Just had a call from Miserable Old Git whose just renewed his. 20 - 25 people currently in the queue at the Valley.
Woman behind the counter said that they are worked off their feet and that with all the post/credit cards etc they are looking at minimum of 10k and maybe as many as 12k.
after the s*** seasons we've had that is impressive if accurate.
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Just had a call from Miserable Old Git whose just renewed his. 20 - 25 people currently in the queue at the Valley.
Woman behind the counter said that they are worked off their feet and that with all the post/credit cards etc they are looking at minimum of 10k and maybe as many as 12k.
after the s*** seasons we've had that is impressive if accurate.
Charlton fans, I luv ya!
i think we should wait until its on the OS first before treating this as fact :-)
Certainly wasn't very busy when i was done there Sat morning, just 2 infront of me.
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Just had a call from Miserable Old Git whose just renewed his. 20 - 25 people currently in the queue at the Valley.
Woman behind the counter said that they are worked off their feet and that with all the post/credit cards etc they are looking at minimum of 10k and maybe as many as 12k.
after the s*** seasons we've had that is impressive if accurate.
Charlton fans, I luv ya!
i think we should wait until its on the OS first before treating this as fact :-)
[cite]Posted By: essbee[/cite]After yesterday, i reckon they'll be a few people jumping on the caravan / bandwagon, particularly the Valley Express mob....
Lets face it...they live down that way, and are going to see the same standard of football ain't they ???
The Club needs to start making some major announcements ( if there are any to make that is !! ), so that not too many go along that route !!!!
Most of the "valley Express Mob" are Charlton through and through and have been going for 20 plus years. Hard to think they are suddenly gonna start supporting the Gills. A great deal of them are south Londoners that have moved away. Add to the fact that they are there week in week out and hardly ever miss a game i think your presumption is well wide of the mark.
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Just had a call from Miserable Old Git whose just renewed his. 20 - 25 people currently in the queue at the Valley.
Woman behind the counter said that they are worked off their feet and that with all the post/credit cards etc they are looking at minimum of 10k and maybe as many as 12k.
after the s*** seasons we've had that is impressive if accurate.
[cite]Posted By: Elthamaddick[/cite]10-12k would be impressive, but I'd be surprised if it were more than 8k currently (even once the backlog is cleared)
I reckon once the weekend renewals are cleared, it will be somewhere between 4,500 - 6,000, and probably skewed towards the lower figure.
[cite]Posted By: essbee[/cite]After yesterday, i reckon they'll be a few people jumping on the caravan / bandwagon, particularly the Valley Express mob....
Lets face it...they live down that way, and are going to see the same standard of football ain't they ???
The Club needs to start making some major announcements ( if there are any to make that is !! ), so that not too many go along that route !!!!
Most of the "valley Express Mob" are Charlton through and through and have been going for 20 plus years. Hard to think they are suddenly gonna start supporting the Gills. A great deal of them are south Londoners that have moved away. Add to the fact that they are there week in week out and hardly ever miss a game i think your presumption is well wide of the mark.
Next season we'll definitely see how true that is.
I'm looking forward to the away game, 'Kent's just to big for you.'
All I know is that the guy told me we had 4k when I renewed on 21 May and others have said that a lot usually renew in the week up to the deadline for losing the seat.
I think all things considered 10K would be excellent if we can get there assuming of course that they are people like me who have paid their hard earned rather than complimentaries.
I'm not bold enough to come up with the actual number of season tickets we'll sell. But I will make one prediction: we will have more season tickets than we've ever had in a third-tier season. And that's the mark of how much bigger and better we've got over the last 25 years.
Posted By: Henry Irving
Just had a call from Miserable Old Git whose just renewed his. 20 - 25 people currently in the queue at the Valley.
Woman behind the counter said that they are worked off their feet and that with all the post/credit cards etc they are looking at minimum of 10k and maybe as many as 12k.
after the s*** seasons we've had that is impressive if accurate.
Charlton fans, I luv ya!
Posted by Airman :We are nowhere near those figures.
YET but that is obv just a prediction i would say 7235
So Airman Brown says the current like to like comparison (ie with paid for sales and others) to last season is currently 9000 a figure that some felt it would be "staggering" to surpass.
Still a number on this site and presumably elsewhere who have yet to renew so could creep up to the 10k that AFKA felt it would be.
With a "wow" factor announcement I can still see it hitting over 11k and maybe even 12k but that would be pushing it IMHO.
Will be interesting to track over the next 9 weeks.
For people without a season ticket, what is the walk up experience like? In the very dim and distant past football fans would pay on the turnstile, relatively quickly. If Charlton manage 10,000 season ticket sales, and the opposition bring an average of 1000, then to get crowds of (a very respectable) 15,000 it would mean about, say, 2000 bought in advance either by going to the Valley or by post, but still 2000 on the day. Nobody enjoys queueing, especially at the ticket office window, fiddling with cash and cards and such...is there a way of making that experience slick and friendly so as not to put off impulse support?
[cite]Posted By: seth plum[/cite]For people without a season ticket, what is the walk up experience like? In the very dim and distant past football fans would pay on the turnstile, relatively quickly. If Charlton manage 10,000 season ticket sales, and the opposition bring an average of 1000, then to get crowds of (a very respectable) 15,000 it would mean about, say, 2000 bought in advance either by going to the Valley or by post, but still 2000 on the day.
Nobody enjoys queueing, especially at the ticket office window, fiddling with cash and cards and such...is there a way of making that experience slick and friendly so as not to put off impulse support?
Yeah get the automatic barcode styleticket/ turnstyles they have at various grounds, no staff then man turnstyles, instead actually put staff behind kiosk!!
[cite]Posted By: seth plum[/cite]For people without a season ticket, what is the walk up experience like? In the very dim and distant past football fans would pay on the turnstile, relatively quickly. If Charlton manage 10,000 season ticket sales, and the opposition bring an average of 1000, then to get crowds of (a very respectable) 15,000 it would mean about, say, 2000 bought in advance either by going to the Valley or by post, but still 2000 on the day.
Nobody enjoys queueing, especially at the ticket office window, fiddling with cash and cards and such...is there a way of making that experience slick and friendly so as not to put off impulse support?
You'll have to queue twice Seth. Once to get a ticket along with the other thousands that didn't renew. Then you'll need to queue to get through the turnstyles. I'd get a S/T if I was you, even if you don't admit it to us. Plus when certain away games go on sale to S/T holders first, where we have a small allocation, you will be f**ked.
If we reach 10,000 s/t sales by the start of the season then I think that would be impressive considering the circumstances. I have not renewed yet (sit in the lower north) but plan to by the end of July. Just don't have the money at the moment.
[quote][cite]Posted By: Covered End[/cite][quote][cite]Posted By: seth plum[/cite]For people without a season ticket, what is the walk up experience like? In the very dim and distant past football fans would pay on the turnstile, relatively quickly. If Charlton manage 10,000 season ticket sales, and the opposition bring an average of 1000, then to get crowds of (a very respectable) 15,000 it would mean about, say, 2000 bought in advance either by going to the Valley or by post, but still 2000 on the day. Nobody enjoys queueing, especially at the ticket office window, fiddling with cash and cards and such...is there a way of making that experience slick and friendly so as not to put off impulse support?[/quote]
You'll have to queue twice Seth. Once to get a ticket along with the other thousands that didn't renew. Then you'll need to queue to get through the turnstyles. I'd get a S/T if I was you, even if you don't admit it to us. Plus when certain away games go on sale to S/T holders first, where we have a small allocation, you will be f**ked.[/quote]
Yeah you're right, mind you I am resisting and resisting because if anything happens I want to renew to show approval
We renewed (even tho' we had to borrow money) for several reasons.
The main couple being (1)that we like where we sit, and the people round us,and(2) it means that we don't have to queue twice to get in.
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Lets face it...they live down that way, and are going to see the same standard of football ain't they ???
The Club needs to start making some major announcements ( if there are any to make that is !! ), so that not too many go along that route !!!!
Woman behind the counter said that they are worked off their feet and that with all the post/credit cards etc they are looking at minimum of 10k and maybe as many as 12k.
after the s*** seasons we've had that is impressive if accurate.
Charlton fans, I luv ya!
i think we should wait until its on the OS first before treating this as fact :-)
Certainly wasn't very busy when i was done there Sat morning, just 2 infront of me.
You think you are so funny ; - )
Most of the "valley Express Mob" are Charlton through and through and have been going for 20 plus years. Hard to think they are suddenly gonna start supporting the Gills. A great deal of them are south Londoners that have moved away. Add to the fact that they are there week in week out and hardly ever miss a game i think your presumption is well wide of the mark.
We are nowhere near those figures.
could easily creep up to that mark 'if' we were to all hear some exciting news...
I reckon once the weekend renewals are cleared, it will be somewhere between 4,500 - 6,000, and probably skewed towards the lower figure.
I'm looking forward to the away game, 'Kent's just to big for you.'
All I know is that the guy told me we had 4k when I renewed on 21 May and others have said that a lot usually renew in the week up to the deadline for losing the seat.
I think all things considered 10K would be excellent if we can get there assuming of course that they are people like me who have paid their hard earned rather than complimentaries.
YET but that is obv just a prediction i would say 7235
Close to the current figure or close to what it will be at the start of the season?
Is the number of S/T'S sold a secret and if so why ?
Still a number on this site and presumably elsewhere who have yet to renew so could creep up to the 10k that AFKA felt it would be.
With a "wow" factor announcement I can still see it hitting over 11k and maybe even 12k but that would be pushing it IMHO.
Will be interesting to track over the next 9 weeks.
Nobody enjoys queueing, especially at the ticket office window, fiddling with cash and cards and such...is there a way of making that experience slick and friendly so as not to put off impulse support?
Yeah get the automatic barcode styleticket/ turnstyles they have at various grounds, no staff then man turnstyles, instead actually put staff behind kiosk!!
You'll have to queue twice Seth. Once to get a ticket along with the other thousands that didn't renew. Then you'll need to queue to get through the turnstyles. I'd get a S/T if I was you, even if you don't admit it to us. Plus when certain away games go on sale to S/T holders first, where we have a small allocation, you will be f**ked.
Nobody enjoys queueing, especially at the ticket office window, fiddling with cash and cards and such...is there a way of making that experience slick and friendly so as not to put off impulse support?[/quote]
You'll have to queue twice Seth. Once to get a ticket along with the other thousands that didn't renew. Then you'll need to queue to get through the turnstyles. I'd get a S/T if I was you, even if you don't admit it to us. Plus when certain away games go on sale to S/T holders first, where we have a small allocation, you will be f**ked.[/quote]
Yeah you're right, mind you I am resisting and resisting because if anything happens I want to renew to show approval
The main couple being (1)that we like where we sit, and the people round us,and(2) it means that we don't have to queue twice to get in.