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Get a grip Golfer 😂
You wind people up for a bite. When you get a nibble you spit dummy out pram.
Come on man embrace the bants rebound of your posts.
Enjoy life
Now I'm not renewing - hang on i'm getting mixed up=is it this time I.m renewing or not renewing |
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I love you golfer , renew your season ticket mate and get one for me so I can sit next to you.  |
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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?
Good post. The season ticket debate has been going on for a few seasons now. In fact, its been going on for many years. As part of a business studies course in the early nineties, I sent the club a project I completed looking at ways to increase revenue, bums on seats and atmosphere. I never received an acknowledgment from the club for the project. But that’s not the point (as it was bit amateurish!). The point is the club have never appeared to take a proactive approach to increasing attendances. Maybe if people want to come and support Town they will just come regardless of what incentive scheme is in place and maybe we just have to accept Grimsby are a club destined to always achieve average gates in the region of 4 - 6000? The support is in the Town, you only have to look at the Wembley attendances. But it appears the floaters attend only the "big" matches, getting them to attend week in and week out and in all weathers and team performances is another matter. |
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I love you golfer , renew your season ticket mate and get one for me so I can sit next to you.
I love you Pete as well-I will only get 1 seat and we can share it |
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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.
Of course it is. Set a budget 20% below what you achieved last year, and in most businesses you'll get a severe talking to. Last year is only a one-off because of the incompetence in building on it. It was a steady season-on-season rise. It wasn't an increase of Lincoln proportions. Dress it up how you like but 2500 would be a failure. |
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I love you Pete as well-I will only get 1 seat and we can share it
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Me because I have a bad knee and will not take the weight of Golfer  |
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