when can we start buying season tickets

RE: dont be stupid

Norwich City didn't know what league they would be in next season and still sold season tickets. We could have had two different prices released depending on which league we were in so people could give money to our club way in advance, which would gain interest sitting in the bank of the club. Just because we might not have to rely on selling season tickets early like some clubs, does not mean we don't have to do it ourselves and go that extra mile.

 

RE: dont be stupid

Seriously, how many season tickets do you think we would have sold in March this year? A couple, a couple of hundred?

I really don't see how selling them in March is going the extra mile?

 

I'd have probably looked to selling them in April. Last season slightly earlier on the back of the cup run. Season ticket prices wouldn't have been much different between the two leagues we could have been in anyway. Agree about the marketing though being better this year. The away ticket stubs thing, a tenner off adult tickets, free tickets for kids etc were good stuff and justified by us averaging something like 1,600 more than last season even though teams like Wednesday brought less than in previous seasons.

 

RE: dont be stupid

Ever thought they may have needed the money to avoid the dreaded administration. They were strongly rumoured to be in trouble and in need of money about the time they put tickets on sale.

Now we know the league we will be in, expect ticket prices to be announced shortly.

Also for those asking for discounts for early bird renewals, a good idea in principle, but who does it really benefit, those who can afford to pay for their ticket early or those who still need to save, and can only afford a ticket towards the start of the season.

 

A lot of people are struggling at the moment with the downturn in the economy and it will probably hit our fan base harder than some other clubs. A sensible interest free payment scheme for those who can't afford the season ticket up front but who go to most games would be more useful than selling tickets in March.

 

The clubs who are selling early

probably need the money to pay the interest on their debts

 

compare the season tickets .com

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I notice you didn't pause for breath, joy or relief, before continuing your criticisms of everything BFC from 3pm yesterday. (NOOO)

 

I thought the link was fairly obvious

In order to know how much money they have available to spend on transfers they need to have some idea about how much revenue they have got coming in. ie by having tickets on sale

 

as is the likely income

doubt it will vary by much unless we signed someone of Philips calibre for instance.

 

Oh.

I see. You seem to think that we actually have to have sold most of our season tickets before we can go out and offer players contracts etc.

It's not within the realms of possiblitiy that they may be able to estimate season ticket income when putting together early budgets?

How many tickets had we sold when we offered Kevin Phillips a deal last summer?

 

I'd love to see the estimates for next season with davey in charge

Because the number of season tickets could vary anywhere between 5 and 10,000

 

I'll wager they are up

regardless of manager

 

You'll wager that if davey remains in charge we'll sell MORE season tickets than last year? nt

 

yes nt

 

what makes you think that? nt

 

just a hunch nt

 

I'd be very, very surprised

To be honest I think you're way out. For a start there will be a significant number of season ticket holders who have lost their job since they last bought a season ticket, some who will be still out of work, others that have had to take lower paid employment, so affordability comes into the equation. There are a number of season ticket holders who are so against Simon Davey that they will not renew while he is in charge. Others will have got bored after another poor season and will not renew. I would also imagine we'll lose a fair few of those who took advantage of the cheap kids tickets and used that as excuse to get themselves a ticket. Many kids would have been bored this season so I guess we'll lose a few of those. I'm sure we'll get some first time buyers, or people who will come back after an absence, but I would imagine that number will be quite low as there was little this season to tempt them back. I expect season ticket sales to be down, I hope by not that many, but we'll have to wait and see.


*edit* actually, we'll never know as they never tell us how many we've sold.

 

not strictly true

Anyone renewing before the first deadline got 20% back if they got relegated, anyone before the second deadline got 10%, others dont