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Seems we have lost 5,000 after all.
Tut tut, very careless United, very careless.
 

It's in tonight's Star.
Bob, are you about to suggest another peculiar theory similar to your one on transfer fees?
 
lenners said:
It's in tonight's Star.
Bob, are you about to suggest another peculiar theory similar to your one on transfer fees?
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What peculiar theory would that be? That James Shields generally know fuck all about what is going on at United?

I'll ask again Len, why no quotes on the figures but plenty elsewhere in the article?
 
Much as it pains me to defend Len...

http://www.thestar.co.uk/blades/Stay-with-us-say-Blades.6451722.jp

and for the clickless, midway down the article it says:

United have sold an estimated 14,000 season passes for the forthcoming campaign ; around 4,000 down on the previous campaign.
According to some sources, replicating last term's figure would generate an extra £1m in income.
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However, the author is James Shield and he's not exactly known for his attention to detail about anything United.
 
lenners said:
In a begging article based around Birch's comments, it'll be right.
Take the piss out of the fans long enough and they walk away.
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How are season ticket sales going at the rest of the Championship's clubs going, indeed how are Prem sales going given that Man Utd no longer have a waiting list? How are our local rivals (Donny and Barnsley) doing? What impact has the recent budget had on sales? Where are the official numbers? I guess we dont have the lustre of being a World Cup venue (possibly maybe) to boost sales though?
 
It doesn't matter SE, those figures aren't correct. Len's just getting excited because he said we would lose more than the Wednesday and lose 7K and this means he is only 2,000 out.

Out of interest I'm sure Norwich have sold all their ST allocation, but then again they always do.

Maybe we need to take out an advert in the Star.
 
We have sold 17-18,000. Do you really believe what James Shields writes? He uses BladesMad to get scoops on transfers, the Star uses Sheffield Forum to get news from.

Joke paper
 
I'm actually doubtful we've topped 18K but if we have that is great figures for United I just can't see it.
 

The one thing I would say about Narrch is that they haven't got another football league club within about 50 miles of them, which has got be a tremendous advantage. I won't denigrate that achievement, because I think it should be applauded, an average of 25000 last year in L1 was outstanding.

However, just think that within a 50 mile drive of the Lane, there is swfc, Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster, Chesterfield, Derby, Forest, Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford. That is a large congregation of clubs in a fairly smallish area, with a high population concentration. In Norwich's case, most of Norfolk will probably support them, and Ipswich have got the whole of Suffolk on their side. Imagine if either United or Wednesday existed as a single city club, and that Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham did not have a football league side.
The potential for either would be to pull 40-50000 inside either the Lane or Hillsborough.

I feel that we were always going to take a drop this year, the only way sales would have gone up was if United had. I think if we had scraped play offs and perhaps had another Wembley appearance we might have kept another 1500 or so, because the excitement level at renewal time would have been there. The recession has bitten everywhere, and I think many gates at non - Prem teams will fall.
 
Are you using the quote from BM? If so I think he is getting confused with what the staff were told at the renewal date. 18K seems too high and I can't see although I'd love it to be true.

I would suggest closer to 16K would be right nearly 3K down.
 
Flatulent_Bob said:
Are you using the quote from BM? If so I think he is getting confused with what the staff were told at the renewal date. 18K seems too high and I can't see although I'd love it to be true.

I would suggest closer to 16K would be right nearly 3K down.
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The club has told the staff that they are 1,000 down on the total (19,000) from last season
 
Reality Check Clappers!
Birch wouldn't have come out with that b****cks if it wasn't hurting the Blades!
Mr Birch get rid of the clown in charge of the team ie Blackwell and I for one would walk down to BDTBL and purchase a season ticket
We have signed a few free transfers, the clappers are ecstatic thinking that we will walk the league Get a reality check clappers, with Blackwell in charge we will win 'Nowt'
 
samcunliffe said:
The club has told the staff that they are 1,000 down on the total (19,000) from last season
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Well if that's the case then it wouldn't be the worst idea to say that on our website, especially given the article in tonight's Stir.
 
Even though United's PR has been going backwards, if we'd sold 18,000 then they'd be have been shouting about it on the website and in press releases by now.

I know of many long time Blades, including myself, who aren't renewing. Shareholders, Blades Revival, home and away Blades - not glory hunters.

United won't get season ticket sales back up unless we get promoted and many won't pay on the day evry week even if we are doing well.

We've lost thousands of fans and it was blindingly obvious all through last season that fans were completely bored and disenchanted and that the club needed to do something really creative with selling season tickets to hold on to those fans - and we came up with effectively nothing.

I guess for some on here the penny will only drop when you see the first few home attendances.
 
Tuns said:
Even though United's PR has been going backwards, if we'd sold 18,000 then they'd be have been shouting about it on the website and in press releases by now.

I know of many long time Blades, including myself, who aren't renewing. Shareholders, Blades Revival, home and away Blades - not glory hunters.

United won't get season ticket sales back up unless we get promoted and many won't pay on the day evry week even if we are doing well.

We've lost thousands of fans and it was blindingly obvious all through last season that fans were completely bored and disenchanted and that the club needed to do something really creative with selling season tickets to hold on to those fans - and we came up with effectively nothing.

I guess for some on here the penny will only drop when you see the first few home attendances.
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They live in a world of theier own Tuns and think by repeating the tripe they come out with that things will happen eg a sellout on the opening home game
Get real Clappers Until the Blades get rid of Blackwell the crowds will hover around 21,000 max
 
14,000 season ticket sales at BDTBL with cheap as chips still in charge is a minor miricle............. he'll get found out sooner or later....and so will mcCabe.
 
I think we're all looking forward to the statement confirming sales of 18,000 and that Birch's comments were all miscontrued and he hadn't realised that actually we'd sold nearly as many as last season.
I'd be surprised if there's anyone on this forum that doesn't know of at least one season ticket holder - and they're often long standing - who's decided to walk away from the club this year.
 
Come from away said:
As a fan of SUFC I don't understand the apparent pride some folk take in predicting we are losing fans, losing money and making it harder to go forward.
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I'm with you on that one.
Supporting your club obviously means pulling them down every chance you get, criticising every move they make and generally thinking you could do a better job than a bunch of proffesional's that have all been working in football for years. Rather than as I do at a food factory.
so in short Food factory worker (or any other random job) = Better at running a football club than errrr, footballers and trained Football managers/coaches.
Easy really :D
 
lenners said:
I think we're all looking forward to the statement confirming sales of 18,000 and that Birch's comments were all miscontrued and he hadn't realised that actually we'd sold nearly as many as last season.
I'd be surprised if there's anyone on this forum that doesn't know of at least one season ticket holder - and they're often long standing - who's decided to walk away from the club this year.
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Only one person has commented on 18,000 ST anyway you said we'd lose 7,000 so you are way out regardless.

I seem to remember you saying something similar about how many we'd have by the end of the renewal discount deadline?
Tell me Len how did that one turn out for you, can't of been good because you didn't bump it.
 

Sensiblade said:
I'm with you on that one.
Supporting your club obviously means pulling them down every chance you get, criticising every move they make and generally thinking you could do a better job than a bunch of proffesional's that have all been working in football for years. Rather than as I do at a food factory.
so in short Food factory worker (or any other random job) = Better at running a football club than errrr, footballers and trained Football managers/coaches.
Easy really :D
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Yes, because football clubs all over the country have been so well run by the 'professionals', haven't they.
Drowning in debt, unable to pay taxes, tens of them have been in administration.
Cue the response at least we've avoided that.
Yes we have. But we're £50m in debt and that doesn't represent good management by the 'professionals'.
 
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