Season Ticket Meeting 09/10

[Arriba]

they aint gonna reduce it by that much yeovil,though it would be nice.and the offer of cup games free doesn't really tempt to part with cash upfront.
i think they will lose season ticket holder whatever happens really.

[yeo]

I think they are going to have to be bold arriba,Swindons been hit hard by the recession and its only going to get worse and Football is going to be the one of the 1st things that people drop when times get hard.

[dell boy]

I cant  make loads of matches doe to work,perhaps they could do a Jamie works a 4 on 4 off shift Season ticket....

Its daft to expect the club to tailor season tickets to all the fans different circumstance,simply not realsitic.

I say dont bother with any complictaed schemes at all. £10 in the TE and £15 everywhere else.If you pay want to pay up front in the form of a season ticket then you get home Cup games free.

A lot of golf clubs give you a country membership for those members who live out of the area and only come down so many weekends a year, I think this could be a good idea, of course you could not expect an allocated seat, this would have to be allocated to you on match days, beggers can't be choosers.

[nevillew]

I don't know how many people reneged on their second payments, but I'd suggest if it was more than a couple of hundred we can wave goodbye to any installment payment options.

I reckon they'll drop the S/T price in the Town End, leave the rest the same, and up front payments only

[Phil_S]

I think the ionstallment idea worked well, so why not just bring forward / change the installmenty amounts ?
Make the dates mid June & 1st September.

I also think that they could offer a multi Season Ticket. ie Buy an ST for two, three, or more years at todays prices with an incentive like free hosptality once per season (or similar).

I also think that the prices (if they stay the same or similar) should be advertised or promoted more. In particular the cost of under 21's tickets.

[Batch]

Leicester do it by making £15 penalty charges for a missed payment and if they don't cough that up then their season ticket gets cancelled.

That's excellent then. How do Leicester physically cancel the ST though to make sure people aren't getting in for free?

[@MacPhlea]

That's excellent then. How do Leicester physically cancel the ST though to make sure people aren't getting in for free?

I would imagine they use swipecards/creditcard type season tickets which are checked electronically on entry - it's the only way it would work - to do that would take investment from the club but to me would provide an opportunity to create loyalty rewards etc.

[Samdy Gray]

That's excellent then. How do Leicester physically cancel the ST though to make sure people aren't getting in for free?

I'm not sure how they do it, but I think the principle should be that if Leicester can do it then we should be able to as well.

[Batch]

I'm not sure how they do it, but I think the principle should be that if Leicester can do it then we should be able to as well.

definitely, as triseros says it would take an investment from the club, but makes the options so much more flexible.

Hopefully it's not a prohibitive cost to implement.

[RobertT]

as with most things, outsource companies exist which mean you don't have the prohibitive start up cost for rewards style cards.  It wouldn't be unlikely for their to be companies who provide the service for sporting stadia.  You get bar coded e-tickets these days for one off events, so even that could be used.  Inactive bar codes would prevent entry, even if it's a handheld check at the turnstyle (which would probably maked it just as quick to get in through the turnstyle anyway).

[Power to people]

I'd like to see ST prices stay the same and a reduction bought in for the wings & TE.

Obviously the 2 installment plan didn't go to plan as there was a large number that didn't renew, but with the recession kicking in in Swindon then I think they may have to think 'out of the box' as there will probably be a lot of people that would like to attend but due to job losses, reduced income etc won't be able to attend so perhaps a way of paying by installment - perhaps they get given a book of tickets by the ticket office each installment ?

I'd like to see matchday prices reduced very slighly as well to try and encourange more fair weather supporters out of their arm chairs.

[leefer]

I would like to see kids going free with a paying adult,they would all want scarves,tops etc...also Ten pounds for the Town End...and its about time the club came up with an idea to fill the Stratton bank when ware not playing the big teams.

[Bob's Orange]

I would like to see kids going free with a paying adult,they would all want scarves,tops etc...also Ten pounds for the Town End...and its about time the club came up with an idea to fill the Stratton bank when ware not playing the big teams.

What about a Town End Blimp for the SB?

[Spy]

Personally I think some of those who moved from town end to don rogers will come back anyway as the atmosphere didn't spread around the ground as people hoped it would. But still I think season tickets in town end should be cheaper than those in the side stands to fill it up again.

Ben I can only assume your away fans in the town end idea was a joke to get a rise out of people. I can't think of anything worse than freezing or getting rained on on stratton banks with no decent atmosphere around our stands watching away fans living it up in the town end!

Any sort of extra incentive for those who live further away is not a realistic idea imo. How would they prove where they lived? Bank statement\utility bill and photo ID I guess... But then they'd have to bring the photo ID to all games too??

[swindonbob]

Personally I think some of those who moved from town end to don rogers will come back anyway as the atmosphere didn't spread around the ground as people hoped it would. But still I think season tickets in town end should be cheaper than those in the side stands to fill it up again.

Ben I can only assume your away fans in the town end idea was a joke to get a rise out of people. I can't think of anything worse than freezing or getting rained on on stratton banks with no decent atmosphere around our stands watching away fans living it up in the town end!

Any sort of extra incentive for those who live further away is not a realistic idea imo. How would they prove where they lived? Bank statement\utility bill and photo ID I guess... But then they'd have to bring the photo ID to all games too??

I moved from Town End to a top quality seat in the DR Stand - smack on the half way line, 2 rows from the back. I do miss the atmosphere, but you have to weigh up the view/atmosphere balance.

For me, £150 season ticket in Towend would make my mind up - £200 I would have to make a decision - anything more that £240 then its DR again for me next year.