Does anyone know the approx percentage of an Oakwell crowd...

that pays on the day? Home fans only.
I guess that will be a statistic in the management's spreadsheet that may explain why the prices have been set as such.
If it was say only one percent then really they are chalking f.uck it on those fans, if it was ten percent then it could either be a lot of money they are prepared to potentially lose, give or take those who will pay no matter what the amount, or they may break even on it by having fewer fans paying more.
I think the bottom line is the away support. Making them pay top rate more than compensates for losing the few home fans.
That is, of course, until these away fans look at the price we are charging for them to get in and themselves say to hell with that, we're not paying that much. It works both ways.
Then we are screwed.

 

Stronger together .... I would have thought the aim is to fill the ground with people who support BFC , that should be the aim of any ticketing policy , not how much we can fleece away supporters

 

Our average home gate last season was 9,500. I'd estimate the average away following at about 500 which puts the home crowd average at about 9,000. I've heard various reports that ST sales hover around the 8,000 - 8,500 mark which would mean 500-1,000 pay on the day. As a percentage that's an estimated 5 to 10% pay on the day. Otherwise I could be talking complete ********,

 

I'm pretty sure we had between 7,000 amd 7,500 season ticket holders last season. 7,300 rings a bell.

 

You could well be right mate which would mean the pay on the day in my scenario would be 1,500 to 2,000 and the percentage would be around 15 to 20%. I did warn you that I could have been talking ********

 

Also all the season tickets (however many there were) are included in ever home gate even if they didn't actually turn up.

I appreciate most season tickets would turn up, but not all. This means there would be less pay on the day people than the figures make it appear.

 

Season ticket holders are counted whether they attend or not. For example my 4 year cam 8 times last season but for statistical purposes didn't miss a game.

I did some research for a book about 18 months ago. Looking at clubs in leagues 1& 2 findings were that between 12.5 and 15percent of teams gates were from 'casual' supporters. Given the demographics of our town I would put us nearer the top end of that scale.

 

As people were saying that the prices were too high last year too, then using the number of fans who pay on the day to say 'sod it, there's not that many' (as I've seen people do) is just daft. There's not many because it's expensive! This year there may be even less but no doubt someone will drag the figures up next year to prove a point of how pay on the day is not popular and therefore unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Instead, we should be looking at the number of empty seats and seeing how we can get as many of those empty seats filled as possible.

 

We'll have to do what they do at some big cricket grounds.... paint the seats different colours to depict imaginary people.