[Albion] Club cancelling ST due to non-attendance

[Hovegull]

I’ve not been since October and have only listed my ticket a handful of times (sometimes resold, sometimes not) - the club never fails to send me a “thank you for your attendance” email after each game. No one has ever challenged my non attendance (I do have reason). I’m not sure it’s as hot on this matter as others are thinking?

I have renewed for next season too without any fuss.

 

[Bry Nylon]

This is what George Orwell predicted in his 1984 book

Just had a quick re-read. He's right, you know

"One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. Either that, or he will have his ST in the WSU cancelled. It is written in his face."

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Just had a quick re-read. He's right, you know

"One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. Either that, or he will have his ST in the WSU cancelled. It is written in his face."

“Who controls the past Season ticket sales controls the future season ticket sales"

 

[pigmanovich]

"Two Harveys-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved PBOBE."

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I had a ST then cancelled it due to illness for a season. I was then 7k something in the list and was offered one four months later.

From memory, when you got to the top of the list you were allowed to defer buying a season ticket for a year but would lose your place in the queue in the second year.

Year 1 we were c7,000 in the queue and told it would roll about 2,000 places a year. Covid seemed to change the uptake as we were offered seats when about 4,000 in the queue so plenty of people didn’t take them up on the offer which would have been income driven at the time

 

[Justice]

It bears repeating when moans are posted about empty seats, for whatever reason, are depriving those who want to go to a game.

Anyone who wants to go can go, our first Europa league game I bought a ticket the same day as the game. Not my preferred area but there were still quite a few dotted around the stadium.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Interesting story around this issue

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/leeds-united-news-elland-road-season-ticket-attendance-threshold-5071141

if his ticket didn't register then how did he get in the ground

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

"Two Harveys-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved PBOBE."

I think some might characterise PBOBE as O’Brien

 

[pigmanovich]

I think some might characterise PBOBE as O’Brien

Hi Paul

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

In idle moments, of which I have many, I often wonder how AFC Bournemouth survive and thrive in the EPL on a capacity of just over 11,000. Are their STHs nagged to within an inch of their lives like ours, or does supply and demand just somehow find its natural level? Genuinely interested

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

Another season ticket renewal story ...

Fan forced to give up his seat of 45 years for corporate hospitality

 

[Thunder Bolt]

if his ticket didn't register then how did he get in the ground

Machines make mistakes, as proven earlier in this thread when someone got an email from the club for not attending an away game, for which he'd bought a ticket.
He did attend the game but had to prove it to the club.

Nobody minds the club checking attendance, but, as said before, the tone needed to be changed to stop fans feeling like truants from school.

 

[portlock seagull]

Another season ticket renewal story ...

Fan forced to give up his seat of 45 years for corporate hospitality

Listed to this fan and fellows on 606, certainly know how to court the media.

I’ve no sympathy for Man U fans however, they literally invented and invited corporates into the sport. Did the same fan moan when they won all the PLs? When he likely carpet bagged shares in Utd? Broke away from the Football League? Nope, he didn’t. So suck it up. Literally missed lodging complaints by 30 years. Now he’s just realised he’s a nothing just like the rest of us. Boo hoo, go take your ball and find another 21 people to play with. FC United perhaps?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Machines make mistakes, as proven earlier in this thread when someone got an email from the club for not attending an away game, for which he'd bought a ticket.
He did attend the game but had to prove it to the club.

Nobody minds the club checking attendance, but, as said before, the tone needed to be changed to stop fans feeling like truants from school.

This. Club's increasingly over-stepping the mark. As the saying goes, you should be careful how you treat people on your way up, as you will encounter the same people on your way down

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

This. Club's over-stepping the mark. They

shorten your posts?

 

[Bozza]

Anyone who wants to go can go, our first Europa league game I bought a ticket the same day as the game. Not my preferred area but there were still quite a few dotted around the stadium.

That's because most STH bought the three-match package for those games without knowing who we were playing or when.

The club allowed individual matches within the package to be re-sold, although the STH only received modest compensation due to the discount they'd received with the initial purchase.

 

[dazzer6666]

Well at the moment - this sort of shenanigans is not really needed.
Simply give it up for a year and then buy one next year. ? (there's currently c1200+ on general sale) .

....and lose all your ST points.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

shorten your posts?

Good point, well ma

 

[Hovegull]

I did just list for Leicester game and it sold very soon afterwards.

 

[Anger]

In idle moments, of which I have many, I often wonder how AFC Bournemouth survive and thrive in the EPL on a capacity of just over 11,000. Are their STHs nagged to within an inch of their lives like ours, or does supply and demand just somehow find its natural level? Genuinely interested

An observational study carried out by research scientists at the University of Southampton has identified that AFC Bournemouth actually have only 2000 supporters (of which 1654 are STH). These fans move from seat to seat at very high speed during the game (certainly faster than can be detected by the human eye which is why special motion capture cameras were used in the study) and this creates the impression of a full stadium. This high-speed movement technique was perfected by The Olsen Twin *

The reality of course is that there is plenty of room for all of their fans (STH and POTG alike) without the club having to pressure STH into attending.

* see John Oliver for description of The Olsen Twin and the technique used.