Re: Season ticket sales : Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:48 pm
bewareshadows wrote:
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.
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.
The 3800+ ticket sales is only a guide to see how things are going.
As you have said, and has been commented in earlier posts. We dont know about unreserved and family area seating, nor do we know about the extent of terrace season ticket sales, or much of the corporate sales. So we need to base our guesses on how the sales go in the North and South reserved sections.
I am confident that we will crack the 4000 reserved regular seat sales in the North and South stands before christmas.
This should help create a good atmosphere as it will mean that there will be a good amount of fans in each stand.
It will also look good on TV.
I also suspect that because terrace fans dont have a designated seat, they are more likely to leave buying a season ticket to later in the day. Christmas may therefore prove to be a boom time for terrace season ticket sales.
The great thing from the clubs point of view from these seat sales is the extra revenue it brings in, over and above that of the standard terrace price. At Knowsley road the main stand held approximately 2300. Of which around 2000 were season ticket holders. There was also no corporate seating at KR, while at the new stadium there are around 1000 premium seats, all of which cost significantly more than a standard seat.
