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Quote from: \"MrFrost\" post=186920And what about if you pay in advance at these clubs, or sit behind the goal. You'll find it's cheaper. £26 at Watford for example.But that's a circular argument, our pay in advance price is cheaper, your point is what?
And what about if you pay in advance at these clubs, or sit behind the goal. You'll find it's cheaper. £26 at Watford for example.
It's only people like JR, other chairman, CEO's and die hards that view £27 as being going rates.Attendances are down in the leagues around 20%. You cannot benchmark the norm against what die hards will pay. It's not the RTID people we have to appeal to, it's the occasionals who once were more regular attenders, who we need to encourage to attend more frequently again.Some women will pay extortionate amounts of money for a Gucci handbag but it's not the going rate for handbag prices. When recession comes, as it has done, you need to look at the longer term picture and do what you can to keep people on board, protect your customer base.Rovers built up the fan base gradually and of course our success helped swell those numbers but have been 'careless' in maintaining numbers and what took 5 or more years to build has taken 2 seasons to crumble.It all stems from 2 needless ST price increases, unhelpful payment deadlines together with the introduction of match price categories - all geared up to exploit the away following of 5 or 6 visiting teams. £27 is not the going rate, end of. JR may have you believe allowing 1700 more Leeds fans in will gain the club £40,000 in extra revenue. A. It won't, unless everyone of those 1700 is an adult between 21 and 60 and B. He's not accounting for money lost from stay-aways from other matches over the course of a season as a direct consequence of the pricing policy.C. Also not accounting for less revenue on ST sales.
I agree Rob, but I was pointing out how complicated it is to buy tickets for a game of football these days.
Quote from: \"MrFrost\" post=186920And what about if you pay in advance at these clubs, or sit behind the goal. You'll find it's cheaper. £26 at Watford for example.Once again you persist in boring us with your negative shite re. ticketing without ever coming up with coherent arguments. zzzzzzzzzz
Quote from: \"hoolahoop\" post=186958Quote from: \"MrFrost\" post=186920And what about if you pay in advance at these clubs, or sit behind the goal. You'll find it's cheaper. £26 at Watford for example.Once again you persist in boring us with your negative shite re. ticketing without ever coming up with coherent arguments. zzzzzzzzzzMy argument is 27 quid for all areas is too expeinsive, as proved in last nights poor attendanc. Is that coherent enough for you, or would you like my two year old to draw you a picture? It might be more a level for you to understand.
Maybe a floating pricing system should be put in place based of Rovers position in the league and that of their opponents.For example, say for argument's sake we start with a price of £50 per ticket, but then we reduce the price by the league position that Rovers are in before the game kicks off (or a week before...) and we do the same for the position of the opposition.So, if Rovers were top and were playing the club in second place you'd be expected to pay £47 for the pleasure of seeing Rovers play at their highest ever league position. If Rovers were bottom (yes, I know they are) you'd pay £50, less £24 (£26), and in last night's case, less £7, which is £19 (I think they came to us in seventh).A bottom two game would be £3 per ticket, but that wouldn't happen very often. It would put more pressure on results lifting the income whilst also potentially keeping gates up.
We also expressed the opinion that there should be flat fees for away fans at each level. Our suggestion has been £25, £20 and £15 etc. We need to encourage the away fans to keep travelling, they are the life blood of football in this country.
here cannot be many fans on pay as you go that go to every game so i propose that we aim to get the lost season ticket holders back because its the only way to get the fanbase back up and guarantee that the likes of myself will make most games. All i ask for is a return to the end of june deadline to purchase it at a price of around £300. MAKE FOOTBALL AFFORDABLE