Time to push Monday's £10/£5 offer

Let's hope for a big crowd on bank holiday Monday, it would be great to get at least one more home win and help us get to 60 points plus! It's a shame it isn't £10 & £5 still on the day with the box office being closed for some of the bank holiday weekend!

 

This is where they screw up badly. Should be that price on the day too. Easiest thing in the world. Rock up at Oakwell with tenners and fivers. Pay on the turnstiles. Imagine some young kid, crisp fiver in his hand, handing it to the big mester and watching the big iron turnstile go round. Magical for a young 'un. Ffs Barnsley....

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They are petrified I think of folk getting in as a juvenile when they aren't.

 

But this time it's only a few quid difference anyway so it hardly matters!! It could make 500-1000 difference I reckon if it was this price still on the gate! If tickets sell well before Sunday then that's fair enough!

 

There weren't that many still available in the east stand.

I think it's too much of a risk to leave it £10 and £5 on the day as they can't predict numbers. There's a safety issue. It's not about money as the numbers who will pay in the gate at full price is minimal so they'll lose out by not doing it


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Bump.

 

What safety issue?? Some supporters might turn up to a football match?? Who could have foreseen that?!


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I fail to see how this can be a safety issue in an all seater stadium. 95% of the crowd used to be pay on the day when we had vast swathes of terracing.

 

Well they've lost three tickets here. Me and the lad going, but my in-laws were over from Hull for the day and I'd suggested with it being dead cheap and that, that my bro-in-law and his two young lads might like to go. Some uncertainty over their time getting to us, so can't commit now to tickets and certainly not paying those walk-up prices. It's blinkered beyond belief.

 

What's the POG price?

 

£23/£10

 

Not many taken it up yet, pleanty of seats left, most of the stadium is already yellow due to ST sales. Maybe a few picking them up over the weekend.

 

F**k me.

£11 and £6 might have been fair.

 

Buy their tickets yourself, then if you know they can't make it, bring them to Box Office before 3pm and get a refund.

 

I remember some unexpectedly big walk up crowds in the 1970s and 1980s, when we clearly attracted last minute fringe fans, hangers-on and neutrals for certain games. It's something we don't see these days, because of the all-seater stadium and advanced ticket ethos. It's more difficult for a season ticket holder or someone with an advance ticket to take someone extra at the last minute. I certainly don't think we should be doing anything else to put people off going.

 

Again Whitey, a fair point, but I haven't seen anything remotely like a sensible reason why this wasn't just walk up on the day, with a combination of £10/£5 notes in your pocket, pay at the gates and have an afternoon at the football. Easter treat for a few kids & families who maybe can't get to games normally. Simple, admin-free, generates goodwill. Something, something, rocket-science something....

 

You have to make things as easy as possible for the uncommitted punter. I think we forget that sometimes on here, as we are mostly committed fans who know how things are done.

 

Stoke FA Cup replay in 88-89 was absolutely mental. Reckon we were expecting about 12k tops, especially as the average league gate was probably half that. Over 23k turned up if I remember correctly. I was ten and had never stood before. Absolutely shited it when we scored and the crowd surged forwards.

 

******* brilliant game.