fingers crossed come next week there is a significant increase once more people have logged on, postal pledges are received etc.
I do hope that we reach the 10k, not just because I get a ticket for me and my boy for a total of £60 but also because of the benefits we will see from bigger crowds during match days. I would have expected a massive surge in the first "week" and personally just under 4k was bit of a suprise to me...

Fingers crossed though we reach it, long time to go yet.

Agree with that, but in reality its a big ask and task.

If the current seasons tickets are 6,000 of which 500 are juniors that dont comply with pledge conditions and we have the usual 5% drop in season ticket holders through death/penury/apathy/moving away then the projected base is a around 5,300.

To almost double this is a really big ask where the major marketing so far has been designed solely around cheap prices with no apparent added value to the "product" either by on the field performance or match day experience.
It's to be hoped that news of both of these come sooner rather than later to reinforce the current marketing initiative whist it is still in people's minds.

As mentioned on other threads there is not clarity as to quite what Pledgers are getting themselves legally into and what the final cost will be. Thus a reluctance to sign up I've found from the people I've approached.

So far the "pledge" figures may reasonably represent a high percentage of the existing current season ticket holders plus some new members, but untill it exceeds 5,300 we wont know if the pledge scheme is on track.

The scheme is innovative and welcomed but has inherent dangers if the numbers are not met and prices need to increase as the club propose. What then will the Pledgors do?
Nor is it certain in any case that even at the lower prices pledges will be honored.

There are logistics re the deregulation of prices in the main stand that are going to cause serious consternation.

No NT from me! hope to hell it all works out and I'll do my best to make it so....
But there are obvious concerns that needed to be stated

Very impressive package through the post today. Hope that gets all the waverering season ticket holders to sign up.

Aren't we assuming that the pledge is automated? It may be that even though they are made electronically (though some on the phone by post), they still need processing? Imagine each one took 1 minute to process - that means one person working full-time on it will only process about 450 in one day. So whilst there may be (many) more pledges made than the total shown, it could be the total shown is the total of pledges "processed". Just a thought - perhaps we need to stop worrying? If the total doesn't rise this weekend is it because people are having the weekend off from pledging or that they are not being "processed"?

You're also assuming that that person is ploughing through those pledges without being human and looking out the window, or having a quite nosy on facebook or the 101 other things people do as a distraction when they've a boring data input job.

Personally I'm pleased with the numbers so far. Only a week in and we're within finger tips of the half way point? I'd say the pledge drive has been a success so far.

I got one too, albeit to my old address, despite me changing my address in the ticket office months ago




Car sticker included in the pack too, so that's gone straight into my back window.

I've not received anything yet.

Well no, but obviously they hate you

Hmmm brave or stupid?

Here's a possible marketing angle. When was a Northern standing season ticket last £60? 1970?

the funny thing is that at the kirgate on thursday....heath l'estrange was filling out the pledge forms himself !