Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:20 pm  

Did a rough count on the 17th of Seats remaining unsold in the North stand reserved section

I made it just 174 seats left unsold from a capacity of 2787 within these sections, hence possible 2613 reserved seat sales
made up as follows:
C block 29 seats remaining
D block 15 seats remaining
E block 4 seats remaining
F block 26 seats remaining
G block 100 seats remaining

With regard to the South stand sales were as follows

C = 19 seats sold approx 500 remaining
D = 312 seats sold 70 remaining
E = 204 seats sold 7 remaining
F = Reserved for corporate
G = 272 seats sold 3 remaining
H= 138 seats sold 31 remaining
I = 256 seats sold 253 remaining

Total is 1201 seats sold

So looks like just over 3800 reserved seat sales

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:16 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

Did a rough count on the 17th of Seats remaining unsold in the North stand reserved section

I made it just 174 seats left unsold from a capacity of 2787 within these sections, hence possible 2613 reserved seat sales
made up as follows:
C block 29 seats remaining
D block 15 seats remaining
E block 4 seats remaining
F block 26 seats remaining
G block 100 seats remaining

With regard to the South stand sales were as follows

C = 19 seats sold approx 500 remaining same, but ignoring suit bods there are only about 350 seats in total aren't there?
D = 312 seats sold 70 remaining
E = 204 seats sold 7 remaining
F = Reserved for corporate
G = 272 seats sold 3 remaining
H= 138 seats sold 31 remaining
I = 256 seats sold 253 remaining Total is 1201 seats sold

So looks like just over 3800 reserved seat sales

Hello Chair. I think I'm looking at the same plan as you and as expected the figures seem to have gone up a little since your last count.
As you rightly say this is only the reserved seating so we have to add (but don't know the figures) the no sold of unallocated have been sold in North Stand Blocks A,B, H & I as well as South Stand Blocks B & J as well as the whole of West Terrace.

It could be that we are well over the 5,000 season tickets mark already.

Re: Season ticket sales : Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:19 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

Hello Chair. I think I'm looking at the same plan as you and as expected the figures seem to have gone up a little since your last count.
As you rightly say this is only the reserved seating so we have to add (but don't know the figures) the no sold of unallocated have been sold in North Stand Blocks A,B, H & I as well as South Stand Blocks B & J as well as the whole of West Terrace.

It could be that we are well over the 5,000 season tickets mark already.

I reckon we are around the 6500 to 7000 mark as i think there will be anything upto 500 people in the family areas and unreserved seating. In addition there will probably be 2000+ terrace season ticket holders and around 1000 corporates signed up.

Re: Season ticket sales : Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:37 pm  

A bit of an update on the Season ticket sales estimate for reserved seating.

Makes interesting reading as 30th September was the deadline for renewals.

From looking at the unsold seats we can see that a small but significant number of North Standers at Widnes have not taken up their renewal options for that stand.

When looking at the South stand however the number of available seats has continued to decline. Therefore it looks like a number of Widnes North Standers have absconded over to the South stand.

I make it that there are as of today 233 unsold reserved seats in the North stand up from 174 at the last count.

These are split up as follows
C block = 47 unsold
D block = 24 unsold
E block = 4 unsold
F block = 34 unsold
G block= 124 unsold

This would give a sold tickets total of approximately 2554.

With regard to the South stand the figures are as follows:-

C= 23 sold, hundreds unsold
D = 332 sold 50 unsold
E = 210 sold 1 unsold
F= Prawn sandwich eaters
G= 272 sold 3 unsold
H= 159 sold 10 unsold
I = 309 sold 200 unsold

This makes for 1305 sold seats in the South stand reserved section up from 1201 in mid September.

With Christmas coming up i would like to think there is a mini boom in October and November as people are bought season tickets as Christmas presents.
With the above figures we should be able to see if this turns out to be the case.

Re: Season ticket sales : Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:40 pm  

A real boost to season ticket sales might have been a GF win. Shame that.

Re: Season ticket sales : Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:41 pm  

You could have posted this yesterday, it took me ages to count all them seats. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=504940&start=40

You could have posted this yesterday, it took me ages to count all them seats. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=504940&start=40

Re: Season ticket sales : Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:10 pm  

roader wrote: You could have posted this yesterday, it took me ages to count all them seats. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=504940&start=40 Nice to see we both agree pretty much on the figures. You go bog eyed counting the squares, or even rows of grey squares.

roader wrote: You could have posted this yesterday, it took me ages to count all them seats. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=504940&start=40 Nice to see we both agree pretty much on the figures. You go bog eyed counting the squares, or even rows of grey squares.

Re: Season ticket sales : Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:08 pm  

I'm not going to question the figures, but just point out that counting seats sold and unsold does not really give any pattern for sales.

If the chairs figures are correct then when you add all sold and unsold allocated seating it only comes to roughly 5000k seats.

That's about a quarter of all available tickets.

We know the terracing are just under 4k each end. Which means seating wise we are only counting half the seats in the stadium on those figures stated above.

The numbers shift around and go up and down as people change seats or upgrade, but we can say with certainty that Saints have sold 4k of the seats we can see, that is 80% allocated seating sold.

If of the remain 9k of season tickets, that can be sold (away end excluded) say 50% has gone you are already looking at season ticket sales of 8-9k.

But like I say it's impossible to tell. Only the club knows how they are doing sales wise and publishing the figures could have a positive effect on sales or a depressing effect on sales depending on how people view it.

There is certainly 1 thing you can say, with season tickets for adults going at a rate of £261, even 4k worth of confirmed sales from the web site, brings in more revenue than say a bradford season ticket pledge of £85, for 12k sales.

I have no doubt that Saints will have sold more than the 4k we can all see and count.

PS block E on the north stand is now fully sold me thinks.

Re: Season ticket sales : Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:23 pm  

I was doing a bit of season ticket promoting in a cafe at the weekend. I think as a result we will have a further new season ticket holder plus his young son (who would go free under Saints offer). Two other people joined in saying they have bought a season ticket for the first time this year and that it is a really good deal, etc, etc. There is quite a bit of talk around town about the new stadium. I think we could start seeing some healthy crowds now that we are no longer in a dump (albeit a fondly remembered dump!).

Re: Season ticket sales : Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:48 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

I was doing a bit of season ticket promoting in a cafe at the weekend. I think as a result we will have a further new season ticket holder plus his young son (who would go free under Saints offer). Two other people joined in saying they have bought a season ticket for the first time this year and that it is a really good deal, etc, etc. There is quite a bit of talk around town about the new stadium. I think we could start seeing some healthy crowds now that we are no longer in a dump (albeit a fondly remembered dump!).

That dump took the best years of my life then dumped me.