Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[Nii Lamptey]

There was a line in that Heck interview where he talked about adding around a 1000 'premium' seats. I'm going to be royally pissed if that is my seat in the middle blocks of the Trinity Upper.

[Toronto Villa]

Heck: “Our core fanbase, our general admission ticket, we would like to give them a better experience, a grander experience without giving them the option to purchase more things but by changing their standard routine. So if that means keeping the prices similar to what they are, then so be it..”

[London Villan]

My guess would be:

c4 and c5 (400 seats)
Press seats moving and more premium seats in the middle trinity (500 seats)
Re-instate the premium seats in the north (200 seats)
Centre/front rows of upper witton lane (400 seats)

[pauliewalnuts]

Heck: “Our core fanbase, our general admission ticket, we would like to give them a better experience, a grander experience without giving them the option to purchase more things but by changing their standard routine. So if that means keeping the prices similar to what they are, then so be it..”

.... apart from the extra premium seats, obvs.

[London Villan]

Thanks for your loyalty… now get lost while we whore ourselves out to tourists… or am i being overly cynical?

[Toronto Villa]

Thanks for your loyalty… now get lost while we whore ourselves out to tourists… or am i being overly cynical?

Probably. If you don’t think that’s the goal or going to happen as we get more popular then it’s not realistic. We cannot survive on our core fan base. For us to consistently compete at the top we need revenues from as many places as possible.

[Toronto Villa]

Heck: “Our core fanbase, our general admission ticket, we would like to give them a better experience, a grander experience without giving them the option to purchase more things but by changing their standard routine. So if that means keeping the prices similar to what they are, then so be it..”

.... apart from the extra premium seats, obvs.

Which one has to assume are not targeted to the core fan base but corporate visitors. We don’t have enough of those.

[London Villan]

I know. Just feels crap after being in those seats for so long. Be nice to be informed properly, not find out in a tweet, but there you go.

[paul_e]

I noticed in the interview he had a dig at old contracts that needed tidying up   bet purslow would be pleased

Thats abit small time in my opinion. Trying to boost your own ego to get the fans on side. It wouldnt have been purslow only anyway. Surely process in place where the owners are involved too

How is it small time to talk about terminating contracts early because they weren't good enough?

[pauliewalnuts]

I know. Just feels crap after being in those seats for so long. Be nice to be informed properly, not find out in a tweet, but there you go.

As someone else said, suspect it's because they don't want to piss on anyone's chips whilst a really successful season is still ongoing.

[pauliewalnuts]

Heck: “Our core fanbase, our general admission ticket, we would like to give them a better experience, a grander experience without giving them the option to purchase more things but by changing their standard routine. So if that means keeping the prices similar to what they are, then so be it..”

.... apart from the extra premium seats, obvs.

Which one has to assume are not targeted to the core fan base but corporate visitors. We don’t have enough of those.

No, we don't, but I was hinting at the people who currently occupy seats which are to become GA+ seats next season, they're certainly not getting a better experience for the same money.

The new seats won't be the ones which are corporate, it'll be the best ones currently in place, the new ones - which are probably going to be in some sort of corner somewhere - are certainly not going to be sold as corporate.

[Lastfootstamper]

I'm not sure how it's been deployed so far, but has anybody lost their seat to GA+? They do seem to be more stuck out of the way in the wings than front and centre

[Footy-Vill]

I see the news about Pre season tour in America so I would think Heck is looking to grow this market.
Are we to do a thread on pre season as it's now confirmed
USA 🇺🇸

Columbus Crew (Ohio) - July 27
RB Leipzig (New York) - July 31
Club America (Chicago) - August 3

It's here mate: https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=64693.0

Where is this without clicking on it ? I can't see it  on main service user board ?
I clicked and wrote on it but it's not showing up on the main service user board

[paul_e]

I see the news about Pre season tour in America so I would think Heck is looking to grow this market.
Are we to do a thread on pre season as it's now confirmed
USA 🇺🇸

Columbus Crew (Ohio) - July 27
RB Leipzig (New York) - July 31
Club America (Chicago) - August 3

It's here mate: https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=64693.0

Where is this without clicking on it ? I can't see it  on main service user board ?
I clicked and wrote on it but it's not showing up on the main service user board

They're pre-season games so it shouldn't be difficult to guess that it might have been posted in the thread about pre-season.

[pauliewalnuts]

I see the news about Pre season tour in America so I would think Heck is looking to grow this market.
Are we to do a thread on pre season as it's now confirmed
USA 🇺🇸

Columbus Crew (Ohio) - July 27
RB Leipzig (New York) - July 31
Club America (Chicago) - August 3

It's here mate: https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=64693.0

Where is this without clicking on it ? I can't see it  on main service user board ?
I clicked and wrote on it but it's not showing up on the main service user board

They're pre-season games so it shouldn't be difficult to guess that it might have been posted in the thread about pre-season.

*slowly shakes head*