But there's another reason for poor gates, poor performances and we have had more of our fair share of those this season. Also in our case the Northampton factor is still having an affect imo.
But there's another reason for poor gates, poor performances and we have had more of our fair share of those this season. Also in our case the Northampton factor is still having an affect imo.
Said a while ago that I couldn't help but notice how the average age of the crowd dropped significantly for the JPT games so why don't the club do a flat rate of £5 for under 18's?
Keep the JSB deals etc but I would think that the average teenager can afford £5 out of their pocket money plus it's an investment for the club. Get the youngsters in the habit now and you stand more chance of them becoming occasional/regular and season ticket holders when they're older and working for a living.
If you're not going to encourage the local youth to come and watch CCFC is it a surprise that they end up supporting a London, Liverpool or Manchester based team? After all, if you're going to "support" a team that you don't go to watch why would that team be CCFC over a team that actually win something and play entertaining football.
It is. For some fans that was the straw that broke the camel's back. For most of us we saw that move to Northampton as nothing but a betrayal.
Yeah, it would be good if one club in this country could be brave enough to slash ST prices as Rob suggests. However, because of Sky and television I can't see that ever happening. And Tony is spot on too. A flat rate of a fiver every game would encourage more to attend with their kids. Better to fill a few thousand seats at a fiver than have a few thousand seats empty.
When the Bradford game was postponed due to them being in the cup me and my lad went to see Cheltenham. Still cost nearly thirty quid for the both of us! So, it's a problem throughout all the leagues. People are being priced out.
A hundred quid season ticket wouldn't hurt.
If you've 20 odd thousands empty seats why not try it?
Say we sell 20k £100 ST - that's £1.6m ticket revenue less VAT. We made £2.7m ticket revenue in 12/13, with 11k average. So double attendance and reduce ticket revenue by 40%.
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Not all tickets 100 quid you mug, just the corners or behind goal etc, and also you've not factored pay as you go tickets game by game.
Would you rather it be more expensive?
Say we sell 20k £100 ST - that's £1.6m ticket revenue less VAT. We made £2.7m ticket revenue in 12/13, with 11k average. So double attendance and reduce ticket revenue by 40%.
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Is the 2.7 million ticket revenue reported for 12/13 also after tax has been deducted then?
Other things to consider would be single ticket sales, I guess with cheap season tickets you would get less but I assume still some maybe 500-1,000 or so each game which would add to the revenue.
And also remember season ticket sales are money in the bank straight away in the summer which can be spent by the club. I'm not sure how many ST holders we had in 12/13, probably about 6k at a guess? so a good portion of that 2.7m is likely coming from single ticket sales which is spread across 8-9 months of a season whereas ST sales are guaranteed revenue.
To take the Bayern argument. 2 million is nothing to them. 2 million to is a massive percentage of our budget. FFP and SCMP don't encourage to reduce ticket prices, it merely puts the emphasis on making more money...
No idea, OSB or Godiva would know about that.
Problem is the more casuals that take up cheap ST offers, then there's less casuals taking up matchday tickets (if you can only go to 6-10 games a season, it's cheaper to buy a ST than 6-10 individual matchday tickets - based ok the £100 suggested compared to £22+ per match), then there's a mixture of adults, concessions and kids meaning you wouldn't be getting all 500-1000 at full price. Whilst ST's give you cash in the bank, if that's significantly less than than current prices, then you're gonna he to cut the wage bill to accommodate the slashed ticket prices.
Somehow you'd have to find the balance between getting more ST's sold and at least maintaining ticket income, otherwise that's going to lead to further cuts to the wage bill.
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