Fair play to Peterborough on shifting those tickets. More of a chance for them to sell more to non-regular match goers now too with having cheaper tickets available. .
Do really disagree with the Wembley selling policy. Don’t think it encourages getting the most sales for smaller clubs, just making it look at full as possible for tv.
On the merchandise, no idea why there is nothing on sale still. Phli mentioned on the interview with Rob that the club had received scarves for the final, and we are several days on from that.
Maybe they think they might get rid of all stock at the Portsmouth game? There is a blank Wembley 2024 page on shop site.
It must be all about internal club resource. They have all the on-going business to attend to which takes up all the small teams time without this extra task (opportunity).
That said, a huge chance to pull in the ‘day trippers’ - it’s a relatively cheap day out, it’s relatively easy to get to (despite the travel negativity on here) and it’s Wembley ffs! I bet many folk in the vicinity don’t even know it’s happening.
As mentioned elsewhere this is where The Trust and other associated organisations could offer man power - no excuse why every shop, library, doctors surgery, council office etc shouldn’t have a poster, every school be offered a banner / flags, all stations on the Chiltern Line be leafleted, basic white ‘I was there’ shirts with green stripes printed etc etc.
Feels like an opportunity for incremental unbudgeted revenue and potential fan recruitment missed at the moment , and these opportunities don’t come along very often.
I don't live in Wycombe, so I can't comment on the current promotion in the town around the upcoming final.
But my general feeling when I'm walking round the town centre before a game is that you could be forgiven for living there for a decade and not knowing WWFC even exists. Apart from a few brown roadsigns with a football symbol on them as you come off the M40, there's never any evidence we have a football league team at all.
We used to have a semi permanent banner at the bottom of Amersham Hill near the station. That must have given us cheap advertising to hundreds of thousands of passers by.
I agree that posters and flags are a quick easy win as would be trips to local schools.
Like many short staffed and underfunded organisations, the club markets through WhatsApp, X, email lists and its own website (although not www.wycombewanderers.co.uk, which seems to have died).
Sadly, that means you’re preaching to the converted but clearly there is no other marketing budget available.
My brother-in-law is a Liverpool fan and former season ticket holder. He has been to every (available) Wembley game with us since Southend - “Wycombe have been to Wembley more times than Pool over the past decade, you don’t realise how lucky you are”. Indeed we don’t. COYB’s’
Liverpool have been to the new Wembley 14 times (12 if you exclude the PL games v Spurs while they built their new ground), including four visits since the 2021/22 season. Our fourth visit in a decade does not quite match up (but is still excellent!)
Can't even get my daughter a new home shirt for Wembley. Small kids kits were out of stock online a few weeks ago and I've been checking ever since with no success. That's £36 that it looks like the club aren't interested in.
Alan C and P @AlanCecil and @glasshalffull can you two gentlemen provide feedback to the club? I would volunteer to go around the town with posters or just help in the club shop just to get this extra interest going and extra revenue into the club. I am sure many of the gasroomers would do the same.
Despite the fanfare our merchandising options have been overpriced, understocked and we have missed out on various unique opportunities to sell a stack load (Wembley appearances, Championship season, Bayo’s mug on a few more items etc)
Remember the 90s finals where we’d knock out cheap Wembley t-shirts. Those t-shirt places are much more numerous now. It shouldn’t be beyond the wit of man and those £3m losses won’t plug themselves. Look after the pennies.,,
I may be wrong but I don’t think kids shirts have been on sale since Christmas. Which is absolutely pathetic. No wonder we are losing £3 million a year.
I’ve had a chat with a Trust Director in the past hour. Seems shops now have a blanket ban on posters in windows to avoid perceived favouritism issues. No wonder you don’t see many travelling circuses any more.
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Some might argue it’s just about the right level of promotion and excitement for such an utterly pointless competition.
Nothing to stop the Trust doing this! The Club staff must be fairly busy at the moment.
Fair play to Peterborough on shifting those tickets. More of a chance for them to sell more to non-regular match goers now too with having cheaper tickets available. .
Do really disagree with the Wembley selling policy. Don’t think it encourages getting the most sales for smaller clubs, just making it look at full as possible for tv.
On the merchandise, no idea why there is nothing on sale still. Phli mentioned on the interview with Rob that the club had received scarves for the final, and we are several days on from that.
Maybe they think they might get rid of all stock at the Portsmouth game? There is a blank Wembley 2024 page on shop site.
It must be all about internal club resource. They have all the on-going business to attend to which takes up all the small teams time without this extra task (opportunity).
That said, a huge chance to pull in the ‘day trippers’ - it’s a relatively cheap day out, it’s relatively easy to get to (despite the travel negativity on here) and it’s Wembley ffs! I bet many folk in the vicinity don’t even know it’s happening.
As mentioned elsewhere this is where The Trust and other associated organisations could offer man power - no excuse why every shop, library, doctors surgery, council office etc shouldn’t have a poster, every school be offered a banner / flags, all stations on the Chiltern Line be leafleted, basic white ‘I was there’ shirts with green stripes printed etc etc.
Feels like an opportunity for incremental unbudgeted revenue and potential fan recruitment missed at the moment , and these opportunities don’t come along very often.
I don't live in Wycombe, so I can't comment on the current promotion in the town around the upcoming final.
But my general feeling when I'm walking round the town centre before a game is that you could be forgiven for living there for a decade and not knowing WWFC even exists. Apart from a few brown roadsigns with a football symbol on them as you come off the M40, there's never any evidence we have a football league team at all.
We used to have a semi permanent banner at the bottom of Amersham Hill near the station. That must have given us cheap advertising to hundreds of thousands of passers by.
I agree that posters and flags are a quick easy win as would be trips to local schools.
Like many short staffed and underfunded organisations, the club markets through WhatsApp, X, email lists and its own website (although not www.wycombewanderers.co.uk, which seems to have died).
Sadly, that means you’re preaching to the converted but clearly there is no other marketing budget available.
How do they market through WhatsApp?
There isn't. It's a disgrace really.
I take it all back, there's a sign for the game outside the Flint Cottage...
They’ve got a channel on ‘updates’.
Ticket sales have really stalled now. Looks like fewer than 50 shifted since 2pm yesterday and around 600 more needed for tier 2 lift off.
Category 4, 5 and 6s pretty much down to singles, so the cheap ticket window has passed as tier two doesn’t have any of them.
Where can you track this?
Oh, so that's what updates are
My brother-in-law is a Liverpool fan and former season ticket holder. He has been to every (available) Wembley game with us since Southend - “Wycombe have been to Wembley more times than Pool over the past decade, you don’t realise how lucky you are”. Indeed we don’t. COYB’s’
Liverpool have been to the new Wembley 14 times (12 if you exclude the PL games v Spurs while they built their new ground), including four visits since the 2021/22 season. Our fourth visit in a decade does not quite match up (but is still excellent!)
I just go on the ticket plan and hover over each block. It shows the remaining tickets in each block (doesn’t work on a mobile though).
Sad, I know!
Can't even get my daughter a new home shirt for Wembley. Small kids kits were out of stock online a few weeks ago and I've been checking ever since with no success. That's £36 that it looks like the club aren't interested in.
Alan C and P @AlanCecil and @glasshalffull can you two gentlemen provide feedback to the club? I would volunteer to go around the town with posters or just help in the club shop just to get this extra interest going and extra revenue into the club. I am sure many of the gasroomers would do the same.
I was going to say it didn't sound right!
Can probably pin that one on Hummel and their rubbish supply
Despite the fanfare our merchandising options have been overpriced, understocked and we have missed out on various unique opportunities to sell a stack load (Wembley appearances, Championship season, Bayo’s mug on a few more items etc)
Remember the 90s finals where we’d knock out cheap Wembley t-shirts. Those t-shirt places are much more numerous now. It shouldn’t be beyond the wit of man and those £3m losses won’t plug themselves. Look after the pennies.,,
I may be wrong but I don’t think kids shirts have been on sale since Christmas. Which is absolutely pathetic. No wonder we are losing £3 million a year.
He probably meant ‘I have been to Wembley with Wycombe more than Pool’ because he couldn’t get tickets in the ballot, unlike walking in with us.
Maybe the Chairman forced Missy off the board due to poor performance? For clarity that’s retail stocks / turnover / profit I’m on about.
I’ve had a chat with a Trust Director in the past hour. Seems shops now have a blanket ban on posters in windows to avoid perceived favouritism issues. No wonder you don’t see many travelling circuses any more.
An initiative that Posh are running ahead of the final - https://www.justgiving.com/page/poshatwembley2024
Whatever turns you on.
Not related to the game at Wembley - but I do have quite a lot of sympathy with the club with this sort of thing
https://www.wwfc.com/news/2023/march/17/paint/
https://www.wwfc.com/news/2015/june/pals-needed-to-paint-the-town-blue/
https://www.wwfc.com/news/2019/june/can-you-help-display-posters-in-your-area/
As of a few minutes ago there were 2,033 seats remaining in Tier 1 - (12,967 sold of our 15k initial allocation)
This is pretty good, but could be so much better.
Thankfully only need a further 533 sales before they open Tier 2 (yes, I am still holding on for this)