Time for some hard choices

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    Extremely Northern Well-Known Member

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    If ST prices need to be raised to help fund what Flicker wants to do then that has to be done.

    Seemingly a more focussed, Championship level approach needs to be taken by the powers that be.

    Flicker stopped the players feeling sorry for themselves, let's hope the directors et al follow suit.
     
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    More fans needed. Without a doubt. We need to be back to 10k+ crowds
     
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    Raising ticket prices would be a disaster. There should be plenty of cash available from the Stones deal - we haven't spent a penny of it yet.
     
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    It'll be how it's managed - ST prices at Barnsley are fantastic value, imho there's scope to raise prices a touch. We have a groundswell of goodwill now towards Flitcroft, it needs working on to maximise revenue and give him the tools to progress.

    Stopping still is not an option.
     
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    Menai Tyke Well-Known Member

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    a lot of the good will will only remain if flicker agrees to stay on next year.

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    That's an understatement menai. If flicker is allowed to walk, the goodwill will be destroyed. Fans will turn on the Club, back to square 1. I'm certain the Club will give everything they can. But we can't offer money we don't have. Flicker knows he's a PL manager in waiting.
     
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    The board must be banging their heads against the walls at t'Well...Pretty much the cheapest prices in Championship (and fair number of lower league clubs)...They then slash prices on the run-in and the stay-aways still can't be arsed...
     
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    Success breeds success. If we are in the play-off hunt we'll be getting 16k attendances when the pick n' choosers (like me) become regulars again. 10k if we are scratching around at the bottom selling our best players and handing out one year contracts. It's down to the board to show some ambition.
     
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    Totally agree Spartacus. The board need to step up, and so do the people of Barnsley.
     
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    10-game flexi-ticket (I'm in) and sensible matchday prices that can be had whether you live in tarn and pop down midweek for your tickets, or live away and rock up at the turnstile at 2.45pm with hard cash. Simple as.
     
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    Why would season ticket prices need to be increased when the club is sitting on £5m of additional income in its bank account that hadn't been budgeted for?
     
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    They couldn't be arsed coming because the football was so bad at the start and we had a poor end to the previous season - times are hard - keep the prices the same and let's get more people down on the back of what we have played like under Flitcroft. We have money in the bank - we don't need massive changes - just tweeking
     
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    Appreciate your point, time's are tough...but the board listened to fans and reduced the prices on the run-in and we were playing some of the best stuff seen at Oakwell for yonks...and the Premier season and Wembley fans stayed away.

    Cryne can only do so much!
     
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    You keep ignoring the £5m additional income that hasn't been spent.

    And fans DID come back, there was an increase in fans albeit small. And you have to remember that while prices were reduced, the need to jump through hoops to get those prices remained.
     
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    "Pretty much the cheapest prices in Championship"

    Where's you evidence for that? Always gets quoted with no back up whatsoever. Did a survey last season and there were about 10 clubs with early bird offers that beat our lowest prices.
     
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    Flicker and the boys have given their ALL to keep us in this league.....Time for the board to do the same and back him taking this club forward to be other than just a survival chasing club.
     
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    Fair enough...We'll just blow the ESTIMATED 5m. We can then compete with the Leicesters, Derbys, Forests Ipswiches, etc, with their 20+k attendances....

    Oh and stack up the aforementioned clubs' debt as well?
     
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    Would that be the debt that Don Rowing has repeatedly claimed does not exist?
     
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    Really? £5m? You know this for certain? Also, you know that none of this has been spent?
    You are Don Rowing and I claim my £50!:D
     
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    Well we know for certain that we got £500k for Davies (publicly announced) and we know for certain that we made over a million from the cup run (publicly available prize money plus TV money plus the announced revenue from the man city game), we also know for certain that we got a '7 figure sum' for Butterfield as that was announced by Don Rowing at the time so thats at least another £1m. The Stones money was only 'reported' so I accept that we can't be sure that we got £3m for him, however if we got less than the £2.5m required to bring the total to £5m then it was the worst bit of business in the history of football.

    And if we've spent it then I can only assume that Don and Barry wipe their arses on toilet roll made from 24 karat gold kittens because the money certainly hasn't been spent on the squad or the stadium

    ps, I'm not don, I'm Albert
     
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