not sold that many yet they have only reached that number plus a couple of hundred more pledges so that they would know it was worth rolling them out at that price.

I think they start selling them in the next couple of weeks, as it was said on their forum they now have to turn those pledges into sales. if i have been following the story right.

good effort by them though hope some of this increased support translates into more away support from them.

Cheap Season Tickets are a false economy, look at Huddersfield at the beginning of last season with their big announcement - £100 season ticket, their average attendance increased to 7,908 from the season prior - 7,820 (A massive 88 extra ST's sold), that must have lost them a fortune!! Not sure if they continued the deal this season but their average decreased to 7,386

So despite their performances improving their support has stalled.


Now with Bradford they will probably average around 12k next season with their £60 season ticket, but they again will lose a fortune despite increasing their support by 4k.
The argument may be that supporters are buying on the ground, not necessarily so though.
Think about it, all these Bradford speccies shelling out £60 to keep the club going, a vast section of these fans will think 'hell it was only £60 I'm going to pick and choose my games'.

To keep their support of 12k in 2012, the club will need to be successful on the field in 2011 if not then Bradford will either have to repeat the deal (can't see that, the hole in the ground that is Odsal will see to that), or suffer the dip in support again.

Either way, Bullmania is dead and the club are suffering a "Wigan-esque Post Central Park" bleak period which will last a decade probably.

The thing is, if you only pay £60 for the whole season, you can afford to not go to a fair few onf the games.

Which then means you're less likely to renew when the prices are bumped up the following season...

(Online renewals should be available now by the way if anyone fancies claiming the honour of being the first to buy!)

Just a question about purchasing new season tickets online - will it be possible to specify the actual seat number you want?

That might not necessarily affect the gate though. Uusally, it's tickets issued which forms the attendance instead of who actually turns up.

Hi Leyther, just wondering will it soon be possible to buy general sale season tickets online? The reason why is that I have to renew mine aswell as purchasing two new season tickets.

The original plan was to be able to purchase new ones online and pick your seat in the same manner as you can for match tickets - however, the Ticketmaster software isn't quite as advanced as that just yet. Think you can buy new ones online if you don't want a specific seat or use the 'Find Nearest Seat' option though.

A word of warning: There will (probably) be three great seats available in the East stand next season, as my mum & partner might not be renewing due to illness. The disadvantage is, they're next to me!

So, if you see W151-153 available, think twice before getting them!

Went down to the ticket office today and been told they may extend the renewal deadline for current season ticket holders.

Definatley going to wait in the hope that there are two available seats in the West somewhere around the middle.

i've just a phone call from the ticket office trying to sell me season tickets (as the other half and I didn't buy last year due to financial difficulties this time last year to renew).

its the 2nd time in a few weeks the same woman has rang me to 'discuss' prices of seats with a view to me buying today.
needless to say i assured her i had the internet and that i'd study the prices soon.
she said she'd ring me back next week to 'see how i was going on and if i was ready to sort it out'.

she didn't get my drift lol!

Still, good work by them to try to get folk buying nice and early!

Hopefully Ste (8inarow) will finally get his finger out of his 'arris and buy a season ticket for a change this year, thus saving him a job of trying to persuade me to give him the number of my missus's season ticket everytime he needs priority seating.