I did put forward the idea of a 5 year ST. I was fortunate to have one last time and it was without doubt fantastic value. Less than £800 for Lane End Top Tier which they changed to South Stand after one season due to opening this to away fans. I think the cost of one on the South stand was £1200.
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I did put forward the idea of a 5 year ST. I was fortunate to have one last time and it was without doubt fantastic value. Less than £800 for Lane End Top Tier which they changed to South Stand after one season due to opening this to away fans. I think the cost of one on the South stand was £1200.
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Just found my renewal brochure on the doormat. On the front there's a montage consisting of...
A monochrome picture of a lad who looks like he's just seen a car crash.
A particularly irate looking blonde lass.
A very bored infant.
And a befuddled looking chap sporting a Timmy Mallet baseball cap.
True Blades indeed.
A monochrome picture of a lad who looks like he's just seen a car crash. - Taken at Home Vs Scunny
A particularly irate looking blonde lass. - Just been announced Nossy is Starting
A very bored infant. - Could be any Home Game this Season
And a befuddled looking chap sporting a Timmy Mallet baseball cap. - Cressy is Starting again
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It was called Blades 2000 and was for the first 2,000 fans who bought one in the 2000/2001 season. Trouble was only 200 odd were sold. (We're back to the biggest Blade competition) I was one of them too and it was great value for money. Apart from £800 for five years, there was also a limited edition picture of Alan Kelly saving a penalty against Coventry in the FA cup, which he presented to each Blades 2000 member, a special dinner, your name on your seat and several other perks. The fact that so few were sold is probably the reason it isn't being done again.
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I'd go for that Swiss :thumbup:
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This still doesn't answer the question. You said we should ALL boycott season tickets, then said you might get one. If you do get one then you are hardly a man of your word, are you?
That's what you said. If you meant it, you won't be getting one, because there has not been a reduction in price.
If you didn't mean it then what did you type it for? Attention-seeking bluster?
Will you get a season ticket? Yes or no? I appreciate that in the past you have struggled to provide a simple answer to a simple question, but if you won't even stand by the words you expect others to take notice of it rather cheapens everthing else you have said on this forum.
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Thanks for that NY
They were great values and you surprise me that only 200 were sold. It was cracking value and what it would have been to finances if all 2000 had been sold.
I wonder what would have happened to all the money?
How are Mrs and Mr Deeks by the way?
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How does this work then? We've got all the information about the price for our season tickets next year, and how much it'll cost per month, but its a 2 year renewal so do we pay for 2 years now (call it £600/£60 per month) or do we just pay for one season ticket now, and then pay again next year?
I'll more than likely end up getting one but theres no way I can afford £600 and I'd rather not pay £60 a month.
I'll more than likely end up getting one but theres no way I can afford £600 and I'd rather not pay £60 a month.
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No - you just buy one this year and then you buy next year's at the same price
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I agree with this a swell as the kids are the moaning fans of the future!!!
I'm not sure whether or not the promise of no reductions, mini-season tickets etc will backfire or not. Maybe they are expoecting us to storm up whatever League we are in and thus attract fans prepared to pay full whack for every match
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I agree with this a swell as the kids are the moaning fans of the future!!!
I'm not sure whether or not the promise of no reductions, mini-season tickets etc will backfire or not. Maybe they are expoecting us to storm up whatever League we are in and thus attract fans prepared to pay full whack for every match
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That's probably the case. But I will bare my arse on the town hall steps if we're in the play-off positions come the end of next season. Staying up and bottoming out will be success for me. That's how far we've fallen.
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That now looks even less likely today. At least the other relegation candidates (Except for Scuuny I see) have had bad results - we just never seem to capitalise though do we?
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LOL, I meant staying up in league 1 next year! I've written this season off weeks ago.
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LOL, I meant staying up in league 1 next year! I've written this season off weeks ago.
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I'd almost rather go straight down to Division 4 - we had a great season last time we did that. I think our previous spells in Division 3 lasted far too long
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Shoreham, I know you get more excited by my posts than the team but you are beginning to get a bit tiresome.
Yes I think everyone boycotting season tickets would be a good idea as we seem to have precious few ways of actually getting any sense out of the board.
Perhaps talk of a boycott/attention seeking bluster (which other fans also suggested) prompted at least a price freeze, who knows. It's not as if we're likely to get any feedback from our alleged fans rep on what happened with any of the ideas put forward.
Sometimes ideas, like a boycott, are put forward as a gambit, as a threat, call it a negotiation tool if you like. A bit like threatening to go on strike.
You might not do it but it's worth letting the other side know the idea's out there.
But at the end of the day, all this is is a sideshow to the main event which is the crushing of the soul of the club.
I'm no longer sure that's ever going to be recovered and the club's chances of ever being a substantial presence in English football look like they've gone with it.
Football elsewhere is advancing further and further away both on the pitch and off it financially.
At Bramall Lane we're heading in the opposite direction.
Yes I think everyone boycotting season tickets would be a good idea as we seem to have precious few ways of actually getting any sense out of the board.
Perhaps talk of a boycott/attention seeking bluster (which other fans also suggested) prompted at least a price freeze, who knows. It's not as if we're likely to get any feedback from our alleged fans rep on what happened with any of the ideas put forward.
Sometimes ideas, like a boycott, are put forward as a gambit, as a threat, call it a negotiation tool if you like. A bit like threatening to go on strike.
You might not do it but it's worth letting the other side know the idea's out there.
But at the end of the day, all this is is a sideshow to the main event which is the crushing of the soul of the club.
I'm no longer sure that's ever going to be recovered and the club's chances of ever being a substantial presence in English football look like they've gone with it.
Football elsewhere is advancing further and further away both on the pitch and off it financially.
At Bramall Lane we're heading in the opposite direction.
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Len, I don't get excited by your posts, I just wonder how much more twisting and turning you are capable of. Frankly all your mouth and no trousers is getting a bit tiresome. Sorry, has long since left tiresome struggling to catch up.
You said all Blades should boycott season ticket purchases, then said you might get one. Perhaps talk of a boycott was what some might class as "just another wind-up" and some might class as "bollocks". Unless you're boycotting purchasing a season ticket until just before the deadline? In other words, not boycotting your season ticket purchase at all.
Either way, by saying one thing and then contradicting yourself you've shown that you can't even stick to what you believe in, so why should anyone else take any notice of what you say?
Now you are saying it's a ".........gambit, as a threat, call it a negotiation tool.........you might not do it.....". Is this a new way of basically asking others to do that which you yourself are not prepared to? Why not ask your mum to write that nasty Mr. McCabe a letter, as you won't even go and face him yourself?
Sorry len, but this has really shown you to be something other than a man of your word. If you had the guts to stand by what you have urged others to do then you won't be getting a season ticket. Anything else is just more hot air.
We are all fully aware of how badly Sheffield United are doing, but this doesn't distract us from you, self-proclaimed "always right" have said you would do one thing and then said you might do the total opposite. Which is it to be? Not buy one, and at least show us that you can stand by your words? Or buy one, and show us that you are nothing more than a wind-up merchant?
As a reminder, here, once again, is what lenners said, on Tuesday 1st March 2011 -
There has been no reduction in price. So as it's the only power lenners can use, and he's advocating that the rest of us boycott season tickets, will he stand by his word?
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I'd hazard a guess you've never been in a union Shoreham.
But the really odd thing is that our club is in danger of being destroyed for a generation and yet what excites you most.
And to think I didn't claim the brownie points for the price freeze in the first place.
The two posts of mine you should really remember from the last 12 months or so though are identifying there were unlikely to be three worse teams than us last summer and more importantly identifying the loss of soul, a lot of it going with the Kyles' sales.
Both were met with the usual hysterics but both have been utterly, utterly bang on the money.
But the really odd thing is that our club is in danger of being destroyed for a generation and yet what excites you most.
And to think I didn't claim the brownie points for the price freeze in the first place.
The two posts of mine you should really remember from the last 12 months or so though are identifying there were unlikely to be three worse teams than us last summer and more importantly identifying the loss of soul, a lot of it going with the Kyles' sales.
Both were met with the usual hysterics but both have been utterly, utterly bang on the money.
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I will grant you that Leonard. But you have been forecasting impending doom every season for over a decade. That you've got one right shouldn't be a total surprise.
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heh.. yeah who is this guy?.. i don't believe he exists either.. anyways.. could you two guys kiss and make up or something.. this feud is getting out of hand IMO.. nice one lads
heh.. yeah who is this guy?.. i don't believe he exists either.. anyways.. could you two guys kiss and make up or something.. this feud is getting out of hand IMO.. nice one lads
shorehamview
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Hmmm, well we had some fun with the results predictions but other than that I've always put forward arguments based on reality.
One of the best suggestions (again met by the usual hysterics) was pressing for vastly improved marketing for tickets which the club, to its credit, took up.
Sadly, as the leadership of the club has disappeared, so has any hope of creativity in this area.
The one thing that really sticks out for me now though is I'm no longer sure we'll ever be back.
In the 4th division and in the 3rd division, on both occasions, you knew we would be back.
This time, there are a lot of Blades who've lost that belief and faith.
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So, if I understand correctly len, you're not involved in any fans' forum, you don't go to the AGM, you refused the chance to have a face to face meeting with the fans' rep, so you're not involved in negotiatiing with the club in any way? Yet somehow, your agitating on this message board alone has brought about the only positive things that have come out of Bramall Lane. The wrongs that haven't been righted are not your repsonsibility, they're down to our "alleged fans' rep" and his incompetence, amongst others.
I may be tedious and you'd be a good judge of that, but I'm not delusional.
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Lenners has as much to do with the season ticket price freeze as he has to do with the sun rising in the morning.
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That is true and the sun rises in the morning with the same inevitability as many of us getting our season tickets year in, year out.
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Lenner's alter ego is the Egyptian sun god, Ra.
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Ra Ra Rasputin maybe?
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It's almost as if you believe the club doesn't read what's on messageboards. Hmm, probably not delusional but definitely wrong.
As for the alleged fans' rep, he's a dead duck beyond some of the ace, ironic choices of music. He's quickly become as accountable and visible as McCabe.
Of course, the problems surrounding his lack of accountability and visibility were mentioned some time ago Trig.
And I do it all for free.
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Len, don't you think allowing all regular fans the option of buying a season ticket at renewal prices as being something quite original and different thinking.
I'm sure some fans might be tempted back with this kind of offer.
The biggest problem at the minute is the management of the first team, if we were looking at staying up it would have been a tremendous ST deal.
I'm sure some fans might be tempted back with this kind of offer.
The biggest problem at the minute is the management of the first team, if we were looking at staying up it would have been a tremendous ST deal.
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Well my older brother (who hasnt had a ST for years) has just had the offer on his doormat and thinks its great. If he thinks its a good offer then anyone might because he is a very difficult man to please.
I think this offer will be more favourable to those who lapsed prior to last season. I'm not at all tempted to renew at this moment in time. With the standard on offer at the moment I'm not sure I could endure it week in week out in that league so I'll probably pick and choose my games and spare seats wont exactly be in short supply next season.
So 5,000 ST holders are offered a ST at price x last year and refuse to buy one.
One year later - after a few more good players are sold, the club is in freefall and is either going to be playing in a lower league or is going to have an utterly meaningless season in the championship for the umpteenth season - we offer those same fans a ST at....price x again.
Yes that is incredibly original and creative thinking by the club. It's groundbreaking stuff and I for one am going to get down to the Lane early doors cos the queues are going to be massive.
In fact probably the biggest queues we've had since we launched our incredible half ST offers in December when we spent thousands and probably tens of thousands on design, print and distribution of glossy brochures offering half price STs at an incredible £70 less than a full season ST and no doubt ended up failing to get back our costs from the handful we would have sold.
And if you think that if we had stayed up then a price freeze would have been a tremendous deal than I despair. Just what would the fans have to look forward to next season that would make them want to renew.
This is not baout the odd bad season and staying loyal this is years of decline and mismanagement and recession and fans saying they have had enough. Wasn't 5,000 not renewing a big enough warning to the club?
By failing to announce price cuts and imaginative deals the club has given up on the 5,000 that didn't renew last season. Saying they can buy them at the price they refused to buy them last season is hardly going to have them frothing.
I'm sure one or two will buy them - though I suspect they will be outweighed by the numbers of existing ST holders who don't renew so overall we will lose ST holders again. I hope I am wrong.
I just hope relegation gives them the chance for a rethink and a relaunch of ST prices in May and refund those who will have bought by the ridiculous early deadline.
One year later - after a few more good players are sold, the club is in freefall and is either going to be playing in a lower league or is going to have an utterly meaningless season in the championship for the umpteenth season - we offer those same fans a ST at....price x again.
Yes that is incredibly original and creative thinking by the club. It's groundbreaking stuff and I for one am going to get down to the Lane early doors cos the queues are going to be massive.
In fact probably the biggest queues we've had since we launched our incredible half ST offers in December when we spent thousands and probably tens of thousands on design, print and distribution of glossy brochures offering half price STs at an incredible £70 less than a full season ST and no doubt ended up failing to get back our costs from the handful we would have sold.
And if you think that if we had stayed up then a price freeze would have been a tremendous deal than I despair. Just what would the fans have to look forward to next season that would make them want to renew.
This is not baout the odd bad season and staying loyal this is years of decline and mismanagement and recession and fans saying they have had enough. Wasn't 5,000 not renewing a big enough warning to the club?
By failing to announce price cuts and imaginative deals the club has given up on the 5,000 that didn't renew last season. Saying they can buy them at the price they refused to buy them last season is hardly going to have them frothing.
I'm sure one or two will buy them - though I suspect they will be outweighed by the numbers of existing ST holders who don't renew so overall we will lose ST holders again. I hope I am wrong.
I just hope relegation gives them the chance for a rethink and a relaunch of ST prices in May and refund those who will have bought by the ridiculous early deadline.
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