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As a diehard myself I bought a season ticket, although I did swither a bit for a couple of reasons.

However, I'm aware of a family who have bought season tickets for the first time ever and have the intention of attending every game, whereas last season they only attended the derbies and Dundee Utd games, so there's money up front that the club didn't have last year.

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I could probably count on one hand how many Morton games i went to last season for different reasons. Easily the least amount of games i've attended in my adult life. I probably would have picked and chosen my games this season as well had it not been for the early bird deal. They're definitely going to make a profit from me, and i'll be attending the majority of games this season now too as a result of it so it's a win win situation for the club when it comes to people like me.

 

I doubt you will be alone in that category either.

 

I would hazard a guess that our average home support last season was about 1600( our total average was 1986).  I'd like to think it will be 2-300 more this season what with the feel good factor kicking about, the ambition and "new era" feel to it. A good start would help too....

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Surely people realise it's the die-hards that have bought season tickets, because it was such a good offer... and very significantly, to avoid the absolute farce of having to join two queues to get into Cappielow on match day? It wasn't new/lapsed supporters...

 

I may be wrong, but I don't think the significant increase in season ticket sales is any indicator that we are actually going to have larger attendances in the coming season. People have just decided to pay up front, for the reasons above, meaning that ticket sales on an individual match basis will be significantly down.

 

Financially, unless we have a very good season and attract the floating fan, the club will surely be worse off due to the large uptake of early bird season ticket sales?? i.e. people that maybe attend 13/14 games per season (there are plenty of those), didn't bother buying season tickets previously, as there was no real saving. This time around it was worth buying a season ticket if you reckoned you'd be at more than 10 games. Doing the arithmetic, let's say 14 pay on the day matches at £20 = £280, against £199 for a season ticket.... that's the club £81 down per supporter of this type. 

 

I'd say the increase in season ticket sales is largely down to this group, those that know they are going to miss a few games, deciding it was worth buying this time around. 

 

There's going to be a financial gap.. surely?  How is that gap going to be filled? Concerned me as soon as I heard how cheap the season tickets were. It's all very positive sounding saying season ticket sales are up 40%, but it doesn't add up financially for me...

 

Look at the state of Colin Darroch trying to pour scorn on a positive. Did you buy a season ticket, Colin? We're getting to the middle of July now and drew 0-0 with Forfar on Saturday so if you did, it's maybe time to storm back to Cappielow demanding a refund, you insufferable f*ckwit.

 

I'd suspect that Crawford is looking at this as a loss-leader, and next season will keep renewal prices down in order to make buying a season ticket a habit for the majority of the support- in turn making it more convenient for the majority to attend Cappielow, keeping costs at the ticket office down, allowing the club to work with a guaranteed budget and gradually building the hardcore support.

 

Of course that doesn't suit Colin Darroch's attention seeking agenda against the club though, does it? Plenty on here have spoken of their desire to speculate to accumulate- that's exactly what the club are doing, as well as increasing the playing budget at the same time, and replacing a manager with a year left on his contract who most wanted shot of, even after what will probably be a loss making financial year up to 31st May 2018.

 

It's very easy to say , "Ah yes, but look at the deficit, it's increasing every year". The old way didn't work though, and it's Crawford's club now. He's looking for ways to improve things instead of sitting on his hands. Nobody with any sort of business nous would just take over a company and allow it to continue making losses without trying something.

 

It could end up like Stephen Thompson taking over from Eddie at Dundee United, but at the very least I'm pleased to see the effort he's putting in to make positive changes.

 

Some of our support though, most notably Colin Darroch, would love nothing more than to see him fail in order to say he told us so.

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Look at the state of Colin Darroch trying to pour scorn on a positive. Did you buy a season ticket, Colin? We're getting to the middle of July now and drew 0-0 with Forfar on Saturday so if you did, it's maybe time to storm back to Cappielow demanding a refund, you insufferable f*ckwit.

 

I'd suspect that Crawford is looking at this as a loss-leader, and next season will keep renewal prices down in order to make buying a season ticket a habit for the majority of the support- in turn making it more convenient for the majority to attend Cappielow, keeping costs at the ticket office down, allowing the club to work with a guaranteed budget and gradually building the hardcore support.

 

Of course that doesn't suit Colin Darroch's attention seeking agenda against the club though, does it? Plenty on here have spoken of their desire to speculate to accumulate- that's exactly what the club are doing, as well as increasing the playing budget at the same time, and replacing a manager with a year left on his contract who most wanted shot of, even after what will probably be a loss making financial year up to 31st May 2018.

 

It's very easy to say , "Ah yes, but look at the deficit, it's increasing every year". The old way didn't work though, and it's Crawford's club now. He's looking for ways to improve things instead of sitting on his hands. Nobody with any sort of business nous would just take over a company and allow it to continue making losses without trying something.

 

It could end up like Stephen Thompson taking over from Eddie at Dundee United, but at the very least I'm pleased to see the effort he's putting in to make positive changes.

 

Some of our support though, most notably Colin Darroch, would love nothing more than to see him fail in order to say he told us so.

Great post. 

 

Some seem absolutely desperate to see us fail. Tragic, really. 

TIME FOR CHANGE!

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Look at the state of Colin Darroch trying to pour scorn on a positive. Did you buy a season ticket, Colin? We're getting to the middle of July now and drew 0-0 with Forfar on Saturday so if you did, it's maybe time to storm back to Cappielow demanding a refund, you insufferable f*ckwit.

 

I'd suspect that Crawford is looking at this as a loss-leader, and next season will keep renewal prices down in order to make buying a season ticket a habit for the majority of the support- in turn making it more convenient for the majority to attend Cappielow, keeping costs at the ticket office down, allowing the club to work with a guaranteed budget and gradually building the hardcore support.

 

Of course that doesn't suit Colin Darroch's attention seeking agenda against the club though, does it? Plenty on here have spoken of their desire to speculate to accumulate- that's exactly what the club are doing, as well as increasing the playing budget at the same time, and replacing a manager with a year left on his contract who most wanted shot of, even after what will probably be a loss making financial year up to 31st May 2018.

 

It's very easy to say , "Ah yes, but look at the deficit, it's increasing every year". The old way didn't work though, and it's Crawford's club now. He's looking for ways to improve things instead of sitting on his hands. Nobody with any sort of business nous would just take over a company and allow it to continue making losses without trying something.

 

It could end up like Stephen Thompson taking over from Eddie at Dundee United, but at the very least I'm pleased to see the effort he's putting in to make positive changes.

 

Some of our support though, most notably Colin Darroch, would love nothing more than to see him fail in order to say he told us so.

 

 

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Great post. 

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I may be wrong

 

Stopped reading here; awarded red dot anyway.

The site is supposed to be a place for the extended 'family' of Morton supporters - having an affinity with people that you don't know, because you share a love of your local football club. It's not supposed to be about point scoring and showing how 'clever' or 'funny' you are, or just being downright rude and offensive to people you don't know, because you can get away with it. Unfortunately, it seems the classic case of people who have little standing/presence in real life, use this forum as a way of making themselves feel as if they are something. It's sad, and I've said that before..

 

So, having been on Morton forums for about 15 years I guess, I've had enough... well done t*ssers, another Morton supporter driven away. You can all feel happy at how 'clever' you are

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I attended about 10 home games last season so the club will be roughly breaking even with me this season except this time they'll have my cash up front. Ditto the guys I usually come with.

Probably the same here.

 

I'll be honest, if I tried going every week i would probably get bored with it quickly, but i'll probably be down for a few more games than in previous seasons as a result of buying the season book. I reckon I'll probably make around 8-10 games plus maybe a few away games and depending on cup draws some of them.

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Probably the same here.

 

I'll be honest, if I tried going every week i would probably get bored with it quickly, but i'll probably be down for a few more games than in previous seasons as a result of buying the season book. I reckon I'll probably make around 8-10 games plus maybe a few away games and depending on cup draws some of them.

That'll pretty much be how it goes for me too. At the full price or pay-at-the-gate it's unlikely I'd have bothered with very many games at all, but should just about get my money's worth from the season ticket.

 

Would be interesting to see what patterns/trends emerge over the season amongst ST holders, things like whether the increase on last year is reflected each week or of if roughly the extra number of bodies are picking and chosing, going to enough games to be cover the cost etc.

 

I say it'd be interesting, but I suppose it would probably be pretty tedious if you were tasked with finding out.

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I meant to ask after i bought my season ticket, and it's probably a stupid question but as it's my first time with a season ticket i'm unsure, is the season ticket card  they give you enough to get you in to games or do you need one of those fan card things? or is the card they give you a fan card? :lol:

Good people will do good things, bad people will do bad things, but only with religion do good people do bad things!

 

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The card you get is the card you use to get in.

 

It goes into the scanner and let's you in, or at least it's supposed too 

 

Cheers for that!

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