Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:28 am  

There are still West Terrace tickets for sale

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:39 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

I think you are underestimating the desire from some to secure a space on that terracing. It is only one end of the ground and there are a lot of people who want to stand (for example my dad and brother bought a terracing ticket the day they were released).

I think we'll sell a lot of the terracing STs.

I hope you are right, I'm actually one myself, 3 of us opted for the 5 year standing ticket as I wanted to make sure I secured our spots on the terracing with it being small numbers in proportion to KR. Plenty chose the standing end at Widnes and if everyone there had renewed that would be around 50% of the standing tickets but just how many of these have stayed standing or opted for the North/South is hard to tell.

I would hope we'd sell at least 75-80% of standing tickets but it is impossible to gauge how well they are going without word from the club but at the moment you can get 10 in each category on the shop at the same time which is equivalent to 250 people.

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:42 am  

I think it's time for an update from the club. Doesn't have to be a proper announcement, the marketing manager could just let us know on here.

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:42 am  

Saddened! wrote:

I am amazed the terracing season tickets haven't sold out.

I agree, I would have thought that the standing die hards would have snapped them all up.

I am a little disappointing that the club has not come up with some scare mongering press releases about tickets going fast (regardless of truth). Something like "Places in limited supply*, heading towards a season ticket sell out** in the West and North Stands". At the very least there should be some milestone press releases.

* True as the stadium has a limited capacity
** True because season ticket sales are going up not down (It's called marketing not lying).

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:51 am  

Noel Cleal wrote:

I agree, I would have thought that the standing die hards would have snapped them all up.

I am a little disappointing that the club has not come up with some scare mongering press releases about tickets going fast (regardless of truth). Something like "Places in limited supply*, heading towards a season ticket sell out** in the West and North Stands". At the very least there should be some milestone press releases.

* True as the stadium has a limited capacity
** True because season ticket sales are going up not down (It's called marketing not lying).

True. Makes you wonder if the club even has a marketing department. You shouldn't be able to move in the town centre for hot chics trying to flog you a season ticket.

It would have been something Paul Wellens could have done to justify his salary. Get him out knocking on doors getting season tickets sold.

10,000 should have been the target.

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:53 am  

Noel Cleal wrote:

I agree, I would have thought that the standing die hards would have snapped them all up.

Makes you laugh doesn't it. All those people who campaigned so bitterly for standing sections in the new ground get their way then choose to sit on a seat anyway.

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:46 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Makes you laugh doesn't it. All those people who campaigned so bitterly for standing sections in the new ground get their way then choose to sit on a seat anyway.

I campaigned for a standing section but at the time it was for another pop side, not a pop behind the sticks! I would imagine its the view that has undermined any terrace sales rather than the existence of terracing. But although I prefer a side on view, I prefer standing so that I can jump around and stuff so I've forfeited the view for the freedom. Others may have chosen differently.

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:03 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

I campaigned for a standing section but at the time it was for another pop side, not a pop behind the sticks! I would imagine its the view that has undermined any terrace sales rather than the existence of terracing. But although I prefer a side on view, I prefer standing so that I can jump around and stuff so I've forfeited the view for the freedom. Others may have chosen differently.

I'm sure a lot of the walk up support will go on the terracing as it will be cheaper on the day than sitting?

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:32 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

I'm sure a lot of the walk up support will go on the terracing as it will be cheaper on the day than sitting?

Probably. The more the merrier from my POV!

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:55 pm  

I can understand the club not publishing anything on numbers. Lets say the 4-5k are all that has been sold. This would not create much of a buzz.

Also if Large numbers have been sold closer to 8k, thats hardly enough to say you are going to miss out There are 14k home tickets.

I'd imagine if the terracing was close to 75% sold out, then the club would then put up the warning signs that if you want to get the cheapest spot then the likely hood is you can't walk up on the day.
But until that point it's more a question of do you push now, or wait for christmas when people are more likely to splash the cash on themselves and others.

It would be tricky for most people to ask for a season ticket for Christmas but if teenagers got £50 - £100 of various auntes and uncles they maybe more likely to consider it.

I'm going to be a walk up as ever game for me is an away game. But were I go will be a bit of an unknown as the rest of my family will be in the allocated section. So it might be unallocated seating as close to their section as I can sit.

Either that or find a noisy section and go there.