Please don, £5 in for everybody on saturday!!!!!

If anybody reading this has any influence at all at the club, please make it £5 in on Saturday, Decide now and start spreading the word, there will be no point in deciding on Thursday and just sending out a tweet or putting 1 thing on Facebook.

 

On the one hand I don't want 6000 Hull fans dominating and swaying the referee- on the other I don't want fans who get on our lads' back the minute things aren't going are way and we don't really have those at the moment

 

Are you willing to pay the extra policing costs, extra staff needed etc? Bigger home followings doesn't automatically mean you are more likely to win. Infact when we get around the 18-20k mark for home games we lose more often than not.

 

The extra money from the thousands of extra fans will cover the increased policing costs. Just like it did at Charlton when they did it and at other clubs up and down the country.

Unless you think it costs more than a fiver per person to police games? That would mean a policing cost to Barnsley of well over a million pound this season alone. Considering that leeds and wigan kicked up a huge fuss when they were charged around £300k for a season I highly doubt that the police at Oakwell cost over three times this amount.

 

No, it didn't. That game operated at a loss as it was expected to.

 

So the bigger the attendance the less money we make? We should ban people from the ground.

 

Charlton pulled in £75,000 from ticket sales for that game, that's on top of the season ticket money that they had pulled in. Who policed the game? Alex Murphy?

 

Who is Alex Murphy? I know a Barry Murphy.

It operated at a loss, compare to a normally priced match. It was a PR exercise to attract new fans. If it made higher profits, they would do it every week. You don't have to be an economics wizard to spot that, oh super one.

 

Alex Murphy = Robocop

Even if a one off£5 match raised more money than a £23 match they wouldn't do it every week because they would lose all their season ticket revenue as nobody would pay over £300 for something that is worth just £115 if you go to every game. You don't have to be an economics wizard to spot that either

How's the half season ticket idea coming along? Any progress on the finer details to make it workable in time for next season?

 

I left it in the capable hands of Merde Tete.

My ironic humour is plainly worse than my economics. It ran at a loss, you would have to sell 4 times more match day tickets to equal the takings on a full price match, which they failed to do against us or subsequently when they only drew 16,000. That is not accounting for additional club staff, stewarding and policing.

 

Nowt like a bit of foresight and planning.

 

I don't understand this at all?

How many other clubs in this division charge £20 week in week out. Okay we didn't at the start of the season, but we have done since about January time.

That's unbelievable value for championship football.

I can't honestly see a massive rise in home fans even if we do drop prices as as low as a fiver for the final home game. Hull on the other hand may end up bringing a few thousand extra, considering it could be the game in which they secure their return back to the premier league. If anything I think it will give the advantage to Hull.

I think it's an insult to the loyal fans who have parted with their hard earned cash week in week out to support the reds, if the club does drop the prices just to bring in a couple of thousand 'once a season' supporters.

In the long run, they're not going to secure many, if any, new regular supporters by doing so, and the club will be losing money. We've to sell AT LEAST 4 times as many tickets than we usually do just to return the same amount of revenue. Let's just say that there's 2000 non season ticket holding adults attending games, who pay either £20 or £23 a game. For the club to get even close to making the same revenue, we've to find another 6000 supporters at least. Maybe the Hull fans will contribute to that, but I firmly believe our own supporters are purely performance motivated, and the price of a ticket has very little bearing on their decision to come to the games or not.