Yep. Guy who helped us buy our tickets on Thursday said they have presentations booked for at least the next couple of weeks. About 1k are being sold a week so at least another 2k will be sold. Then there are those people who have registered their interest in a season ticket via the club website. They haven't been offered the chance to purchase yet.
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Talksport season ticket update
- Thread starter DarrenFreemansPerm
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Yep. Guy who helped us buy our tickets on Thursday said they have presentations booked for at least the next couple of weeks. About 1k are being sold a week so at least another 2k will be sold. Then there are those people who have registered their interest in a season ticket via the club website. They haven't been offered the chance to purchase yet.
KLF
Albion Boleh!
Makes Rednob's quote in your signature, Sheebo, look even MORE stupid now!
Pat McCrotch
Lurker
This.
somerset
New member
Why do you all feel the need to separate 1901 from ST figures,... they are all ST's, just a different category,........ sheeeesh, get a grip, and stop with the pedantry,.... its 14000,...... simples.
Tyrone Biggums
Well-known member
Is Jo from Sussex?
She almost sounds Aussie too.
She almost sounds Aussie too.
somerset
New member
If they have the need and demand they will sell up to 18500,... thats 22500, less 2500 away fans ( capacity of South) and the 1500 in the East that, outside of cup demand for away fans, will be the tickets handed out as comps to competition winners, sponsors, adhoc guests, and also public sale,..... thats exactly the statement we had from the operations manager responsible for the stadium at the presentation last weekend,..... I have no reason to doubt what he said.
BrickTamland
Well-known member
I just wonder how much money this will make the club upfront if we sell around 15,000 s/t's or more!! and what this money will be spent on
Rough average price £400 (taking into account lots being cheaper for kiddies and oldies and lots more expensive for 1901s). 15000 x 400 = £6,000,000
BrickTamland
Well-known member
Thats a lot of money!!!
Enough to buy Andy Carroll's big toe!!
BrickTamland
Well-known member
Haha, it would appear so!
Lord Bracknell
On fire
A good proportion will be spent on repaying Tony Bloom's loan.
BrickTamland
Well-known member
Really? I would have thought that because the loan is interest free for 25 years (?) we would leave that untill we are secured in the championship, which would include buying new players which may cost some dosh, especially as Bloom has apparantly said we would have the 6th biggest budget in the championship next season.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
2023 is the date he is hoping to be paid back by. But any outstanding amount at that date he has said he may convert into shareholdings.
Haven't heard that before; source?
Albion Dan
Banned
To repay the loan in the 25 years we are looking at roughly £3.7m a year. I would imagine we will start paying it asap as the money/demand may start to tail off once the euphoria starts to die down.
The playing budget is completely up to Tony Bloom surely and how much more he wants to top up the loan.
The playing budget is completely up to Tony Bloom surely and how much more he wants to top up the loan.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
We don't know the terms of the loan. But what MUST be the case is that Tony Bloom has a sensible business plan that looks after both the football club's interests and his own.
The idea that NOTHING needs to be paid back for 25 years is absurd. There will be fixtures and fittings at the stadium that will need replacing long before 25 years is up. Tony Bloom's money has paid for the seats, for example. It would be ridiculous for the Club's income not to be used to pay for the first set of seats until 10 years after they have been thrown away.
There will be sensible scheduling of the debt repayments and some of the season ticket revenue will go into that pot. There'll be a playing budget as well, of course. But anybody who thinks that TB isn't expecting a penny to be repaid until 25 years are up is putting their faith in a financial model that will guarantee a major crisis long before that.
Early on in the planning process, the idea that a proportion of the costs of the stadium would be funded by the "securitisation" of season ticket revenue was central to the financial plans. It's a potentially expensive way of going about things, if finance costs are high. But if TB's money is interest-free, it makes sense for some - possibly most - of the construction costs to be covered by this source of income.
AMEXican Wave
AMEX Ruffian
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There is no written source for this. However, Tony Bloom himself said it at the Seagulls over London meeting at which he was special guest last year.