Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
I fail to understand why the management of Dundee Football Club have scrapped PATG. It gives me the impression that John Nelms is only interested in season ticket holders because they hand over their money before the start of every season and he has no interest in making it as easy as possible for non season ticket holders to attend home games at Dens Park.
The home stands are less than half full. At the Aberdeen home game on Saturday 28th September 2024 which was the first home game we had played for 4 weeks there were almost as many Aberdeen supporters in Dens Park as Dundee supporters.
John Nelms sitting the front row of the Directors Box should notice the decreasing number of people sitting in the Bobby Cox Stand at home games and as managing director of Dundee Football Club he should be asking all the supporters why this is happening.
Hospitality in my opinion is too expensive for the average supporter.
Nelms should be thinking up ways of increasing the number of people sitting in the home stands at Dens Park.
He should reinstate PATG in the Main Stand and Bobby Cox Stand with immediate effect.
I'm not John Nelms' biggest fan but you're way off with some of your thoughts. Most people will have the app or pay in advance online and receive electronic tickets by email making it very easy to attend home games. Whether you like it or not that's the way things are going not only at Dens Park but at most sports and entertainment venues. The option to pay on the day is still there, people just need to plan a bit better and go to the ticket office for one, but most will buy in advance now. Society has changed and people aren't leaving things to the last minute any more when it's so easy to do things like get tickets for a match a week in advance without having to get out of their chairs.

PATG is gone, accept it and move on.

One thing that bugs me is the continued insistence by the club on sending out Christmas draw ticket to all season ticket holders (possibly to others too) by mail. I think it's ?1.55 now for a second class letter up to 100g so if they send out 3,500 of these it's stinging them for nearly ?5,500. I personally don't even open mine, I know the size and shape of the letter and when it comes I put it straight into the bin with the other junk mail. I wonder how many actually get bought? Regardless though, they're ?5,500 down before they start - just plain bonkers.