EFL Round 2 draw
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this is an utter disgrace. i always thought if you had a season ticket you could keep your regular seat if you purchased them at the times stated and after that they go on open sale. apart from the savings its another reason to buy a season ticket to get first dibs on cup tickets etc. no news on any vouchers to be given out either for cash sales for the exeter game either. another lost opportunity to get more bums on seats for a game thats not usually well patronised. come on stanley don,t alianate what you,ve got.
I too was blazing this morning when my mum had been for her Burnley ticket & been told that the entire F block where we usually sit has been given over to the press & hospitality - this didn't even happen for the Wimbledon play off game for goodness sake! Once before, think it was Stevenage play off game we were asked to move because of the no. of press but we were rung beforehand & asked not told when we turned up to buy tickets & we were still allocated seats not far away from our usual ones.
I know we need the money that hospitality brings in but selling out the people who plough money into the club regularly by buying season tickets & have done for years really goes against the grain for me, not a happy bunny at the moment
I know we need the money that hospitality brings in but selling out the people who plough money into the club regularly by buying season tickets & have done for years really goes against the grain for me, not a happy bunny at the moment
I said a few weeks ago that we now have a very different Accrington Stanley - and I was generally criticised for saying so. We shall see.
Incidentally, no-one returned my message left an the club answerphone this morning. And no-one answered my email.
I nearly didn't renew my season ticket, I felt the club was getting to money orientated at the cost of the fans loyalty which is proving to be worth nothing. I think some of the greed will backfire. season tickets entitled the holder to first reserve of their seat at cup matches. but they can use my seat I will watch for free in a pub. So the message needs to get to Andy Holt he is turning the club into anything bar a community club.
Thought about this long and hard
Went to the club yesterday morning to enquire about getting 3 tickets for family for the Burnley game
Being a season ticket holder and a shareholder I was told in no uncertain terms that the board had decided one ticket per season ticket holder.
Virginia Hargreaves was confronted by myself on such a matter, while Virginia may have a very good business background its quite obvious that her understanding of a loyal football supporter was sadly
missing and whats more she didnt seem to care, well done Virginia you haven't got a clue.
I came away made to feel like a customer but in reality I am a loyal supporter.
Oh and by the way the two other tickets i wanted was to try and entice those two people to come more frequently, they have both told me now to forget it.
Went to the club yesterday morning to enquire about getting 3 tickets for family for the Burnley game
Being a season ticket holder and a shareholder I was told in no uncertain terms that the board had decided one ticket per season ticket holder.
Virginia Hargreaves was confronted by myself on such a matter, while Virginia may have a very good business background its quite obvious that her understanding of a loyal football supporter was sadly
missing and whats more she didnt seem to care, well done Virginia you haven't got a clue.
I came away made to feel like a customer but in reality I am a loyal supporter.
Oh and by the way the two other tickets i wanted was to try and entice those two people to come more frequently, they have both told me now to forget it.
we are supporters and not customers. its like people who travel on buses stopped becoming passengers and became customers. every industry has its own special needs and not all lumped together under one umbrella. non football people coming into football as non transport people coming into transport just don,t get it.
Wanna bet old chum ?.
Having to move seats is no big deal. It is better to make money out of 'corporate' entertaining than charge everyone more.
The guy who runs the club is from the Lancashire FA.
There were some shockers before he came in, like moving the Stanley v Newport game from a weekend where Blackburn/Burnley would not play to a Friday when both England and Wales were.
It would seem RR, that again this is ,where a non- acceptability of the concepts relating to integrity and fairness needed to be applied by the Club when the vision of extra lucre is before their eyes, denying some fans of what they rightly or wrongly see as their rights as a Season Ticket holder.
I feel somewhat miffed to think that the posterior of some invited hanger-on will probably be warming Seat D51...appreciating the fact that as this seat is adjacent to those allocated to Visiting Directors it will surely be one of the first to be sacrificed for the greater needs of Club finances !.
I am grieved to hear that as a long standing supporter, who travels such long distances on a regular basis to follow our Team, you should have e-mails ignored, and find it impossible to communicate with it's administrative staff.
As usual, I wish you luck in your efforts to find a resolution to this problem...but for some strange, unaccountable feeling, I am not holding my breath !.
Perhaps the Forum's Fan's Representative might be able to shed some words of wisdom on the situation ..who knows ?.
It's as much the way we were informed about it as it is about the issue of moving tbh, & I'm sorry but I don't agree that riding roughshod over the people who are the week-in, week-out bread & butter of the club to cater for the prawn sandwich brigade who probably only come now & again is the way to go about things.
What did the new bread of fan do before we had seats?
New breed??!! I've been coming to Stanley since 1975 & think I've stood or sat in every area of the ground over the years, for the last 10 or so it's been my choice to sit in the main stand with the rest of my family - not that I have to prove my 'pedigree' as a Stanley fan, that wasn't the point!
So you are okay with moving around? A lot of people look at progress as a way to bash the club, but if it wasn't for progress there would not be seats at all. No one is guaranteed a seat for cup games are they?
I think that there has to be an acceptance, from the fan, that certain seats adjacent to key areas may be at risk in certain scenarios - but this should be made absolutely clear at the point of sale.
I've got no issue with any of the 'professionalising' of the club as it was way overdue, but somebody somewhere needs to educate the present management of the fundamental expectations of the average fan.
We have many 2, 3 and even 4 generation fan families and if you kick one they all limp. There are many examples of Andy Holt trying to bend over backwards to alleviate problems, I think that we should back off and give them room to learn
I've got no issue with any of the 'professionalising' of the club as it was way overdue, but somebody somewhere needs to educate the present management of the fundamental expectations of the average fan.
We have many 2, 3 and even 4 generation fan families and if you kick one they all limp. There are many examples of Andy Holt trying to bend over backwards to alleviate problems, I think that we should back off and give them room to learn