Season Tickets 23/24

[Son of Cod]

Is there any thinking behind the pricing? Could it be an attempt to start recouping some of the investment made on and off the pitch?

Recouping the money they've spent by rinsing the people that were there for them when it went tits up. The people they know will pay. Pure and simple. Doing it while demand is at a peak too.

 

[Dan_Macclad]

Is there any thinking behind the pricing? Could it be an attempt to start recouping some of the investment made on and off the pitch?

They've blamed the rising costs in football and used the 'we can stop losing money if we slash the wage bill and not be competitive'. Basically pushing it back to the fans because they needlessly spent a shit load just to win the counties league.

My view is they bit off more than they could handle to start with and viewed it too much as a business.. Which is fine, but forgetting the customer base is the fans.

 

[Lancs@(Bantam)]

They've blamed the rising costs in football and used the 'we can stop losing money if we slash the wage bill and not be competitive'. Basically pushing it back to the fans because they needlessly spent a shit load just to win the counties league.

My view is they bit off more than they could handle to start with and viewed it too much as a business.. Which is fine, but forgetting the customer base is the fans.

It's all well and good hiding behind the old rising costs bs, which obviously has to be factored in and is granted by most fans, but at the end of the day you also have to research your target market and find the fine line you could operate on even if it meant swallowing a small deficit in the short term to maximise numbers through the door and securing a future generation of fans going forward, and if you have a successful season then walk ups will bridge the gap of any short fall. So to summarise in short as many bums on seats you can afford is the way forward.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Ours will be officially announced when mathematically safe but it's been leaked already. £27 matchday price for away fans (unless you bring more than 1600 and then you'll get cheaper tickets behind the goal) and STs going up from £330 in the Main Stand to £365. To put this into perspective, it was £315 for League One football in the Main Stand two seasons ago.

After 22 seasons that's me out. Team is getting increasingly worse, owners unwilling to invest to make us competitive and get the fans in and strategy seems to be milk the fans for every penny. Will probably get a membership and pick and choose my games but, even though I'm going into a new career with flexible shift patterns from next season, I was going to buy an ST out of principle if they froze it. But not at £365 I'm not.

Dark days for a working class town and its fanbase, run by an out of touch board mostly from middle class Nantwich just not getting the fanbase at all. Our gates will be at the lowest for 30 years next season and I can see us doing a Rochdale either this season or the one after. If the solar farm project falls through, god knows what the future will entail for this club.

Absolutely disgusted at the upcoming hike to a £27 matchday price as well. I saw AFC Wimbledon fans on Twitter earlier in the season defend that as a price when they charged it. I'm absolutely glad the vast majority of our fanbase have condemned our £25 matchday price during the last few seasons, so there'll be mass outcry when it goes up to £27...

This game is eating itself alive. Problem is, when you have bankrolled teams hiking player wages to unsustainable levels, this is what happens in the wider landscape of lower league football. The shortfall gets put onto the fans where clubs prey on their loyalty. We're a few years off £30 admission prices becoming the norm for 4th tier football and I genuinely find that alarming.

 

[The Terminator]

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Mines gone up £80 to £435 if I buy now (Which I did). £465 otherwise.

Our matchday prices will be £27 too.

 

[GTFCfish]

Clubs fleecing their fans in the worst cost of living crisis ever, well done everybody.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

Clubs fleecing their fans in the worst cost of living crisis ever, well done everybody.

Yet by some our club is the one regularly mocked for doing the exact opposite, granted it’s not so much on here but Twitter is always fun.

 

[F!RTHY]

Yet by some our club is the one regularly mocked for doing the exact opposite, granted it’s not so much on here but Twitter is always fun.

Always found it incredibly strange behaviour.

Rotherham and Vale fans are renowned for it. It’s funny, because in 2008, Vale contacted Lawn and Julian Rhodes about our ST initiative as they tried to replicate our ticketing success and sold about 6,000 - thus squashing the idea the season after.

For one season, I’d be interesting to see what we would sell if they were priced at say £350-£400. I don’t think we’d lose thousands like many say we would. It’s not as if we have thousands of floating supporters who aren’t arsed.

 

[F!RTHY]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645879393116467211

 

[F!RTHY]

If we retain all our current ST holders, we’re guaranteed to sell at least 15,600 tickets.

 

[Mighty_Bantam]

We won't retain all, there's always natural churn - people pass away, people leave the area and so on.

Some going though, and that's before seats are released for general sale.

I'd like to know how it compares to the same point of the sales campaign vas the season previous but the club don't always update on that.

 

[F!RTHY]

We won't retain all, there's always natural churn - people pass away, people leave the area and so on.

Some going though, and that's before seats are released for general sale.

I'd like to know how it compares to the same point of the sales campaign vas the season previous but the club don't always update on that.

Obviously, retaining every ST holder isn’t possible for the reasons you’ve mentioned, but I’d be disappointed if we lost more than 500 for example.

Currently averaging 17,000 home fans, so there’s another 2,500 fans to tie down just from this seasons walk-up.

The days when we use to shift 18,000 ST’s are returning. Fans appear to be back onside.

 

[F!RTHY]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1647193875415441409

 

[Mighty_Bantam]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1647193875415441409

With a week to go, final week sales usually being decent and seats being unrestricted now I'd expect to pass last year's total of just over 14k.

 

[Greenacres]

Don't know how much ours will cost yet, no sight of an early bird offer, but hoping they won't be going up too much as we won't have the opportunity for regular humblings in League One...word of advice, don't get promoted, it is bloody scary up there!

 

[PuB]

Don't know how much ours will cost yet, no sight of an early bird offer, but hoping they won't be going up too much as we won't have the opportunity for regular humblings in League One...word of advice, don't get promoted, it is bloody scary up there!

It’s not too bad once you adapt to the level but you need to do it fast, our L2 winning team and manager had to be replaced midway through the season when we went up. But then again Martin Allen was playing his son (who probably now works on a building site somewhere) at left back (lol). You can get away with that to a certain extent down here, but not up there.

How’s the new ground coming along now?

 

[Greenacres]

It’s not too bad once you adapt to the level but you need to do it fast, our L2 winning team and manager had to be replaced midway through the season when we went up. But then again Martin Allen was playing his son (who probably now works on a building site somewhere) at left back (lol). You can get away with that to a certain extent down here, but not up there.

How’s the new ground coming along now?

They have started work on the training facility...work actually began some time ago with an archaeological survey after Roman remains were found on the site...which prompted a comment that the Roman era had ended at Chelsea and begun at Forest Green! We aren't sure when work will actually commence on the new ground itself, Dale keeps saying that it will start in two years, but he has been saying that for ages.

 

[PuB]

They have started work on the training facility...work actually began some time ago with an archaeological survey after Roman remains were found on the site...which prompted a comment that the Roman era had ended at Chelsea and begun at Forest Green! We aren't sure when work will actually commence on the new ground itself, Dale keeps saying that it will start in two years, but he has been saying that for ages.

The designs look very impressive along with the new training facility.

I’m surprised you guys have faired so poorly in L1 this season, I doubt it’s because of a lack of money either, how come you’ve had it so tough? Losing your manager?

 

[Mighty_Bantam]

14k sold.

2k yet to renew.

48hrs of early bird offer remaining.

 

[LS Bantam]

dOn’T yOu GiVe ThEm AwAy?

 

[PuB]

dOn’T yOu GiVe ThEm AwAy?

Your chairman runs around Bradford city centre stapling them to the coats of innocent bystanders against their will

(Just getting it in there)

 

[WilsdenBantam]

Your chairman runs around Bradford city centre stapling them to the coats of innocent bystanders against their will

(Just getting it in there)

That’d be nice to think he cared, he’s been to something like 1 game in 3 years!

 

[PuB]

That’d be nice to think he cared, he’s been to something like 1 game in 3 years!

Too busy in the high street?

 

[WilsdenBantam]

Too busy in the high street?

Lol too busy in Germany, the blokes probably never been to Bradford City centre, although that’s probably one of his more wise decisions in the last 7 years. Shame he didn’t visit it before buying the club he might have had second thoughts and we might be in the championship instead of this dustbin of a league. All ifs and buts of course.

 

[GTFCfish]

Lol too busy in Germany, the blokes probably never been to Bradford City centre, although that’s probably one of his more wise decisions in the last 7 years. Shame he didn’t visit it before buying the club he might have had second thoughts and we might be in the championship instead of this dustbin of a league. All ifs and buts of course.

I think it was near the centre that I parked and it looked a pretty nice area to me, it was as we walked closer to the ground that it turned into slums.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

I think it was near the centre that I parked and it looked a pretty nice area to me, it was as we walked closer to the ground that it turned into slums.

Some of the architecture in Bradford is some of the best in the country and wouldn’t look out of place in London, Manningham where the stadium is and further on to lister park was one of the richest places in Britain in the Industrial Revolution boom and Bradford was one of the richest towns then Cities in Europe iff the back of its wool trade. Sadly it declined badly like many places.

I digress regarding the architecture, the city looks better quiet as it starts to resemble a walking dead extras gathering when it fills up. Maybe that’s a bit mean, but I can see why it gets a bad rep from the outside. Still I love the place, I’m just glad I live nowhere near the centre.

 

[LS Bantam]

Rewind a hundred years ago, this would’ve been your walk to the ground from where you parked in town, but some moron thought it a better idea to bulldoze the incredible architecture and turn modern day Bradford city centre into the pits.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

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Rewind a hundred years ago, this would’ve been your walk to the ground from where you parked in town, but some moron thought it a better idea to bulldoze the incredible architecture and turn modern day Bradford city centre into the pits.

You mean you don’t like the Majestic, the finest wedding venue this side of West Yorkshire, the amazing Tesco to get well refreshed before a hearty match and the job centre to satisfy all your unemployment needs?

 

[LS Bantam]

You mean you don’t like the Majestic, the finest wedding venue this side of West Yorkshire, the amazing Tesco to get well refreshed before a hearty match and the job centre to satisfy all your unemployment needs?

Tbf they didn’t have Istanbul Shawarma on there back in the day, but other than that.

 

[F!RTHY]

14k sold.

2k yet to renew.

48hrs of early bird offer remaining.

Decent.

I’d expect us to shift around 15,500 then. 1,300 more than this season.

More money in the pot.