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Post by iocounty on May 30, 2024 16:14:00 GMT
Over 6k sold.. a new club record. That's mine done too, great effort all!
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Post by stockytwo on May 30, 2024 16:46:12 GMT
Its almost unfathomable as a Stockport County fan of around 30 years now that it's May and you literally cannot buy a new season ticket for next season. What an age we are in!
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Post by topcat99 on May 30, 2024 18:47:23 GMT
Its almost unfathomable as a Stockport County fan of around 30 years now that it's May and you literally cannot buy a new season ticket for next season. What an age we are in! I suppose you can Technically The window for renewals closes tomorrow, so a few seats may become available next week. But it does show the need for a stadium expansion
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Post by Bredburyhatter on May 30, 2024 20:36:06 GMT
Would be interesting to see how many Season Tickets have been sold in each category.. not only cos I like those sort of stats, but also to see what money is generated by ST sales.
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Post by CB1883 on May 30, 2024 20:48:54 GMT
It's great to encourage kids and giving away free, or very cheap, STs to under fives made complete sense when EP was only half full. However the club are now stuck with it and cannot easily stop it or charge a meaningful sum without a backlash. It's a tricky one and a real shame for regular fans like Durango who don't have a ST and can't buy match day tickets because EP is sold out. The long term solution is clearly the ground extension but in the meantime there is no reason why the club could not introduce a system of recycling tickets that aren't going to be used. I'm not holding my breath though. I’m all for making it as cheap as possible for kids but I know from experience that taking kids of 0-5 is a slog. They aren’t arsed about the football. I still think it is admirable we do it but we should restrict how many people can take up the offer. I don’t know the numbers of how many take up the offer but it’s a shame for adults to miss out as X amount of season tickets have been snapped up by 0-5’s
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Post by The Real Exile on May 30, 2024 21:03:41 GMT
It's great to encourage kids and giving away free, or very cheap, STs to under fives made complete sense when EP was only half full. However the club are now stuck with it and cannot easily stop it or charge a meaningful sum without a backlash. It's a tricky one and a real shame for regular fans like Durango who don't have a ST and can't buy match day tickets because EP is sold out. The long term solution is clearly the ground extension but in the meantime there is no reason why the club could not introduce a system of recycling tickets that aren't going to be used. I'm not holding my breath though. I’m all for making it as cheap as possible for kids but I know from experience that taking kids of 0-5 is a slog. They aren’t arsed about the football. I still think it is admirable we do it but we should restrict how many people can take up the offer. I don’t know the numbers of how many take up the offer but it’s a shame for adults to miss out as X amount of season tickets have been snapped up by 0-5’s My eldests first game was our win away at Shef Weds, he loved the trip out even at a tender age and then as he got older we ramped up the games . At EP he loved Vernon and even at the away grounds the home mascots were often a target of his 🤣 he didn't do every home game, midweek or anything on a school night was a non starter of course but he bleeds County now despite living right in enemy territory in Leek. When he has kids he will be doing the same, at least when I pop my clogs I'll have done something right 😁 again if we had a ticket platform where we could return tickets for use it would be much better all round.
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Post by CB1883 on May 30, 2024 21:33:58 GMT
I’m all for making it as cheap as possible for kids but I know from experience that taking kids of 0-5 is a slog. They aren’t arsed about the football. I still think it is admirable we do it but we should restrict how many people can take up the offer. I don’t know the numbers of how many take up the offer but it’s a shame for adults to miss out as X amount of season tickets have been snapped up by 0-5’s My eldests first game was our win away at Shef Weds, he loved the trip out even at a tender age and then as he got older we ramped up the games . At EP he loved Vernon and even at the away grounds the home mascots were often a target of his 🤣 he didn't do every home game, midweek or anything on a school night was a non starter of course but he bleeds County now despite living right in enemy territory in Leek. When he has kids he will be doing the same, at least when I pop my clogs I'll have done something right 😁 again if we had a ticket platform where we could return tickets for use it would be much better all round. I’ve benefited from it previously so I think it’s a blessing when done right. I just feel currently it’s taking the opportunity away from someone else who would snatch your hand off for a ticket. Has to be a happy medium somewhere and like you say, the ability to make the club aware the ticket isn’t going to be used could be just that. It’s something that’s there to be abused in the current format. We shouldn’t be allowing people to take a seat just in case they feel like taking their kid. When I did it I took them to less than half the home games but at that point the ticket was not going to be used by anyone else.
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Post by suedehead on May 30, 2024 21:39:22 GMT
My eldests first game was our win away at Shef Weds, he loved the trip out even at a tender age and then as he got older we ramped up the games . At EP he loved Vernon and even at the away grounds the home mascots were often a target of his 🤣 he didn't do every home game, midweek or anything on a school night was a non starter of course but he bleeds County now despite living right in enemy territory in Leek. When he has kids he will be doing the same, at least when I pop my clogs I'll have done something right 😁 again if we had a ticket platform where we could return tickets for use it would be much better all round. I’ve benefited from it previously so I think it’s a blessing when done right. I just feel currently it’s taking the opportunity away from someone else who would snatch your hand off for a ticket. Has to be a happy medium somewhere and like you say, the ability to make the club aware the ticket isn’t going to be used could be just that. It’s something that’s there to be abused in the current format. We shouldn’t be allowing people to take a seat just in case they feel like taking their kid. When I did it I took them to less than half the home games but at that point the ticket was not going to be used by anyone else. I do agree with you. It doesn’t seem right. But if you don’t get one there’s no way to take your kid, if you’re a season ticket holder unless you relocate over to the Railway End and have a shite day in the rain. As you say, the answer has to be a resale platform. Because the alternatives are nobody takes young kids or there are empty seats some weeks.
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Post by The Real Exile on May 30, 2024 21:46:04 GMT
I'm happy to help the club look at a platform if required and I'm sure a few others who work in IT would too. I'm sure they don't need our help with our infrastructure but there are good people who could help.
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Post by NeonDave on May 30, 2024 22:00:57 GMT
I sit on a row of all season ticket holders and there were two seats next to me that nobody sat in all season. Always found it odd that they never offered them out when they weren't attending.
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Post by badgersc on May 30, 2024 22:05:30 GMT
At the moment we're still in the realms of the theoretical applying the logic of the above to us so none of this really applies but I don't think it's acceptable for someone to buy an adult ST and only use it for one game, it's depriving someone else of access. Whilst it legally is your perogative if you want to spend £400 on a single game it doesn't feel right morally to me. Imagine a situation where a load of rich people buy ST's for Man United and only use them to go and see the City, Liverpool and Arsenal matches, leaving their seats vacant for all the other games, it's not right imo. Like i've previously said in the thread, you don't have to go and as long as you can pass the thing onto someone who needs it i've no qualms but fundamentally I don't think that just because you can afford to do something you should be allowed to do it. It's a bit like the mega rich buying property in London even though they may only stay there for a couple of weeks a year if that. It's perfectly legal but it doesn't feel right when there are people who need to be homed. People can get a bit touchy with stuff like this as I think they are fearful that suddenly their rights are going to be revoked just because they can't make a few matches but as WBA have confirmed by their statement, it's not their intention to apply a blanket ban on loyal fans who for whatever reason haven't been able to make a few matches, merely to make sure that the stadium is full as can be on every match. I do agree with you. We haven't got anyone buying a ST for 1/2/3 games so it's all a bit of a weird hypothetical question, but I agree that isn't really on and in the spirit of things. But I think where we differ is it's nothing to do with the club if someone chooses to do that. If I buy a season ticket and then circumstances change (new job, happened to me in 2010/11 and I went to 2/3 games after September), or I get ill (happened last season and I missed two games, but should really have missed more) then it's nobodies business. Despite what WBA have said, if their intention isn't to try and resell tickets then why are they asking? They don't actually care how someone is, they're just looking for an opportunity to resell a ticket and make more money. That response from them on twitter has clearly been written by someone who knows what they're doing but it smacks of a softened message. And maybe the club are within their rights to do that. But I fundamentally disagree with it. A season ticket gives access to every game in a season, but there's no stipulation that you actually have to attend if you can't make it. If we got to the Championship and my circumstances were that I could only make 5-7 games a season, because of a similar relocation to the one I had in 2010, I'd still buy a season ticket as it guarantees me entry to the games I can make. I kind of get this, but do you feel the same way about away tickets? Someone who buys as many tickets as they can on the off chance they can make the game, but don’t actually go to many? Is that anyone else’s business? No obligation to attend in that case either.
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Post by timberwolf on May 31, 2024 7:28:50 GMT
I sit on a row of all season ticket holders and there were two seats next to me that nobody sat in all season. Always found it odd that they never offered them out when they weren't attending. Could be a couple of long distance exiles who think they are still doing their bit for the club and makes it impossible to pass their tickets onto other fans. During winter months i miss a number of mid week games but if i pass my ST over to somebody else for the game i might have a difficulty of getting it back again for the next game if they do not turn up for it.
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Post by timberwolf on May 31, 2024 7:36:29 GMT
I’m all for making it as cheap as possible for kids but I know from experience that taking kids of 0-5 is a slog. They aren’t arsed about the football. I still think it is admirable we do it but we should restrict how many people can take up the offer. I don’t know the numbers of how many take up the offer but it’s a shame for adults to miss out as X amount of season tickets have been snapped up by 0-5’s We have gone over this topic before but its down to parents themselves what they wish to do even if i agree with your sentiment. Sick of so many rules and regulations we have to follow and i,d hate County to go down the line of who can really attend or not. Its all down to EP not being big enough at the moment thats actually stopping the club increasing the fan base by the inability to get a seat in the dry. Think the numbers of these tickets might be quite small anyway but its the club not fans who brought in the system.
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Post by TC on May 31, 2024 7:44:49 GMT
Today is the last day to guarantee your seat when renewing season tickets. No doubt the club will be sending reminders to those who have not yet renewed. It struck me that the end of May is very early, considering that we still have no idea of the new signings yet.
I was looking at Luton's and WBA's (randomly chosen) season ticket prices and ST holders have until July 5th and July 12th respectively to renew theirs. That is much more user friendly, with an extra five or six weeks to arrange the finances and have a decent idea when you purchase what the team will look like.
I know early renewal helps with cash flow but it's not like a few years ago when we were run on a shoe string. Another month so to renew would I'm sure be much appreciated. Perhaps a question for the Co-Op to put to the club in due course?
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Post by topcat99 on May 31, 2024 8:22:15 GMT
Today is the last day to guarantee your seat when renewing season tickets. No doubt the club will be sending reminders to those who have not yet renewed. It struck me that the end of May is very early, considering that we still have no idea of the new signings yet. I was looking at Luton's and WBA's (randomly chosen) season ticket prices and ST holders have until July 5th and July 12th respectively to renew theirs. That is much more user friendly, with an extra five or six weeks to arrange the finances and have a decent idea when you purchase what the team will look like. I know early renewal helps with cash flow but it's not like a few years ago when we were run on a shoe string. Another month so to renew would I'm sure be much appreciated. Perhaps a question for the Co-Op to put to the club in due course? I assumed that the 31 May date was for financial reasons. A lot of clubs run their financial year from 1 June to 31 May. But I can’t remember renewal dates over previous years, so I might be wrong.
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