The Big 25

How many will turn up for chezzer? Forlorn hope Mebbe but I'm hoping we can break 10k home fans.

 

It would be nice if we could hang on to a few thousand extra for the remaining home games.

 

Will be the same as usual. Ticket prices aren't what floating fans want to pay to watch League 1 football.

 

Hopefully a few of the floaters have the post Wembley blues


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I don't really get the "I'm not paying that to watch Div 3 football" argument. I don't care whether we are playing a top Championship side or one who has just come up from the Conference. I pay to watch BARNSLEY, nobody else.

If you are a fan of the club you go whenever you can. If not, you don't bother.

If people can't see that there is a good set of lads playing in that red shirt this season then they never will. I'm pretty sure we will get a five figure crowd on Saturday but it would be marvellous if that included a couple of thousand "returnees". The whole nation has seen how good this side is in a Wembley final. What more do they have to do to convince everyone?

 

We broke 10k last home match and I am assuming Chessie will bring as many as Scunny? Add to that a bit of euphoria ............ I'd be very surprised, and disappointed, if we didn't break 10k.

 

I couldn't agree more. A terrific set of lads with a great team spirit.

 

Get out this league lol me and you and most season ticket holders will watch them whatever our league but floating supporters won't, especially since we've been in the Championship for most of this club's history.

 

But those 'returnees'....the floating voters....the newbies.....the folk for whom Wembley might even have been their first sighting of the Reds.....for them, our walk-up, matchday ticket prices could just tip them into the 'no' camp this weekend. The club should have immediately introduced a top rate £20, all areas of the ground, and shouted it from the rooftops post-Wembley. As soon as that whistle went, the club website should have gone live with the promotion for the big push, press release to the Chronicle, Star, YP. Ben should have been in front of the cameras telling everyone that tickets for all the remaining home games would be just £20 all areas, pay on the day, cash at the turnstiles, encouraging all the new fans to come along for a great afternoon at Oakwell and cheer the boys on - assume the trophy is getting a parade round the pitch. It's so simple, I can't believe I'm having to encourage them through this BBS - carpe diem, Ben!!!!

 

Might be a thousand more or so but we'll only get that or better for the remaining games if we're in with a decent shot of the play offs before each one.

We'll only get well above 10,000 for our final home game, and only if we're still in with a chance of 6th.

Lots of floating fans just won't pay 23 quid for a "normal" game and, honestly, can you blame them?

 

Prices at Oakwell for floating fans or for those that is it s uneconomic to buy a season ticket are too expensive. They bear little or no relation to either the socio demographic area or the quality of product on offer. We are pricing future fans out of supporting us for an ill conceived financial grab. I have plenty of lapsed friends who would come and bring their kids if prices were more reasonable. It's not a matter of not being a supporter its financial reality. If we don't do something on the back of the JPT we are really missing a trick. I went to Stoke earlier in the year and paid less to walk up and pay on the day to watch Premiership football than I would have done at Oakwell. In what world can that be right?

 

Hoping I can get but I'm on call next week (swapped from this last weekend!)

 

Well they've just tweeted that the trophy will be there on Saturday with a link to tickets, but same old prices. Ben you are missing such a trick here - it's absolute schoolboy stuff. Opportunities like this come along so rarely - we've just won a bloody TROPHY!!! The mood in the town is fantastic, but the casual, occasional, walk-up fans are not going to be tempted by our matchday ticket prices. You should be grabbing this by the scruff of the neck and not giving them any kind of excuse to stay away - we want that place absolutely rocking on Saturday. Tickets £20/£10 all areas, without exception - pay on the day, turnstiles open taking cash. It's so bloody obvious.....

 

Have to agree. I'd say profit is secondary for the last 4 home games. Get as many fans in as possible and ramp up the atmosphere.
Boosting the crowd's role as 12th man is vital.

 

Do we actually HAVE a marketing department?? My kids were doing this sort of thing in GCSE Business Studies over the last few years.

 

A forlorn hope that 50% of those that went to Wembley would go on Saturday.

 

I reckon even with really cheap prices the best we could hope for is 12 to 13 k home fans. But that's better than 9 or 10.
Would give a bit more atmosphere and if the team can deliver you might get them back for the next one.
We should be giving it a try. Given the minimal number of pay on the day at normal prices it might even turn us a bigger profit.

 

A lot of the stay always probably spent a decent wedge on Sunday. All we can hope is they want to repeat it this weekend, a ticket offer wouldn't help imo, been done before and unless it's £5 there little take up.

 

It hasn't been done off the back of 25 thousand people watching us win a trophy at Wembley before!