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Well, despite my absolute determination not to renew until Sparks and Rupp have gone. Despite the appalling recruitment and performances. Despite the awful experience of going to VP in recent times. Yes, I finally cracked and renewed. I've booked a psychoanalyst for next week because I'm most certainly insane.

 

Utter bollocks!

The sooner we get rid of Sparks the better for the club!

 

If things carry on like this, we might aswell shut the upper tiers of the ground. How can our CEO look at these dire season ticket sales and think, yes I am up to the job?

 

Dunno, apparently to some it's no big deal. Imagine losing a fifth of your customer base in any other job, you'd be tidying your drawers out.

 

To come down from over 15,000 to 12,000 (dream on if we are getting 12,000 at this rate), but even so, a 20% drop in season ticket sales should have massive question marks over your decision makers...... but what will be, will be.

 

Can hear him saying it now... 'if people aren't renewing, how is that my fault?'

 

Well done to everyone who voted with their feet. Gives me no joy or pleasure, but enough is enough.

Zero blame on the fans here. This club has been backed to the hilt, with zero recent success of any kind, and very little pleasure. When people are leaving in droves, it's because the club has been neglected and run into the ground by a mixture of disinterest and incompetence.

Sell up and f**k off Rupp.

 

Are you watching are you watching are you watching Sparks & Rupp.
Abysmal CEO and head in the sand owner.

 

You're wrong.

Sacking Sparks would have immediately boosted sales and from there they just needed the right appointments and perhaps a leaked, quality signing or two and the ST numbers would fly back up.

 

Never said that we should or even could retain 100%? But dropping 20% should be alarming at any club.

Yes with the price increase, I'd imagine 12,000 holders will be about the same as last seasons 15,000. However, the club explained we are raising prices because of the costs of everything else climbing. So we are bringing the same amount in but spending far more that we were this time last year.

But losing 1 in 5 through the turnstiles could well also see drops in sales at the shop, sales at the kiosks. We might well match the ST money generate from last season, but losing 20% of ST holders will hit on other streams over the season and again doesn't combat the rising costs, which we were told was the reason for the price hike.

 

I got a few pelters (on social media) weeks back when suggesting we’d be well shy of 10,000.

I think a lot of people, and definitely the club, have vastly under estimated the apathy that has crept in over the last season more than any previous.

It’s not just the football on offer, it’s the complete and utter disregard for the fans who have quite frankly been treated appallingly and taken for granted.

The radio silence in recent months and lately the ticketing shambles shows just what they think of supporters.

I’ll call it now, without the chairman, or someone, throwing money at the club, we’ll be at risk of financial collapse next year

 

I also rate him at this level. We just need two capable midfielders in front of him and let him do his job of shielding, winning the ball and giving it simple.

 

Do you enjoy trying to annoy your fellow fans with those sort of comments, there's no problem with the present system buying a ticket in an area you've enjoyed sitting in for years, but lets change it and have a first come first served situation, plus the fact many enjoy the seats they've had for years as they have like minded fans around them but screw that let's have fans in the stadium at 2pm or what ever time they open to make sure then get the same seat they've had for years.
Fortunately as @Storck says that wouldn't effect our area so I'm more than happy to roll up at 2:50 on a Saturday and know there will be a seat awaiting me, usually with a welcome from fans sat around us, is that Right @Onside .

 

I think we all knew it would be lower, it was just how much lower. They won't release the info until the early bird deadline is done and dusted in a few weeks. But if there's over 10,000 ST holders I'd be amazed.

People have had enough and it's easy to see why. I think this is the time where Rupps words will have accountability, unlike 5 years back.

 

I reckon about 13,000 by the end of play.

 

Clubs at the top couldn't give a shiny shite about working class fans. Or fans in general, for the most part.

 

Extending Smallwoods contract is yet another justifiable reason to not renew.

 

9,849 sold with over 2 weeks remaining.