Look at Rovers' match pricing policy....

Apologies for the new thread, but this needs looking at. They have done this for years, averaged £17 a match in the Premier league season after season. Season tickets £149-£229, kids £59. Currently averaging 15,000 at home with Burnley and Blackpool still to come. Despite relegation and the Kean/Venky protests.

http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/tickets-rovers-v-nottingham-forest-535190.aspx

http://www.rovers.co.uk/tickets/season-tickets/


A town roughly the same size as ours, similar economic history. Have achieved more of course and have had sugar daddies and parachute payments, but from a purely bums on seats point of view, can we not follow suit in pricing? Is it really such a risk?

 

Our category pricing structure might have worked if the Don hadn't made most games Cat A, including games against clubs from the other end of the country on Tuesday nights. And gams against **** teams gthat we have little rivalry with. Clueless.

 

for years it was £20 a ticket and people still stayed away, until we're winning games people will continue to stay away, if we're in and around the top six this time next year, gates will start to pick up, but until then we're stuck at around the 8k mark no matter how you price games the past as proved it

 

The stats show that our average attendance has declined sharply over the last 2 years. We averaged over 13,000 in 08/09 and practially the same in in 09/10 when we weren't exactly setting the league on fire. Also, there was a recession on then too.

 

The past has proved what? That prices go up every season? Paying £20 then, was like paying £28 now. Except now, people actually have less spare. We were paying £28 at Palace 10 years back, balked at it but still paid it. The first rule of business is that you have to offer an affordable product, which for many it evidently isn't - at least not on a regular basis. Make it affordable, throw in a bit of quality and few little tastes of success - then you really do have a business.

 

People still stayed away? no they didn't. Where have you got that rubbish from? Attendance figures prove that increasing the price to £28 has lost us thousands of fans.

 

It doesn't prove it at all. When we had this categorisation thing I took notice, we had 3 games in a row, one cat A, one cat B and one cat C. Similar away support for all three, similar home attendances for all 3, despite the fact one game cost £30 and the next cost £15, I think there was an increase in attendace of about 1,200.

People just arent interesterd and I think they use the pricing policy as an excuse sometimes, because when we do offer cheaper tickets, there's hardly any extra support.

The Blackpool game at home this season was pushed through as the clubs 125th anniversary match, charged at £12.50, an unbelievable rate for championship football, in the summer, 14,000 for me is a poor attendace based on what was on offer.

 

What Blackburn have done for years is..instead of going down the we'll splash an untold fortune on players and agents....they, and hats off too em in my view...subsicdised there fans through cheap STs and addmition prices ....
But going that route did get en relegated

 

Absolutely right, I don't think some of the ones who can afford it have any concept of how much £28 is way too steep for others. And lets face it in any other walk of life with the end product/quality available and on show even the ones that could afford it would have said no. TBH its time football in general got real and stopped paying stupid money to very average players and their agent and then maybe we could have realistic prices for fans on average earnings.

 

The people on this thread who say price is not relevant. You have just proved with your statements that There Was An Improvement by quoting the gates. That was only for a one off, and the publicising is not good at BFC. Lets try it for rest of season. No Crap just pay on gate and if we run out of crap food so be it.

 

Stats prove that incorrect

 

You could take a family to the cinema for the price of an adult ticket at Oakwell. You could take a family to watch the Steelers, which is great entertainment, for the price of an adult ticket at Oakwell. A family could go swimming for the day at the Metrodome for cheaper than 1 adult ticket at Oakwell. Hopefully you get my gist. Unless you buy a season ticket your being ripped off. The Don needs to understand this.

 

I'd say to the club, scrap the half season ticket ballax they aren't going to sell. Make the remaining home games £20 a ticket on the gate. Get the crowd back and behind the team because they're certainly going to need it. DON'T give any away team more than the North stand, points on the board is much more important for us, it wont help with 7,000 Leeds fans cheering their team on like a home fixture.

But it'll not happen, were led by muppets.