Season Tickets - A Poll

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What will you do?

1. I have already renewed my season ticket and sent it to the Club prior to last Tuesday's meeting.
6
14%
2. I have/will send a pledge to renew via RDST in the next couple of weeks.
11
25%
3. I will not be buying a season ticket.
27
61%
 
Total votes: 44

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Post by Arendee »

Just reading some of the comments above, is now the time to introduce a mini-season ticket? Something like pledge to buy 5 tickets for the season, maybe with free drink voucher thrown in. On that theme - can we sell any other commitment in advance - programmes, burgers, you name it...
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Trek wrote:All the above reasons are all fair and reasonable from people living many miles away from Nene Park.

What I would like to see, however, is a financial commitment from those fans that live on the doorstep and are regular visitors to Nene Park i.e. within the boundaries of Rushden/Higham and Irthlingborough, to buy a season ticket.
I still maintain that the Club is not supported in sufficient numbers from those three towns.
Add Wellingborough to that Trek.
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BartonRaz wrote:
Add Wellingborough to that Trek.
I deliberately didn't include Wellingborough and outlying villages such as Sharnbrook, Wollaston, Addingtons, Raunds etc etc since someone at Tuesday's meeting said that attendances weren't too bad expressed as a percentage of the total population of 55,000 in the towns of Rushden/Higham and Irthlingborough.
Personally I think they're very poor when you deduct the number of fans who live outside those three towns from the much quoted hardcore 1,000 home support.

If the Club survives then this is where maximum effort should be made to increase our support.
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Trek wrote:
BartonRaz wrote:
Add Wellingborough to that Trek.
I deliberately didn't include Wellingborough and outlying villages such as Sharnbrook, Wollaston, Addingtons, Raunds etc etc since someone at Tuesday's meeting said that attendances weren't too bad expressed as a percentage of the total population of 55,000 in the towns of Rushden/Higham and Irthlingborough.
Personally I think they're very poor when you deduct the number of fans who live outside those three towns from the much quoted hardcore 1,000 home support.

If the Club survives then this is where maximum effort should be made to increase our support.
Completely disagree. If the Club survives, all the places you left out, plus Northern Bedfordshire need to be targetted for a long term increase in support.
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Mad Dog wrote:
Completely disagree. If the Club survives, all the places you left out, plus Northern Bedfordshire need to be targetted for a long term increase in support.
Of course, MD, but the main impetus needs to be on the Club's doorstep and the message should be support your local community club. Whilst targeting other areas is all very well it won't bring in the same return. I know from personal experience, having personally delivered a leaflet to every household in the village I live in plus the adjoining village, full of Leicester City fans and nearly 20 miles from NP, when the Club had a last leaflet campaign back in 2005. :evil:
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Mad Dog wrote:Can anyone who votes for 3 please post their reasons?
I will be at university next season
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Trek wrote:
Mad Dog wrote:
Completely disagree. If the Club survives, all the places you left out, plus Northern Bedfordshire need to be targetted for a long term increase in support.
Of course, MD, but the main impetus needs to be on the Club's doorstep and the message should be support your local community club. Whilst targeting other areas is all very well it won't bring in the same return. I know from personal experience, having personally delivered a leaflet to every household in the village I live in plus the adjoining village, full of Leicester City fans and nearly 20 miles from NP, when the Club had a last leaflet campaign back in 2005. :evil:
Yes I'm aware of that, but the targetting Rushden, Higham and Irthlingborough is a very limited catchment area. I'm not saying we can't target these areas but the focus has been on these areas and not enough on others as you demonstrate by information in your last sentence.

You seem quite quick to point the finger when we should be uniting as a fanbase not pissing people off.
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Mad Dog wrote:and not enough on others as you demonstrate by information in your last sentence.

I think my last sentence demonstrates demonstrates that there is limited value in targeting catchment areas which already have a professional club. There was considerable effort in the Bedford area with regard to a leaflet drop in 2005 as Pigman will testify.
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Poor health resticts my attendances :cry:
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Mad Dog wrote:Can anyone who votes for 3 please post their reasons?
No
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