I'm setting up a meeting with the Don.....

Re: My suggestion

And make sure Fraser, that you mention the Huddersfield/Hartlepool style season ticket offer for the 125, and centenary anniversaries. And get him to explain to Keith Hill, who wants an atmosphere, just why there isnt an atmosphere...

 

Flexible Season Tickets

Many people are put off from buying a season ticket because they can't get to every match. For example, fans who live a long way away might not be able to make a night match. People get ill, go on holiday etc.

Why not have a different kind of season ticket, with a reduced number of vouchers? For example, the main season ticket has 23 vouchers, but you can get a flexible one with 20, 17, 14 vouchers or whatever. The prices would be set so that the cost per match goes up the more flexibility you have. You then have a choice whether you go to any particular match. If you run out of vouchers you have to pay on the gate as usual.

The counter argument is that the club lose out on income if people buy season tickets instead of paying higher prices on the day, but I think it's clear now that fewer and fewer are doing that because the prices are set too high. Once you buy a season ticket you make more of an effort to go and you are then more likely to improve the atmosphere, take a friend, introduce your kids to it etc. You also have a reserved seat, although that would be an issue if the ground was close to capacity at any time, which is obviously very unlikely at the moment.

For those who go skiing it's a bit like a flexible ski pass where you can ski for 5 out of 7 days or 10 out of 14. You pay more but you can have days off for bad weather etc without losing out.

 

I'd like you to try and get across the fact that although the price increases may help balance the books this season, they are disastrous for the long term future of the club. A significant number of fans have been put off attending and if the prices stay the same then they're never coming back. And we're not going to pick up new supporters either at £30 a match. What the club has done is short termism of the worst possible kind. Thousands of fans have been alienated by the club, they're lost to the club forever and so are their sons and daughters. What they've done seriously undermines our long term future to the point that the club's very existence is in doubt. And I'm not exaggerating. I just don't think they understand that.

 

I take it you haven't been this season ? Not 'having a go' just a genuine question.

Personally as a ST holder apart from the first two home games and the first half of the Bristol match it has been the best value for money I've seen there since the first half of the 2007/08 season.

I was 50-50 on renewing this year as I was fed up with walking away from the ground feeling like I'd wasted an afternoon, not this year !

I've started to look forward to games from thursday night onward which is a refreshing change.

I agree with most of your post about pricing in that there seems to be no logic about the catagorisation of matches but I'd still like to see say up to five Cat A at £25, twelve Cat B at £20 and the remainder, Palace, Milwall etc at say £17.

As for Hill, he can say what he wants as far as I'm concerned, it's water off a duck's back to me. All I ask is that he tries to progress the matters on the pitch in the way that he has so far.

BTW the game against Hull was one of the most enjoyable matches I've seen for a long time, and even if we'd drawn I'd still be saying that.

 

Some sort of price reduction for fans who have been season ticket holders for a number of years as recognition for their loyal support. I have had one every year since 1979 and never had any sort of discount. Also ask him if my number is definitely in the Centenary draw, been in it since day one and never had a cracker!!!

 

ask him where his 'troosers' are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRs385dnqFk&feature=related

 

You've had a discount on every home match you've been to since 1979

 

Ok then, never thought of that, feel daft now. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

ask whether the root and branch investigation ever took place and if so did they come up with any solutions other than to simply raise the prices of everything

 

kwalertee

 

Re: Flexible Season Tickets

Definately. It's a shame we don't have a Joseph Bs size bar near the ground. We could have built one where those flats are by the Ponte car park and it would have made the club more money just being open on matchdays than renting the premises for someone to live in all the time.

I think the problem there is the club won't know in advance if they can sell your season ticket seat for a particular game, as they have no way of knowing if you would use one of your vouchers for that match.

 

Re: Flexible Season Tickets

I'd like to ask him if he is as ****** off as I am at people moaning at the £30 tickets. Especially when:

1. The season ticket price is extremely reasonable
2. The fans seem to want the same cost per game as season ticket holders, despite ST holders committing the 23 games up front.
3. You can pay for ST's over a 3 month period
4. There is absolutely no need for them to pay 30 quid with the £10 membershp.

 

Totally agree good on yer Fraser32.

 

Nail on head. Short termism.

 

They do use I am The Resurrection in the new music, just not exclusively. It's mingled in with the Rocky music.

Have to admit it's growing on me, even though I didn't want them to move from Timerider.

 

I dont get in the ground until 10 mins to KO. So is the Roses tune played before? Because believe me, never have I heard Ian Brown singing "I am The Resurrection and I am the life"
The tune as the teams come out is some plodding instrumental jingle ******, preceeded by 10 secs of Fanfare I think.
Its all very confusing.
Play COCOON by Timerider 15 mins before KO, then the proper Roses tune as the teams enter the tunnel.
HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
Saying that, they dont even know who scored half the time...

 

Have you never listened to I Am The Resurrection the whole way through? The 'plodding instrumental jingle ******' is about the last 3 minutes of the song.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QnK0yql8s

Listen here from 3:40 onwards.

 

I like it

And yes Whitey it is I am the resurrection