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« Reply #75 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 12:37:38 » |
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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?
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. |
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« Reply #76 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 12:42:53 » |
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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.
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« Reply #77 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 12:45:02 » |
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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!!
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« Reply #78 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 12:46:15 » |
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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
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« Reply #79 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 12:47:35 » |
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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.
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 |
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« Reply #80 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 12:58:24 » |
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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
Agree.....its the on field shananagans that need sorting now though. |
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« Reply #81 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 13:00:21 » |
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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
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. |
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« Reply #82 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 13:51:22 » |
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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.pdfDon'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 |
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« Reply #83 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 14:22:49 » |
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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.
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« Reply #84 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 14:37:46 » |
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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?
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. |
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« Reply #85 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 15:10:22 » |
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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) |
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« Reply #86 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 15:17:41 » |
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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  |
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« Reply #87 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 19:11:51 » |
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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 . |
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« Reply #88 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 19:28:36 » |
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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)
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. |
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« Reply #89 on: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 19:33:19 » |
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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?
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