Is too much ...... I CAN afford £28, but I do NOT perceive that £28 for a Championship game is VALUE for money. Recently ...I paid £20 Olympics Football double header - UAE/Paraguay ... GB/Senegal £25 to see Frankie Boyle @ Sheffield City Hall £18 for the Cribs @ Sheffield Academy (next month) £30 for Pulp @ Sheffield Arena If anyone was honest, whether you like the 4 "events" listed above or not, other than the Olympic footy, you are pretty much guaranteed a "quality product" (if youu like Boyle/Cribs/Pulp)...... with a championship football match, the event could very probably turn out to be an anti-climax!!!! So for £12.50 I'm in ...... £28 I'm out .......
£28 is a lot of money - but if they carry on charging it then I'll carry on paying it for the games I'm not working - so most of the Saturday's but none of the midweek ones. I'm a supporter, not just a fan, something which nearly made me buy a st even though I'd miss a good proportion of matches. Money wise it'll likely end up being similar in total - and to be honest I reckon that the price will be significantly less on average as there'll be several lower priced games. There's things which are worse value for money - and I'd sooner be paying £28 to watch championship games for example than £23 for league one games next year. The club can't win - 12.50, 9.50 concessions and 5.00 young kids only attracted 11500 home fans ish so that can't be maintained, whether or not £20 would significantly increase numbers I doubt, an improving and winning team will though.
Pay £25 then with a membership. However bad the game is it can't be worse than listening to Frankie Boyle make sexist comments and take the piss out of Scotland all night.
But he said that if you like Boyle!!!! If you did then you would be almost certain to be entertained and at a BFC match you are not. Fair enough comparison I thought and I would say £25 is still too much, because at that price only Pulp is dearer!!
I'm fully aware of what he said. Everyone can do they want, no need to justify it. The fact is, £25 for a game of Championship is about the average going rate, like it or not. Barnsley cannot afford to reduce that until all clubs do, and wages go down. Quite frankly, the number of threads on here about it is a little tedious. I wish it cost less, but I realise realistically that the club's hands are largely tied in this respect.
You'd only miss a handful of games if you got a season ticket so I think you'd probably save a bit by getting one.
If we charged £12.50 every game we wouldn't sell season tickets at the current price. There's also no proof that the extra people that came yesterday would come every week if that price, maybe some came due to being the anniversary game and due to all the other entertainment provided? Wasn't the Peterborough game last season a £15 game? Crowd was 9,698, and we had more season ticket holders then.
The extra 4,000 Tarn fans came back because it was priced at £12.50. And you can't compare it to last seasons game with Peterbro. We were on an embarrassing run, with little talent on the pitch, and it wasn't advertised properly. Btw, I'm not saying every game should be £12.50. Twenty is plenty.
Not seen many saying it should be £12.50 every game - that's unsustainable. But the simple fact is £28 is too much. However, if we are just going to plonk in an odd cheap game here and there in the midst of several seasons of struggle and otherwise pricing and ticketing arrangements that go a long way to prohiniting the casual/lapsed supporter then it will never work. What Saturday showed was that the coupling of decent pricing, advertising and making the tickets EASY TO BUY - ie no membership ******, no silly restrictions on when you could buy the tickets or stupid categorisation of games then it encourages extra people through the door. So the opportunity is now there for BFC to engage with the extra 000's that came on Saturday to try and get them back, by making match day pricing realistic (imho £20-£24) and allowing people to buy when it is convenient for them. Not the Club. The mantra from the club that we MUST overcharge on matchdays has sunk in to such an extent that people now seem to feel that occasional supporters must be punished by being charged extra, otherwise the club will fold. No - the club will fold with a shrinking Season Ticket base and matchday pricing that is prohibitive to most people.
The way I see it we can go one of two ways: 1 Continually charge more and more money year on year to keep in line with the pricing policy of other clubs. This is the route we've chosen, the one you're endorsing, and it's resulting in a dramatic reduction of attendances year on year. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Every year you have to charge more to make the same amount of money as last year because you significantly reduce the number of customers willing to pay that price. Next year we'll put the prices up again and fewer people will attend. The club will justify the price rises by saying they have to charge more because not enough people are attending. How long can we keep doing this? Dunno, 5 maybe 10 years before we're no longer a viable business and we're told the people of Barnsley don't want a football club. It may be a bit longer but if we continue down this route we will close down because the loyalty of fans will be tested to breaking point by how much they are asked to pay and it will reach a level where we don't get enough people through the gate to sustain a professional football club. 2 Do something radical. That doesn't mean dropping prices down from £28 to £25. It means a pricing policy similar to what we implemented for the Blackpool game. It means a fair price for an afternoon's entertainment (or not depending on how we play). A pricing policy that allows families to attend and bring along the next generation of fans. A pricing policy that moves away from screwing the absolute maximum out of the most committed fans. A pricing policy that brings people in not drives them away. The future of our football club hangs in the balance. Fewer and fewer paying customers is not a sustainable business model. I'm not being over dramatic here, if we continue down the same road we've mapped out and continue to increase prices then in the short term future we will not have a club to support because the life blood of the club will have been completely alienated and they won't come back.
Correct Mr J Ay..... but try telling the don this.............i wish you luck but suspect you might as well bang ure head against the proverbial brick wall. One thing springs to mind: 'how do these people get these jobs' when they are clearly inept. hth
'A pricing policy that moves away from screwing the absolute maximum out of the most committed fans' £13.70 per game for me is very acceptable. How do you define 'most committed'? Simple steps are 1) get a membership card - why not try ask for a free one see what they say, you never know. £3 is worst case scenario 2) go when you can afford it without jeopodising family 3) spot the deals like Blackpool and Peterborough and go to those. Birmingham is good price - as it is on telly. I'd love the day out, but I'll watch at home or in the pub to save some money. Some comedians playing City Hall I'd like to see, but it is a £40-50 night out. Some good films out but a tenner to see one? Like a curry but £30 for night out could be better spent. I earn the average wage so I have to miss games when I can't afford - and so miss about another 3-4 games each year as the purse strings tighten. If I try harder at work I might get a promotion so there are things I could do and not rely on the club. As it is I get to go to each home game by putting a bit aside each week for a ST, suggest a contribution towards that at Christmas/Birthday as main present and then I get a ST. I don't smoke, gamble, play video games (I'm not 14). I have one vice; Oakwell with mates on a matchday.
Why not just let people come along and buy reasonably priced matchday tickets without having to get a membership card ? The clubs pricing policy is to force people to buy Season Tickets. But the number of people willing to subscribe up front in full for a season's 'entertainment' is also diminishing. The season tickets are brilliant value, no one can argue with that - but the numbers who are buying ST's are diminsihing year on year.
why should you have to have a membership card and have to pish around to get a measley £3 off.... that just puts people off. They want to think 'hey shall i go to Jokewell today - yep why not'. However when they have to mess about fetching a ticket or going to the ground ridiculously early they then say' ah ****** to that, i can't be bothered with all the hassle'. IT NEEDS TO BE REASONABLY PRICED HASSLE FREE as it is supposed to be a pleasure going not a chore. ffs .....how many times do the clowns running the club have to be told this? (time some of these jokers left the club tbh) hth
Not sure, but I think they would also have to charge a "reasonable" price to away supporter also. Isn't the membership card a way of getting around that? I understood match day ticket prices for Home and Visiting supporters must be comparable. This came about after supporters organisations kicked up a fuss when visiting fans were ripped off at away grounds.
Too much pissing about. There's more to life than football. You don't need a membership card to get in to see a film or see a gig, why should you prat about for a football game? You used to be able to pay on the gate the same amount as a pre-booked ticket so why change it? To some fans BFC is their only life/vice call it what you want, and they'll be there whatever the cost but to the vast majority of fans (Me included even though I've had a ST for 20 years) there comes a breaking point when enough is enough. Like the other guys said, half the time you're not guaranteed a performance so anything over £20 is a luxury unless it's a big game.