How do you protest high ticket prices?

By not paying the lower prices when offered, apparently...

 

Proper fans dont protest they pay up front for a season ticket.

 

So you think I didnt go because it was £15 , aye alright then !!!

 

No, but people keep complaining that the reason they don't go is the price. The price is lowered and what results - one of the lowest attendances for years.

 

You really do think that it was all down to the prices that we get poor crowds? Nowt at all to do with the fact we have not won a match at home since September, we are bottom of the league and let the right hand man of the manager that had the worst record of any manager I can remember, stay on and pick the side?
Not everything is as clear cut as just the prices and look at the attendances at lots of FA Cup matches today and see if it was just us at Barnsley that had poor numbers !!

 

You ought to get a job for the government, or at least the tabloids, with the way you've spun my point there.

 

Why did they charge full price for the Wednesday, Brum and Blackburn games? The only reason the club reduced the price today is because it's the cup and the attendance wasn't goign to be underpinned by season ticket holders. Leeds will be full price no doubt. If they made that game £15 then I'm sure it would add a few on to the gate. But will it happen? No. The club will see today's attendance as vindication despite generally low attendances across the 3rd round. Didn't Blackburn get 5 and a bit thousand today too?

 

We'd also miss out on 5000 Leeds fans paying full price.

 

Well that makes it alright then. **** the home fans.

 

It makes no financial sense to reduce the prices for the Leeds game over this one. Fans who can't afford to go at full price could watch us for £15 today and not go to the Leeds match.

Today:
£28 would mean about 2000 home fans, 750 away = £77000
£15 meant 5090 fans = £76350

Leeds:
£28 would mean about 1500 home fans, 5000 away = £182000
£15 would mean about 2500 home fans, 6000 away = £127000

So by reducing the match price of Burnley over Leeds the club makes an extra £54350 while still reducing the ticket price of one game. What's more, the season ticket holders can benefit from the price reduction.

(Omitted concession prices for simplicity)

 

I didn't go, and none of the usual lot I go with even mentioned the possibility of going either but I don't believe the fact that the attendance being poor today should stop the club from testing lower ticket prices over a sustained period as:

1. It was a fairly uninspiring cup tie against a team in the same division. A team that if you were to try and name all 24 Championship clubs in a pub quiz after a few pints you'd probably miss.

2. The attendance wasn't that much lower than last season's when we played a Premier League game, that turned out to be a decent game although we did lose.

3. We haven't won in the third round for five years. Not a big excuse but are we really going to win the FA Cup? 2008 was a once in a lifetime journey for a club like us that is unlikely to be repeated.

4. The club didn't actually do a lot of promotion on this. The 10,000 or so (possibly a lot less) folk that keep up to date with the daily goings on of the club would probably have known the price, and barring a bit of word-of-mouth, not many other folk will have known. These days, most people think watching Barnsley is going to cost nearly £30 and aren't automatically going to think that this game would have been any cheaper.

5. Related to point 4 - until the price is dropped on a consistent basis, so that those who used to go are aware of the drop in price and to get the kids in, the attendance isn't going to rise. The club should bite the bullet under the current circumstances and try and get a few more fans behind the team at Oakwell for this relegation fight even if it means losing a couple of quid. Something that shows intent like £18 a game from now until the end of the season with no exceptions.

 

I understand that. But it's not really the point I was making. Why don't we just make it £30 to get in and then fill the ground with Leeds fans? If we get Man U in the cup, let's make it £50 and give United all of Oakwell too. We'll make loads of cash!

Jusitfying high prices that contribute to many home fans no longer going by the fact it generates revenue from away fans is shocking.

 

Spot on.

 

Yes but the point I'm making is that of all the games to pick to reduce the ticket prices, Leeds shouldn't be one because they bring a lot of fans. Reduce it for as many other games as you like since that will be benefiting a greater proportion of home fans.

 

You have to lower the price for the season not one game, seriously if its £28 on Saturday what crowd will we get? 15k tops, £15 what will we get? A free ticket today and I wouldn't have walke the one mile to Oakwell.

 

Let under 16s in for free, they'll hopefully persuade their parents to take them.

 

ALL games should be less than £28.

 

Yes it shouldn't matter who the opposition is, although I'm assuming many Leeds (and a few Barnsley) will have already purchased tickets for that game meaning it would be a bit of an administration nightmare to reduce the price now.

 

How are we supposed to remain competitive in the championship when the increase in the number of fans doesn't cover the reduction in revenue. You're effectively asking Pat Cryne to pay for supporters match tickets.

 

In a business sense it would be taking a gamble by taking a bit of a hit in the short-term for longer term gains.