Barnsley FC and this community game

So I opened the programme on Tuesday night and turned to the tickets and travel page at the back to see how much of a big deal they'd made of the cheaper tickets for saturday. As it turns out there was no mention of it at all on that page, simply a couple of lines saying tickets for the palace match were on sale and then the prices for home games listed as &pound;22 etc, no mention of a discount.</p>

Had a good look through the rest of the programme and found no mention of the community game at all, it was only on my second read through that I noticed 2 inches stuck in the corner of a page with nothing to make it stand out. Approximately 50 words in small print. Apparently it's &pound;4 for under 11's so presumably if you turn up on saturday aged 7 it's &pound;4? Well no, you have to buy them in advance but for some reason it doesnt say this. Wasn't there a similar problem last year?</p>

I've just had the programme out again and noticed that the supporters trust's page contains PROPER information on the cheap day, including the buy in advance for u-11's and a little about the posters that they have produced which can be collected or printed off to put up in your place of work/local area etc.</p>

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Why oh why is the supporters trust having to do this? And why do the club seem to completely disregard the need for advertising and promotion? If the community day fails to bring in additional supporters then i'm afraid it is the club to blame for what appears to be a half hearted attempt.</p>

City Tyke or Owen, have the ST tried putting pressure on the club to take advertising seriously? </p>

 

While I agree they should have made more of it in the programme. People who were at Tuesday's game are already likely to be coming tomorrow. The bigger problem is why isn't this been made a big deal of elsewhere? </p>


When I go out for my lunch I will grab a wakefield express. I bet there is no mention of it in there. And why not? Big city, just 10 miles down the road with no league team of its own. 1 simple call to their sports team, or a couple of hundred quid advert could have got quite a few people from the surrounding area in.
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Supporters Trust Have Done A Good Job Promoting It

It's the rest of them that should be ashamed. Not only with the lack of advertising for the game tomorrow (local radio, newspapers, official programme etc), but the fact tomorrow has no home matches on sale. So why couldn't they have on sale tomorrow tickets for the Stoke and Southampton games? Why aren't half season tickets on sale yet? The box office tomorrow is going to be for Blunt tickets only. That's bad marketing.

 

I, probably like many others, don't buy programmes any more because of the price. I thought £2.50 was pushing it; but £3.00....

 

Programme Price Is Expensive I Agree

Especially when you go to away games and see how much better most of them programmes are compared to ours.

 

RE: Supporters Trust Have Done A Good Job Promoting It

It's unreal that isn't it! I emailed the club about this but had no response!! Our marketing/tickets really does let us down!