Declining Away Support

In the last two seasons our away support has fallen by around 30%. Personally the number of away games I attend has gone from at least 20 a season to around half a dozen. The cost does come into it slightly (both tickets and travel) but the main reason for me is that I can't justify the expense for such poor quality performances. As far as I'm concerned £31 is not really any different to paying £28 - you know it's going to be a dear do. However if we were doing well I don't think it would bother me. As it is, I just can't justify paying nigh on £100 to see a woeful performance at Brighton.

For other people who have stopped going away - what are your reasons? Is it the cost? Poor VFM? Despondency or other priorities?

I'm sure people will point to the economy but our away support was actually holding up until 2010/11.

 

It's a difference if there's a few of you or you have kids- throw in food , programmes and increasing travel costs and it's a dear do. People haven't got that kind of disposable income anymore

 

what a load of rubbish.
In the games i saw last season we played quite well.
First half of season we got some good or very good results. Birmingham away, barnsley beat leeds, posh and the foxes in Nov, Dec and january.
But has with everything when you lose, vazte, drinkwater, perkins, butterfield and Obrien. We only got transfer money for vaz because drinkwater was only a loan but the club thought they had him until the summer. they thought he was there until a display at king power that made the bosses sit up and think we want him.
Butterfield, perkins and obrien got bad injurys and where never right again.
But they never gave up, 2 mins away at ricoh, not long to go at palace and a really good display at bloomfield road in the second half of the season.

But dont let stop your boring tedious attacks at the club.
ZzzzzzzzzzzZzzzzzzzzZzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZ

 

Four away points since the turn of the year suggests that the performances were very abject in their delivery.

 

Cost has stopped me going to so many. Agree that the rest of your points could be valid reasons though, football on the whole isn't that exciting to warrant spending a ton to watch a game.

 

You missed the point by such a margin there Hemsworth, that it's gone out for a throw in.

 

we had bad spells deetee.
We let a lot in late, which was due to fitness problems after injurys.
Cotterill, point at Ricoh.
Fit obiren at bloomfield might have sneeked a win.

 

Used to love away games but it is just too expensive these days

If it wasn't for the comparatively realistic pricing an Oakwell season ticket offers I'm not so sure I'd be inclined to go along to football matches at all.

Football is fecked and my days of subsidising entire unjustifiable player wages are numbered.

 

Its very much a cost decision for me, cost of tickets, food and drink, travel, etc just mean I now have to pick and choose the away games I go to.

 

That's all I do these days to be fair. Going Blackpool Boro Rochdale Hudds and swfc the rest will be very much last minute decisions eg derby forest etc.

 

i went to every game last season except Ipswich away, didnt go there simply due to it costing about 40 quid on the train and 30+ a ticket and then the train didnt even you get all the way there due to maintenance.

this season i wont be going to as many simply due to me having my own place now and not able to afford it. but in a whole i wasnt bothered about how much i was spending on a day away but now i am thats the reason i have stopped going to as many.

basically i am a tight *******

 

Nodding in agreement.

 

Same here, theirs only 5 grounds I aint been to in our league, cant go to Birmingham and Blackburn cos I'm o holiday, wont be going to Brighton unless they reduce price so i'm left with Charlton and Ipswich, can see me only going to Charlton.

 

Aye, there were some crackers last season as the seventeen points testify. Like Mr C says you really have missed the point but it's true to form at least.

 

Re: Used to love away games but it is just too expensive these days

Seconded.

 

Let's see how you feel after you've got five seasons in Hemsie!

 

Recent years always preffered the away games to the ones at Oakwell. Good banter on the bus, few beers before hand and everything else it brings.

Only get to a few now though because last few seasons my eldest would come. From this season will have my youngest aswell so the cost is the biggest factor.

 

The answer is fairly simple, we don't pick up enough points away from home and the prices keep increasing season by season. I personally used to try and attend every away game, expectations were fairly higher aswell...these days we seem to understand more about the clubs position, why would anyone in the right mind keep paying 30 pound a game to watch us get tonked? Simple.

 

I go far less for three main reasons, 1) Barnsley are rubbish at football 2) I have family commitments and they are already stretched by making 100-mile round trips to Oakwell every other week and 3) I don't really like Keith Hill.

 

If Don Rowing, King Keith, Flicker, and David Perkins sneaked into my house at night, and proceeded to burglarize it, before shitting on my stairs, I reckon Hemsworth would still excuse it.

"You should have had a better alarm system, and to be fair the club do need a new plasma TV"