George Street-Bridge wrote:Fair enough, I hadn't read it carefully enough.

But I'm now with whoever it was predicted levels of bureaucracy for the club, with minimal gain in revenue. If any at all.

Hardly bureaucracy, it's a voucher book. So do you consider Season Tickets a loss making venture, cos mine this season gives me NINE (count 'em), nine free matches.

I'm off to sleep now cos I been in work all night.
End of the day, The Club will run with some ideas, and reject others. I believe there's a group of fans it would benefit.

newgroundrodney wrote:I'm off to sleep now cos I been in work all night.
End of the day, The Club will run with some ideas, and reject others. I believe there's a group of fans it would benefit.

But you can't have a designer ticket to suit the demand of every supporter. I'd go along with a six ticket package as happens at Plymouth. You don't have to nominate the games, but it's a good idea to do so for high demand games - first and last of the season, Portsmouth and I suppose Sunderland this year.

It's a voucher book which would need bureaucracy around security printing, re-ordering, vouchers needing to be tallied.

The thing about STs is they provide cash flow when the club needs it. But if you see them as already a loss-maker, why risk adding another loss-maker to the list?

A substantial number of people must buy STs knowing they won't get to anywhere near the full number of games so in those cases they are a mechanism for making a donation to the club. Mrs Street-Bridge and I in effect pay double the walk-up rate, with the benefit that we get seats with a good view among people we like sitting with.

Also, would people really buy a 12 match ticket book to save a couple of quid a game even though they wouldn't be guaranteed to watch a game they want (unlikely I know, but still possible, like a Crawley scenario) and still have to queue up anyway?

What I said on the ticketmaster thread applies equally here. There is the argument that if you never do anything you never make a mistake. It is though an erroneous argument,

Never doing anything is the biggest mistake of them all.

Someone has made a suggestion, as nearly always there are potential downsides which it's well worth identifying and discussing.

Stan A. Einstein wrote:What I said on the ticketmaster thread applies equally here. There is the argument that if you never do anything you never make a mistake. It is though an erroneous argument,

Never doing anything is the biggest mistake of them all.

Are we supposed to just agree with his idea then? It's great NGR is putting out suggestions but I thought he put that up to get our thoughts on it, start a discussion... is it wrong to highlight any potential concerns or 'downsides'?

Exile 1976 wrote:

Stan A. Einstein wrote:What I said on the ticketmaster thread applies equally here. There is the argument that if you never do anything you never make a mistake. It is though an erroneous argument,

Never doing anything is the biggest mistake of them all.

Are we supposed to just agree with his idea then? It's great NGR is putting out suggestions but I thought he put that up to get our thoughts on it, start a discussion... is it wrong to highlight any potential concerns or 'downsides'?

Absolutely not. However look at the manner of the questioning. Do QPR do it, if not why not? The general idea of a discount for multi purchase works. Can NGR's idea be refined? Yes.of course, but just trawl back there are some posters on here who rarely if ever see the positive side of any suggestions.

I'd seriously consider buying one, and I don't go to anywhere near 12 homes a season at the moment. Depending on the wife's interest in football (currently at a ten year low), that could end up being 24 match tickets, probably more than twice the number I'd usually buy in a season.

Superb idea ngr but some on here still will struggle to see that,lack of education and common sense unfortunately.