new email from club (4 Viewers)

[skybluesam66]

The summer has been very difficult for everyone connected with Coventry City Football Club. Due to the administration process and going on sale with Season Tickets much later than we anticipated for the 13/14 season, we haven’t been able to communicate with Season Ticket holders and other supporters as we would like, or as you would expect.

That is now behind us and we are all looking towards a better future and we would like you to be part of it.

Under the influence of Steven Pressley, the team is in great form, scoring goals and playing arguably the best football we have played in a long time. Having quickly overturned the 10 point deficit and climbing out of the bottom four, things are certainly looking up for the team on the field.

Your support is vital to the team and we would like to see you at a match in the near future. We would like to offer you the chance to watch a league match at Sixfields at the same value it would be if you were to renew your Season Ticket. For example, a Standard Zone ticket would be just £9 for an adult,£6 for a concession or as little as £1 for a Junior Sky Blues Member under 7 years of age.

*A Junior Sky Blues Membership must be purchased to claim these prices. Children must be under 7 on August 31, 2013 to claim the JSB Under 7 price.

2012/13 Season Ticket holders can take up this offer for one of the following league games at Sixfields:

CCFC v Brentford – Sunday 29 September
CCFC v Sheffield United – Sunday 13 October
CCFC v Notts County – Saturday 2 November
CCFC v Tranmere Rovers – Saturday 23 November
CCFC v Crewe Alexandra – Saturday 14 December

If you would like to take up this offer please call us on 024 76 992326 or 024 76 992327 (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm). You can also email us at [email protected]

If you can’t make any of the above or choose not to, we completely respect that decision.

We hope to see you soon. Thank you for your support.

PUSB

The team at Coventry City Football Club

 

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[Voice_of_Reason]

Sounds like desperation to me !

 

[torchomatic]

I've not had that today yet. Just "Enjoy Netflix for free".

 

[torchomatic]

I think it's called marketing. Apparently one or two companies do it.

Sounds like desperation to me !

 

[skyblueinBaku]

I think it's called marketing. Apparently one or two companies do it.

Quite right, Torchy. A few companies also do good customer relations; perhaps we should try that.

 

[mark82]

Quite right, Torchy. A few companies also do good customer relations; perhaps we should try that.

Well that is what they are trying to be fair.

 

[luwalla]

I think it's called marketing. Apparently one or two companies do it.

to be fair it does come across a bit desperate...

Due to the administration process and going on sale with Season Tickets much later than we anticipated for the 13/14 season, we haven’t been able to communicate with Season Ticket holders and other supporters as we would like,

err. yes you have been able to communicate with me & other season ticket holders just fine.. and indeed you have! you emailed me prices for season tickets at the start of the season.. you called me numerous times.. and you've tried to flog me match tickets pretty much every week since the season started!!

they are trying to insinuate that they havent been really marketing , and thats why tickets arent selling, when in fact they have been trying everything.

Under the influence of Steven Pressley, the team is in great form, scoring goals and playing arguably the best football we have played in a long time. Your support is vital to the team

So they are telling us that the club have been playing the best football in a long time, are in great form & scoring for fun.. all while ive not been going.. yet my support is "vital to the Team" how can my support be vital to them team if they have being doing better than they have been doing for a long time, without me being there? actually ive been going for along time , and we've alwasy done shit! maybe they just proved to me that i definitely shouldn't go back!!

i think what they mean is your ticket money is vital to us.. not to "the team". again clever use of words, but if you look at what they are trying to insinuate , it just doesnt add up

and finally £9 & £6 for tickets..

take all together, id say that comes across as desperate.. which to be fair, i guess they are..

 

[will am i]

That is now behind us and we are all looking towards a better future and we would like you to be part of it.

I hadnt realised all the problems were behind us. I must have missed the bit where they explained the future strategy for the club.

 

[TheRoyalScam]

They were so desperate that a couple of weeks ago they 'reinstated' people like myself who had 'unsubscribed' months ago from their marketing database.

To be fair I've at last managed to 'unsubscribe' again.

£9 sounds cheap enough, but the petrol to Sixfields and back (74 miles) would cost me double that - that's £27 for a 'home' Division 1 match, not forgetting travel times and parking costs!

NOPM

KCIC

:blue:

 

[CCFC PimpRail]

If they get an extra thousand people to go at a tenner a ticket, they only need to play 2,000 home games* before there's enough money in the bank to build SISU towers...

*(I couldn't be arsed to work out how many years that would take).

 

[slyblue57]

well i appreciate the offer and as i ve posted before its killing me just going to away games but as tempting as it is not for me.
kcic , ccc / acl / sisu out
pusb

 

[torchomatic]

Anyone want to join Netflix for free?

 

[Spionkop]

I've been watching City avidly since 1959. Been a season ticket holder since the early 1970s. Growing up - season tickets were for 'posh people' who sat in the stands.
I've never been phoned, emailed, texted, about tickets, not once. I'm on their database as I get stuff about 'hospitality' and the latest player waffle.
Was it something I said? I'd like the chance to politely tell them I'll be glad to take up their offers once they move back to Coventry/Ricoh. And what they can do with Sixfields.

 

[blueflint]

Well that is what they are trying to be fair.

balderdash they wouldn't know how

 

[RegTheDonk]

How do the fans who have brought season tickets feel about the rest of us getting tickets on the cheap? Do they feel a bit annoyed - isn't one of the perks of getting a ST the fact they are getting a better deal?

 

[stupot07]

How do the fans who have brought season tickets feel about the rest of us getting tickets on the cheap? Do they feel a bit annoyed - isn't one of the perks of getting a ST the fact they are getting a better deal?

Why would they feel annoyed? They used to do similar deals at the Ricoh....it never used to annoy me, in fact it was nice as my sister and my niece and nephew could afford to come along so there would be 8 of us there.


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[DazzleTommyDazzle]

Sensible offer by the club.

Shame they're playing in the wrong town.

 

[simple_simon]

How do the fans who have brought season tickets feel about the rest of us getting tickets on the cheap? Do they feel a bit annoyed - isn't one of the perks of getting a ST the fact they are getting a better deal?

Think we only have 200 season ticket holders and most of them were probably give always.

Not interested in any sort of ticket at Sixfields.

 

[Sky Blue Kid]

Perhaps SISU/Otium should take a leaf out of Plusnets book......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWZiOQ2zNIg

 

[ajsccfc]

The desperation from Netflix is oozing out.

 

[Ashdown1]

I think it's called marketing. Apparently one or two companies do it.

That's correct but this 'marketing' has started to increase dramatically since the fans including you and I showed two fingers to Fisher and Northampton ! I think it's a sure sign that the 85% of City fans staying away is beginning to have an effect.

 

[Otis]

Don't care if the tickets are 9p, they are missing the point completely. This is not about price this is about playing 34 miles away from our home.

 

[mark82]

Don't care if the tickets are 9p, they are missing the point completely. This is not about price this is about playing 34 miles away from our home.

I think they understand that. Not sure they are too bothered though. At the end of the day they are doing what they deem best for their business.

 

[ecky]

Don't care if the tickets are 9p, they are missing the point completely. This is not about price this is about playing 34 miles away from our home.

exactly.....come back to the ricoh sisu and i will pay £18 to watch my team play in my city

 

[colin101]

I received the email and replied thus, now awaiting a call
Re your email below:

You are correct it has been a very difficult time for everyone connected with Coventry City Football Club.

However as MR T Fisher said to one of the people who went to the Forums when told that the supporter would not buy a season ticket if the team moved out of Coventry ‘It’s your prerogative’ so perhaps you would tell me why I should travel a round trip of 150 miles to watch a team owned by a company who treat their fans so disgracefully

Can you explain why my fuel charges at the Government rate of 45 pence per mile mean that even with your offer £6.00 I would have to pay an extra £30.60 to cover my mileage cost

So until the Club return to Coventry can you please remove me from your email register as I do not appreciate emails from your company .

]If Mr Fisher wants however to discuss my travelling costs then tell him to contact me

 

[ohitsaidwalker king power]

Well that is what they are trying to be fair.

SISU are to marketing what waves were to Kinnock... a bloody disaster.

 

[Grappa]

Not interested in any sort of ticket at Sixfields.

Why the hell have you never mentioned this before?

 

[letsallsingtogether]

Like others have said It is not about the money I would pay £25.00 if we were at the Ricoh.

I was a season ticket holder and was not bothered about deals and free tickets that were given out.

yes I go to the hill it is not a NOPM campaigner for me it is a KCIC which is what it should have been in the first place.




I would swallow my pride and go to watch them at the Ricoh even with SISU in charge, I know many even my own brother who would find that hard.
It is a bit like the miners strike or even a civil war where friendships will truly be tested.

Come on SISU / ACL swallow your pride and do what is right PUSB.

 

[Jack Griffin]

There guys, do you see the NOPM tactics are working. They are crumbling.

 

[skybluepete1987]

Just received the email, breaks my heart to read it to be honest and to see how low the club is now sinking. I had a season ticket for twelve years and like others would have paid a decent chunk more than they ever asked because of the love I had for the club. I'd be at the Ricoh like a shot if they returned but they don't seem interested, I just don't understand why the club seem to self-immolating like this.

Feel like banging my head against a brick wall at the outright lunacy of the position we are in.

 

[play_in_skyblue_stripes]

They were so desperate that a couple of weeks ago they 'reinstated' people like myself who had 'unsubscribed' months ago from their marketing database.

To be fair I've at last managed to 'unsubscribe' again.

£9 sounds cheap enough, but the petrol to Sixfields and back (74 miles) would cost me double that - that's £27 for a 'home' Division 1 match, not forgetting travel times and parking costs!

NOPM

KCIC

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Yes the marketing department are improving now it seems. I too have finally been able to unsubscribe from all correspondence. Before the unsubscribe link failed.

 

[Tank Top]

I think it's called marketing. Apparently one or two companies do it.

I suspect, that if the football club is run well, with a good affiliation with its fans, and clear agenda for the club going forward, then it doesn't need to thrust its begging bowl into our "In Boxes."
Unfortunately, with a staggering demonstration of arrogant, and ill advised, financial leadership, Fisher/sisu/ otium, decided to move OUR football club to Northampton, with no consideration of the Fans Warning at "The Fisher fans Forum" or the "Fisher Lectures" as I prefer to call them.
Fishers, "They will be back" assertion, has come back to haunt him, and could possibly bring about his demise, as the cost of abandonment of the "Ricoh Arena" runs into Millions of pounds over the not too distant future, It seems The Fisher man, has made a "Rod for his own Back."