Why the secrecy?

I'm not after an exact figure. If the club sold 15,143 season tickets but told us they'd sold just over 15k after the main deadline then that will do. How many did they sell inbetween their last update and the cheap ticket expiry date? A few hundred? A couple of thousand? You could probably work it out by looking at the match day figures and doing a bit of maths but you wouldn't have a clue if you went solely on what the club had told you. That consitutes as a lack of transparency.

On a slightly separate but related note, this might be of interest:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KieranMaguire/status/1041254763873140736

It's information regarding debts of league 1 clubs and we were the only club in this division not to provide such infrimation. We failed to give information on something which every other league 1 club was willing to provide. It's not so much that I'm desperate to know our current financial status but it's very telling when you put it into context. It doesn't exactly help Rahic/Rupp when you consider they've talked about honestly and bette comunication with the fans.

 

But wouldnt it be boring if we all agreed ?.

 

i really feel for those that wake in a morning and their first thought is, “how can i dig out the club and the owners today?”

 

@Bigrod ; If you go on the bbc sport website and check our fixture against charlton, the figure reported is 15,709,

now i very much doubt charlton brought 700 fans so the approx figure should be over 15,000 but plenty of them are suffering buyers remorse(me me me) .

 

"how can i dig out the club and the owners today?"

Why, is the club buried under the smelly stuff?

If they are in a hole, they need to stop digging.

 

Extremely. But to keep banging on about the same thing all the time is.

 

The last update I remember was around 14,000 which I believe was on Twitter.

Was the honest and better communication in the apology from last week?

 

Didnt they get their data from company accounts and not direct requests from clubs? Still weird we havent produced full accounts.

 

the club haven’t dug this hole, you’ve just stuck your trowel in. i can’t be bothered to look but can you find the season ticket numbers out for 2003-04? or were the club ‘burying’ stuff then too?

what’s the obsession with knowing every detail of everything. we’ll be saying the club don’t document for us how many pies they sell next because, you know - they’re trying to cover something up.

 

Why would disclosing the season ticket number make any difference to building bridges with the fans? A constructive change wouldn't include telling fans that this season we have X amount of season ticket holders.

 

Or you could just ask to be on the 'Who wants to know the exact season tickets sold? ' mailing list.

 

Perhaps it might be better when the owners aren't constantly giving people plenty of things to have a dig about then?

 

Totally get that Rod. Think the supporters club(s) need to get involved more to try seek out more communication which would help break down some barriers. I doubt Rahic knows about certain queries/issues supporters have, I don't see tickets being an issue at all but obviously to some it is. If this is pointed out then they can do something about.

 

True, but you can almost guarantee that if they released the official figure for season tickets then they would still get it in the neck about that figure.

 

One of the earlier interviews they gave to the press talked about clarity and good communication with the fans. Since then, Rahic has also mentioned it at the fans forum, the Bantamsbanter interview and I can't remember if it was mentioned in the apology. In short, PR has been an issue, Rahic clearly knows it's been an issue and despite some attempts to play it down I think we can all agree communication is something which needs to improve moving forward.

 

Simply a reflection of fans views Teddie