Will they extend season ticket early bird date so we have the full facts ? Are the locusts home ?

Surely if the business people at the club have any brains they will extend the early bird deadline and announce the full facts of todays announcement in the days to come including a full q and a session.

are the locusts gone and have no say whatsoever ? but what does it all mean for the running of the club it’s future etc etc

there are now more questions than answers so before several thousand people who had chalked f*ck on BFC and not renewed their season tickets may now be in two minds to return if the locusts are totally gone and out of the picture……..or are they ?

great news today on the face of it but I’m not getting giddy just yet and still remain cynical until we have the full facts and fans questions are answered

16th May early bird deadline should be extended say by 3 weeks on the back of a full and honest breakdown of what’s happened and what it means

Still plenty of unanswered points and questions need clarification quick sharp

These locusts should be embarrassed of themselves they have sold us and the community down the river. Want them gone for good and not sniffing around like fly’s round sh*t on the payroll or due shares at BFC

 

Today they have moved the furniture around but we don't know how much has changed. Yes today is better than yesterday but we don't know by how much. If they expected the announcement to see people rushing to sign back up who wasn't going to with Conman there, I think they will be disappointed.

 

Wouldn't surprise me if they went and extended it to the 31st May.

 

That’s the feeling I get. I certainly think extending it to the end of May would be a great idea. It gives people more time to assess the situation and also get their finances sorted.
No matter what though, some are determined not to renew and that’s up to them. All down to personal choice.
If we can top 6k season tickets, which ought to now be possible, it would be a decent outcome.

 

Some will be, but I'd guess that a reasonable proportion of non-renewers, myself included, are considering things in a better light at present. Currently, we have 3 day window to decide whether that's enough to reverse a non-renewal decision, which feels quite pressurised for me (and ignoring any additional concerns about finding monies at short notice for a purchase that they'd written off making).

The very obvious logical solution would be to extend the early bird to coincide with the expiry of season ticket renewal rights on 31st May. If I were on the board of BFC then it would be an absolute no-brainer to do this. I'm intrigued as to whether or not it will actually happen, but it's such a common sense move that it's pretty much the first test of the new board to demonstrate whether or not any of the decision making has actually improved within it.

 

With the option of buying a season ticket now at early bird price, but choosing where you want to sit from June 1st when you know the full story of which seats are available. Some will want to buy at early bird price but rather see if any better seats become available, but by then it's full price.

 

I think there used to be a separate window to allow this before seats went on general sale. Perhaps not in very recent seasons, but definitely at some point in the past.

 

Yeah I’ve done that the last couple of seasons. Last season and the one prior to Covid.

I’m going to do it this year too hopefully!

 

I guess we can all only speak to our own situations and those of folk we know but I for one would be increasingly minded to renew given yesterday's events.

Thing is I just don't have £330 in my bank account now, let alone £330 plus enough to live on until my next wage clears at the end of the month. So cash purchase is out. I don't have nor want a credit card. Nor can I afford finance charges.

I could and would like to consider the three month option but I'm still in a situation where there are no details provided on the repayment dates and values before the point where you have to press 'confirm purchase' on the ticket site. If I had this information I could consider it and, if doable, plan my finances accordingly. I've emailed the ticket office 3 times and even written to Khaled to no avail.

I would like to feel that one of the products from yesterday is that the club would be better at listening and empathising with fans and it's surely an easy early win for the new regime to extend to, say, 31st May (and provide the basic information to assist that has been lacking since April 6th).

 

Surely Supporters Trust or Andy White or whoever else reads the forum from the club could sort this.

 

Yes, I just don't see the hardship in there being something on the ticket and/or main site that says what the basic information on repayment dates and values are.

 

Thank you but I am extremely wary of getting into something and the pressing of the 'confirm purchase' button does seem worryingly final for someone on my currently reduced means!

I'd just like some official confirmation of the details before I commit and am still nonplussed as to why there's no detail set out to help you plan before you go so far (I did a 'Klarna' for something a few months back and it was clear and simple right up front - 'if you go with this option, we'll take a third today and further thirds a month from today and two months from today').

 

Not sure if this will help, but I renewed using the 3 month finance option. I renewed on 29th April and did get a page showing the payment schedule before I got to the final confirmation page. I know quite a few people have said they didn't get this so I'm not sure why that might be. I expected an immediate payment to be taken followed by 2 further monthly instalments, but it actually showed the first payment would be taken just over 3 weeks after, it's due on 24th May. The repayments are then due on on 24th June and 24th July. All payments are equal amounts give or take a few p rounding.