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Between 7th March and 17th all renewed and new STs will be 10% off
Those who have already renewed or bought new will be refunded the 10%

From club email

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Am guessing sales werent as hot as club wanted

I wonder how they are going to do that if you have taken out the finance agreement?

That's too good to turn down.

Bit worried about the need for it though...Perhaps its nothing...

Was probably planned all along, either as a safeguard for low sales or an appeasement for increased prices. Or both.

Lovely stuff

Sold.

I'll have some of that!

10% of STs belong to fans over the age of 75 (2012/13 season)
10% of STs are bought as a gift
10% of STs can be found in the Merlin pre-match
10% of STs on average are not used at a home game.
10% of STs in any one season are first and only time purchases.
10% of STs are bought whilst drunk and later regretted.
10% of STs are perpetual renewals for over 12 seasons
10% of STs belong to owners of an orange hat
10% of STs venture onto the pitch after the final home game of a season
10% of STs belong to fans who have attended an away game

Off.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

99% of ST holders look like Bob Todd

Good move I think - probably worried about the initial uptake since announcement! Still not sure if I'll be able to get one next season mind!

And 100% of the above is complete bollocks

Great news...I'm in.

I'm the sort of fan this is targeting .... Teetering on the brink of saying fuck it...

Or a sucker for a bargain

I have been umming and awwing about getting my first ever ST at the CG. I had a look yesterday and was going to wait until the end of the month (payday) but given this deal, I think it has probably swung it for me. Good work by the club.

Somewhere at SN1, a shrewd fucker is in an office rubbing his/ her hands together in glee.

Well done them :)

Yep, well done to whoever at the club decided to do this, brilliant idea to get some ST money in early. All those who buy now can feel dead smug as we win every game left in the season, smash Brentford 14-0 on our way to the Playoff final where Fatty Evans' Wovwum side feel the sting of our patient style and we win 10-0 to get promoted to the Championship.

Not that I am suggesting it or want it to happen, but normally when the club tries to sell ST's early people accuse the owner of wanting to jump ship etc.

Not so much that but people claim its to keep the club running as we have no other money. Its funny no one said thay when Fitton and Co were here. The real reason is budgeting.

13.50 a game in the town end with 10% off. Thats cheaper than this season.

Knowing our history the company could fold and the club cease to exist at any time. Worrying about the timing of season ticket sales is a bit stupid.

Incidentally, it's 00:05 on the 7th March and I don't get the 10% off online. I demand a further 10% reduction for the inconvenience caused.

I want to renew in The Town End and take advantage of the installment plan. Do I have to fill out a form again? Online it just gives me the £345 price.

Just trying to renew the instalments online...cannot see anything...just asking me for the lot?

Any links?

Think I'll try and get mine half way through next week given the challenges we are bound to have sorting this out online!

Is the discount showing online? Can't check from work so would be grateful to know

Same here dude. Has anyone completed their instalments on-line yet?

Have come full circle and with this deal I (think) I'll be saying YES! to renewing!

Worked fine online. I have renewed my s/t. ;D

Thanks. That saves a lot of planning as I'm carless for some of tomorrow.

Signed up today. Lad now has to pay £125.00 but hey Ho. Actually, I have to pay £125.... Once a Robin always a Robin.

Renewed mine at the club store today. Quick swipe of the barcode, handover of cash and Bob's your uncle. Looking forward to next season already!

Has anyone managed this? 10% off is great, but I'm not too crazy about having to fork out £705 (2 Adult, 1 JR) in one go if I can avoid it!

Great scheme for fans who are definitely going to renew season tickets :clap:
May get an extra few from fans that are a bit unsure too!

It says you have to call Zebra finance to pay by installments i.e. can't do this online

I paid by instalments online

how did you do that otans?

i've had a look and it only gives the option to buy outright (first time buyer not renewing).

cheers

When you check out it gave me the option to pay by card or installments

Found it where you enter your card.

Cheers.

Ah yep, i see it.

nice one

I will check...thanks...

ST bought. £365, not a bad price bearing in mind I was going to be paying £405 at the end of the month!

I hope I don't turn into one of the moany brigade up at the top of the DRS!

Plenty of moany fuckers all over the DRS. I join em sometimes.

Have been in all 3 stands this season and its not confined to the DRS believe me

A bloke in the ticket office tonight said around 1800 ST have been sold so far and although dissapointed with numbers a fair few new people have bought them and they are expecting the last few days of the offer to be busy as usual.

Just renewed mine online.

I got mine and got a many cunt discount.

I thought you got a big cunt discount, seeing as there isn't many bigger cunts than you.

Renewed mine the weekend, couldn't imagine what I'd do without football to go to or listen to

renewed mine online yesterday

shopping with the missus?

I would literally rather watch Swindon.

Who wouldn't!

Luckily my missus hates shopping so I never have to suffer such an act.

Renewed yesterday.
£320 this season, £310 next season for my same seat. That's more like it.

Ill believe the money back when i see it

After I wiped your arse doing it!

Did you renew before the offer was announced then?

Just renewed ours

Four renewed today.

Yarp

Just renewed mine in the shop and i also added my 2 boys to make it a family ticket for the town end.

 3k sold apparently

The only source I've seen for that is Ollie. Where did he hear it?

Is that good or bad?

For an adult it works out at £16 per game.

Good value

Bad. Our core home gate for this season is about 7.5 mostly made up of season tickets, as not too many people will pay the walk up price, other than away fans.

Yes, Reg. But it's March. The new season is 5 months away.

I thought our STs for this season was around the 5-6000 mark so already getting 50% or more of that figure sounds decent to me

Even tempted meself

I know, maybe we'll be fine and get gates on a par with this season, I hope so....

I did not bother in the end, the kids have lost interest and I work away a lot so midweek games are difficult; so after 6 years of holding a ST I will sadly lose our 3 seats in the Arkells and will pick and choose my games next season.

I expect I am one of many who won't be renewing unless Cooper is removed from his position.

#cooperout

To be replaced by whom - in your opinion?

Martin Ling and Paul Bodin.

Seen numerous other people banding about the same figure

Lee Power's gob.

BBC Wiltshire ‏@BBCWiltshire  3h
FOOTBALL: #stfc chairman Lee Power says that the sale of over 3,000 season tickets will help him set the transfer budget for this summer

Loads of money for players then soapy tit wank

 Best get on to Supermarine/Chippenham to get some players back ;)

How many had we sold this time last year?

Got an easier question? Approaching 5000 by end of June is the best I can do.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/10502138.Season_ticket_sales_up_10_per_cent/?ref=rss

I do remember being surprised how many we sold after early bird finished though.

Incidentally, when do renewals held seats go on general sale? Could do with another U10 ST seat, but need someone to have vacated as there aren't any free around us.

It's going to be interesting to see how the squad shapes up for next season....we do have a likely decent nucleus of players who have something to offer...also we know that a few high wage earners will be off the budget, so I see this largely as a reasonable situation to be in.  There are a few question marks....notably TAH, Ranger and has Harry Agombar done enough?

I totally forgot about him.

Was Reis on a 1 year contract, he's another that can go.

Well, 3000 disagree with your first point

Is that so you can complain about a new manager (for your second point)?

I won't be renewing if we let Agombar go.

Did Jed go back to Banbury? I'm sure there'll be a gig for Harry there if so. 

Banbury are on a run of 8 straight defeats...the latest being a 0-7 home thrashing by Hungerford...a side replete with ex STFC men like Mark Draycott, Luke Hopper, Ian Herring and can it really be Alan O'Brien. (think someone flagged this up a while back)  I wonder if the presence of so many has anything to do with Andrew Fitton....

It's pretty dire. Unless we can put another 2k on that by the end of the month it could be even thinner times ahead than we expected.

Seats are held until end of early bird, i.e. March 31st after that it's all general sale.

I believe he is trying to take over Hereford

Good stuff,  that should put another 1500 on ST sales.

Is it though? How many were sold by this time last year?

We don't know. We do know that we sold about 5k last year overall though and that gave us a budget this year that necessitated substantial cutbacks. Common sense suggests we probably didn't sell 2000 of that 5000 once they went up to full price and won't do this season either. The vast majority of those who are going to buy season tickets will do so in the early bird period, which has a couple of weeks to go. So, yes, I'd say it's pretty dire. And has worrying implications for next season's budget

Call me a cunt, but I'm going to save my worrying until I see some actual figures that are not based on guess work.

There's over 3 months remaining to reach last year's total.

thanks

If we have actually sold 3,000 thats pretty good. I dont expect us to sell anymore than 4,000 this time. A lot of people have lost interest now it seems.

As you're quite entitled to. And we may yet have a late surge in the early bird window which would remove those worries. But I think if you're expecting a great surge of sales after that, you're likely to be profoundly disappointed. Let's hope they extend the deadline at least
Eh? Where are you getting 3 months from?

The 5k figure last year was announced in June. I guess that's where.

Ah OK. Irrelevant anyway. We won't sell more than a few hundred at full price, if that.

I really must get you to fill in my lottery numbers for me.

Hereford need something to happen for them...serious danger of Conference North or out of existence.

He'll promise them funds and a top end budget no doubt

Made me laugh on daily politics yesterday when talking about whether anyone is worth Rooney's 300k a week and the Conservative MP, who frankly did not seem to be at all interested or understanding of football surprised me by saying he supported Hereford and called for people like Rooney to donate parts of their wage to lower league clubs to stop them going out of business.

Think someone is in with him,  he's not the front man from what I understand

Feel sorry for Hereford. Jed is full of bullshit.

Fuck me. If that's the best you think we can get I'd rather stay with Cooper.

Indeed.  Last season, there was a decent amount sold after early bird, because we were still in with a realistic chance of being in the championship.  Not the case this time around, so I'll be genuinely surprised if we sell a great deal more.

Could we honestly be looking at gates of less than 6,000 next season? Worrying.

I did renew in the end.  Couldn't bear the thought of not being able to come on here and moan about the rubbish I'd watched  ;)

AO'B is like Charlie Austin in reverse.

Well he certainly aint the money man

Cunt ;D

I agree. People are starting to moan about guess work now :-\

It's a beautiful spiral isnt it.. Fans stop going, hinders our ability to get better players, worse results, more fans lose interest. But then I've always been pretty vocal at the lack of success at STFC coming from the fans. Wonder who the first will be to moan about the lack of investment? Probably someone who didn't renew.

Got mine on deadline day.

Probably otanswell...

That's pretty pathetic really. You sound like an Oxford fan.

Good point.

We should be hearing less from Chang going forward then! :)

It's a reasonable concern rather than moaning isn't it? Power has said (quite reasonably) that if season ticket sales fall, that will reduce the playing budget still further which, as Tails has pointed out, can be the start of a spiral. And it may be guesswork but it's hardly a blind stab in the dark to suggest that the majority of people who are going to buy season tickets will do so in the early bird period, rather than when it goes to full price. So if we sell substantially less than last year by the end of the early bird period, unless it's extended, that's likely to lead to a commensurate reduction in the playing budget. That's surely a reasonable concern rather than "moaning" isn't it? (And yes, I have renewed - 2 adults and a junior)

Silver linings and all that ...

The effect of less tickets this time around should be less drastic than last time. Aren't we operating on a smaller budget than before the last round?

We are 600k over budget.

We need to shift that AND adhere to a new sustainable budget based off projected income. If income drops presumably the playing budget will too to accommodate.

Nobody really know though i suppose.

Meh..I'll be there of course - what else is there to do on a Saturday?

You could join the TEF "go shopping with the missus tendency".....it's a growing faction. I suppose you'd need a missus though.

I remember my Missus suggesting shopping on a Saturday once, we ended up watching Town play at Blackburn in the afternoon & followed it off by going to watch the speedway team at Odsal in the evening :)

Make up more transfer rumours?

 :)

Good work...the missus should feel privileged to have been to Odsal.

I renewed on deadline day, thought 'What else am I going to do on a Saturday'

Or a mister of course.

Wont be making that one

Cheek! soapy tit wank

This is what happens when you go to see Doctor Chang.

Ummm'd and ahhhh'd but renewed mine in the end. As a wise man said to me, there will be good times and bad but ultimately it is my team and they need my support both at matches and financially.

Fucking hell....still be seeing your boyish good looks in the County then...

You can flirt with me later today if you wish, Flashster  :kiss:

 :jumpy: :cloud9:
Good to see some smiley faces in the CGH, even your grinning swede  :headhurts:

Anyone got their 10% back yet?

Had a phone call today. Can pop in the shop at the next home game.

Assume you won't bother Ralphy, donate it to the new Jed fund!!

Jed Army Fund

Just had mine back

Did you pay by installments Tans? How did it come back, cheque or directly into your bank?