Season Tickets Selling Well

Season ticket sales at the Vetch this season are up almost 50% on the same stage of last summer the club have revealed. Reports yesterday on BBC On-Line stated that 1,700 season tickets had been sold already whereas reports from the same time last season showed that only 1,200 had been sold to the corresponding day.

Indeed, ticket sales to date have already matched the figures for last season and as Swans director David Morgan explains "A lot of people have been bitten by the bug after what they witnessed at the end of last season, It seems realising what they very nearly lost has triggered people to be part of an effort aimed at making sure it does not happen again."

Ticket sales were expected to increase by a large number today due to people looking to take advantage of the discounts that run out on 30th June and the fact that many people will have just been paid due to it being the end of the month.

With an estimated 2,500 people expected to have a season ticket by the time the season kicks off on August 9, it will prove to be a massive cash boost to the club over the course of the summer with a sum of around £500,000 being pumped into the club.

Although the discounts run out on Tuesday, season tickets will remain on sale and David Morgan adds "I would also remind fans that the 12-match season tickets and the kids offer at £25 has no discount deadline and will remain on sale at the price indicated previously."

I certainly believe that Dave has a point when he says that people were bitten by the big last season. I also believe that there is a much more positive mood from within the Vetch camp at the moment and that people are believing that the club is moving in the right direction. Voting in the current poll on this site shows that almost 70% of people believe that we will attain at minimum a play-off place next season even though we are still several players short of what we need to have to class ourselves as having a squad.

It is also interesting to note that on the same day last summer when season ticket sales were reported at 1,200, there was also press reports that the Morfa stadium had been given the green light and that it would be opening in September 2003. This gives you a pretty good indication of why 50% of Swans fans will not believe it is happening until they actually see a stadium being constructed on the Morfa site.

There are now just six weeks until the start of the new season and I can safely say that personally I cannot wait for the speculations and rumours to be over for another summer and let's see what we can achieve on the pitch?

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