Season tickets next season - what will they do?

[pauliewalnuts]

How many times would we get that many, though?

[Des Little]

Well they can't possibly reduce the number of bar staff in the Holte Suite by 33%, seeing as there's only 2 of the buggers working on a match day...

[Ads]

Win matches at home on a regular basis (which is the hope) and I'd say every other weekend.

[pauliewalnuts]

Win matches at home on a regular basis (which is the hope) and I'd say every other weekend.

I've spotted the flaw in your argument ;-)

[AVH87]

I'm thinking of buying a season ticket again after years of not doing so (too much TSM's etc) - I looked this morning and you can get an economy job for £325. Can anyone recommend the best place for the cheap seats? I'm thinking of L9.

Looks like there isn't the map on the official site for ST sales, but going on the Rotherham game, assuming no-one's mad enough to buy match tickets for this yet, then just one seat is available for L9.

I know the reason for this.

They have removed from sale every third seat in the Holte - basically they need to keep the upper and lower open but reduce the number of people in it sufficiently to be able to employ fewer stewards / bar staff / safety people.

They've done this by doing the above.

That's ridiculous. I expected better with Xia running the club, that's the kind of small time shite I'd expect if Lerner was still in charge.

By my calculations we've lost 5k capacity from the Trinity and 4.5k from the Holte (Holte total holds 13.5k), so the ground now only caters for 33,000. With the right ambition shown we could be getting gates well above that for certain games. This also makes me worry about how much cash Xia has actually got/will spend.

[aj2k77]

Surely it's misinformation? We are penny pinching over employing a few stewards?

[Dave Wall]

I'm thinking of buying a season ticket again after years of not doing so (too much TSM's etc) - I looked this morning and you can get an economy job for £325. Can anyone recommend the best place for the cheap seats? I'm thinking of L9.

Looks like there isn't the map on the official site for ST sales, but going on the Rotherham game, assuming no-one's mad enough to buy match tickets for this yet, then just one seat is available for L9.

I know the reason for this.

They have removed from sale every third seat in the Holte - basically they need to keep the upper and lower open but reduce the number of people in it sufficiently to be able to employ fewer stewards / bar staff / safety people.

They've done this by doing the above.

That's ridiculous. I expected better with Xia running the club, that's the kind of small time shite I'd expect if Lerner was still in charge.

By my calculations we've lost 5k capacity from the Trinity and 4.5k from the Holte (Holte total holds 13.5k), so the ground now only caters for 33,000. With the right ambition shown we could be getting gates well above that for certain games. This also makes me worry about how much cash Xia has actually got/will spend.

Surely the part about the  Holte End  ain't true 

[amfy]

I can't even believe the Paulie is serious about the every third seat thing & am a bit confused as to why so many are happy just to jump on this.

I say this on the basis that one match ticket pays a member of barstaff, and probably less that 2 match tickets would pay a steward - so on what planet would this make any sense?

Even taking into account the lower income from season ticket sales as the price per match is less, we stlll aren't far off a position where every pair of tickets pays for a member of staff.

Who knows if we are enough of a basket case of a club to think up this plan, but I'm a bit surprised that no one even questions the source of this madness before slamming the club.

[sid1964]

So if every 3rd seat is empty, why is my row and the row in front of me sold out?

[mr underhill]

surely we would sell-out or come close to it for the unmentionables and one or two others, i.e. the Jawdies?

[Chris Smith]

I can't even believe the Paulie is serious about the every third seat thing & am a bit confused as to why so many are happy just to jump on this.

I say this on the basis that one match ticket pays a member of barstaff, and probably less that 2 match tickets would pay a steward - so on what planet would this make any sense?

Even taking into account the lower income from season ticket sales as the price per match is less, we stlll aren't far off a position where every pair of tickets pays for a member of staff.

Who knows if we are enough of a basket case of a club to think up this plan, but I'm a bit surprised that no one even questions the source of this madness before slamming the club.

I am sure it is a Walnuts Wind-up. Even taking into account his renowned erudition it beggars belief that not one other person has heard the same story.

[Five Villa Tattoos]

Mine arrived this morning.
For the first time in what seems like ages I'm actually looking forward to the coming season.
One thing's for sure it's not gonna be boring!

[peter w]

Its strange to even contemplate what it must be like going to a game to see your team being even remotely competitive.

[leylandalbion]

Has anyone received a kids ST yet, got mine but not the kids....hoping the money saved on ours goes into a bumper kids pack

[pauliewalnuts]

The seats thing was a joke btw