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I would be interested in a table of statistics showing the number of season tickets sold in - say - the last 20 years.

[quote="+Gdog8"]Can't see why the can't do what Plymouth argyle do issue a card with the season tickets holders name and season ticket bar code number keep that for all home league matches as it gets scanned ,[/quote]

The lack of scanners is probably the main reason they don't do that. Until there's some refurbishment that's not an option, and there's probably more important priorities for spending right now.

A book of 23 tickets seems pretty simple and effective. That's what they were using when I last had a season ticket, and it was easy enough to use.

Paid for mine on Friday. Looking forward to the new season now âš½

Can't see why the can't do what Plymouth argyle do issue a card with the season tickets holders name and season ticket bar code number keep that for all home league matches as it gets scanned ,

[quote="dannyrvtufc4life"]I didn't renew my season ticket last year, but I'll be going up to the club next week and getting it back! :)[/quote]
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I didn't renew my season ticket last year, but I'll be going up to the club next week and getting it back! :)

[quote="PhilGull"]Wrexham has already sold nearly 2200 season tickets! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33254662[/quote]

Full credit to them, you would expect them to budget for promotion with those sales

well done Burnham ! Never say never lol

Renewed my ticket today

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Wrexham has already sold nearly 2200 season tickets! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33254662

The new type season ticket according to Steve Breed last night is basically being changed in order to cut costs.Rather than a book it will be a set of individual tickets for each match.Steve stressed he would welcome feedback and the new way doing his will be reviewed at the of the season.

Bought my season ticket before the fans forum meeting earlier tonight.

I think Steve Breed said that we were now up to 197 STs sold. Which means we still need a lot more people to buy theirs - come on people, show your commitment and get yours now!

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Why not? They've paid for their ticket, why can't someone else use it?[/quote]

Because a season ticket is not transferable. Also if a ST holder is away and passes it to his friend to use, that person has now entered the ground for free instead of paying,costing the club money.

So if 20 popside ST holders can not make the match and pass it to friends, that's just cost the club £320.

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[quote="Scott Brehaut"]I agree - I can't see the issue myself as the ticket has been purchased in advance. [color=#FF0000]What the season ticket holder does with them once paid for is surely their business.
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Besides, the person who attends the game in place of the s/t holder may like what they see and become a regular at Plainmoor as a result. That, surely, is a win-win for the club.[/quote]

Not strictly the case Scott, just looked back at the season book I had for the relegation season, last one I brought . There 13 conditions of issue, condition 13 quite clearly states "the book should be in possession of the season ticket holder when used on match day" so by rights if the club caught a ST holder passing his ticket to someone else, the club could indeed withdraw the season ticket because the holder would have broken a condition issue/sale.

As for your second point, not always the case, if a ST was passed to someone who doesn't go the games, yes, nothing lost, potentially a new fan gained. But, I don't have a ST ticket anymore because I can no longer commit to going to at least 19 games, so what happens if I'm going to a match Saturday, anyway, I would have paid £16 to get in, a friend rings me and says do you want my ST I'm away, then we've cost the club £16.

[quote="Scott Brehaut"]I agree - I can't see the issue myself as the ticket has been purchased in advance. What the season ticket holder does with them once paid for is surely their business.

Besides, the person who attends the game in place of the s/t holder may like what they see and become a regular at Plainmoor as a result. That, surely, is a win-win for the club.[/quote]

Well, yeeesss...alternatively, the club may take the position that they've already sold the season ticket at a reduced price, so a holder giving a ticket to a friend is actually *costing* them money. I'm sure there are people who've split the cost of a season ticket before - paid half each and then taken it in turns to go to the game, which this sort of set up would prevent.

Another thing about this way of doing it is that it allows for a future scheme where you buy a season ticket "plan" - instead of getting tickets to all of the games, you can get a mini-season ticket; that is, you go to 5 or 10 home games and pay less. That might be a good way to bring revenue in from people who don't want to commit to a full season.

I've just clarified the situation with the Club office. Each ST holder will be issued with a wallet containing 23 x match day tickets along with two £5 discount vouchers which can be used in the Club shop. When attending each match, you need only take the ticket for that match as opposed to taking a season ticket book, as previously required, from which you would have to hand the book over to the turnstile operator to extract the match day voucher for that particular day. The Club believe that this new system will speed up entry at the turnstiles as well as having certain other benefits to the Club (he didn't say what those benefits were!). Hope this is clearer. He also said that a revised article regarding this would appear on the OS shortly.