All,
The Club is clearly making a big effort to get us ‘on the up’ again and moving in the right direction.
The
£5 Exeter promotion and the attempt to fill the ground for the game is a real big step in trying to raise the Feelgood Factor to The Valley, luring back lapsed fans, and re-introducing floating fans to watching football at our ground.
Filling the ground (effectively doubling the crowd) for one game seems a tall order, and is possibly unachievable.
BUT
If every season ticket holder brought one other person then the ground would be full.
If every CL member brought three extra people, the ground would be full.
Said like that,
IT IS ACHIEVABLE.
The Club are trying their best both with the offer and promoting it as much as they can. But there is a huge role that we the fans can play in this which would take literally seconds.
Just simply send an email to every lapsed fan / local football fan / someone who’s kids might fancy going to football explaining the offer and try and tempt them along. This is what i’m mailing to my friends (feel free to copy, crib something similar):
As you know Charlton have had a rough few years, but there is a big effort going on trying to get the club moving in the right direction again. Tickets for the home game against Exeter on Saturday 19th Feb (Saturday week) are just £5 for all areas. League One is hardly Barcalona v Real Madrid, but it is fantastic value considering it is £12 for a seat at Welling.
If anyone fancies coming along, or taking their kids to a game, the box office number is 0871 226 1905 or can be done online via the link below:
http://tickets.cafc.co.uk/standselect.ink?matchid=4752
if there are a few interested in going then let me know and i’m happy to sort the tickets out and get us a block together.
If everyone reading this bothered to send out an email like that, or messaged their friends on Facebook it would take a minutes effort and will reach out to thousands of people the Club can’t already get to. They won't all be interested of course, and you'll probably get a sarky remark back from the odd armchair Prem fan, but so what ? If one person decided to come and bring his boy, that's automatically increased the chances of that kid coming a fan, or the dad bringing him again.
Make it as easy as possible, make sure you include the phone number, or the email address. Or put yourself out for this one time to sort it for them. Don't let apathy or laziness dictate.
If the Club is hopefully going in the right direction again, then all of us have a part we can play. We all want to see the ground buzzing again. If we all actively get involved, then anything is achievable.
Come on, lets fill that ground again ! 
Comments
It would be great to get 20,000....I cant see us getting much more than that to be honest...
I have emailed a couple of mates who have not been for a while and they are up for it.
West Ham advertise on Talksport quite often, I wonder if we could do the same, Talksport, Radio London/Kent etc, I appreciate that the last two are BBC but if they make a story out of it the point will come accross, also are the local rags (NewsShopper, etc) running ads/stories etc.
Also make the programmes a quid for this game, people will buy them for a £1!! OK we may take a hit on the cost but we will be seen as a good value football club (again)
Good call btw AFKA
but we arranged this backin October just glad its this game so they see a decent crowd, one Yid, 1 Gooner, 1 Chels & 2 other's
have 4 extra's coming at the moment.
I think Kavanagh said that 3,500 had been sold when usually we'd be lucky to have done 500.
Thats good! How many season ticket holders do we have these days?
Good work!!
My Palarse friend declined, I thinks its because he's afraid of crowds.
PMSL
is it worth sending an email out to all your branch members, reminding them of the offer and try coaxing them into bringing others ?
I thought it was more than that....so we do we normal have about 4000 extras coming along to each game then?
I really hope we can get a big croud for this game, it would be great to see the valley nearly full...
Think some pre match/ half time entertainment would be good - Maybe a kids tounament (local schools) with semi finals before kick off and a final at half time. Or that Abba tribute act
My son was a mascot at the Plymouth game. Hope your kids have as much fun as he did.
she is really looking forward to it, so hope she does, Chicago, may see you there on the 19th...
It will also help us if people who normally get their tickets on a matchday and are attending Peterborough get their Exeter from the north stand ticket office this Saturday. There will be two tills for Exeter only there, cash and cards.
We will gear up for a big walk-up next Saturday and it will easier to process because of the single price, but if people can buy this weekend they will potentially save themselves time next week - and of course secure their seat.
I will come back with the latest figure tonight, but the gate is probably around the 15,000 mark at the moment. On that basis I'd be pretty hopeful we'll get to 20k.