Brilliant, if all that info was visable each week, im sure loads would sign up. All the money going to the Trinity youth development it should be renamed the 'Wholey Trinity Lottery'. Whats i'm really getting at is making it really easy for people to become part of the club. In general Humans are lazy creatures so when the club has a captive audience it makes sense to hit them between the eyes and take money off them. Give a limited edition free pin badge, hat or scarf for the first 1000 people and for the next 1000 give something else limited edition, anything like that makes people want to join. If something is limited they get a fear of loss, let people collect these limited edition stuff if they up their spending on the lottery etc....

Not as easy for me, i live in Giantsville

I think Mable makes a good point.
If there was something visible as folk enter the ground, it would serve as an excellent reminder that we need to support the scheme.
I'm not suggesting someone sitting under a blanket with an old dog next to them but, instead it could be manned by some of the up and coming players.

Could do a £20 draw, to get a stand named after you for the next 5 years open to both wakey fans and anybody else willing to trying help the club from various clubs, to attract those none wakey fans to have a go offer them a match of their choice full hospitality or something.

It does have to be priced right. An alternative may be say to give £125.00 discount off a full priced ST for 10 years for £1,000. That way the Club gets £1,000 when it most needs it and if you buy a ST for 10 years you save £250. Plus the Club has got a fan for the next 10 years.

Taking that further, businesses pay £5000 to be put in a hat to be drawn at a pre-season game. Winner gets the main stand names after them, minimum of 25 businesses to enter. 1 in 25 chance of having the main stand with your name on it mentioned on radio, seen on TV etc for just £5000. Revenue of £125000 for 1 stand. do the same for naming other stands, bars, stadium.

Not a bad idea that!

Get local companies to do relatively small jobs around Belle Vue in return for an advertising board within the North stand on the back of the name boards of the stand. Any 'advertiser' would have the captive market of the Northstanders, because if you are watching the match you would not help but see the boards.
The first one for me would be a firm to put speakers within the North stand to enable spectators to hear the announcements!

Can I just say that if I was a potential buyer of a 2014 season ticket and having just spent quite some time looking at your website, either I am not looking in the right place or I think I am right in saying that nowhere does it say how much a season ticket (gold membership) actually is.

I found a poster advising that they can be purchased for £20 a month but is that 12 months, 9 months or what?

I would have thought that you should be making it clearly obvious as soon as someone logs on to the website how much they are.

Just a thought that's all.

Few quick ideas:

Get a 'classic' DVD series going, £9.99 for things like Yorkshire Cup final, Million £ match, Championship final game vs Feath etc.

Have events in Cats where you sell tickets to watch the above, invite past players who took part, offer food etc.

Stock versions of classic shirts in the shop, I'd quite like one without the sponsorship on that I could wear for a number of seasons.

Lower the prize money for the lottery and offer more things that are worth more to the fans but cost less to the club, hospitality, goal kicking lessons with that season's kicker, away game travel on the coach, you choose MOM etc. I'd also try and sell tickets at the game too to tempt casual fans.

Sell the program as a digital magazine that people can subscribe to, keep it going throughout the closed season for official updates.

I've banged on about an 1873 event til I'm blue in the face; so much so that I'm not sure I can bring myself to type it all out again. I think the most recent effort was when the new lottery manager started posting here.

Looks like there was no appetite for it at the club - or it was a crap idea.

Sell more players?

Said that for years. Would be easy enough to do without keeping any stock as you'd burn as required.

that will be for the new stadium and could be big cash generator

and what would be his redundancy package and would you not have to employ another body to do his job ?

I tweeted the Cribs last week but not had a reply ...yet !!! know a couple of their album cover photos were shot on the terraces

The contra deals I think that has been the Wakey way for many a year

DVD a great idea , especially if folk have some of the classic games

Think we've asked for it a few times too

Some fantastic ideas on here, why don't we get together to see how we could bring them to reality? I'm sure the club would give us a room FOC.

Monday night Belle Vue 7pm

Would it be possible to issue one of the staff or even better one of the players with a video camera. All the events of the close season could be recorded and extended in to the new season. Trinity diaries could be shown on the web page but to access a fee paid either up front or on a weekly basis. The recordings taken would have to edited but could produce a 20/ 30 mins program every week.
The recordings would reflect the ups and downs of our club, with training, meeting , changing rooms before kick off and some private footage.
I don't think a fiver on a weekly basis or £100 for the full season would be out of the way.

Will Mr Carter/Elston/Glover be in attendance?

we will know the fine details nearer the time. Its not a time for looking back but to look forward

There are indeed some good ideas but they need coordinating. The Club needs big money and fast but it will also need cash during next season and beyond and some of these ideas can help with that.

We lost WiSCA who used to do such stuff but maybe the Trust could assist with the coordination.