Season tickets next season - what will they do?

[Skerra]

Never mind 30,000 average attendance for next season. I think that if Lerner is still in charge, we will be lucky to get between 15K and 20K for some of the matches. I've been a season ticket holder for many seasons but, yesterday's announcements made up my mind to chuck it in until we become a proper football club again!! These Americans only understand one thing, if many people stop going to matches, it won't take long for him to take any price for the club and bugger off!!

[Comrade Blitz]

It's an option but I'm not sure my son of 6 would be strong enough to push me.

Maybe Lou can leave Andy in Aston Park and give you a hand

[in exile]

I'm not apologising for voicing my opinion.
I'm sticking to it

[amfy]

We could have closed the upper Trinity for most of this season without anyone having difficulty getting a ticket.

You can price to get people back through the gates, or can have a ground that 'feels' fuller, looks better on telly, and creates a better atmosphere to get people through the gate.

It is a pain for those that have to be moved, but I actually think they need to do both.

People need to want to be there - so it needs to not look and sound like a soulless echo chamber when they watch a match on the telly (like St Andrews often does when we're not being relegated and giving them something to sing about) ......and then when they look up the price of a ticket, they need not be thinking 'sod that then!'

[pauliewalnuts]

Who has suggested apologising?

I don't want anyone to apologise, I'm mortified at the suggestion I was making a joke about the disabled, though. Hence trying to convince you I wasn't

[Ad@m]

I'm not apologising for voicing my opinion.
I'm sticking to it

If your opinion is that you don't agree with jokes about the disabled I think you'll struggle to find someone on here to argue with.

If your opinion is that paulie's joke was targeting the disabled then you've completely and utterly misunderstood it in a way no-one else appears to have.

[in exile]

Fine

[Ad@m]

Fine

My wife says that a lot.

It's normally not fine!

[PeterWithe]

I think competitively priced STs are the key, if I don't renew and face a journey down to VP to collect single tickets for an uninteresting game then I might not bother.

[Clampy]

I thought Paulie's post was highly amusing and god knows we could do with a bit of a smile at the moment. It's obvious what the joke was about.

[Richard E]

I've come to the conclusion that I am going to renew, more out of sheer bloody minded defiance than for any logical reason.

[Risso]

Has any other club closed a section upon relegation? It strikes me as being very small time.

[Richard E]

Has any other club closed a section upon relegation? It strikes me as being very small time.

A certain club not very far up the road from us, so "small time" hits the nail on the head.

[NeilH]

The policy of closing off parts of the ground is something that Vitesse Arnhem is also implementing next season. In their particular case, it is specifically because their stadium is too big for their support and they wish to maximize the atmosphere for fans by moving them closer together and closing off the wings. I understand the logic about it and I can see why we would be interested in it too. There will be sharp job cuts following our relegation and that will certainly fall on stewards, catering and ticket staff, so it makes economic sense to close off an entire tier and concentrate the fans together.
Having said all of this, it has an real echo of mothballing about it and gives our detractors more ammunition to label us a club in crisis and decline.

[rogfromb6]

Has any other club closed a section upon relegation? It strikes me as being very small time.

I've got a feeling that Leeds closed off the top tier of the main stand after they were relegated.