Why dont they drop ticket prices for games like these, get ground full, make it £10 for adults and £5 juveniles and OAP's.</p> Surely a full ground is more important than a few quid. Plus it wont be that much less with the extra seats filled up.</p>
aye, thats it reduce prices on a "box office " game......................yer don't do economics de yer
You are simplyfying a complex argument. If we drop ticket prices then BFC immediately lose money on the 4-5000 fans who pay on the gate. It would take maybe another 2-3000 extra fans to offset that and maybe make some profit. There is no guarantee this would happen and BFC could then lose money. Another point is that as a season ticket holder I would be subsidising fans who only turn up when the price is right.................Shepherd maybe a lot of things but he ain't stupid when it comes to money........ if it was such an obvious ploy to reduce admission prices to make money he would have done if before now.
10,000, reds fans 8,000 sunderland fans. </p> box office game? so you trying to say this box office game has brought more of our fans in?</p> it was the same amount of reds fans as every other week, except washday.</p>
One thing we always dwell on is why are we struggling to ever get more than 10K BFC fans into home games?................converseley, why don't we rejoice the fact that despite a really really poor season, many defeats and a lot of 'in fighting' within the club between 9 and 10,000 fans have turned up come what may. Whilst our numbers were average today i thought vocally we matched Sunderland.....well done the loyal 9-10,000.
cheap prices don't mean mega profits......................if that were the case Aldi would be No.1 retailer not Tescos. Shepherd aint a muppet, successful chairman? No. good finance director...........probably.
At times a chairman out his depth footballing wise. At times, naive in trying to pull the wool over our eyes................but never ever a Peter Doyle (THANKFULLY!)
"Surely a full ground is more important than a few quid" I guess you could argue that Gordon should not have sold Sunderland the extra tickets in the West Stand, but £20k or so is hard to run down. We still need the money. Even at full price, I would imagine the club were expecting a better home attendance than they got.
i was sort of too but when you take into account form league postion and cost it aint suprising. that said though we could have dropped prices to fill the ground and still charge them full like leicester did to us. no great loss if we dont fill the ground because we got there sales anyway
Reducing the prices to £10 would have been a reight kick in the nuts to us loyal season ticket holders who turn up every week. And even with reduced prices we still would have only got an extra 1000 so it is just not worth it. Its not BFC who have no sense.
Another point.... Really there is only about 3000 tickets sold, as 7000 are season ticket holders.</p> So the money is already in for the season tickets. So the money is not a question there then.</p>
They dropped the prices for colchester £15 adults, £10 concessions and the kid rates and it did not produce a big increase in the gate Unfortunately dropping prices will just reduce the revenue, it will not get the fans back. Also had we dropped prices yesterday we would have had to drop prices for Sunderland, the club would have lost money big time The Atmosphere in the Ponty during second half yesterday was at times superb, a throw back to ten years ago. I cannot see how that would have been improved more Owen
RE: They dropped the prices for colchester Why would we have had to drop prices for Sunderland too?</p> Sounds a bit like the Leicester situation to me.</p>
Two wrongs don't make a right I would like to think that we will reduce prices across the board - not just for the home fans. That was never going to happen for a premium fixture such as the one yesterday.
