I can’t help but think that Barnsley’s new owners have missed a great opportunity. Relegation to League One means we’ll be watching an inferior product next season, acknowledged by the fact that players have relegation clauses in their contracts. They’ll be paid less, partly to reflect the reduction in the club’s income and partly to reflect the lesser standard of football. However, we as fans will be paying the same price for that inferior product. I wouldn’t mind this if the club were skint and struggling to cope with the reduction in income. But our new owners are worth billions. Surely it would have been great PR to cut prices and reward the loyalty of the fans. Any loss of income would be chicken feed to them and lowering the prices would be very well received in the town. They’re business people and surely they can see the unfairness in paying the same price for an inferior product and that this just amounts to taking advantage of fans’ devotion to the club? My boss paid £200 for a season ticket at Huddersfield this season and was then refunded £100 for his loyalty because he’s been a season ticket holder for more than 10 years. £100 for a whole Premier League season! That’s what I call showing respect to your fan base! As I say, an opportunity missed...
Yep heard that too but then again we’ve never much been ones for pushing the boat out for the fans. Incidentally I’m sure I didn’t pay £390 for my ticket last year.
The question I ask myself is this. Am I prepared to spend £320 to watch all/most of Barnsley's home matches? If it's yes then I buy. If it's no then I don't. Approx £15 a match is good value. I can't see how not reducing prices for people who didnt take advantage of the early bird offer is punishing loyal fans. Huddersfield can afford to reward long term ST holders because they've just had a £100m windfall. ST money is a minor component of their income. However it is our prime income source. You're comparing apples with oranges imho.
I think if money is invested in a good team & manager, that plays good football they may get away with the price. If we play the dogsh!t football we have this season people will vote with their feet the following season.
Been done to death on here, this, especially this last week. Bottom line, either the club are genuinely oblivious to the value of innovative ticket pricing, or they’re just not interested. It’s easily proved to work, with tangible benefits to the clubs involved, but no, BFC would rather just limp along with the same ST base season after season.
I'm pretty sure the club is being run to the Don Rowing book of rules, "How to run a club with no imagination or enterprise"
No, Huddersfield have been offering cheap season tickets for a couple of seasons now. They somehow equated a full, noisy and passionate crowd with success on the pitch. Weirdos.
Dunno when these cheap ST started, but their average home attendance correlates with success on the pitch rather than cost of ST. I'm not against 'innovative ticket pricing', I'd be pleased for the club to offer more options, be happy for £15 match day tickets, 10th anniversary refunds etc. etc. But please, less of the condescending comments, there's no need.
I unreservedly apologise if I misconstrued 'They somehow equated a full, noisy and passionate crowd with success on the pitch. Weirdos.' as condescending.
Towards who?? It was a pop at BFC along the lines of ‘cheap season tickets and bigger crowds going hand in hand with increased success on the pitch - who’d ever have thought it?’ Not a dig at you, PP!
We won't do it cos we're scared it will backfire. Bradford have done s/t offers for years and their average attendance always show as about 18000. Whether or not 18000 actually turn up on the day is beside the point... it is based on the number of tickets they have sold. For Hudds it has worked, full ground, promotion to the Prem, a second year now to look forward to. For us we shut down at the end of April with the same attitude of "sod the fans, they'll pay more for the same product if they leave it too late". I just wonder if Mr Bean, Lee etc ever ask the question of BFC what are you doing to encourage more fans to buy. Wasn't one of their opening gambits to get involved more with the supporters? I imagine most of the office staff at Oakwell could go on a three month break until August cos I bet there's not much happening down there.
A supporter for 60odd years. Season ticket and executive tickets for much of that time. I didn't renew on early bird. You all probably understand. Email? Letter? Phone call? Nothing. New regime? New ideas? Where are they? It is truly pathetic down there.
The £100 loyalty offer was a promise / gamble their owner, Dean Hoyle made back in 2010. He said that if they ever got into the Premier League they'd get a £100 refund on their ST. Our owners could do the same with little risk of it costing them a penny. When Cellino was owner at Leeds, he made an offer that if they failed to reach the playoff in the 2016/17 season, they'd get a 50% refund on their season ticket. Although in the small print, this reduced to 25% if they sold less than 15,000. By chance, they only sold 14,500, even though their average attendance the previous year was 27,000.
It’s cost just over a fiver a game for me and the kids on the early bird therefore I haven’t got any problem whatsoever with the price.
