Just saying .......

The sell on clause money ? It wasn't completed until 9th August.

 

We only have room for 16,500 home fans, and that relies upon being able to open the whole of the West Stand.

 

All valid points. But City stand a chance of champ. footy next season, yet they are being given an amazing (repeated) offer?
The points you make on pricing are spot on. As are the U12 freebies. Spot on again. So we need to take your post, mix it up a little bit with Micky Finns post and advertise the fcking arse off it.

OR, as I said, let's have a fantastic pre-season offer, and do away with the one-off events during a season (they must be an admin nightmare for the club admin / finance staff). Let's just be big and bold, sod all to lose with a bit of capital in the bank.

 

Simple solution to that.

 

Ah okay, fair enough.

 

What's that?

 

Put home fans in the North Stand.

 

Have you checked with South Yorkshire police, because I think there might be objections to fans mixing before and particularly after games.

 

All fair points, well made, but I'd argue it's not the people being "tempted back for another season" you're targetting. On the whole, they'll buy anyway. It's the occasional fans, the big match, Wembley trip fans. The 'I'd like to do more with the kids at weekends but everything's so expensive' fans, the people that know tarn's got a football club, just not sure how it all works and it's really expensive anyway fan. The I get to 7/8 games a season so can't justify a season ticket fan. That's how Bradford have got to 18k season in, season out. The club had a captive audience after Wembley, thousands of 'em, all desperate for more glory & days out like that. Strike while the iron's hot, I believe, is the old adage. I think a fuse has gone in the plug on ours.

 

Like I say, hats off to Bradford. It's been a long-term, bold initiative, even with an ownership change too.

But I don't see others rushing to follow suit. Why not?

As the prices that I posted show, we are one of the cheapest next season. And only Huddersfield at this level are attempting a similar offer, although they're charging kids £79. And so I believe our prices are very fair at this level. But it's good to see a busy thread on here if nothing else.

 

Away fans would be in the West Stand.

It's been done before and can be done again. I sat in the North Stand in 1999-2000.

 

We had about 9,000 ST holders this season. With the ground as it is and an away end holding 5,500 purely for away fans that would leave another 4,000 or so spare seats. So if the club had scrapped £300 season tickets and charged just £150, just to tempt others to fill those 4,000 or so extra seats, I'm pretty sure even my bad maths suggests we'd have lost money.

Yes, I'm sure others will point out the portion of the West Stand that's out of action (this season) and also tell me the away end could be segregated. The first point I expect to be remedied in the near future, the second point relates to SYP.

I still don't believe a cheap season ticket at Oakwell is a viable option. But that's just my opinion.

 

Get the west stand upto date, bring in cheap season passes, put just home fans in the north stand so we have them behind both goals and restrict away fans to half the west stand. Get the likes of catering back in house for full control.

I'd say we'd make money then as long as our club shop had learned to cope with demand. But then we should just accept this will not happen Conan.

 

Might have dreamt this, but I thought the idea of the North Stand was that it could be safely split between home and away. I remember going in it for one of the first games it was open, and the home fans went in through the East Stand side, and away fans through the West side. There was a massive gate that closed so the fans didn't come into any contact at all...

 

I suppose there's a risk of losing revenue if we don't sell enough home tickets in the North Stand to justify moving away fans, but what could be done is to sell tickets in blocks going west from the East Stand and then split what remains unsold with away fans. In fact, I'm sure the North Stand was designed to be split.

 

The population of Bradford is more than twice that of Barnsley and they only have Leeds and Huddersfield within a 15-mile radius. We have Huddersfield, Rotherham, Doncaster and the 2 Sheffields. Always going to be tough to match that - unless of course we get all the Premier League Glory Hunters back.

On the subject of the Premier League Glory Hunters, I'm a lifelong Reds fan but have never been able to commit to going to every game so I never got to a single game at Oakwell in the Premier League season (I did go to Coventry and Villa away games) so these Glory Hunters who have now long gone, denied me the opportunity of seeing my club playing in the Prem at Oakwell. Thanks lads.

 

True, I sat in it the day it opened, against Port Vale, 28-Dec-1999.

 

I definitely remember sitting in the North Stand twice as a child.

 

Notice how you've conveniently missed £200 Huddersfield off this list...

 

How come this seems to get dragged up every week? It's been done to death, and I'm sure it's been put to the club plenty of times already.

I don't know for definite, but it doesn't really look financially viable to me. The prices on offer, as mentioned by Whitey, are really competitive already.