Season Ticket Sales

[Trader]

Well, season tickets are no longer available for the upcoming campaign.

 

I wonder what the final figure is?

 

Any guesses?

 

The only information on the OS relates to LAST year.

[NickG]

there was update a week or two ago saying sales beaten last years - which included the half season ticket sales at Christmas

[Saint_clark]

I'd imagine there will be an announcement tomorrow.

[Matthew Le God]

The only information on the OS relates to LAST year.

 

What about this from 23rd July 2010?

 

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2096359,00.html

[Weston Super Saint]

I'm sure Stu will be along any minute with a picture of himself eating his hat

[The9]

I'm sure Stu will be along any minute with a picture of himself eating his hat

 

Unlikely, the point is not that we've sold more tickets than in 2009/10, but that we have almost certainly sold significantly fewer than we might have been expected to have done for a season when we're odds on to get promotion.

 

That is entirely down to the failure to provide a payment plan to allow the less fortunate (or unwary) to benefit from the lower per game prices offered from Season Tickets, due to the club's newfound policy of exploiting every possible revenue stream to the nth degree at the expense of the goodwill of just about everyone - which in this case is embodied in the Cortese Taxes of online and telephone booking fees, and also the on-day match ticket fee.

 

With a supporter-friendly policy for ST sales -say the £17-ish per match ST fee spread across 4-6 months of payments beginning back in March/April - we'd have probably shifted getting on for 20,000 STs this season, and that's without including all the empty seats guaranteed by the free Under 8 tickets that I know about half my ST holding mates have taken up, which are counted in the supposed ST "sales" figure.

 

There's also absolutely no reason to think we wouldn't have got many more than in the administration/relegation season in the Championship, given the same pricing policy.

 

But we haven't. On the bright side, we've got a good team at this level and a great kit, and should win plenty of matches. Let's hope we have the expected success on the pitch too, or Cortese's pay-per-match price model is going to die right on its ar5e.

[bangkoksaint]

Why is it they close the ST sales? Surely if the club are trying to maximise revenue streams then ST's should be available at anytime and the cost is pro-rata?

 

Is there some sort of leagure rule?

 

On another note what happened with memberships?

[Saint_clark]

Why is it they close the ST sales? Surely if the club are trying to maximise revenue streams then ST's should be available at anytime and the cost is pro-rata?

 

Is there some sort of leagure rule?

 

On another note what happened with memberships?

 

Memberships were stopped last season, if not the season before.

[musesaint]

13,789

[Saint_clark]

13,789

 

Where'd you get that from? Or just an estimate?

[for_heaven's_Saint]

Hopefully we've at least broken the 14,000 barrier.

[marc_saint]

Memberships were stopped last season, if not the season before.

 

 

But the OS did state that there would be a membership this year and "more details will be available in early July"