Season Ticket Sales Update.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Long term I would rather the club take a hit and know they're doing something to introduce a new generation of fans.  

If the club did an Adult Ticket with a relatively discounted season-ticket for kids I would buy one with the simple intention of taking along my nephew and/or niece to a selection of games to bring them into the GTFC fold.  If they like it, great then they're a step closer to being hooked.  If they don't like it, I've lost £30, £40  etc.  The club have gained a small portion of money they wouldn't have ever had and we all forget it about pretty quickly.

As a season ticket holder I'm far less likely to pop up to the ticket office midweek at any point during the year to buy them a ticket for a game they might not enjoy.  The point is when I'm going into the ticket office and shelling out £300+ on a season ticket, the discounted childs ticket feels like great value.  The as and when ticket doesn't quite feel anywhere near that level of value.  

That's me for my nephew and niece.  How many parents of young children do we have who follow Town and would love the chance to bring their kids along to games.  Hell, how many parents would love to go to watch Town on a weekend but they can't because £7 on the gate (not everyone has the luxury of getting an early bird ticket) feels like crap value/they can't afford it?  How many of those parents are then staying at home themselves to look after said child/children.

It's simply pure sighted from the club, again.

Last season was drab and damp.  All the feel good factor from the previous summer was wiped out by a stop-start campaign, selling of the top scorer, a (in hindsight) poor appointment in Bignot and then ultimately the departure of fan favourites at the end.   Take away the hardcore who will go regardless and who is really going to be excited about the new season?    None of our signings are, as of yet, ones that will put bums on seats.  If you were an occasional fan, would you be tempted to buy a season ticket?  

12-14 months ago the club missed a huge opportunity to tap into that feel good factor and they badly wasted it.  We failed to shift more than 3,000 season tickets after the most emotional and simply brilliant afternoon of football I've ever witnessed, in front of 12-13,000 people cheering Town on.  Despite that we managed to only shift a a couple of hundred extra season tickets from the previous year.  How the intercourse is that possible?  

This year was crying out for something to entice people not only to the club but also to retain those exisiting season ticket holders.  Again the club failed.  No price rise but it'll go up next year.  Wow, what a promotion that is!

We can dress it up as many ways as we like, unfortunately it still points to the fact that GTFC are urine poor when it comes to shifting season tickets.  As mentioned earlier this area has thousands of shift workers, even if 1% of those benefit from a season ticket that caters to their work pattern it's worth it.  If 1% of the single parents in the area benefit from a season ticket that caters to their circumstances, it's worth it.  If 1% of the kids in this area who would never get taken to a game because it's too expensive end up going because Mum/Dad drags them along then it'll be worth it.

Would it be easy to introduce schemes like this?  Probably not.  But that's not an excuse to do absolutely nothing about it.  If it's not sheer laziness then what is it?

Quoted from golfer

When I said I wasn't renewing my season ticket because of Pearson leaving I got a load of Red x's-now when I say that I am getting season ticket despite Pearson leaving I get red x's--so FKIT I am not going to renew even if Pearson and Craig Clay come back-so that's 1 season ticket down due to the Fishy red x'ers

Quoted from pizzzza

You're going to base your decision to buy a ST on whether you or not you get red crosses on the fishy? Get a f-ing grip!