I have a cast iron five point plan to save the season [Merged]

[Deleted User X18H]

Hello

I've got a five point plan to save the season

1) Set up a mobile ticket office at Preston Park station on matchdays open until 2.45 and run shuttle mini buses to Withdean.

2) Take any unsold tickets to schools and clubs throughout Brighton and Hove and Sussex on Thursday and Fridays give them out free to kids and parent guardians . I believe Ian Hart advocates this.

3) Get back Lynch back and stick him at the back with Elphick Joel is a Brightonian and should want to almost die to play for Brighton and Hove Albion move on from all the background troubles.

4) Get a recognised 1st Team coach one who the players actually respect the guy on the Phone In who shouted up Inchy Heath had a good call.

5) Lead Balloon time but anyway......get ALL season ticket holders to renew for substantial discounts before year end.
Spend the cash on player investment in January. As an incentive give them the first season at Falmer free.....well we'll be cash rich by then...won't we??

 

[maffew]

hello

 

[Deleted User X18H]

sorry please merge

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

What the f*** are you on?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

What the f*** are you on?

Northstandchat I believe.

 

[Superphil]

I understand the points being made, selling tickets should be a priority, Ken Brown said it was his task, well he ain't doing it. Selling them at the station, I like that idea. Point 3, er, mm, not sure how that will help. Point 4, I think there might be some logic in this, we need to do something to change the way we are playing right now.

 

[Easy 10]

Joel is a Brightonian and should want to almost die to play for Brighton and Hove Albion

But he quite clearly wouldn't cross the road to play for the Albion now. He's not prepared to fight for his place here because he considers himself too good to have to do that (and with Hawkins's form he'd have had his chance by now).

Terrible waste, but thats a questionable attitude he's carrying.

 

[JJ McClure]

1) and 2) The club really needs to be working hard(er) to fill Withdean. I don't think any of us know what the hell Ken Brown does but it isn't working. Tickets to schools and clubs is a must as they will provide our future fans for Falmer.

3) I'd love to see Lynch back playing for us but I think he's made his feeling clear and it just ain't gonna happen.

4) Do you know that the players do not respect White or Booker? Would they respect Heath any more?

5)erm pass

 

[Timbo]

Point 1 is the one that really needs working on. Making it almost impossible to buy a ticket is not the best way of filling the ground.

 

[medicine man]

Although, of course, if you're selling tickets on match day you cannot give the unsold tickets to schools one or two days before you haven't sold them (or something.)

But, deffo good idea about getting the future fan base sorted by introducing them to their local team- as long as the experience is there to grasp them, which, quite frankly, it isn't at the mo.

 

[Jim D]

You can only have either point 1 or 2 - not both. I'd go for the second as that would boost the crowd and make the overall atmosphere better.
Point 3 is almost certainly a non-starter - there's too much of a gap.
Point 4 seems sensible if Adams can find someone that he can work with - but I also thought that's why Booker was brought back.
I think you were running out of ideas by point 5.

I'd try out the 'free tickets to kids' idea as soon as possible. We'd only need to do it once to see if there's a difference.

 

[medicine man]

Didn't they do the free kids thing at the Boston game a few years back?
Seemed to remember people moaning about rattles, horns and general kid noise!
We have to have the right atmosphere- apparently.

 

[backson]

I think they should push further on point 1; isn't the idea for Falmer to have ticket booths at various local stations? Surely having a temporary ticket point now would be a good way to trial this.

The other thing they need to do is PUBLICISE exactly when you can get tickets. Most of us on here know you can order by phone on Saturday morning and pick up at the ground, but I was in the ticket office last week and they were having to explain this to someone who didn't know. Having said that, although I know you can do it, I don't know what the latest time that you can ring up is before a game.

What would it take; half page adverts in local papers, radio ads, mailshots to everyone on their system, just with a little simple step by step guide on how you can get tickets and when.

 

[Trigger]

Hi Tim

 

[drew]

Tim, think you have far too much time on your hands.

1. When was Preston Park station declared the centre of the universe. How much passing trade/tourism etc does it attract on a saturday afternoon.

2. Agree with this and have done so for a long time. Give free tickets to local schools regularly. Try and get as many new youngsters going but also make sure that kids get the chance to go several times a year so they can try and get a habit.

3. You can't make someone play for us if they don't want to. He's young and easily influenced but like Hammond, he gladly go to the championship club for half a season before proabably playing us next year.

4. I have no idea what the players think of our existing coaching setup. Whether someone like Heath would drop down to our level is debatable. What we appear to desparately need at the moment is a defensive coach!

5. So, lets spend our income for 2009/10 in January. Sounds great but as a season ticket holder in the south stand, I am comfortably paying £18 a game. Spending next years income now is, however, not what I would call very clever. You are just storing up problems for the future.

The only way we will ever fill Withdean is if we have a winning team on a regular basis. All the other ideas are just pie in the sky because even if it cost just a tenner to get in, if the games are crap people will not come back, especially the fairweather fans and any potential new fans who will just stay at home and watch Sky or Setanta.

 

[drew]

I think they should push further on point 1; isn't the idea for Falmer to have ticket booths at various local stations? Surely having a temporary ticket point now would be a good way to trial this.

The other thing they need to do is PUBLICISE exactly when you can get tickets. Most of us on here know you can order by phone on Saturday morning and pick up at the ground, but I was in the ticket office last week and they were having to explain this to someone who didn't know. Having said that, although I know you can do it, I don't know what the latest time that you can ring up is before a game.

What would it take; half page adverts in local papers, radio ads, mailshots to everyone on their system, just with a little simple step by step guide on how you can get tickets and when.

Sounds very good but lets be honest, anyone with half a brain can check online or just pick up the phone and ring the ticket office. Don't they have recorded info about tickets?

 

[Knotty]

Tim, think you have far too much time on your hands.

1. When was Preston Park station declared the centre of the universe. How much passing trade/tourism etc does it attract on a saturday afternoon.

2. Agree with this and have done so for a long time. Give free tickets to local schools regularly. Try and get as many new youngsters going but also make sure that kids get the chance to go several times a year so they can try and get a habit.

3. You can't make someone play for us if they don't want to. He's young and easily influenced but like Hammond, he gladly go to the championship club for half a season before proabably playing us next year.

4. I have no idea what the players think of our existing coaching setup. Whether someone like Heath would drop down to our level is debatable. What we appear to desparately need at the moment is a defensive coach!

5. So, lets spend our income for 2009/10 in January. Sounds great but as a season ticket holder in the south stand, I am comfortably paying £18 a game. Spending next years income now is, however, not what I would call very clever. You are just storing up problems for the future.

The only way we will ever fill Withdean is if we have a winning team on a regular basis. All the other ideas are just pie in the sky because even if it cost just a tenner to get in, if the games are crap people will not come back, especially the fairweather fans and any potential new fans who will just stay at home and watch Sky or Setanta.

The man talks sense.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Bugger, has 7 days gone passed that quick

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Best post you have made in a LONG time.

 

[cjwoolven]

2) Take any unsold tickets to schools and clubs throughout Brighton and Hove and Sussex on Thursday and Fridays give them out free to kids and parent guardians . I believe Ian Hart advocates this.

Agreed, used to do this with the brighton bear's games, always seemed to work.