Season Tickets - 2011/12 - Page 9

Pendle Red · 08-04-2011, 14:14

Crown paint/Crown Ground just coming out of sponsoring Rovers

Pendle Red · 08-04-2011, 14:18

Ilyas is it possible the Early Bird Season Ticket deadline can be extended beyond the 30th April?

At least then it may give more people a chance to come up with the cash rather than trying to find it in just over three weeks which is a big ask.

expatriate · 08-04-2011, 14:20

Pendle Red, i will certainly ask about the deadline. I suspect that once the deadline is out, there is some merit in sticking to it, otherwise those who have made the cut and got the discount, will then have a grievance. However, I will certainly ensure the team thinks about this.

maccawozzagod · 08-04-2011, 14:24

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Originally Posted by expatriate

Macca, your posts are very clear (and eloquent). would you be prepared and happy to go along to the club and chat to Rob and explain your views ?
Ilyas

well yes and no to be honest. I'm not trying to be awkward but the prices are set and I can't see anybody going back on it with all the best will in the world.

My views are relatively plain and straightforward an don't particularly need any further explaining. Besides which I once had a very long and very constructive evening with Rob whilst I went through my ideas on the giving a shirt to every eleven year old in the borough. The meeting went very well and much was deliberated. The end result of which was that it was an idea that will certainly be expanded upon. 3 months later (after further legwork on my behalf) we released a new shirt mid season which entirely killed the idea dead. You were well aware of the idea and liked it as you had agreed to fund it. The idea never went ahead. Going to the club and spending any length of time discussing something just seems like a waste of both of our time.

The point of it all is that this club needs to re-connect with the borough. There are plentiful ideas out there but it needs to be as part of a wider strategy rather than one hit wonders. It's all well and good doing bits here and there but without a well thought strategy they will have little effect.

A lot can come down to you Ilyas. You are the man with the money. You are the man who has committed to propping us up in the short term. I believe that by spending some in certain directions it could reap bigger dividends. One of those directions is by giving it away. Easy for e to say it's not my money, and people like our good friend Onymofo might well scoff at giving it away, but the club has asked for money for a long time and has always (for decades) been the poor relation in the borough. There are so many, many parallels with Stanley 2011, Stanley 1968, Stanley 1921 and Accrington 1893 that we have to change something in our approach or we will carry on going down the same well trodden path as history tells us.

I would be willing to discuss these sort of matters at any length and with anybody you please. I would also be willing to sit down with anybody anywhere in order to offer my views on a marketing strategy.

I offer my views not as a market analyst, or business graduate, but as somebody who identifies with every person on the street of Hyndburn who may or may not attend games for a whole host of reasons.

Fourth official · 08-04-2011, 14:27

The thought we had would be a recipricol arrangement with other clubs eg Accrington Golf Club. Where benefits would be for both parties eg Discount on Match day tickets for Golf club members or Discount on green fees for those Stanley season ticket holders who play golf.Hopefully forging close links and pushing the club out to the community and possibly increasing gates and business contacts,with golf/conference/catering facilities.

Just an idea.....

Pendle Red · 08-04-2011, 14:35

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Originally Posted by maccawozzagod

The point of it all is that this club needs to re-connect with the borough. There are plentiful ideas out there but it needs to be as part of a wider strategy rather than one hit wonders. It's all well and good doing bits here and there but without a well thought strategy they will have little effect.

That would be even bigger than any promotion

maccawozzagod · 08-04-2011, 14:46

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Originally Posted by Pendle Red

That would be even bigger than any promotion

and would be more successful riding on the back of a promotion .....

expatriate · 08-04-2011, 14:47

Macca and others. I appreciate all your thoughts and views. My own modus operandi has always been to focus on the positive. Good things really do happen to good people, and oft times repitition is critical. for those of you who have a relationship with the club then please dont judge us by the past. Give us a chance. But if we still make mistakes, please tell us ! I know that its so easy to find the negative and the faults, but in the case of accy stan, there are so many positives that we can do a number of things whilst we understand and figure out a longer term strategy (eg getting a new home for the team in the form of a stadium). What i mean here is that my Rob and his colleagues will try their best to reach out to the community in the short term, but also hope to get a lift from the enormous amount of interesting thoughts that you are all coming up with. Sometimes it makes sense to act quickly on an idea. In fact many times a longer term strategy becomes more clear only when small baby steps have been taken.

finally for now, turning my thoughts to tonight, thank you for all the fans going on the trip down to Macclesfield to support Coley, Jimmy and the boys.

Ilyas

CLAYTON RED · 09-04-2011, 11:37

Oh Well, Simple choice for me.

That's me out of it for this year, I will probably go to the odd game now and pay on the gate.

lancsdave · 09-04-2011, 11:51

Probably the most ironic thing last night was the Macclesfield announcer telling them to watch out next week for the reduction in season ticket prices for next season.

I looked on their website and apparently they are reducing season tickets and offering other incentives to try and get the money in.No details yet.

I'm guessing they are working on the theory that you get as many as in as possible with low season ticket prices and then look at other ways of getting money out of those who can afford more. Given their similarity to Stanley in the annual battle of who has the least support it will be interesting to see what they come up with

Pendle Red · 09-04-2011, 11:51

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Originally Posted by CLAYTON RED

Oh Well, Simple choice for me.

That's me out of it for this year, I will probably go to the odd game now and pay on the gate.

Sorry to hear that Clayton Red and others

Just a quick question would an extension on the deadline date for early bird renewals make any difference in being able to re-knew Clayton Red or any others?

smudgie · 09-04-2011, 12:04

Yes it would Pendle , I simply cannot afford to find the cash within a few weeks, and I know alot of others are in the same boat as me.

End of May would be fine.

Dont get me wrong I feel its still too big a jump in price, but if thats the price theres nothing anybody can do.

Doug · 09-04-2011, 12:07

It's been said so many times by different people but never gets an airing. Get a panel together of key supporters; community interests groups; local Government, local business leaders and the club. Turn the all thing on its head and really make it a community club. an handful of the right people consulting with each other on a regular basis would spare us these issue before they arise. The council and local business community should be a door opener to wider contacts and sponsorship; the fans and local community groups coming together could fill the ground with potential future supporters by working on club and public projects that get's Stanley noticed. But it only starts with the right people talking and listening to each other.

CLAYTON RED · 09-04-2011, 12:24

It would not make differance to me, its the cost for me.

JEFF · 11-04-2011, 13:05

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Probably the most ironic thing last night was the Macclesfield announcer telling them to watch out next week for the reduction in season ticket prices for next season.

I looked on their website and apparently they are reducing season tickets and offering other incentives to try and get the money in.No details yet.

I'm guessing they are working on the theory that you get as many as in as possible with low season ticket prices and then look at other ways of getting money out of those who can afford more. Given their similarity to Stanley in the annual battle of who has the least support it will be interesting to see what they come up with

Maccledfield's early bird season ticket prices for this season were
Main Stand - Adult - £299
Concession - £230
Under 16 - £50

Star Lane End & London Road Terrace - Adult - £230
Concession - £165
Under 16 - £50

The full price was
Main Stand - Adult - £375
Concession - £300
Under 16 - £50

Star Lane End and London Road Terrace - Adult - £300
Concession - £210
Under 16 - £50