Re: We need more Fans!! : Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:13 pm  

Whatever happens we must avoid giving away free tickets.
Never works.
Obviously schools are an exception

Re: We need more Fans!! : Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:27 am  

I did receive a letter inviting me to continue my season ticket (and explaining the price) over two weeks ago.

Re: We need more Fans!! : Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:01 am  

I have 10 season tickets from my address, I have recieved renewal letters for 2 of them.

Re: We need more Fans!! : Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:12 am  

Who actually runs the season ticket renewal department? Is it members off staff who actually work for Salford or the people who run the stadium?

Re: We need more Fans!! : Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:54 pm  

I have made suggestions in the past re `fans coming through the turnstiles etc` however for the die hard salford fans who have season tickets then the club need to involve them more, make other acceptable offers, shirt, drink or occasional free pie, whatever it takes to repay loyalty. For the other die hard`s who don`t buy a season ticket (due to work commitments and shifts) its easy for Dr K to label some of these as stay away fans, but having been part of the big crowds early last year, then to be part of a drubbing at home to saints and other up`s and down`s then unfortunately you only get a crowd if the product is worth watching. Yes the end of season was a little better, apart from the Wakey game, but that was a very important fixture which we `blew` I was under the impression that the Doc was in it for the long haul, but the negativity surrounding some of his latest appears to me that he will pull the plug. other s have intimated he should leave the running of the club to people in the know and to have a successful side does not come overnight. Yep, shout out but say the right things...support the club, the management and the fans and don`t always critisise them. It costs me in the region of about £80 quid once i`ve bought my tickets for my lad and i and if he brings his mate then that go`s up..obviously they want a hot dog at ridiculous prices, but I wont do it if we have no chance of winning or the team is playing garbage. Results will determine who comes through the gate and nothing else. The performance against Widnes in the cup said it all to me.

Re: We need more Fans!! : Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:31 am  

Just out of interest of how does it cost you £80? I was under the impression you could get family tickets ie 2 adults and 2 children for £35 ish? I might be wrong as I have never bought such tickets.

Also just to point out, the Widnes game in the Challenge Cup included Greg Eden, Michael Platt, Francis Meli, Martin Gleeson and Tim Smith. Harsh to say it “said it all”, Harris was only just at the start of his reign and was still looking at the squad and making decisions. Interesting that non of the above mentioned played much further part in the season following this game.

I agree with your sentiments though, the crowds will not come back until we’re playing successful RL or at least running the bigger teams closer than we did do this season.

Re: We need more Fans!! : Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:50 pm  

Hi John Gilbert red. The £80 quid is made up from travel from Wigan as that's where I live. Normerly £30 or 40 quid for tickets as the family one is for standing up and we go either in the east or west depending on the opposition and then programme, pies and drinks for the boys and a couple of pints for me. Before u know it my pockets are empty. I suppose the widens cup game was a bad example but yes once there is stability then hopefully as we both will agree the crowds and results will go hand in hand. You get my drift tho. Thanks

Re: We need more Fans!! : Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:37 am  

salfordredforever wrote:

The £80 quid is made up from travel from Wigan as that's where I live. Normerly £30 or 40 quid for tickets as the family one is for standing up and we go either in the east or west depending on the opposition and then programme, pies and drinks for the boys and a couple of pints for me

Not sure you can really count the cost of your travel to the game and then push it back as a negative against the club? Otherwise it would cost me £1500 to go to a home game....I would be pretty p**sed off about that!

You have a choice whether to have pies, drinks and a few beers. Also, as far as I recall, they aren't astronomically priced.

I do agree that, similar to United, they could introduce vouchers for a free pie or free pint. One every other home game.

Re: We need more Fans!! : Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:07 am  

salfordredforever wrote:

Hi John Gilbert red. The £80 quid is made up from travel from Wigan as that's where I live. Normerly £30 or 40 quid for tickets as the family one is for standing up and we go either in the east or west depending on the opposition and then programme, pies and drinks for the boys and a couple of pints for me. Before u know it my pockets are empty. I suppose the widens cup game was a bad example but yes once there is stability then hopefully as we both will agree the crowds and results will go hand in hand. You get my drift tho. Thanks

Because I totally sick of the quality of the beer I started grabbing ice cold cans from the shop on the front, make sure you have combats on (the deep and numerous pockets) and Robert is a male relative.

Re: We need more Fans!! : Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:16 am  

John Gilbert Reds wrote:

Just out of interest of how does it cost you £80? I was under the impression you could get family tickets ie 2 adults and 2 children for £35 ish? I might be wrong as I have never bought such tickets.

salfordredforever wrote:

the family one is for standing up and we go either in the east or west depending on the opposition

I think the two comments above highlight one of the problems we have with selling tickets: two regular fans who are not really sure what we offer - and I'll add myself to that in that I'm not really sure what the family ticket offer is either, but I thought it did include the East Stand. Being a season ticket holder I don't often look at the ticket sales site, but I do know that when I looked early this season the family ticket wasn't even listed amongst the various tickets you could buy for the games I looked at.

We somehow manage to make information hard to find. For example, we've had offers like 6 ticket/6 programmes/6 pints (or something similar) that scrolled on the official site as adverts, but then no link through to actually buy, and we also have a tendency to announce things about tickets as news, and then if someone missed the newsflash then they don't see it as the news inevitably moves off the front page (don't get me started on the lack of ease of simply finding news on the official site). I know people who knew nothing about the ability for season ticket holders to buy discounted tickets for friends and families because it was one of things that was just announced and then went out of sight rather than being clear at all times on the ticket purchase site. I actually thought that when the ticketing moved from ticketline to ticketmaster and season ticket holders were given a ref number to sign up for an online account then we might have been able to buy friends and family tickets through that account, but that doesn't seem to be possible and my facebook question about being able to do that was unanswered.

There was also the initialtive in either 2012 or 2013 (can't remember which) where match tickets were able to be purchased at the tourist info centre at the Lowry. The initiative was tweeted and mentioned on facebook, but wasn't actually mentioned on the ticketing section of the official website. I suspect the uptake was poor and the initiative stopped - but again, if people missed that facebook post or tweet, they woudln't know about it.