| New membership details here 18:00 - Jul 11 with 16582 views | SitfcB |
Complete overhaul. One membership. £39.99. Points earnt.
Some people are going to be fumin! [Post edited 11 Jul 2023 18:03]
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| New membership details here on 13:28 - Jul 12 with 2255 views | Plums |
| New membership details here on 06:42 - Jul 12 by yorkshireblue |
The scheme is in like with what other clubs do - our old systems was an outlier, not the other way round.
In terms of pricing, looking at clubs near me as a yardstick.
Sheffield Wednesday - £50
Sheffield Wednesday - £45
Leeds - £60 (renewal)/£65 new members
Bradford - £35 |
Another reason to hate modern football.
I've followed the club for 45+ years but I really won't be paying £40 for the right to join a specific queue. You're quite within your rights to do so but I think fans are being rinsed. |  |
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| New membership details here on 13:34 - Jul 12 with 2219 views | andytown |
| New membership details here on 13:28 - Jul 12 by Plums |
Another reason to hate modern football.
I've followed the club for 45+ years but I really won't be paying £40 for the right to join a specific queue. You're quite within your rights to do so but I think fans are being rinsed. |
Slightly off topic but seeing the examples of other teams, does anyone know when match ticket prices will be released? |  | | |
| New membership details here on 13:37 - Jul 12 with 2215 views | J2BLUE |
| New membership details here on 12:16 - Jul 12 by Jon_456 |
I questioned this with the club this morning and they confirmed this isn’t the case.
Only silver, gold and ultimate members would receive points for away games, in addition to the 5 points for being a member.
It surely needs a review as there’s going to be a large number of regular ST holders who regularly attended away games last season who will start with less points than a silver member that potentially didn’t attend a single game.
My mate had a silver membership and attended 3 home games last season. I’m a ST holder who attended all home and 7 away games and my mate will start on 5 more points than me. To me that doesn’t seem to be a ‘fairer system’ as the club put it. |
That is ridiculous. Surely that is someone getting confused?
If not, I would imagine they will soon be issuing an update saying ST holder away games count. Maybe you won't get the 5 though as that would make the gold card meaningless.
I guess there is no perfect way to do it. |  |
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| New membership details here on 13:44 - Jul 12 with 2198 views | Jon_456 |
| New membership details here on 13:37 - Jul 12 by J2BLUE |
That is ridiculous. Surely that is someone getting confused?
If not, I would imagine they will soon be issuing an update saying ST holder away games count. Maybe you won't get the 5 though as that would make the gold card meaningless.
I guess there is no perfect way to do it. |
Yep they’ve now confirmed it:
“Yes, you are correct in your response, to clarify, you can only attribute points from last season if you were a member. If you weren’t a member last year, you would only gain points from become a member this year, and would begin on 5 points.”
That seems seriously harsh on ST holders. | | | |
| New membership details here on 13:53 - Jul 12 with 2169 views | Vaughan8 |
| New membership details here on 18:19 - Jul 11 by LankHenners |
Makes sense because of the likely demand but 1 ticket per person for home matches is going to cause problems for people wanting to bring family and friends along! |
this is my only issue. You're going to need 2 memberships to bring along one of my family who wants to go, as I suspect most home games will require a membership to even get a ticket.
I'm sure this has been asked and I've missed it, but my son is a junior blue member. If he doesn't go, can you get an adult/over65 ticket under his number or will you just be able to get a kids ticket?
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| New membership details here on 13:56 - Jul 12 with 2149 views | DinDjarin |
| New membership details here on 13:53 - Jul 12 by Vaughan8 |
this is my only issue. You're going to need 2 memberships to bring along one of my family who wants to go, as I suspect most home games will require a membership to even get a ticket.
I'm sure this has been asked and I've missed it, but my son is a junior blue member. If he doesn't go, can you get an adult/over65 ticket under his number or will you just be able to get a kids ticket?
Thanks |
Its easy to upgrade a ticket to adult, quick phone call to the ticket office. |  | | |
| New membership details here on 14:01 - Jul 12 with 2139 views | LankHenners |
| New membership details here on 13:44 - Jul 12 by Jon_456 |
Yep they’ve now confirmed it:
“Yes, you are correct in your response, to clarify, you can only attribute points from last season if you were a member. If you weren’t a member last year, you would only gain points from become a member this year, and would begin on 5 points.”
That seems seriously harsh on ST holders. |
Obviously tough/impossible to please everyone but ST holders seem to be getting a pretty bum deal out of this. The two main additional benefits of having an ST (earlier access to away games and being able to buy additional home tickets before they go on general sale) have been almost done away with with the new scheme.
Of course the main benefit of an ST is having the same guaranteed seat at every home game for a cheaper price than buying an individual ticket to every match but as you say the scheme does seem a bit harsh on ST holders. |  |
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| New membership details here on 14:09 - Jul 12 with 2080 views | J2BLUE |
| New membership details here on 13:44 - Jul 12 by Jon_456 |
Yep they’ve now confirmed it:
“Yes, you are correct in your response, to clarify, you can only attribute points from last season if you were a member. If you weren’t a member last year, you would only gain points from become a member this year, and would begin on 5 points.”
That seems seriously harsh on ST holders. |
Very surprised by that. Really wouldn't be surprised to see that changed. | |
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| New membership details here on 14:12 - Jul 12 with 2067 views | LankHenners |
| New membership details here on 13:53 - Jul 12 by Vaughan8 |
this is my only issue. You're going to need 2 memberships to bring along one of my family who wants to go, as I suspect most home games will require a membership to even get a ticket.
I'm sure this has been asked and I've missed it, but my son is a junior blue member. If he doesn't go, can you get an adult/over65 ticket under his number or will you just be able to get a kids ticket?
Thanks |
Yeah can see that being a growing issue for the club actually - lots of complaints of 'I wanted to take [family members] but couldn't get enough tickets, never been a problem before!'. As I said the likely demand vs relative lack of available seats was always going to mean a reduction in how many people could buy but thought maybe there was a suitable halfway house of 2 additional tickets per priority buyer.
End of the day I guess it's the price of success. | |
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| New membership details here on 14:16 - Jul 12 with 2048 views | textbackup |
| New membership details here on 14:12 - Jul 12 by LankHenners |
Yeah can see that being a growing issue for the club actually - lots of complaints of 'I wanted to take [family members] but couldn't get enough tickets, never been a problem before!'. As I said the likely demand vs relative lack of available seats was always going to mean a reduction in how many people could buy but thought maybe there was a suitable halfway house of 2 additional tickets per priority buyer.
End of the day I guess it's the price of success. |
If we start the season in poor form, this fickle fan base will soon drift back to where we were.
Even a midtable finish and I would be surprised to see a sell out weekly |  |
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| New membership details here on 14:58 - Jul 12 with 2003 views | skinnybob72 |
| New membership details here on 13:44 - Jul 12 by Jon_456 |
Yep they’ve now confirmed it:
“Yes, you are correct in your response, to clarify, you can only attribute points from last season if you were a member. If you weren’t a member last year, you would only gain points from become a member this year, and would begin on 5 points.”
That seems seriously harsh on ST holders. |
Feels like a retrospective punishment for ST holder for not having gold membership last season, when in reality it was only really needed for 2 or 3 games towards the end of the season. Looks like I’ll be in a few home ends at away games until I can build up some points! Was in the home ends at Bristol Rovers and Cheltenham last season! | | | |
| New membership details here on 15:16 - Jul 12 with 1961 views | JakeITFC |
| New membership details here on 14:58 - Jul 12 by skinnybob72 |
Feels like a retrospective punishment for ST holder for not having gold membership last season, when in reality it was only really needed for 2 or 3 games towards the end of the season. Looks like I’ll be in a few home ends at away games until I can build up some points! Was in the home ends at Bristol Rovers and Cheltenham last season! |
I'm pretty sure having a season ticket last year constitutes being a member. |  | | |
| New membership details here on 15:32 - Jul 12 with 1926 views | skinnybob72 |
| New membership details here on 15:16 - Jul 12 by JakeITFC |
I'm pretty sure having a season ticket last year constitutes being a member. |
Not according to previous replies. | | | |
| New membership details here on 18:06 - Jul 12 with 1826 views | Mullet |
| New membership details here on 22:50 - Jul 11 by stonojnr |
theyre not going to sell out you know |
Have a whoosh old fruit x |  |
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| New membership details here on 19:05 - Jul 12 with 1746 views | DinDjarin |
| New membership details here on 15:32 - Jul 12 by skinnybob72 |
Not according to previous replies. |
Gold Card is a membership but being a season ticket holder is not it appears. | | | |
| New membership details here on 22:30 - Jul 12 with 1630 views | Tedbrown |
| New membership details here on 18:06 - Jul 12 by Mullet |
Have a whoosh old fruit x |
The gold card was started around 1998, replacing the Portman Card. The reason why the gold card started was similar today's problem, it was a crude way to benefit season holders who go to away games. The main advantage was a higher priority , but it would break even if used ie, £5 added to the team card, free ticket for a preseason home game (£10 normally), ½ price coach ticket plus.
The silver card if I am correct was introduced in 2000-01 season when the capacity was only 22,000, with 18,000 season ticket holders. Silver card holders entering an organized lucky dip for the remaining 2,000 tickets per game. | | | |
| New membership details here on 13:21 - Jul 13 with 1494 views | NeedhamChris |
| New membership details here on 14:09 - Jul 12 by J2BLUE |
Very surprised by that. Really wouldn't be surprised to see that changed. |
I don't think they can change that now, would cause more problems. | |
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| New membership details here on 16:45 - Jul 13 with 1419 views | NeedhamChris |
I've bought one - but if they U-turn on last year's season ticket holders not being a member then I'll ask for a refund. | |
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