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ROBBING SODS , my two tickets have gone up £200 , don’t they want people in the stands !!!

NAPM

Although my Season Ticket involves and additional £67 there are discounts for alcohol and other benefits throughout the season. It's going to eat into my pension but what the hell I will still purchase my usual seat and enjoy next season whatever happens on and off the field.

Are the prices in the National League roughly the same on match days as in the EFL?

redrobo wrote:Although my Season Ticket involves and additional £67 there are discounts for alcohol and other benefits throughout the season. It's going to eat into my pension but what the hell I will still purchase my usual seat and enjoy next season whatever happens on and off the field.

Are the prices in the National League roughly the same on match days as in the EFL?

They will soon get swallowed up with the prices increases on food and drink.

The combination of relegation, the NAPM, and the huge increase will decimate the fan base , there's no 2 ways about it.

mrpotatohead wrote:The combination of relegation, the NAPM, and the huge increase will decimate the fan base , there's no 2 ways about it.

Can’t argue with that !

I will post this on this thread just to make it clear;

So it’s two clear polar opposites, the NAPM campaign to try and force Whittingham’s hand in selling the Club, against carrying on regardless with the Clubs MTJAT campaign.

The Club cannot see the irony in their MTJAT campaign slogan MORE THAN JUST A TICKET, because it most certainly is, it’s the life blood to Whittingham as long as he is the owner.

Apparently he really still wants to sell! well Let’s hope there is a sale soon, because it seems it’s going to a tasty summer.

The Board clearly haven't read the room on this one.
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What ever the sum of early bird ticket sales (approx £225,000-£275,000 per 1,000 purchases depending on age and seated or terrace tickets) what is that used for?

Doesn’t Whittingham have to give the board of Directors his funding plans of the Club for next season now?even though he may not be the owner at the start of next season!

If we are sold those plans can then change and I bet for the better.

I would have hoped for in the region of 2,000 supporters renewing if it was not for the NAPM campaign, but with it in place after May 3rd I would think it will be short of that figure.

It’s all about the Club and how each and every fan believe’s they are helping the Club survive, so it’s:-

MORE THAN JUST A TICKET up against NOT A PENNY MORE; polar opposite’s, carry on regardless against trying to force change.

For me both sides are still supporters of the Club, no right, no wrong. I hope every fan, whatever happens hopes that Morecambe play good football and do well next season.

For myself I’m willing to forgo that till we are sold and if I miss out on early bird tickets or miss getting any kind of season ticket and I at some point I end up going to many home games and I end up paying more than the £182 for a early season ticket for a over 65 in the Halo terrace, so be it.

God forbid it’s a whole season, but that would not surprise me. So two games to go then I’m going to join others and maybe, just maybe together we can force change.

The club probably prefer walkons at £20 a game rather than season tickets. They backed themselves into a corner with the £150 tickets as at some point prices would have to go up also the problem then was our cashflow in league one was awful because noone paid on the day.

I just can't believe they have released the prices before it's confirmed what league we will be in.

Talk about pushing the majority towards NAPM. Our fans have been fantastic since L1. Do we not want a home crowd?

Perhaps they should call it "More for just a ticket"....

The board of directors need to take a good look at themselves, really don't know what they are thinking by not only launching the early bird, but putting the price of the season tickets up and expecting the support to just sit and take it. The BoD have made these decisions on behalf of and under the instructions of JW,or Punjabi if they have put there 2 reps on the board as they said they would.
Insult to injury at the moment.

Get the sale over the line and the ticket sales will be larger, what ever League we are in, its that simple Mr Whittingham. Your next move?

I have checked a few clubs and their tickets are more expensive including Macclesfield, Hornchurch and Sutton

Two of them clubs will be a league lower as well

Strangeways Shrimp wrote:The board of directors need to take a good look at themselves, really don't know what they are thinking by not only launching the early bird, but putting the price of the season tickets up and expecting the support to just sit and take it. The BoD have made these decisions on behalf of and under the instructions of JW,or Punjabi if they have put there 2 reps on the board as they said they would.
Insult to injury at the moment.

and you have proof of your claim that the increases are due to pressure from both current owner and proposed new owner.

Such claims are mischievous to say the very least

If you have proof. . then let us all into it.

If the BoDs are?guilty of anything it is their failure to explain the reasoning for the price increases so that not just a few who will possibly be understanding but that everybody will see the need for the extra revenue from Seasin Tickets sales.

Proor PR in my opinion.

redrobo wrote:

Strangeways Shrimp wrote:The board of directors need to take a good look at themselves, really don't know what they are thinking by not only launching the early bird, but putting the price of the season tickets up and expecting the support to just sit and take it. The BoD have made these decisions on behalf of and under the instructions of JW,or Punjabi if they have put there 2 reps on the board as they said they would.
Insult to injury at the moment.

and you have proof of your claim that the increases are due to pressure from both current owner and proposed new owner.

Such claims are mischievous to say the very least

If you have proof. . then let us all into it.

If the BoDs are?guilty of anything it is their failure to explain the reasoning for the price increases so that not just a few who will possibly be understanding but that everybody will see the need for the extra revenue from Seasin Tickets sales.

Proor PR in my opinion.

That's a bit rich coming from you.....

Strangeways Shrimp wrote:The board of directors need to take a good look at themselves, really don't know what they are thinking by not only launching the early bird, but putting the price of the season tickets up and expecting the support to just sit and take it. The BoD have made these decisions on behalf of and under the instructions of JW,or Punjabi if they have put there 2 reps on the board as they said they would.
Insult to injury at the moment.

Nothing to do with JW or PW....

Rod has announced he will be doing a fans Season Ticket Q&A in JBs at 2pm tomorrow

marky No.1 wrote:Rod has announced he will be doing a fans Season Ticket Q&A in JBs at 2pm tomorrow

Yeah yeah, lets stick together, and there's a new owner around the corner..

Very commendable by Rod but maybe a bit ill advised given the depth of feeling on an emotional day, the rises are far from ideal but simple maths tell you that without more revenue the club could sink without trace.

The timing of this announcement is awful but the facts are simple , the club is going down and the club is brassic.

NAPM campaign will not be affected by Rod coming out and up-fronting the fans on the question and answer session in JB’s about the price rises for season ticket sales.

The only thing that will affect the NAPM campaign is the sale of the Club, by that sale taking place in the next 90+ days before the new season starts.

If Whittingham sells in that window, the NAPM campaign will only be talked about, it won’t even start, because those Morecambe fans who believe they are doing the right thing will toddle up to the Mazuma and get their season ticket. If they miss out on the early bird tickets, that’s what they are prepared to forgo.

I doubt Rod can say anything on the sale other than the paperwork is in a the process of bing adjudicated by the EFL and is at this time still on going.

Commendable by Rod to take some of the heat on this but an open letter/statement probably would have been more appropriate to give all fans an explanation - even if we don’t like it. I can’t get to the ground for 2pm so will have to go off what’s reported second hand.

I think this issue really needed a more professional approach from the GM and board, rather than Rod standing at the front of the bar and trying to placate people on his own.

Compared to some teams the new price structure will not be to bad, we have in the main been at the lower end of the pricing of season tickets, but that is immaterial, the only question that matters is the ownership and the sale of the Club going through.

Billy bodger wrote:Compared to some teams the new price structure will not be to bad, we have in the main been at the lower end of the pricing of season tickets, but that is immaterial, the only question that matters is the ownership and the sale of the Club going through.

We have always been cheap and the club have earned a lot of goodwill by holding prices down over the years, so we were probably due a jump upwards (particularly with all the business and economic factors involved). It’s just that the timing of it could not have been worse and there needed to be some very careful PR management by the club.