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Post by RonD on Dec 13, 2017 15:58:15 GMT
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Post by embalmer on Dec 13, 2017 16:01:36 GMT
This is breathtakingly incompetent. |
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Post by Hannibal on Dec 13, 2017 16:17:01 GMT
The board really don't do much to improve their zero rating.
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Dec 13, 2017 16:30:03 GMT
Christ that's bad. Choose any ten of 11 games.
We may as well have replaced this with a proper half-season ticket.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 16:33:08 GMT
It's basically just a half season ticket.
Don't know why they can't make these Cestrian 10 tickets available at the beginning of the season, something a lot of fans who maybe can't afford the full ticket at the time could really benefit from.
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Post by oldnotdecrepit on Dec 13, 2017 16:42:17 GMT
This is breathtakingly incompetent. Oh Dear. As if we needed more evidence of the incompetence. I just did a quick comparison. Wigan Athletic launched their half season ticket on 15 November one month earlier than ourselves and it was for EVERY game and costs £175, just £14-50 per game (as opposed to £16), for Division 1 league leaders. We need as as many fans as possible at every game, to support a struggling team, not one storming towards the league title and to avoid relegation not win the league. This is so badly thought out. |
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Post by Al on Dec 13, 2017 16:50:09 GMT
If you didn't laugh you'd cry.
So they've basically changed it to a half season ticket but not told anyone about this change of plan at the multiple CFU meetings we've had over the past few months..
If it's a half season ticket then inform the supporters BEFOREHAND. Doing like they have done tonight just puts more pressure on the board members and makes them look incompetent.
Picking any 10 games from 11. LOL
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Post by BarntonBen on Dec 13, 2017 17:34:42 GMT
Its the little things like this that are slowly killing the club. They can't even get the prices right on the website. Look at the link below, it shows the '10' ticket as £25, until you click through.. then it changes to £135. www.chesterfcretail.com/collections/tickets |
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Post by lookingin on Dec 13, 2017 17:46:55 GMT
So we have one home game then this offer is worthless. Great job
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Post by Si on Dec 13, 2017 17:56:06 GMT
I'd be embarrassed if it was my idea to launch this now. Shockingly poor. I mean c'mon....its basic stuff ffs!
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Post by sqzl on Dec 13, 2017 17:59:01 GMT
£3 less per game than the league one division leaders. Interesting offer. this "offer" is aimed at people without season tickets! Nothing we've seen so far suggests this offer is good value for money especially for a floating fan, I mean Christ sake.
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Post by dmcnally on Dec 13, 2017 18:00:25 GMT
Can it be used in the cup too? |
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Post by lookingin on Dec 13, 2017 18:16:30 GMT
Can it be used in the cup too? The cup games are cheaper tickets. |
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Post by Deva Chanter on Dec 13, 2017 18:26:19 GMT
From the OWS: "Cestrian 10 gives you complete flexibility in the ten matches that you choose."  What a strange definition of "complete flexibility". Really embarrassing stuff this. |
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Post by Lobster on Dec 13, 2017 18:30:53 GMT
It has the feel of something that was supposed to have been rolled out weeks ago but we never got round to it, and now it's too late.
Maybe a 5-game ticket might have made more sense at this stage. This is a little embarrassing, I'm sorry to say!
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Post by Little Blue Boy on Dec 13, 2017 18:41:29 GMT
Just glanced at the CFU board responsibility document. According to that it's the ever useful pair of Neil Bellis and Jonny Hughes responsible for these areas of income generation.
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Post by Al on Dec 13, 2017 18:48:14 GMT
Just glanced at the CFU board responsibility document. According to that it's the ever useful pair of Neil Bellis and Jonny Hughes responsible for these areas of income generation. That's a shock... |
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Post by alancfc on Dec 13, 2017 18:55:47 GMT
Just glanced at the CFU board responsibility document. According to that it's the ever useful pair of Neil Bellis and Jonny Hughes responsible for these areas of income generation. That's a shock... Tweedle dumb and tweedle dee, our Chair and Vice Chair, ladies and gentlemen! |
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Post by lookingin on Dec 13, 2017 18:58:00 GMT
We will sell at least 10 of these. The club ticket office will be over run. I'm so feed up of this crap.
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Post by Lobster on Dec 13, 2017 19:14:59 GMT
If you don't have a season ticket but we're planning to attend every game between now and the end of the season, then it's worth doing I suppose and some might consider it. To bill it as we have though, as something for fans who can't make every game that offers "complete flexibility", is pretty ludicrous.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 19:33:41 GMT
If you don't have a season ticket but we're planning to attend every game between now and the end of the season, then it's worth doing I suppose and some might consider it. To bill it as we have though, as something for fans who can't make every game that offers "complete flexibility", is pretty ludicrous. I'm in the fortunate position where I could purchase this if I wanted but I WON'T DO IT as there's no real incentive for me to do so. If we get a couple of rearrangements, and I have other commitments, then I may be out of pocket. I'm quite happy with a PAYG approach on the gate (the club will probably make more money off me this way) and really can't see many others opting for appears to be a bit of a fudge of an offer. Yet again, our inability to think things through comes to the fore. It (by that I mean a more attractive offer)) should been in place at the beginning of the season READY to be launched in plenty of time to generate interest and purchases |
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Post by Paul Da Part on Dec 13, 2017 19:40:54 GMT
Piss up and breweries spring to mind when it comes to the board. Why couldn’t they have launched this months ago? These are the people in charge of the clubs destiny. Scary.
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Post by Al on Dec 13, 2017 19:47:02 GMT
If you don't have a season ticket but we're planning to attend every game between now and the end of the season, then it's worth doing I suppose and some might consider it. To bill it as we have though, as something for fans who can't make every game that offers "complete flexibility", is pretty ludicrous. I'm in the fortunate position where I could purchase this if I wanted but I WON'T DO IT as there's no real incentive for me to do so. If we get a couple of rearrangements, and I have other commitments, then I may be out of pocket. I'm quite happy with a PAYG approach on the gate (the club will probably make more money off me this way) and really can't see many others opting for appears to be a bit of a fudge of an offer. Yet again, our inability to think things through comes to the fore. It (by that I mean a more attractive offer)) should been in place at the beginning of the season READY to be launched in plenty of time to generate interest and purchases Exactly, all of the planning for the season regards advertising games, cestrian 10, season tickets, special days (non league day, armed forces day) etc should be planned as soon as those fixtures come out. Plan everything for the season ahead, get organised and do the leg work then. Will save all these efforts that look and sound half arsed and rushed all the time, and make us look like a professional football club for once |
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Post by Rio Doherty on Dec 13, 2017 20:46:44 GMT
This is really poor. So basically, whoever purchases one of these tickets will have to go to 10 out of 11 games. Don’t get me wrong, this is not a bad initiative, but we should have re-launched it at the START of the season so the customer could pick and choose THROUGHOUT the season. The customer will now feel frustrated as they will end up going to all but one of our home games until the end of the season. Well, that’s if anyone even bothers buying one. Awful PR.
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Dec 13, 2017 21:08:43 GMT
Could it be that the idea was floated a couple of months ago at boardroom level but it's taken the usual meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting to finalise it? Then a further meeting prior to announcing it?
Sorry, I'm just giving the board a semblance of a benefit of the doubt. I really hope the above is a better reflection of what has happened rather than just plain not thinking this through.
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Post by embalmer on Dec 13, 2017 21:16:07 GMT
Unfortunately, you reap what you sow - this is what happens when a board of "marketing executives" and "journalists" are elected to run what is a million pound business.
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Post by MOC on Dec 13, 2017 21:33:31 GMT
Somebody I know approached the club in about September to ask about buying a Cestrian 10 ticket at the same stage they’d purchased one last season, only to be told it wouldn’t be happening yet. Not sure what the official reason was but this just feels effectively like a season ticket ticket for the second half of the season (minus one game) rather than what it was brought in for early last season (ie 10 games over the course of the season).
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Post by Deva Chanter on Dec 13, 2017 21:45:57 GMT
There is supposed to be a formal CFU meeting this month isn't there? Anybody know when it is?
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Post by Al on Dec 13, 2017 21:58:55 GMT
Somebody I know approached the club in about September to ask about buying a Cestrian 10 ticket at the same stage they’d purchased one last season, only to be told it wouldn’t be happening yet. Not sure what the official reason was but this just feels effectively like a season ticket ticket for the second half of the season (minus one game) rather than what it was brought in for early last season (ie 10 games over the course of the season). No problems if it's advertised as a half season ticket. But the way it's been advertised is a joke about "flexibility" when there's only 11 home games left! |
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Post by Captain Duff on Dec 13, 2017 22:00:07 GMT
Unfortunately, you reap what you sow - this is what happens when a board of "marketing executives" and "journalists" are elected to run what is a million pound business. They don't run the club, the professional staff on the operations board do that, the non-professional elected board are meant to oversee the opps board and direct them, but I take your point. |
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