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Originally Posted by bdc
What can the OSC do that the club cant?
The club has the power to do special offers for tickets, to set the prices for admission, it has the avenues available to advertise the games and it has the option of making people aware of it on social media. The club are the ones that should be in the driving seat for things like this, especially the flexi-ticket option, this is something that should be advertised a lot more to increase the low sales of this ticket option.
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Quite correct, but I feel they don't do it adequately and many offers seem only to be advertised in the direction of those who are probably already going - back in the days when we had staff that knew how to operate the various systems I used to get fortnightly emails telling me how cheaply I could get a ticket for the next game
My off-the-top of my head grasp the nettle comment aims at maybe the OSC forcing the issue by keeping on at the club to do it earlier in the season and trying to maximise the whole event.
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Originally Posted by bdc
The OSC can advertise ticket sales on various social media platforms and pass on the word to other people, this is what us as fans can do too. Beyond spending our hard earned money on tickets there is little else we can do.
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to expand the idea then, and I'm making it up as I go along;
a series of events up to and during the 3 game push. These could club led and OSC led and could be along the lines a Sportsmans Dinner, a meet the new squad event with shirt signings and naming/numbering of the inevitable new shirt, a supporters disco, a sponsors gala, free ticket giveaways through avenue open to us, community team in and around the town centre. Some of these things are done occasionally, some aren't, but do them all at the same sort of time themed and targeted towards different groups.
Some sort of event could be organised aimed towards getting all the fans that travel a long way (such as Jimbo, Revived Red or Deayess) to come at the same time. Have we got contact details for the Irish fellas or the Norwegian chaps? Get everyone in together for the same game rather than each individual coming to random games alone.
That first home game of the season sets the tone for much of what is to follow and it should be proactively pushed, and those who may or may not come need to feel like they are really missing out if they don't.
I feel well qualified to comment on that last bit. Had I not spend much of the last 2/3 years unemployed then I'd probably still come to every game. As it is I have to pick and choose the games that I can come to, it has to
feel like it's a big occasion. Portsmouth almost did that for me all on its own, but in the end I chose to watch it at home. It just didn't seem to get pushed as being special in any way.