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The club are winding me up with their marketing at the moment.

This game is massive. It’s our biggest of the season by far. If we win, we have a good run of games following it to build momentum and push up the table.

It’s Evatt’s first proper home game. Against a club where he played and won in our biggest game of the past 70 years.

They’re doing nothing. They’ll have a couple tweets towards the end of the week but that’s it.

There should be a serious incentive offered to get bums on seats and start seeing some returning fans off the back of that. We need it rocking Saturday.

It’s absolute amateur hour
 
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Chrismalkin said:
The club are winding me up with their marketing at the moment.

This game is massive. It’s our biggest of the season by far. If we win, we have a good run of games following it to build momentum and push up the table.

It’s Evatt’s first proper home game. Against a club where he played and won in our biggest game of the past 70 years.

They’re doing nothing. They’ll have a couple tweets towards the end of the week but that’s it.

There should be a serious incentive offered to get bums on seats and start seeing some returning fans off the back of that. We need it rocking Saturday.

It’s absolute amateur hour
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The clubs PR is so tinpot, has been for months now
 
Chrismalkin said:
The club are winding me up with their marketing at the moment.

This game is massive. It’s our biggest of the season by far. If we win, we have a good run of games following it to build momentum and push up the table.

It’s Evatt’s first proper home game. Against a club where he played and won in our biggest game of the past 70 years.

They’re doing nothing. They’ll have a couple tweets towards the end of the week but that’s it.

There should be a serious incentive offered to get bums on seats and start seeing some returning fans off the back of that. We need it rocking Saturday.

It’s absolute amateur hour
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The North will be rocking Saturday, period!
 
Chrismalkin said:
The club are winding me up with their marketing at the moment.

This game is massive. It’s our biggest of the season by far. If we win, we have a good run of games following it to build momentum and push up the table.

It’s Evatt’s first proper home game. Against a club where he played and won in our biggest game of the past 70 years.

They’re doing nothing. They’ll have a couple tweets towards the end of the week but that’s it.

There should be a serious incentive offered to get bums on seats and start seeing some returning fans off the back of that. We need it rocking Saturday.

It’s absolute amateur hour
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All you ever do is slag off our club and fans what a sad individual. 👎
 
Chrismalkin said:
Think you have me mixed up with someone else.

Love our fans except the type that’ll be negative towards Evatt and the players after 1/2 games. They can do one.

The club could do more to increase attendances IMO.
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Results and performances are the only way to get people interested again. The club can't do anything about it that at least from a marketing perspective
 
A_Tense_Grin said:
Results and performances are the only way to get people interested again. The club can't do anything about it that at least from a marketing perspective
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Maybe it’s limited. I thought they could maybe be a little creative through.

Fiver off next game
Free pie in the ground
Free scarf to everyone who goes

Obviously they all cost money but it’s a big game and fans play a part
 
Chrismalkin said:
The club are winding me up with their marketing at the moment.

This game is massive. It’s our biggest of the season by far. If we win, we have a good run of games following it to build momentum and push up the table.

It’s Evatt’s first proper home game. Against a club where he played and won in our biggest game of the past 70 years.

They’re doing nothing. They’ll have a couple tweets towards the end of the week but that’s it.

There should be a serious incentive offered to get bums on seats and start seeing some returning fans off the back of that. We need it rocking Saturday.

It’s absolute amateur hour
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Seem more interested in corporate money these days.
 
Chrismalkin said:
Worried sick is an exaggeration isn’t it
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Not really, there always seems to be a thread or two about it.
I must go on the Mansfield site to see if their fans are worried how many will be there for the visit of Port Vale or Cambridge fans to see if their club are doing a Xmas ticket special for their match against Accrington Stanley!!
Frankly it's pathetic, if you want to go to the game go, if not stay away.
There will always be diehards, there will always be the occasional walk on, there will be new fans and there will be supporters who just can't be arsed anymore. And that's it!!
 
Wizzerboy said:
Not really, there always seems to be a thread or two about it.
I must go on the Mansfield site to see if their fans are worried how many will be there for the visit of Port Vale or Cambridge fans to see if their club are doing a Xmas ticket special for their match against Accrington Stanley!!
Frankly it's pathetic, if you want to go to the game go, if not stay away.
There will always be diehards, there will always be the occasional walk on, there will be new fans and there will be supporters who just can't be arsed anymore. And that's it!!
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I want more fans there and I’m sure most do also. And probably the players do too.

I don’t want us to be port vale or Mansfield or Cambridge. I want us to be bigger and better than that.

Have some ambition for us!
 
Judging by my workmates, it's going to be almost impossible to make them part with 29 quid for a league 1 match, particularly as most of them don't support Blackpool as their 1st team.
They used to go occassionally, but refuse to pay £29 on principle.
I suppose if Blackpool wasn't my team, I'd feel the same.

Season ticket prices were good, but 29 quid walk-on prices to encourage lapsed fans back, won't work.

It's not a game for the working class man to attend anymore.
At least not for the £29 walk-on price.
 
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Chrismalkin said:
I want more fans there and I’m sure most do also. And probably the players do too.

I don’t want us to be port vale or Mansfield or Cambridge. I want us to be bigger and better than that.

Have some ambition for us!
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I have no idea how old you are but in the 50 years I've supported the club Blackpool have never had really big crowds, that is a fact.

A little history lesson.
In the 1947-48 season (when Blackpool were a bit good), their average attendance was just over 25,000 apart from Grimsby with 16,000 it was the lowest average attendance in the league and they finished 9th that season!!

Because of the demographics of the town there are very few Blackpool born and bred here, so that will take a lot of people out of the equation.
You can do ticket deals 'til you're blue in the face but the plain fact is if people don't want to go they won't.

The sad thing about all of this is if Sadler had been the owner when we reached the Premier league we would probably be a championship club at worst by now because the money generated would more than likely have been reinvested, as it is we're competing against quite a few teams in a division that have more money than us. It's always going to be an uphill battle, you can be as ambitious as you want but if you haven't got the tools you'll never achieve them.
 
My mates son (he’s an adult in his 30’s) is a huge Liverpool fan he’s halfway through a 4 year waiting list for a ST.

He bought a ST at T’Rovers to help cover the wait at the start of this season for £350 (sure they are listed at £379) now as he wanted to watch a decent standard of football at least championship standard he has no allegiance whatsoever to Blackburn.

I managed at least to talk to his Dad who persuaded him to give Sleepdale a miss.

Unfortunately this is what our club is up against £350 season tickets to watch championship football.

He’s not seen them win yet at home he missed last weeks win (the only one) as he was away on holiday for half term. 😄
 
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Blackpool Are Back! said:
Judging by my workmates, it's going to be almost impossible to make them part with 29 quid for a league 1 match, particularly as most of them don't support Blackpool as their 1st team.
They used to go occassionally, but refuse to pay £29 on principle.
I suppose if Blackpool wasn't my team, I'd feel the same.

Season ticket prices were good, but 29 quid walk-on prices to encourage lapsed fans back, is far to high for a town like Blackpool.

It's not a game for the working class man to attend anymore.
At least not for the £29 walk-on price.
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I know 4 lads that want to go on but won’t pay that. It’s a terrible price £29
 
Wizzerboy said:
I have no idea how old you are but in the 50 years I've supported the club Blackpool have never had really big crowds, that is a fact.

A little history lesson.
In the 1947-48 season (when Blackpool were a bit good), their average attendance was just over 25,000 apart from Grimsby with 16,000 it was the lowest average attendance in the league and they finished 9th that season!!

Because of the demographics of the town there are very few Blackpool born and bred here, so that will take a lot of people out of the equation.
You can do ticket deals 'til you're blue in the face but the plain fact is if people don't want to go they won't.

The sad thing about all of this is if Sadler had been the owner when we reached the Premier league we would probably be a championship club at worst by now because the money generated would more than likely have been reinvested, as it is we're competing against quite a few teams in a division that have more money than us. It's always going to be an uphill battle, you can be as ambitious as you want but if you haven't got the tools you'll never achieve them.
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"...we're competing against quite a few teams in a division that have more money than us"?

I have long urged Sadler to find another multimillionaire as a joint owner.

It now makes sense to have a potential successor if HK events force a sale.
 
poolseasider said:
What would they pay £25/24?
We're then quibbling about less than a price a pint of beer before the game.

Let's face it the many I speak to conveniently use the price as an excuse but when you nail it down they don't want to pay for crap third division football.
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£29 is ridiculous to watch league one football. As I say Blackpool isn’t there first choice team so £29 for a ticket or they could go to the pub and have 7 pints with that? The point you’re missing is fans are not willing to pay that money so if the club lowered the match day ticket price they would be making a lot more revenue from the fans that turn up on the day.
 
Chrismalkin said:
Real lack of ambition on this thread.

Raggy had it spot on when he said kids in Blackpool should be bullied if they support anyone other than Blackpool. A mind set shift is required.

The club can shift the football culture of our town with a well developed 5-10 year commercial strategy.
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Bullying kids wow I'm sure me and the two others who supported BFC the 80's in a school of over 1000 would have got away with that.

Tangerine1953! said:
£29 is ridiculous to watch league one football. As I say Blackpool isn’t there first choice team so £29 for a ticket or they could go to the pub and have 7 pints with that? The point you’re missing is fans are not willing to pay that money so if the club lowered the match day ticket price they would be making a lot more revenue from the fans that turn up on the day.
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Would they you can't get served now and majority don't buy stuff in the ground.
Eight of us are in the pub until close to KO and then get in.

Lowering the price also costs the club as you'll have to charge your lowest price to away fans and won't make a jot of difference when your bottom of the league.
 
I reckon it will be a good atmosphere Sat, Cardiff bringing a fair few, and a proper homecoming for Ian Evatt. Got a good feeling about the result too. But the club should have marketed it better - particularly as Evatt won the play off final against them, but I suppose that was 15 years ago and irrelevant to Saturday's fixture.
 
paulco said:
"...we're competing against quite a few teams in a division that have more money than us"?

I have long urged Sadler to find another multimillionaire as a joint owner.

It now makes sense to have a potential successor if HK events force a sale.
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He probably has tried multiple times. The fact of the matter is, who is going to want to invest in Blackpool FC? We’ve got a temporary stand that needs to be replaced, a training ground that was used back in the 1950s. The level of investment required to get the club to championship standard isn’t chump change, you’re looking at £50/60million easily I’d say. Alongside that, Sadler is pumping at least £5million a year of his own cash to keep the club going. Few people would be willing to part with that type of money for a championship club, let alone a league one club.

We just need to accept that we’re always going to be a club that’s run on a tight budget, that occasionally finds a gem of a manager/squad to give us a few good years of footy, before reality inevitably takes us back to square one.
 
FY4Representer said:
He probably has tried multiple times. The fact of the matter is, who is going to want to invest in Blackpool FC? We’ve got a temporary stand that needs to be replaced, a training ground that was used back in the 1950s. The level of investment required to get the club to championship standard isn’t chump change, you’re looking at £50/60million easily I’d say. Alongside that, Sadler is pumping at least £5million a year of his own cash to keep the club going. Few people would be willing to part with that type of money for a championship club, let alone a league one club.

We just need to accept that we’re always going to be a club that’s run on a tight budget, that occasionally finds a gem of a manager/squad to give us a few good years of footy, before reality inevitably takes us back to square one.
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Paulco is right about one thing - we need more than one owner / investor. Unless you get a billionaire, then a consortium offers more opportunity and resilience.
But both the club and town are not massive draws for investors, and particularly those which haven't got a connection with the town or club. We were lucky SS did.
The other issue is how much SS has been asking for the club. If he is being unrealistic in his valuation, then he won't sell it.
 
bfcpete said:
Paulco is right about one thing - we need more than one owner / investor. Unless you get a billionaire, then a consortium offers more opportunity and resilience.
But both the club and town are not massive draws for investors, and particularly those which haven't got a connection with the town or club. We were lucky SS did.
The other issue is how much SS has been asking for the club. If he is being unrealistic in his valuation, then he won't sell it.
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Football ownership used to be for anyone with a bit of financial clout behind them. Now, it’s absolutely pointless getting into it unless you’re a billionaire. The costs that come with running a club are astronomical, and when you need to invest in the infrastructure like we do, those costs go up even more. Another thing nobody really takes into account is the cost of living crisis - I daren’t even think about how much it’s affected clubs like ours, the energy bills, food costs, beer costs etc.
 
FY4Representer said:
Football ownership used to be for anyone with a bit of financial clout behind them. Now, it’s absolutely pointless getting into it unless you’re a billionaire. The costs that come with running a club are astronomical, and when you need to invest in the infrastructure like we do, those costs go up even more. Another thing nobody really takes into account is the cost of living crisis - I daren’t even think about how much it’s affected clubs like ours, the energy bills, food costs, beer costs etc.
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The cost of living point is very important, both for clubs and their supporters. And the recent data from the ONS has shown how deprived Blackpool is. London and the SE attracts the billionaires, higher incomes and more investment in clubs.
 
Tangerine1953! said:
I will do oap graham. I take it you go home and away every match?
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I will be at Cardiff game and Tranmere away too. I am a ST holder and been to 3 away games including Plymouth.
It is a 120 mile round trip to home games.
I miss the odd game when I take Winter holidays.
Your mates can buy OAP tickets as they never check!
Happy now.
 
I know someone who has done it for years and never checked. Yes I am aware of different light codes.
Away tickets they just write “Senior” on tickets.
 
We definitely can improve on attendances and it takes rebuilding after some years of mainly decline now.

But I think we've already taken that 1st step getting Evatt in, who will bring a modern playing approach, high energy etc which were already seeing signs of.

You'll always get people who look to the past rather pointlessly. Yes some crowds were low etc, but it's not worth comparing, we used to have half a stadium, under tinpot owners etc.

It's night and day now, we can get 10k home fans fairly easily in league 1 if doing OK. With cheaper tickets and or initiatives we can do more even in this league. Initiatives like ST holders can bring a new fan for free or whatever we come up with.

We need relative success, this is why the cup is important, if you can draw big teams at home that helps get people in through the door, gets them registered, some get the bug.

A promotion again, but with fans actually in attendance this time, would be massive, that's when fanbases grow.

Things can change pretty quickly if things go amazingly, but a bit longer term you can build over a few seasons.
 
They don't check when going through the turnstiles, I have a ticket for an under 5 that rarely attends, so for fun have used it when my 19yr old son enters, and have done for last 3home games and nothing has been said, (he does have a 19 -21 yr old season ticket) even though as a full time student has no money coming in. There should be a student discount for upto 21,
 
Regarding our non season tickets attendees, £29 is outrageous for league 1 but without delving too far into the other league clubs it’s probably a touch over average. IMO Clearly charging such a price to coin it in from away fan.
I don’t know what the away figures will be on average this season…..say 1,000 for arguments sake so if we dropped the walk in prices to £25 that would be £4,000 per game from away x 23 = £100,000 per season.

Now for as long as I’ve been a Seasider I’ve never really seen a massive walk in contingent, would dropping the price to £25 bring in another 160 fans per game? Because that’s what it would take to break even on losing out on the away fans cash.

I don’t like it and I believe it’s short sighted as the more Pool fans the better especially walk ins and younguns.

unfortunately (Tin hat on) I’ve let my season ticket lapse the season before last due to working every other weekend and now if I want to take my family it’ll be £80 ish and that’s before I factor in drinks and treats. I suspect that’s the issue for a lot of families, can’t afford season tickets or can’t justify them if you can’t go to many games yet also can’t afford or justify spending so much on 2 hours entertainment.
 
bfcpete said:
Paulco is right about one thing - we need more than one owner / investor. Unless you get a billionaire, then a consortium offers more opportunity and resilience.
But both the club and town are not massive draws for investors, and particularly those which haven't got a connection with the town or club. We were lucky SS did.
The other issue is how much SS has been asking for the club. If he is being unrealistic in his valuation, then he won't sell it.
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There are people out there that are interested, who knows, Sadler could be asking too much money for the club. You can't force someone to go to a game especially if they support another club, the only time we turned the town tangerine was in 2010 and a couple of seasons after that but the oysters destroyed that and we have never got it back. die hard supporters will always be that but the majority of football supporters throw their support behind teams who are top of the EPL it's shallow but so many have to want to support success rather than their home club who, basically are in a relegation battle and with an owner and PR team who are utterly useless at selling the club to the local people. Sadler has his court case in under 6 months and I think we will see how much Sadler needs to sell the club then.
 
Hankey2009 said:
Regarding our non season tickets attendees, £29 is outrageous for league 1 but without delving too far into the other league clubs it’s probably a touch over average. IMO Clearly charging such a price to coin it in from away fan.
I don’t know what the away figures will be on average this season…..say 1,000 for arguments sake so if we dropped the walk in prices to £25 that would be £4,000 per game from away x 23 = £100,000 per season.

Now for as long as I’ve been a Seasider I’ve never really seen a massive walk in contingent, would dropping the price to £25 bring in another 160 fans per game? Because that’s what it would take to break even on losing out on the away fans cash.

I don’t like it and I believe it’s short sighted as the more Pool fans the better especially walk ins and younguns.

unfortunately (Tin hat on) I’ve let my season ticket lapse the season before last due to working every other weekend and now if I want to take my family it’ll be £80 ish and that’s before I factor in drinks and treats. I suspect that’s the issue for a lot of families, can’t afford season tickets or can’t justify them if you can’t go to many games yet also can’t afford or justify spending so much on 2 hours entertainment.
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I've been monitoring away prices so far this season and it's ranged from £18 to stand up at Exeter and Burton to £28 in an old stand at Orient. Most games have been around £26.

What does get my goat as an exile is that the club charge a £2 admin fee plus £1.50 postage, so an extra £3.50 per game.
 
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