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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 20:10:39 GMT 1
560 less Town fans for this year's match with Hereford than last years. Pretty significant in my view. But mainly due to cost other than anything else. Probably although last season's game was GT's first against his old club which my have heightened interest from our side. Even with continuing decent performances, everyone is feeling the pinch and we will do well to average 5.5k this season..................... the Arsenal game revenue will help ny shortfall and Vale, Bristol and Oxford games in Feb/March should be big gates if we are still hunting promotion
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Post by gtismygod on Sept 12, 2011 20:14:29 GMT 1
never understand why the club dont cut prices which would significantly increase attendance. say £10? this would help to get behind the team, and would probably improve finances in the long run through people who want to come again, and possibly help to get the extra point that we needed for promotion. simple maths mr wycherley. Lol another amazing post by yourself!! 5500 x 19 = 104,500 5500 x 10 = 55000 Over a league season 104,500 x 23 = 2,403,500 55,000 x 23 = 1,265,000 How do you suggest tw club makes up the 1.2 million difference. Possibly do some group buys offers I.e 5 matches for 4, buy 5 tickets get a programme free etc. U can't just cut prizes so drastically and expect to keep our place high in the league my point is that there wouldnt be 5,500 (probably average closer to 5,000 home supporters anyway) through the gates there'd be closer to 7000 with a bit of luck.. everyone isnt a full paying adult? AND many of these new fans may travel away and come to games for many seasons to come? its long term not just for this season. the pricing at the minute is completely wrong.
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Post by Feedo Gnasher on Sept 12, 2011 20:19:17 GMT 1
If we plucked a random game, and did a tenner as a one off, we might well get a crowd of over 7000+, but on a regular basis it would have a negligable effect in the crowd. They'd take the lower price for granted, you wouldn't get enough new fans coming every week to make up the short fall, and when reality bites and the prices go back up you'd have an even lower fan base than beforehand as people decide they don't want to go back to normal prices.
Would be a lovely idea, but there's a reason no club does it, it just wouldn't work.
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Post by gtismygod on Sept 12, 2011 20:28:05 GMT 1
If we plucked a random game, and did a tenner as a one off, we might well get a crowd of over 7000+, but on a regular basis it would have a negligable effect in the crowd. They'd take the lower price for granted, you wouldn't get enough new fans coming every week to make up the short fall, and when reality bites and the prices go back up you'd have an even lower fan base than beforehand as people decide they don't want to go back to normal prices. Would be a lovely idea, but there's a reason no club does it, it just wouldn't work. it would work in the long term if enough new supporters came and stayed, or even if current supporters could afford to attend more regularly. why not give it a go? we're in a great financial position. having great supports probably worth 10-11 points a season? we only needed 1 last year.
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Sept 12, 2011 20:40:49 GMT 1
The big difference with GM of course for casual fans is that even if you decided at 2.40pm you were going to the game you could still stand with your mates.
Now you pay £2 extra to sit on your own, unless you plan it days in advance.
And you can hardly ever sit near friends who have season tickets.
And if you have season tickets you can rarely bring guests, because you have to move all the seats and get seats together somewhere different.
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Post by gtismygod on Sept 12, 2011 20:45:05 GMT 1
The big difference with GM of course for casual fans is that even if you decided at 2.40pm you were going to the game you could still stand with your mates. Now you pay £2 extra to sit on your own, unless you plan it days in advance. And you can hardly ever sit near friends who have season tickets. And if you have season tickets you can rarely bring guests, because you have to move all the seats and get seats together somewhere different. unallocated seating in the whole west stand..? means you can sit next to whoever, scraps the stupid idea of charging more for sitting on halfway(thus emptying the middle of the stand) and improves atmosphere. wishful thinking with wycherley making the decisions though.
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Post by stfcfan87 on Sept 13, 2011 10:51:45 GMT 1
The big difference with GM of course for casual fans is that even if you decided at 2.40pm you were going to the game you could still stand with your mates. Now you pay £2 extra to sit on your own, unless you plan it days in advance. And you can hardly ever sit near friends who have season tickets. And if you have season tickets you can rarely bring guests, because you have to move all the seats and get seats together somewhere different. That's spot on for me. As a result of this we've lost so many fans that used to go to a few matches a season but not all i.e. people who work saturday shifts who finish a bit earlier than expected etc. What possible reason would those people have for coming?? Just seems to be as many 'barriers' as possible to stop a lot of casual fans coming. As I've said before too, seems all the marketing the club do completely ignores the larger more traditional section of the fanbase - any marketing done is aimed at possible sponsors, families or kids.
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