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Post by tinner on May 19, 2016 17:44:35 GMT
Lol, middle of May and you think we should be pushing 6,000 already. Some people.... Why Lol? whats the fact that it's the middle of May got to do with it? season tickets have been on sale for well over a month? find it very hard to get excited about 4.3k season tickets sold with the club riding the crest of a wave currently. sorry if you find it amusing. Totally agree with you.....all I hear is the great potential / fan base we have, and I would suggest that anything less than 6k by the start of the season will be poor. Given that 30k would have spent a fair chunk of money on a day out to Wembley etc, would have hoped that more could make the effort.
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Post by chippenhamgas on May 19, 2016 17:52:30 GMT
I think we will be approaching 6k come August. The numbers released so far don't include seat season ticket holders who haven't renewed yet but have their seats reserved till the end of June. That would push it up to close to 5k. Bear in mind the facilities we offer are vastly inferior to most clubs. We must be the only club in the football league who sell open terrace season tickets to home fans. Also doubt the club would want to sell more than 6k when only 10k of the capacity is for home fans. I expect us to sell around 5500 which whilst not being spectacular is pretty respectable for league one in a stadium that isn't really fit for purpose.
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Post by Topper Gas on May 19, 2016 17:54:10 GMT
Why Lol? whats the fact that it's the middle of May got to do with it? season tickets have been on sale for well over a month? find it very hard to get excited about 4.3k season tickets sold with the club riding the crest of a wave currently. sorry if you find it amusing. Totally agree with you.....all I hear is the great potential / fan base we have, and I would suggest that anything less than 6k by the start of the season will be poor. Given that 30k would have spent a fair chunk of money on a day out to Wembley etc, would have hoped that more could make the effort. We were averaging less than 6,000 in the Conference initially, so I think expecting to turn all those into season ticket holder is expecting too much, as it would be a near 50% increase in s/t sales? Anything over 5,000 will be a good effort in my view, but now s/t have gone up in price fans may well now be waiting until nearer the start of the new season before buying their s/t's.
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Post by chippenhamgas on May 19, 2016 17:56:42 GMT
Totally agree with you.....all I hear is the great potential / fan base we have, and I would suggest that anything less than 6k by the start of the season will be poor. Given that 30k would have spent a fair chunk of money on a day out to Wembley etc, would have hoped that more could make the effort. We were averaging less than 6,000 in the Conference initially, so I think expecting to turn all those into season ticket holder is expecting too much, as it would be a near 50% increase in s/t sales? Anything over 5,000 will be a good effort in my view, but now s/t have gone up in price fans may well now be waiting until nearer the start of the new season before buying their s/t's. until the club announce a deadline for the current prices there is no incentive to buy, may as well keep your money till nearer the time, especially with terrace tickets.
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Post by axegas on May 19, 2016 18:13:30 GMT
I think we will be approaching 6k come August. The numbers released so far don't include seat season ticket holders who haven't renewed yet but have their seats reserved till the end of June. That would push it up to close to 5k. Bear in mind the facilities we offer are vastly inferior to most clubs. We must be the only club in the football league who sell open terrace season tickets to home fans. Also doubt the club would want to sell more than 6k when only 10k of the capacity is for home fans. I expect us to sell around 5500 which whilst not being spectacular is pretty respectable for league one in a stadium that isn't really fit for purpose. The figure includes seats, the club confirmed that on Twitter, anything over 5k would be brilliant considering in the conference, some crowds barely got above 5900
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Post by chippenhamgas on May 19, 2016 18:29:50 GMT
I think we will be approaching 6k come August. The numbers released so far don't include seat season ticket holders who haven't renewed yet but have their seats reserved till the end of June. That would push it up to close to 5k. Bear in mind the facilities we offer are vastly inferior to most clubs. We must be the only club in the football league who sell open terrace season tickets to home fans. Also doubt the club would want to sell more than 6k when only 10k of the capacity is for home fans. I expect us to sell around 5500 which whilst not being spectacular is pretty respectable for league one in a stadium that isn't really fit for purpose. The figure includes seats, the club confirmed that on Twitter, anything over 5k would be brilliant considering in the conference, some crowds barely got above 5900 Yes seats that have been sold, but season ticket holders in dribuild and west stands get until end of June to renew their existing seats so we can't put them back on sale till then. Currently i don't think there are season tickets available for West and dribuild seats even though they may have not all been taken yet.
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Post by Henbury Gas on May 19, 2016 18:41:16 GMT
To be honest I'm a little bit disappointed with our ST sales. Back in the 3rd tier with a new owner a bright future and everything positive I would of hoped we could be pushing the 6k barrier by now, or am I being unrealistic? We have a sh** stadium with poor facilities, surprised we have sold that many this early on
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Post by costahotshot on May 19, 2016 18:46:22 GMT
To be honest I'm a little bit disappointed with our ST sales. Back in the 3rd tier with a new owner a bright future and everything positive I would of hoped we could be pushing the 6k barrier by now, or am I being unrealistic? We have a sh** stadium with poor facilities, surprised we have sold that many this early on Maybe, but we have a passionate new owner, great manager, tremendous team spirit and the best fans in the country, so no doubt the envy of many !
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Post by paulpirate on May 19, 2016 18:49:11 GMT
I think we will be approaching 6k come August. The numbers released so far don't include seat season ticket holders who haven't renewed yet but have their seats reserved till the end of June. That would push it up to close to 5k. Bear in mind the facilities we offer are vastly inferior to most clubs. We must be the only club in the football league who sell open terrace season tickets to home fans. Also doubt the club would want to sell more than 6k when only 10k of the capacity is for home fans. I expect us to sell around 5500 which whilst not being spectacular is pretty respectable for league one in a stadium that isn't really fit for purpose. The figure includes seats, the club confirmed that on Twitter, anything over 5k would be brilliant considering in the conference, some crowds barely got above 5900 what has the conference got to do with it were in l1 now,lots of gas wouldn't want to watch conference football and don't blame them If I was wael I would be a bit watered off if we didn't sell 6k season tkts,he might start worrying how many will turn up to the uwe after the first few games
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Post by axegas on May 19, 2016 18:58:52 GMT
The figure includes seats, the club confirmed that on Twitter, anything over 5k would be brilliant considering in the conference, some crowds barely got above 5900 what has the conference got to do with it were in l1 now,lots of gas wouldn't want to watch conference football and don't blame them If I was wael I would be a bit watered off if we didn't sell 6k season tkts,he might start worrying how many will turn up to the uwe after the first few games I only used the conference as an example to show how far we've come in a year. I'm not normally pessimistic but in my opinion 6k is unrealistic. We've always had roughly 3.5k - 4.5k and despite league one football, nothing's really changed to convince thousands more to come, unless we get new facilities to grow the club, 6k is just out of reach for the time being.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2016 19:06:21 GMT
Why Lol? whats the fact that it's the middle of May got to do with it? season tickets have been on sale for well over a month? find it very hard to get excited about 4.3k season tickets sold with the club riding the crest of a wave currently. sorry if you find it amusing. Totally agree with you.....all I hear is the great potential / fan base we have, and I would suggest that anything less than 6k by the start of the season will be poor. Given that 30k would have spent a fair chunk of money on a day out to Wembley etc, would have hoped that more could make the effort. He said we should have sold 6,000 now, not by the start of the season.
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Post by chippenhamgas on May 19, 2016 19:13:25 GMT
These prices will hold until the end of June so six weeks still to go! If taylor stays and we make a couple of quality signings i think we'll get close to 6k.
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Post by Okebournegas on May 19, 2016 19:32:23 GMT
Still haven't bought mine or my two kids , usually buy ours mid to end of June as we save for our holidays this time of year. I also know at least 6 others who do the same as me. Like has been mentioned previously our current ground is a sh** hole with sh** facilities which will ultimately put others off buying a st. I have no doubt in my mind that if we were able to at the very least make sure that every part of the mem was sheltered and we extended the south stand and re-introduced the Guinness stand we would easily get to the 6,000 figure mark.
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Post by zulugas on May 19, 2016 19:53:21 GMT
Henbury & Okebourne have suggested that the state of the stadium rather than the state of the team could have an impact on whether some people buy a season ticket or not. So I'll put it out there, is anyone on the forum not buying a season ticket because of the poor facilities at the Mem? and could any short term improvements to the Mem entice you to buy one?
GasheadGaz I did not say "We should of sold 6000 by now" I said "I would of hoped we could be pushing the 6k barrier by now" which is where i thought we might have been baring in mind the upbeat mood at promotion. If your expectation of our fanbase is lower than mine then thats fine, i wont ridicule you for it. I just hope you are in the minority.
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Post by womble on May 19, 2016 20:06:22 GMT
Henbury & Okebourne have suggested that the state of the stadium rather than the state of the team could have an impact on whether some people buy a season ticket or not. So I'll put it out there, is anyone on the forum not buying a season ticket because of the poor facilities at the Mem? and could any short term improvements to the Mem entice you to buy one? GasheadGaz I did not say "We should of sold 6000 by now" I said "I would of hoped we could be pushing the 6k barrier by now" which is where i thought we might have been baring in mind the upbeat mood at promotion. If your expectation of our fanbase is lower than mine then thats fine, i wont ridicule you for it. I just hope you are in the minority. I suspect that forum users are already sufficiently connected to the club to be reasonably impervious to our poor facilities. It is the fringe followers who attend rarely, or not at all, who are more likely to be drawn in by better facilities. New stadia with better facilities produce bigger crowds and which with a successful team, produce a virtuous circle.
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Post by zulugas on May 19, 2016 20:09:39 GMT
Henbury & Okebourne have suggested that the state of the stadium rather than the state of the team could have an impact on whether some people buy a season ticket or not. So I'll put it out there, is anyone on the forum not buying a season ticket because of the poor facilities at the Mem? and could any short term improvements to the Mem entice you to buy one? GasheadGaz I did not say "We should of sold 6000 by now" I said "I would of hoped we could be pushing the 6k barrier by now" which is where i thought we might have been baring in mind the upbeat mood at promotion. If your expectation of our fanbase is lower than mine then thats fine, i wont ridicule you for it. I just hope you are in the minority. I suspect that forum users are already sufficiently connected to the club to be reasonably impervious to our poor facilities. It is the fringe followers who attend rarely, or not at all, who are more likely to be drawn in by better facilities. New stadia with better facilities produce bigger crowds and which with a successful team, produce a virtuous circle. You may very well be right, just thought i'd ask opinions.
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Post by gasincider on May 19, 2016 20:21:31 GMT
Henbury & Okebourne have suggested that the state of the stadium rather than the state of the team could have an impact on whether some people buy a season ticket or not. So I'll put it out there, is anyone on the forum not buying a season ticket because of the poor facilities at the Mem? and could any short term improvements to the Mem entice you to buy one? GasheadGaz I did not say "We should of sold 6000 by now" I said "I would of hoped we could be pushing the 6k barrier by now" which is where i thought we might have been baring in mind the upbeat mood at promotion. If your expectation of our fanbase is lower than mine then thats fine, i wont ridicule you for it. I just hope you are in the minority. I suspect that forum users are already sufficiently connected to the club to be reasonably impervious to our poor facilities. It is the fringe followers who attend rarely, or not at all, who are more likely to be drawn in by better facilities. New stadia with better facilities produce bigger crowds and which with a successful team, produce a virtuous circle. You are falling into the same trap a number of other listers fall into. This forum doesn't represent our fan base. How many on here regularly attend, and of those who do, how many are likely to read this particular message? There is no relevance to any of it. If you can afford to buy a season ticket, you probably will.If you can't you can buy one monthly. Many people will not buy one for any reason. Who cares. At the end of the day it's the match attendance the matters, and we make more money from pay on the day than any other. As others have said, the figures aren't relevant until the end of June when the existing seat season ticket holders have to pay up or give up. I don't know how many there are any more than anyone else who have yet to renew. I would suggest that almost all if not ALL. will renew. I can't think why anyone who had a seat season ticket last season wouldn't want to do so this year. What I was told in the shop was that if everyone who can, renews their season tickets in the stands, there would be three left in the Dribuild and Just under 40 in the West Stand. So it looks like there will be no seats available on match days. We we have sold out all corporate hospitality for the whole season, and 16 of the 18 boxes are sold out for the season. The other two have to be retained to cover issues like helpline etc that allow a meal in the boxes on occasion. Approx 100 seats in the Dribuild are retained for corporate hospitality bods who have a seat as part of their meal package, and the seats in the South Stand which are kept for match by match in case of issues like moving away fans etc. In short, it is brilliant, and long may it continue.
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Post by paulpirate on May 19, 2016 20:23:46 GMT
It's all about the football for me and probably the majority,if we're doing well and I love going If we're playing sh** I still go but ask myself why? But that's normally what you get watching us,this is probably the most exciting time I've known watching the gas for 35 years so if it is about the facilities they are not true fans Next season is massive,if wael gives DC some money to spend we could challenge again There will be so much pressure on DC if he gets some money,people are expecting him to do well now with all that's going on this could prove a season in whether he can do it at a higher level I think he will and he will be the next Eddie Howe hopefully with us:) Utg
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Post by Okebournegas on May 19, 2016 20:38:13 GMT
It's all about the football for me and probably the majority,if we're doing well and I love going If we're playing sh** I still go but ask myself why? But that's normally what you get watching us,this is probably the most exciting time I've known watching the gas for 35 years so if it is about the facilities they are not true fans Next season is massive,if wael gives DC some money to spend we could challenge again There will be so much pressure on DC if he gets some money,people are expecting him to do well now with all that's going on this could prove a season in whether he can do it at a higher level I think he will and he will be the next Eddie Howe hopefully with us:) Utg What, so if I decide not to go because I don't have a heated cushioned seat and a complementary chocolate underneath it , in your opinion I'm not a true fan ??
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Post by Okebournegas on May 19, 2016 20:40:04 GMT
I suspect that forum users are already sufficiently connected to the club to be reasonably impervious to our poor facilities. It is the fringe followers who attend rarely, or not at all, who are more likely to be drawn in by better facilities. New stadia with better facilities produce bigger crowds and which with a successful team, produce a virtuous circle. You are falling into the same trap a number of other listers fall into. This forum doesn't represent our fan base. How many on here regularly attend, and of those who do, how many are likely to read this particular message? There is no relevance to any of it. If you can afford to buy a season ticket, you probably will.If you can't you can buy one monthly. Many people will not buy one for any reason. Who cares. At the end of the day it's the match attendance the matters, and we make more money from pay on the day than any other. As others have said, the figures aren't relevant until the end of June when the existing seat season ticket holders have to pay up or give up. I don't know how many there are any more than anyone else who have yet to renew. I would suggest that almost all if not ALL. will renew. I can't think why anyone who had a seat season ticket last season wouldn't want to do so this year. What I was told in the shop was that if everyone who can, renews their season tickets in the stands, there would be three left in the Dribuild and Just under 40 in the West Stand. So it looks like there will be no seats available on match days. We we have sold out all corporate hospitality for the whole season, and 16 of the 18 boxes are sold out for the season. The other two have to be retained to cover issues like helpline etc that allow a meal in the boxes on occasion. Approx 100 seats in the Dribuild are retained for corporate hospitality bods who have a seat as part of their meal package, and the seats in the South Stand which are kept for match by match in case of issues like moving away fans etc. In short, it is brilliant, and long may it continue. I take it by your posts and by your username that you are privvy to inside info ? ( genuine question , not having a pop)
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