Are we hosting the Premier League Champions tonight?

[MobileBlade]

Has it? I only intermittently get marketing emails from SUFC and this has completely passed me by.

Yep. I got four emails last Friday!! (Mainly because two lads are registered to my email address, I get four emails every marketing promotion. Just had four telling me the court of appeal have rejected McCabes appeal!)

 

[Antarctic Monkey]

Streams has absolutely nothing to do with tonights attendance.

They do mate

 

[ThatJa]

They do mate

Your telling me streams will affect the attendance when its on BT Sport? Accessible to far more people than streams are.

Again, streams will have no impact on tonights attendance.

 

[thawot]

*

 

[Antarctic Monkey]

Your telling me streams will affect the attendance when its on BT Sport? Accessible to far more people than streams are.

Again, streams will have no impact on tonights attendance.

They will, I’ll be watching on a stream and not BT Sport and not attending as a result.

 

[Jesus_was_a_Blade]

Streams has absolutely nothing to do with tonights attendance.

Didn't realise it was on BT...
In which case swap streams for BT & my point stands

 

[BLADES1988]

ITS FUCKING JANUARY!!!!!!!!!!!

I cant afford a 10p mix and a freddo. Im sure im not alone.

 

[ThatJa]

Didn't realise it was on BT...
In which case swap streams for BT & my point stands

Now I'll agree

 

[Jesus_was_a_Blade]

Now I'll agree

Pedantic b*stard

 

[thawot]

And if the club had put on general sale, I bet you there would have been hundreds on here saying that they have been watching the blades for [insert any figure over 20] years and they couldn't get a ticket!

It's not a Bladiest Blade competition. If we've got empty seats we should be filling them, whether people are regulars or have never been before.

A few years and we could be established in the Prem, have rebuilt the kop and be getting 40k plus. We've definitely got potential to be an Everton size club and we could leave the pigs standing. But it's not going to happen if we don't get new fans in. We need new faces coming every season.

At the minute a dad wants to take his lad to a his first game and what's the reply? Yeah you can have a ticket, but you've also got to buy a ticket for Bournemouth in a month and half, and it's going cost you £120. It's crackers.

 

[Maidenhead]

Again, lots of people go to games but never registered for points as theres never been any reason to.

My father's an example, he's been going since the early 70s, but hasn't been this season as over the last ten years whenever he's been, I've just bought the ticket for him.

If he had gone to a single game last season you would have had to either register his details or use someone else's details as it was one ticket per number then too.

I'm all for making tickets easier for new or casual supporters to obtain, as evidenced by my many previous posts about growing our supporter base, but continual whinges about so and so that has been going for donkeys years and now can't get tickets are beginning to grind.

If anyone that has been attending games for years and went to a single home game in our promotion season finds themselves unable to get a ticket in the Premier League, then it's their own bloody fault.

 

[Maidenhead]

I've never had a problem buying two tickets on my number.

Well you haven't done it in at least the last season and a half then!

 

[Uncle mick]

Definitely. If they removed the requirement of loyally points when it gets to general sale we’d have sold out last week. I‘ve no idea why we don’t want to encourage an extra 1,000-1,500 casual fans/ students/kids in if the seats are there. Some could become become regular supporters and the lifeblood of the club.

They only had to go to one cup game to get required points.
Why havent they been all season oh I see it's prem champions in town.
Sod em

 

[Maidenhead]

Well you haven't done it in at least the last season and a half then!

In fact thinking about it, my daughter comes with me occasionally and the last time I got her a ticket (Fulham at home 3-5 whenever that was) I needed a number for her and was surprised to find that she was already registered on the system!

 

[thawot]

Well you haven't done it in at least the last season and a half then!

Well you haven't done it in at least the last season and a half then!

I've been in the ticket office and bought two tickets a handful of times last season and only ever gave them my name and address. No-one mentioned anything about customer numbers to me.

Anyway the point isn't really to complain about not being able to get a ticket for any one game in particular, it's just crazy to me how unwelcoming the policy is for new supporters.

 

[MMBUTB]

I sit in the John street and it’s been like this almost every game. I think personally it’s a let down. Is this all down to the loyalty points system?

 

[Maidenhead]

I've been in the ticket office and bought two tickets a handful of times last season and only ever gave them my name and address. No-one mentioned anything about customer numbers to me.

Forgive me if I don't believe that.

 

[Pedro's Winger]

Tickets are too expensive and never should have been set so high when we now have multi millions from tv.
We've got away with it this season through the novelty of being in the Prem and the team doing well but next season not so sure we will.
There must be an argument for selling more season tickets as well, if possible.

 

[Maidenhead]

Tickets are too expensive and never should have been set so high when we now have multi millions from tv.
We've got away with it this season through the novelty of being in the Prem and the team doing well but next season not so sure we will.
There must be an argument for selling more season tickets as well, if possible.

If you think prices are too high now it will be very interesting to see what next season's renewal prices are.

I'm worrying about an "if you want Premier League football then you have to pay Premier League prices" ( c Ken Bates) type announcement.

 

[Blade56]

Is this all down to the loyalty points system?

Wasn’t there some emergency meeting called in the Copthorne with fans and the club back end of last year re loyalty points after young kids were getting away tickets?

 

[GrayBlade]

They only had to go to one cup game to get required points.
Why havent they been all season oh I see it's prem champions in town.
Sod em

Yeah, let’s turn down 40 quid a throw. Serves them right even though we’ve no idea of their individual circumstances.

Come on, why would any business turn down income? I’m going to watch ‘1917’ at Cineworld later this week. I’m fooking glad that I don’t need a stub from ‘Cats’ before I can buy a ticket.

 

[MMBUTB]

Wasn’t there some emergency meeting called in the Copthorne with fans and the club back end of last year re loyalty points after young kids were getting away tickets?

Im not sure mate. Away games is another argument that’s been done a fair few times.

 

[Pedro's Winger]

If you think prices are too high now it will be very interesting to see what next season's renewal prices are.

I'm worrying about an "if you want Premier League football then you have to pay Premier League prices" ( c Ken Bates) type announcement.

If they've got any sense they will freeze prices but also look at individual match ticket initiatives.
We've got Bournemouth coming up, another tv match. That's the sort of the game that needs a bit of imagination on ticketing but they're a bit stuck this season with the structures they've set.
Concern is that the Prince hasn't got the money to easily buy the assets off McCabe and tries to make more money out of the paying punters.

 

[thawot]

Forgive me if I don't believe that.

ok sausage

 

[Whiston Blade]

£40, mid-week and on t.v. For anyone who's struggling financially, it's a no brainer. We might be in the PL, playing Man City and are 7th in the league but this is Sheffield and some people don't have that money spare.

 

[thawot]

I sit in the John street and it’s been like this almost every game. I think personally it’s a let down. Is this all down to the loyalty points system?

Loyalty points themselves aren't a bad system, giving first dibs to more committed supporters is fine, the problem is the club won't put left-overs on general sale.

 

[wakefieldblade]

And just because there are that many tickets unavailable doesn't mean that they will all be there, either. Midweek games will always give people a problem getting there because of work/study/travel commitments.

The two seats either side of me (Row EE in the Kop) are both assigned to season ticket holders but neither have been sat in for a single game all season.

Actually, maybe that says something about me??? :-0

UTB

I sit on row CC and had to move away from you...

 

[metalblade]

Last few weeks in January are always bad for attendances due to it being six weeks between pay days for a lot of people add that to the expense of Christmas and not everyone will have any spare cash. At up to £40 a ticket I don't think we are doing bad at all if there are only 800 or so left these will all be the dreaded restricted view seats no doubt. Still good value to see 90mins football against some of the best teams in the world when you could pay the same to watch some lower league crap and walk out after 45mins.

 

[Ranmoorblade]

Loyalty points themselves aren't a bad system, giving first dibs to more committed supporters is fine, the problem is the club won't put left-overs on general sale.

That’s because they don’t want to sell to away fans.

 

[Grecian2000]

If they have gone to 10 games a season they would not have a problem getting a game tonight.

Great news. Any particular position available? I don't want to weaken the side too much, maybe I'll take the Norwood role, fancy myself with a few fucking pings.