The first 5000 was always going to be the easy bit as that's pretty much one for one to (qualifying) season tickets. The next 5000 is the really hard work! Hopefully the club has a campaign plan that will keep up the momentum.

But [iobviously[/i, not everyone will, that's life. Certainly it is done on the basis that the substantial majority wouldn't have pledged if they wouldn't pay up, but the answer is bleedin obvious, innit, once they have sold you your ticket for £60 (or whatever) then you have a ticket! End of.

Personally I'm a little worried about the drop off in numbers as it will only continue to go in the same direction.

I think the "Pledgeometer" at Odsal might look a bit daft with 15k at the top of it over the coming weeks.

I know I've already pledged and the Bulls have got my details, but I am a little surprised I've received nothing through the post advertising the deal. I've not had a season ticket for a few years now (even though I attend most home games) and I would have thought that the club would have contacted everyone who has purchased tickets through the club in the last few years to notify them of this offer.

It may be that the club have a good enough marketing / distribution system that realises I have already pledged, however based on other pledgers posts, this doesn't tie in as some have received some gumpf from the club even though they have already pledged too.

Living in Queensbury I thought I may have also received something through the post as there is a reasonable amount of support for the club from the area and also has an amateur club with ties to the Bulls. I do wonder where and when the "leaflet drop" is occurring.

Hopefully the club will hit the Bradford homes with this drop now the initial interest has started to decrease to a lower level.

I wonder how the pledges themselves are being counted.

For instance, is a single £60 pledge and a family ticket pledge both counted as a single pledge or is it counted on the number of eligible people?

I've pledged £60 and I despise the Bulls!

Still... any excuse to watch some RL followed by a decent curry afterwards, eh?

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NOOOORTHERN!
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A family pledge counts as two pledges.

Yup. I think it's every adult pledge that is £60 or more. For example a family ticket includes 2 adults and is more than £120, so there is 2 pledges.

If there was a £200 ticket which had 3 adults and a child (completely theoretical), it would be 3 pledges.

5,000 exactly. Half way there!

Half way!!!

Glass half-empty or half-full? Takes yer pick . . .

Gives a little weight to the idea that we can only physically manage to process a certain number every day. 229 today, 234 yesterday, similar figures (if I remember correctly) per day last week...

perhaps someone at the club will go on a killing spree if someone mentions the word "pledge" to them after it's all done?

Would suspect as previous people have said in that they must be doing a batch per day. Cant believe we are on exactly 5000 and awaiting next one!! At least i hope so. This last 5000 may drag on

In fact, the daily totals are slowing. Where we have had one day's worth of pledges only to process, we have had:

[uLast week[/u
Wed 430
Thu 359
Fri 334

[uThis week[/u
Wed 234
Thu 229

Two possible explanations for this - either the numbers represent accurately what we have received, and the numbers are declining daily...

...or, electronic pledges are processed automatically, and a disproportionate number of people used this method initially. Therefore we are wading through the pledges by other means at around 200 per day (perhaps with a backlog), but the number of automated pledges has dropped off.

It could be either. The latter makes some sense to me: if I knew I wanted to pledge, and all I had to do was type in a few boxes on my PC, there was no need to wait (I didn't). If I had had to get a form, fill it in, find a stamp, walk to the post box etc., I can well imagine that I would have waited until the weather improved, or until I could be bothered, or until...

I pledged on the Sunday night after the game and still haven't had a response back.

I know they've had problems - I just want to know my pledge has counted. If it hasn't there may be a good 1000 or so that may also have not registered?

originally posted this on t'other forum yesterday in answer to people questioning rate at which pledges were racking up but its probably worth putting on here too.

I had a similar thought over the weekend. But there were definitely 2 or 3 new faces in the ticket office.

Apologies for the week away but I've been busy after being dragged to Blackpool for a few days.

Where I saw plenty of Rugby League shirts, Wigan, Leeds, Halifax, Whitehaven, Castleford, Widnes, St Helens.

Anyhow enough of that, I've managed to get three stay aways to pledge for next year who haven't been since the 2007 Wigan play-off game.

5,187. Just 187 today, easily the lowest daily total. It was posted half an hour or so earlier than usual - knocking off for the weekend / travel to Wigan, or cleared the backlog?

It's still on 5187

It's Saturday!

Right I'm off to do some leafletting. Watch that pledgeometer zoom up on Monday...

I'm still waiting for my leaflets.

Fingers crossed they come on Monday.

yeah you will need the leaflets to hand out on your naked run.

I'm going to do tomorrow down from the Royal to the Bull via the Albion to see you Leanne and Derek