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[Dave the OAP]

To fund Falmer, the club asked the fans to pay a debenture to the club of say £2000 to £4000 like they have done at Arsenal/Chelsea/West Ham etc etc which would guarantee you a season ticket for 10 years ( even though you would still have to pay for a season ticket) how many people do you think would fork out the dosh to do this?

I only ask as I am curious as to how we can fund the development on Second Division crowds.( and conference standard football)

 

[Beach Hut]

I suppose I could but it's a bit cheeky.

We pay enough for tickets as it aways, heaven knows what away fans think of our prices and all away games for us a cheaper tickets.

 

[E Block Ernie]

Bollocks to that, if Potless cannot fund Falmer then he should f*** right off now.

 

[Beach Hut]

Bollocks to that, if Potless cannot fund Falmer then he should f*** right off now.

Thank you shop steward or perhaps you're a bar steward.

Evening Ernie

 

[Citrus]

No, I'm skint how it is.

 

[Zeitgeist]

No chance!

 

[Dropkick Turnip]

Couldn't afford it and object to it on principle anyway. Ask Newcastle's fans what they think of such an arrangement.

 

[Rambo]

No way, agree with Ernie on this one, If Knight and the board cannot afford the development, then why waste so much time and money on it.
It is up to the board to pay for it, our ticket prices are ridiculously high as it is.

 

[Trigger]

Bollocks to that.

 

[Citrus]

No way, agree with Ernie on this one, If Knight and the board cannot afford the development, then why waste so much time and money on it.
It is up to the board to pay for it, our ticket prices are ridiculously high as it is.

I will be 17 next season, and will have to find £410 from somewhere!

 

[Italiaseagull]

No chance!

 

[perth seagull]

Couldn't afford it and object to it on principle anyway. Ask Newcastle's fans what they think of such an arrangement.

What exactly did happen with Newcastle?

 

[perth seagull]

Palarse have got something like this, I think it is called the "Ambassador's Club". For punters who want a life sentence, you pay something like £20k and get guranteeed a seat at Selhurst for the next 25 years...

 

[bigc]

no way, i dont have that kind of money

 

[Jim Byrne]

if i had that kinda spare dosh burning a hole in my bank account, i might, but the plain fact is, i cant afford it! hell, apart from being in chelt at the mo, i cant afford a regular season ticket.

 

[Dropkick Turnip]

What exactly did happen with Newcastle?

If my memory serves me correctly there was some kerfuffle with 10-year season ticket holders being turfed out of their seats when the club re-developed the ground and wanted corporate sponsors to have the seats instead because they were good seats and they realised they could get more for them from prawn sandwich eaters. There was a clause in the contract saying that they could do this but I don't think that any of the supporters thought that it would ever happen.

 

[levski seagull]

i can't believe any lower division club would be able to introduce such a scheme because the demand simply isn't there...if we were at falmer right now would we fill itI recon we'd get 12k on a good day.

 

[Row Z Creased Shirt]

Not for me, bond schemes stink. All they do is marginalise those fans who do not have loads of cash to spare. The West Ham bond scheme nearly brought the club to its knees in the early 90's. And an Arsenal mate of mine who did get his bond has just had a £700 increase in the price of his season ticket this season now that the scheme has run out.

There is room for executive cash type schemes with new developments such as falmer but they should be restricted to boxes and sponsorship stuff.

There is a limit to what the ordinary fans should be expected to cough up to keep a club going, I think we do enough already.

Given the lack of success of these schemes elsewhere I would think it unlikely that DK would inflict one on us at Falmer.

 

[Albion Rob]

I guess if I wouldn't miss the money then I might do it, but at the end of the day it's pretty unlikely and doesn't exactly give me much return for my investment.

It's a shame the club couldn't do what Reading have done and built other stuff to make money out of, and also a shame we haven't got any kind of rugby team down here that we could make a bit of bunce off.

Maybe the Brighton Bears wouldn't mind switching to a grass court...

 

[Sam]

i might be able to stump up about £400 student!