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Post by bobdee on May 26, 2016 22:34:22 GMT
You would think so ...but sure I read ...was it here?.. no matter ...that a bucket load of season tickets sold so far and the nos increasing each year. Dont get it personally ...also it seems to me rightly or wrongly the fan base is pretty solid here and the crowds seem to turn up at the start of the season before theyve seen players to judge them properly. (Also it amazes me how peeps can judge a signing good bad or indifferent before they see a player step onto any ice!) Now thats loyalty or stupidity depending on which side of the fence you fall off. 700 season tickets sold so far is the number I saw, now that sounds good and is being pushed as a rise. However considering the club don't publish sales and haven't for any other season we don't really see if its good bad or whatever. The Clan sold 1400 last season and have sold over 1500 so far this off season, easy to see the improvement they are making. Fife would give the CIA a run for their money for keeping info a secret. Folk giving opinions on players will always happen and with the interweb and videos of guys readily available its not hard to form a fairly sound opinion of the guys coming in. Take the Storm new guy loads of Youtube clips with him fighting, a quick search you see he was up for the AHL community service award 6 times with 6 different clubs winning it with the Syracuse Crunch in 13/14. You can start to see the measure of the man. He is being put forward as a franchise (Adam Keefe Style) guy. Its a very clever signing and Neil Russell is very open about using the giants model to bring fans/money through the door. It certainly worked for them. You can see the opportunities we are missing as a club to generate higher income. 700 season tickets sold apparently, but we are a gate induced club needing about 2000 attendance. That arithmetically makes us 1300 down on what we need (minimum). How do we excite that missing 1300? Tell them of our exciting signings. SELL the product!
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Post by superpatsy on May 27, 2016 8:00:03 GMT
700 season tickets sold so far is the number I saw, now that sounds good and is being pushed as a rise. However considering the club don't publish sales and haven't for any other season we don't really see if its good bad or whatever. The Clan sold 1400 last season and have sold over 1500 so far this off season, easy to see the improvement they are making. Fife would give the CIA a run for their money for keeping info a secret. Folk giving opinions on players will always happen and with the interweb and videos of guys readily available its not hard to form a fairly sound opinion of the guys coming in. Take the Storm new guy loads of Youtube clips with him fighting, a quick search you see he was up for the AHL community service award 6 times with 6 different clubs winning it with the Syracuse Crunch in 13/14. You can start to see the measure of the man. He is being put forward as a franchise (Adam Keefe Style) guy. Its a very clever signing and Neil Russell is very open about using the giants model to bring fans/money through the door. It certainly worked for them. You can see the opportunities we are missing as a club to generate higher income. 700 season tickets sold apparently, but we are a gate induced club needing about 2000 attendance. That arithmetically makes us 1300 down on what we need (minimum). How do we excite that missing 1300? Tell them of our exciting signings. SELL the product! I wouldn't necessarily say that you will get 2000 season tickets sold a year. An example would be myself and a friend. We can make it to every home game without fail whereas our girlfriends can't (and on the odd occasion, my mum) so we don't buy season tickets as there is no guarantee that when our partners can make it, they'll get a seat beside us. It should be more about bringing in new fans, than trying to convince the current cohort to buy season tickets, in my opinion of course.
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Post by joestoyanovich on May 27, 2016 10:54:42 GMT
700 season tickets seems like a pretty healthy number to me. Not everyone can guarantee that they will be able to attend every game or can afford to punt out a large lump sum of money.
Whats really going to kick of attendances at the rink is if just for once we can get off to a good start in the season with a team with a few star players. Kirkcaldy is a hockey town put a good team on the ice that competes with the best, is good to watch and just watch the attendances soar.
Last season we averaged just on 2000 a game. 1200 was the lowest attendance, the Challenge Cup QF against Steelers, shows how much interest there is in this competition in its present format!. Just over 3000 for a game against the Clan.
I reckon with a Flyers team that is fighting for say a top four finish we could easily add another 500 fans to the crowd each game. Can Todd provide such a team, well history says probably no.
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Post by willie3av on May 27, 2016 13:19:51 GMT
700 season tickets seems like a pretty healthy number to me. Not everyone can guarantee that they will be able to attend every game or can afford to punt out a large lump sum of money. Whats really going to kick of attendances at the rink is if just for once we can get off to a good start in the season with a team with a few star players. Kirkcaldy is a hockey town put a good team on the ice that competes with the best, is good to watch and just watch the attendances soar. Last season we averaged just on 2000 a game. 1200 was the lowest attendance, the Challenge Cup QF against Steelers, shows how much interest there is in this competition in its present format!. Just over 3000 for a game against the Clan. I reckon with a Flyers team that is fighting for say a top four finish we could easily add another 500 fans to the crowd each game. Can Todd provide such a team, well history says probably no. To be fair the budget is the deciding factor in any team that goes on the Ice, we have had some decent players over the past few years but we fall short with the standard of British players we use to keep the bench warm. Decent Brits cost money, a luxury I'm not sure that Todd has. (Only he and the Flyers owners will Know)
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Post by waterboy on May 30, 2016 8:34:20 GMT
Well the next few months should bring a heck of a lot more news our way, as we have at least 17 players still to sign/announce and only 12 weeks until players start pre season and the Imports arrive. Is it just me or is this summer flying past!
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Post by sterlingarcher on May 30, 2016 14:59:01 GMT
Im hoping for 2 this week.
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Post by bencameron on May 30, 2016 18:04:24 GMT
Im hoping for 2 this week. Hoping for a bit much are we not haha
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Post by bobdee on May 30, 2016 18:10:56 GMT
Im hoping for 2 this week. It is nice to dream.
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Post by jack on May 30, 2016 18:46:34 GMT
Torch and scoony
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Post by jaymac on May 30, 2016 19:16:06 GMT
I am expecting disappointment. Take that whichever way you want to.
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Post by zamboni on May 30, 2016 19:27:48 GMT
I am expecting disappointment. Take that whichever way you want to. Bah Humbug
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Post by bencameron on May 30, 2016 21:01:03 GMT
Defo not scoony. Dont think the brits have spoke with todd yet.
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Post by Billkmc on Jun 1, 2016 5:47:11 GMT
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Post by swarfiga on Jun 1, 2016 6:55:02 GMT
As much as I think he's useless I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt this off season due to the fact he's recruiting a team on his own for probably the first time since he made a mess of season 1, it will take longer, BUT we will start with the full quota, but if he recruits a load of s%#t then I like many others will be begging for his sacking come September... Until then I am willing to reserve judgement
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Post by swarfiga on Jun 1, 2016 6:55:28 GMT
And by the way, earlier training times is a step forward for the club, especially the players.
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