Is the SLO missing?

JJpool said:
Not seen online since end of December.

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We’ll we’ve painted the rusty Stanchions, we can now walk down Bloomfield road after the game, the idiots seemed to have finally stopped throwing missiles and the club aren’t changing the pie suppliers so we’ve nothing else to talk about. 😄
 
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SLO_BFC said:
Been proactive on FB and Twitter. Monitor AVFTT regularly but only post on here as SLO if there's something relevant.
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Fair enough.

Obviously we don't know how the season will end but is there any scope, given our mostly empty half east, to try a ticket deal for new and lapsed fans? Or bring a friend or something type deal.

Given its empty anyway it doesn't really matter about the cheaper price given its all extra. I think you have to offer away fans the same price but if its a 3 game deal for 40 or 2 game deal for 25 quid or whatever it is....

I know the east isn’t ideal, but we can't afford to wait for a new East before attracting more. Now is the time, especially if we end up safe mid table.

Once casuals are through the door and experience the atmosphere i think it'll help keep some.

Can you tell us if the club have any plans like this?

Just we missed out on the usual promotion playoff game sell out and Wembley crowd with all the casuals who would then go on to attend.

Id love to know the clubs strategy, beyond success on the pitch, to grow the fanbse?
 
JJpool said:
Fair enough.

Obviously we don't know how the season will end but is there any scope, given our mostly empty half east, to try a ticket deal for new and lapsed fans? Or bring a friend or something type deal.

Given its empty anyway it doesn't really matter about the cheaper price given its all extra. I think you have to offer away fans the same price but if its a 3 game deal for 40 or 2 game deal for 25 quid or whatever it is....

I know the east isn’t ideal, but we can't afford to wait for a new East before attracting more. Now is the time, especially if we end up safe mid table.

Once casuals are through the door and experience the atmosphere i think it'll help keep some.

Can you tell us if the club have any plans like this?

Just we missed out on the usual promotion playoff game sell out and Wembley crowd with all the casuals who would then go on to attend.

Id love to know the clubs strategy, beyond success on the pitch, to grow the fanbse?
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The fylde coast public aren’t doing there bit. 9.5k home fans last game was shocking let’s be honest. I’ve been underwhelmed with crowds this season and it’s a shame because the club deserve better. I had a quick look before and our average attendance in 2014 in the championship was 14200 that’s more than what we got against the nobbers in the derby, why ?
Where are those people who happily came under the oystons but won’t now ?
More has to be done, moving aways into the north east and doing better deals for teenagers and kids in the south east or family ticket bundles would be a start.
 
JJpool said:
Fair enough.

Obviously we don't know how the season will end but is there any scope, given our mostly empty half east, to try a ticket deal for new and lapsed fans? Or bring a friend or something type deal.

Given its empty anyway it doesn't really matter about the cheaper price given its all extra. I think you have to offer away fans the same price but if its a 3 game deal for 40 or 2 game deal for 25 quid or whatever it is....

I know the east isn’t ideal, but we can't afford to wait for a new East before attracting more. Now is the time, especially if we end up safe mid table.

Once casuals are through the door and experience the atmosphere i think it'll help keep some.

Can you tell us if the club have any plans like this?

Just we missed out on the usual promotion playoff game sell out and Wembley crowd with all the casuals who would then go on to attend.

Id love to know the clubs strategy, beyond success on the pitch, to grow the fanbse?
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Totally agree. My mate went once with his kid and was hooked. Get people through the door. Special price for people who haven't bought this year or something.

People getting all melty about that somehow being unfair can just be melts about it.

I also love the Morecambe approach. Tiered pricing so the more people buy a ticket, the cheaper the ticket is (season tickets)

It's a quality idea. Maybe that wouldn't work for us but we're still short of where we can be.

People will say 'yeah but' but why not? Empty seats don't earn *anything* and they don't grow future fans who may then pay full price or buy season tickets or whatever it is.
 
Northstandsinger said:
The fylde coast public aren’t doing there bit. 9.5k home fans last game was shocking let’s be honest. I’ve been underwhelmed with crowds this season and it’s a shame because the club deserve better. I had a quick look before and our average attendance in 2014 in the championship was 14200 that’s more than what we got against the nobbers in the derby, why ?
Where are those people who happily came under the oystons but won’t now ?
More has to be done, moving aways into the north east and doing better deals for teenagers and kids in the south east or family ticket bundles would be a start.
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First home game I went to was in 1964 v Burnley in the top flight. Only 12,000 bothered to turn up.
 
JJpool said:
Fair enough.

Obviously we don't know how the season will end but is there any scope, given our mostly empty half east, to try a ticket deal for new and lapsed fans? Or bring a friend or something type deal.

Given its empty anyway it doesn't really matter about the cheaper price given its all extra. I think you have to offer away fans the same price but if its a 3 game deal for 40 or 2 game deal for 25 quid or whatever it is....

I know the east isn’t ideal, but we can't afford to wait for a new East before attracting more. Now is the time, especially if we end up safe mid table.

Once casuals are through the door and experience the atmosphere i think it'll help keep some.

Can you tell us if the club have any plans like this?

Just we missed out on the usual promotion playoff game sell out and Wembley crowd with all the casuals who would then go on to attend.

Id love to know the clubs strategy, beyond success on the pitch, to grow the fanbse?
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All noted JJ. Given away fans now exit in NE corner I suspect putting home fans in the East is not on (plus 3 or 4 big clubs may want both halves of the East). Next SD meeting is due so strategy questions will get posed there.
 
Northstandsinger said:
The fylde coast public aren’t doing there bit. 9.5k home fans last game was shocking let’s be honest. I’ve been underwhelmed with crowds this season and it’s a shame because the club deserve better. I had a quick look before and our average attendance in 2014 in the championship was 14200 that’s more than what we got against the nobbers in the derby, why ?
Where are those people who happily came under the oystons but won’t now ?
More has to be done, moving aways into the north east and doing better deals for teenagers and kids in the south east or family ticket bundles would be a start.
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The last game maybe wasn't the best judge with many skint late Jan, also the motorway closed may have put some exiles off. Also on social media there seemed to be some people overreacting, saying im staying in doors as it'll kick off with Millwall, so maybe some thought that, weird.

It was actually closer to 9.8k, with Millwall having nearly 900 I think.

Well see on Saturday, but a lot of attendances are down compared to pre covid.

Maybe some have been scared too much, hopefully all that's behind us now and people get over it.

But our time in the championship previously followed the premier league and the gains there, also we had a team flying near the top.

It doesn't help for our biggest games we've had, that are previous purchase history only and some not able to get in, as the purchase history wasn't there.....and for the biggest game against the nobbers only 800 people beyond the 3 stands were allowed in, bizarre as once they let more in why not open the blocks fully. We missed out there as they are the games when people want to go, you have to be able to accommodate them. Especially with thousands of empty seats next to them. Madness.

We did lose some fans during the boycott years.

As said above we also missed the playoff home sell out and Wembley 30k crowd. They then go on to attend.

This is why for me it's vital, especially given the unknown state of the previous purchase history, to have a big cheap game to get all casuals and new fans in the area on the system so they don't miss out in big games. Also for deals.
 
SLO_BFC said:
All noted JJ. Given away fans now exit in NE corner I suspect putting home fans in the East is not on (plus 3 or 4 big clubs may want both halves of the East). Next SD meeting is due so strategy questions will get posed there.
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Cheers, do these points get raised with the board, or at the next meeting maybe whenever that is?

Also if it meant us growing the fanbase im sure away fans could exit the other way for a game.... or... seeing as they're going past the north anyway, they may as well be in there anyway. Put them in the north part and fill it from the middle block next to the media section, block by block to the north.

That way if theres only 1k away fans they are placed nearer the halfway line.

Seems to me a lot of these issues are exaggerated, issued happen all the time at other clubs, yet no restrictions on crowds and also crowds segregation is small, ours is ridiculous and often is many blocks wide, unheard of and costing us like the pne game.

Simon has done a deal before in his first game, the football on the pitch will attract more, but given we missed out on the usual promotion crowd boost, we should do all we can.
 
td53 said:
Totally agree. My mate went once with his kid and was hooked. Get people through the door. Special price for people who haven't bought this year or something.

People getting all melty about that somehow being unfair can just be melts about it.

I also love the Morecambe approach. Tiered pricing so the more people buy a ticket, the cheaper the ticket is (season tickets)

It's a quality idea. Maybe that wouldn't work for us but we're still short of where we can be.

People will say 'yeah but' but why not? Empty seats don't earn *anything* and they don't grow future fans who may then pay full price or buy season tickets or whatever it is.
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I'd also drop the on the day increase next season.

The Morecombe tiered pricing approach or something like that is clever and incentivises people to bring friends etc.

You could imagine people paying in full but then when more turn up they are due a credit and their bfc account shows a credit which can be refunded, or kept to knock prices off tickets or purchases.

I'd also not charge 28 quid top price and I'd have more games at 20. Weve not had many.

To see what effect a small price drop has they should put an exciting game as cat a and see how many go compared to cat b.
 
should be student deals aswell...in fact just plain wrong that there are not better deals for the 18-24 year olds...when everyone was bigging up our fans as the best in the league I pointed out that the home figures are not that impressive...the club needs to do more to win the lost generation back
 
Northstandsinger said:
The fact away fans aren’t in the north east when this season at Huddersfield, reading, Fulham, Swansea, derby ect your literally a few seats away is just a joke.
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Bournemouth and Forest as well. Don't really understand the logic. Away fans exist past north. Fine.

Why can't home fans exit via south then?

Is it summat to do with toilets and refreshments?

It's weird I agree. We seem to have to have away fans in a separate stand but no one else is required to.
 
Northstandsinger said:
The fact away fans aren’t in the north east when this season at Huddersfield, reading, Fulham, Swansea, derby ect your literally a few seats away is just a joke.
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Yeah it's like pool fans are treated differently. OK there's been a few minor incidents, like at many grounds, bit an over reaction.

Even the nobbers after moaning about safety, once we had only 800 put in the east, 2 empty blocks and a media section away....

Suddenly its OK and safe for them to put their fans in the same stand closer than the 800 were from them here.
 
JJpool said:
I'd also drop the on the day increase next season.

The Morecombe tiered pricing approach or something like that is clever and incentivises people to bring friends etc.

You could imagine people paying in full but then when more turn up they are due a credit and their bfc account shows a credit which can be refunded, or kept to knock prices off tickets or purchases.

I'd also not charge 28 quid top price and I'd have more games at 20. Weve not had many.

To see what effect a small price drop has they should put an exciting game as cat a and see how many go compared to cat b.
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Don't understand the on the day increase at all. It's not just our club. It's a weird surcharge that's crept in across the game that's difficult to justify to me.
 
td53 said:
Bournemouth and Forest as well. Don't really understand the logic. Away fans exist past north. Fine.

Why can't home fans exit via south then?

Is it summat to do with toilets and refreshments?

It's weird I agree. We seem to have to have away fans in a separate stand but no one else is required to.
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Huddersfield and Stoke fans.

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As for toilets get a decent block of temp facilities for now, a burger van or 2.
 
And here's me thinking the OP title was a plea from Karl Robinson for the missing Seasiders Last Offer for Brannagan hence the bitterness

Oh well Jordan's back home and the money's earning interest in the bank until summer.
 
td53 said:
Don't understand the on the day increase at all. It's not just our club. It's a weird surcharge that's crept in across the game that's difficult to justify to me.
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Yeah so for all the talk of doing a lot right there's still a lot that could be done. Maybe its in the pipeline, maybe because of the ludicrous way the east is used its not viable.

But we don't hear of the clubs plans on this stuff so can only speculate.

To me its absolutely vital, I'd be doing everything to fill those seats now.
 
If the north end of the east can't be given up to home floating fans due to the new away fan exit strategy, how about the South end of the east? Phew, that was a long and convoluted statement but hopefully makes sense. Might help improve the atmosphere in the South too.
 
Been going for 30 odd years.

Our attendances aren't bad; at the end of the season, it will be interesting to look at the average coated with my lifetime. I think it will be in the top 5 or 6.

We have a core b fans bar of about 10,000 huge it take.

We have an exiled fan base in the low thousands, which is why our away followings are disproportionately high and loud.

We have a floating home fan base in the 10's if thousands; fans who want to be entertained and be part of something successful. It's an event as much as a game. Can we convert them when we are a mid-table Championship team? Not sure

Our attendances always go up when we are top end of whatever division we are in.

They are things I would change.

Walk on prices are high. Our categories are aimed at maximising away revenue which I can understand but it will put some people off.

16-21 prices are far too high.

Other than that; win, getting a winning run going, play attractive football and get into the playoffs and our attendances will rise.
 
td53 said:
Bournemouth and Forest as well. Don't really understand the logic. Away fans exist past north. Fine.

Why can't home fans exit via south then?

Is it summat to do with toilets and refreshments?

It's weird I agree. We seem to have to have away fans in a separate stand but no one else is required to.
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Just had a campaign to stop them exiting at the south due to crowd congestion issues so the club & police listened to fans & have since made them exit North for safety reasons . This now stops us selling East north to home fans .
So the answer should be to put the away fans in East North to start with , however due to our resident numpties who can't behave themselves even as fans vacate via the East north ! The club & police are not keen to risk the potential for added trouble .
Not being able to fill the ground is partly due to the irresponsible behaviour of some of our own so called fans who think its big & clever to hurl objects & cause trouble , They obviously don't realise how stupid they look to the vast majority of fans .
 
XBeds-Now-Kings_Meaburn said:
Just had a campaign to stop them exiting at the south due to crowd congestion issues so the club & police listened to fans & have since made them exit North for safety reasons . This now stops us selling East north to home fans .
So the answer should be to put the away fans in East North to start with , however due to our resident numpties who can't behave themselves even as fans vacate via the East north ! The club & police are not keen to risk the potential for added trouble .
Not being able to fill the ground is partly due to the irresponsible behaviour of some of our own so called fans who think its big & clever to hurl objects & cause trouble , They obviously don't realise how stupid they look to the vast majority of fans .
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The same police who are happy to facilitate and accommodate Knobbers moving from other parts of their ground to share a stand with Blackpool fans?

There's a level of inconsistency and outright double standards at play regarding policing of football in Lancashire which isn't helpful.
 
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TSSeasider said:
The same police who are happy to facilitate and accommodate Knobbers moving from other parts of their ground be share a stand with Blackpool fans?

There's a level of inconsistency and outright double standards at play regarding policing of football in Lancashire which isn't helpful.
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Exactly, they invaded the pitch last time so hardly like there was no potential clash.
 
TSSeasider said:
The same police who are happy to facilitate and accommodate Knobbers moving from other parts of their ground be share a stand with Blackpool fans?

There's a level of inconsistency and outright double standards at play regarding policing of football in Lancashire which isn't helpful.
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shame it can't be like it is at fulham with fans mingling in the concourse with no trouble at all
 
XBeds-Now-Kings_Meaburn said:
Just had a campaign to stop them exiting at the south due to crowd congestion issues so the club & police listened to fans & have since made them exit North for safety reasons . This now stops us selling East north to home fans .
So the answer should be to put the away fans in East North to start with , however due to our resident numpties who can't behave themselves even as fans vacate via the East north ! The club & police are not keen to risk the potential for added trouble .
Not being able to fill the ground is partly due to the irresponsible behaviour of some of our own so called fans who think its big & clever to hurl objects & cause trouble , They obviously don't realise how stupid they look to the vast majority of fans .
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Boro, rovers and Barnsley all been in the north half of the east this season with no issues.
 
Regarding attendances I still think some people are staying away because of Covid. I bought a part season ticket for the North and got one of the last seats in my block and online it showed most seats sold. In the games I've been too there are quite few empty seats close to where I sit.
 
Mark_GT said:
If the north end of the east can't be given up to home floating fans due to the new away fan exit strategy, how about the South end of the east? Phew, that was a long and convoluted statement but hopefully makes sense. Might help improve the atmosphere in the South too.
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Presumably the south end of the east has toilet facilities etc that the away supporters use. Bit trickier to separate them in the north part of the east stand. Although temporary toilets could be used?

Ahh bollox to it just build a new two tiered east stand - job done
 
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