Bolton

Sold over 2500 for Saturday should bring over 3k. Hopefully another good home crowd in the sun should be a good atmosphere

 

It's going to be a scorcher by all accounts.

 

Be interesting to see how the home figure of 12k on Saturday holds up for Bolton.
Guess tickets will be north of £25 so I imagine numbers will drop. Be nice if they didn’t but I’d be surprised.

 

A scary amount of available seats in the ponte on the virtual map. Such a shame.

 

Money is tighter than it has been in recent years for people. However, we can all see the culture shift at the club and more importantly in the dugout and on the pitch.

The amount of people who have said they're staying away because of a lack of ambition or desire to win games of football don't have that excuse for not going anymore.

Yes, its expensive, I find it expensive (bought a season ticket anyway), but we need to play our part now. We did it on Saturday, we need to do it this Saturday coming.

Come and support the lads. The atmosphere, in the main, was excellent against Burton. We can't let it slide back to how it was last year and the year before, it's not beneficial to anyone.

To the stay-aways, what more do you want to see to coax you back? We've constantly heard that people want to see a team to be proud of, one that fight until the end of matches come what may, irrespective of the final result - as long as they've put their all in - that's all we ask for etc etc.

Well, they're doing it....so now we need to.

Get back to Oakwell on Saturday and let's make some proper noise!

COYR!

 

Great Post! - YOU REDS!

 

I burnt my nose.

 

Noooooo. Hate noise. I cant hear missen think. .
I reckon we'll sell quite a few tickets afore Saturday. But it's a difficult one.
My bros. Grandson took his other half and 2 very young kids against Burton. 4 tickets £36.
If they all go this saurday £68

 

Not going to send out a great message to CH and the players after the start we’ve had. Not a surprise though.
People will just pick their games and also hope for ticket offers.

 

2+ years of board-induced apathy won't be cured in August.

All we can hope for is a decent end to the window, continue the decent start, and see where it takes us.

 

Yes, I know. Just a shame after the feel good factor on Saturday. Looking at the ticket map I doubt there’s even 8k home tickets sold. Probably nearer 7k.
Massive drop from Burton game.

 

3 home games in a week £27 quid for a ticket in the ponte for Bolton the most expensive of the 3 this category pricing lark is counter productive IMHO pick a price for all home matches and I'm certain the ground will be fuller more often and so generate a better atmosphere.

 

The reality is that people aren’t going to be won over by only two good results - especially when old issues were still at least partly apparent. The window isn’t closed yet, we haven’t sold anyone yet, the jury can justifiably still be out. So some won’t be back yet. If ever. And that’s fair.

In reality though the bigger issue is that quite a few will want to support but the ‘normal’ cost is a preventative measure and makes it at best an occasional treat.

It is rare to have three games in a row at home (tomorrow’s cup game will be pretty sparse I imagine); it’s the school holidays so some people are skint from additional childcare costs and/or finding things for them to do. It isn’t reasonable or realistic to expect all the families for example who came in Saturday to come again this coming Saturday. It’s not a case of believing in the project; it’s a case of paying the bills and putting food on the table.

As eluded to above, for a family of four depending on what part of the ground you choose the cost can be doubled from £35 ish (if the kids are young) to up to £70 last week to this week.

To be honest even if it was the lower figure again I wouldn’t expect all families to manage to come to both - I’ve had st’s in the east upper for years until this season; I sat in the west lower Saturday and it was noticeable how many families with young kids turned up there. I don’t know if that’s the norm in there - I doubt it - but I’d be amazed to see similar numbers this coming weekend.

A smaller crowd shouldn’t deflate CH or the squad - they’re not that daft as to not understand the basic economics. They know they aren’t representing a club in Richmond upon Thames.

 

Agreed, and poor / inconsisten pricing policy is part of the reason for apathy, Even with a good start on the pitch, they have work to do.

 

Get what you say but if they were to make it say £22 per game a lot more wouldn't buy a season ticket.
Gain on one hand but lose on the other.

 

4,525 blue dots on the seating map in total.

Assuming about 13,000 total home seats (which is probably a bit of an underestimate) that would be about 8,500 home fans.

 

Twenty's plenty.

 

As soon as the dust settled after last Saturday's win, the club should have put out a new ticket deal for the Bolton game. Too late to reduce ticket prices, and Bolton will have paid £27 already, but surely they could have come up with something? Cheap ticket for a future game if you buy one for this?

 

The apparent apathy towards the Bolton game is probably down to 3 home games in a week and Bolton being a Category A game.

 

Some people will have to prioritize.I'll guess at 3.000 tomorrow 15.000 against Bolton.