Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey has urged fans to join the feelgood factor around Molineux after revealing season ticket sales are almost 10 per cent down on last year.
The club have sold 15,140 season tickets, which is around 1,500 down on the same selling days in 2007.
Last year the eventual total hit 17,900, as fans clamoured for seats following the club’s march to the play-offs the previous season.
Moxey said: “It’s roughly the same number we were down from the Early Bird sales. Last year people were renewing based on the fact we had finished in the play-offs.
“There was huge excitement because we’d finished fifth and fans felt we’d improve. Seventh was a disappointment to where we finished the previous year.
“This time I’m not sure fans have picked up on the enthusiasm there is within Molineux, maybe because people are on holidays.
“There is a really big buzz within Molineux about the season and that has manifested itself within the squad.
“We’re having to almost remind the players to keep a lid on their expectations and excitement for the new season.
“We’ve only just started the season, but there’s a general feeling of excitement and we hope that continues as the season unfolds.
“We’re keen to have a more focused squad because we carried a large squad last season, although quite a few were youngsters who didn’t play.”
Moxey is hoping to claw back some of the missing fans with a successful start.
He said: “We hope that feeling of excitement catches on with the fans and that brings additional season ticket sales.
“I’m hoping we can eke away at the deficit, so we get closer to the total we had last year.
“If we start well and win some games, I’m sure we’ll sell more season tickets, as we usually do at this time.”
Moxey added: “We want to keep the expectations in check but we can’t wait for the first game of the season.
“We have a young squad that’s so enthusiastic and hopefully we can produce exciting football.
“We want to entertain our fans and if we do that, the players will enjoy playing and the fans will enjoy watching. Hopefully, if that happens, then hopefully success will follow.
“Everyone from the administration staff to the players, fans, manager and media is hoping for a really positive season on all fronts.
“With Steve Morgan trying to support us with our recruitment aims, there are many reasons to be optimistic.
“We think we have signed four excellent players in Sam Vokes, Richard Stearman, David Jones and Chris Iwelumo - and our player recruitment drive hasn’t finished.
“We’re still looking at one or two more players to strengthen and we hope to do that before the window shuts.”
Other news coming out is that Bournemouth have revealed striker Sam Vokes cost Wolves £300,000 - and they have a sell-on clause if he moves on at a profit.
The fee had originally been undisclosed.
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Dear Jezzy,
Its quite simple its too bloody expensive!!!!!!!!
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Let hope the Muppet does better this time around, that will bring the fans back, watching last season at times was very difficult. Team selections, favourties etc……
But it’s a new season, so lets hope that is all behind us now. 3 - 0 to Wolves today !
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We’ll start coming back when we’re satisfied that the board aren’t happy to plod along in the championship just missing out each year, but with just enough interest to keep the fans coming. They’re not committed enough to push the boat out to get us into the Prem. It’s seen as too much of a risk and they are happy to be a low risk business venture. It stinks !!!!!!
Prove me and thousands of others wrong and we’ll come back in our droves, but if moonhead thinks i’m going to line his pockets while he uses all this ‘blue sky’ propaganda crap then he is sorely mistaken.
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Personally. It is too expensive. I see no real value in the season ticket.
I am going to every home game this season and will buy tickets per game. If the season is drifting away, then I will not go.
We either pay or we dont. I like Moxey, I think he does a great job for the club, but I have my obligation to my pocket frst.
Do well on the pitich and you will keep getting my matchday money, play poor and you will be my matchday money down.
I am afraid it is a week to week basis for me, not season to season.
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Two Reasons Jez, the economic climate-not everybody can afford season tickets and the MM factor. Unlike yourself, we haven’t got bottomless pits of cash to throw away! Plus, the disappointment of last season watching us underachieve yet again does grind on you after a while……
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IT’S SIMPLE JEZ,
GET RID OF CLELESS MICK AND THE FANS WILL RETURN !!!
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Should be a good croud today mind. 25,000 at least me thinks. A good performance today will get people back! But we need more than just one! The excitement will get ‘em back in Jez, but it will always come down to the football
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The season ticket saving is pitiful. By the time you miss 3 or 4 games for it is cheaper to pay match by match. Season tickets are just to reduce hassle sit with friends and go away. We have all heard the big talk every year and as for backing the club we are in profit after our ‘big summer investment’. Oh - and the football last season was dire. Hoping for better!
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We all have choices Jez. Mine are:
(a) Take the dog for a walk down the lanes to the pub. Have a boat load of fun annoying the patrons playing the grumpy old so and so and get slightly merry, all on just £10.
(b) Spend 2 hours down the Mol getting frustrated, disappointed and angry for £70 each time.
You need to realize football is a game played by 22 people trying to kick a bag of wind between two sticks, watched by thousands of windbags kicking themselves for wasting their money.
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as the rest say its too expensive!!
mortgage, rising fuel costs and that includes GAS, rising food prices yet my hours are being cut at work so what do you expect??
i still try to make every home game plus attend 5 away games a season but the initial outlay of a season ticket of what £420? well i cant afford that. i just about scrape the £24 PLUS £1.25 booking fee per ticket (what a joke that is) plus the national rate phone number to book the tickets or alternatively pay £10 to book your tickets online!!! now to add the two shirt change every season now what you expect jez people have a go at you over what you do, on the pitch you get the bargains and sell on well but for us lot we get NOTHING back from the club. oh sorry i forgot i did get a rather expensive looking merchandise brochure arrive in the post this week! so i take back the you don’t give us anything remark!
we are not all like you jez, if i do well at work i get a pat on the back, no financial benefit, on the other hand when you were doing your job you got £250000 bonus for the camara affair!
see where im coming from here jez????
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It’s all about money I think. Wolves fans are exactly that, fans who by and large would go to most games almost regardless of league position or form. Hope springs eternal, but only if you can afford it! These are difficult times for the ordinary working folk that are still the typical match goer. But going to the match must come after more needful things.
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Common sense really. The tickets are too expensive to the ordinary punter with household costs spiralling up. I’m retired and the boys are all working. I don’t know how most guys with families can even afford the occasional match.Here’s a thought; maybe lowering the costs to the fan might actually help fill the stadium, which in turn should improve the atmosphere for the home team. Maybe lowering family ticket prices greatly would help the `firm` and those struggling. You would also be capturing the next generation. Once hooked it’s for life. Out of darkness…
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This is class:
““This time I’m not sure fans have picked up on the enthusiasm there is within Molineux, maybe because people are on holidays.”
How much is it that we pay this guy?
He is not the fastest car in the race is he?
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11. agree with you if i could afford it i would go every game, its our club so why wouldnt i go?? jeez ive been going since 1990 and we’ve been out the division once! i was a season ticket holder up until 3 years ago when i got my house, nothing to do with the wolves playing poorly under hoddle etc because like i said id still go, yea id have a little moan if we played crap on the way back “why do i bother etc” but next game id be there on a cold tuesday night against crewe lol.
but money like in football rules most households now and it does mine!!
the season we got promoted my season ticket cost £260 (match prices £16) if i remember right (adult ticket in the south bank in 2002-2003) and then we went up it jumped to £414? thats some jump for 4 less matches aswell, but it was what we all longed for, the club knew that and we sold out even having to erect that tin shed corner between the south bank and billy wright!
basically its all about finance, i cant afford the season ticket in one lump some but i try to find the £24 to go every home game, other than the scotland tour and hereford i went to all the preseason games because they were cheap!
reduce the tickets to what they were in 2002-2003 and you would get a full house guaranteed
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Sack the idiot manager and we will return!
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This type of comment about the fans makes me sick, you have not kept in touch with the fans with regards to season tickets and admission.
My local club Leicester has for years had a policy of giving under 8s free season tickets with a full paid adult season ticket! Why have you not done this,cost for my son and i season ticket £500 +,also an ongoing discount for season ticket holders would be a good idea, ie the longer you have your ticket the more discount off IE 20 years 20% . If i bought a season ticket this year, next year i would get the same discount with the early bird as a person of say 20 years, rubbish!
I had my son christened on the pitch so I am a die hard wolves fan, but until you get the prices down to the real working class level the fans will stay away, and i know people of several years of season tickets not going anymore and you should take some of the blame Mr Moxey.
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I agree with most of what has been said. I have been going to the Molineux for around 30 years with many being as a season ticket holder.
The main reason I have not renewed is the cost and very poor entertainment last year. I have no reason to expect anything different this season with the same Manager in charge. It appears to me that there is a lot of hot air coming from the Chief Executive, Manager and Players. More action less talking please ! (I wont be going back until MM chooses players on merit)
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After the hit and miss season wolves had previously what does Jez expect, times are hard and the fans are not going to shell out for more of the same ,i dare say a fair few are waiting to see how we perform in the first few games before parting from their hard earned cash.
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the tickets are down because no one want mccarthy at the club except jez
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Let them eat cake. Eh, mr Moxey?
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400k for a new eating venue for drunken corporate types, yet no new car park for the loyal Wolves fans, I guess there is no money in car parks.
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It’s about getting value for money!
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21.. There is money in the car parks mate. Thats why Jez “money, money, money” Moxey has decided to charge the disabled fans a fiver to park. That’s added to the molineux “feel-good” factor hasn’t it Michelin Man!!!
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