Season Ticket Renewal 2024/25

We get this every season and always end up selling a food amount.

 

Me and the wife were discussing this the other day, neither of us are that bothered at the minute about renewing. I think we've been to maybe 2 home games since early October? We got a puppy and stayed with most weekends but since we've just not really been itching to go. We probably will renew through force of habit, rather than want.

The dreadful Hughes football made me mentally write the season off, the length of time to hire a replacement worried me, the amount of stories around managers turning us down gave me little hope in the ownership/control structure, and the plans (or lack there of) for this window makes me wonder why bother?

I totally wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people didn't renew due to the football on show. Results are results but in this day and age when you can watch top tier football from your mobile phone on a Saturday, you need to entertain people for 2 hours in your stadium. And the 23/24 football is anything but entertaining.

We need a strong window and a statement to push on the rest of the season and give hope for the next. But the plan is seemingly get 7 or 8 out and then we can bring in 3 or 4..... but a) can we realistically see that many of our dross being picked up? And b) will our 3 or 4 targets still be available by the time the budget and squad space are freed up? Will we be on 3rd or 4th choice LWB for example by then because others moved earlier? They really need a splash January to build some faith.

 

Someone will be along soon to claim people will only buy them on direct debit so they can subsequently cancel them.

 

It's in my DNA. I might only attend a fraction of the matches, but will renew

 

and then it will get pointed out that if they can part way through they lose their seat forever and can not get one the following season without clearing the debt

 

It was the glue that held me together too but my group have almost all given up. They have season tickets but they just don't go.

 

Won’t break a habit of a lifetime. Neither would I want to. Getting a bit now though and the driving is getting to me so mau go to iFollow for night games

 

Slowly but slowly it is all unravelling. The club has to acknowledge this and fast. Apart from @Park bantam who will attend no matter what.

 

I believe in Alexander, so, yes.

i still hope Rupp sells up asap though.

a new face, clear direction, and a plan is needed.

 

I'll renew, not because Im some hard-core fan. But because I like the Saturday home fixture routine of a few pints after game with pals, that I only catch up with matchday to discuss how shite we were.

 

What is it, 4 home wins so far this season? Loses to some absolute garbage in that and it’s not been any better in the last 6 years or so. To say our season tickets are so cheap, we have a high cost per win ratio.

I’ll probably renew due to the fact that for me it’s about more than just the 90 minutes of football, but it’s the casual fan I worry about (most of which aren’t on places like this so you won’t get a fair reflection really) I don’t fancy sitting in VP with 7-10,000 per week again.

 

We don’t even get a nice comfortable 3-0 win occasionally,even our irregular home wins are scrappy 1-0 wins. I started going in the mid 60s and even if we were having a crap season which was quite often especially in the 1970s we’d still enjoy a few 2 or 3nil home win to lighten the gloom. Just doesn’t happen nowadays.

 

It's a minimum 4hr round trip to VP for me these days. If the style of football and entertainment value doesn't significantly increase by the end of the season, I'll have to seriously consider it for the first time in 20 years.

 

I went yesterday, my first game for a while due to circumstance. I was full of cold, enjoyed the chat with the regulars around me as usual but jeez game day is one flat experience. I enjoy taking in the games on my travels in Europe more these days, probably doesn't help having to walk through the city centre and on Manningham Lane, such a dreary thing. And Valley Parade is just flat as a fart, hope it picks up when the weather gets better but its more of chore than a pleasure these days.

 

The other half has clocked up 66 years man and boy. He is saying no more he has had enough of the “promises” we were in the old 4th division and we are still here. A brief excursion into the elite and back down again. The football is only marginally better but after watching yesterday the full capitulation he has had enough and I doubt very much if we will renew.

 

Had a little bit of new manager bounce but yesterday summed up the recent past at home perfectly.
Go behind early ✅
Midfield struggle with pacy opponents ✅
Lack of any real quality in most areas✅
“Game management” non-existent ✅
Opposition score late to nick points✅

Why are we so surprised that it keeps happening?