route it needs to be something like this. If you buy a couple of tickets, a kit and some other bits in the shop its a net zero cost

That seems like decent value.

 

[SAFC2012]

All the membership schemes I've looked at require everyone to be a paid up member to receive, for example, a match ticket that a season ticket holder wants to forward to a mate for a particular game.

At the moment if you can't go to a game (in the majority of instances i.e. where no purchase history is required) you have 2 options, option A to forward your ticket on to family / friend at no additional cost providing they're in the same age bracket = no benefit to the club or option B to put your ticket up for resale where the club makes the difference between the credit refund they apply to the season ticket holders account and the adult price that the resale is bought at. Option B is very beneficial to the club financially if an under 18 puts their ticket up for resale as the club make £20-£30 depending on the location in the ground.

 

[Zweiguys]

Insane that mind. Billionaires exploiting local government and regular fans and the people just take it.

When a franchise moves thousands of miles away, are the locals just happy to have a big league team and instantly start supporting them and do the original fans stick with them or look for another team? It's such a weird concept to me that a team isn't intrenched geographically or culturally and people are willing to support what is basically a corporate entity with some branding.

As a league, the NFL isn’t really that old. It grew with TV in general and cable tv in particular. In its growing years there were also cities growing and those cities wanted a team and the NFL obliged. Example - Tampa and Jacksonville in FL, Carolina,
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” PT Barnum

 

[Mackemansj1]

A badly run club is a badly run club. No matter the coin. The point is clubs with most revenue in the main do better than clubs with a lower income. It’s that simple.

Who’s talking about f***ing over fans like? It’s a membership. Plenty of clubs have them. We’ve even had them.

It’s how it starts we’ve already seen if you follow threads and social media the ticket office being I’ll be kind less than helpful. I actually don’t mind a membership scheme I had a gold card as a kid, I couldn’t afford a season ticket and only went to home games I could afford with my paper round money but loved looking at the gold card. We need to make sure a scheme like this doesn’t lock ticket access behind a paywall etc and offer some tangible benefits to people or it’s just a cash grab.

Every premier league club has a very decent starting point income wise, it puts even those finishing in the bottom half above majority of clubs in Europe. It’s how a club is run that will determine what happens at the end of the day not milking fans dry. Like I said it’s a balance we need to be careful to strike between growing the incomes naturally and smartly and just straight up milking fans. Chasing the tourist fan is a dangerous game too many clubs are trying to attract they may spend more than you “legacy” fan as they like to call us but they’ll soon be happy to fuck off when the hype goes or be a one and done.

 

[Blyth]

It’s how it starts we’ve already seen if you follow threads and social media the ticket office being I’ll be kind less than helpful. I actually don’t mind a membership scheme I had a gold card as a kid, I couldn’t afford a season ticket and only went to home games I could afford with my paper round money but loved looking at the gold card. We need to make sure a scheme like this doesn’t lock ticket access behind a paywall etc and offer some tangible benefits to people or it’s just a cash grab.

Every premier league club has a very decent starting point income wise, it puts even those finishing in the bottom half above majority of clubs in Europe. It’s how a club is run that will determine what happens at the end of the day not milking fans dry. Like I said it’s a balance we need to be careful to strike between growing the incomes naturally and smartly and just straight up milking fans. Chasing the tourist fan is a dangerous game too many clubs are trying to attract they may spend more than you “legacy” fan as they like to call us but they’ll soon be happy to fuck off when the hype goes or be a one and done.

I think that’s a balanced view