Letter: Wanderers need to clarify stance on upper tiers

My family and friends have five season tickets together in Wanderers’ East Stand upper tier which we would all like to renew.

However, we are being put off by reports that the club may close the upper tier next season.

We have seats near the halfway line and if the club were to close this tier then we would expect to find it difficult to get equivalent seats in the West Stand upper tier as the best ones together will have been taken.

Before we buy our tickets by June 12, which would be at considerable cost plus car parking, we would welcome the club’s response as to what is going to happen to the East Stand upper tier.

We wish to continue to support our club but also wish to continue to sit in our seat in the upper tier where we have been for many years surrounded by people who have also sat in this area for many years.

If Wanderers choose to close this area then we may not renew and the club will lose five season ticket holders (three adults, one under-23 and one child).

Wanderers need to understand that supporters are being asked to part with a large chunk of money for their seats with no guarantee that what we are paying for will be available.

We don't want to sit in the lower tier, where all the best seats will have been taken. We don't want to be moved full stop.

This is not to mention the fact we still don't have a manager, the ability to sign any players or that what we have paid for in recent years has been nothing short of abysmal.

If they continue this way then they may lose even the most loyal of supporters.

David Shepherd

Long-term season ticket holder

Worsley

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Hear! Hear! I agree with his view- despite others calling us idiots. Well said.

Another selfish wanker.

The club really is better off without these twats.

It's a fucking plastic seat folks!

I don't understand why the club are even contemplating the idea of closing the upper tiers. Why should hundreds of loyal fans, who (save the north upper) pay a premium to the club to sit in the upper tiers have to move en masse.

The cost saving will be negligible, due to the fact it is cheaper to sit in the east and west lower tiers. as will the increase in match day atmosphere. Especially, as was said in the letter, some fans don't renew their season ticket at all.

King Bill wrote:I don't understand why the club are even contemplating the idea of closing the upper tiers. Why should hundreds of loyal fans, who (save the north upper) pay a premium to the club to sit in the upper tiers have to move en masse.

The cost saving will be negligible, due to the fact it is cheaper to sit in the east and west lower tiers. as will the increase in match day atmosphere. Especially, as was said in the letter, some fans don't renew their season ticket at all.

If someone won't renew just because they have to move seats we're better off without them. The club should not be held to ransom by these tosspots.

Closing upper tiers will be a massive saving, much more than a few twats cancelling their renewal.

But most importantly, the atmosphere will be much better with everyone in the same area. Atmosphere can win games.

It might help if the club quantified and published the saving that would be made. If it was a significant figure, fans may be more inclined to see the benefit of changing seats and have a better understanding of where the club is coming from.

However yet again, the communication between club and fans leaves a lot to be desired.

Perhaps the club's official website www.bwfc.co.uk would be better served by publishing information of interest to the fans rather than frothy stories about ex-Wanderers who are going to the Euros - the website could certainly play a role in improving communications and act as a counterpoint to the speculative ravings of the BN.

Where are the Board minutes published?

wanderlust wrote:It might help if the club quantified and published the saving that would be made. If it was a significant figure, fans may be more inclined to see the benefit of changing seats and have a better understanding of where the club is coming from.

However yet again, the communication between club and fans leaves a lot to be desired.

Perhaps the club's official website www.bwfc.co.uk would be better served by publishing information of interest to the fans rather than frothy stories about ex-Wanderers who are going to the Euros - the website could certainly play a role in improving communications and act as a counterpoint to the speculative ravings of the BN.

Where are the Board minutes published?

In general the Board's minutes are not openly published. Copies are circulated to shareholders only and not to the media. But I agree the club could certainly help itself by outlining the figures involved in closing the upper tiers vs leaving them open. It's time they stated their case in plain terms. But it's also time the BN stopped acting as a mouthpiece for a few disaffected people and the Steering Group. Frankly given how bad things got between Iles and Gartside you'd think Iles would really want to be on better terms with the new regime but he seems to be going out of his way to be a Paxman Clone from the off.

I'm not saying he should be the club's puppet but Iles needs to understand if you constantly publicly criticise someone no matter what they do they'll eventually stop talking to you at all.