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Post by philtheglass on Jul 8, 2023 14:08:20 GMT
plus the £50 adult membership scheme per season to ensure you actually get a ticket Those prices are obscene for a championship club in a traditional working class city & given the current financial situation, & how the hell do they come up with 7 different categories! Adult season tickets range from £560 to £780
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Post by TC on Jul 8, 2023 15:50:03 GMT
Just wondering how many league clubs have a membership scheme. I believe that we would benefit from one, especially if it was linked to comprehensive new ticketing software that doesn't keep having hissy fits.
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Post by pugwash on Jul 8, 2023 18:59:03 GMT
Just wondering how many league clubs have a membership scheme. I believe that we would benefit from one, especially if it was linked to comprehensive new ticketing software that doesn't keep having hissy fits. My lot capped ST sale to 4.5k , new ticket prices are up & a £30 membership fee has been brought. A £ 3 discount means 10 games repays your initial money . Hospitality £144 per game. I assume that will be a 3 course meal with drinks & game .
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Post by JPower on Jul 8, 2023 21:07:39 GMT
Not sure i'd be more likely to buy this, than a matchday programme It's been years since I bothered with a programme and really think this is the way to go. Make the magazine available at the start of each month, one preview so ready to sell from the first game and the remainder reviews of that month's games. If a successful season finish it off with a bumper size season review. I'd certainly be more interested in getting in this format. If needed a digital version of the matchday programme could be made available, I'd make that free with some material from the magazine to drum up interest.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 8, 2023 21:29:31 GMT
Not sure i'd be more likely to buy this, than a matchday programme It's been years since I bothered with a programme and really think this is the way to go. Make the magazine available at the start of each month, one preview so ready to sell from the first game and the remainder reviews of that month's games. If a successful season finish it off with a bumper size season review. I'd certainly be more interested in getting in this format. If needed a digital version of the matchday programme could be made available, I'd make that free with some material from the magazine to drum up interest. Agree. I mouthed off about it being something we should do after reading the Wembley programme, which was more like a magazine. A match day programme is redundant now. It doesn’t deliver any news at all and the articles are fairly bland and lightweight as we have to turn around so many as we have 25+ programmes a season. Replace them with a monthly mag with proper in depth articles and long reads, something genuinely valuable to buy. Charge a tenner for it. A4 size. Would love that if the right people were involved.
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Post by timberwolf on Jul 9, 2023 7:28:53 GMT
A match day programme is redundant now. It doesn’t deliver any news at all and the articles are fairly bland and lightweight as we have to turn around so many as we have 25+ programmes a season. Replace them with a monthly mag with proper in depth articles and long reads, something genuinely valuable to buy. Charge a tenner for it. A4 size. Would love that if the right people were involved. Think a lot of reasons has killed the traditional programme whsich could also affect a monthly magazine. Larger programmes that clubs have got seem to be running out of ideas just to fill the pages. Still buy one when i can but not downhearted if i do not unlike the old days where they were part of the match. There is so much information about your club now the vast majority will know it all before any printed publication comes out. Even historical stuff must have been covered on here and other places. Its got down now to buying one, flicking through many pages unread and adding to a pile of others that will i,m sure be binned sometime in the future. Just need a team sheet if only for the opposition now and nothing on paper is really needed.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 9, 2023 7:41:03 GMT
A match day programme is redundant now. It doesn’t deliver any news at all and the articles are fairly bland and lightweight as we have to turn around so many as we have 25+ programmes a season. Replace them with a monthly mag with proper in depth articles and long reads, something genuinely valuable to buy. Charge a tenner for it. A4 size. Would love that if the right people were involved. Think a lot of reasons has killed the traditional programme whsich could also affect a monthly magazine. Larger programmes that clubs have got seem to be running out of ideas just to fill the pages. Still buy one when i can but not downhearted if i do not unlike the old days where they were part of the match. There is so much information about your club now the vast majority will know it all before any printed publication comes out. Even historical stuff must have been covered on here and other places. Its got down now to buying one, flicking through many pages unread and adding to a pile of others that will i,m sure be binned sometime in the future. Just need a team sheet if only for the opposition now and nothing on paper is really needed. There’s years worth of interesting stuff we could put in a magazine, just got to go looking for it and then get the right people to put it together in a meaningful way. Nobody really cares who the opposition midfielder is, even opposition fans. They know that already. But I’d quite happily read 4000 words on Hippo’s background/story that has seen him get to the point he now represents Grenada. Move it away from trying to be up to date news because it will never be a vehicle for that again. It can’t be, social media has killed it as being somewhere for news. Get it looking at some more interesting angles/stories that aren’t being told elsewhere.
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Post by timberwolf on Jul 9, 2023 8:38:42 GMT
There’s years worth of interesting stuff we could put in a magazine, just got to go looking for it and then get the right people to put it together in a meaningful way. Nobody really cares who the opposition midfielder is, even opposition fans. They know that already. But I’d quite happily read 4000 words on Hippo’s background/story that has seen him get to the point he now represents Grenada. Move it away from trying to be up to date news because it will never be a vehicle for that again. It can’t be, social media has killed it as being somewhere for news. Get it looking at some more interesting angles/stories that aren’t being told elsewhere. Well you have killed off the minimum of 23 programmes we publish every season. The club could then bring in 9 monthly magazines or 12 if they want to publish during the summer. Take out the non County content from the programmes and would the magazine really be a re hash of what would have been in the programmes anyway. Not saying it would not work especially if players were asked to write stuff themselves and not just saying how great it is playing with us and how the fans are out of this world and wanting to be part of the scene even when playing against up for some other side. Next thing you know is they,ll leave and the same thing gets trotted out for a new club they sign for. Need something different to read especially if its controvertial and makes us think more about every aspects of the club and not what we want to hear.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 9, 2023 10:58:21 GMT
There’s years worth of interesting stuff we could put in a magazine, just got to go looking for it and then get the right people to put it together in a meaningful way. Nobody really cares who the opposition midfielder is, even opposition fans. They know that already. But I’d quite happily read 4000 words on Hippo’s background/story that has seen him get to the point he now represents Grenada. Move it away from trying to be up to date news because it will never be a vehicle for that again. It can’t be, social media has killed it as being somewhere for news. Get it looking at some more interesting angles/stories that aren’t being told elsewhere. Well you have killed off the minimum of 23 programmes we publish every season. The club could then bring in 9 monthly magazines or 12 if they want to publish during the summer. Take out the non County content from the programmes and would the magazine really be a re hash of what would have been in the programmes anyway. Not saying it would not work especially if players were asked to write stuff themselves and not just saying how great it is playing with us and how the fans are out of this world and wanting to be part of the scene even when playing against up for some other side. Next thing you know is they,ll leave and the same thing gets trotted out for a new club they sign for. Need something different to read especially if its controvertial and makes us think more about every aspects of the club and not what we want to hear. I’m not saying take County content out, just broaden the horizons of the lightweight content we get in weekly match day programmes. Players shouldn’t be writing anything themselves, they’re footballers not journalists or storytellers. As usual, we’re looking for reasons not to do something rather than exploring the possibilities. It’s the absolute worst thing about our fan base. Anything new or slightly different from what everyone else does is ripped apart and we look for reasons not to do it.
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Post by desmond on Jul 9, 2023 11:10:46 GMT
Well you have killed off the minimum of 23 programmes we publish every season. The club could then bring in 9 monthly magazines or 12 if they want to publish during the summer. Take out the non County content from the programmes and would the magazine really be a re hash of what would have been in the programmes anyway. Not saying it would not work especially if players were asked to write stuff themselves and not just saying how great it is playing with us and how the fans are out of this world and wanting to be part of the scene even when playing against up for some other side. Next thing you know is they,ll leave and the same thing gets trotted out for a new club they sign for. Need something different to read especially if its controvertial and makes us think more about every aspects of the club and not what we want to hear. I’m not saying take County content out, just broaden the horizons of the lightweight content we get in weekly match day programmes. Players shouldn’t be writing anything themselves, they’re footballers not journalists or storytellers. As usual, we’re looking for reasons not to do something rather than exploring the possibilities. It’s the absolute worst thing about our fan base. Anything new or slightly different from what everyone else does is ripped apart and we look for reasons not to do it. Only my view but I’m not convinced at all that we’d sell more /generate any more revenue by publishing a monthly magazine rather than 23 programmes. Out of interest, does anyone remember the weekly (fortnightly ?) sports paper that was published in conjunction with County ? Was run by an County reporter from the Express, covered local leagues in Stockport area and was sold in local newsagents on a Friday.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 9, 2023 11:49:10 GMT
I’m not saying take County content out, just broaden the horizons of the lightweight content we get in weekly match day programmes. Players shouldn’t be writing anything themselves, they’re footballers not journalists or storytellers. As usual, we’re looking for reasons not to do something rather than exploring the possibilities. It’s the absolute worst thing about our fan base. Anything new or slightly different from what everyone else does is ripped apart and we look for reasons not to do it. Only my view but I’m not convinced at all that we’d sell more /generate any more revenue by publishing a monthly magazine rather than 23 programmes. Out of interest, does anyone remember the weekly (fortnightly ?) sports paper that was published in conjunction with County ? Was run by an County reporter from the Express, covered local leagues in Stockport area and was sold in local newsagents on a Friday. Me neither, and if any research into it shoots it down then that’s fine. It’s more the constant ‘we can’t do this, what about this, this is a problem’ with any new idea that does my head in.
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Post by HTC on Jul 9, 2023 15:48:22 GMT
Suspect the difficulty with a magazine idea might be the price point.
People will happily spend £3 on a programme 2/3 times a month, but to me a £10 magazine feels a lot more expensive, and £5 per month seems too cheap if they’re going to be paying for decent content. Also factoring in only one lot of advertising revenue for the magazine, rather than 2/3 lots from a programme.
Having said that, if that side of things can be made to work, i think it would be a great idea - extended player interviews / decent photography / deep dives into past seasons and all that sort of thing the internet doesn’t do very well that shines in a print format.
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Post by mattyovrio on Jul 9, 2023 17:52:23 GMT
Just wondering how many league clubs have a membership scheme. I believe that we would benefit from one, especially if it was linked to comprehensive new ticketing software that doesn't keep having hissy fits. My lot capped ST sale to 4.5k , new ticket prices are up & a £30 membership fee has been brought. A £ 3 discount means 10 games repays your initial money . Hospitality £144 per game. I assume that will be a 3 course meal with drinks & game . What are your expectations for next season Puggers?
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Post by David Schofield on Jul 9, 2023 19:03:37 GMT
Not sure i'd be more likely to buy this, than a matchday programme I would I think that is the future of “programmes” Top quality production values, high quality photography and in depth interviews and analysis of the Club at every level Sig me up
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Jul 9, 2023 19:26:38 GMT
Anyone have a clue about how many programmes are usually printed? and roughly how many are sold? I guess that County print about 1k (this is based on no research, inside knowledge or whatever... it's simply a random/convenient number). Sure they'd rather sell out and leave fans disappointed, than be stuck with a load of unwanted programmes to fill the blue bin.
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