Only 22,500 tickets sold for home opener

[Milt]

seasons like last year are absolutely poisonous to a franchise. If anything I'm shocked there's 22 500 sold. I'm sure we didn't gain 1 single fan last year.

[iso_55]

 

 

If I lived in Manitoba within an hour drive of Winnipeg I'd have season tickets. It wouldn't even be a question.

 

I have season tickets and I don't even live in Manitoba anymore!  And, for the record, I lived in Stonewall so it was a good hour home afterwards, and the people I sold them to live in Stonewall as well.  

 

Pfff...Stonewall...what a bunch of weirdo's over there.

 

 

Curled in Stonewall at their curling club 37 years ago. Their Spring Spiel. Natural ice. No ice plant. Temp outside went into the 20's & the ice inside turned to water. We got soaked. I was playing front end back in the day when REAL curlers used brooms & not brushes. If someone somehow got a rock in the house they won. 

[gbill2004]

The Jets will have no issues selling out the MTS Centre for a very long time.................... I still don't understand why they need $12 million annually from the Government.

As for the Bombers, winning will help the team average around 30,000, but imo Investors Group Field was built with too many seats. 30,500 should have been the maximum.

Add in the location and transportation issues, living in the "convenience era", escalating costs for fans and there's a bunch of reasons why more people are not coming out.

For the average regular season game, I agree 30,500 would be enough. The extra 3,000 is useful for big games though like the Banjo Bowl and playoff games.

With overall population increasing, 33,500 might be just right in say 20 years.

[Goalie]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the whole Winnipegers are cheap thing is just an excuse used by Winnipegers to complain.

The Jets have the second highest ticket prices in the NHL and they still sell out.

But for how long if they don't make the playoffs? That team is still in the honeymoon phase.

It will always be sold out. There is an 8000 person waiting list for season tickets. The MTS Centre is sold out into eternity.

Did they not require people to commit for 5 years when the Jets came back? Once that 5 years is up and if the team still hasn't taken strides come talk to me.

96% of the first wave of commitments that came due signed up for another term. Half of those people re-upped for six more years instead of the mandatory three.

I think the team will be fine.

easy to say that now, let's see how it looks if they stagnate as a team that doesn't make the playoffs. Look I get it, Winnipeg is excited about having the Jets back, but if the team doesn't make strides the Winnipegger in the fans will take over and they'll stop the blind support.

Oh sure they might be fine for the next six years. Maybe even ten. Hell they will be done for 15 years. But mark my words. At some point in the next 100 years they will have trouble selling tickets. Remember you heard it here first.

 

So you deny that there is a honey moon period? Get real here. If the Jets don't start making the playoffs the fans will stop spending money. All depends on how the team performs. The first years were always going to be an easy sell. Lots of excitement about the team being back. 

 

The honey moon ended last season, did you go to any games? It was obvious the honeymoon is over, the team was being boo'd off the ice at several games i went too. They have been here for what will now be their 4th season, Honeymoon ended last year and it could be debated that it ended the lockout year. That first year? you will never see something like that ever again so no use in using that as a comparison. 

[ALuCsRED]

Bandwaggoners? Jets sell out and they're not a playoff team. Averaged about 30,000 the past two years for a 9 and 27 team.

 

Let's look at the history for the City of nearly 700,000 people...

 

NHL in the 90's ... team left

Blue Bombers in the 90's ... team nearly extinct

Goldeyes... Attendence has been great, teams have been always competitive

WHL team .... wait there is none.

MJHL teams ... From St James, St B, and Winnipeg South Blues, to now just the Winnipeg Blues who many times get 150 fans at the MTS Ice Plex

CIAU U of M ... Hockey okay, football low attendance, basketball low (50 to 200, maybe 400 when U of W show up), volleyball better than basketball

CIAU U of W ... Basketball better than U of M, Volleyball (I don't know)...

 

What am I missing here?

[The Unknown Poster]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the whole Winnipegers are cheap thing is just an excuse used by Winnipegers to complain.

The Jets have the second highest ticket prices in the NHL and they still sell out.

But for how long if they don't make the playoffs? That team is still in the honeymoon phase.

It will always be sold out. There is an 8000 person waiting list for season tickets. The MTS Centre is sold out into eternity.

Did they not require people to commit for 5 years when the Jets came back? Once that 5 years is up and if the team still hasn't taken strides come talk to me.

96% of the first wave of commitments that came due signed up for another term. Half of those people re-upped for six more years instead of the mandatory three.

I think the team will be fine.

easy to say that now, let's see how it looks if they stagnate as a team that doesn't make the playoffs. Look I get it, Winnipeg is excited about having the Jets back, but if the team doesn't make strides the Winnipegger in the fans will take over and they'll stop the blind support.

Oh sure they might be fine for the next six years. Maybe even ten. Hell they will be done for 15 years. But mark my words. At some point in the next 100 years they will have trouble selling tickets. Remember you heard it here first.

 

So you deny that there is a honey moon period? Get real here. If the Jets don't start making the playoffs the fans will stop spending money. All depends on how the team performs. The first years were always going to be an easy sell. Lots of excitement about the team being back. 

 

If you define honeymoon period as any enthusiastic period after something new comes here, then ofcourse there is a honeymoon period.  I think that ended when Noel was fired.  Honeymoon period is over.  Fans want the Jets to win.  We've already seen instances with Jets cames where not every seat was filled.  Part of that was the restrictions the Jets put on re-selling tickets.  They reverted back to their original way making it easier to re-sell.

 

But the point in discussion is the Jets having issues selling season tickets which they dont have and will not have for many, many, many years.  With 8000 people on a waiting list and ticket renewals coming up staggered, you'd literally need the most ridiculous season ticket turnover in sports history to exhaust the wait list and still have tickets left over.  I think it would take many consecutive years of very, very bad teams to make a dent on season tickets, and I cant see True North allowing that.  They are too savvy.

 

But Jets aside (there is a Jets forum), I think we should wait until the home opener before we start Chicken Littleing here. 

 

Question:  wasnt there a time when Thursday games were considered the best for the team as no one wanted to go to Weekend games during the summer (cottage country etc)?

[Atomic]

The media in Winnipeg have been telling us the Jets' honeymoon is over since the end of the first season.