A lot of it depends on the fixture list. I have no idea who Watford played in the run in but if it was a lot of teams aiming for play offs then they’re going to get moved
For a club that’s getting a relative windfall in the form of the TV money uplift on the back of effectively inconveniencing it’s fanbase by agreeing to only play around 8 or 9 games at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon, they should look to giving some of it back. One way would be to give every ST holder a 50% discount on the new shirt for the coming season. They should still make money on each shirt and they’d probably sell a lot more, which in turn could encourage others who might not normally buy one if they start seeing a lot more red shirts all around the ground on match days.
I always struggle as to whether your posts are serious or not.
For a club that’s getting a relative windfall in the form of the TV money uplift on the back of effectively inconveniencing it’s fanbase by agreeing to only play around 8 or 9 games at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon, they should look to giving some of it back. One way would be to give every ST holder a 50% discount on the new shirt for the coming season. They should still make money on each shirt and they’d probably sell a lot more, which in turn could encourage others who might not normally buy one if they start seeing a lot more red shirts all around the ground on match days.
I always struggle as to whether your posts are serious or not.
Hey, the club started it by putting the price of the tickets up…
For a club that’s getting a relative windfall in the form of the TV money uplift on the back of effectively inconveniencing it’s fanbase by agreeing to only play around 8 or 9 games at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon, they should look to giving some of it back. One way would be to give every ST holder a 50% discount on the new shirt for the coming season. They should still make money on each shirt and they’d probably sell a lot more, which in turn could encourage others who might not normally buy one if they start seeing a lot more red shirts all around the ground on match days.
I always struggle as to whether your posts are serious or not.
Hey, the club started it by putting the price of the tickets up…
I presume then that you are seriously suggesting that the new shirts are sold at 50% discount to S/T holders.
For a club that’s getting a relative windfall in the form of the TV money uplift on the back of effectively inconveniencing it’s fanbase by agreeing to only play around 8 or 9 games at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon, they should look to giving some of it back. One way would be to give every ST holder a 50% discount on the new shirt for the coming season. They should still make money on each shirt and they’d probably sell a lot more, which in turn could encourage others who might not normally buy one if they start seeing a lot more red shirts all around the ground on match days.
I always struggle as to whether your posts are serious or not.
Hey, the club started it by putting the price of the tickets up…
I presume then that you are seriously suggesting that the new shirts are sold at 50% discount to S/T holders.
Yes. Despite getting more tv money, the club increased prices for what effectively is likely to be less games at 3pm on a Saturday and more games at a time that will less convenient to travel to and get home from. If we are not to repeat the wasted opportunity of the last two promotions we really do need to encourage fans to come along more regularly. If it’s too late to reverse the price hikes then giving something back, which might actually generate more money ultimately seems a logical place to start.
All this talk of whether you get better value from a season ticket and it might go from £16 to x a match etc etc. Then looking at how much you can watch on the telly. And "I cant get to night games or Sunday games or...." boo hoo hoo. You do know what "support" means dont you? No wonder that old tart called us customers.
All this talk of whether you get better value from a season ticket and it might go from £16 to x a match etc etc. Then looking at how much you can watch on the telly. And "I cant get to night games or Sunday games or...." boo hoo hoo. You do know what "support" means dont you? No wonder that old tart called us customers.
Your comments annoyed me, then I thought about it and you have a point.
I think we have all been impacted by the Belgian days. They didn't give a shit about us or have any ambitions for the club. So many of us then had a mindset of following Charlton but without wanting to hand over unnecessary cash that was destined for his pocket.
We need to get beyond that and regain our combined passion. I think that we may be heading in the right direction.
All this talk of whether you get better value from a season ticket and it might go from £16 to x a match etc etc. Then looking at how much you can watch on the telly. And "I cant get to night games or Sunday games or...." boo hoo hoo. You do know what "support" means dont you? No wonder that old tart called us customers.
Careful - I’ve been down that road - I agree though - unless there are mitigating circumstances - I.e your skint, unwell, have a bastard job or live too far away etc, I believe the baseline for anybody who considers themselves a supporter, is to have a season ticket - it’s a bit like signing up to play for a football team and saying you can only play every now and then when you can make it - u can still be a fan or a liker but support means support in my book and football is ringfenced
I guess it all depends on how we are getting on, but if we get to 12,000 season tickets, and most away clubs will bring 3,000 with them what would be the chances of averaging 5,000 walk ups and being 20,000+ av over next season I wonder.
The average away turnout will be shy of 3,000 - Preston, Middlesbrough, Oxford, Bristol City, Swansea, Watford, Blackburn, Hull I wouldn’t expect to sell out even Saturday 3pm. Others may be affected by KO times.
I don’t think we’ll break 12,000. Like I’ve said before, there was plenty of excitement and optimism ahead of previous League One promotion seasons — especially in 2011–12 going into 2012–13 — and we fell short then. I can’t remember if there was a price increase on those occasions, but this time there is, and it’ll inevitably affect our chances of setting a new record for recent season ticket sales at this level. Happy to be proven wrong of course.
All this talk of whether you get better value from a season ticket and it might go from £16 to x a match etc etc. Then looking at how much you can watch on the telly. And "I cant get to night games or Sunday games or...." boo hoo hoo. You do know what "support" means dont you? No wonder that old tart called us customers.
Your comments annoyed me, then I thought about it and you have a point.
I think we have all been impacted by the Belgian days. They didn't give a shit about us or have any ambitions for the club. So many of us then had a mindset of following Charlton but without wanting to hand over unnecessary cash that was destined for his pocket.
We need to get beyond that and regain our combined passion. I think that we may be heading in the right direction.
It annoyed me, mainly because to accuse fans of not being fans, or offering less support, because they have financial considerations, is absolute bollocks.
Meanwhile Sunderland have sold 36,000 season tickets so far. This leaves around 1,700 of the capped amount.
Reading this thread I can only assume none of their matches will be moved to inconvenient kick off times and all played at 3pm on a Saturday.
Once you sell enough season tickets the rest sell themselves. We see the same effect for away games, and Wembley. They also have PL football to look forward to of course.
All this talk of whether you get better value from a season ticket and it might go from £16 to x a match etc etc. Then looking at how much you can watch on the telly. And "I cant get to night games or Sunday games or...." boo hoo hoo. You do know what "support" means dont you? No wonder that old tart called us customers.
Your comments annoyed me, then I thought about it and you have a point.
I think we have all been impacted by the Belgian days. They didn't give a shit about us or have any ambitions for the club. So many of us then had a mindset of following Charlton but without wanting to hand over unnecessary cash that was destined for his pocket.
We need to get beyond that and regain our combined passion. I think that we may be heading in the right direction.
It annoyed me, mainly because to accuse fans of not being fans, or offering less support, because they have financial considerations, is absolute bollocks.
Agreed. But I think, and I’m sure I’m right, that a lot of the people moaning are not skint or whatever but just penny pinching or being twats. And I think we’ve been a bit conditioned into this behaviour by recent circumstances.
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I think we have all been impacted by the Belgian days. They didn't give a shit about us or have any ambitions for the club. So many of us then had a mindset of following Charlton but without wanting to hand over unnecessary cash that was destined for his pocket.
We need to get beyond that and regain our combined passion. I think that we may be heading in the right direction.
It doesn't specifically say the amount sold.
clearly we’ve sold 10k ST’s 🤷♂️
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