The day I bid to watch my team play is the day I give up going to football...oh, hang on.

I just need a seat with quick and easy toilet access and not get wet when raining. Should imagine the East stand roof doesn't keep people that dry when rain sweepa in from the West.

The idea of auctioning season tickets, Richest first, would be very alian to our left wing decision makers.

How do you make batches and blocks (aisle seats are the most coveted)? How do you account for people wanting to sit together? I'm sure one could in theory design and implement a system that allowed bidding on non-debenture held seats. I suspect that the cost of design and implementation would outweigh the revenue gains for several years.

OI - you'd bid on a seat in the batch/block of seats up for auction. Once you had won one of those unallocated seats you could then opt to then pay an additional 20% for your existing seat. So no need to bid on multiple seats if you only actually want one. Equally no need for some people to then pay the additional 20% premium if they are are actually happy with any of the seats within the batch/block.

I don't expect you to have the data and I'm simply pointing out how many holes there are in the auction idea rather than saying you should have thought through the ramifications. However one or two. Many of the expensive seats will have debentures on them so you cannot auction them. I would probably want to bid on several seats in case I didn't get mine or could get a marginally better one. What happens if I win more than one auction? I'm sure there are many other issues that would arise in implementation.

An ego the size of Texas

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Nick W - Whether it contributes £2.8m or £1.8m - it would certainly be a step in the right direction. At an average net vat increase per match of £12 we'd have to sell 233,000 tickets each season to realise an additional £2.8m. I realise that early cup exits this season haven't helped but most seasons we seem to have around 29-30 home games. That would represent an average home attendance of about 7800 - which taking into consideration some of the lesser attended cup matches - seems like a realistic figure.

OI - to be fair to me - I'm not running the Club and I definitely don't have the data. I have no idea whether we would increase revenue and/or gross margin by hiking the average ticket price by £12 (net vat) - hence my suggestion that the Club undertake some market research. I'm throwing some ideas out there - some of which will be crap but others might have merit. The idea of a timed auction could start with say the best 1000 seats. A reserve/opening bid could be put on each seat at the current amount we receive and the timed auction could be over a 21 day period. You could bid on the basis of any unallocated seat and then pay a premium of say 20% on top to be allotted the seat you currently sit in. There are lots of timed auction platforms out there, through which such a process could take place (saleroom.com & eayliveauctioneers etc).

Two "posh" seats in front of me are now non-ST and seem to be sold every game, though the last occupants disappeared at half time, which may be a comment on the entertainment offered. Any proposal to raise revenue runs the risk of failing but that doesn't mean we should never try anything.

If you are referring to the centre block of the West Stand as 'posh" I sit there near the press box. I have made my ticket available for resale 3 times this season and it got sold once. Not sure the demand is there

The office on the ground floor was listed for rental somewhere, not sure if there has been any interest. A question to ask at ‘meet the board’ maybe. Also, third floor move was possible from the insurance moneys, it was mentioned somewhere but can’t remember where.

It's opportunity cost re the 3rd floor. Even if the insurance covered the cost of the work that floor was built in order to be a revenue generator and now it's offices. Literally millions of pounds down the drain.

Trigger - it might turn out a failed experiment but it would be reversible the next season and would act as JG's market research. When the posh tickets are freed they do seem to get sold, mostly to people who would pay full price. Whilst I don't want to charge everyone £12 (or £14 or £20) more per game we shouldn't dismiss every way of raising revenue.

I believe the main office on the ground floor should now be converted to a lounge for use on a match day by supporters in the South Stand. That will become revenue generative. Already has toilet facilities. From memory: Needs creation of one new door and closing of another one to prevent access to tunnel area.

Nick, I would expect the relocation to third floor would be covered by the insurance policy the club has.

OI - agreed 👍

Spit, from your post, rearrange deckchairs and titanic springs to mind😂😂

We seem to be missing the point, that if we were to sell out and relinquish fan ownership, the new owner wouldn’t be asking if we would mind seat/merchandise/hospitality being increased, they would be looking to get the returns they need on their investment. If we currently need to increase prices to prevent a loss I’m assuming that it would take a greater increase to return a profit. I guess we will find out soon enough what the current financial state of our club is, and I’m not expecting that it is great. On another subject, would anyone know what the cost of fitting out the third floor as club offices was, or how we decided that it was a good use of our budget? I understand about the potential flood risk that exists on the ground floor, but cost of moving up to the third floor must have been substantial, perhaps a sizeable piece of our loss in the last financial year?

Probably too late to rearrange seats in the ground.but real thought should of been introduced at the beginning that a very expensive stand should have no concession.

Give it another few months and Slow train wins his bet with OI from 18 months ago by default 😂

That's the problem with reducing or eliminating the concession TF

What about those pensioners who only go for the posh seats because the discount makes it affordable for them and otherwise the posh seats may go unsold?

All those defeats to non league clubs in the FA Cup haven't helped.