Anyone heard anything? I initially thought they'd be poor after last season unless there was a complete clear out. With the signing announced I though they would pick up to usual numbers.

However... I've just had a call off of the club. Mathers to be precise, "Hiya, we see you haven't renewed your ticket and the early bird deadline has passed... We will still offer the early bird price you now f you want it"

Is this a worrying sign? Or merely the club showing initiative and chasing ST regulars who haven't renewed?

They hammered the early bird deadline ad,posted a daily countdown, not sure if we can read anything into that, was it just advertising or desperation?

Also guess some that bought before deadline want to take theirs back after what I read on Facebook.

I think the club have, for the first time in the new era, realised that all the kiss-cams and community work in the world won't alter the fact that a team that nearly gets relegated isn't one to buy a season ticket for.

Primarily, a winning team sells tickets and the ancillary stuff adds a little bit more to the experience. Let's hope Price can get us back to our 2010-2013 position.

Wow seeing it written down does really bring it home how barran the TS years really were.

Hmm I don’t want him to get us back to them years,I want to better them

I had a call last week asking when I was going to renew (I get 3 tickets). I did renew yesterday, but only because my son has moved back into the town and he said he wanted to start going again. The person who has been going with me the last 4 seasons didn't renew.

I have had a season ticket (including life membership) since 1967, but if my son had not wanted to go, I wouldn't have renewed. This isn't just because of the results, but the awful quality of rugby we played last year and I've just lost the excitement of going.

I think the current setup of the competition is also dreadful, the RFL are the most incompetent bunch of morons in charge of any sport.

I think this year will see the lowest season ticket sales since we moved to the HJ.

Exactly - ST sales are good for a club because it's guaranteed revenue and cahsflow upfront. Easier for budgeting and more secure.

However, number of bods through the turnstile = match day revenue, whether you've paid up front or paid on the day.

The end of year balance sheet doesn't care either way, as long as you turned up and paid.

If we start winning, playing well, and players like Roberts start to show, we start regularly seeing 12K in the stadium, and the club are happy.

Repeat last year and it will be south of 8K.

I've bought mine..... solely on the back of a new coach and when the murdoch masila rumour became clearly a realistic move.
Had smith remained I wouldn't have renewed.

But what hits home at the shambles of the sport is when I looked at the fixture list and the list ends in July. .....

July. ....who's going to buy a season ticket when a third of the season is a complete unknown. .....

People are rolling out all sorts of daft excuses on Facebook but the reality is people have less money. ..something has to give, and although I'm genuinely excited for our season ahead I'm afraid the game has seriously lost its sparkle.

The sooner Thursday night rugby and the super 8's goes. ..the better. Oh and Catalan away in winter. ....

Recorded message or is he working the blower now?

Genuinely him on the other end of the line.
"Hiya is *** there?"

I thought to myself, that voice sounds very familiar... "Yes, speaking. Who's this?"

"Yeah it's Richie here from from Warrington wolves.",

"Richie Mathers?"

"Yes that's right"

I nearly blurted out "Do you want to come round for tea" when he confirmed it was him

Ha ha magic. Did you ask him about his tweet? You know the one where he said Agar wasn't the problem, someone else was LOL

I wish I'd not renewed so early now. Would have loved a quick chat with Richie.

Once again the "fair weather" fans are rewarded, while us loyal fans are treated with disdain.

Joke of a club.

[i"morning Richie"

<richie doing dummy golf swings in the office>"oh..... erm....morning boss
Im raring to go today boss... So what will it be? off to Australia to find some new players? wine and dine some Emirates VIPs to get them back onside? Trip to see the people at Amazon?

"see that big stack of papers over there?"

"erm.... yea"

"well they haven't renewed their season tickets.... So ring them all up and give them a bit of the old classic mathers back slapping"

"ring them all up, like on the phone?"

"Yes, and when you have done that, Kyle Leuluai's new car from Rybrook has arrived... give it a quick clean before he gets here tomorrow.. there's a good lad"[/i

Lost it at the golf swing

Sorry to hijack the thread but I've put a poll on, just to see from users in here, what the trend may have been.

Granted ppl were ed off and the signings have helped convince some to sign up again, but I imagine that would be before the deadline so I've not included thst.

Your poll is not working as of 2pm

can a proper admin come on and sort this poll out please... it doesnt work.

Winslade? Rico?

Seems to be working now, for at least two people

I've voted, renewed before the deadline. Have always bought a season ticket since I started in 1993, but for the first time I was considering picking my games, but new signings have brought optimism back.

I've even booked for Catalan away, which I haven't done since 2009.

We just can't get the staff these days.

There isn't a option for me.
I haven't had one for years since I could count on 3 fingers how many Sunday games we had when we were still supposedly using 3pm Sunday as our kick off day.
I might have been tempted if there had been all Friday night but Saturday afternoon fixtures in the mix puts pay to that idea.

I thought all the prices had been frozen for this year.

The new corporate brochure shows them having all gone up, most up by about 10%.

Nope, i believe there was a polite row at one of Karl's soiree's about the freeze being on early bird, new memberships were higher. Which went over like a fart in a space suit after this season.