Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[john e]

I don’t think the atmospheres have been too great either since the price announcements

I’m blaming him for that as well, the massive tossbucket

[Risso]

Somebody on Twitter is claiming that the attendance for Wolves was 39Kish. If true, for a Saturday 3pm kick off that's not televised, that's woeful.

[Dogtanian]

A woman who sits by us wasn't there and put here ticket up for resale. Nobody bought it. I don't think many people want to pay £70 or so to see us play Wolves.

[john2710]

My Son couldn't make the game, so I put his ticket up for resale about 10 days before the game. It wasn't made available until sometime on Friday & not surprisingly, didn't sell. £72 to watch Wolves isn't exactly enticing.

[Des Little]

Am I right in saying that no STs go on resale until every last seat (inc GA+) has been sold by the club?  If true, it won't ever happen.

[Villan82]

Somebody on Twitter is claiming that the attendance for Wolves was 39Kish. If true, for a Saturday 3pm kick off that's not televised, that's woeful.

It is absolutely nailed on that Heck will use this sort of example, out of context, to ensure we get no stadium expansion so long as he is employed here. I can hear him already 'As I said we were at risk of adding too many seats too fast'.

[andyh]

I’m guessing the great Heck swindle is the reason we dont give out the match attendance figures during the game any more.  Wouldn’t be a good look publishing one of your main kpi’s when its clearly being missed.

I think we stopped giving attendance numbers long before Heck arrived.
But, if he is going to get shit for everything, then why not blame him for that too.

The traffic on the Coventry road was shit on Saturday. It took me nearly 40 mins for what’s normally a 30 minute journey.
What is Heck going to do about that, the ******?

What a bizarre post.

Whoosh !!!!!

[john2710]

There were still plenty of GA+ tickets unsold. I think they leave it as late as possible to make the resale tickets available, in the hope that people will buy GA+ tickets.

[Nunkin1965]

Am I right in saying that no STs go on resale until every last seat (inc GA+) has been sold by the club?  If true, it won't ever happen.

I missed the Everton game and put mine up for sale and was refunded by the club, so does that mean that GA+ was sold out?

[Pat Mustard]

39k for Wolves sounds about right if they are being honest about attendances - we could see a few empty blocks, and there were lots of single empty seats dotted around.

This is where I really don't get anyone defending the prices - we are going to lose thousands on the gate for every home game this season.  There are still loads left for Man Utd a week on Sunday (looking at it the same ones that were empty on Saturday), and even the supposed fastest sell-out in history against Bayern still has tickets available.  We might make a bit more money overall in the grand scheeme, but it won't be anywhere near as much as people think once you take into account the lost income on games that would have sold-out before, and in the long-run we are potentially losing thousands of fans who could become regulars.

[Dogtanian]

Chris Heck in the stadium expansion review meeting:

"We can't expand this god-damn stadium and let more of those c******kers in. Who's gonna pay two hundred bucks to see us play a nobody when there's cheap seats empty? And we ain't findin' eight thousand more rubes willing to pay what I'm gonna charge them!"

[ChicagoLion]

39k for Wolves sounds about right if they are being honest about attendances - we could see a few empty blocks, and there were lots of single empty seats dotted around.

This is where I really don't get anyone defending the prices - we are going to lose thousands on the gate for every home game this season.  There are still loads left for Man Utd a week on Sunday (looking at it the same ones that were empty on Saturday), and even the supposed fastest sell-out in history against Bayern still has tickets available.  We might make a bit more money overall in the grand scheeme, but it won't be anywhere near as much as people think once you take into account the lost income on games that would have sold-out before, and in the long-run we are potentially losing thousands of fans who could become regulars.

I wonder how long it will take him to realise this. Unfortunately idiots with power rarely understand their own failings and are the worst people to try to remedy them.

[Villan82]

He won't realise Chicago. if we have learned anything about this man it's that he does it his way, he doesn't pass any heed to how much of a shitshow his way causes and then he materialises when things settle down to bizarrely claim credit for things more to do with the wider context of our improved form since Emery arrived.

And another point, surely the renovated shop was a waste of time if Heck's agenda is driving attendances down?

It's been one heck (!) of a clusterfuck under this man.

[DB]

Somebody on Twitter is claiming that the attendance for Wolves was 39Kish. If true, for a Saturday 3pm kick off that's not televised, that's woeful.

That AV Updates? Not the most reliable. MoTD had attendance as well over 42k.

[Nii Lamptey]

It just doesn't make sense what he's doing - Basically attempting to run before we can walk. Build up some on field success, whilst fixing the issues with standard services, then in a year or two, push for the stadium expansion and THEN gear facilities aimed at the prawn sandwich brigade.

Fill the ground by selling at an attractive price and sort concourse catering out - Job done! Full house, better atmosphere, people actually able to spend money on food and drink as they're not stuck in queues from 15 minutes before HT till 15 minutes AFTER HT.

He's a narcissist though, so no way will he admit he's been wrong and back down. He'll no doubt double-down on this shitshow, losing priced out true fans and the next generation of fans in the process.