For a fiver postage and packaging, with no offer to lower P&P if more than one pack is being delivered to the same house, you'd hope it's going to be something worthwhile.
For reasons I've never understood, exact figures have always been kept secret. I don't know the benefit to the club of doing that. Is there one? Be interested to hear it if there is. Judging by the many threads posted on the subject every close season, it's not down to lack of interest.
I would imagine it’s not that there’s a reason not to, but that there’s no reason to do so. There’s no benefit to the club to release those numbers, that I can see.
To keep interested fans informed. No direct benefit to the club but helps keep a good relationship with supporters by being open and accommodating to their interests. It's not a big thing but lots of small things make a big thing. Someone is going to talk about the local bakery and the amount of teacakes they sell, I can just feel it.
I agree. People who are investing in the club (company) should be informed if they enquire: they are 'stake-holders' surely?
Always puzzled me, and its definitely been a actually attempt by the club to keep it a secret in the past, with cryptic statements like "hit last years level"
I suppose in some spheres it would be considered confidential business information. I would imagine disclosure of the number of customers in comparison to a rival would affect the share price in a public limited company for example.
The point I'm making is that these are businessmen, who probably aren't used to being so open about such information.
I'm not so sure about that. They closed the Box Office Twitter account, which was a source for such information.
In America, where all have business interests, professional sports teams are much more open. Almost every detail of the business is publicly available including the wage budget and the salary of all players. I can't remember us ever being given the exact figure of season ticket sales.
It's a double-edged sword this, isn't it? On the one hand most supporters would probably feel encouraged to see large ST sales. It promotes a feeling of confidence in the club and the team and encourages ST holders that there will be a good atmosphere in the ground next season. It may also encourage those deliberating whether to take the plunge to sign on while good seats are still available. After a relegation it's natural that ST sales will drop, which may persuade people to feel the reverse of those sentiments and disincline them to spend their money. In those cases the club might well feel it is better not to publish 'bad news' sales figures. You can't really publish the figures in the one case but not the other? Having said that, I'll be surprised if the ST sales figure is not mentioned at some point in the run-up to the new season. I feel that Mr Conway has been fairly open about most of the club's affairs - even if not all supporters approve of every change.