Why is £20 a game not enough?

Or the offer will be against Reading or Burton....

 

C'mon you don't even get a vote in the Labour leadership election for £20 these days

 

It's a simple answer really. It's because it's run as a business and it's priced to maximise income. Putting aside people's personal circumstances, we'd all be disappointed if the club did anything less.


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But it doesn't maximise income does it if we don't encourage people who aren't that big of fans to come? People who are not obsessed with football are not going to pay £30 for a match very often, they're just not. Reduce the prices to make it more realistic and people may come more often, like what they see and become lifelong fans.

The Supporters Trust kindly did a deal where members got a fiver off all home matches for the season. I went to 12 matches that season and brought at least one guest with me everytime (5 people to one match who'd never been before). The season before, and the one before that? I went to two. On the back of going and enjoying it, I got a half season ticket last year and my first every full one this year. I have also started attending odd away matches. We want to be encouraging people in like this.

 

I can't argue against anything you're saying there except to say that we're all looking for favours in life but very rarely get them.
On the face of it the Bradford City model seems to be a good one but it doesn't appear to have got them anywhere or been adopted by anyone else.


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Personally I don't see how it can possibly be maximising income while we we have half of the seats sat empty

 

Always found the clubs ticket deals to be a bit half-hearted when they've reduced prices, as if they never really wanted it to work.

Said this before but there was a game a few years ago, might have been against Burnley I can't remember, queued up with £20+change in my hand and it turned out the tickets that night were only something like a tenner on the door, no-one in the queue knew!

 

I do think our strategy should be more focused on getting the young ens interested, I'm actually blown away by how many teenage fans we have of both sexes given that they will have never really seen the club do anything, apart from the back end of last season.

Someone in their 20s/30s/40s who pays on the door now and again isn't suddenly going to start coming every week and buy loads of merchandise and sh*t. As others have said, winning games puts bums on seats, it's possible for people to believe they are getting value for money even at £35, but last time we had tickets around the 30 quid mark, our performances were just gutless and painful to watch as we bobbed around in the bottom six of the division lucky to stay up just because there'd always be at least three teams that happened to be worse than us!