Are you in any of the following categories?

** I can't afford to buy a full Season Ticket outright
** I don't really want any monthly commitment
** I wanna help the club with some money up front though
** I can't get to every game
** I don't wanna be stuck in the same seat all season
** I never know if I can go til the morning of the match
** I don't mind if I have to queue at the ticket window

If the above applies to you, then you need the Newport County AFC 'Super 12' Flexi Ticket...
It's book of vouchers that you pay for upfront (£199 for adult Bisley seat for example) which entitles you to a ticket to ANY 12 games of your choice, in an unreserved seat, or a terrace ticket if you prefer. You don't need to book in advance (though it would help) and any unused tickets carry over to the following season.
When your voucher book is empty, you simply renew, or revert to 'pay on the day' (or online).
You'd need to purchase your match ticket at the ticket kiosk window because any ticket you buy will be subject to availability at the time.
You'd be helping the club by giving them SOME money up front. The club would also have extra 'droplets' of money coming in as people renew at different times.
You could give vouchers to friends as gifts in Birthday / Christmas cards. You could give vouchers to business clients , customers, staff incentive schemes, etc, etc,................

So there you have it. I know it's another repeat of one of my hair-brained schemes, but the more of the above that applies to you, the more you need the Newport County AFC 'Super 12' Flexi Ticket.

So can we have them made available please to those who'd prefer to use one.

Disagree completely.

It is not a rehash of a hair brained scheme.

It is a rehash of a very good idea which the club board would do well to listen to.

* EFL League 2 games only

You have a lot of good ideas. How much time do you have to spare? The club could definitely use your “out of the box” thinking in my opinion - even in an unofficial capacity to bounce ideas around.

rncfc wrote:You have a lot of good ideas. How much time do you have to spare? The club could definitely use your “out of the box” thinking in my opinion - even in an unofficial capacity to bounce ideas around.

Well the club do take note of ideas. A few elements of mine are creeping in gradually.

Good ideas , but futile in my opinion.
The stalwarts will already have their season tickets. The floaters will just see how the team are performing and attend accordingly. The £199 fee is actually a loss of £53 for 12 games based on the Bisley. Furthermore, If people wanted to take up a 12 game offer for £199, or people buy as presents, why on earth would they not pay £300 for a early bird season ticket to include 23 games? All we would be doing is confusing or duplicating everything.

I do not wish to porn scorn on any ideas, but this seems a lot of unnecessary work and effort for very little reward, plus the club would have to also produce ticketing books and marketing etc to appease a couple of dozen fans, if that.

Just a couple of observations. An idea like this is clearly not a suggestion for the coming season (is it??) as season ticketing arrangements are already announced. I agree that a 12 random matches special offer might mean that those who would normally attend 12 matches on an ad hoc arrangement buying this special offer would result in the club losing money. Finally, there isn't an 'early bird' price this season for first time buyers of a season ticket. The £300 Bisley season is for early renewals.

The standard full adult price for a seated Season Ticket is £350, against buying individually which would total £483 if I remember correctly. Works out something like 6 games free, but not many regard THAT as a loss. I don't see why a flexi ticket giving 2-and-a-half games free should be regarded as a loss either. It's to encourage people to pay something up front, lock them in, and ensure they DO INFACT return, at least twelve times any way.......
Personally, I believe it'll be more than a few dozen, because it sits nicely in the gap between full and half season tickets.

What we need to do as a supporter funded football club is come up with various ways of locking people and their money into the club. If we have to "lose" by giving away free games to get the larger amount up front, then so be it. Every club in the country has done it on Season Tickets for what seems like forever.
I'm sure there'll be plenty who fit into a number of those categories. Some will fit into all of them I reckon.
As for printing voucher books, we did it when the B&R was first launched. Nobody stopped the B&R because of printing costs..... we never stopped the 50/50 due to printing costs.

I can see a snag if this offered guaranteed admission to an unreserved seat - the club would have to leave that many seats unsold for every game just in case everyone holding a multi-ticket turned up, even if that's statistically improbable. And they'd have to be decent seats - i.e. not the block behind the goal line in the Bisley - for people to want to buy them in the first place.

I would offer six games maximum. If it was 12 it could undermine sales of full season tickets.

George Street-Bridge wrote:I can see a snag if this offered guaranteed admission to an unreserved seat - the club would have to leave that many seats unsold for every game just in case everyone holding a multi-ticket turned up, even if that's statistically improbable. And they'd have to be decent seats - i.e. not the block behind the goal line in the Bisley - for people to want to buy them in the first place.

I would offer six games maximum. If it was 12 it could undermine sales of full season tickets.

How would you know which seats are reserved or not as the WRU won't allow stickers.?

George Street-Bridge wrote:I can see a snag if this offered guaranteed admission to an unreserved seat - the club would have to leave that many seats unsold for every game just in case everyone holding a multi-ticket turned up, even if that's statistically improbable. And they'd have to be decent seats - i.e. not the block behind the goal line in the Bisley - for people to want to buy them in the first place.

I would offer six games maximum. If it was 12 it could undermine sales of full season tickets.

It's not guaranteed admission, it's first come first served, subject to availability as normal. If they want a guaranteed seat, they need to buy a full Season Ticket. Some people don't want the same seat every game.

I don't believe it would impact on full Season Ticket sales, because it's a different product, aimed at a different customer, with different needs and wants.

Taunton Iron Cider wrote:

George Street-Bridge wrote:I can see a snag if this offered guaranteed admission to an unreserved seat - the club would have to leave that many seats unsold for every game just in case everyone holding a multi-ticket turned up, even if that's statistically improbable. And they'd have to be decent seats - i.e. not the block behind the goal line in the Bisley - for people to want to buy them in the first place.

I would offer six games maximum. If it was 12 it could undermine sales of full season tickets.

How would you know which seats are reserved or not as the WRU won't allow stickers.?

Yes, if we sold maybe 500 the club would have to leave a block of 500 unreserved and unsold for every game. The alternative would risk creating conflict with ST holders needing stewards to turf people out of their reserved seats.

Stickers not relevant as you'd have the same conflict with people who have bought individual tickets for specific seats.

I went to Reading quite a bit when they moved to the Madejski. In the early years gates were only rarely into five figures, with capacity at 24,000. The deal was that although the STs were notionally attached to a seat, anyone could sit anywhere. I think it applied to two of the three home stands.

So I used to arrive really early - once I was the first person in the whole seated bowl - and get a seat on half-way which was absolutely bound to "belong" to an ST. But it only worked because there were thousands of seats empty every week and as soon as support grew, you had to sit in the specific seat you had bought for.

You wouldnt need to keep a block empty.. or ANY seats empty at all. It would be up to the voucher holder to purchase the required seat while it's available, just as you would if paying cash.
It really isn't about keeping seats empty at all.

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.