Summat I didn't know until last night

I agree the product dictates the actual selling price, not what you think it's worth. With regards fans using the price as an excuse, We used to get the gates before so what's changed. The price. In the Barnsley area if a guy gets the anti on, dynamite will not shift his view. Barnsley fc are not marketable at £ 28 and they should try £25 pay on gate and see what happens. If nothing improves the are up the creek without a paddle

 

Bart reight that.

 

I think when Cryne has set Don a task and said "come on Don its not 'Rocket' science"; The Don then goes off and spends 3 months trying to dissect a bag of peppery salad leaves with a view to solving the issue rather than thinking like a business man.

 

Wasted on here.

People at BFC (off field) are operating at a far higher level than their abilities in my opinion.

 

I'm guessing this as already been mentioned so apologises if it as but I'm sure £25 a game or £20 if you produce the previous games ticket stub would work and be much simpler...oh it has been mentioned, ok ill pay attention in future (just thought I'd get that in now)

 

He speaks well in public though. Be reyt.

 

I assume wherever we go then that has a "membership scheme" our away fans get the discount too. Never heard our fans getting it though.... (afterthought when I got home)

 

I noticed this a few weeks ago and found it completely amazing at the time. The club claim we charge £28 instead of £25 to fleece the away fans but surely the kind of fan who is so committed to their club that they want to travel away to Barnsley are 99% of the time the kind of fan who is a season ticket and/or club member so in effect the only people who are being put off by this headline price of £28 are Barnsley fans.

I would love to see the figures on how many none season ticket holding Barnsley fans pay £28 and how many pay £25 and then see the same stats for away fans. I wonder who gets fleeced for the extra 3 quid more? Us or them? My guess. Us.

 

You say that maximum crowds are 10-11k yet when we dropped the price a few months ago there were 14,000 there.

 

Are you serious? It came across that the club reckon £28 is acceptable and fans are just pretending that is the reason for them staying away? If that is the case then I can't wait for a takeover because that is the worst example of business sense and how to treat a customer that I've ever heard.

 

But that was for a 15 quid game and a one off to celebrate the anniversary and Blackpool had just come down from the Prem. I dont think if we had £15 every game we would get 14k every week.

 

All of this reminds me of the issues during the miners' strike. IIRC, there was a big call for the club to reduce admission prices to support the striking miners, which they chose not to do and attendances fell, for obvious reasons.

The problem was that they didn't recover many of these fans afterwards, as there was a lot of ill-feeling. In fact, I'd argue that it took promotion to to Premiership to truly establish a decent core support again.

It's not just the short-term effect of the pricing policy that concerns me, it's the amount of time it'll take to replace these lost supporters.