General Season ticket prices

AbsoluteZero said:
Renewed mine a few days ago, which is the 30th successive season for me. But the decision to renew was the most difficult in all of those years, normally it has just been a completely automatic thing to do. But with not going to matches for the last year, I have found myself doing other things which could be difficult to give up if I went to the football.

OK I did watch the games on iFollow, but it was the additional time saved not having to travel there, not having to have a long walk from the car to the ground when the car park is full which is getting more and more painful as I get older with a knackered back, waiting around before the match started, the time taken to get home etc. It's not 2 hours in the ground to watch a game it is an extra 3-4 hours all in before and after the match which I could be doing something far more interesting. And this is where the club have been very presumptive that fans will always come back. That may have been the case pre-Covid. But fans have now experienced a long period of time without going to the football, have found alternative things to do, got new interests, and football is not as important in their lives any more. The club must realise that there must be more competition for fans to consider doing something else so they needed a really good promotional pull this renewal to retain their customers (fans), and judging from the general discontent in this thread they have not done well with this and they have lost quite a few paying customers, and got many more disgruntled customers as a result. We will always be fans, but for the club to survive and succeed they need fans to also be paying customers, and their strategy to achieve this has gone badly wrong this time. The renewal incentive of a free possible Pizza Cup game at home to Stevenage feels more like a disincentive, in fact if we were ever to show the club that their customers (fans) are not happy with the way that they have been taken for granted then it is this game that could be used to go into the ground but not take your seats until the (Covid) 19th minute.
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^^ spot on and most eloquently put.
 
Essexyellows said:
^^ spot on and most eloquently put.
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They certainly did get the tone very wrong, in my view, but out of around 4k ST holders it is a small number on here voicing strong discontent, and that is tempered by the much more positive responses I've seen on other social media. Its easy to get lost in an echo chamber.
That said, I am sorry that some long term fans have decided not to renew for reasons of the club's own making.
 
RyanioBirdio said:
I see we’ve started creeping towards name calling and casting judgement on people’s character over the last few hours. This is good. We will have the “Us v Them” dividing lines drawn up in no time.
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Those ST given a golden Ticket vs. Those ST not given a Golden Ticket.:unsure:
 
www.oufc.co.uk

U's Cash Reminder

As we look forward to the 2021/22 season, there are only a few more days to use your U's Cash from last season.
www.oufc.co.uk www.oufc.co.uk

2021/22 Season Ticket holders will also receive £10 in start up U’s cash on 1st August 2021.

So we can include the £10 in the list of things included with the season tickets as well as the 10%.
 
Marked Ox said:
www.oufc.co.uk

U's Cash Reminder

As we look forward to the 2021/22 season, there are only a few more days to use your U's Cash from last season.
www.oufc.co.uk www.oufc.co.uk

2021/22 Season Ticket holders will also receive £10 in start up U’s cash on 1st August 2021.

So we can include the £10 in the list of things included with the season tickets as well as the 10%.
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Interesting, the club has reversed that decision then. The U's Cash was a late reinstatement and the start up £10 was not mentioned at all in the initial marketing. I can't believe that a conversation with Chris Williams and Andy Taylor just two weeks ago got this changed -or did it?
 
Marked Ox said:
www.oufc.co.uk

U's Cash Reminder

As we look forward to the 2021/22 season, there are only a few more days to use your U's Cash from last season.
www.oufc.co.uk www.oufc.co.uk

2021/22 Season Ticket holders will also receive £10 in start up U’s cash on 1st August 2021.

So we can include the £10 in the list of things included with the season tickets as well as the 10%.
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Which they’ve changed after the renewal deadline. I can assure you that as of last Thursday when I spoke to somebody at the club this was not included, nor will anybody find mention of it before today. Score one for the ‘moaners’, eh? You’re welcome.

Slow. Clap.
 
RyanioBirdio said:
Which they’ve changed after the renewal deadline. I can assure you that as of last Thursday when I spoke to somebody at the club this was not included, nor will anybody find mention of it before today. Score one for the ‘moaners’, eh? You’re welcome.

Slow. Clap.
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Yes but due to lost income from this retrospective scheme, we’re now longer signing any specialist full backs. HAPPY NOW?!
 
Robie said:
Yeah but what about the fans that can't be bothered to spend £10 in the club shop... what are the club going to do for them... 🤨
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Exactly that!
What do they stock for the more discerning supporter? :)
 
Last season's season ticket holders will have made their decisions now. As stated previously, we as a household ( an over 65, an adult and a under 18) contributed £890 and attended one match and 23 x iFollow and have not renewed. A somewhat different financial outcome cf a single person in the East Stand. The many various backgrounds to the season ticket fanbase should have led the club to attempt to 'equalise' across the fanbase. The obvious approach was to credit all season ticket supporters with the excess over and above the value of iFollow + the available matches which could be attended. Some households would still have felt some element of being relatively hard done by, but would have appreciated that the club had done their very best. Having been offered the credit, fans could then have decided whether or not to take the credit in part or in full. Most clubs from last season's League 1 have taken a much more sympathetic approach to renewal.
Inevitably we will attend a few matches this coming season, but in the main these will be away fixtures. Meanwhile, we hope the club have a successful campaign.
 
Napilnutter said:
Last season's season ticket holders will have made their decisions now. As stated previously, we as a household ( an over 65, an adult and a under 18) contributed £890 and attended one match and 23 x iFollow and have not renewed. A somewhat different financial outcome cf a single person in the East Stand. The many various backgrounds to the season ticket fanbase should have led the club to attempt to 'equalise' across the fanbase. The obvious approach was to credit all season ticket supporters with the excess over and above the value of iFollow + the available matches which could be attended. Some households would still have felt some element of being relatively hard done by, but would have appreciated that the club had done their very best. Having been offered the credit, fans could then have decided whether or not to take the credit in part or in full. Most clubs from last season's League 1 have taken a much more sympathetic approach to renewal.
Inevitably we will attend a few matches this coming season, but in the main these will be away fixtures. Meanwhile, we hope the club have a successful campaign.
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We are the same £780 didn't watch it on iFollow, it just wasn't the same. The way the club has ignored the fact many people have given them money in good faith, no one could have thought they were paying just to reserve their seats, not even a thank you. You would think they would contact those of us that haven't renewed to ask why but I imagine they know and don't care. In contrast to Oxford Utd down the road at Wycombe they really appreciate their fans. I would like to know how many haven't renewed.
 
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