[spireitenag]

MK Dons, Port Vale and Salford Ciity are the three I am so far aware of.
Vale apparently were only selling about 150 per game despte an average attendance of around 6,500., amounting to an annual loss of ?30k per season.

[Westbars Spireite]

They're dead now. Used to be a thing and very soon won't be at all.

[Rodg]

Westbars Spireite, on 22 July 2024 - 05:06 PM, said:

They're dead now. Used to be a thing and very soon won't be at all.

They could be very much alive, just don't print them and sell them,.
Publish an electronic program on the internet every week home and away its a huge market of support, all the arm chair fans, they still follow the Town, from all over the world, international fans all have phones.
All the thousands of fans who go to big games, how many went to Wembley, twenty thousand plus.
It could be a program every week, not just 23 games a season, a mini mail order catalogue ,all the stock in the club shop not just a few items, plus articles about the players, the history of the club, away travel, local football
an electronic mail order catalogue, with non football adverts as well as sport related. Car sales, Holiday adverts, Drinks, all targeted to sport fans, all the sponsors with names on signs, get some value and extend the sponsors message to the world wide web!
The Kirk brothers would see the potential, no manufacturing costs, no distribution costs, huge potential market, not just 8000 23 times a year.

[Benno Spire]

[quote name='Rodg' timestamp='1721672956' post='1830242']
They could be very much alive, just don't print them and sell them,.
Publish an electronic program on the internet every week home and away its a huge market of support, all the arm chair fans, they still follow the Town, from all over the world, international fans all have phones.
All the thousands of fans who go to big games, how many went to Wembley, twenty thousand plus.
It could be a program every week, not just 23 games a season, a mini mail order catalogue ,all the stock in the club shop not just a few items, plus articles about the players, the history of the club, away travel, local football
an electronic mail order catalogue, with non football adverts as well as sport related. Car sales, Holiday adverts, Drinks, all targeted to sport fans, all the sponsors with names on signs, get some value and extend the sponsors message to the world wide web!
The Kirk brothers would see the potential, no manufacturing costs, no distribution costs, huge potential market, not just 8000 23 times a year.
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There is still a cost to collate all that information and if done weekly a full time role. Also the online programme would not be a collectible item and would be superseded each week, whereas a match day programme creates a snapshot of that day in history, try reading some programmes from 40-50 years ago and see how interesting they are.
The problem that caused people to stop collecting was the greed of clubs filling them with adverts and made them big and bulky and storage became an issue for collectors and many have turned to collecting teamsheets as they take up less space
As a collector it would be a sad day if CFC chose not to do a programme

[spireitenag]

CFC currently sell an average of 400 programmes per game.
So roughly only 1 in 20 attendees are buying a programme.

[Fit as a Nelson]

spireitenag, on 22 July 2024 - 08:28 PM, said:

CFC currently sell an average of 400 programmes per game.
So roughly only 1 in 20 attendees are buying a programme.

1 in 20 is a lot more than I?d have guessed to be honest.

[Benno Spire]

spireitenag, on 22 July 2024 - 08:28 PM, said:

CFC currently sell an average of 400 programmes per game.
So roughly only 1 in 20 attendees are buying a programme.

Does that include the programmes issued in hospitality and the lounges

[martatcross]

Benno Spire, on 23 July 2024 - 08:31 AM, said:

Does that include the programmes issued in hospitality and the lounges

To be honest when I've been in hospitality people tend not to read them and guess they wouldn't be missed if not issued . I collected programmes for years and my mum put them in the garage made good nests for rats . A hobby for some who would miss them but a dying game essential now days an electric version for a small cost could respark reading them again

[monte]

Do they accept card payments now?

I think more would buy but don't carry the cash