It would be almost impossible to for the club to consider every different supporters needs.
I mostly agree with you, I'm just not convinced that they've got it right - and it's not just some individuals, they have decided to favour ST holders, and disfavour everybody else. A significant minority of regular supporters will be pissed off by the new pricing I think. ST holders are already the vast majority, and it will be even more the case next season. They do need to balance the books but there isn't only one way to do that. The feeling will develop in the town that, if you are not a ST holder, BFC is over-priced, it's a bit of a closed shop, you either go all in, or you don't bother. I suspect. We might get two or three 20 quid games when sales are particularly bad.
They have announced it…Maybe they should announce this Membership Scheme.
I think the prices are still linked. And I think there was the same scope for creativity last season?
Yeah ok fine.They have announced it…
And I’m sure they’ll go much further when they start to sell them. It would be a complete waste of the marketing budget and totally counter-productive to the current campaign to sell Season Tickets to push Memberships right now.
It’s included in the Minutes of the recent Fan Meeting and in the Public Announcrmrnt about pricing for next season. They haven’t done a public firework display concerning the Heineken Experience or Corporate either, which are also included in the recent article.
The prices were linked last year and the whole point of a membership scheme is to disassociate the home and away ticket pricing.
For now, we’re trying to market and sell Season Tickets. They are reasonably priced, there’s a finance option available and so let’s get them bought and support the Club who are investing huge sums to try and achieve the success we all desire
Let's see. SS has paid for the right to decide at the end if the day. He's running the club well, he's investing. I'm not a fan of these prices but it's a minor blip in relation to all those things and it doesn't need to be permanent. There's room for manouevre. Some cheaper games probably. And at least we have TTV now for the half hearted and the short funded. Better than nowt. I think it could well reduce attendances. Then they'll have to decide what to do about that.
Please note: the EFL also allows Blackpool to run ticket promotions three times a season, which the Club plans to take full advantage of.
I know why you posted that to show the matchday tickets, but that just rubs it in with a cheap ST price and a cheaper matchday price too.
Buy a TTV season ticket - it was 160 quid last year I think..... 10er per game on ttv, save myself over 3 hours of travel, plus a virtual holiday to Luxembourg every weekend
Having said that, just thought, it's still going to cost me £430 to watch all the games at home on telly...
It’ll make zero difference at all. Our walk ins on the day will be less than 10 people trying to get tickets. We don’t have a queue of random potential fans. It’s a myth made up on this forum.
So are you saying the only fans we have are season ticket holders?
Largely agree but 12/13000 is 4/5000 more than we have as ST holders. Will we hold on to these people is maybe the question?
3,000 of that are away fans, should have been clearer, we're only going to peak around 10 or 11 thousand home fans per game on an average week by week basis unless we're doing well.
Away Fans and Corporate Customers as well… we’ve probably averaged 1500 Match Ticket purchases from our own fans.
This ...
I knew we'd get it together again one day....
Many reasons. stadium safety and trouble at games for a couple, add in that many grounds sell out (granted in the prem).
I was buying a season ticket back in 1967 and I'm sure many others did too. It also got you into reserve games. You were given a book of numbered tickets and on each turnstile there was board showing which ticket number you needed to get in.
Of course, people did. The balance between STs and walk ons was very different though. I went to nearly all home games with my dad and brother and we paid cash on the turnstiles back then. Scratching sheds.
Times have moved on though voy, and I reckon the st numbers of ever team are pretty much greater than walk ons. But I'm with you with regards to the fact that imo, single match ticket prices are too dear. And neither am i much of a fan of the membership scheme.
Yeah potentially but I think we all know why the price is higher, training ground and stadium redevelopments to pay for and who will be happy to pay 30 quid? Almost every single away fan across the country. Blackpool is almost number 1 on the list of away venues to go to for a large portion of fans.
Yes they've definitely moved on, different world. I'm just questioning how it's changed so much that very few people walk on to a game now. Is that completely unavoidable? I really don't know. Non-ST holders are a potential source of greater income and spreading the club into the community. They are almost ruled out of the equation now. There are only so many people who want to commit to a ST, and there's a lot more people who want to go to games here and there than currently do. I actually think a lot of people would take a game in now and then, but now look at the model and think no, I'm not doing that. But it's not simple and prices elsewhere aren't wildly different.
Mentioning the past and making comparisons are not living in the past. Yes times have changed. But keep analysing the present and whether things could be improved. Use history as a lesson. And don't always be a smart arse!
The trouble is that people tend to look at history with rose tinted specs... Largely because they were much younger, less grumpy and with a lot more spunk about them, as it were.Mentioning the past and making comparisons are not living in the past. Yes times have changed. But keep analysing the present and whether things could be improved. Use history as a lesson. And don't always be a smart arse!
Your imagination is running wild. Assumption after assumption.
To the best of your knowledge, were you ever taken for experiments?
Was hoping I wasn't alone....
I was sort of taking the piss out of some of the increasingly extreme examples of people who might just suffer from the Matchday ‘walk up’ prices (all five of them).Was hoping I wasn't alone....
But in all seriousness looking at a few people in the crowds, you're probably onto something, there's no way they're human.
Yeah I know, back to reality....
Oooo I didn't know that!! Cheers!
