Season Tickets and match day prices. 18/19

[GodsGift]

Our plastic-bandwagon-jumping-fans have just sold out our season tickets, which I'd guess to be around 6.3 or 6.4k. Anyone else wanting to buy one will be put on a waiting list while the club looks into releasing more seats.

 

[Davidimp]

A waiting list for a fourth division club, for season tickets bloody crazy!

 

[Imp in Branston]

A waiting list for a fourth division club, for season tickets bloody crazy!

I blame the million pound goal machine that is Akinde.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Imagine being a plastic bandwagon jumping fan who couldn’t watch 4th tier footy matches at Sincil Bank and was on a waiting list

Tremendous effort from the previously dormant masses

 

[Indian Dan]

There must be fuck all else to do in Lincoln!

Very impressive, though.

It reminds me of the original version of The Time Machine when a siren goes off and the people mindlessly walk to their fate of being eaten.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Quality lol

I strangely really enjoy that’s film. That’s a live look at High Street Lincoln on a Saturday afternoon .

The cathedral and castle are very very nice

 

[Imp in Branston]

There must be fuck all else to do in Lincoln!

Very impressive, though.

It reminds me of the original version of The Time Machine when a siren goes off and the people mindlessly walk to their fate of being eaten.

One of the fastest growing cities in the country you mean? You don't half talk some shit.

 

[Indian Dan]

Bloody hell, I was only joshing

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

OMG, it was a good, funny post with an almost perfect and apt old film reference.
Bravo I say, bravo.

Lincoln fans, so sensitive right now, Lincoln fans.

 

[Luke Imp]

Our plastic-bandwagon-jumping-fans have just sold out our season tickets, which I'd guess to be around 6.3 or 6.4k. Anyone else wanting to buy one will be put on a waiting list while the club looks into releasing more seats.

Bizarre scenes. Prices up circa 10%, ST numbers up 12%.

Not sure where they can release more, tbh. Can't in the SW (sliding segregation) or BM (new JIC area), which leaves the most popular stands, which are pretty much full anyway.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

New stadium needed. ‘New’ Lincoln City are clearly outgrowing Sincil Bank.

 

[Gladders]

There must be fuck all else to do in Lincoln!

Very impressive, though.

It reminds me of the original version of The Time Machine when a siren goes off and the people mindlessly walk to their fate of being eaten.

This is the season ticket sales poster they put up thinking about Akinde and Rhead up front together!

 

[AdamStag]

Bloody hell, I was only joshing

Remember, they’re a senstitive bunch.

 

[UTS]

What do you do as the Lincoln board?

You either take a risk, plan for an expansion or rebuild that takes years in which time the Lincoln hype may have worn off... or you keep it as it is but deter more fans from watching games??

 

[northstandexile]

Lincoln will be setting up big screens in fan parks for home league games soon.

 

[Luke Imp]

What do you do as the Lincoln board?

You either take a risk, plan for an expansion or rebuild that takes years in which time the Lincoln hype may have worn off... or you keep it as it is but deter more fans from watching games??

We can't expand SB, so that rules that one out.

We've already got land earmarked for a new Stadium and done all the relevant ground testing but it's part of a very large project, which links in the Lincoln Uni as well so if we continue to be involved in that particular part of it then it'll be 5+ years at least.

Other option is to go alone on the same bit of land but that way it'll cost far, far more due to lack of grants. One of the draws of being linked in with the Uni is the amount of funding you can get.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Some clubs linked to large supermarkets, others to apartments, and let’s not forget the odd adjoining 4* hotel. But a University is the way to go. It clearly needs to happen, it needed to happen anyway without the new influx of Imps

 

[GTFCfish]

I know how to make Lincoln’s crowds start dwindling, just go around Sincil Bank and chuck loads of dog shit all over, that was their excuse for never selling out Blundell Park for about the last 30 years.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Lincoln have sold 1100 pre season tickets against bang average sides. Impressive, if a little odd.
https://www.redimps.co.uk/news/2018/july/180703-pre-season-tickets/

 

[Luke Imp]

Hardly odd. Most sides offer pre-season friendly bundles at a cheaper rate. Been done for years.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Hardly odd. Most sides offer pre-season friendly bundles at a cheaper rate. Been done for years.

So you have 1100 who have paid way in advance to watch the mighty Norwich, Sheffield United and Blackburn. All three meaningless games..

 

[Posh Harry]

We can't expand SB, so that rules that one out.

We've already got land earmarked for a new Stadium and done all the relevant ground testing but it's part of a very large project, which links in the Lincoln Uni as well so if we continue to be involved in that particular part of it then it'll be 5+ years at least.

Other option is to go alone on the same bit of land but that way it'll cost far, far more due to lack of grants. One of the draws of being linked in with the Uni is the amount of funding you can get.

You obviously know more than me on the subject but why can’t you expand?
There is that one stand that sticks out like a sore thumb and lots of room both sides (I think one of them holds either families or disabled but surely that can be made bigger, and as both sides have 2 teared stands, then can’t the same be done behind the goals? Surely it’s too far away from anything residential to make that an issue?
This is not having a dig, I am genuinely interested.

 

[UTS]

So you have 1100 who have paid way in advance to watch the mighty Norwich, Sheffield United and Blackburn. All three meaningless games..

People watch football because they enjoy it... a sunny summer evening watching some football, seeing some new faces in the team and coming up against higher quality sides... it’s appealing for some, the fact that there’s no pressure to win and you can sit back and watch the game as a spectacle also helps.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Sincil Bank just looks a little weird. New stadium definitely needed.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

I know how to make Lincoln’s crowds start dwindling, just go around Sincil Bank and chuck loads of dog shit all over, that was their excuse for never selling out Blundell Park for about the last 30 years.

How many times have Grimsby sold out Blundell Park in the past 30 years?

 

[PaulHaddock]

How many times have Grimsby sold out Blundell Park in the past 30 years?

Depends on your definition of selling out. A sell out 30 years ago was 20,000 but since going all-seater, it’s now about 90. To answer your question, I don’t know. The last full sell-out was probably Scunthorpe 5 years ago.

 

[Luke Imp]

You obviously know more than me on the subject but why can’t you expand?
There is that one stand that sticks out like a sore thumb and lots of room both sides (I think one of them holds either families or disabled but surely that can be made bigger, and as both sides have 2 teared stands, then can’t the same be done behind the goals? Surely it’s too far away from anything residential to make that an issue?
This is not having a dig, I am genuinely interested.

Behind the Co-op Stand is a public road, albeit a dead end, which is why there’s never any traffic down there on a match day. Not that that’s one you would expand anyway.

Behind the SW and BM Stands are car parks, so as you build up, you build back, which isn’t feasible either (parking is at a premium around SB even with only 5k crowds). There’s also an access road behind the BM Stand, so that’d involve highways and having to move a road.

The Echo Stand, which was supposed to be the same as the Co-op (relegated in 1987 and the options were to complete the stand or remain FT in a PT league) is the one that would need something doing to it but it’d have to be a knock down and re-build, which they did price for but it was silly money at the time and probably still is.

From an H&S point of view, it’d take a lot of work and money to appease them regards to additional turnstiles, exit gates, facilities. That’s also the reason we can’t get any temporary seating in between the SW and Echo because the footfall area is too small to accommodate the additional capacity and not intrude on away facilities. You’d end up paying for the seating, H&S additions and spend a fair time recouping that money through ticket sales. They're still trying to work something out, though.

Then there’s the lack of parking around SB as well, which the Council are always banging on about making sure football fans don’t park all over the place but we have no choice but to anyway.

All that, and there are access issues getting into SB for any decent sized vehicle i.e. construction. They wouldn’t be able to come in via the SW side due to the narrow streets, and the only feasible way in is via the South Common road, but there are emergency service stations there so they’ve always been reluctant to use that road into SB. Took years for them to open it up to just match day traffic for us. They were supposed to move years ago, which will have helped r.e. Echo Stand but they haven’t, and no building a bigger service station there to house Ambulance, Fire and Police, I think.

Even if we could, I'm not sure we would either. Aside from all the above, SB isn't particularly great at the non-match day side of things. Our CEO was saying earlier in the year that from a commercial point of view, we're ranked very high (he did say where but I can't remember) and non-match day income was ranked 3rd worst or something.

 

[Luke Imp]

Our match day prices have gone up, and we've also introduced a new priority membership scheme.

On match day prices, last season home fans were paying £18 plus a booking fee and was closer to £20 in the end, whereas away fans were able to pay the early bird price for the majority of fixtures of £16 and no booking fee.

This season it's £22/£17/£9, which includes all the booking fees. No real difference for home fans, but it brings away fans in line with us. Did seem daft that away fans were getting in for £4 cheaper than home fans last season.

For Lincoln fans, if they're part of the priority membership, which costs £10 for the season, they get second tier priority on tickets, and £2 off home tickets if booked in advance. Otherwise, it's £22/£17/£9 for them, too. With a £5 Club Shop voucher thrown in, it'll only need 3 games before it's paid for itself and still has some of the ST benefits and discounts, too.

We've done early bird tickets for years, but that's been knocked on the head.

 

[Simpo]

Latics have announced reduced ticket prices for this season, a new U21 and Student price as well as extending the £5 tickets from U12s to U18s.

Advance:
Adults £18
Concession (O65, U21, Student) £8
U18 £5

Matchday:
Adults £22
Concession £10
U18 £7

 

[DippyDon]

We've sold just over 5000 Season Tickets so far apparently. Not a bad effort considering how shite we've been for years.

As for match day prices, looks like they're priced as follows:
Adults: £22
Over-65s: £17
Under-18s: £7

And obviously our U12's go free with the relevant membership.

That's for our fans in the standard areas though, I'm guessing it'll be the same for away fans but until Bury start selling tickets I'm not sure.