Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:46 pm  

Gruntfuttock wrote:

Fantastic news for the club, who would have thought it a few years ago?

Amazing what a new stadium and some feel good factor can do, isn't it?

Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:34 pm  

Yup!!

Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:27 pm  

Do you think 14k is obtainable?

Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:54 pm  

Donkey OTay wrote:

Do you think 14k is obtainable?

as an average, its very obtainable.
We'll probably get 18k for the first game against salford, and wigan, wire, leeds and possibly Hull. I'd be very surprised if we ever got under 10k this year on the back of nearly 10k season tickets plus away fans.

Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:23 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

as an average, its very obtainable.
We'll probably get 18k for the first game against salford, and wigan, wire, leeds and possibly Hull. I'd be very surprised if we ever got under 10k this year on the back of nearly 10k season tickets plus away fans.

I reckon we'll get a good crowd against Widnes too. I imagine away fans will want to visit and hopefully they'll enjoy coming to the new place unlike KR. 14k average is very possible.

Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:38 pm  

Reckon:
Salford, Wigan, Warrington, Leeds, Hull 17 to 18k
Bradford, Castleford, Widnes, Hull KR 14 to 16k
Wakefield, London, Catalans, Hudds 10 to 14k

So thats 9 matches might average out at 16k the remaining 4 matches averaging out at 12k, so 14k looks certain even more if we have an entertaining free flowing rugby season.

I already know quite a few cumbrian lads thinking of having a day out to see the new stadium and to see the home grown talent in the team.

Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:45 pm  

Average of 14K is realistic.

Anything more would be an exceptional achievement.

Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:45 pm  

I'm a lot more cautious in my thinking.

Personally think Salford will be lucky to bring 1000 to Langtree park.
That means Saints will have to shift 17k tickets. I dont think that is a realistic attainable figure, for a match against low grade opposition.
I think the reality will be that we get about 14k-15k for the Salford match.

I hope i am wrong by the way. I was wrong in terms of season ticket sales. Never in a month of sundays would i have ever thought Saints had the level of support to get 9.5k+ season ticket holders.

Remember while there are many that have dismissed the friendly as not being the first genuine match, there are a lot of fans that clearly are treating it as that. Many of whom wont be season ticket holders. Therefore i suspect that quite a few of these people may give the Salford match a miss and instead save their money for the big games against Wire, Leeds, etc.

With regard to average gate over the season. A lot depends on form, but i think 13k average should be well within our grasp. Getting upto 15k would be really pushing it, as statistically it means that you need to be getting that level of support or above for most fixtures, with just a few being allowed to drop down to 12k or so. The reality is that matches against the likes of London and Catalan will draw the basic 9.5k season ticket holders and a few hundred to a thousand pay on the day speccies.

Re: Season ticket sales : Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:48 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

I'm a lot more cautious in my thinking.

Personally think Salford will be lucky to bring 1000 to Langtree park.
That means Saints will have to shift 17k tickets. I dont think that is a realistic attainable figure, for a match against low grade opposition.
I think the reality will be that we get about 14k-15k for the Salford match.

I hope i am wrong by the way. I was wrong in terms of season ticket sales. Never in a month of sundays would i have ever thought Saints had the level of support to get 9.5k+ season ticket holders.

Remember while there are many that have dismissed the friendly as not being the first genuine match, there are a lot of fans that clearly are treating it as that. Many of whom wont be season ticket holders. Therefore i suspect that quite a few of these people may give the Salford match a miss and instead save their money for the big games against Wire, Leeds, etc.

With regard to average gate over the season. A lot depends on form, but i think 13k average should be well within our grasp. Getting upto 15k would be really pushing it, as statistically it means that you need to be getting that level of support or above for most fixtures, with just a few being allowed to drop down to 12k or so. The reality is that matches against the likes of London and Catalan will draw the basic 9.5k season ticket holders and a few hundred to a thousand pay on the day speccies.

Realistically only Warrington and Wigan will fill the away end in my opinion.

Re: Season ticket sales : Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:01 pm  

Slippery Steve wrote:

Realistically only Warrington and Wigan will fill the away end in my opinion.

Another thing to take into account as a possibility, is the police classing some matches as high risk.

Hull being a case in point. Regardless of the fact we get on allright with Hull fans, the plod may just look at it from a reputation point of view, and insist on segregation within the new ground for such matches. This would then preclude Saints fans from buying tickets in the East stand.