Hardly surprising really considering the rubbish we sat through last season! Mind you I renewed for the 23rd season!! COYB

Im surprised its only down by that many to be honest.

Morecambe does every adult season tickets you get two free children under 14 ones locally. Shame Ipswich don't do something similar.

Get some new signings in and watch the fans come back

Rentaghost. Aren't children's STs only £10? I am sure I have read that somewhere.

So, if we surpassed 14K and now just over 12K, surely that's a fall of £2K, which seems more realistic? That's based on recent seasons, with 12K the sales back in 2014. Proof will be in the pudding. Interesting to see the attendance for the first game.

Changing the subject guys have you seen the scums 3rd kit on the BBC sport site some think it is like a two year olds finger painting while others said it was like his Nan's worst blouse and like bus seats covers it's truly awful

Jas0999, if ud read the story properly before commenting ud have seen that it was the 2014/15 season that we had 14000, and it is saying we are 1000 down on this time last year, not on 2 years ago

Jollyroger.. I had the horrible sight broadcasted to me this morning when my Norfolk 'pals' sent me through the image! I didn't think they could come up with a kit that made me more sick than the one that ruel fox and Daryl sutch wore but they have topped it and gone some more! Whatever kit they walk out in on August 21st.. I will still feel as sick as ever mind u!

To be fair, the kit that the launched at this stage last season was the worst I have ever seen. Does anyone know what happened to that? As far as I can recall they wore it for the first game of the season and then never again? Truly shocking

Why should people spend their hard earned cash to see no investment from it? We don't want 30+ year old cast offs and loans off other teams. Give the fans a reason to be optimistic and they'll return. Just a joke the way we're going about our business. A painful lack of ambition by the looks of it. We were already in debt when Evans invested last time so I don't accept that as a reason.

Michael11 utter rubbish i think you will find when the team picked for the first match it will be one of the youngest average age in many a year some people will find anything to moan at.

Foot all is an entertainment industry and if people aren't entertained they won't pay out for a season ticket especially at the high prices and economic uncertainty . If we start well there is the option of a half season ticket as there is plenty of room in the stadium . If we get a season like last one it is also my last . The club need to learn that we don't like hoofball, 50% of us don't like MM and we like to be entertained . Can't remember MM's contract details but if we are not promoted this year MM needs to move on as it will only get worse and the club will suffer financially.

Essex. I agree I recon we will have a lot of our own young players in the squad this year but not sure they will all be in the first team at the same time.

On a different note has anyone seen Narwichs new third kit haha 😷😷

Not surprised - the standard last year was appalling especially after Christmas..

Lets hope we see young players with pace and quality - Bishop,Dozell, Kenlock,Emmanuel can all play so surely the job of the manager is to integrate them and manage their playing time as they get stronger & more experienced?

I didn't renew; that said despite a worrying fear of more of the same I guarantee I will be there for most games. It's in the blood they used to say..

It's the thought of Skuese Douglas & Hyam as the spine of our team. I renewed but only just. Hoping that Mick will follow Sir Bobby & blood the boys

So the club is about £500k down on ticket sales. If people don't want to renew that's fine, I just hope they aren't the same people who bang on about how the club should be spending money.

Essex57 quote: Ipswich v Barnsley, Town's youngest average age in many a year.
They will have Diapers on the touchline and Gripe water for their wind. :-)

In truth there is more likely to be Zimmer frames, heart defibrillator, and a St Johns Ambulance in attendance

So Wolves has also been taken over by a foreign owner. For long I've appreciated having an English owner but now I really don't care. I simply don't give a .... if we are owned by an oil sheikh, a Chinese businessman or even small green men from planet Mars as long as there is some kind of ambition to improve. Anything is better than Marcus Scrooge. Not at all surprised by tickets sale going down.

Regards to "That Horwich Shirt"
It has received a mass ridicule on social media etc.

As to how they can justify it beggars belief, as their kit is virtually unique in the whole English league.

It was because of Delia
she had this vision in her head and with only Custard to hand
dabbed that pattern on a piece of scrap paper with a pastry brush

Unfortunately 2 of the 1000 are from our little band;so only a duo now.Even my colleague who accompanied me to the friendlies last year is only going to the one next Saturday;so am on my own,very sad.Even he said he is only giving it this season definitely.

The little group last year totalled nearly 200 years in support of Town;so they certainly are not fleeting fans or glory hunters;but then who are supporting Ipswich these days.

As always at the beginning of a season all fans start out optimistic;but with a dour Manager like McCarthy's utterances not showing any optimism,its not surprising that the extended early bird did not encourage more,which would have happened had Mick been a bit more upbeat,and the invisible owner allowed a bit more activity in the transfer market.

At beginning of last season fans were more optimistic following a play off place previously;but I don't get that this year.

However I still live in hope if not expectation.

@Essex57

Based on what? Emmanuel was brilliant first two games of last season but never got a sniff again so he can accomodate Chambers out of position for the 3rd year running. The only player he's ever given a chance is Teddy Bishop and that was only because we lost to Norwich the week before so he threw a youth player in against Derby to appease the fans a bit. We're constantly hiding behind FFP and our youth system to try and hide the fact Evans gave up on us years ago!

Surely we'd be better off dropping the prices and filling up the ground???

No,ridiculous idea.

Yes Seasider;
When the club doesn't address the obvious shortcomings then despair will eventually creep in.
It's been well documented by the few on here who actually speak out in an attempt to get their voice heard that they are not happy to accept the way Ipswich is heading with Evans at the Helm and McCarthy's style of playing football.

So when you take away the enjoyment factor, fans are seriously going to consider just what they are getting for their money and in what prices the club are charging adults to spectate, that is becoming a no brainer!

I have watched Ipswich since 1966, so have witnessed all the better times like under Robson,
but also saw the crud stuff under Duncan and seeing Dalian Atkinson go to Sheffield Wednesday for £450,000, if only we had the likes of him today!!!

Realistically we are unlikely to achieve promotion, this season or the next, if Bishop proves himself this season then he'll get sold in the next available window as we are becoming just a feeder club for the wealthy.

Marcus Evans admitted that he knew very little about football when he became owner, his reasons for owning the club are not clear but he must rely heavily on others the biggest of them being MM. It is clear to me from the utterances and style of our current manager that he dictates very much what is going on. Entertaining loyal fans like me is not the top of his priority list, hence we will be reduced year on year for season ticket sales and the fan base that is not town through and through will only react to success as they see it. With MM they might be lucky but they will not be entertained most of the time.