Unless I'm getting completely the wrong end of the stick isn't the West Ham price cut a good thing?
We all know football is an expensive day out and that tickets should be cheaper but is there not a potential banana skin here?
The PL teams can use their TV money to reduce prices but won't that impact on the lower leagues? If you can get a PL ticket for £20 more people will view our prices as excessive. Of course if the lower league teams, who don't have that big pot of TV money, have to put their prices down that's a huge chunk of their revenue gone.
Unless players wages drop in line with that I can see a problem looming.
Yep, hopefully more teams will follow there lead. I suspect the price drop is largely driven by the need to fill 20,000 more seats at the Olympic Stadium though.
Our big issue is the walk up price - £22 on a winters day is not going to tempt somebody to go to the match (unless we are really challenging)
the walk up price needs to be nearer £15 (with £10 and £5 offers now and again) and therefore season tickets nearer £13 per game less an allowance for discounts on match tickets (£249 total)
I know you can buy the 6 or 12 match packages that bring the cost down to similar levels, but most will not think like this
I know its about revenue - but doing the above, and backing TM will work
and for Sisu supporters who challenge it, it will still generate far more revenue than we would have if we were still at northampton - even under sisu;s best predictions
We've got 20,000 empty seats, I've said before our cheapest season ticket should be £150.
We've got 20,000 empty seats, I've said before our cheapest season ticket should be £150.
There's definitely an argument that if you've got 20K empty seats you're charging too much. The problem is dropping the prices doesn't seem to ever cause a decent increase in attendance, certainly not enough to offset the lost revenue. And of course we're in a position where if there's twice as many people in the stadium spending we aren't getting the full benefit of that.
Lets say it's an average of £20 a ticket to get 10K in. If you drop it to £10 a ticket you've got to get 20K in or you're losing money. There's not really an easy answer to this one I don't think, especially as we are so reliant on ticket revenue.
That's what I mean, I can understand ideally football as a whole should be cheaper for the fans. It isn't that we are the highest priced and trying to rip fans off. Weren't we among the cheapest?How many teams in the football league have a season ticket that cheap? Footballs expensive, I get that. But I don't get your thinking behind that? Is it just because it's your club and the cheaper the better for you?
We've got 20,000 empty seats, I've said before our cheapest season ticket should be £150.
We all know football is an expensive day out and that tickets should be cheaper but is there not a potential banana skin here?
The PL teams can use their TV money to reduce prices but won't that impact on the lower leagues? If you can get a PL ticket for £20 more people will view our prices as excessive. Of course if the lower league teams, who don't have that big pot of TV money, have to put their prices down that's a huge chunk of their revenue gone.
Unless players wages drop in line with that I can see a problem looming.
Great gesture by West Ham and why not sell at £150 a pop at this shitty level, it's a valid point. I'm sure Bradford used to do something along these lines and sold about 10,000 on this basis.
Do you think if the prices halved we would sell 3 times as much though?
Probably not, but you know what I mean.
If the prices are halved, you have to sell twice as many to make as much money.
I think the main seller is in having the interest free payment plan, the way Bradford seem to do it is that payment is taken each month and that month's tickets are posted out.
I don't think you would need any sort of credit agreement to do it that way would you?
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This is what we need to be doing.
That's what I mean, I can understand ideally football as a whole should be cheaper for the fans. It isn't that we are the highest priced and trying to rip fans off. Weren't we among the cheapest?
Surely if you put your prices down you will sell more.
The trick is getting the balance right.
Potentially if they half the price of our season tickets and then sell 3 times as many it improves revenues and ups the crowds.
the gillingham game aside, the discounted matches this season have disproved that myth.
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How many teams in the football league have a season ticket that cheap? Footballs expensive, I get that. But I don't get your thinking behind that? Is it just because it's your club and the cheaper the better for you?
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