Bumper Crowds

Maybe Saturday but can't see the next two being bumpers.
Wednesday £28 school night.
Three week Saturday Forrest also £28 and a 12.30ko live on sky.
 
Swansea, Sheff United and Forest will all sell out their allocation, but we may suffer as some fans won’t/can’t turn out out mid week and for the game that’s on Sky.
 
All being well, I'll be there on Saturday, having a new floor in the kitchen so hoping it's finished on time.

Next Wednesday is the day after our golden wedding anniversary but I've been given permission to attend. Staying at my sister,s o/night, home on Thursday.
 
poolseasider said:
Maybe Saturday but can't see the next two being bumpers.
Wednesday £28 school night.
Three week Saturday Forrest also £28 and a 12.30ko live on sky.
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sheff u will fill their allocation pool but it could be us who don’t take up so well
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Think how much you lot saved on NAPM and COVID restrictions.
Some will just make any excuse not to attend.
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I had 2 children during NAPM. Did it ever occur to you that people lost their jobs or were furloughed during COVID too?

I have a young family plus the cost of living is sky rocketing. My wages haven't increased in the last 2 years. That and a bigger mortgage as we had to upsize the house due to our family size growing.

Hope that satisfies your criticism of my excuses not to attend? If not I apologise in advance
 
Wizzerboy said:
They'll be a few of you not bothering turning up when we get back to the Premier league!!
Just to let you know, you can't run a football club on fresh air.
Simon Sadler, as good as he is, won't put matches on for free🤷
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I'm sure that if we got to the Prem, the 150 million or so would cover people like me who simply can't attend every game.

I'm not sure where anyone has asked for games to be free, I and many others feel £28 is too much, especially as Forest is on Sky.
 
Lewis_Winthorpe said:
I had 2 children during NAPM. Did it ever occur to you that people lost their jobs or were furloughed during COVID too?

I have a young family plus the cost of living is sky rocketing. My wages haven't increased in the last 2 years. That and a bigger mortgage as we had to upsize the house due to our family size growing.

Hope that satisfies your criticism of my excuses not to attend? If not I apologise in advance
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You're no different to most folk.
We've all got massive cost of living increases, mortgages, etc etc. If you were willing to pay £25 then £28 is less than a pint extra, in the whole scheme of things.
I understand your frustrations as I also had two with 11 months between them......then another came along. All I did was worry about money for years.....despite all the worry and upset it caused we still got by.
The thing that really upsets me now is how much time of my kids upbringing was wasted and lost, me worrying and not being the best dad I could be.....
and he the thing is, I needn't have.....as I've learned. 99% of the things we worry about never actually happen....good luck being a dad, it's a rollercoaster but the best rollercoaster you'll ever ride.
 
Ginge said:
You're no different to most folk.
We've all got massive cost of living increases, mortgages, etc etc. If you were willing to pay £25 then £28 is less than a pint extra, in the whole scheme of things.
I understand your frustrations as I also had two with 11 months between them......then another came along. All I did was worry about money for years.....despite all the worry and upset it caused we still got by.
The thing that really upsets me now is how much time of my kids upbringing was wasted and lost, me worrying and not being the best dad I could be.....
and he the thing is, I needn't have.....as I've learned. 99% of the things we worry about never actually happen....good luck being a dad, it's a rollercoaster but the best rollercoaster you'll ever ride.
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It's not just the cost, I've done a few away's this season instead of home's. It's the time too, working around when the missus works. It makes it difficult to attend so no point committing to a season ticket. Sadly my family have all left us and her's still work so getting a sitter is difficult. I just think in a deprived town like Blackpool, £28 is too much. Maybe I'm wrong!
 
Expected a negative response.
Anyone would think the club is ripping off the fans!
They made a loss of £5 million and now have a higher wage bill.
It is a category A game.
I am sure other clubs do the same.

Well if we ever get back into the Premier League, don’t go to away games!
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Expected a negative response.
Anyone would think the club is ripping off the fans!
They made a loss of £5 million and now have a higher wage bill.
It is a category A game.
I am sure other clubs do the same.

Well if we ever get back into the Premier League, don’t go to away games!
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It matters not what other clubs charge

We are talking about Blackpool and the facts our we dont sell out the majority of our home games

We have sold out one all season

That's proof in itself that our pricing policy is wrong
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Expected a negative response.
Anyone would think the club is ripping off the fans!
They made a loss of £5 million and now have a higher wage bill.
It is a category A game.
I am sure other clubs do the same.

Well if we ever get back into the Premier League, don’t go to away games!
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I haven't for one second said the club is ripping of fans. I just said it's a little pricey for Blackpool as a town with a lot of problems. If it wasn't we'd not be struggling for 12k fans. We got better attendances when the O's did the ST deals. More bums on seats = more revenue generated on a match day.

Other clubs will do the same and are probably in better area's with a better standard of living I.E. London, Bristol etc.

Premier League away games are capped at £30 now, but I'm sure you knew that already.
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Think how much you lot saved on NAPM and COVID restrictions.
Some will just make any excuse not to attend.
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You do realise you talking to mostly ST holders and hardcore on here who will attend most or all games.

Its mainly not us who this will affect but the casual, or part time fans, new fans etc.

GrahamwantshisOates said:
Expected a negative response.
Anyone would think the club is ripping off the fans!
They made a loss of £5 million and now have a higher wage bill.
It is a category A game.
I am sure other clubs do the same.

Well if we ever get back into the Premier League, don’t go to away games!
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The clubs loss was more than most of us can afford and much appreciated it was funded, but not fans fault. Most clubs with no crowd income have made massive losses, way bigger than ours.

I don't think its ripping off its just too high to maximise our crowds and to grow the fanbase.

It's too high for the area if we have any intention of increasing the numbers.

Were in this weird state at the moment where you seemingly can't say anything about the club that needs improvement without people attacking you with a list of positives or showing our losses in a covid year.

The clubs doing a lot right and is limited by the stadium, but hasn't utilised the stadium to the best it can and there is much more to do on attracting more fans.
 
Can’t really fathom how some think £28 is too much (and it’s not £28 if you buy a ST).

We have a limited size ground, poorly designed concourses and regularly get 80%+ of our useable capacity through the gates. We’re not historically big club in terms of attendances.

Reduce gate prices by £3/£5 and we’re simply not going to see enough extra people through the gate to recoup that cost and we’re not going to see a massive increase in food/drink receipts either.

The fact is we have a very small amount of room to manoeuvre. If you’re PNE, Cardiff, Coventry etc you can charge less as you have 10,000 empty seats most weeks and you can fill them - you then also get a boost from sales on the concourse.

Our club has crap facilities, crap concourses and a massively limited ability to generate funds due to the lack of foresight of the previous regime.

In time it will be sorted I’m sure but that takes money to do so the club need to squeeze every penny they can.

£28 is fair. It’s comparable with most clubs and it’s very generous in my eyes.

And for the sake of £3 I’m sure 99.9% of fans can make that saving somewhere. And if you can’t I’m not sure spending £25 on a match ticket is exactly a priority anyway.

The clubs a business. I want to see it operating when I’m old and grey and hope it will be around long after I’m gone, not just for it to exist in an affordable manner whilst I’m young enough to be able to go.
 
TangerineBayern said:
Swansea, Sheff United and Forest will all sell out their allocation, but we may suffer as some fans won’t/can’t turn out out mid week and for the game that’s on Sky.
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There's no way Swansea will sellout their allocation.

Sheff Utd and Forest will though.
Don't know why these two clubs aren't given 2 extra blocks, just like Barnsley and M'Boro were.
 
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Blackpool Are Back! said:
There's no way Swansea will sellout their allocation.

Sheff Utd and Forest will though.
Don't know why these two aren't given 2 extra blocks like Barnsley and M'Boro were.
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I understand Swansea have sold about 1600 tickets so far - so a very decent turnout likely (prob 1800+)

I also don’t think we’re allowed to use the Northern end of the East stand now either (for home or away fans) due to restrictions on the license as a result of all the nonsense earlier in the season. I could be wrong but I’m fairly sure I’ve heard that and you would have expected SU and Forest as well as Brum to get 3k tickets as they’d sell them
 
£28 is I think on high side BUT £25 is only £3 less or £22 is £6 less which in the grand scheme of things isn't much when most would happily pay £3 for a pint of pissy lager in the concourse . Fully understand that to some £28 per week can't be done but only if these people that moan don't drink or spend their hard earned (or given benefits) on other other such frivolities . Its a matter of priorities . If its a choice of food & heating or Football then fine . But if its fags , booze & hi tech over the weekly footy fix then don't moan about it , in my book . Even though I have a ST I have had to miss the odd game as I hav'nt had enough cash to put fuel in the car at the time, thats been due to me prioritising other things over & above going to the match , my choice I don't moan about it .

To my way of thinking Championship matches should be £20-£25 with matches banded as to how popular thy will be . Local Derbies £25 etc

Should all clubs in each Div be told By FA what match day prices should be ? .

Prem £28-£35
Champ. £20-£25
L1 £15-£20
L2 £12 £17
 
The fact is the club is where it is. At any given point there’s 3/4 teams in this league who don’t really care about gate receipts as they’re still living off of PP (Bournemouth etc). Then there’s some massive clubs who regularly get 25k gates and sell 10x as many shirts etc who can comfortably outspend us (Forest, Sheffield United, Derby.. in normal times etc). Then there’s clubs with stadiums far bigger than they need who can use a lower pricing structure to increase gates and drive up revenues (Coventry, Cardiff, PNE). You also have clubs with super wealthy owners and therefore bottomless pits of cash reserves to use and abuse (Stoke, QPR, Bristol).

Clubs in the Championship are usually drifting between any of the above groupings. Very few however are in the same boat as us.

The only Championship clubs currently with similar circumstances are Luton (limited captivity, limited resources) and Peterborough (albeit possibly with more capacity and resources).

Because they’re our only real ‘fair’ competition on a financing level we have to be clever, creative and efficient with our money.

£28 is correct in our circumstances in my mind and it hopefully allows us to be competitive despite the massive disadvantage we’re actually at.

Results and on field performances as well as the recent accounts and attendance figures would suggest the clubs got it spot on.
 
LA1 Seasider said:
Can’t really fathom how some think £28 is too much (and it’s not £28 if you buy a ST).

We have a limited size ground, poorly designed concourses and regularly get 80%+ of our useable capacity through the gates. We’re not historically big club in terms of attendances.

Reduce gate prices by £3/£5 and we’re simply not going to see enough extra people through the gate to recoup that cost and we’re not going to see a massive increase in food/drink receipts either.

The fact is we have a very small amount of room to manoeuvre. If you’re PNE, Cardiff, Coventry etc you can charge less as you have 10,000 empty seats most weeks and you can fill them - you then also get a boost from sales on the concourse.

Our club has crap facilities, crap concourses and a massively limited ability to generate funds due to the lack of foresight of the previous regime.

In time it will be sorted I’m sure but that takes money to do so the club need to squeeze every penny they can.

£28 is fair. It’s comparable with most clubs and it’s very generous in my eyes.

And for the sake of £3 I’m sure 99.9% of fans can make that saving somewhere. And if you can’t I’m not sure spending £25 on a match ticket is exactly a priority anyway.

The clubs a business. I want to see it operating when I’m old and grey and hope it will be around long after I’m gone, not just for it to exist in an affordable manner whilst I’m young enough to be able to go.
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When ST prices were £195 we got more, 1st season of it anyway. If its all priced right more fans will go and its been proven.

14k compared to 12k is a lot for us
 
Lewis_Winthorpe said:
I'm sure that if we got to the Prem, the 150 million or so would cover people like me who simply can't attend every game.

I'm not sure where anyone has asked for games to be free, I and many others feel £28 is too much, especially as Forest is on Sky.
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Yeh, feel your pain.
I too had to pick and choose my matches when I had a young family.
As has been said in this thread you're no different to others, you'll have to ride the wave and come out the other side.
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
It matters not what other clubs charge

We are talking about Blackpool and the facts our we dont sell out the majority of our home games

We have sold out one all season

That's proof in itself that our pricing policy is wrong
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Could it be proof that the majority of Blackpool folk don't give a shit about going to support Blackpool FC on a regular basis?

36,000+ @ Wembley when we beat Cardiff.
The 4 tickets I purchased were more than £28/ticket and we had to get down there!

Maybe some Blackpool "fans" only like to attend the big or Derby matches🤷
 
Blackpool Are Back! said:
There's no way Swansea will sellout their allocation.

Sheff Utd and Forest will though.
Don't know why these two clubs aren't given 2 extra blocks, just like Barnsley and M'Boro were.
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We dont want away fans to have more tickets

We should be able to sell out without giving away fans an increase in numbers
 
LA1 Seasider said:
The fact is the club is where it is. At any given point there’s 3/4 teams in this league who don’t really care about gate receipts as they’re still living off of PP (Bournemouth etc). Then there’s some massive clubs who regularly get 25k gates and sell 10x as many shirts etc who can comfortably outspend us (Forest, Sheffield United, Derby.. in normal times etc). Then there’s clubs with stadiums far bigger than they need who can use a lower pricing structure to increase gates and drive up revenues (Coventry, Cardiff, PNE). You also have clubs with super wealthy owners and therefore bottomless pits of cash reserves to use and abuse (Stoke, QPR, Bristol).

Clubs in the Championship are usually drifting between any of the above groupings. Very few however are in the same boat as us.

The only Championship clubs currently with similar circumstances are Luton (limited captivity, limited resources) and Peterborough (albeit possibly with more capacity and resources).

Because they’re our only real ‘fair’ competition on a financing level we have to be clever, creative and efficient with our money.

£28 is correct in our circumstances in my mind and it hopefully allows us to be competitive despite the massive disadvantage we’re actually at.

Results and on field performances as well as the recent accounts and attendance figures would suggest the clubs got it spot on.
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Why do you keep comparing us to other clubs

There really is no comparison whatsoever

We are unique in that our recent history is completely different to anybody else in this division. We are now Oystons free, we have a massive feelgood factor around the ground, yet we can't sell out our tickets

We are also unique in that we are a seasonal town with a seasonal workforce

We also have a below average annual salary

3,000 empty seats every match in a stadium our size isn't great and more needs to be done next season to fill the seats

Empty seats earn the club nothing, nowt, not a penny, fuck all ......
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
Why do you keep comparing us to other clubs

There really is no comparison whatsoever

We are unique in that our recent history is completely different to anybody else in this division. We are now Oystons free, we have a massive feelgood factor around the ground, yet we can't sell out our tickets

We are also unique in that we are a seasonal town with a seasonal workforce

We also have a below average annual salary

3,000 empty seats every match in a stadium our size isn't great and more needs to be done next season to fill the seats

Empty seats earn the club nothing, nowt, not a penny, fuck all ......
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We have come a long way since the days when a 5K attendance was considered wow!
The only boy in the class at a Blackpool school supporting his local team.
Mocked for supporting Pool.

We have never had high attendances and several games in Premiership season were not sellouts.
The club is doing a lot behind the scenes and I know they are giving away replica shirts to young kids in the schools and free tickets too.
We are not 3000 short as part of the East is restricted. More like a 1000.
Just look at the young supporters at our club now and I am sure the club are going in the right direction.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
£28 is a lot more than £25 (12%) and substantially more than £22 (27%).

Whether it’s value or not, I’ve no idea, but the idea that it has no significance is total rubbish.
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In todays world £3 is pennies Can barely get a pint of beer for that . I'm sure people do draw a line based on price but If you are going to footy at £25 but not at £28 I'd politely suggest that maybe the £25 could be better spent & are you right prioritising football over other things ?

Of course over 21 games or whatever it is it adds up to 60+ quid so you just attend 2-3 fewer games .

Its a difficult balance between attracting STHs & the matchday offer . If we are going to kid specials can we please put them in one area (SE corner East Stand(North))
 
The question is-

What’s the Club doing to get additional bums on seats? We have ST holders and regular attendees but what else is the Club doing to maximise home attendance?

I’m struggling to see.

Checked the Club Twitter feed from Sunday, this weeks game ticket prices, shout out to people to get a ticket not even mentioned but if your dog wants some clothes they’ll tell you about it or fancy hospitality or the Heineken Lounge they’ll tell you about it.

It’s a poor doo.

We don’t sell out at home or have close to since Rovers or Knobbers, the Club needs to do more surely?
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
We have come a long way since the days when a 5K attendance was considered wow!
The only boy in the class at a Blackpool school supporting his local team.
Mocked for supporting Pool.

We have never had high attendances and several games in Premiership season were not sellouts.
The club is doing a lot behind the scenes and I know they are giving away replica shirts to young kids in the schools and free tickets too.
We are not 3000 short as part of the East is restricted. More like a 1000.
Just look at the young supporters at our club now and I am sure the club are going in the right direction.
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The crowds now are about the same as last time we were in the Championship

We now have a better owner and we are Oyston free yet we don't have any more fans

If you don't think its price related then what is it?
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
The crowds now are about the same as last time we were in the Championship

We now have a better owner and we are Oyston free yet we don't have any more fans

If you don't think its price related then what is it?
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Last time in the championship koko was selling season tickets for £200.

Blackpool only averaged more than 12,000 5 times in the past 50 years

The average home crowd is just over
10,000
 
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LA1 Seasider said:
Can’t really fathom how some think £28 is too much (and it’s not £28 if you buy a ST).

We have a limited size ground, poorly designed concourses and regularly get 80%+ of our useable capacity through the gates. We’re not historically big club in terms of attendances.

Reduce gate prices by £3/£5 and we’re simply not going to see enough extra people through the gate to recoup that cost and we’re not going to see a massive increase in food/drink receipts either.

The fact is we have a very small amount of room to manoeuvre. If you’re PNE, Cardiff, Coventry etc you can charge less as you have 10,000 empty seats most weeks and you can fill them - you then also get a boost from sales on the concourse.

Our club has crap facilities, crap concourses and a massively limited ability to generate funds due to the lack of foresight of the previous regime.

In time it will be sorted I’m sure but that takes money to do so the club need to squeeze every penny they can.

£28 is fair. It’s comparable with most clubs and it’s very generous in my eyes.

And for the sake of £3 I’m sure 99.9% of fans can make that saving somewhere. And if you can’t I’m not sure spending £25 on a match ticket is exactly a priority anyway.

The clubs a business. I want to see it operating when I’m old and grey and hope it will be around long after I’m gone, not just for it to exist in an affordable manner whilst I’m young enough to be able to go.
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28 is too much, its 30 on the day too, too high for Blackpool.

People say its only a few quid here or there but it does matter, that's why 1.99 items sell more than 2 quid.

Perception and over time it also adds up with a few quid here and there.

As someone said it could be 31, 'it's only 3 quid more that 28'....

QPR game live on sky, 20 quid, we maintained the usual numbers, if it was 28 we wouldn't have. Given a lot of exiles won't have bothered it means more locals took in the game. Price is a factor.

We should at least try for 1 game, a big game and see what effect it has.

If we cant sell the east then its a poor do, I dont see why our own fans aren't allowed in the east and away fans let out for 1 game onto BR, they end up round there anyway, if they opened the ne gate it would be fine.

Let's be honest it started off with a structured dialogue meeting in which the club said no plans to put home fans in the East. Thats was the mistake, fail to prepare and prepare to fail. A simple temp portaloos and a burger van or 2 would have done.

Were now in a situation where were being either dictated to by the police or being a but soft on putting our foot down on what we want to do. Home fans in the NE should be doable, open the gate to the north and police the south area properly.

As for enough extra people to make up for the loss of charging less I did a quick calculation on a thread a while back and you can make similar with only a modest increase of maybe 400-500 people

Should the club drop cat pricing next season?

Or get rid of the on the day charge? Or both.... To me to grow the fanbase we have to be more competitive with pricing. 28 quid for the big games is too high and 30 on the day, with only previous purchase history anyway, is not going to help attract the extra fans. If we dropped the on the...
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Also don't forget we missed out on the usual promotion bounce, bumper playoff crowd and 30k to Wembley. We haven't had a chance to make that up in a big game. The pne game was full whack, only 800 seats extra in the east and previous purchase history only, with stories of people not able to buy.

We should do a deal at least to see just how much price affects things. Gives us some valuable data.

We cant keep blaming the east, yes you cant throw up a stand, but we've had enough time to at least make sure we get the most from what we have. If qere waiting for the council and compulsory purchases and demolitions before we even start the new East we could be having these issues for many years yet.
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
The crowds now are about the same as last time we were in the Championship

We now have a better owner and we are Oyston free yet we don't have any more fans

If you don't think its price related then what is it?
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the interest outside our core and perhaps 1k more is just not there for us.
 
JJpool said:
28 is too much, its 30 on the day too, too high for Blackpool.

People say its only a few quid here or there but it does matter, that's why 1.99 items sell more than 2 quid.

Perception and over time it also adds up with a few quid here and there.

As someone said it could be 31, 'it's only 3 quid more that 28'....

QPR game live on sky, 20 quid, we maintained the usual numbers, if it was 28 we wouldn't have. Given a lot of exiles won't have bothered it means more locals took in the game. Price is a factor.

We should at least try for 1 game, a big game and see what effect it has.

If we cant sell the east then its a poor do, I dont see why our own fans aren't allowed in the east and away fans let out for 1 game onto BR, they end up round there anyway, if they opened the ne gate it would be fine.

Let's be honest it started off with a structured dialogue meeting in which the club said no plans to put home fans in the East. Thats was the mistake, fail to prepare and prepare to fail. A simple temp portaloos and a burger van or 2 would have done.

Were now in a situation where were being either dictated to by the police or being a but soft on putting our foot down on what we want to do. Home fans in the NE should be doable, open the gate to the north and police the south area properly.

As for enough extra people to make up for the loss of charging less I did a quick calculation on a thread a while back and you can make similar with only a modest increase of maybe 400-500 people

Should the club drop cat pricing next season?

Or get rid of the on the day charge? Or both.... To me to grow the fanbase we have to be more competitive with pricing. 28 quid for the big games is too high and 30 on the day, with only previous purchase history anyway, is not going to help attract the extra fans. If we dropped the on the...
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Also don't forget we missed out on the usual promotion bounce, bumper playoff crowd and 30k to Wembley. We haven't had a chance to make that up in a big game. The pne game was full whack, only 800 seats extra in the east and previous purchase history only, with stories of people not able to buy.

We should do a deal at least to see just how much price affects things. Gives us some valuable data.

We cant keep blaming the east, yes you cant throw up a stand, but we've had enough time to at least make sure we get the most from what we have. If qere waiting for the council and compulsory purchases and demolitions before we even start the new East we could be having these issues for many years yet.
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People also have an upper limit what they'll pay for things.
I wouldn't give Leeds £35 for a ticket a while ago won't pay over £4 a pint locally or more then £80 on trainers etc so when it's only £28 is banded about the casual fan things stuff that it's way too expensive.
 
Adams Kebab said:
The question is-

What’s the Club doing to get additional bums on seats? We have ST holders and regular attendees but what else is the Club doing to maximise home attendance?

I’m struggling to see.

Checked the Club Twitter feed from Sunday, this weeks game ticket prices, shout out to people to get a ticket not even mentioned but if your dog wants some clothes they’ll tell you about it or fancy hospitality or the Heineken Lounge they’ll tell you about it.

It’s a poor doo.

We don’t sell out at home or have close to since Rovers or Knobbers, the Club needs to do more surely?
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They are in the schools etc and handing out kits from what i've read . I agree more should be done via social media etc to advertise each home game maybe a 1st time buyer discount . Are fixture calendars handed out to hotels and B&Bs ?
 
SpionKop said:
the interest outside our core and perhaps 1k more is just not there for us.
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It is and can be, as said we missed the normal promotion playoff sell out and 30k to Wembley, some of those casuals then go onto buy the following season.

We haven't had a bumper game where they can attend without a high price, limiting purchase history which they might not be on (how far does it go back?), or even capacity to hold them.

What we need is a cheap game or deal, ideally a big game, Forest home would be great. But a focus on home fans not away, fill the NE.

Or ideally if we had a cup run, a big game at home.

No matter which way we dress it up the way we're using the stadium is limiting.

If were stuck in the current setup it'll be like this for years and just when we should be growing whilst the going is good were limited.

We cant just throw a stand up but we have seen the ground full with this very setup before so it can be done.
 
I've never been a fan of categorised pricing and hope we ditch it next season, or as soon as the east is built. I think £25 should be the maximum charged. If the parents of all those kids who were given a free shirt look into going to a game, I wonder what % the take up would be if it costs nearly £30 for them.

I'm not someone who thinks we should be charging dirt cheap prices like the Oyston's were, because I want the club to be able to fund a decent team. However, we need to find a way to entice new fans and remove price as a barrier, at least initially. Something like giving a couple of coupons with those kids' shirts for half price tickets or some kind of initiative like that. So when a kid gets a shirt and asks their parents to go to a game, it's a much cheaper affair initially to get them interested. I feel like the club has never had any imagination when it comes to attracting new fans, even though that has slowly started to change.

I also don't agree necessarily with the argument that because we've never had big crowds we can't in the future. We can, it just takes hard work and determination, coupled with a competitive team and an imaginative marketing and pricing policy.
 
XBeds-Now-Kings_Meaburn said:
In todays world £3 is pennies Can barely get a pint of beer for that . I'm sure people do draw a line based on price but If you are going to footy at £25 but not at £28 I'd politely suggest that maybe the £25 could be better spent & are you right prioritising football over other things ?

Of course over 21 games or whatever it is it adds up to 60+ quid so you just attend 2-3 fewer games .

Its a difficult balance between attracting STHs & the matchday offer . If we are going to kid specials can we please put them in one area (SE corner East Stand(North))
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You could literally apply that argument to anything… If a Tin of beans were to increase by three quid it’s a fortune… if your house price went up from £500K by £3 it’s not so big a deal.

Even if you increase the price by 1 penny at a time, there’s going to come a point where the extra 1 pence is 1 pence too many. So there’s no reason to assume that just because someone can’t afford £28, that they couldn’t afford £25.
 
XBeds-Now-Kings_Meaburn said:
They are in the schools etc and handing out kits from what i've read . I agree more should be done via social media etc to advertise each home game maybe a 1st time buyer discount . Are fixture calendars handed out to hotels and B&Bs ?
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The kit initiative was great to give out kits (that then went out of stock), but then it relied on people who don’t actually support Blackpool or might not even like football then persuading their family to fork out full prices for tickets.

I’m not really arsed about hotels and B & B’s, as we’ll never see them again. I’m talking about Blackpool and Fylde and Wyre people. Future fans who just need to experience a match day atmosphere and not Sky TV or Jeff Stelling.

We had an opportunity to jump on the back of back to back wins and develop a marketing strategy to increase ticket sales from the beginning of this week. As it stands and from what I’ve seen, we’ve done nothing to get more people in the ground on Saturday.

I mentioned March madness like in 2010 where we could have done 2 for £20 for the two home games, or got a ST holder to buy a ticket for £10… moved seats etc. Or just done £20 to FY postcodes.

Instead, we’ve done zip.

Not sure if they actually want more people there? It’s all a bit weird with the Police at the moment and the statements on fan behaviour. Maybe they think cheap tickets attracts trouble.

Either way, I don’t get why we aren’t maximising ticket sales for home games & seemingly happy to have empty seats at home. It seems lazy.
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
We have come a long way since the days when a 5K attendance was considered wow!
The only boy in the class at a Blackpool school supporting his local team.
Mocked for supporting Pool.

We have never had high attendances and several games in Premiership season were not sellouts.
The club is doing a lot behind the scenes and I know they are giving away replica shirts to young kids in the schools and free tickets too.
We are not 3000 short as part of the East is restricted. More like a 1000.
Just look at the young supporters at our club now and I am sure the club are going in the right direction.
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I was the same but we can't keep pretending we are a small club with only 5000 just because that's what happened in the 90's. As someone who didn't have a ST in the Prem I can 100% tell you every home match was sold out, what the overspill would have been who knows as were limited due to stadium capacity. Phil is right we are short of 3000, 2400 in the East Stand(north section) 660 in the SE corner and 250 at the bottom of the North stand. Give away fans the south part of the east including some of the SE corner. Then put pool fans in the North part of the east stand and do some deals, we probably wouldn't sell it but we'd get an extra 1000 in there as they want to be near the North Stand atmosphere. Every other weekend on facebook and twitter we can see people are desperate to get tickets for the North Stand but can't and a fair few, rightly or wrongly, won't buy £28 tickets in Blocks X and Y coz it's a shit atmosphere. It's such a simple solution. TBH not getting over 10,000 home fans in the championship is poor.
 
JJpool said:
It is and can be, as said we missed the normal promotion playoff sell out and 30k to Wembley, some of those casuals then go onto buy the following season.

We haven't had a bumper game where they can attend without a high price, limiting purchase history which they might not be on (how far does it go back?), or even capacity to hold them.

What we need is a cheap game or deal, ideally a big game, Forest home would be great. But a focus on home fans not away, fill the NE.

Or ideally if we had a cup run, a big game at home.

No matter which way we dress it up the way we're using the stadium is limiting.

If were stuck in the current setup it'll be like this for years and just when we should be growing whilst the going is good were limited.

We cant just throw a stand up but we have seen the ground full with this very setup before so it can be done.
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100s if not 1000s of them that went as the 30k have never been back to Bloomfield since or been before. I personally knew about ten that all wore their new blackpool tops and never been seen since, they went for the day out and the novelty value.

Yes if pricing was maybe lower we would attract more and needs to be done and agree a concerted effort on filling the home stands. We’ve never been a massively supported club but as you say we must try to increase. Hope i’m wrong but can’t see much of an increase in the foreseeable.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
You could literally apply that argument to anything… If a Tin of beans were to increase by three quid it’s a fortune… if your house price went up from £500K by £3 it’s not so big a deal.

Even if you increase the price by 1 penny at a time, there’s going to come a point where the extra 1 pence is 1 pence too many. So there’s no reason to assume that just because someone can’t afford £28, that they couldn’t afford £25.
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Yeah it's pretty simple.

You could show a simple graph per £, where as price increases the numbers attending decrease, all other things being equal.

There is a sweetspot to maximise revenue, but ultimately the club has to decide if it wants slightly more cash or more fans.

Even if we got slightly less cash than charging high prices, but a lot more fans attending and got thr bug for the future what price building the fanbase whilst going is good.

Have already shown how you can make similar money anyway with a lower price higher crowd model.

But we do need to work out the stadium, as is is very limiting.
 
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