Season tickets and match prices for next season

JJpool said:
Well thats where the setting up of an account comes in, but what checks are done if any I'm not sure. If so whats to stop a fan of another club doing it.

Surely for a big game let's say, if someone who hasnt been before and shows proof of a local address, they should accept, even if a small risk of it being an away fan.

You only really grow the club in bigger games so we have to be able to get the casuals in and the more they're in the more they become more invested.
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Spot on, local ID is simple and effective.
 
JJpool said:
Well thats where the setting up of an account comes in, but what checks are done if any I'm not sure. If so whats to stop a fan of another club doing it.

Surely for a big game let's say, if someone who hasnt been before and shows proof of a local address, they should accept, even if a small risk of it being an away fan.

You only really grow the club in bigger games so we have to be able to get the casuals in and the more they're in the more they become more invested.
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Creating an account doesn’t make you a previous purchase history, just gives you a client reference number.

I think you all need to move away from the previous purchase history side of things, as it’s not as a big of an issue that you think it is.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Spot on, local ID is simple and effective.
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But the issue is lets say against the nobbers, we may have many fans who have PR postcodes, so it could be inconclusive with the id. But probably not a massive proportion, it works mostly for locals in fy postcodes.

What we need is many big games, a cup run against glamour teams so all the casuals get registered and on the system.

Its actually why I wanted a cheap deal so much, to get all these people in for a lesser games but as a price people can't refuse, so we have more who can buy for big games.
 
SeasideSid said:
Creating an account doesn’t make you a previous purchase history, just gives you a client reference number.

I think you all need to move away from the previous purchase history side of things, as it’s not as a big of an issue that you think it is.
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True, but i don't know it seems an issue as for those big games where people might turn up for their first game, people bring friends.

What is the process for getting a new fan to those games with no history?
 
JJpool said:
True, but i don't know it seems an issue as for those big games where people might turn up for their first game, people bring friends.

What is the process for getting a new fan to those games with no history?
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There’s always a way. If the rules are as they were years ago, and the new fan wasn’t living in the same area as the opposition then there was no issues. If you are taking a friend, you buy it yourself or speak to the ticket office and have them added and purchase it under their name.

The issue is when someone random just decides to go online to buy and can’t. But anyone who want to go that much would call up. Personally the only people having the issues online would be opposition fans trying to infiltrate.
 
JJpool said:
But the issue is lets say against the nobbers, we may have many fans who have PR postcodes, so it could be inconclusive with the id. But probably not a massive proportion, it works mostly for locals in fy postcodes.

What we need is many big games, a cup run against glamour teams so all the casuals get registered and on the system.

Its actually why I wanted a cheap deal so much, to get all these people in for a lesser games but as a price people can't refuse, so we have more who can buy for big games.
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Easily done though, or local derbies it's FY only.
 
SeasideSid said:
There’s always a way. If the rules are as they were years ago, and the new fan wasn’t living in the same area as the opposition then there was no issues. If you are taking a friend, you buy it yourself or speak to the ticket office and have them added and purchase it under their name.

The issue is when someone random just decides to go online to buy and can’t. But anyone who want to go that much would call up. Personally the only people having the issues online would be opposition fans trying to infiltrate.
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So if a new fan walks into the ticket office the day before or on the day with no history they can't go, unless they use an id system. As it could be an away fan.

Which is what I'm getting at do we do this or not? If not why?
 
JJpool said:
So if a new fan walks into the ticket office the day before or on the day with no history they can't go, unless they use an id system. As it could be an away fan.

Which is what I'm getting at do we do this or not? If not why?
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Yes they can, as long as they don’t live in the area of the opposition. Think I’ve said that on a number of occasions already.

That’s how it use to be so I can’t see that changing too much. Hence why the issue isn’t really a major issue at all.
 
SeasideSid said:
Yes they can, as long as they don’t live in the area of the opposition. Think I’ve said that on a number of occasions already.

That’s how it use to be so I can’t see that changing too much. Hence why the issue isn’t really a major issue at all.
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Well, you'd hope so but as shown in an earlier post people against Blackburn earlier in the season apparently missed out and couldn't buy them and I doubt it was people with a Blackburn postcode.

All this could have been put to bed months ago if it was clarified by the club /slo what happens and why then some had difficulty.
 
All these ideas are all well and good to try and get more people to go but is there an appetite for it in Blackpool?

We've had cheap tickets on offer for our last game of the season for nearly a month you'd have thought sales would have been good yet yesterday we gave Derby the other half of the East to bring their allocation up to 3315.

It's tough in a holiday town who have to work Saturdays and many of it's residents on minimum wage to think that cheap ST or deals will work they didn't under the previous owners why would they work now.
 
poolseasider said:
All these ideas are all well and good to try and get more people to go but is there an appetite for it in Blackpool?

We've had cheap tickets on offer for our last game of the season for nearly a month you'd have thought sales would have been good yet yesterday we gave Derby the other half of the East to bring their allocation up to 3315.

It's tough in a holiday town who have to work Saturdays and many of it's residents on minimum wage to think that cheap ST or deals will work they didn't under the previous owners why would they work now.
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Last seasons ticket policy was lazy

I'm expecting something better this time
 
Philbfctrois said:
Would like to see them released during the next couple of weeks whilst football is still fresh in the minds

Season ticket prices should be frozen as a minimum with a few new incentives

● 18-21 year old price point at a reduced price - £200 quid or so
● Heineken lounge season ticket price point similar to the West Stand price to try and get a few more lads in the South (maybe use the South East corner)
● East Stand (North) season ticket at a discounted price to due limited facilities
● The ability for people to pay monthly without any price increase
● Longer early bird period

Match day tickets should also be released around the same time and the Category price point to be re thought out to only include local derby games

I would also like to see a membership scheme for those who can't commit to season tickets for a small annual fee, say £20 or so a year that gives discounted match day prices thus getting round the away price anomaly

I think it would also be useful for the club to make a policy on away ticket priority, something along these lines

○ Band A - Season ticket holder for 3 seasons and say 10 away game proof
○ Band B - Away ticket proof of 10 games (non season ticket holders) and Season ticket holders of 3 years with 5 away game proof
○ Band C - All season ticket holders plus any non season ticket holders with 5 games proof

Then general sale as its been a bit of a faff this season with loads of restrictions

Just my opinions but i hope the club are thinking a bit more this season on maximising our stadium capacity as it was all a bit lazy last season with empty seats at virtually every home game

Utp ...
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The Away Season Ticket thing is an absolutely complete an utter farce. It would be just be better if they did like how many years who you been a season ticket holder (like it use to be) starting from next season starting from next season.

Also the 18-21 category should go up to a least 25 as that is the age for most students in this day and age and what most other Championship clubs do. Some people may disagree with my views but that is your choice!

I hope though @SLO_BFC takes my views and everybody else’s on this board!
 
poolseasider said:
All these ideas are all well and good to try and get more people to go but is there an appetite for it in Blackpool?

We've had cheap tickets on offer for our last game of the season for nearly a month you'd have thought sales would have been good yet yesterday we gave Derby the other half of the East to bring their allocation up to 3315.

It's tough in a holiday town who have to work Saturdays and many of it's residents on minimum wage to think that cheap ST or deals will work they didn't under the previous owners why would they work now.
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I don't think that's because of us not selling out, we don't buy tickets early anyway really unless we have to, rather we now send away fans out that way so not an option yet, until the club decide what to do for next season.

So not like the ne is available under the current policy.

Its upto the club to make it available for next season.
 
I think the st price is fair ,you either buy one or not if people want to go they will pay the prices,like they do at Music festivals,Pop concerts holidays etc
 
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JJpool said:
I don't think that's because of us not selling out, we don't buy tickets early anyway really unless we have to, rather we now send away fans out that way so not an option yet, until the club decide what to do for next season.

So not like the ne is available under the current policy.

Its upto the club to make it available for next season.
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So how long do you hold out until giving the East over to the away fans when the game is only ten days away?
We still haven't sold out the three stands and the offer has been on for nearly a month until your basically throwing 1100 fans x £24 down the toilet.

Derby extra allocation has sold out already and we've empty seats lets sell out the ground first before we start worrying about the East.
 
poolseasider said:
So how long do you hold out until giving the East over to the away fans when the game is only ten days away?
We still haven't sold out the three stands and the offer has been on for nearly a month until your basically throwing 1100 fans x £24 down the toilet.

Derby extra allocation has sold out already and we've empty seats lets sell out the ground first before we start worrying about the East.
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No, I'm not saying we would have sold them, clearly for a dead rubber game we aren't going to, but the point is even if we did sell out the 3 sides, with the current policy to send away fans past the north we couldn't sell them.

Something has to change.

So the decision to give derby more is a no brainer as we cannot use it as it stands.

The club have to address this next season.

For games when our demand will be there we can keep away fans back and sell the area.
 
JJpool said:
No, I'm not saying we would have sold them, clearly for a dead rubber game we aren't going to, but the point is even if we did sell out the 3 sides, with the current policy to send away fans past the north we couldn't sell them.

Something has to change.

So the decision to give derby more is a no brainer as we cannot use it as it stands.

The club have to address this next season.

For games when our demand will be there we can keep away fans back and sell the area.
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What demand?
We've had one game all season it's been used for home fans and we've never sold out three ends for the other 22 games.

So sell the ground out first and then start worrying about the East otherwise take the coin from aways.

Totally agree the ground needs a rethink to maximize what capacity we have for next season.👍
 
poolseasider said:
What demand?
We've had one game all season it's been used for home fans and we've never sold out three ends for the other 22 games.

So sell the ground out first and then start worrying about the East otherwise take the coin from aways.

Totally agree the ground needs a rethink to maximize what capacity we have for next season.👍
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I'm saying if it was there we still wouldn't be able to use it under the current policy.

Your getting hung up on a hypothetical.

But if we had been near the playoffs for eg still and in a big game and able to use the east, we probably would have had demand that could have filled some of it.

But the point is if we had the demand or not they would have given it Derby anyway, due to marching away fans out that way under the current silly policy that renders the east useless for us.
 
I don't think the st pricing has been too bad really and the way that they organise away credits again I don't really have a big problem with either. I do agree though that a membership scheme would be a good idea to offer lower prices as oppose to walk ons and away fans prices and you could then use that to bring in an away credit scheme too to reward non St holders who attend away matches by adding them into the priority list for the bigger games.
I always find this 18 - 21 age group thing baffling though cos that's when I had the most disposable income of my whole life. I'm now married with kids and proper skint!!
 
Surely the focus should be more where you want to sit in the ground in respect of pricing? It tends to follow more middle aged people with disposable income sit in the west , therefore progressively more costly. Younger, cash strapped, in the north therefore cheaper. The corners for family tickets.
 
Cuthbert said:
Surely the focus should be more where you want to sit in the ground in respect of pricing? It tends to follow more middle aged people with disposable income sit in the west , therefore progressively more costly. Younger, cash strapped, in the north therefore cheaper. The corners for family tickets.
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It isn't cheaper in the North though
 
Unless we are talking about m block in the west or the east in general having home fans, there's no reason for other parts to be more expensive or less expensive. Its personal preferance where you wanna sit.
 
Gods honest truth said:
I think the st price is fair ,you either buy one or not if people want to go they will pay the prices,like they do at Music festivals,Pop concerts holidays etc
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Have you noticed that live music is increasingly the domain of middle class posers?

A young lad I know is mad into his music, but has never been to a concert due to the cost. He fancied going to see Tool at the MEN but tickets were from £75 - £300 (8 - 33 hours of minimum wage).

20 years ago I was watching big bands there for £10 - £20 (2 - 4 hours minimum wage at the time).

When I was 16, my EMA of £30 a week at 6th form was enough to go see live music twice a week AND get bladdered at the same time.

Working class people are being rapidly priced out of entertainment and that should be a huge concern for Blackpool supporters given the nature of our town.
 
Iv got some friends been asking me when season tickets go on sale,these are people who have not even gone to a game this season !!! The club need to get a big on before people get distracted with other things after the season finishes .
 
JJpool said:
Free actually.

They are literally putting tickets in cornflakes, chocolate bars, email spamming everyone, reverse pickpocketing etc.
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Yeah I know they are giving 500 away.AP says it will be a sell out .I think Pool did the something similar years ago can’t remember which game or why
 
I wonder if the nobber prices for early bird will give any food for thought to our board? Available over there for 280. I mean a complete waste of 280 quid of course but a very good price. Clearly wanting to fill the stadium and get as many fans in as possible.

What will we do?
 
JJpool said:
I wonder if the nobber prices for early bird will give any food for thought to our board? Available over there for 280. I mean a complete waste of 280 quid of course but a very good price. Clearly wanting to fill the stadium and get as many fans in as possible.

What will we do?
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Lets hope we do something similar

280 is a decent price imo
 
Really would be foolhardy not to announce the prices before Saturday and then have the ticket office open until 8pm.
I do wonder at times the logic behind some of our decisions which, to me, seem obvious but not implemented.
 
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