stevesmitt

I quiet enjoy both the league cup and the JPT. We was close to getting to Wembley in the JPT last season and as fan that prob would have been the best moment supporting Latics of the past 10 years. I do think the league cup should not include any teams taking part in European competitions.

Can he still play left wing ?

He still looked good in the charity match last month, better than we currently have anyway.

Dickov is 3/1 with stan james to take over at Coventry.

Although thinking back to stuff that was said that night Reid also mentioned that he had always played cricket every pre season and picked up niggling injuries which he carried in to the season but he was going to give it a miss this preseason so he would be fitter for the start of he season. So maybe this a something to do with his form so far this season.

I was sat on the same table as reid and kmb at the end of season awards do. They was telling us that this club is run so badly from top to bottom, they said the chairmen as not clue how to run a football club and the manager and coaching staff don't know what they are doing. Reid said something along the line of "i know im not a great player and i struggle to lose weight after an injury but im far better player than the way im made to look in this team, you could messi in that team and he would struggle to score goals" he went on to say that the team talk was just telling the defenders to play it wide and then put the ball in the box from the half way line. He also said that he couldn't remember the last time one of our strikers received the ball to their feet inside the penalty area. At the time I just thought of it as two players that was bitter at not getting new contacts but when you look how they have started the season as well both doing well preseason and the way we are playing this season I think they had valid points.

In - but he has 7 games to prove himself, if not then it's time for a change.

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If the payments are being sent through PayPal then maybe anybody that doesn't have any spare cash to donate could put a couple of old/unused items they have on eBay and have the fuds sent straight to the latics for life account.

I had a problem with eBay and PayPal and had my account closed (still not found out the reason) but I'm more than happy to hand over some cash to laticdickovarmy or anybody else that will send it through PayPal on my behalf.

Id say £20 adults £5 kids then £10 season ticket holders. Id also say do an offer for £45 for the cup game and the first 2 home league games (depening on who they are against)

Sheff wed will bring 1500-2000 whatever the price so we can get maximum cash out of them while keeping prices down for our fans as any wanting to go would hopefully take up the offer of £45 for 3 games.

From my workings out we have took around the same amount as last season,

2011/12 average adult price was £316 x 1454 tickets sold is £459,464

kids tickets was £50 x 332 sold is £16600

TOTAL £476,064

2012/13

average adult price £316 x 1471 sold is £464,836

kids tickets £10 x 767 sold £7670

TOTAL £472,506

so £3558 down on last season which we will prob take between now and the start of the season.

Just a thought but maybe the club as got a verbal deal with wes. They was going to wait till the end of the season before he had his op so maybe they agreed he could have it in feb if he stayed with us for next season. Seems a bit pointless for the club to agree for him to have an operation that would rule him for months if he was going leave when he came back from it. I know he needed the op but it could have waited till the end of the season.

Right just been sat in what has to be the most boring marketing meeting at my place ever

 

Simple soultion

 

Why not charge the same price for ST as this season but dont quote me is it 2500 region? at 320 (all priced on adults which they arent)= £800,000

Now if we sell 3500 so we beat the target by 1,000 then we will sell them at £230 which = £805,000 the club would make 5,000 and have 1,000 extra fans in a week plus as fans u get ST £90 cheaper

 

This is all based on just adult tickets I know the club could not lose as at worst they would just sell ST at the same price, it would also make us try and make our mates buy even harder if u got near the target

The problem with that (as mentioned earlier in the post) is that the most of the extra 1000 that buy would normaly pay on the day so even tho the club would make and extra 5k they would have hardly any pay on the day fans.

We need an idea that the pay on the day fans will take up as well as a couple of thousand stay away.

You know I watched Late Kick Off the other night and Bury were commentating on the possible re-introduction of alcohol in the stands and their decision to start selling under the stand again after a hiatus, their attitude was "if we sell 100 pints, well that's a hundred pints we wouldn't have sold previously". I thought what a refreshing 'speculate to accumulate' attitude, the Golden Ticket initiative was a bold (if totally necessary) initiative that needs building on. I think Broady's got his work cut out, the first thing he needs to consider is using the Pie and Pint offer more sparingly and sell the £100 packages more aggressively, we seem to have simply given up trying to sell the sponsorship and corporate packages that bring in the bunce. The pie and the pint offer is all well and good against Walsall on a Tuesday night, but surely the Hospitality Suites should be sold out for the visits of Charlton and Preston, not to mention the last game of the season v Carlisle.

 

We've a new team now in Neil Joy, Jenny Warburton, Broady and Michelle the new shop manager - let's come up with long-term strategies that make the club viable. previously i've been against a mega-cheap season ticket but why not try a tiered scheme like Hartlepool did? No early bird offers, just the following….fans pledge their commitment with a non-refundable £50 deposit, the rest of the money is debited by a final deadline of 31st July….

 

1000 ST £399 each = £399,000 = £17.34 a game

2000 ST £349 each = £698,000 = £15.17 a a game

3000 ST £299 each = £897,000 = £13 a game

3500 ST £249 each = £871,500 = £10.83 a game

4000 ST £229 each = £916,000 = £9.56 a game

4500 ST £199 each = £895,500 = £8.65 a game

5000 ST £179 each = £895,000 = £7.78 a game

6000 ST £159 each = £954,000 = £6.91 a game

6500 ST £129 each = £838,500 = £5.61 a game

7000 + £99 each = £693,000 = £4.30 a game

 

Fill the ground, fill your boots with merchandising and a decent choice of food, good programme, golden goal tickets, strike it lucky tickets etc, etc….. For this to work and to absorb the loss of match to match income the merchandising and match-day food, programmes, beer etc, etc needs to be spot on….

 

This could work if aggressively marketed, push the get your season ticket for £99 angle, highlight that not the doom and gloom scenario of £399…push it in the Chron, Evening News Website and keep people informed daily. £249 Season Tickets - Bronze Target of 3,500 ST Holders, £199 ST's Silver Target of 4,500 ST holders, £159 Season Tickets - Gold Target of 6000 and £99 ST's - Platinum Target of 7000 + if aggressively pushed it WILL work.

We could also add the option of pay what you like for your ticket (as long as its above the said amounts). Fc united done something similar last season where you pay what you like as long as its above £90, the average paid for each ticket was £160.

I'm sure there would be some fans who have paid £300 a season for years and would be happy paying £200 even if we did hit 7000 sales.

2300 x , average of say £250 , = £575000 (and our average price may be higher, depends on proportion of concessionary STs)

 

So that's 5750 at £100 .

 

But Hartlepool sold less and gave kids tickets even cheaper I think so less income.

 

Maybe more progs and lucky draw but it would be touch and go.

 

Catering - currently we don't get all the proceeds so that would be dependent on length of contract.

 

Mercandising - difficult to assess.

One thing not mentioned is that there will be very few pay on the day home fans as they would have all bought a season ticket.

Say we have an average of 1200 pay on the day home fans x £17 is around 20k a game x 23 is £460K which we would lose from pay on the day fans as well as the £575k we get from season ticket sales. So I'd guess we would need close to 10000 taking up the offer at £100 a ticket.

There is train from Victoria at 2pm that gets to mills hill at 2:10. If you get a taxi fom there you will be at bp for 20 past.

Did anybody turn up to this and ask any questions?

Perhaps those who would pay over £15 would consider giving the excess to PlayerShare.

Think I'm going to buy two or three tickets and take a couple of people who would not normally go. Hopefully they will return for the odd game or more afterwards.

Even tho I felt let down about the announcement I think the club have done the right thing. I received 4 text messages telling me about the announcement and couldn't possible miss all the hype on fb and twitter. If the club just came out with the deal I prob would have had to wait to check the site myself to find out. I'm sure there is loads of fans who have only heard about the deal because of the hype beforehand, people who would not normally check the website on a daily basis.

Not the news I was expecting but great idea and deal. Think I can make all 5 games. Don't want to criticise but maybe they could make it pay what you can afford but with a min of £15. I'm sure there would be a few who would have been going to all or most anyway, myself inc, that would pay a little more.

Could you pm me as well please.

Not sure if it's been mentioned but the m62 east bound between j10 and j11 will be closed from 10pm to 7am so best take the eastlancs on the way back.

http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/23948.aspx

Was told there is 3 from the junction and 5 from the riffle range.

at the game would be great Steve, i,ll sort ya a pint out

Just sent you my mobile number, just give me a ring on fri.

hey dude will ya save me a dozen or so for my lads b,day party....wold appreciate it, the rest? lets see half at anfield and the other half in round 4

Yeah sure, I can take them to anfield with me for you if you want or you get them from me at another game or collect from my house, in Milnrow.

Will they let people take them in or would I have to do it on the quiet

I have 500 blue balloons with the old badge printed on them (they was for something I was going to do for the club a while back that didn't end up happening) if anybody wants any of them let me know and you can have as many as you like for free.

Does anybody know of any coaches leaving from Middleton? Or any that would pick up and drop off there for 10 people?