Official Site : Matchday Ticket Prices Confirmed

Dangerous pricing policy

Could conceivably stop the occasional supporter imho.

ST holders only.

 

Its only £14 a game if you go to every single home match

I looked at my book at the end of last season and I reckon there were 10 games where I didnt go, so more like £20 a game. Fair dos, I'll watch us if we're playing well and winning, the price becomes more palatable, but if we're towing against Leyton Orient and Gillingham I just cant justify the time, money nor effort required.

 

If you dont like the prices get a season ticket simples! You cant afford..pay monthly no interest rates 30 quid a month cant beat it!

The club will never win,when matchday ticket prices go down the attendance dosent go up much.

 

And if you cant make one particular game get one of lads to sell ya ticket for a tenner.

 

That's just about made my mind up. The Rec for CS for most of the season. So that's me and my lad, 2 down already Ben.

Couldn't/didn't want to commit to a ST due to redundancy/new employment etc. So I'll target the 'offers' games and spend my hard earned at the San Sheerian

 

Normally by this time I've started saving stamps for next season, not this year I only got a ticket for next year with it already being paid for the club and it's board are taking piss they've got to change their attitude this season for me to go to next season home games

 

One good thing though, makes the ST look even more of a bargain.

 

Season ticket prices are cheap compared with most places.

 

Re: £24 a game in East Lower for League 1 football ????

I can't believe I'm being told off for moaning by you of all people.

I've barely moaned at all. In fact, I think this is my first halfway negative post this summer - my attitude has always been one of cautious optimism. It's just that it looks like I'm going to be heading up to Oakwell next season to see worse football played by a team which has lost its best players, and I'm going to be charged a pretty hefty £25 for the pleasure. It's not really even really the money - my train ticket costs more than entry to the ground. It's that we seem to be spending the summer aimlessly paddling a broken canoe without any semblance of a plan - what plan they appeared to have seems either not to have materialised or never existed in the first place. I'm used to this - I'm a Barnsley supporter. But it's only when they remind me just how much they think this misery is worth to me that it comes to the forefront of my mind.

That's my negative post out of the way, anyway. You'll be happy to know that you won't be hearing any more moaning from me this summer, and I'll go back to waiting to see how things pan out.

 

Im with you 100%

I reckon Im guilty of only a handful of negative posts in last god knows how long cos Ive given up if truth be known, as it seems Patrick has, and Im firmly in the 'lets see how things pan out' group, and quite likely to be in it long after the season has started.

 

Re: £24 a game in East Lower for League 1 football ????

Sorry you were the person I clicked reply on but it wasn't aimed at YOU. It was clear who it was aimed at.

I feel for you with the Train prices ect sestren. I do travel away a bit and understand the costs especially for those traveling every other week or so to Oakwell.

 

We need to put prices up to fund our very competitive budget and early recruitment drive.

Needs must. Well done BFC.

 

Re: £24 a game in East Lower for League 1 football ????

Another bleak day on the marketing front at Oakwell as we price more and more people out of supporting their local club. It saddens me really. We are creating more and more placcy manc supporters. At this rate I can see us going out of business in the not too distant future and we will probably deserve what we get.

It's fine for us who can easily afford season tickets but for those with bigger family commitments or financial issues or young kids who want to drag a barely interested parent along it's both alienating and self defeating.

In what walk of life do you offer a lesser standard product for more money and expect that to be a successful ploy. Only football. We are a division lower seem to be auctioning our best players off for next to nowt and recruiting too late yet again. It disillusions even the hardest of hardcore.

Maybe the supporters trust would like to state the opposition to these increases and indicate that we would like the club to return to the community based community run entity it used to be rather than the ill judged attempt at commercial suit de for short term gain that this represents.

And here was me being relentlessly positive all summer. This just has me flummoxed.

The maximum cost for pay on the door should be 20 quid with 15 into the Ponty.

 

Don't worry, don't worry

At least Ben got the club a good deal on the week in Italy next week..

 

Re: £24 a game in East Lower for League 1 football ????

I've spent fifteen minutes comparing our season ticket prices with the other clubs in this division. I excluded ours (and their) early bird offers (the majorities were better deals than ours, mind, and ran for longer). I haven't the time to list every club and their prices, but our cheapest adult season ticket puts us in joint 4th for most expensive. Our most expensive isn't the most expensive though, we're 10th in that list. Only a handful of clubs offer seriously low season ticket prices. They're Coventry, Fleetwood, Crewe etc. Some, Crawley for example, charge slightly more than we do. We're pretty much on a par with Sheff Utd in terms of what we are charged.

All in all, we're not extortionately fleeced in comparison to our rivals in the division, but neither are we doing anything radical either. Our early bird offer is probably the worst of all 24 clubs out there though.


Can't find all 24 clubs' matchday pricing, but of the ones I have seen we're pretty much charged the same as most clubs. Although, our kids/concessionary prices are far bigger than most, and the inability for kids to pay on the gate isn't something I've seen listed on most clubs' websites.


Personally, I find it somewhat difficult to stomach, paying more for a poorer level of football. And I'm pretty angry at the decision to make kids purchase tickets prior to kick off. I don't understand the reasoning behind that, and the twitter account (@BFCBoxOffice) hasn't given me an answer either.

However, it's been obvious for a while now that this club cares only for it's diehard supporters, it's season ticket holders. Casual fans are ignored. Nothing is ever done to entice them down to Oakwell and should we be lucky enough to enjoy a good season this year, that £25 will still put off a lot of those casuals.
I'm not a casual, but I do pay on the gate. I've been through my reasons for doing so before so won't do that again. And, I'm not arsed about the extra quid I'll be paying (news to BFC's ears). I'm just disappointed, angry even that yet again we've had a summer where **** all changes. And whether folk like it or not, Mansford came here promising he'd make changes once he was able to (he used to blame Don, remember?). But with my eyes, I'm struggling to see any positive changes, unless you're a season ticket holder.

"Buy a ******* season ticket then..."

No.

I won't be forced into supporting MY club via the method they choose. That's **** business sense and is putting off a lot of people. Not me, not at this point. Probably never, actually. I'm a sucker for punishment. But since Mark Robins' last season we've lost around 4,000 season ticket holders. Some continued to support the club casually. My guess is that they're being turned off from reappearing any time soon. And don't let the fact Athersley and other local clubs are so far down the pyramid that folk won't go there instead of a Saturday afternoon, quite a few have started doing so. Because it's a reminder of when football was about football, not the ******* money.

Rant over.

 

Re: Dangerous pricing policy

Haven't got a season ticket this year. Will go to a couple of matches this season if that. I'm not saying that the increase will influence my decision as I'd already decided that I was sick of my Saturdays being fcked up, but at £25 for third div footie it doesn't help.

 

Re: Dangerous pricing policy

It's a prohibitive figure imho.

We're gradually getting rid of the opportunity for someone to get up on a Saturday and decide they fancy taking a match in. More so if they have kids.

 

Re: £24 a game in East Lower for League 1 football ????

Blank comparisons of pricing also don't factor in Social and economic factors that any business should take into account when pricing. Barnsley remains one of the countries poorest areas. Unemployment and underemployment are both high and job stability is low. This is the backdrop you calculate your pricing on to maximise immediate and medium term financial goals. But it seems thus has been abandoned for the short term. Plain daft.

 

Re: £24 a game in East Lower for League 1 football ????

Bang on. If you asked me to be specific then I couldn't be - I've got some ideas but I'm not part of the executive team of a football club (the figures on my payslip make that abundantly clear). I just want to see some kind of sign that we're doing something new, exciting or different. The merest glimmer that the club isn't carrying on just as it has done for the past few years would satisfy me. And they wouldn't all have to cost money. Maybe I'm being unfair (even as I write this I'm getting that idea) but I'm starting to get that familiar sinking feeling again.

I just want to support a club that I can feel proud of, and I'm not getting that at the moment.

 

Re: £24 a game in East Lower for League 1 football ????

We're doing the "well, everybody else is doing it" routine. Again.

Which contradicts Patrick Cryne's legendary statement in 2011 of "being radical".