Quote from: TonyM on June 07, 2023, 01:38:28 PM

SC has posted his review of his 22-23 season - https://www.kltown.co.uk/2023/06/06/chairmans-review-of-the-season/

As ever, some good, bad and indifferent, the trick is whether we can build on the good (Linnets in the Community) and reduce the bad (commercial and general off-field activities still needs much more professionalism and probably less interference from SC).  Ticket pricing will always be wrong for some so SC has to do what he thinks best and live with the consequences and there has generally been a positive reaction to the pricing and early bird discount on season tickets this year, what the more casual fans make of another, albeit relatively small, increase remains to be seen.

I don't think it is just casual fans who are impacted by buying tickets 'on the day'. Another factor amongst the older generation might well be uncertainty of ability to attend all home games due to issues of health?

Apologies, not meant as a slight, just shorthand for those who don't have a season ticket (I haven't had one since the club reformed even though I go to the vast majority of games although I might well get one for next season)

Matchday prices are now out:
Terrace - £18, concession £16
Seating - £20, concession £18, premium seating £23
Under 16s £5 inc seating in family area, £11 in other areas

Joey, whilst I agree with you to an extent, many of those 'same people' will potentially be paying less next season so asking those that can, to put some of that back into the club doesn't seem that unreasonable on the face of it.  As for new fans, you will always have a tension between current 'loyal' fans who would like that loyalty rewarded (see multiple years of posts about how season tickets should be lower) against making pricing attractive to get more casual fans to come or come more often and basically SC is damned no matter what he does

I am sure that more could be done on the commercial side but again West Norfolk isn't blessed with 100s of companies looking for opportunities to throw money away so the offering has to either appeal to fans with businesses (I would suggest the bulk of our current commercial income) or makes business sense in terms of getting a decent return in sponsorship / advertising (pretty hard sell for most businesses on our gates)

Ultimately fans need to understand that the top of NLN is not Lynn's 'natural' position and has only really been achieved by financial doping by SC combined with IC's team playing out of their skin (and COVID intervening) / TW's team remaining full-time in a predominately part-time league. 

I wonder why this forum is often stated as just a place for people to moan about the club?
I think they have done the right thing with pricing, but seems some are never happy.

To be fair, there seems to be a fair amount of moaning on Facebook too, plenty on there in the 'never happy' camp.  I appreciate that I am in a small minority (possibly of one) that doesn't see Early Bird or discounted season tickets as a particularly 'good thing' given our ownership model, yes it gets cash into the club but given that we are still going to be heavily reliant on SC putting cash into the club, does it really matter to him when he has to do it? 

Strange post by Mallard looking for 'stellar signings', not sure that really squares with an announcement that will likely see total gate revenue per game reduce for 2023-24

What is the possibility that some of those fans who are going to buy season tickets this season will put some of their savings back into the club via something like the 12th man scheme that ran a few years ago? 

Still of the opinion that for clubs at our level there are better options to season tickets, as WRH notes the online option reduces the hassle factor that season tickets used to solve and whilst it is right for the club to try on reward regular supporters, the truth is the club has to be funded somehow and gates are not really high enough as it is without decreasing the £/game that many want to provide a value for money season ticket

Quote from: TonyM on May 24, 2023, 05:45:14 PM

Quote from: LUFC1992KLFC on May 23, 2023, 03:23:28 PM

Club really does need an off field visionary

It doesnt have to be the same old same old

Not sure we need a 'visionary', I would settle for a few years of steady proactive competence

A year long tilt at the title struggled to get people through the gates for a large chunk of the season, I dread to think what attendances a few years of steady proactive competence would attract!

Whilst we would all like average gates to be higher we have to be realistic about what is a 'good' average gate at the Walks.  We have a large contingent of floating fans who will come to the big games (York, Stevenage etc) and if we can get that group to come to a few extra games each season that would be great but what we also need is to develop more regulars and that means supporting Jody and what the LitC team are doing and for me that is all about doing the basics well

Club really does need an off field visionary

It doesnt have to be the same old same old

Not sure we need a 'visionary', I would settle for a few years of steady proactive competence

This hybrid model that keeps being bandied about.  What are the differences between the way Boston will run compared to ourselves ?

Boston chairman's statement here https://www.bostonunited.co.uk/news/chairmans-update--april-2023-2776489.html

Hybrid seems to be potentially mixing full and part time players, general opinion reading articles of teams at our level (Chester, Gloucester, Darlington) is part-time = 2 evenings training, hybrid can include a mix of mornings and evenings.  Whilst Boston are going Hybrid and train 3 days (I guess some of those sessions could be evenings), Gloucester are moving from hybrid (4 sessions) to part-time (2 evenings) next season.  It might work for some part-time players with either flexible employers / part-time contracts or those self employed but not so well for a person with a 'proper job', how many of those there are playing at step 2 is perhaps questionable given the demands of midweek matches on top of the training schedule. 

The big plus TW spoke about in terms of full-time was the scope for non-football time with the players such a physio, recovery etc, hence using the facility at Ely but I guess those benefits come at a fairly hefty price and SC has said we will be full-time again next year knowing what it cost this year so he must have plans for how that is going to be funded going forward.

Quote from: Linnet465 on May 16, 2023, 05:22:22 PM

Tyler will be missed, is the start of a “talent drain” or was his loss expected?

I fear its very much the former and that at LEAST 4 or 5 of our best players will move onwards and upwards over the Summer :(
We'd better hope that Hughes has a lot of "good contacts" in the game to be able to replace them!

To be fair, Tyler hasn't gone upwards although personally I am surprised that he wasn't attracting interest from NL sides.  As for others, I think there is some debate as to who our 'best' players are and MH has to be allowed to shape his own squad.  For me, we have to do all we can to keep Clunan, beyond that there are another half a dozen who I would like to see stay but would imagine we might struggle to keep Hargreaves and Crowther if NL sides come in for them.