All this with west stand

There is not a club in the country who couldn't massively increase their support for a major game or final. Where did all our extras come from for the JPT? Cardiff?? Play-off 2000?? How did Oxford go from 6/7k home gates to 30-odd thousand at Wembley?? Anyone criticising these extra folk wants their bumps felt.

 

So you accept the club sold out on the 3rd day of general sale then? Plenty of people may have only been paid yesterday, may have only had the time off to go up today, or maybe heard the first announcement that it would be open to pay on the day so have quite reasonably left it to today to go.

My point is that it isn't a sell-out at all though is it. there will be empty seats in home areas, which when we need all the money we can get and there are people wanting those seats we should be doing everything we can to fill them.

 

I know there probably are some last minute fans. But really how many in this case - it's a massive game, most people who really want a ticket will have got one already.

For arguments sake let's say SYP will charge us £5k extra for policing (no idea if this is anywhere near correct) - but if so you've got to find 333 more adults who want to go today before you break even. That's quite a lot of people, especially given the crowd already probably includes most of our usual pay on the dayers - and if you don't get those you make a loss.

 

Just my opinion mate

Don't expect everyone to agree if anybody at all

Just the way I see things

I could be completely long like I stated above

I'll be there today like I have all season

Just think this could have be handled a little bit better

I am sure we can all agree on this

 

True. The club paid for 35 coaches last week and are only charging £15 today. Says to me they aren't that bothered right now about bean counting (within reason of course)

 

How much profit did we make on putting on the 35 free coaches to help shift tickets in Wigan's stadium? It's not all monetary. It's about having seats available and people wanting those seats and doing our utmost to get as many fans into the stadium as possible.

The casual or first time supporter today might just be a regular or ST holder next season.

Anyway it's the last I'm saying on the matter. Going to get some brekkie and start getting ready for the game. COYR

 

Would appear it was our decision with SYP saying so and us not exactly quick on releasing a statement to deny it. In the end it looked the right choice to not open north side of the west stand sooner, because demand has only just asked for it. As others have said if people had booked for the match earlier in the week club would have seen the demand and had to have opened it sooner. That tickets were still available the day before the game in other sections showed they got it quite right.

 

It could be compared to a card shop running out of roll-wrap on xmas eve. Store Manager tells the owner when he visits her store how well she has done shifting it all in time and how she has no stock to carry-over to next Christmas. Owner goes mad asking why she didn't order for more as they are losing sales. True story that, that's Dean Hoyle at Card Factory.

Having worked in retail demand planning I'd say the decision was a failure not a success but there you go we are all different

 

Stewarding/policing costs were clearly the problem. If it was a safety concern, we wouldn't have ended up letting more people into the West Upper. It took us ages to get out of there at the Fleetwood JPT game.

 

Didn't Patrick pay for them himself?

 

A lot of them will have but maybe just not at the same time/games, also don't you think its natural that the ones that can't get to every game for one reason or another cost in particular make the effort for the more important games

 

If a fan only has a small amount of disposible income, are they more likely to spend £27 on a random game in the middle of the season (which if they did you wouldn't notice the increase in attendance by one person anyway) or go to a more important and £12 CHEAPER game like the one today? Perhaps they don't actually have any disposible income and they had to make a sacrifice to go today, one that wouldn't have been worth it to go to a regular £27 match.

When matches are as expensive as they are, I don't understand people's derogatory comments towards those who have to pick and choose their games more carefully. It doesn't make them any less of a fan, it just means they don't have money to burn.

 

Never understood this. We already get a decent attendance given the size of our town. Whenever there are big occasions like this, often other family members get brought along.

A lot of these people will never become BFC fans so just thank them for parting with some cash that will help the club.

 

I agree with you to an extent but if we found ourselves back in the premier league we'd sell out every week and people would have no more disposable income, they'd just choose to spend what they do have on premier league football.