Will you RENEW your season ticket ?

[Deleted member 22389]

The honeymoon was over last season but some of you booked another week in a room with single beds!

Think your right. 17,000 season ticket holders next season I reckon, which is still good. I'm renewing whatever. The only downside, less money for players.

 

[Don't get me started]

I am now thinking the club has everything spot on. Spot on that is if you are selling to money.

Great Ground, Great Infrastructure, asset stripped the best players, the only fly in the ointment would be league 1 . My money is Sheik bin Abramovich Tan taking over. All loans realised at good interest rates when the sale goes through.

Now makes sense to me, get your season tickets as we will have money and be on the up

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

It's a no (regretfully) from me.

Purely financial. I have financial commitments as I am sure do others, and when football starts to risk me failing to meet them, then it's time to stop.

I've already missed games, simply to save the train fare. If I don't renew, I can save considerably more......

I will persue a less expensive hobby on saturdays. Won't stop me following the games and the results, but being there in person is becoming a financial deadweight that has become too heavy to shift.

If / when circumstances change I might return, but in the meantime I doubt many will even notice I'm gone..........

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Good post, reminding us of facts from this season and the major concern coming up.

Some home wins and good football, needed very soon, could turn this around. Otherwise many new or returned fans, added to the hassle of transport to/from games, will call it quits.

The 'clever' strategy of seeing the back of Barnes, Bridcutt, El-Abd, Buckley, Kuzschak and Ulloa; not replacing the quality of Orlandi, Lopez and Vicente; failing to secure Hammond, Bridge/Ward or Upson; and not replacing the ageing Greer and Calderon ... has given 18 months of dire and low scoring football. Die-hards can say "UTA" as many times as they like, but the Amex business model would be based on far greater crowds than a few loyalists.

Brilliant, BRILLIANT post. Cap dulyt doffed.

We have gone backwards so far on the pitch its like a slow and painful death. Truly.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

But the quality of play has regressed almost from the moment the Elite Centre first opened.

Can't help but feel that the state-of-the-art training centre may actually be working against us at the moment. Got a mental image of all these journeymen swanning around in there like they'd already qualified for the Champions League. Probably a bit harsh, but get the feeling a short sharp spell of training at the Uni or Withdean might shake them up a bit, make them realise they are in no shape or form 'Elite'. They've not earned the right to be called that.

 

[Dave the OAP]

You could be writing about 7 year old Moshe Jnr (apart from his particular Siren being Manchester City...).

I have had to explain a lot about "borrowing" players this year - and he accepts it begrudgingly - but when he saw Bent scoring for Derby on the Football League Show I too struggled to come up with a satisfactory reason as to why we can't keep our players...

I am no where clearer as to why we are borrowing club...why should we be in the situation with everything the club has? It just seems to me that the club have invested in the training facility to bring on their own youngsters and to replace the loanees with them so we don't have to spend any money!

 

[Deleted member 22389]

I am no where clearer as to why we are borrowing club...why should we be in the situation with everything the club has? It just seems to me that the club have invested in the training facility to bring on their own youngsters and to replace the loanees with them so we don't have to spend any money!

The club could probably go out tomorrow and spend 15 million on players for next season, but it's about balancing the books. Our future success also depends on how many supporters are going to stick to this plan, because a lack of season ticket sales effects our ability to bring in these new players. What do the club do? I understand people want instant success, I want instant success too, but it shouldn't be at the expense of the club getting in to serious debt that we cannot pay back later on. We have been here before.

 

[B.W.]

Put simply, the club have severely under-invested in the squad and, as a result, are suffering a very poor league position, and WILL lose many, many STH's. P1ss-poor management.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The club could probably go out tomorrow and spend 15 million on players for next season, but it's about balancing the books.

Altogether now:

"We balance our books,
We balance our boo-ooks,
We're Brighton'n'Hove Albion,
We balance our books"

It's the stuff of DREAMS!

(if you're an accountant, that is)

 

[mikeyjh]

I think, depending on what happens between now and next season, that we could lose up to 10,000. The honeymoon is well and truly over.

What is the average season ticket sales in the Championship? Anyone know what Derby's were when they weren't challenging but were less shit than we are now and what they are now?

No idea on the average for the championship but we'd fallen to about 17,500 last season after 5 seasons of growing tedium, a gradual fall from a championship high of approx 23,000 in the year after relegation from the premier league. Prior to the promotion, we tended to be around the 16/17,000 mark as far as I recall. Not sure if that helps much.....

 

[Albumen]

Put simply, the club have severely under-invested in the squad and, as a result, are suffering a very poor league position, and WILL lose many, many STH's. P1ss-poor management.

3 great seasons in the championship.
1 poor one.
People stop going.
I'd question the reason for buying it in the first place.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Altogether now:

"We balance our books,
We balance our boo-ooks,
We're Brighton'n'Hove Albion,
We balance our books"

It's the stuff of DREAMS!

(if you're an accountant, that is)

I like iT

 

[rippleman]

If Barber is foolish enough to increase the ST prices then I probably won't. I'm not shelling out more money for another season of under-investment, management shambles and dross loanees. And that's without the unexciting, drab & boring football on the pitch.

In the event that we do get relegated, I would expect to see a reduction in prices.

Maybe if Barber hadn't spouted his "Premier League Ready" and "One Club, One ambition" nonsense, there would have been more realistic expectations from the fanbase. But the man is just a walking soundbite spouting corporate BS at us. The epitome of "All the gear - no idea".

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If Barber is foolish enough to increase the ST prices then I probably won't. I'm not shelling out more money for another season of under-investment, management shambles and dross loanees.

This. We need to know if the club is in it for the football or the real estate. Currently the football seems like almost an afterthought.

 

[Icy Gull]

No idea on the average for the championship but we'd fallen to about 17,500 last season after 5 seasons of growing tedium, a gradual fall from a championship high of approx 23,000 in the year after relegation from the premier league. Prior to the promotion, we tended to be around the 16/17,000 mark as far as I recall. Not sure if that helps much.....

Interesting certainly, what are you up to now in season ticket sales? Back up to 23,000?

I can't help thinking that the Albion have a very large amount of fans who will just walk away from season tickets next season unless we show some real intent to be challengers. Historically we have no been good at crowd retention when we are shit and now we have such a massive stadium and over half the fans that have a season ticket probably never went anywhere near Withdean, so why would they be loyal to the rubbish on offer this season?

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Interesting certainly, what are you up to now in season ticket sales? Back up to 23,000?

I can't help thinking that the Albion have a very large amount of fans who will just walk away from season tickets next season unless we show some real intent to be challengers.

I believe it was 20,000 season tickets. I think it might be 17,000 after this season which is still good.

 

[mikeyjh]

Interesting certainly, what are you up to now in season ticket sales? Back up to 23,000?

I can't help thinking that the Albion have a very large amount of fans who will just walk away from season tickets next season unless we show some real intent to be challengers. Historically we have no been good at crowd retention when we are shit and now we have such a massive stadium and over half the fans that have a season ticket probably never went anywhere near Withdean, so why would they be loyal to the rubbish on offer this season?

22,500. I think there was always going to be a bit of a spike for Brighton and then a bit of a drift away as the novelty fell off, I guess it's now you'll find out more the natural level of support....

 

[Icy Gull]

22,500. I think there was always going to be a bit of a spike for Brighton and then a bit of a drift away as the novelty fell off, I guess it's now you'll find out more the natural level of support....

Hope I'm wrong, but it's not going to be pretty as long as we are strugglers. Get into the playoffs and above and the crowds will rocket again though.

 

[BensGrandad]

I believe it was 20,000 season tickets. I think it might be 17,000 after this season which is still good.

I would guess it will be nearer 14000 and getting towards the numbers of hard core supporters. If PB spin can get 16000 that will be remarkable taking into account our poor season.

 

[Icy Gull]

I would guess it will be nearer 14000 and getting towards the numbers of hard core supporters. If PB spin can get 16000 that will be remarkable taking into account our poor season.

Spin will not sell season tickets this year.