To get the best possible start to the second coming why not.....

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  1. wil

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    reduce admission prices for the first (available) home match (maybe 2 or 3) to say a fiver and fill Oakwell and generate some proper atmosphere just like you know when.....surely this will galvanize everyone concerned - players, fans, management and also put the wotsits into the opposition
     
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    if you want to replicate the first coming... we need closed stands and a core 3,500
     
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    to be fair, we've been here before. it doesn't work, and costs the Club a fortune in the process. last season proved that. biggest comeback since lazarus, match day prices slashed and still made hardly any difference on attendances.

    the fans will return in their own good time.
     
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    Yes I quite understand your reply.....with the feelgood factor (on here at least) it would make sense to maximise this
     
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    Thought the Derby game was already reduced prices?

    As for Boxing day, if people won't come on Boxing day, when for most it is a holiday, and for Wilson's first game, then a fiver off ain't gonna tempt them any different.
     
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    Just re-read your first post - £5, not a fiver off - well that won't happen - I am sure Mansford has already indicated that it cost the club huge amounts of money when they have tried it before.
     
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    I wasn't concerned too much with the one-off cost to the club.......it's more the medium/long-term objectives........people get out of the habit too easily.........it does need something to entice people back......a winning team will always do that.......but as a kick-start I can't think of anything better
     
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    I understand where you're coming from, but it doesn't work. It may put a couple of thousand on the gate for that particular game, costing the club a packet in the process, but come the next game very few pay on the gate fans who wouldn't have been coming anyway will return. The only two ways to guarantee big crowds at Oakwell are if we get into the top three or draw Manchester United in the Cup. Even in the promotion season, when we were top at Christmas, it wasn't until the last few matches that we saw crowds return.

    But if we draw Liverpool away in the Cup there'll be 15,000 with reasons why they deserve tickets!
     
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    So how do we best capitalise on the new era?
     
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    win lots of games! :)
     
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    I agree except that we got a full house for the 2-0 victory over man city during the christmas period.
     
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    We always bloody lose when we get a big attendance full of hope! Remember Wigan...
     
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