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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 16, 2024 20:43:10 GMT
Why should the club effectively give kids tickets away? If they did that we might not have any transfer news to report this summer. Such a shortsighted take Topper 🙄 What's shortsighted about expecting parents to pay for their kids to attend games, it's not like we have had hundreds of seats unused in the past? Say we give 1,000 away, that's £20,000 a match gone or nearly £500K over a season, how does the club make up for that loss of income, cut expenditure on the playing budget seems the obvious one. Clearly the club are thinking along those lines. |
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Post by bluetooth0077 on Feb 16, 2024 21:59:24 GMT
Some fans on here really don't understand omg 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈 £500,000 down. What utter dross!!!!! Can't be bothered to explain why. As you can't educate pork
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Post by wallywalters on Feb 16, 2024 22:18:43 GMT
Why should the club effectively give kids tickets away? If they did that we might not have any transfer news to report this summer. Topper it's not about giving free tickets to kids away. It's about encouraging the younger generation to our home so they become the me and you of the future. The future fan base that will take this club forward and hopefully in turn allow our grandchildren to follow in our footsteps. Have you seen the graph on the other thread which shows how appallingly high our children ticket prices are in comparison to every other clubs in this division , including some massive clubs with outstanding facilities. There is no need whatsoever for our club to be pricing our under 11 tickets as high as they are. Pure greed is the only logical conclusion. These owners don't give 2 shi*s about growing our future fan base. They want their faces in the limelight before they skulk off back to Kuwait and it's becoming clearer to me by the day that is their intention. |
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Post by yattongas on Feb 16, 2024 22:25:46 GMT
Why should the club effectively give kids tickets away? If they did that we might not have any transfer news to report this summer. Topper it's not about giving free tickets to kids away. It's about encouraging the younger generation to our home so they become the me and you of the future. The future fan base that will take this club forward and hopefully in turn allow our grandchildren to follow in our footsteps. Have you seen the graph on the other thread which shows how appallingly high our children ticket prices are in comparison to every other clubs in this division , including some massive clubs with outstanding facilities. There is no need whatsoever for our club to be pricing our under 11 tickets as high as they are. Pure greed is the only logical conclusion. These owners don't give 2 shi*s about growing our future fan base. They want their faces in the limelight before they skulk off back to Kuwait and it's becoming clearer to me by the day that is their intention. I was with you until the last few sentences. The last part isn’t needed . |
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Post by gashead99 on Feb 16, 2024 23:06:25 GMT
Out of interest, because it might help with both opinions, does anyone actually know figures for U11 season ticket holders over recent seasons?
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Post by 84gas on Feb 17, 2024 7:24:40 GMT
Anyone know if season tickets can be sent as e-tickets by email for each game? It’s a much easier way to pass tickets to friends or family when you can’t make a game. You've probably just highlighted why they can't be bought as e-tickets! They were doing it last season when I had a season ticket? |
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Post by Kipper on Feb 17, 2024 7:44:56 GMT
Football prices are now/becoming too expensive for working class people. This will make many find alternative enjoyment and not put up with inclement weather. One wonders what the prices will be should the club reach the Championship!!
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Post by stillstanding on Feb 17, 2024 8:11:41 GMT
I'm sure my experience will be shared by many of my generation, i.e. born mid-fifties, now approaching 70 and retired. I still love coming to matches and even a few away every season. My wife still doesn't understand why an old bloke like me continues to wander up to the Men and watch lower league football in a cr*p stadium where I dread needing to visit the loo at half time every other weekend.
The reason is simple, I first came when I was still at primary school and my dad started bringing me with him (not to the Mem of course..) Unlike many of my school mates I didn't support a First Division team because now I HAD A TEAM TO FOLLOW. It became part of my life and part of me, might sound daft but it's still part of who I am now and I can't imagine the day when it wouldn't be. Twerton wasn't my favourite ground but we still turned up. Dad's long gone now but I still miss him, us coming to the match, Sports Report in the car on the way home. Still turning up keeps me in touch with those old memories and happy days.
If the club don't recognise the value of encouraging the next generation, of making it possible for them to come along, get excited about their team and their club by making it affordable, comfortable and safe then we're in trouble for the future. Where I stand on the Thatcher's there are an awful lot of grey heads like me and not a lot of youngsters as I remember.
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Post by yattongas on Feb 17, 2024 8:21:17 GMT
I'm sure my experience will be shared by many of my generation, i.e. born mid-fifties, now approaching 70 and retired. I still love coming to matches and even a few away every season. My wife still doesn't understand why an old bloke like me continues to wander up to the Men and watch lower league football in a cr*p stadium where I dread needing to visit the loo at half time every other weekend. The reason is simple, I first came when I was still at primary school and my dad started bringing me with him (not to the Mem of course..) Unlike many of my school mates I didn't support a First Division team because now I HAD A TEAM TO FOLLOW. It became part of my life and part of me, might sound daft but it's still part of who I am now and I can't imagine the day when it wouldn't be. Twerton wasn't my favourite ground but we still turned up. Dad's long gone now but I still miss him, us coming to the match, Sports Report in the car on the way home. Still turning up keeps me in touch with those old memories and happy days. If the club don't recognise the value of encouraging the next generation, of making it possible for them to come along, get excited about their team and their club by making it affordable, comfortable and safe then we're in trouble for the future. Where I stand on the Thatcher's there are an awful lot of grey heads like me and not a lot of youngsters as I remember. 👏 |
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Post by gasify on Feb 17, 2024 8:34:45 GMT
I'm sure my experience will be shared by many of my generation, i.e. born mid-fifties, now approaching 70 and retired. I still love coming to matches and even a few away every season. My wife still doesn't understand why an old bloke like me continues to wander up to the Men and watch lower league football in a cr*p stadium where I dread needing to visit the loo at half time every other weekend. The reason is simple, I first came when I was still at primary school and my dad started bringing me with him (not to the Mem of course..) Unlike many of my school mates I didn't support a First Division team because now I HAD A TEAM TO FOLLOW. It became part of my life and part of me, might sound daft but it's still part of who I am now and I can't imagine the day when it wouldn't be. Twerton wasn't my favourite ground but we still turned up. Dad's long gone now but I still miss him, us coming to the match, Sports Report in the car on the way home. Still turning up keeps me in touch with those old memories and happy days. If the club don't recognise the value of encouraging the next generation, of making it possible for them to come along, get excited about their team and their club by making it affordable, comfortable and safe then we're in trouble for the future. Where I stand on the Thatcher's there are an awful lot of grey heads like me and not a lot of youngsters as I remember. There are a couple of things here that is no longer a fair comparison: 1) Primary school kids now have access to football in a way you never did. I would say that 99% of football interested primary school kids support a premiership team first and then Rovers 2nd. Whereas in your day, there would've been 60% to 80% that supported Rovers first. 2) Primary school kids who show an interest in football are also playing FIFA on their devices. They are consuming top quality passing and moving football that you or I have never been exposed to at Rovers and never will unfortunately. 3) I wouldn't worry too much about the future. We are in trouble now. The £3m a season losses that Wael was funding shows that we are only a couple of seasons away from going under. I love that you have those memories with your father. Hold onto them and cherish every one. However, my experience of kids today is very different. They have a constant need to be entertained. |
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Post by albaron on Feb 17, 2024 8:39:39 GMT
I'm sure my experience will be shared by many of my generation, i.e. born mid-fifties, now approaching 70 and retired. I still love coming to matches and even a few away every season. My wife still doesn't understand why an old bloke like me continues to wander up to the Men and watch lower league football in a cr*p stadium where I dread needing to visit the loo at half time every other weekend. The reason is simple, I first came when I was still at primary school and my dad started bringing me with him (not to the Mem of course..) Unlike many of my school mates I didn't support a First Division team because now I HAD A TEAM TO FOLLOW. It became part of my life and part of me, might sound daft but it's still part of who I am now and I can't imagine the day when it wouldn't be. Twerton wasn't my favourite ground but we still turned up. Dad's long gone now but I still miss him, us coming to the match, Sports Report in the car on the way home. Still turning up keeps me in touch with those old memories and happy days. If the club don't recognise the value of encouraging the next generation, of making it possible for them to come along, get excited about their team and their club by making it affordable, comfortable and safe then we're in trouble for the future. Where I stand on the Thatcher's there are an awful lot of grey heads like me and not a lot of youngsters as I remember. Agree with this -- Oh Most of the youngsters are down AG |
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Post by hollyhillgas on Feb 17, 2024 8:52:25 GMT
I'm sure my experience will be shared by many of my generation, i.e. born mid-fifties, now approaching 70 and retired. I still love coming to matches and even a few away every season. My wife still doesn't understand why an old bloke like me continues to wander up to the Men and watch lower league football in a cr*p stadium where I dread needing to visit the loo at half time every other weekend. The reason is simple, I first came when I was still at primary school and my dad started bringing me with him (not to the Mem of course..) Unlike many of my school mates I didn't support a First Division team because now I HAD A TEAM TO FOLLOW. It became part of my life and part of me, might sound daft but it's still part of who I am now and I can't imagine the day when it wouldn't be. Twerton wasn't my favourite ground but we still turned up. Dad's long gone now but I still miss him, us coming to the match, Sports Report in the car on the way home. Still turning up keeps me in touch with those old memories and happy days. If the club don't recognise the value of encouraging the next generation, of making it possible for them to come along, get excited about their team and their club by making it affordable, comfortable and safe then we're in trouble for the future. Where I stand on the Thatcher's there are an awful lot of grey heads like me and not a lot of youngsters as I remember. Agree with this -- Oh Most of the youngsters are down AG No they're not, two seasons ago my grandson who was 12 and an Arsenal fan and plays for a local club. The club arranged a match day experience at the Mem, training session, meet the JB and the team, a tour of the stadium and a lunchbox. Then watched the game in the southwest stand. It was Northampton, Rovers went 2 up, cobblers got 1 back, Rovers had a player sent off and cobblers had one kicked off the line in the last seconds of the game. It was pure football drama and he was hooked. His Dad and other Grandad tried to convert him to the darkside and even Swindle, but he was having none of it. I get him a season ticket now. And it was the same story for quite a few of his mates. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2024 9:16:40 GMT
Why should the club effectively give kids tickets away? If they did that we might not have any transfer news to report this summer. Topper it's not about giving free tickets to kids away. It's about encouraging the younger generation to our home so they become the me and you of the future. The future fan base that will take this club forward and hopefully in turn allow our grandchildren to follow in our footsteps. Have you seen the graph on the other thread which shows how appallingly high our children ticket prices are in comparison to every other clubs in this division , including some massive clubs with outstanding facilities. There is no need whatsoever for our club to be pricing our under 11 tickets as high as they are. Pure greed is the only logical conclusion. These owners don't give 2 shi*s about growing our future fan base. They want their faces in the limelight before they skulk off back to Kuwait and it's becoming clearer to me by the day that is their intention. Fair play to you but I wouldn’t waste that much time replying to Topper, I’ve stopped long ago, I often wonder if he’s taking the poas with some of his statements and questions. GasDust said to me the other day he wondered if he was paid by Hugo to keep the forum busy?! Your explanation is spot on |
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Post by gashead79 on Feb 17, 2024 9:29:34 GMT
Topper it's not about giving free tickets to kids away. It's about encouraging the younger generation to our home so they become the me and you of the future. The future fan base that will take this club forward and hopefully in turn allow our grandchildren to follow in our footsteps. Have you seen the graph on the other thread which shows how appallingly high our children ticket prices are in comparison to every other clubs in this division , including some massive clubs with outstanding facilities. There is no need whatsoever for our club to be pricing our under 11 tickets as high as they are. Pure greed is the only logical conclusion. These owners don't give 2 shi*s about growing our future fan base. They want their faces in the limelight before they skulk off back to Kuwait and it's becoming clearer to me by the day that is their intention. Fair play to you but I wouldn’t waste that much time replying to Topper, I’ve stopped long ago, I often wonder if he’s taking the poas with some of his statements and questions. GasDust said to me the other day he wondered if he was paid by Hugo to keep the forum busy?! Your explanation is spot on There are a few who get benefits for using the forum. One for being provocative. One for being an old nause. One for being overly nice. One for being argumentative. One for being political. One for being sensible. One for being a topper. It keeps things moving. |
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Post by rememberhalifax on Feb 17, 2024 9:44:33 GMT
Think the whole financial package that is football today is a very difficult path to negotiate. Gone are the days when being a pro footballer was just a job and pay was on a par with any other job, going to a game was therefore very affordable for most working class families. Fast forward to present day and whoosh! even players at our level do very nicely thank you, squads are i would imagine much bigger now a days, then you add on all the background staff and at our level you have a nightmare scenario trying to survive. As for Rovers we do not seem to have the off field activities to generate much income and there does not seem to be any body or any effort to change things ( i may be wrong as i am not ITK about all things at Rovers) It seemed that over the years there was always someone working there b....ks off in the background to generate extra revenue and put the club 'out there' so to speak. I may be wrong but we do not seem to have 'those' sort of people at the club anymore and it is shows up in the over all Rovers experience come match day. Many of these things could be easily fixed such as toilets, catering and the like ,just need the right people involved, the fan zone was a welcome improvement and such initiatives need to encouraged. As for the point of this post well as i said the football finances at our level must be a nightmare and season tickets are i would imagine a vital ingredient in ensuring our survival, I would imagine the club is torn between trying to survive without appearing to be 'fleecing' the loyal fan base. We do not seem to compare favourably with many other clubs at our level but FWIW i think the rethink re family tickets in the South stand represents very good value IMHO, kids ticket working out at £4 odd a game seated in a stand with a great view, do think the adult ticket could be cheaper though, but even at that level a chap taking two lads to every home game works out at somewhere around 27 pound a game, not bad is it? Saying that i do not think the club handle these things very well and we are in need of a shake up behind the scenes, we have lost a lot of good 'Rovers' people.
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Post by okebournegas83 on Feb 17, 2024 9:51:48 GMT
I'm sure my experience will be shared by many of my generation, i.e. born mid-fifties, now approaching 70 and retired. I still love coming to matches and even a few away every season. My wife still doesn't understand why an old bloke like me continues to wander up to the Men and watch lower league football in a cr*p stadium where I dread needing to visit the loo at half time every other weekend. The reason is simple, I first came when I was still at primary school and my dad started bringing me with him (not to the Mem of course..) Unlike many of my school mates I didn't support a First Division team because now I HAD A TEAM TO FOLLOW. It became part of my life and part of me, might sound daft but it's still part of who I am now and I can't imagine the day when it wouldn't be. Twerton wasn't my favourite ground but we still turned up. Dad's long gone now but I still miss him, us coming to the match, Sports Report in the car on the way home. Still turning up keeps me in touch with those old memories and happy days. If the club don't recognise the value of encouraging the next generation, of making it possible for them to come along, get excited about their team and their club by making it affordable, comfortable and safe then we're in trouble for the future. Where I stand on the Thatcher's there are an awful lot of grey heads like me and not a lot of youngsters as I remember. Great post , top man ! |
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Post by okebournegas83 on Feb 17, 2024 9:56:37 GMT
If anyone is interested ( Apologies if this has been mentioned previously, I haven’t read all the posts ) I asked Wael if the club had any intention of changing their minds on the finance option and this was his reply
“Due to some supporters not paying back the loan , the company decided not to renew . We are talking to other cos . Hopefully guys at club will get it sorted soon”
Hope this is some help to people wanting finance.
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Post by hippo on Feb 17, 2024 10:52:32 GMT
If anyone is interested ( Apologies if this has been mentioned previously, I haven’t read all the posts ) I asked Wael if the club had any intention of changing their minds on the finance option and this was his reply “Due to some supporters not paying back the loan , the company decided not to renew . We are talking to other cos . Hopefully guys at club will get it sorted soon” Hope this is some help to people wanting finance. So fans have had their STs on an instalment plan and not fully paid for it?! That’s low. Get the bailiff round I say! |
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Post by rememberhalifax on Feb 17, 2024 11:03:11 GMT
If anyone is interested ( Apologies if this has been mentioned previously, I haven’t read all the posts ) I asked Wael if the club had any intention of changing their minds on the finance option and this was his reply “Due to some supporters not paying back the loan , the company decided not to renew . We are talking to other cos . Hopefully guys at club will get it sorted soon” Hope this is some help to people wanting finance. Fair enough but it would have so much better if the club had explained the lack of a finance option at the season ticket launch , it removes so much speculation and potential criticism. |
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Post by bidefordgas on Feb 17, 2024 11:17:52 GMT
If anyone is interested ( Apologies if this has been mentioned previously, I haven’t read all the posts ) I asked Wael if the club had any intention of changing their minds on the finance option and this was his reply “Due to some supporters not paying back the loan , the company decided not to renew . We are talking to other cos . Hopefully guys at club will get it sorted soon” Hope this is some help to people wanting finance. So fans have had their STs on an instalment plan and not fully paid for it?! That’s low. Get the bailiff round I say! Problem is they know they will get away with a few hundred quid as the finance company would have great difficulty getting their money back and all they can do is highlight it in their credit rating. |
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