Self select ticket scheme

Quoted from moosey_club

was in the club shop this morning and someone in the queue went in to buy one....

"sorry we dont have them from the printers yet " ...
"oh but i wanted to use one of the selected games for the FGR game"
"well you can buy a normal matchday ticket for the FGR game...i am sure the books will be ready soon"

Surely these decisions should a) have been decided long ago to allow sufficient time for arrangements to be put in place to get the tickets printed and set up a process to buy one or b) if the tickets aren't yet available and you cant come into the club shop to buy one, don't advertise on the clubs website to fans that they can. Really not good enough.

Quoted from toontown

Surely these decisions should a) have been decided long ago to allow sufficient time for arrangements to be put in place to get the tickets printed and set up a process to buy one or b) if the tickets aren't yet available and you cant come into the club shop to buy one, don't advertise on the clubs website to fans that they can. Really not good enough.

i didnt mention that the first line of advice offered was ..........  you can order it online from home !  

Quoted from toontown

Surely these decisions should a) have been decided long ago to allow sufficient time for arrangements to be put in place to get the tickets printed and set up a process to buy one or b) if the tickets aren't yet available and you cant come into the club shop to buy one, don't advertise on the clubs website to fans that they can. Really not good enough.

Could be wrong but it seems to me this was all a last minute decision taken in response to Lincoln announcing their "MyImps" membership scheme
a couple of weeks ago.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Could be wrong but it seems to me this was all a last minute decision taken in response to Lincoln announcing their "MyImps" membership scheme
a couple of weeks ago.

All I can tell you is this was put to the Club a few Months ago for them to look at.If it helps one single fan then it`s been a worthwhile exercise again 1 in 5 working age people in NE Lincs are shift workers the Club must look at that and get it to work for both parties.This is the first step......

Quoted from 1mickylyons

All I can tell you is this was put to the Club a few Months ago for them to look at.If it helps one single fan then it`s been a worthwhile exercise again 1 in 5 working age people in NE Lincs are shift workers the Club must look at that and get it to work for both parties.This is the first step......

You are being too modest Micky. For the benefit of those who don't know the idea grew out of a conversation Micky had with me and others which resulted in a meeting held at the Hainton back in May where it quickly appeared that the Trust and Micky's group (including Ska off of here) were pretty close. Ian Keetley and Dave Roberts drafted and presented the idea to the club with the incorporation of a lot of the input from Micky and co. Did we get everything we wanted? No. The club have very real and justified concerns about possible effect on main season ticket sales. Is it a good start? Most definitely! This offer is now on the table. Future seasons may see modifications but I'd be very surprised if it was consigned to the dustbin of history after one try.
A great example of The Trust working with members. There were other things discussed that night many of which are still being progressed.

Quoted from barralad

You are being too modest Micky. For the benefit of those who don't know the idea grew out of a conversation Micky had with me and others which resulted in a meeting held at the Hainton back in May where it quickly appeared that the Trust and Micky's group (including Ska off of here) were pretty close. Ian Keetley and Dave Roberts drafted and presented the idea to the club with the incorporation of a lot of the input from Micky and co. Did we get everything we wanted? No. The club have very real and justified concerns about possible effect on main season ticket sales. Is it a good start? Most definitely! This offer is now on the table. Future seasons may see modifications but I'd be very surprised if it was consigned to the dustbin of history after one try.
A great example of The Trust working with members. There were other things discussed that night many of which are still being progressed.

Thats pretty clear from the price, structure and relatively late announcement of this scheme compared to the early sale of ST's this season.
Is it a genuine gesture from the club or is it a reluctant half @rsed offer, released at the last moment in the hope most people on the fence would have bought an early bird ticket as the initial cut off date had elapsed ?  
Guess that depends on your outlook.

Thanks for the info Ian, it doesn’t matter what the club do according to some negative elements of our fan base. Keep up the good work.

Quoted from moosey_club

Thats pretty clear from the price, structure and relatively late announcement of this scheme compared to the early sale of ST's this season.
Is it a genuine gesture from the club or is it a reluctant half @rsed offer, released at the last moment in the hope most people on the fence would have bought an early bird ticket as the initial cut off date had elapsed ?  
Guess that depends on your outlook.

The whole point of this original suggestion was based on comments over a few year`s from those who wanted to support the Club financially whilst securing themselves a guaranteed seat but could NOT commit to an actual ST.I work for a company with a lot of shift workers many of whom are Town fans but very few STH. I also come in to contact with many others in the same boat locally as I am sure a lot of people do ?Then we have the large number of exiles GTFC also have who probably can`t or wont commit to a ST who always seem to suffer tremendously when we have a high demand for tickets home or away. We can all sit and moan and let`s be honest I have for year`s OR we can look to try and get the problems identified properly and addressed. This is not ideal I think we can all agree on that but it`s a good starting point and worthy of further dialogue down the line and if it helps out those mentioned it will have been a worthwhile exercise.

Quoted from Tinymariner

Thanks for the info Ian, it doesn’t matter what the club do according to some negative elements of our fan base. Keep up the good work.

People get very frustrated me included Tiny and sadly things always move at a snails pace which makes it worse still but we have to keep on and make things happen.Those who want to sit back and criticise anything and everything you will never make happy BUT sometimes they have a point and you still have to be prepared to listen.Hopefully on the pitch will take care of a lot of the noise and off the pitch I think all parties can and should do better than previous Season`s time will tell?

Quoted from 1mickylyons

The whole point of this original suggestion was based on comments over a few year`s from those who wanted to support the Club financially whilst securing themselves a guaranteed seat but could NOT commit to an actual ST.I work for a company with a lot of shift workers many of whom are Town fans but very few STH. I also come in to contact with many others in the same boat locally as I am sure a lot of people do ?Then we have the large number of exiles GTFC also have who probably can`t or wont commit to a ST who always seem to suffer tremendously when we have a high demand for tickets home or away. We can all sit and moan and let`s be honest I have for year`s OR we can look to try and get the problems identified properly and addressed. This is not ideal I think we can all agree on that but it`s a good starting point and worthy of further dialogue down the line and if it helps out those mentioned it will have been a worthwhile exercise.

i appreciate that you have have put yourself out there and attempted to get something in place,not knocking that and apologies if any offence caused.  The way it appears now though is that you are paying MORE per game with this scheme than just getting an early bird match ticket each time you can go instead....with the only benefit being queue jumping for tickets for big games.
And that queue jumping also now dents one of the original perceived benefits of being a trust member, which once upon a time was supposed to give you priority on tickets once season ticket holders have had a nibble. I notice now that the ticket heirachy is ;

STH
SSTS
Stub holders
Trust
General sale

Pretty ironic that the trust have helped negotiate something that pushes its own members down the pecking order !!!