Re: Season ticket sales : Sat Jan 31, 2015 7:41 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

I'd imagine something like that would be held for a big pre-season press release rather than just a throw away bit

It would make Steve Ferres look like a bit of a chump though, after he's just been quoted saying we're at 2700.
Still, stranger things have happened I suppose. Time will tell.

Re: Season ticket sales : Sat Jan 31, 2015 7:41 pm  

maurice wrote:

You need to remove the vat - do you pay that these days - and factor in concessions etc

Flip side to factoring in concessions is you also have to factor in that a lot of season tickets will be for seats in stand which cost more than the £230 cost for adult standing.

Re: Season ticket sales : Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:51 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote: I think you're right about the £2m figure for the year. Pretty certain Marc Green said that was how much it would cost to run the club for the year. I think your figures on the total from season tickets is probably on the low size too, given the cost of a ground entry ticket is £230. Now this is an interesting link If you're buying a season ticket online, you can pick your spot. Now, I've added up the totals of available seats according to this map, and it shows there's 22537 places free. Given Odsal has an offical capacity of 27491 that suggests that we've not only broken the 4k target but are in fact closer to 5k tickets sold. I could be wrong of course. Just wondering if the Coral Stand seating would count towards the total attendance available and if it does is it your missing 2000ish tickets.

roofaldo2 wrote: I think you're right about the £2m figure for the year. Pretty certain Marc Green said that was how much it would cost to run the club for the year. I think your figures on the total from season tickets is probably on the low size too, given the cost of a ground entry ticket is £230. Now this is an interesting link If you're buying a season ticket online, you can pick your spot. Now, I've added up the totals of available seats according to this map, and it shows there's 22537 places free. Given Odsal has an offical capacity of 27491 that suggests that we've not only broken the 4k target but are in fact closer to 5k tickets sold. I could be wrong of course. Just wondering if the Coral Stand seating would count towards the total attendance available and if it does is it your missing 2000ish tickets.

Re: Season ticket sales : Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:20 am  

That big fans forum before Xmas - was it £2.7m was quoted as being the running costs?

May be simplistic, but I took from that forum that it was roughly 1/3rds for each sector.

£900k from central funding/tv money
£900k from sponsorship, merchandising, corporate
£900k from ticket sales. So 4k tickets at between £220 -£280 covers that.

I think we'll hit all the targets by our first home game.

Re: Season ticket sales : Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:40 am  

NorthernBulls wrote:

Just wondering if the Coral Stand seating would count towards the total attendance available and if it does is it your missing 2000ish tickets.

Well, the link I attached did include spaces in the Coral Stand which I did count.

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Re: Season ticket sales : Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:58 am  

Highlander wrote:

That big fans forum before Xmas - was it £2.7m was quoted as being the running costs?

May be simplistic, but I took from that forum that it was roughly 1/3rds for each sector.

£900k from central funding/tv money
£900k from sponsorship, merchandising, corporate
£900k from ticket sales. So 4k tickets at between £220 -£280 covers that.

I think we'll hit all the targets by our first home game.

You're actually missing a whole section of fans. Those many people who haven't renewed at the higher prices, that are more than likely to pay on the gate, on an 'as as when' basis. We shouldn't forget that the higher cost of season passes makes that option a far more viable option for lots of folk who maybe can't make it every week - let alone the fact that the upfront cost is not even going to be an option for the many who are unemployed, on minimum wage or on zero hours contracts. At the end of the day it's also going to be how many turn up and not just how many STs are sold.

Re: Season ticket sales : Sun Feb 01, 2015 5:59 pm  

That all being the case, I still think that the club are aiming for and have budgeted for at least a 4k average home crowd. We're not going to be getting the occasional spikes we'd get in SL for games such as Leeds etc so the more guaranteed sales the club generates, the better position they'll be in

Re: Season ticket sales : Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:53 pm  

Well, being the boring sod that I am, counting up the available spaces on that link today, we've sold another 10. Getting closer to that 5k mark

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Re: Season ticket sales : Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:21 am  

roofaldo2 wrote:

That all being the case, I still think that the club are aiming for and have budgeted for at least a 4k average home crowd. We're not going to be getting the occasional spikes we'd get in SL for games such as Leeds etc so the more guaranteed sales the club generates, the better position they'll be in

To be honest Roofy, I'll be pretty pigged off if we don't get above 4k as an average attendance.

My view is, yeah the STs are the 'bedrock' but the upfront cost is maybe too high. Of course, I know instalments options are available, but even that needs a confidence that the money is going to be to hand when required and I'd guess there are plenty who can't/don't want to make that commitment. Hence I'm guessing/hoping the pay on the gate crowd will be fairly strong.

Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:05 pm  

3004 sold according to twitter