season tickets

You can still get round SCMP

 

No I’m not, simple way round it, on Monday announce all season tickets in Oakwell next season are priced at £1000 no concessions, on Tuesday announce New City Capital have decided to pay for 20’000 season tickets for Barnsley fans on the database in a priority system current st holders, then fans that’s been to x amount, then x amount and so on until all 20’000 have gone that’s £20M in the wage bill pot, stick that in your SCMP pipe and smoke it.

 

Depends if that £20 million is a gift or a loan

 

It’s not a loan, it’s buying 20’000 season tickets then giving them away to fans. It’s a gift but not to the club, it’s a gift to the fans

 

And £8.26 for me as a senior. (£190 for 23 games). I can't really complain now but I do feel sorry for those paying so much on a match by match basis.

 

Exactly why I’m going to Notts Forest away instead of Sheff Utd at home. £24 for me and the boy. £41 for a game in the same division at Oakwell. Daft.

 

20 is plenty.

 

I don’t disagree but how do we replace the missing income?

 

In our best run of form in 20 years ticket prices meant we didn’t get any more than we do now.

 

Improve our marketing. Improve the match day experience. Maximise revenue. Invest in the future.

If it comes to it charge season ticket holders more could be one answer.

 

If season tickers are jacked up to cut match day prices, a lot of season ticket holders would not renew

Tough job for the club and whilst we wait for all these extra fans to tip up, regardless of the nature of the “product”, we are even further away from competing

 

Or cos it was L1 and all those that gave a **** were there....

 

Not for the first 6 months of last season.

 

If I was a multi billionaire I would be thinking long term

100 quid season tickets or a tenner a game to generate long term support. Perhaps slight increase for local derbies.

Subsidise it to get people through the door and in the words of Brian potter, get em spending!

It is a no brainer to me and clearly a new strategy is needed because the club is heading in the wrong direction.

It makes a whole load of difference with more people in the ground :- better ‘match day experience’ as they keep banging on about and better support for the team. It becomes cyclical as people then want to come on a Saturday afternoon if it’s a better atmosphere. Obviously slightly depended on the team performing....

 

The problem is that wages are so high in the Premiership and this trickles down to the football league. The television income doesn't. Bournemouth could probably afford to have 10,000 gates and charge folk a tenner. Barnsley or Preston can't do this on 14,000 gates because we don't have the subsidies.

There are too many useless greedy players and parasitic agents sucking money out of the game - and who has to pay? The most maligned group in football - the supporters.

The useless ***** we have playing for us now have contracts which say they're getting every penny the previous owner promised them. You don't fund that by reducing your income.

 

We are making a lot of assumptions about our finances and thinking old school. Would a lower match day price really have to be paid for by raising season ticket prices? What about new money. They were talking of trying to raise the profile of the club globally. I would hope they are trying to get international companies on board to sponsor the shirt and ground. We also have a huge transfer surplus and an unknown amount that the directors are willing to put in. Things aren't necessarily going to be run the same as before.

 

Here's one of the sponsors brought into OGC Nice since their takeover. They were signed up via Alex Zheng, who isn't involved in our consortium, but our directors will no doubt have their own investor pools.

http://www.insideworldfootball.com/2017/08/17/ogc-nice-agree-sleeve-deal-chinese-hotel-brand-7-days/

 

Agreed - if they genuinely want to change the long term identity of the club they will need to do something radical to change the support base from circa 10,000 to circa 20,000