How many season tickets will we sell?

Anyone know what the take up was last year from the time of renewing seats to the end of people wanting to move? Might give a rough indication as to the possible final take up figure?

 

Also shows the club constantly pushing the cheap ticket mantra might not have always been the best idea. Could well be that the cost increase more than covers the loss of ticket holders and that most fans were more than willing to pay a higher premium. Never cheapen your product unless its a last resort.

 

I think it was 13,000, and went up to 15,000

 

A see some on twitter already crowing about the figure, posting gifs berating those who questioned the club because we've sold more than some folks predictions. Its hardly a time to be giving it the biggun when you will clearly be losing 100s of supporters, quite possibly a couple of thousand. The club should criticised for this not given a happy clap.

 

Not sure, bit conflicted on this one.

Sure, it proves most people weren't going solely because 'cheap tickets', but while we're a poorly performing fourth tier side struggling to compete with sides with no money, no history, and no crowds, cheap tickets is definitely the way to go - and there's no way we'd have got to this size of crowd without them.

I think our current situation is pretty reflective of a club our size in the 'last resort' stage of things.

This should be the worst we ever are, we've effectively bottomed out and plateaued lol

 

Ticket sales fluctuate - what can I say?

From shifting 18,000+ back to back in L1 to selling less than 12,000 just four years ago in L2, it happens to the best of clubs.

From a personal standpoint, I’m delighted with the uptake thus far - and I wouldn’t be at all suprised if we shifted significantly higher than the 12k forecasted.

I thought fans were against everything BCAFC at present? That turned out to be bollocks, didn’t it?

 

It was a last throw of the dice from Rhodes but fans now realise you do get what you pay for. The take up with the price rise i think now shows the club have a bigger hard core of support than they actually had in league 1. If they sell around 12,000 after the shite they've been constantly served up for years i think the club is in better shape than even the owner would have thought.

 

Never be delighted in business when you lose customer support. A loss of around 15% is shocking and shows the true light of the appalling day to day running of this club. That loss over a number of seasons has justification, but over a season should have the alarm bells ringing.

 

To be honest, I'm hardcore in the 'we definitely don't get what we pay for' camp right now.

As an individual, maybe, but not as a collective.

We're dramatically underperforming, and I have zero faith in our current leadership to spend more money any more wisely than they already have been.

David Sharpe could be the difference here - but I have nothing to base that on, at all. I think he had a big budget to work with at Mansfield Town, but it's taken them a long time to sign expensive players and forge a potentially promotion-worthy team. The list of expensive strikers they've had in the past decade is kinda eye-watering, and yep, Andy Cook was one of them!

 

Would it be a load of bollocks if we had less season tickets sold this year compared to last season on would you call that an achievement ?

 

Was it ringing alarm bells when sales fell from 16k to under 12k in 2019?

 

I’d call it completely understandable given the football (or lack of) served up this season.

From a revenue perspective, there’s very little difference with so much more to gain if we’re successful next season - as those who have chosen not to renew may be forced to POTD - which will generate more revenue anyway.

 

Down.

 

Agreed. If we actually storm it next season (commence laughter) then the number of people attending will be swelled by 1k - 1.5k max on average. Based on such an optimistic outlook, you will have the big games drawing in 2k-3k extra at best. If it was promotion day then it would be a one off 20,000+ attendance for the season.

Anyway, back to reality. With regards to the attendance figure, it is not false per se, just depends on how you look at it. As you know the attendance is based on the number of tickets sold, which is not an accurate reflection of the number of people actually attending - which is way off based on recent matches.

 

Yeah. It was documented in certain places but as usual was mocked by others.

 

I predict a final season ticket total of 11,478. I've just renewed mine and my eldest sons and bought my youngest his first season ticket today. Had to wait for seats to open up as I needed 3 together - apologies to whoever's seats we've just taken, but I'm guessing they didn't want them!

 

Just bought. Hadn't renewed but bloke at ticket office last week had updated my settings in ticketmaster to buy on behalf of my linked friends and family.

Logged on online just before noon and could pick new seats fine.

Fiver to pay via DD but no ticketmaster ripoff fees added on ala gig tickets with them.

 

Yep same. Chose some new seats very close to where we have current season tickets without problem and completed the purchase via DD. No problem at all.

 

But at the end of the day if we reach 12,000 season tickets this year last year was 15,000 that’s 20% lost revenue. If we have another season of woeful performances by Christmas there might only be 7k going so yes they have the ticket money but don’t have the income from match day sales so I’m 6 months you’ve lost another % of fans do you think rupp will think oh it’s ok I’ll pay for them not attending come January ?