Gers Season Tickets Hit Record Levels

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WITH almost a month to go before the start of the new Ladbrokes Premiership campaign Rangers can announce that season-tickets sales have again reached record levels.

Last year’s figure of 45,419 was itself a record but, as of today, 45,757 have been sold and we have a waiting list of close to 14,000.

These numbers not only reflect the undying loyalty Rangers supporters have for their club but also demonstrate the strength of belief they have in the present management team.

No one is more conscious of that than Rangers chairman Dave King, who said: “Once again Rangers supporters have stepped forward and reminded us that we, the directors of this special club, are in a fortunate and privileged position to be able to work for them and with them.

https://Rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/gers-season-tickets-hit-record-levels/

[AlbertzLoyalRSC 18,070]

Expected, but great news.

[BlueMe 25,327]

With a waiting list of 14,000 we should be looking at stadium expansion tbh. 

 

[cp9 753]

Just now, BlueMe said:

With a waiting list of 14,000 we should be looking at stadium expansion tbh. 

 

At this point any free cash should be spent on the squad. Not a couple thousand more seats. 

[BlueMe 25,327]

1 minute ago, cp9 said:

At this point any free cash should be spent on the squad. Not a couple thousand more seats. 

How are 14,000 people going to be able to sit on 2000 seats?

The extra season ticket income would soon pay off the expansion work. 

 

[McEwan's Lager 30,522]

Let’s face it, all 45,000 of us are off our heads.

Staunch, but mental.

[gogzy 31,195]

8 minutes ago, BlueMe said:

With a waiting list of 14,000 we should be looking at stadium expansion tbh. 

 

That was my thought as well.  Is it viable, where would it be done?

14k waiting list suggests we could easily add another 10-15k seats and still fill the ground.

[McEwan's Lager 30,522]

4 minutes ago, BlueMe said:

How are 14,000 people going to be able to sit on 2000 seats?

The extra season ticket income would soon pay off the expansion work. 

 

If all 14,000 paid about £7k each for their seat upfront it might. Likely take 10-15 years to pay off the investment needed on that.

We barely have a credit facility. Who is realistically going to lend us the cash?

[BlueMe 25,327]

Just now, gogzy said:

That was my thought as well.  Is it viable, where would it be done?

14k waiting list suggests we could easily add another 10-15k seats and still fill the ground.

Who knows mate, there was talk a while back about removing the screens or adding another tier to the Copland road.

Fuck knows what the logistics would be or cost etc. But it's crazy if we're not even considering it, with 14k people looking to buy a season ticket.

[Camshy 812]

Makes you burst with pride seeing the numbers so high. I also wish they would look at expanding our stadium, it really annoys me they have a higher capacity since they rebuilt that midden.

[Inigo 32,526]

7 minutes ago, BlueMe said:

How are 14,000 people going to be able to sit on 2000 seats?

The extra season ticket income would soon pay off the expansion work. 

 

This is the main reason folk should make sure their ticket is passed on if they can't go, whether to a friend, GovanBlue or secondary ticketing. The number of ST seats that sit empty game by game when there's such a high number of Bears wanting to go that can't get tickets is piss poor.

[BlueMe 25,327]

6 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

If all 14,000 paid about £7k each for their seat upfront it might. Likely take 10-15 years to pay off the investment needed on that.

We barely have a credit facility. Who is realistically going to lend us the cash?

Like i said mate, fuck knows what the cost would be to actually do it, or if it's even feasible, but once it's done, it could generate roughly £7m a year in extra income. 

Seems a waste to not even consider it when you know for a fact the demand/money is there when it's finished.

 

[McEwan's Lager 30,522]

5 minutes ago, Inigo said:

This is the main reason folk should make sure their ticket is passed on if they can't go, whether to a friend, GovanBlue or secondary ticketing. The number of ST seats that sit empty game by game when there's such a high number of Bears wanting to go that can't get tickets is piss poor.

@govanblue my ticket is spare a lot because I sit elsewhere in the ground quite often.

While 90% of the time I give it to a friend, on the rare occasion they can’t make it is it any use to Erskine Fund as it’s just a single ticket? 

[McEwan's Lager 30,522]

3 minutes ago, BlueMe said:

Like i said mate, fuck knows what the cost would be to actually do it, or if it's even feasible, but once it's done, it could generate roughly £7m a year in extra income. 

Seems a waste to not even consider it when you know for a fact the demand/money is there when it's finished.

 

It would be extortionate i’m led to believe.

For example the new tier at Anfield in pure construction costs alone cost £74m for just under 5,000 extra seats.

[Inigo 32,526]

We should be investigating options to create a few thousand extra seats here and there over the next few years. Extra rows on the front of the Copland and Broomy rears as per the Govan, putting the pitch lower again, remodelling the corners... stuff like that.

There'll be creative ways to do things.

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46,000 ST’s  at say an average of £400 is around £18.5 million in the kitty.

[They Gnu 11,553]

1 minute ago, Inigo said:

We should be investigating options to create a few thousand extra seats here and there over the next few years. Extra rows on the front of the Copland and Broomy rears as per the Govan, putting the pitch lower again, remodelling the corners... stuff like that.

I thought we had problems with the water table when we last lowered it?

[BlueMe 25,327]

11 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

It would be extortionate i’m led to believe.

For example the new tier at Anfield in pure construction costs alone cost £74m for just under 5,000 extra seats.

A new tier is probably out our budget tbf.

But there's other options we could look at to squeeze in a few thousand more seasts at lower cost. The corners or adding extra rows would be possible.

[Inigo 32,526]

9 minutes ago, They Gnu said:

I thought we had problems with the water table when we last lowered it?

Yeah, I've read that there are water table difficulties with it going any lower than now. But we should at least be investigating whether there are any newfangled waterproofing/drainage measures that can be taken to combat the effects. 

[Prso's headband 35,428]

Show that to Lee Bowyer. Wee wank could only dream of that it a tinpot outfit like Charlton

[Escobar 13,676]

39 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

Let’s face it, all 45,000 of us are off our heads.

Staunch, but mental.

Correct. 

[gj923 1,457]

19 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

It would be extortionate i’m led to believe.

For example the new tier at Anfield in pure construction costs alone cost £74m for just under 5,000 extra seats.

The figure i saw was that FSG loaned them 110 million for the stand. Man Utd have looked at upgrading their south stand but the figures quoted for that are around 750m

[ForeverAndEver 71,469]

Just give us something to cheer next season please 

[Straight-Edge-Loyal 6,686]

Superb levels of support as always now come on Rangers win something again this season. 

[MisterC 12,270]

No surprise to see this, I was going to get one for this season but that's not looking likely. 

As for increasing capacity, I am sure the structure of the Govan stand and the adjoining stands rely on the screens to help uphold it all so replacing the screens with seats isn't possible. Realistically you'd need to knock down 3 stands and replace them with a bigger structure to increase capacity. I shudder to think how much that would cost.