[Official Site] FREE coach travel to Nottingham Forest!

I didn't ask. The subject had come up in the thread so I replied pointing out how ridiculous it is, you got all petulant and kept asking to name clubs where it is cheaper, which I did, and you've now ignored that in favour of a condescending story. Not interested.

 

You’ve picked a derby to compare and contrast. There are plenty of other pay on the day prices at Oakwell throughout the season. Loathe people needlessly pulling the club down.

 

Great offer by the club.. just hope we've won a game or two in the meantime..

 

It's a good offer but I can see why some have issues. By the time we put thousands of extra pounds of ticket sales into another club, we could be relegated.

I understand why as an alternative they wouldn't do it tomorrow as one of our biggest earning gates of the season.

The best idea instead of free travel would have been cheaper tickets for the Bolton game. At that point we have more games to stay in this league and the increased home sales is more money going back into our own club.

 

Then they ought to understand that Premier League clubs have huge TV revenues that we don't have that they use to subsidise some ticket prices!

 

I’m pretty sure that the club aren’t permitted by the authorities to simply reduce ticket prices whenever they like.

 

How many extra folk do you think would be attracted by a reduced ticket price for Bolton?

 

I equally hate it when people feel the need to defend the club at all costs, despite very valid criticism. There is literally no valid defence for charging fans 36 quid for a championship game.

However, as I said earlier, the free travel in contrast is a great gesture by the club and I hope as many people as possible take advantage.

 

Ok. This is hard work. Burton are a team comparable to us, in our division, and their derby against Derby is £20 a ticket. What excuse is coming next?

 

Maybe Derby charged Burton £20 at their game? Burton have had some gates around 2k this season so maybe trying to get more folk in. I don't know.I do know that Premier League clubs took a decision to subsidise away tickets because of their vasylysuperior TV income.

I don't disagree with your assertion that £36 is far too much but wwe are where we are - the ticket pricing policy is designed to maximise revenue from large away followings as the club have accepted that *most* folks who are so inclined to attend home games will have a season ticket or will swallow the cost and the loss of that away ticket revenue if prices are reduced is not covered by the extra few fans attracted by a cheaper price.

 

What do you want BFC to do about ticket prices in isolation? Reducing ticket prices will only make us less competitive than we already are...

 

That isn't true. It has been shown that reducing ticket prices for aone off game whilst placing conditions on the reduction and failing to push the offer to the general population of Barnsley fails to have a significant impact but it has also been shown that reducing prices across the board without conditions and promoting the reduction to casual and even none fans DOES have a significant impact and the impact that a sustained period of pay on the gate reasonable ticket pricing would have is a mystery because it's something the club has been willing to investigate for the last decade or so

 

When did the second case get "proved"?

 

Millwall's derby with Fulham is £25 a ticket, they have lower average attendances than us and are doing better. Must be magic.

 

If we insist on fleecing away fans then they should be placed in the most expensive area of the ground (west upper). Placing them in the cheapest area and therefore having to fleece and alienate Barnsley fans as well is just stupid and I don't care what excuse is given for not being able to do so. Other clubs do it and with far less segregation than would be afforded if the west was split

 

Again, maybe reciprocal pricing is involved, who knows. Fulham probably won't take that many anyway, being a hobby club.

If we set prices, in isolation, to say £20 on a game like Saturday we would volutarilaty lose £16 per adult ticket, meaning we'd need to sell more than double the number of tickets to replace the lost income and it just would not happen!

 

Go on... when has that occurred at Oakwell and been proved it be true?

 

Would enough of these alienated Barnsley fans tip up to make up the revenue short fall? Especially given that the West Upper North holds what 1200?

 

The offer by the club is very generous. However, as always the fan travelling independently by car gets no recognition. We set off from Cambridge, so the free coach travel is of no use to us. But hey, I've got no grounds to moan.

 

It's an EFL wide problem but it'd be nice if they didn't charge as much as 36 quid for games like this. There's no excuse.