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We are the biggest team in Lincolnshire. We'll see what their average attendance is when they potter along in 14th all season, I bet it's not in excess of 5000 like ours was. All those glory supporters will soon disappear. If we're in a promotion push we'll be able to attract 6000+ each week I reckon.
They've sold 5500 season tickets so unless a great deal of them don't turn up and literally no away fans ever go then I would imagine it will be over 5000 even if they're in 14th. If they don't do so well this year, it might be different next year but this year they'll almost certainly have bigger attendances than us.
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oh come on Herts...you know they are virtually doing diddly squat.....this years fingers crossed hope to get 3000 "campaign" is typical.... buy a season ticket;
it guarantees your chosen seat for every League game prices are going to rise next season by around 10%
I think thats captured the entire initiative to date.
I wasn't taking the p1ss with the question to be honest. As we are still sat on a fair bit of the Omar money then the cash flow position will be healthy which is the most important bit to the bean counters so maybe there is no need to do anything different to what we have in recent years, feels odd that I know I think there could have been more incentives such as buy and adult ticket for the Main and get a big discount off a kids ticket etc....but put yourself where the club is would you rather sell say 2300 at full price or 2800 at a discount and possibly gross less money when "if" we start to do well people will buy full price tickets on a weekly basis. Also the price increase next year will be part of a 5 year forecast taking us towards a new stadium if we discounted heavily now to put "bums on seats" that proposed increase would hurt fans (customers?) more at the start of 18/19 and thus jeopardize sales and thus the financial plan. We all know that nothing including boosting attendances at a discount or Nimbys with pitch forks will get in the way of our proposed move to Shangri-La! Though it may grind that the Gimps have sold loads you can't compare their situation with ours, they have money in the bank from possibly their biggest season ever more to come from South Africa and buckets of good will and bandwagoners who have suddenly miraculously taken an interest. Have we employed the right policy on season tickets? Not sure to be honest as like many on here I don't know the full facts or accounting numbers involved.
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It's only a failure if it below budgeted figures, if the club only budgeted for 2,000 season tickets this season then it would be a success.
Oh come off it. If you went into your boss and said you were going to do 20% less of something (with no new line to replace it with) I don't think he'd be impressed.
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Oh come off it. If you went into your boss and said you were going to do 20% less of something (with no new line to replace it with) I don't think he'd be impressed.
That's not how budgeting works, especially with income. If Fenty had budgeted for 3,000 season tickets and not more like the average of 2,300 of the past few years I'd be amazed. Last year was a one off season ticket sales wise and probably wont be matched unless we get promoted. If your boss judges you on one anomalous set of results, you need to find a new job.
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What would you have done differently?
Anything I have posted on this subject numerous times,emailed the Club direct,emailed the Trust and basically suggested they tap into the shift worker market which is huge in NE Lincs.Last year probably within a week of Promotion I was told several things I suggested where being looked at and wait for news im still waiting......... I would have easily shifted more than 3k Season tickets we should have had pretty much home sell outs week in week out with just 6500 to sell and Lincoln have just proved the point.They haven't done anything clever they have just exploited the goodwill factor whilst it`s there Town never have they just sit back and wait I can only assume that`s because we budget for maybe 2k Season ticket holders and are happy if anywhere round that number?
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I wasn't taking the p1ss with the question to be honest. As we are still sat on a fair bit of the Omar money then the cash flow position will be healthy which is the most important bit to the bean counters so maybe there is no need to do anything different to what we have in recent years, feels odd that I know
I think there could have been more incentives such as buy and adult ticket for the Main and get a big discount off a kids ticket etc....but put yourself where the club is would you rather sell say 2300 at full price or 2800 at a discount and possibly gross less money when "if" we start to do well people will buy full price tickets on a weekly basis.
Also the price increase next year will be part of a 5 year forecast taking us towards a new stadium if we discounted heavily now to put "bums on seats" that proposed increase would hurt fans (customers?) more at the start of 18/19 and thus jeopardize sales and thus the financial plan. We all know that nothing including boosting attendances at a discount or Nimbys with pitch forks will get in the way of our proposed move to Shangri-La!
Though it may grind that the Gimps have sold loads you can't compare their situation with ours, they have money in the bank from possibly their biggest season ever more to come from South Africa and buckets of good will and bandwagoners who have suddenly miraculously taken an interest.
Have we employed the right policy on season tickets? Not sure to be honest as like many on here I don't know the full facts or accounting numbers involved.
The obvious things about Junior fans is you need to have them because they are the future of the Club,they don't have much income of their own BUT if little Johnny wants a Town shirt,scarf,programme etc he will get one.It is so difficult in this day and age to drag kids away from the Xbox or whatever and they have so many options to spend their free time GTFC are a long way down the pecking order.Those parents/guardians who do bring kids along should be given all the help the Club can muster to keep them coming and sustaining that support.The Trust does not run the Football Club but it should have it`s ear and be listened to we have seen at times this is the case but sadly it appears some things also fall on deaf ears.
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I wasn't taking the p1ss with the question to be honest. As we are still sat on a fair bit of the Omar money then the cash flow position will be healthy which is the most important bit to the bean counters so maybe there is no need to do anything different to what we have in recent years, feels odd that I know
I think there could have been more incentives such as buy and adult ticket for the Main and get a big discount off a kids ticket etc....but put yourself where the club is would you rather sell say 2300 at full price or 2800 at a discount and possibly gross less money when "if" we start to do well people will buy full price tickets on a weekly basis.
Also the price increase next year will be part of a 5 year forecast taking us towards a new stadium if we discounted heavily now to put "bums on seats" that proposed increase would hurt fans (customers?) more at the start of 18/19 and thus jeopardize sales and thus the financial plan. We all know that nothing including boosting attendances at a discount or Nimbys with pitch forks will get in the way of our proposed move to Shangri-La!
Though it may grind that the Gimps have sold loads you can't compare their situation with ours, they have money in the bank from possibly their biggest season ever more to come from South Africa and buckets of good will and bandwagoners who have suddenly miraculously taken an interest.
Have we employed the right policy on season tickets? Not sure to be honest as like many on here I don't know the full facts or accounting numbers involved.
Another Grimsby v Lincoln point ref attendances I am pretty sure Town`s stayed on or about what they were in League 2 and held up despite nil away support though I think under Woods they plummeted for a while? Lincoln on the other hand seemed down quite a lot til last Season when they hit great form a quick scout through League 2 will show both teams will have decent support compared to most.I hope we can go through all this again next season with both in League 1 then we can both ridicule the worst support in Lincolnshire
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All for banter but they still only have 6 or 7 posters on their one and only message board with most of the threads coming from Jules and what tampax or pads she should get for her next period. I bet those gimps could fill the cast for the Goonies without any need for prosthetics or make up.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Oy8sGtV.jpg[/img] Hey you guys we've sold 5,000 bellringing tickets.
That's not quite true though is it? Vitals has hundreds of posters, everyone that clicks or posts raises money for the club. The biggest and more busier MB is the Lincoln City Banter board that has over 12,600 and counting members.
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That's not quite true though is it? Vitals has hundreds of posters, everyone that clicks or posts raises money for the club. The biggest and more busier MB is the Lincoln City Banter board that has over 12,600 and counting members.
Get everyone to click once with each finger. Then you'll get a far greater percentage than us
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Get everyone to click once with each finger. Then you'll get a far greater percentage than us
That's a new one, not heard it for at least a day or so. We aren't Boston or Scunthorpe!
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