As an exiled poolie most of what is going on at the club comes from the Bunker, the mail and the club OS. Most years the OS is by now telling us that the seasn ticket sales are 1,000 plus this year nothing have none been sold ? The fan rep on the board stated he would keep the fans up to date on such matters. or has the cat got his tongue.

Very good question Essex

Theres no rush for me to renew, end of june for early bird and 10th July to keep my seat

Heard via WhatsApp and apparently from the club (so feel free to put this right if you know otherwise) that less than 300 sold in first week, which is the worst for years. Sadly not surprised in all honesty.

I reckon we will sell about 2,000 Raj will then blame poor sales for not bringing players in.

If I was going to buy a ST, which I'm not, I wouldn't do it till just before the early bird deadline like I always did. Monthly salaried people will wait until at least the day after their May swag hits the bank. They may even wait until June payday.
It's a bit early to start counting sales buy hey whatever floats yer boat.
Some people who are advocating a boycott to hit Raj in the pocket will be joyous at negative news and others will be worried that less revenue will mean less outlay on new players.
As always we'll know soon enough.

He would be correct though wouldn't he?

No he needs to entice people into buying season tickets just like last time with his cartwheel signings we are fast becoming a joke club

Joke club? I'd rather we be like we are than what Torquay are going through? Raj is in charge , we can do nothing about it - everyone has their opinion.

i have no rush to renew mine until my seat deadline day

There we go again, telling the owner what he needs to do. Go and make him an offer that he can't refuse and then when he hands over the keys to the building you can actually be in a position to tell him what to do and I suggest it will end in off. At that point you will be the one under scrutiny, in the limelight, owner of the hot seat and we will concentrate on telling you what you need to do and that too might end in off.
He's got us by the bollocks so there's no point in inviting him to also put his hands round our necks as well.

God help us if were going to have less money spent on the team, done well enough for the last few years on that score. Guess its the excuse for next season in the bank already.

Should we tell him to sign no one? Its a football club, all clubs sign players. He already has his hands round our necks, he is doing a fantastic job of ruining another club. We should all just go quietly.

I willbe renewing my ST and all the people who I know who buy them say they will be doing the same. I wonder if the posters on here who talk about not getting one were ST holders last year?

We will sell a few hundread less wont be a massive amount but a few will be put off by false promises of the last few year.

Yep a steady decline as we get slightly worse this year
A few more years under Raj and we’ll be a NL/NLN yo yo club and it will be everyone’s fault but his

Well Loyal if things don't greatly improve next season he will have nowhere to hide this time around.

Why not tell the owner how to spend money he told us how to spend ours on season ticket with the promise of cartwheel signings he is a joke

You mean the takeover Torquay have just achieved?

When did Raj tell us to buy STs? And when has he ever promised cartwheel signings?
Why would he spend money to buy and sustain the club if he actually wants to ruin it?
And like every close season none of us know what's around the corner so isn't it wisest to wait and see rather than continually state we're on our way to he'll in a handcraft?

We have waited what is it 3 years for things to change i hardly doubt june and july will bring much change in that, all we do year on year is replace players to a lower standard of the previous year.

Stand by your principles and don’t buy one then.

We still feeling the after affects of getting promoted in the summer at Bristol.
All the decent players weren't available.
But we made a shit load of dosh that season with cup runs n 5000 crowds.
How did relegation even come into play?
Now that ain't rocket science. But the Rosetinters will really struggle to comprehend that.
Cranks

Football isn't any kind of science it depends too much on human frailties. We obviously signed players who we couldn't get to perform to a level to keep us up. Doesn't mean we didn't spend enough. We don't know the financial situation of the club so we don't know where any money goes although it seems that Sage were first in line for any windfalls from cup runs or transfers.
If 5000 crowds on 23 occasions raises sufficient funds to sustain the club let alone progress it then there'd be at least 5000 Poolies trying to buy the club. Nothing to do with rose tinted glasses, just reality.

Oh not a chance of me lining this cranks pockets with a season ticket purchase.
5000 crowds on 23 occasions not enough to fund the club into progress up the league tell me how the hell other clubs do it on far less crowds of 5000

We only had three home matches last season where we exceeded 5,000.

therefore thats extra revenue coming in on a home match. if everyone actually bought a season ticket the only matchday income would be from the away fans, club shop and food and drink outlets. just cannot understand how this lower season ticket sales can affect the type of signing we make. i,m old enough to remember where season ticket holders were a rare species at clubs not like they are nowadays. know its money upfront but we have to live once the season starts right through to the end of april and beyond for players wages and we need a good number of fans who pay per game to keep the club afloat.

To be fair the poster was talking about our season back in League two, which is what the previous posts were talking about.

Keeping crowd numbers up is obviously essential to progressing back out of the conference.

No, what's essential is finding a team capable of winning enough games, keeping crowd numbers up is desirable but is also a consequence of winning games, particularly at home.

Income:
If we sell 2,500 season Tcks, And get 5,000 through the gate, Then 2,500 is extra income.

Only at pools could you be promoted with a great manager a decent squad and let it all slip in no time. Takes some doing but we did it comfortably.

It's a bit like the nutter who won £9.5 million on the lottery and blew it in less than 5 years on drugs and stock car racing with his mates in the back garden of his mansion He now signs on again

Obviously, but it would help if they pointed out it was that’s season and not the last season.

At £16 for an old farts pay at the door thats ok by me.Cant see me getting to that many this season so they will get about a ton out of me.

exactly. surely everything isn,t just about how we,ll do that depend just on season tickets that are sold.

about the same for me that would go up if we were having a brilliant season winning, playing good football and scoring goals. if i lived say around thirsk i,d get a season ticket, live around ripon i,d think about it, but by living further away its no chance whatsoever.

Years ago people didn't have the money to spend on season tickets and they weren't the norm. Times have changed and now some clubs even have waiting lists for season tickets, virtually on a dead man's shoes basis. New finance rules dictate the show to a certain extent and budgets have to be submitted so season ticket sales become an important factor in determining budgets. The authorities want to know if the clubs can honour their contract commitments.
I think if all the information on how clubs can and cannot operate were made absolutely crystal clear, word for word, then we would all be better informed instead of having to assume or second guess. It's like everything else in football, the more complicated the authorities are able to make it, the happier they are.
E.G. When are they going to decide whether Man City are operating within the rules or not. It is all up in the air because smart arsed lawyers are complicating it further.
Everything used to be so simple when tinkering was frowned upon.
Now you can even have a game second guessing what is coming next.

I'm the same. It used to be the three of us buying ST's but now the other two can't commit to the required number of games to justify it and now the Walter Mitty Shithead appointment has really put it in the long grass. They won't go near the place while he is on the board.
A 200 mile round trip is becoming a chore, and fighting my way up and down the A1, especially on my own, is becoming less attractive. I can't have a few pre or post match pints and that has always been part of the match experience for me. Not always but I like to have the option. I'm nearing the big 80 and terrified that a few beers would make me fall asleep at the wheel.
We went to a few away matches last season and enjoyed the day out but sometimes not the result as we didn't witness one win.
If I still lived in the Town I would certainly get a ST but the other two wouldn't, until he left the board. Que sera sera.
Live streaming when available it is.

I always paid at the gate because taking my two lads with me it was easier to pull the money out week by week than in a lumper every year when we had holidays to pay for….it briefly got to three when their little sister joined the pilgrimage…but as they grew older it was buy your own, you’re working and I decided to swim in the season ticket pool.
Even they’ve given up over the past two years…but to be fair work and travel commitments made a season ticket unviable money wise.

always feel older you are the more careful you get regarding money and the head always rules the heart in purchases. doubt many over 60 will but season tickets unless they make something out of it by going to nearly every game. its the young ones who,ll splash the cash if they have it and if true or not they,ll say buying one helps the club whether they go or not. the thing is if we got the exact gate two games on the trot i,d stake my life on it that they will not all be the same ones who will attend both games.

Yeovil, Cheaper to live down south no doubt.

We pay more in wages than these southeners do. Oh hang on.

but yeovil are not the south east or even a part of bristol. if wealdstone and barnet are putting out cheap season tickets i might start in agreeing.

I'll only be getting the one ST for Pools so couldn't give a flying **** what others are charging.

Thats the spirit

Wealdstone are charging 10 quid for under 16 season tickets. 19-23 year olds at 100 quid. Concessions 185 and adults 275 which does rise to 325. Im presuming things and wages must be a lot cheaper in wealdatone too.

therefore i agree.

Barnet are very expensive though but they do have better deals for a majority of their fan base, and standing tickets at a cheaper rate too.

Is this a Premium seat?

On second thoughts a commode may be more useful.

Well buy or not buy a season ticket that is the question. Me myself personally have decided to wait until 30th June ( not a day later ) to see if decent signings arrive or not. If we do sign a few decent players I will renew but if we don't I have decided to give my season ticket money to the RSPCA which is a charity close to my heart. I have followed Pools for a little over 50 years and feel I have done more than my fair share of supporting them through thin and thinner. I have bought a season ticket for the past 28 years and feel more than a little let down of late. We all know it's virtually impossible to stop going to games altogether so I will pick and choose the games I attend.