True Blades

[Highbury_Blade]

Like many others on here i live too far away for it to be practical and affordable to get to the lane every other week. I try to make on effort and probably get to the lane 3 times a year, and usually buy something from the shop when i'm there. So the club itself (Not including catering) gets about £100 a year from me.

I also try to get to as many away games as i can a year, Which when you're working full-time and spending 20 hours a week studying isn't as many as i'd like. Usually i'll go to 10 games a year home and away. It's going to be less this year as i'm spending pretty much every weekend writing my dissertation.


Anyway, that's the exposition over and i'll get to the meat of my post.

How fucking dare some cunt in the marketing department decide to brand all the blades that can't get to every home game not true blades? It's a shitty marketing ploy by the club, and par for the course in a season of crappy decisions by the Bramall Lane executive.

How did that conversation go when they came up with that?

Steve Lewis: We'll brand our season ticket offer this year 'True blades: You're only a true blade if you're at the lane.

Birchy: Great idea

Junior marketing Bod: Won' that piss off those fans that for whatever reason can't get to every home game, but still provide the club with £100-£200 a year? What about those that subscribe to Blades player from overseas and provide the club with the cash to fritter away on useless shite like Michael Doyle?

Steve, Birchy: Fuck 'em

Well fuck you too BDTBL senior management.

Get some fucking true blades on the pitch, instead of useless sacks of shit like Nyron fucking Nosworthy, and you'll get your season ticket renewals.

No need to resort to wank marketing measures like this.

 

[Worksop II]

Calm down HB, you could miss the next 5 seasons at the Lane, and the next time you turn up at the Turnstyle with a crisp £20 note, McCabe will welcome you like a long lost brother.

Its the Blades Way

 

[SwissBlade]

Its great isn't it. If this marketing campaign had been when we were in the PL i'm sure nobody would bat an eyelid. Perhaps we'd got the odd comment of "well i wonder how many true blades we'd have in league 1" but mostly i reckon it'd be brushed off.

But we're in the shite now and people think its a dig at their loyalty.

Personally I don't think it is, it means that the Blades that go to the lane (when they can) will be the true fans, not the x% of hangers on that we got in the PL, never to be seen again, not the tourists from China, Japan or wherever they come from, but the ones that know what its like supporting our club.

The daft idiots like me, you, foxy, linz, shoreham, Ollie, Lenners, Mic, Worksop and all the rest on here, we may not see eye to eye, but we have one thing in common, we're Blades, whether we go once a year, or to every home and Away.

 

[raul]

Ah, but we're not TRUE Blades anymore....

 

[Stafford Blade]

what a cracking marketing ploy.

quite frankly right now i'd rather hitch hike across libya than buy a season ticket

 

[MunXy]

true blades are blades in the heart, they may go to 46 games a season or 1 game in 10 seasons, a blade is one that takes the shit thats thrown from the FA (Fuck All), other fans, our own board and management, radio sheffield(wednesday) and of course the massive across at S6, and still is a blade.
A blade will slag off his team, the club and even the pies
but woe betide any other poor fool that tries it, we may not always like the club but we do and always will LOVE SUFC.
so those that say only true blades wil buy a season ticket know nothing of being a true blade and never will.
COYRAWW!!!

MunXy

 

[SwissBlade]

Out of interest - has anyone actually said that if you don't get a season ticket you're not a true blade?

 

[raul]

If people read the message and make that interpretation is the message at best mixed or are lots of people being too sensitive?

I read it as a message to get people renewing with their hearts rather than their heads (and no issue with those who then do so) but as someone who won't be renewing can see how people who care more about this than I would feel slighted.

 

[Wapping Blade]

I'm not renewing for the 2nd year as I can't easily or at all get to non-Saturday 15:00 games and my old ST seat is always free (though never available to buy, go figure). I don't feel I'm not a True Blade for this nor that the club are insinuating I am, it's just marketing bollox at the end of the day.

 

[Worksop II]

can see how people who care more about this than I would feel slighted.

Its funny int it, McCabe will pay loanees thousands to play for the Club, but he makes jibes at those that pay him thousands.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

What they should have done, is recognise that whatever division we're in next season, it's going to be tough, and a battle.

Perhaps a picture of Morgs ( Blameless for this seasons debacle) pointing at the camera Kitchener-style (Tache optional) with the message, Your club needs YOU. Simple, possibly effective, and has the added bonus of not questioning the loyalty of those fans that cant make it every game.

The club has my loyalty. There will never be another club for me. What it hasn't got is my weekly patronage. I'll be going next season, more than i have this season in fact, whatever division we're in.

 

[Worksop II]

I'll be going next season

I understand there will be a "True Bladeness" Tester in place at every Turnstyle

 

[raul]

Questions include

1) Were you at the Port Vale game?
2) Maggots or Magnet?
3) Where did you get that Axminster from?

 

[MunXy]

"if thou cut's me, do i not bleed red and white" is that the bladesness test?
or maybe they ask you with polygraph "if your team plays shite will you still pay to watch them ? "
or maybe just a collection box saying "multi millionare in need of more cash, please give generously" in aid of the kevin McCabe help the zero foundation

MunXy

 

[SwissBlade]

The club has my loyalty. There will never be another club for me. What it hasn't got is my weekly patronage. I'll be going next season, more than i have this season in fact, whatever division we're in.

What you whinging about then

Perhaps a picture of Morgs ( Blameless for this seasons debacle) pointing at the camera Kitchener-style (Tache optional) with the message, Your club needs YOU. Simple, possibly effective, and has the added bonus of not questioning the loyalty of those fans that cant make it every game.

last seasons effort below, Judging by some comments about season tickets fans want honesty, so how about:
"Look we know its a rip off, but Stop whinging and just get a Season Ticket, it'll ruin 23 saturdays a year. We hate you all, we just love your money"

 

[MunXy]

fuck me swiss, with that campaign im off right now to sit outside BDTBL and wait for ticket office to open to buy a new ST

MunXy

 

[SwissBlade]

fuck me swiss, with that campaign im off right now to sit outside BDTBL and wait for ticket office to open to buy a new ST

MunXy

Didn't you read the OS? The club want you to do it online, they hate seeing you standing around the ground making the place look a mess, it affects the price of the property on Cherry St. If you do have to go to the ground, make sure you buy from the shop as well, take advantage of the new shirt offer, £689 per white stripe £784 for red (minimum purchase of 8 stripes per shirt)

 

[Rattly Noise]

So instead of 'True Blade' a far more accurate title should be 'Someone who lives close enough to the ground to get to every match, as well as having enough disposable income that they don't mind forking out for a season ticket Blade'. Not as catchy, but less likely to cause offence. Everyone's happy

 

[breeny]

I thought that it was pretty patronising, however, it is just marketing aimed at customers. The fact that I know it's marketing means that I don't really give a fuck.

 

[bricktop]

The bottom line is that we have just frozen the season ticket prices. I'd rather have a shit slinging argument on the back of a bit of shit marketing, that over huge hikes in the season tickets prices.

 

[Worksop II]

a bit of shit marketing

Which just goes to show, that even under a cost cutting regime, there is still some wanker who has escaped the cull.

Still one more to bag Birchy

Was it Batho ?

 

[alcoblade]

I thought that it was pretty patronising, however, it is just marketing aimed at customers. The fact that I know it's marketing means that I don't really give a fuck.

At last, sanity returns.



UTB

 

[shorehamview]

What else could they have done?

"Dear shorehamview,

We are aware that you have a season ticket on the Insertsponsor'snamehere Kop, and we also know that you have a job that pays well. Therefore, you have at least £300 to spare. We'd like you to give it us, please, and in return we can offer you the possibility of attractive football, played like Holland in the 70's, or possibly even like Brazil.

The reality may be somewhat different, but you'll only find out after we've got your money. We'll give some of it to Monty, so even if all it achieves is sending Pinchy to new levels of apoplexy and rage then it won't have been wasted.

Anyhow, we want you to renew. If you do it on the blower we'll even charge you fifteen quid extra just because Bianca in the ticket office will have to multi-task - talk on the phone and type on her keyboard - and really she just works here because she's easy on the eye and brings biscuits every day.

So give us your money. You can come and sit in the same seat for every match, although you'll have to pay extra for the privelege of watching a non-league side tonk us in the Lager-pop Cup in September. The FA Cup is extra too. Sorry. (We're not sorry at all.)

Give us your money. You can call yourself A True Blade. Hell, you can all call yourselves Marilyn if you buy a season ticket.

Lots of love, Trevor."

 

[Muttley]

True Blade? McCabe?....ahem.....cough ,.....splutter. He wants US to put money in whilst HE TAKES THE CHUFF OUT!!!!

 

[Mad Mick]

Don't give a toss really. I was supporting the Blades afore some of em were born. So they can kiss my ass.

 

[Kenilworth]

Kenilworth jnr and I were offered stickers at the Derby match. Refused to take one - ridiculous to suggest anyone is less of a Blade for not going to the match. Cannot get to many games for a whole host of reasons. Might be different if we lived around the corner.
Been a Blades Revival / Super Draw member paying for two tickets since 1981 - does that qualify me?
Besides, how does that work for the likes of Vancouver et al?

 

[davidpinder]

Like many others on here i live too far away for it to be practical and affordable to get to the lane every other week. I try to make on effort and probably get to the lane 3 times a year, and usually buy something from the shop when i'm there. So the club itself (Not including catering) gets about £100 a year from me.

I also try to get to as many away games as i can a year, Which when you're working full-time and spending 20 hours a week studying isn't as many as i'd like. Usually i'll go to 10 games a year home and away. It's going to be less this year as i'm spending pretty much every weekend writing my dissertation.


Anyway, that's the exposition over and i'll get to the meat of my post.

How fucking dare some cunt in the marketing department decide to brand all the blades that can't get to every home game not true blades? It's a shitty marketing ploy by the club, and par for the course in a season of crappy decisions by the Bramall Lane executive.

How did that conversation go when they came up with that?

Steve Lewis: We'll brand our season ticket offer this year 'True blades: You're only a true blade if you're at the lane.

Birchy: Great idea

Junior marketing Bod: Won' that piss off those fans that for whatever reason can't get to every home game, but still provide the club with £100-£200 a year? What about those that subscribe to Blades player from overseas and provide the club with the cash to fritter away on useless shite like Michael Doyle?

Steve, Birchy: Fuck 'em

Well fuck you too BDTBL senior management.

Get some fucking true blades on the pitch, instead of useless sacks of shit like Nyron fucking Nosworthy, and you'll get your season ticket renewals.

No need to resort to wank marketing measures like this.

Fucking spot on HB thought exactly the same when i opened the post yesterday as i have been away all week.

 

[yorkshirecoast]

What a f'kin over-reaction. If you can't afford a ST / live too far away / don't enjoy good health then just go to the games you can. If you can afford it / live close enough / enjoy good health then get to the match and support the club - not necessarily McCabe or the manager or some of the current players - but the club.

UTB

 

[DP8789]

It says it all about the club at this present time, riddled with bad choices from top to bottom, we should all write letters of disgust to the marketing department, or give that batho fella a shout, or is he still trying to get soap on a rope but in the ladies bogs?

 

[Kev Gee]

I agree with the OP.

Its a disasterous statement to make. As if we could alienate our fans anymore?