This morning’s images of a chain of people snaking around the Celtic Park ticket office and out towards London Road is remarkable. Even more so when you consider more people were buying season tickets online than queueing from the small hours to make sure they can support Celtic next season.
Frankly, I didn’t think we’d see sights like this until we saw a change in playing environment.
Season ticket sales, together with recent commercial deals concluded with Dafabet and Magners, puts the club on an enormously better financial footing, but the benefits extend beyond what we see today. Peripheral income, such as match day spent at the superstore and at kiosks, will have a corresponding lift.
Now if we get Champions League income on top of this………….
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T shirt ordered.
Hope sales go well to pay for what needs done.
BIG-CUP-WINNERS on 6TH JUNE 2016 3:26 PM
It makes sense to keep an number of seats for individual matches. It’s a lot easier to convert a casual supporter into a ST holder than it is to sell to somebody that’s never been before.
When I was younger I always heard stories about waiting lists. Be interesting to see how many we’ve sold. Must be 50k plus s of today.
Good luck to anyone trying to get one, at least the sun is hiding for a while.
I got mine in FS2. Great seats.
KLV
FRIESDORFER
Although the Leicester match is at Celtic Park my understanding is that it is not Celtic that are hosting the match (it is the Tournament organisers)…so I dont expect it to be on the Season book.
Have also heard that it is a 5.30pm kick off and that it is on Sky.
UTLR… on 6TH JUNE 2016 3:27 PM
T shirt ordered.
Hope sales go well to pay for what needs done.
Hope that what needs to be done, gets done.
QUONNO
Defo
Of interested to the horsey guys and girls
http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/breeder-of-legendary-faugheen-killed-in-crash-on-way-home-from-race-meet-34776267.html
Wonder if the ole Celtic v Leicester game will be labelled the Battle of Britain?
– watch the Celtic website.
Clash of the Champions CSC
Interest
2 t-shirts ordered for medium tims in the US…there are a few thinner ones over here…
Season ticket numbers…
For many years we maintanied around 53,000 deason tickets, stretching from the completion of the stadium through to the WGS years.
In WGS’s final year, on the back of 3 in a row Champsionships and successive Champions League last 16s, we hit a high mark of 54,252. It’s a curious thing that WGS’ brand of football was considered somewhat less than cerebral yet he delivered the crowds.
The Willo Flood window was the first of the expensive circumstances, which when added to WGS’ team’s failure to get over the line in the league, cost 4000 season tickets. A self-inflicted calamity compounded by the start of the economic crash.
The economic crash of 2009/10 (when it’s impact was at its height), not helped by Tony Mowbray’s brief chin-taking, was the biggest hit, costing 6,000 season tickets at a stroke, of which about half were the supporters who travelled from Ireland in so many numbers.
In the wake of this – appaling economics and dreadful football – season 2010/11, Lenny’s first, saw season ticket sales drop to 44,975, a full 10,000 fewer than just 2 seasons previously.
The demise of Rangers the following season was reflected in a further loss of 3,000 season ticket holders, with a total of 41,716 tickets sold. Of course not all of this shortfall can be bracketed as “Old Firmism”, but my sense is the majority is.
A marketing and discount effort by the club saw numbers recover to 43,000 during Lenny’s final year, but fell back again in Ronny’s first to 40,472. We’ll see in due course what Ronny’s second season delivered in terms of season tickets, but it’s fair to say that his tenure coincided with the lowest number of season tickets sold since the Hampden season 20 years previously.
Inevitably, those looking for evidence to back a point of view – or a media narrative – will be delighted to see so many former season ticket holders coming back to the club. Until they see the impact of the financial muscle on the pitch, that is.
However, a reasonable review of season tickets sales will show disaffection at the end of WGS’ final season as being the start of the trend of reduced sales, followed by the huge and lasting impact of the long recession, the diminishing football performance under BTM and Lenny (initially), and then the impact of an absent Rangers FC, and Celtic’s “just enough” policy in that period.
The economy has largely recovered, Celtic has a new, popularly acclaimed manager, and the club is set to invest. Some clever boxing just now will see season ticket bounce back strongly, as anecdotal evidence suggests.
I doubt we’ll get to the 54,000 of 2008/09, but an additional 10,000 supporters will at least bring the number back to around the 50,000 mark. At a maximum, I’d say around 3000 folk were back at Celtic Park for the worst of reasons. The rest are enthused, optimistic and back in work.
For what it’s worth.
TBB
Medium T shirt Ordered.
Magic!
KLV
WC,
That’s my t-shirt ordered.
Anyone any idea how many season tickets have been sold? Great to see the crowds at the TO this morning. Are they still there?
UTLR 3.31PM
Many thanks for the reply. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that is the case, but definitely highly disappointed.
HH
Winning Captains
Are the t-shirts available in green ?
67 EUROPEAN CUP WINNERS on 6TH JUNE 2016 3:17 PM
MATS NILLOC on 6TH JUNE 2016 2:43 PM
My position on PL – the best CEO in the UK – but for balance I do not believe he is the best scout, talent spotter, manager or anything else he decides he wants to be in charge of – I am hopeful Brendan has the control of all football related matters
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This is often stated as fact and it’s not the case.
Peter Lawwell does not sign players and he never has. The manager has always had the final say on players and Lawwell’s involvement is related to negotiating deals.
MATS NILLOC on 6TH JUNE 2016 3:03 PM
Yes we want to beat them, yes we want to mock them, yes we want to remind them of their cheating and tax criminality, however anyone who says, Brendan notwithstanding, that the ‘Rangers’ promotion to the Premiership has nothing to do with these high Season Ticket sales, is being disingenious.
Would Brendan have taken the job without ‘them’ in the league? – It is a moot point.
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There is no doubt an adversary that can attract large numbers of supporters and help generate huge TV audiences and raise our profile is a contributory factor.
We maybe don’t need Sevco, but it certainly helps OUR cause. We maybe dislike certain teams, but it certainly helps to hate one team with a vengeance.
We have beat and outlived the old bassas, now we use the new bassas.
HH.
TBB
Superb factually based post .
I’m surprised by the extent of the anecdotal Brendan factor, in fact I thought we might have been holed under the waterline from Mogga through Deila, and our numbers of money up frontists.
But it seems Celtic fans might not have found other things to do, just yet, not forgetting safe standing or rail seating, as Celtic call it, then Res 12, Celtic are on indeed on the up.
As ever.
Max season ticket allocation will ceiling out at 52K, according to the Celtic ticket office. By the end of the week I’m sure we will be close.
Celtic employees handing out sunscreen to those in line. :-)
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
The Garden is indeed as rosey as it’s been in a long time, Now to see if Brendan can give the squad back its confidence and drive.
Magic!
KLV
Erik has been active on Facebook and Twitter today showing his prowess at headers, while practicing at a local provincial club.
Great way to not only connect with fans, but inform Brendan: “look Boss, here’s me training in the offseason.
And why not?
Res12 t shirts and season tickets sold out today? By looking at the queues today can’t be much left season book wise.
Magic!!!
KLV
Big Erik will be worth a few bob in a few years. Great attitude and athlete. Trying to trim right down for the new season.
KLV
Winning Captains-
Does the usual international shipping apply to the t-shirt, as per the CQN bookstore?
WC how many T shirts you guys sold? Can you say? Are you surprised at demand?
KLV
Delighted about uptake in ST sales give the “same flies round a new s#;*× ” orcs the minimum allocation possible when the visit us for the 1st time and forever more.
Timaloy29….,
If your so positive about your point of view, you’ll have no problem answering two question,
Who completes the negotiations on behalf of the club ?
Does that position not have the power and final say on who is signed ?
When our Supporters Club was started 200/01 we were initially on a waiting list for Season Books and when we got some they didn’t include the Hun games. After a year or so we did get them upgraded to Full Season Books.
Kev
Yip. That’s the next bit and I hope Celtic fans recognise Brendan’s terms and conditions include a heavy doze of the reality factor, which is still a sponsorless TV’less wasteland.
New improved season ticket revenue won’t move us from Ciftci to Sutton, or Hartson, that’ll take a change in strategy that we don’t know is in place yet, after years of shopping in a very poor market.
The fans are buying in to the Celtic dream again, and there’s a daisy chain of mediocre players ready to egress down the Celtic Way onto London Rd then turn right or left.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
Amen, I always thought that when dodgy dave came back and got away with a clean slate that good old hubris would kick in and DD will not want to finish second to that criminal.
Game on.
DD does have money and DK thinks he other peoples money,
Magic!
KLV
The big question is what will the fixture computer randomly” come up with for the new season? I’m hoping our long standing Glasgow Derby at New Year with Partick Thistle continues.
What’s the odds on the new club being given two home games against us? They can’t guarantee making the top six and securing a fourth game against the champions after all.
Anyone think the Championship will get any Tv coverage this season? And what about Edinburgh City? Will all of their games be televised like the last new club to join the lower leagues?
TBB
cheers for the ST thoughts and info
T-shirt bought !!
Park Road 67
No green ones at this time. I have ordered a few hundred to begin with in white over 4 sizes.
Sin City BHOY it’s a fiver dearer for outside Britsin and Ireland.
kevinlasvegas – best not to say. We have very recent experience of our plans being spiked by those alerted to our plans from my posts on here.
SELLING WELL THOUGH!
A CQN’er who hardly ever posts here now has a post on Facebook, saying an STV Film crew were interviewing fans queuing for Season Tickets and a Reporter asked one of the fans was he buying a ticket because RFC were back, The guy responded it’s a Season Ticket I’m buying not a Time Machine.
I’ve been watching a lot of the Copa America games, and some of the talent on show is fantastic.
You can see why Portuguese teams are so succesful, riding on the backs of their South American imports.
Would love to see some of these players in the Hoops, and would surely cost a fraction of the price tags in the European market?
Eddie Murphy just on the phone there. Asking why he didn’t get booked for 48hours of infinity.
Told him he’d have to ask Peter.
MWD
Corkcelt,
Aye bada posted the link on here just after lunch.
Belter :))
HH