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Post by kreuzbergred on Jan 8, 2019 18:37:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2019 18:47:08 GMT
And we wonder why fewer people come to games these days.
Scandalous there is an extra charge to buy a ticket on game days, must surely cost them sales over the course of the season.
How many feet does the club have?
Can't be far of having shot each of them through.
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Post by thevulcanone on Jan 9, 2019 9:46:24 GMT
What do you suggest they do?
Let everyone in for a tenner?
The walkup price will be higher because the stadium will be charging a fee on top of the ticket.
Pretty sure it was 25 quid for the South stand on the day last year...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2019 11:18:06 GMT
The club has 2 options.
Reduce the prices and hope more people turn up. With our finances this is a risk. Knock a fiver off and we'd have to increase crowds by 25% just to match last season's income.
Increase the prices and rely on the same diehards turning up every week. If we match last years pitiful average crowd of 2800 our income will have increased.
I'd love to see us go for option 1 but without any extra financial security it's a risk that we can't afford IMO.
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Post by redfan on Jan 9, 2019 11:28:55 GMT
We tried that remember Catalan a couple of seasons ago, free of charge, thousands came did they return, did they hell.
People just want owt for nowt, its the world we are living in now.
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Post by bonitared on Jan 9, 2019 12:05:12 GMT
We tried that remember Catalan a couple of seasons ago, free of charge, thousands came did they return, did they hell. People just want owt for nowt, its the world we are living in now. I agree totally with this,we’ve all moaned about ticket prices for most of our lifetimes. The previous post about having to increase attendances by 25% if we knocked £5 off the price is also bang on,and it’s the same argument about reducing Wembley ticket prices in the hope it’ll lead to a spike in attendance figures. |
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Post by kreuzbergred on Jan 9, 2019 14:21:23 GMT
I had a Email From Salford This morning about Tickets for the Huddersfield away 1st Feb , the prices are £21 buy in advance before 12pm on Match day or £25 at the gate I'm guessing The AJ Bell is Probably the now the most expensive in Super League . The pies are Nicer and cheaper at Huddersfields stadium as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2019 14:29:36 GMT
I had a Email From Salford This morning about Tickets for the Huddersfield away 1st Feb , the prices are £21 buy in advance before 12pm on Match day or £25 at the gate I'm guessing The AJ Bell is Probably the now the most expensive in Super League . The pies are Nicer and cheaper at Huddersfields stadium as well. If you pay on the gate at Hudds it's a pound dearer than Salford for behind the posts. You're right about the pies though. |
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Post by bigkeev on Jan 9, 2019 14:56:10 GMT
The fact is nobody wants too see ticket prices increase but it seems to me that this may be a good move on behalf of the club.
By incentivising pre-purchase they should have a steadier income flow receiving money in dribs and drabs, as opposed to the cash flow issues caused by the feast or famine income we get by existing match day to match day.
Also I have a feeling that this could help with attendances. People seem to think that we will lose a significant amount of "Walk up" trade put off by the higher prices. However I would argue that we have lost more punters through the gate over the years because they simply change their mind on the day.
How many people over the years have looked out of the window on matchday and thought, its too cold, its too wet, I cant be bothered. If they have already spent the money (Which hopefully they will do because its cheaper to do so) on the whole more people are likely to turn up.
We also need to be realistic. A ticket for the West Stand, as long as it is purchased online, has gone up a MASSIVE £1.50 compared to what would have been paid on the gate last season.
I dont think that is an unreasonable increase considering our financial position.
I understand people's argument that people will be put off by higher prices, but in all honesty how many more fans do we expect through the gate if prices had stayed the same, or even decreased slightly.
From a purely financial standpoint it is more responsible of the club to ask the existing "Diehard" fan base to pay a little more to increase our income, rather than relying on some hypothetical upsurge in support based on tickets being 2 quid cheaper.
At the end of last season supporters were crying out for the club to re-sign Jackson Hastings. There are numerous threads on this forum talking about what the squad needs and a lack of signings.
If the club had come out then and said we can sign Hastings but you will all need to pay an extra £1.50 on match days would we all have agreed to it? I Know I would have.
The fact is if the increases mean we have more money, it means we can afford better players. Better players mean better results and hopefully bigger attendances. When we get more fans through the gate we can then look at ticket prices. I understand this is a simplistic way of looking at things, but no more so than a knee jerk "prices have gone up, nobody will go".
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