breakthewallsdown
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And they haven’t even opened sales in the south stand or GRFZ yet either
Season card renewal deadline 3 pm today
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NorthumberlandBoro
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No they'll be increased to cover the shortfall.
davidmills
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No its just not understanding MFC thinking
parmoboy
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I doubt it, because then the club will worry that fans will be less likely to renew their season ticket in future.
That's the reason why they keep the walk-up prices so high - it's done to make fans feel that renewing is the only affordable way to watch Boro play on a regular basis.
Frozen Horse
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There will be some. New signings always create a bit of a bounce. A few hundred are sold at times such as when the fixture list is announced.
The club will not assume ticket sales would stay the same if prices had stayed the same. After a rather disappointing season, they'd have assumed some drop off.
I suspect the club is delighted with those sales.
I can't agree with the principle of putting the prices up this year, but I doubt the club is regretting the decision as a matter of business tonight.
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Merlin
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Yes the payment plan was a good idea, but it doesn’t alter the fact that the price increase hasn’t succeeded in what presumably was the intention i.e. covering rising expenses - in fact it’s had the opposite effect by the looks of it, and may well mean the team has less vocal support as a result of smaller crowds. Of course that could change if the club makes good signings and we’re getting favourable results, but it’s a big if at the moment.
Frozen Horse
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Not really. The club has been consistent in prioritising ST renewals over walk up crowds.
I don't see them doing anything to change than in the next 5-10 seasons.
If they have any sense? They will put them up slightly.
indeedido
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So this season we have 22,000 SC holders.
We now have 17,000. Those are the facts.
5,000 people have chosen not to renew.
That is not a success. It is a huge fall off and what the club deserve for the poor strategy and contemptuous communication.
You can dress it up however you want, but we currently start at 17k.
Of course the club could go on a spending spree that might appeal enough to fans to buy in and get a SC. It won't be that many.
So then we are left to hope that Carrick works magic with whatever he is served up and enough people will pay the insult matchday prices.
It is a massive shift from the goodwill and feel good factor there was 12 months ago.
Hats off Steve.
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Frozen Horse
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Yes, I was taking the 19k figure as fact. 17k is more disappointing. Willing to stand corrected if 17k is correct.
I do expect some fall off after a disappointing season regardless of price.
Linny
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I didn’t think it would fall much. There was a lot of hot air spouted when the communication came out but time is a great healer.
In the last week or two it’s been clear on here that many would “reluctantly” renew. Some leaving it late, as some kind of meaningless protest, but the anger had abated.
I think people just like a good vent.
Merlin
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It does feel like the club have scored a rather large own goal on this one
parmoboy
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I think the new payment scheme probably tempted a lot of fans into renewing last minute.
I'll admit I was genuinely undecided until they announced the introduction of the payment scheme.
I just hope the club have the sense to offer the payment scheme as an option to new buyers. Dropping from 19k down to 17k actually isn't a massive drop really, but we managed to attract another 2k season ticket holders when the tickets came back on sale last year. We may be able to attract similar numbers, or even more if the club make the payment scheme available.
I'll admit I was genuinely undecided until they announced the introduction of the payment scheme.
I just hope the club have the sense to offer the payment scheme as an option to new buyers. Dropping from 19k down to 17k actually isn't a massive drop really, but we managed to attract another 2k season ticket holders when the tickets came back on sale last year. We may be able to attract similar numbers, or even more if the club make the payment scheme available.
indeedido
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They have dropped 5k SC holders. That is the fact.
parmoboy
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Yeah, unfortunately a lot of them might have been new buyers who didn't want to renew. Definitely feels like an own goal by the club not to freeze the prices, after we'd attracted 21k season ticket holders - the club should have done everything in their power to tempt all 21k season ticket holders into renewing.
It would be interesting to look at the figures re early bird renewals, and see how they correlate each season with regards to the pricing, and performance on the pitch.
Doncaster Boro
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It isn’t a fact because the total amount sold will be higher than 17,000 by next august.
Unravel_Morrison
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Will you charge more for new buyers?
FishofContemplation
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It doesn’t actually. earlybird sales are down less than 5% compared with last year. So even if you attribute all of that to the price increase, it’s revenue neutral. But this time last year we were pretty much nailed onto the playoffs with a genuine belief we might get into the Premier League. I’d say you’d be delusional not to attribute most of the reduction to that. In fact, it’s considerably lower than I would’ve expected.
FishofContemplation
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No, and aren’t the Jeremiahs crying into their beer about it tonight? It’s a tough job pricing the tickets, particularly when the team has turned to ****, as it has a bit relative to last year. I think they’ve been vindicated.