Bet they're already queuing round the block. Seriously, non s/t holders must be desperate if they are prepared to pay that now. It's entirely the wrong game at the wrong time and could get very toxic if everything backfires.
The ticket price is not designed to attract home support but to exploit Away supporters. 4000x£36 = £144000. Plus however many home supporters are willing to stump up. Perhaps £45 for two home games could get round this in favour of home supporters.
Add to the fact we haven’t beaten them since 2008 I’d say it’s pretty nailed on we’ll lose with our defence being this poor tbh. Think it’ll get ugly and if Conway or whoever are in attendance then if they didn’t know the feelings of the fans by now, will certainly know next Saturday afternoon.
Yet across the pennines next dinner Wigan have their biggest local derby of the season against Preston and it's twenty is plenty for adult tickets. They know how to not rip off their own just because it's a local game.
If I had bought a football club and wanted long term growth the very first thing I would do is reduce the entrance fees by a significant margin. I’m talking something like £99 a season ticket, but it would be tracked and have to be used. I would then look at how to get people to spend more when in the ground to compensate the losses, to some extent. To create different results you need to think and behave differently. Over time I think this would be a successful strategy as it would increase the support and so called ‘match day experience’ . A full Oakwell with our fans behind both goals would definitely create a better match day experience as the go on about. Create a buzz and give people a reason to turn up on Saturday instead of doing something else It would of course create a short term loss which would need to be supported. I guess this would only be possible if the owners genuinely had money and were willing to put it in. If only we were genuinely owned by ‘billionaires’ who could sustain that short term loss.
Terrible pricing by the club. United have no game this Saturday so I have decided to make a visit and being of a certain age I've been informed that a concession ticket will set me back £28. Not exactly customer friendly and making the trip more often less likely.
You are quite right but it is a lot more than if the full price was £26, which was my point. A big away crowd is lucrative for the home team as they all pay.
I get your point but perhaps if the price was more realistic then you'd get more home fans buying tickets which would even it out with a larger attendance.
Thinks like this always rely on the elasticity of demand. What's the optimum price to make profit based on the punters' willingness to pay? At the moment the elastic is not very good.
I have got a spare u19 ticket , upgrade to an adult for saturdays game is about 23£ if anybody can make use of it
