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Just mentioned on the radio that ticket prices have been frozen for existing members that renew before April.  After that they go up to £299 from £259 up until May, then after that you will pay up to £399 for your ticket.

Just a snippet, and I am sure that there will be more detailed content once people have purchased their programmes today.  It will be interested to hear people thoughts.

I will probably not be re-newing, not because of the pricing, but because I just haven't enjoyed many matchdays this season and am only going at the moment because I have a ST.  If I could have a break now I would, which probably means that I will pick and choose my games next season.  Call me plastic if you like, but I don't see the point of buying a ticket just to prove I am a die hard town fan. 

Having said that I may have cheered up by April after watching a few wins in the warmer weather.

What do we think people?

Are you planning on going to a few games in Barcelona?

This is the UK not Norway, it does get a tad warmer towards the end of the season

You can't surely be suggesting that you'll see us win!

have matchday prices been announced?

There is no way I'll be renewing my season ticket with Wilson still in charge, nor will I pay more than I did this season. So I'd say the chances are pretty minimal for me at the moment. Suspect a lot of people will feel the same especially whilst we don't know what season we will be in.

Why was there going to be a price increase if we were promoted last season, but no discont if we are relagated this season?

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2297208,00.html

for anyone still in the dark like me

You won't have to if you renew in "Phase 1"

Again, there was no price increase if you renewed in the early bird period or whatever it was called. As for the general ticket prices, I'd guess it's because there's still a business to be run which is still being subsidised by the major shareholders to the tune of well over a million quid a season. Although I suppose they could slash the playing budget, but then you'd moan that no matter how cheap it is, it's not acceptable to not compete in League Two.

But Wilson will still be in charge in phase 1. Maybe even next season

Quite possibly. And jonny like everyone else is entitled to make a judgement about that. And if people don't want to go and support the team because of the manager, then that's their choice to make. But the inaccurate criticism about season ticket prices, when they've frozen what's already a very cheap price is a bit daft IMO

I thought he was implying Wilson would not be confirmed as leaving until the prices go up.

Anyway, if the board are having to give away tickets for the Walsall game, do they realise how many people won't bother with league 2?

I suspect they do. And tbh even at fuck all, I don't know that the bogoff for the Walsall game will make that much difference to the gate. It's not price that's been keeping people away this season, it's shitness

I'm not happy that cheapest prices mean you have to renew before the end of the season again.

Think I'm not going to bother.

The price for mine has gone up 30 quid

Can't fault the price, but I have to say that giving a month to find what I'd class as a major outlay is not ideal.

I see the instalment plan is interest free which is good, but does command a £30 admin fee.

edit: Oh and the free Under 10 is good but looks like Junior Red membership is mandatory to qualify. So very very good deal but not free :)

I'm not renewing if we are in L2.

It's very clearly an attempt to get people to renew before they know whether we're going to be relegated or not, presumably on the assumption that lots won't renew if we go down. "Loyalty has it's own rewards" could be the marketing slogan they discarded very very quickly? :)

I suspect though that it will put off as much as it encourages, and as jonny says, that more people will be swayed by the manager than the division he's managing us in (rightly or wrongly). I think we could lose 1500 on the basis of "This season was shit"/"Wilson's a tosser"/"I'm not watching League Two" but most will renew anyway on the grounds they can't seem themselves not going to games, no matter how shit they are. Which isn't to be complacent about the loss of renewals - that 1500 will hurt a lot.

Yeah, that's going to cause me a fair bit of grief as well. If they're going to have these very short "phases" we could do with a bit more notice, especially as it seems to be getting earlier every year

I'd like a scheme where they take the cost of a season ticket. Divide it by 23 instalments and then you can just pay for the games you want as you go along. On the day.

I would take a guess at 2011/2012, there is a clue in the title.

Bring in a new manager and give people an incentive. I think the prices are fine, the product isn't. People can take or leave football when its this shit.

I think you're bang on there Si.

incentive to buy has been needed for weeks.
 how many current season ticket holders are there?

5600

I'll renew but i'm moving seats in the DRS it's only a matter of time before i punch the cunt behind me that hasn't got a fucking clue about football and also look like Matt Lucas

Cant quite grasp the logic behind this "initiative"
Last year we renewed on MArch 20th - immediately after the Norwich game to be precise. In other words in "phase one" the early bird period -so the price for this season was £259.
As, at that time, we had a VERY good good chance of Championship football. We were in the play off spots by a clear 6 points, and only 4 points adrift of automatic promotion. Playing well and winning. SO it was a cracking deal. Even if we didnt go up, it was still a reasonable deal

So, to now......... they are asking for the same price, for the same "early bird period". And we are in with an extraordinarily good chance of that ticket being for League 2 football.

Hmmmmmmmm - just as an aside, the day I bought that ticket I also invested in a home shirt - all full price of £35 ish. Without a qualm regarding the price. Today I walked into the shop before kick off to see home shirts at newly reduced price of £19.........

I cant quite grasp the logic here. I will probably renew. But I cant help but think i would DEFINITELY renew now (which is what the club wants after all) if they put a caveat in there that we'd get 30, or 40, quid back IF we go down - as no doubt "on the day" tickets will reduce if we go down - they would have to surely??


I just cant see too many people renewing in the early bird period if the fayre served up today remains the same during MArch

I'll renew and get the same price as this season.

And I'm assuming we will be in League 2.

Yeh fine, each to his own - my point is that IF they put a small rebate on relegation, they would get a lot more people renewing NOW - which is what the club wants, needs, and is angling for. True, we could have a run of wins, and by the end of March look safe and everything is rosy in the garden, then a last minute early bird will look good value, but.......

............ah fuck who am I kidding? I am a sad cunt with no life at all to speak of and the only conversations I get over the weekend is the silly bitch in front of me telling me off for bating Pericard. i'll fucking renew anyway.........

If you like going to football on a Sat afternoon, then being a Div lower wont bother most people, in fact we might even win a few games and score a few goals.

I'm taking that the 10 month plan is only for phase one
I was going to get my first one, would have been able to spread the cost over 10 months

The tickets are ehnically a reduction as the club are not passing the VAT increase, which would take the normal £259 season ticket price up to £265.

At the £259 price, we were the 3rd cheapest in the whole Football League, and when we played in League 2 in 2006/7, the ST prices were over £300.

Yes the football has been crap this season, but at least we're still in business and not being run into the ground.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

It's for all of them I should think

I'll end up playing more next season as my daughter's ticket will be £70 more due to her age. I'm renewing our tickets to support the Board - they've put their money, I'll put mine in. I'm resigned to being in Div 4 and have been since New Years Day - if we stay up it'll be a nice bonus. 

I've not had a season ticket for the last 3 seasons cos of uni, and to be honest, the price is a cracking one - it would be cheaper than when I last had one. But I've fallen out of love with football and especially Swindon, as Si Pie said, the product is the problem - you could offer me a free ST and I'd probably turn it down these days as there's so much more I'd rather do on a Saturday, even more so when we're gash.

The fact you are on here posting tells me you are telling Porkies.....get on and do what you would rather be doing ;)

I paid £199 for this year in the TE. How much is it now?

I have muppets around me too, JFW will back me up on this.  Today we had a new one pop his head up that spouted a complete load of shite for the entire 90 mins, didn't have a clue what he was talking about but thought he was a manager (maybe he is related to Wilson).

The best thing he said all afternoon which summed up his IQ level was "oi lino, take that pencil out of your ear and then maybe you will see what's going on" - priceless - twat!  As is the fat biffa that sits directly behind me who constantly shrieks at the top of her lungs, talking shit and getting the players names wrong e.g. Dasevvi, Prooton and no.28 because she can't say Obika!  Her little girl who has no interest in being at a football match also constantly kicks me in the back because she is bored to tears. 

Even if by some miracle I do decide to renew, it will most definately be in different seats.

Hahaha! Our bit was FULL of mupps today!!
Only the kids in front kept me entertained!
One says to the other - I'm going to Southampton next week - there grounds called St Marys I think it's cause Mary out of the bible was born there! :)

Err it is JFW.

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that's all I have to say
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Why not just be honest and say that there is an interest charge on the installment plan.  An admin fee is just a sneaky way of charging it anyway?


The problem is they've got us over a bit of a barrel again with the 'early bird' price.  By the time we know 100% what League we're in, if by some miracle we manage to stay in League 1, the price has gone up by £40.

I feel much like Jonny, unlikely to renew whilst Wilson is still in charge irrelevant of whether it's League 1 or 2.  

I think the Board may have underestimated just how many people won't renew due to this season's debacle.

word.

We were always likely to lose S/T holders for next year unless we got promoted, so freezing the prices makes sense to me. I think it's a good price for L1 football but not so much for L2.

I miss going regularly but regardless of season ticket/matchday prices, it's not going to make diesel any cheaper

Im not renewing. I have already missed 8 home games this season. Games like today piss me off too much and put me in a foul fucking mood. Cant be arsed with it. 250mile round trip petrol gone up so it costs me £50 a home game after my season ticket.

Its worrying when a previous fan of the year feels like this. Perfectly understandable mind. But you have been through a lot of shit seasons Mex, so is the cost the main factor or the aggravation, or  the thought of division 4 football or all of it?

Up to a season or two ago I never thought there would be a time I wouldn't want to watch football. But these days I question myself every now and again.

I fucking hated league 2 last time. I couldn't understand everyone going mental at that walsall game. Yes we got promoted but we should never have been there in the first place.

To be honest the main reason is I can't be arsed feeling crap anymore. Its a long way home especially when you have bern watching the shit we have had dished up.

Are you sure? I always thought Mexico was further away than that

Fair enough, as I said understandable. It hard enough travelling 4 miles to the CG right now. Hope its only a temporary thing.

Division 4 terrifies me. Everyone seems so sure well just come right back up. I don't think its that simple.

I don't think everyone is by a long chalk, but apart from that yes. I fucking hate the idea and worry we'll get mired there. And that could start a downward spiral off the pitch as well

I think there is a danger we could do a Bradford

I'll probably renew, and if I don't it'll be down to personal circumstances rather than on the field issues.

That said, I can totally understand why people would seriously consider it.

I don't think we should worry too much about it, until we see how the Board react, they need to be worried.

I still think Paul Trollope is a likely appointment, he did get Rovers out of this league albeit with Lenny Lawrence in the background.....Ricky Lambert was up front for them, sort of thing we'll need.

Such an appointment would crush me as I view Wilson as a better manager. I'm sure others will disagree.

You just have to look at the last time. We were relatively a big club in that league and everyone wanted to beat us. The last few games were the most tense i've ever been at. The final whistle at home to Walsall was one of the best feelings I ever had. What a relief.

To think I would have to go all through that again next year just doesn't bare thinking about.

i agree batch, paul of the trollope no thank you

No, I agree with you. Better off just sticking with Wilson and hoping for the best if the likes of Trollope are the best we can do.

I honestly think if we were to get Paul Trollope we could be in League 2 for a long time. Not the right appointment for this club at this time. Maybe one day.

paul trollope as manager would add a few hundred to those not renewing.
with fittons track record it might happen.

:nod:

I agree, if that did happen I would stay away completely, let alone pick and choose my matches next season.  Serious backwards step.  Having said that, if the board decide to change manager at the end of the season, he is probably the highest caliber of manager we can expect.

This season has really made me hate being a Swindon Town fan

I'm not renewing... I've lost the love (and no longer live local)

Im buying 2, not going to any games though.

I'm so fed up Swindon that I'm going to go post on mumsnet instead of the TEF

You never know you might pull

Our relegation in 05-06 was well deserved.

We were promoted automatically at the first attempt. I thoroughly enjoyed those games at the end of that season (apart from Rovers).

Yes League 2 is a bit below our level. But only a bit. The likes of Leeds were 2 leagues below their level, but they got on with it.

In no way am I criticising you if you dont want to do the round trip. But I dont feel above over celebrating any promotion, League 2, conference. Any promotion is a good one.

I'll be renewing - the early bird price is still a good deal - I noticed at Crawley their ST's were over £300 for conference football.
The price after May is getting very expensive though, especially if its L2 next season; can't see getting many sales in after that date, particularly if we're relegated.
I agree the standard of L2 was poor last time we were down and it was only the fact that we were doing well that made it entertaining.
My worry is that relegation might well mean losing more of our better players and it does seem tougher to attract players the lower in the leagues you go, regardless of any reputation we might have for being a bigger club at that level. 
So I'm not sure we'll be able to get the strength of team that we'd need to bounce right back.

The prices are great so agree with those sentiments, however as others have said, the product is not.  Why Fitton insists on persevering with Wilson as Manager I will never know.  In my eyes, many fans will not renew because of this and the board are going to have to look at their choice of decisions when they're down by a significant number of season ticket holders.

I am not renewing, but thats because I won't be living locally.  I can understand why others aren't too though - its hardly a thrilling prospect watching league 2 football managed by the same man that will have effectively got us relegated.

Oh, and just to add, I haven't been able to give my season ticket away this season for games I can't make and thats saying something!

attending football becomes a habit.once you break the habit it struggles to come back without something enticing you.
i lost the want to attend months ago,and aint been to a match since the turn of the year.i dont need a season ticket and still cant be arsed to go.the problems have been evident for ages,but i didn't think we'd sink to the level we have.the football on offer is fucking dire.

an afternoon infront of the tv watching the racing making small stake bets is much more enjoyable.as is a long walk with the dog,a round of golf or taking in a decent semi pro level match.

I couldn't give a fuck if the whole squad and managment / coaching staff go.  Which "better" players are you referring to as I'm struggling. I can think of some players that are less shit than the others but there are no longer any I'd keep.  

The value of the STs this season was very good (worked out about 8 quid a game I think in the side stands?)

Am now in a position to get my first season ticket but if I wait until may it will barely work out cheaper than paying on the day if I miss even a couple of games.

Still undecided, but think I'll probably end up getting one.

Almost. But not quite. The "buy one get one free" coming up for Walsall, and also the lower prices for a couple of unattractive fixtures already during the season, have slightly devalued the ST - but not by much - I reckon the SAVING on buying an advance ticket was £8 a match, and £10 against paying on the day
What we need to know to be sure it will be the same next season is to know that advance ticket priced in L2 will be. Surely they cant charge £18 - 15 quid for league 2???

So they are still going to persist with this retarded club Red membership and making us buy a junior red membership to get an under 10's season ticket free. Last season my son got his under 10's season ticket for nothing but i still bought the membership which has offered him no benefits apart from a wanky pencil case.  So they can fuck off if they are expecting me to buy into that farce again, if they want me to renew then they should give him his season ticket for free its not like he is taking up wanted seats now is it when we can't even half fill the ground anymore  :suicide:

You had to sign kids up for Junior reds to get the free tickets (season tickets or matchdays) this season too. Are you seriously complaining about getting a season ticket for 15 quid?

They can,they will...they have to.
Fact is at the moment you would struggle to get people in for nothing....fans will always turn up...the general public will not be inspired to take the family at the prices they charge on a one off basis.
Fact is for me there are to many matches in midweek these days....and this will stop me getting a season ticket next season,work commitments and the fact there is sometimes three home matches in 7 days turns it into a real struggle....financially as well.
For me the club have been brilliant with the pricing policy this season to be fair....though i do feel it has contributed to our failings on the pitch in that we just havn't replaced our big players with some of a similar vein.

Matchday prices are in the programme as £16 TE, £20 side stands. No mention of any advance ticket price, but will probably be same as this season on that basis

You actually didn't as i bought my season ticket last Feb and i didn't have to pay for the junior red they just gave me the season ticket and yes i am complaining as this members club thing is a load of shite i show commitment with the purchase of my season ticket. We all seen what a fix that card scheme was when the black kit cam out didn't we.

I have owned 2 STFC season tickets in my life. The first was the Premier league season and the second, this season. Anyone see a pattern developing?

For the sake of the club, the team and its fans, i wont be renewing.

I've only had a season ticket in my life, at Hearts, the best season in their history, cup winners and splitting the old firm.

Perhaps I should think about getting one at Swindon next season with that record!!

If you listened to what they have been saying you will hear that the Club Red thing is an optional extra. They have tried to get the season ticket cost as low as possible & by & large they are succeeding. They have put £8,000,000 into the club to date, & have given us some of the cheapest season tickets in the league. I don't see we have anything to moan about what so ever

Well the club red thing is different, not a big fan myself. But for the kids' season tickets, this season you were supposed to pay for junior reds membership to get free season tickets and it's the same next season (last Feb was last season, assume you didn't get one this season?). It was 10 quid this season and is going up to 15 quid next season which is still peanuts - costs that much to get one of my kids into some away games. You seem to be mixing up the astonishingly cheap price of Under 10s' season tickets with some grudge about club red which is completely different

Agree.....its the on field shananagans that need sorting now though.

I bought our season tickets last February (the ones for this season) and i honestly didn't have to buy a Junior Red membership but casting my mind back now i don't think the scheme had been set up that early that might be why. But on the first game of the season (Brighton ) I did buy one for him as thought he would get loads of benefits which he never ...

I know that its a requirement this time around as the gentleman in the ticket office told me this as when my sons friend wanted to come for a one off game i had to buy this lad a membership.

Yes it may be cheap but when we play as shite as we have so far then i might as well go down mannington and watch a game as its on par for standards at this current moment in time.

I did buy a junior red membership last year but it was completely separate from the season ticket. IIRC I got the season ticket before the membership. Completely missed the fact you had to get one to get the other,obviously not well policed!

edit: In fact this flyer makes no mention of the condition: http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/staticFiles/a4/4a/0,,10341~150180,00.pdf

Don't get me wrong though, £15 for the lad's entire season of football is still fantastic. But I don't think my la gets any benefit out of the junior red membership itself. I think they even stopped the FITC  discounts next year - mind you FITC may have been totally shafted if they used to get any form of Government cash.

I do think it a bit rich that the "interest free" scheme works out more expensive with the admin charge than last years 19.5% APR plan. Its trivial, not worth worrying about, but this kind of thing gets on my goat regardless of which company is responsible.

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/staticFiles/5d/47/0,,10341~149341,00.pdf

Is hard for any club to look to promote season tickets when you are having a disaster of a season.  The £259 price is a great price.  BUT we wont know for sure what you will be buying really.  It looks like Div 2 football.  Would the board keep wilson for div 2 ?  Would wilson then resign Perricard and Dossevi for Div 2 if he was still here ?  Ive probably had a season ticket for 15 of the last 20 years.  There was a time i moved north of the border and so stopped coming.  On first day of season it felt wierd not to be at the county ground.  Then you just get used to not going.

Going Down has so many ratifications.  It will really mean starting from scratch.  New manager, new players and a new attempt to regain the fans it will lose due to going down and such crap on the pitch this year.  Alot of great work down the drain.

At present im probably in the group of fans who are so pissed off that i dont really want to renew.  Personally i want wilson gone.  I have no faith in him.  I think last year he just got lucky and a team fell together more by luck than judgement.  If it was judgement he woudnt have brought in Hutch and Topie and and the like.

So i may get to the final day or renewing at the low price and say oh what the hell and renew, more so as its what i do on a saturday, than me actually enjoying it.  BUT if results continue i may like a lot of others say ive had enough.  Alot will.

My 7 year old is not a member of Junior Reds and has a season ticket.  I believe last season, as long as an adult season ticket was being purchased, the Under 10 one was free?  I didn't have to enrol him with Junior Reds.

Maybe I'm misremembering. I renewed my eldest in March/April when I did mine, but did pay on the day (or rather "get it free the day before", because we signed up for JR) for my youngest until we were sure he'd actually use a season ticket. Certainly for the youngest they insisted on it, but maybe they didn't when I did the renewal for my eldest. My apologies.

Nonetheless, 15 quid is next to nothing for a kid's season ticket and 260 quid is damn good for an adult season ticket. I don't think you could realistically take it a lot lower than that without seriously affecting the playing budget (which is a different thing from how well/badly that budget's been spent this season)

You've got to be a Junior Red to get the free matchday tickets for Under 10s?  I remember when a friend was coming with us one game and wanted to bring his nephew I looked into it, but he had to pay the child price, as he wasn't a member of Junior Red.

Totally agree with you though in relation to the whole scheme and prices etc.  I wouldn't have taken the risk of spending money on one, because I really didn't know how my son would take to it.  As it was free, it wouldn't have mattered if he only attended a couple of games.  As it goes, he absolutely loves it and has only missed the evening games this season.  Shame he hasn't seen a slightly better quality of football and a few more wins though  :)

Most matched this season have felt like Groundhog Day. I have had the same seat for the last 3 or 4 years, I have decided it will be empty next season  :).

In a way yes its good value but lets be honest they have froze the season ticket prices but we are set to go down a division plus its ok everyone saying its only £15 but next year it will be twenty and so on .... Everything is going up in price and its the O its only an extra £5 mentality that fucks us all up as we say it for most things in life but how many extra £5 do we have ? Plus look around the ground at all the empty seats they have no choice but to give the kids tickets out for next to nothing as if they didn't i should imagine alot of us wouldn't be there equalling more empty seats.

It's 15 pound for a kid's season ticket! FFS! Do you want them to pay for your missus to go shopping while you're at the match as well?

I honestly think that the season tickets are so cheap now that if you cant afford them then you cant afford Professional football anywhere.

If you dont think its value for money because of the way weve been playing, then fair enough. But the season tickets ARE cheap.

Yes that would be nice ! Do you think you could put a word in with Fitton for me ?

My first Junior Robin season ticket cost me £15 back in...1987 for the '87/88 season.. so wacko stop complaining.

Some people like myself at this current moment in time feel the need to vent steam and this is exactly what im doing right now ! Is that ok ? I can complain if i like can't i ? Yes i can, and yes i will be down there next week renewing like the majority of us just felt the need to kick off for awhile thats all ! So you can all kiss my ass !

In a nutshell Spence

Abso-fucking-lutely. And you've got every right to. Just didn't think it was well-directed - I don't think the cost of JR membership to get a free season ticket is what's got you really upset.
Fair enough
Actually, can I skip this bit? :)

Nope, Wacko's popped the question, pukker up Pauld!

Think you mis-spelled "puke" :)

 :clap:

I'm renewing. League Two was ace last time, pure comedy. Personal highlights included:

Promotion
7 game winning streak at the start
Fola Onion Badji - hilarious "player"

"He's bald, he's scouse, he's bound to rob your house.... Steve McMahon! Steve McMahon!"  :clap:

If that cunt could get us up 10 pts clear or so at the top of the table, then we should have a chance in L2 again. In a way it would be nice as we might get to see us win a few again...but in all reality I sincerely hope we live to fight another day in L1 and don't go down.

And I'd like to take the opportunity to thank the board for the early ST renewal prices. How can anyone moan at only £229 for Town End or £259 for Side stands (even though I paid £199 this year!). Feckin brilliant value - £10 a game!!

I don't think I can afford to renew for next season, def not before April anyhow!

With a little one on the way, I can think of better things to spend my money on.

Steve McMahon took us from Old Division 2 to Old Division 1. Not League 2 to League 1.

I won't be renewing. With a nipper on the way and redundancies looming at work I won't be able to afford it. Still a cracking deal though for those who can afford it!

What about paying by installments Sippo? Sure, I know it's another £30 but only £1.50 a game extra max.

I was looking at that, and am extremely tempted. At the moment, all I look forward to week in week out is going to the pub. Even though I have 'permission' to go every week, I don't know if I can be arsed next season.

Will probably change my mind again at some point...

I said the same to the wife last night.

Yes mate you can skip that bit :soapy tit wank:

I'm in a much better mood today :) Just popped in and got my free ticket for the Walsall game so my father can go through the painfull experience us lot do every saturday.

Past 4k at end of last week1 which is nice.

How many have we sold now?

STGary_Rose Gary Rose
Over 4,500 season tickets sold so far. Impressive stuff

Very excited about this season. Just sorted out mine and - crucially - my 7 year old son's first ever Town season ticket. Give my wee man a big cheer vs. Crewe as he'll also be one of the mascots. Quite a way to cement his developing love affair with Town! This season can't start soon enough!!

At least we haven't had to make a naff video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aBULKjinmcg

Very cheesy but at least they're being pro-active i suppose.

There's a good article in WSC about their season tickets. Read it in the mag last night but its along these lines:

http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/7330/38/

I think I read somewhere that the club have confirmed we are going to moving to cards for next season, and they are ready for collection

Yeah there testing it out Saturday i hear.

Be annoying if for some reason you cant attend and want to give your ticket away to let someone else go

Why? Just give them the card

I have trust issues

Not only that, i give my tickets to people i dont particulary know that well, so there's very little chance i'll give my card to 'em

Its not really an issue i suppose, just a thought  :)

All good as long as you get your card back like you said.

I'm sure I had a card when I had one about 10 years ago, why did they bother moving back to paper tickets?

Any update on the amount shifted?

Was speaking to Jockanory on Monday night and still around 4500 mark

I'm surprised... would have half expected him to come out and say "We'll we've not got many left, just a few in the enclosure" or something similar! I'm not expecting them to shift many more - if people wanted one then the majority will have bought one by now. A pretty decent figure considering the last 12 months.

yeah a good number. Just wondered if the recent spate of new signings and the increased walk up ticket prices may have persuaded a few people to buy some.

Fair point, although I think the increased prices are much more likely to decrease attandance figures than shift people over to a season ticket. For somebody who had to pick and choose games before, they'll just pick and choose 2 or 3 less. Or just not bother!

Because our cheap skate of a Chairman then, a certain Mr Hunt, couldn't be bothered to pay for the scanning equipment.

By the way, I've just paid for my Reading ticket and they gave me my ST at the same time. They are currently stuffing the envelopes for collection/posting.

Interestingly they didn't give me a paper ticket for Reading, they just updated my profile on the system so I can use my ST card. That's part of the reason why they are opening all stands for the game against the plastics, so they can use it as a test exercise for the swipe card technology.

So on Saturday I can expect my season ticket to be a plastic card I can simply keep in my wallet? Genuinely cracking news! :-)

Er..Yes !!!

I heard that was the plan when I ordered, but like most things STFC I was expecting nothing to come of it!  :beers:

I feel sorry for the postman that has to pick up all these letters from the club... o_O

why, they'll be lighter than last year at least!  :clap:

I've received a letter from the club today saying saying i should renew my season ticket.

They've taken the money off me, anyone else had this?

Yeah I got that one and I've renewed.

I asked when mine would be sent to me as i was under the impression they were being sent out.

I was told i hadnt paid the extra fee for this.

I was never told about it?!

When I paid for mine I was given the option of collection or postage (for a quid)

I paid the extra quid when offered, but then they didn't send it because they needed to see some student ID.

You've got yours Whitdog, the bloke told me I was sat next to you when I moved seats!

boom - good to hear, just need it to arrive now!

I told them I would collect our three, never paid the £1 per ticket postage - they sent one and I collected the other two!!  The words piss-up and brewery come to mind at times!

Leave Jockanory ALONE!!!

So 4700ish, will we sell another 300 by Sunday

Quite.  He's always been very polite/helpful when I've called.

Magic 8 ball says

"No Way!"

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ssanty/cgi-bin/eightball.cgi

Yeah do all my tickets by phone, and the box office staff are all brilliant.

Mine answered my sources says no, so it looks like that is it then!

All hail the magic 8 ball!  :notworthy: :P

I went in yesterday afternoon to collect my season ticket and there was a big que there, and they must have sold 10 while i was there.

Not sure what time you were there but I was there just before closing and there was still a queue and two people at least were signing up for season tickets.  Am sure we will be very close to 5,000 if we don't get more.

I was in there about 2.15. I actually drove there to pick my season ticket up on my way back from my holiday, the kids were doing my nut in on the way back so i made them come with me. I then went home after.

Getting mine today. Not overly happy with having the decision taken out of my hands by the matchday price increase as I can't really afford one, but can't justify paying £25 per game to the missus!

Well season ticket in hand I took my seat today in what is to be my seat for the season.  On my right is a fat bloke.  Seems nice enough but took half my seat.  To my left two teenagers who both literally stank of BO.  I lasted 10 minutes in my seat before I had to move  :cry:

This is a real shame as I've looked forward to the season starting all summer and the thought of having to sit squashed between a fat bloke and smelly teenagers has really taken the edge off of it.  Tomorrow I'm going down the ticket office to politely request a change of seat. 

Anyone else has such experiences?

I sit at an end of aisle seat and some knob who seats in the same row gets in and out of his seat constantly with his two teenage kids just to have a wander around, it means I am up and down like a yoyo during the match. Why go to a match and then just roam around ! I was hoping he was going to disappear this season and sit somewhere else as at the end of last season I refused to move and he had to climb over a few seats to get out ! He was there again today doing the same thing so I have the choice of telling him what a knight he is or changing my seat to get some peace.

I feel for you.  It sounds simple doesn't it?  Get a season ticket and go watch the football.  That's all I want to do but without having to share half my seat with a fat bloke and a put peg on my nose to block out the smell!  If I wanted to mix with fat and smelly people on a Saturday afternoon I would take myself down to Lidl.

Thats the downside of all seater stadiums. if it was standing you could just move and people moving is pretty much a non issue.

50p says you've written to a train company when your trains been late 2 days on the trot?

That's 50p you've just lost.  Honestly I don't usually complain or moan.  After tomorrow when I've changed seats all will be OK I'm sure.  It's just annoying that I have to move because someone is heavily over weight and others simply don't care about their own personal hygiene.

I sit next to a big bloke but he doesn't stink. Just drinks alot from his 'bottle of coke'. Which incidentally reeks of rum.

One advantage, I never get cold in the winter.

I was ribbing you, I always get the stinkers on the train, not nice. you should leave some deodarant on one seat and a diet book on the other before they get there saturday ;)

Think how pissed off you will be if they reduce the £25 quid! But you can only make the decision based on the  nonsense prices they have presented as of today.

How do you know they had season tickets? It was only a friendly game. Chances are they won't be there next week.

never let facts get in the way of a good moan!

I bought my season ticket yesterday. Go me.

The fat bloke seemed put out that I was sat next to him and asked me if I had a season ticket as he seemed put out that someone was sat next to him.  He also asked the stinkers next to me to which they stated they also had season tickets.  So my moan was based on facts I'm afraid.  Anyhow should be sorted in a bit as I'm off down the County Ground to get it changed!

Better the devil you know I say.

You might get moved inbetween 2 fat, stinkers.

My son is joining me for his season ticket maiden voyage this year. I' probably more excited about that than is! The start of something very special as there is no way I'm going to let him off the hook at any stage now. Town till the end!

Just been down to the ticket office and have now changed my seat!  Jockanory was most helpful when I explained the situation.  Fingers crossed I'm sat between two hot female's although I'd settle for average sized individuals with good personal hygiene!

Odd thing about this is that I need to get a new electronic card????  Don't understand why they can't just update my details on the system and let me keep the same card????

At the CG I'd suggest that even the latter is asking a lot...

How stupid, rather defeats the point of an electronic card, which I would have assumed could be electronically updated?

Glad you were able to move your seat. At the beginning of last season we had a couple of teenagers in front of us who absolutely stank and one of them acted like a complete moron throughout the game.  I was dreading the second game, because we knew they were season ticket holders, but they never sat in those seats again.  I think a lot of people must move from their allocated seat, which to be honest I find a bit strange.  My brother lives away, but attends matches when he's home for the weekend.  Whenever he tries to get a ticket by us, the whole areais supposedly full of season ticket holders.  There's always the same seats empty each game, so can only assume these people never attend or sit elsewhere?

I wonder what the final figure was for phase 2? I'm guessing it's short of 5k or there would have been a big announcement.

On the fans phone on friday Wray said it was around 4,700 maybe a few more as phase 2 closed yesterday

There were decent queues outside the Box Office before and after the game on Saturday, so I'm sure a few dozen more were sold at the very least

Barry and I bought one on Saturday, so that's at least 4702.