Vs Southampton

I think this game should be stupidly cheap.

£5 adults could take a kids for free, £2.50 oaps, £2.50 for under 18's and students, free tickets for youth football teams, free tickets for any sort of club for kids and so on and so forth. I think its still school holidays so kids would be able to go.

Flog the **** out of it with advertising and get the place full(ish).

It seems a perfect opportunity for me. . . . .

 

Stick with the tenner for me.

 

I had the same thought the other day. Get oakwell full of families while school holidays are on and maybe that could start a few young uns off as Barnsley fans. Little chance of crowd trouble as I can't see many away fans making the trip so get the kids in and hooked.....

 

It will be £15

 

Exactly. Could have a load a kids stuff outside the ground as well and get them down early.

 

15 quid would be reasonable or tenner for STHs.

 

Its a bonus for barnsley to be playing in this match so a great opportunity to add more fans for future games

 

Barnsley 1 Southampton 2

Att 9,019

Prem season 3rd Rd.

 

I went to that with my pe teachers who supported Southampton. Le tiss scored a screamer I seem to remember?

 

He did.

 

Bloody cracking idea. If you're looking lord mansford then take your cue. The next generation and all....

 

Let them go watch another club and decide to support them instead of their local team then and lose the next generation.....

 

When is it?

 

Sod em miserable gits we need to get youngsters involved early.

 

Reasonable? Yes.

Doesn't have to be reasonable though does it?

 

Great idea, we have 5 home games now this month, 3 in the league and these 2 HOME cup games are a bonus!!

 

Wouldn't work in my opinion. Not a very attractive game really. Had we done something similar for the first game of the season, then we'd have probably had a full stadium.

I think the best time to push an offer, is the home game before a cup game. Because when people go down to the well to buy tickets, the box office staff then have the opportunity to try sell the cup game, which is always a reduced rate anyway. We get improved attendances for a couple of games, which then gives us the chance to demonstrate these promised changes in the match day experience, and gives us the opportunity to secure a more regular fan base. My opinion obviously.

 

Depends if they've budgeted for the cup, otherwise it's sort of a 'free' game for the club so they should use it to experiment. The trouble is Don Rowing made some half-@rsed attempts at making it cheaper but he wanted those offers to fail to justify not having to do it again in the future - the advertising was so poor it wouldn't surprise me if the only people who knew the price of the ticket were those attempting to buy tickets. No doubt Ben Mansford will look through the data collected for these games and decide whether reducing the price is in the interests of the club, but due to Don's total disregard for any form of marketing this data is ******.

We had the £12.50 Blackpool game last season, which to be fair was plugged for weeks by the club, yet the attendance was disappointing - about 14500 if I remember right, so this might put them off going too cheap. I suppose the intention of letting people in for such a low price is the hope that they will come back - if Southampton put out a strong side and we get tonked then it might have the opposite effect.

Oakwell is an amazing place when it's full, unfortunately we hardly ever see that these days - the Leeds games used to draw over 20,000 a few years ago but even that one has dipped quite a lot. But it's the same old story, people get out of the habit of going and just aren't bothered any more - the taxi driver who brought me home last night had a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of the club, had views on the start of the season but when I asked "do you go down pal", the answer was "no...but I used to go all the time". Although he did say when he first started going, the cost of getting in was pocket change, £23 isn't pocket change to 99.9999% of the population although it's better than Don's £30 tickets that drove away another section of support. Cheers Don.