On the back of that positivity- Knob End tickets

JJpool said:
Ahh , you've chosen to ignore the fact you mocked us for a slightly longer time to sell more tickets for a night game on sky and moved onto guessing crowds based on gaps. 🤡

As for your random point, simple maths tells you otherwise based on the official attendance. Crowds have fallen a bit but prices have gone up and times are tougher.

Your jump is because of the very cheap price and generating a buzz.

You haven't just jumped with the old prices. You seem to want to forget what you had last season and last season still included free to under 11's. If we had massively cheapened our tickets and yours was similar to last season I'd say the same to anyone on here bragging.

I'm not mocking it, just surely you would acknowledge it makes a difference?

Also I've not seen one pne fan willing to answer... how many kids are there who get in for free? It's probably quite a few isn't it, 2k? All things to factor if you want an honest comparison. But of course you don't want that do you.
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All I no is we had last season 34 % adult s/t holders it’s jump to over 54% adult S/T you make a lot of these free for under 11s they don’t count unless they go .
We played a night match against wba the other night 14,000 crowd on sky 8pm kick off 400 to 500 WBA fans tops and very few kids as a school night
You lot can twist things which ever way you want we have got fans who want to go and watch the club over 2,500 went to Sunderland & Huddersfield next Tuesday should be a sell out & stoke are bringing 3000 to deepdale so there will be another 18,000 + gate.
The club are building our fan base which is good for the future.
Where is BFC future?
You have got to get them young & you have them for life. 🤔
 
JJpool said:
I'd rather we did all we could, if the club can afford to build for the future like that then great.

It's not the policy, if you had stayed at similar prices and crowds to last season and we suddenly went very cheap with season tickets, gave kids ST away and you had pool fans on your board bragging, clearly you'd point to the the main reasons.

Not that it's a bad policy.

As it happens I don't think we we'd currently get as many casuals etc attending for the bigger games as we had years of shite, a few good years, then boycott years, then a few more good ones now. We've an unusual history that damaged the club and fanbase. We also haven't had a completed stadium, nor the ability to fill it with deals etc like you have for a number of years in the championship, plus big cup games attracring casuals etc. Those things build fanbases over time.

We are still a number of years behind in that sense.
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We have never been in the PL we have struggled for years .
Blackpool fans are always making excuses
For your poor support it’s never been big even in the PL.
Not sure if Blackpool public want a football team .
 
Livingthedream47 said:
All I no is we had last season 34 % adult s/t holders it’s jump to over 54% adult S/T you make a lot of these free for under 11s they don’t count unless they go .
We played a night match against wba the other night 14,000 crowd on sky 8pm kick off 400 to 500 WBA fans tops and very few kids as a school night
You lot can twist things which ever way you want we have got fans who want to go and watch the club over 2,500 went to Sunderland & Huddersfield next Tuesday should be a sell out & stoke are bringing 3000 to deepdale so there will be another 18,000 + gate.
The club are building our fan base which is good for the future.
Where is BFC future?
You have got to get them young & you have them for life. 🤔
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See post further back to ODT where I explained am not mocking it, just has to be factored in if your comparing.

Of course it makes a difference.

You do realise that ST holders are counted in the totals, so kids will be counted for night games or anyone whether there or not.

There's no twisting, its a pretty simple concept if you give a decent chunk away for free and drastically reduce the ST prices, you'd expect to see attendances go up at any club, its just basic sense.

Our future is hopefully bright with SS wanting to get the training ground and east stand built. When we have a completed stadium it'll help as you can attract more for big games which is how fanbases grow, you can also then have proper deals and meet demand for bigger away followings should we need to. The hope seems to be to progress via selling and reinvesting.

A lot of us have said we'd like to see more being done to attract new fans etc and 30 is too high.
 
Livingthedream47 said:
We have never been in the PL we have struggled for years .
Blackpool fans are always making excuses
For your poor support it’s never been big even in the PL.
Not sure if Blackpool public want a football team .
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You haven't struggled though at all. You've had relative success and stability by being in the championship being supported by a billionaire.

You clearly have no idea what it's like to have been through years of real shite like we have. People were happy to have a club nevermind championship football with a rich owner.

Our 1 season in the sun doesn't undo all the shite we've had, it's hardly an excuse when fans boycotted the club for eg. Or when we languished in the lower league for ages losing a generation of fans, takes time to build that back.

We are behind most other clubs on basic things like the stadium, limiting crowds at times.

Yes the Blackpool public doesn't back the team as much as some towns do, neither did you last season if thats the case. But actually considering were behind we do ok, also Blackpool has many people with allegiances to other teams. It's not like Burnley where its all one big family and the only other thing to do at the weekend is watch the traffic lights change. Blackpool is full of entertainment, tons and tons to do so you compete with that too. The nature of the work is a lot of hospitality involving weekends. All factors.

Can people back the club more, of course, getting pricing right for the area helps though especially right now.

Were still only at the start of Sadlers ownership and we've already had success, in a few years and with a completed stadium, if we stay in the championship, the club will have had some real stability and you'll see the growth. Hopefully see it sooner than that too.
 
JJpool said:
You haven't struggled though at all. You've had relative success and stability by being in the championship being supported by a billionaire.

You clearly have no idea what it's like to have been through years of real shite like we have. People were happy to have a club nevermind championship football with a rich owner.

Our 1 season in the sun doesn't undo all the shite we've had, it's hardly an excuse when fans boycotted the club for eg. Or when we languished in the lower league for ages losing a generation of fans, takes time to build that back.

We are behind most other clubs on basic things like the stadium, limiting crowds at times.

Yes the Blackpool public doesn't back the team as much as some towns do, neither did you last season if thats the case. But actually considering were behind we do ok, also Blackpool has many people with allegiances to other teams. It's not like Burnley where its all one big family and the only other thing to do at the weekend is watch the traffic lights change. Blackpool is full of entertainment, tons and tons to do so you compete with that too. The nature of the work is a lot of hospitality involving weekends. All factors.

Can people back the club more, of course, getting pricing right for the area helps though especially right now.

Were still only at the start of Sadlers ownership and we've already had success, in a few years and with a completed stadium, if we stay in the championship, the club will have had some real stability and you'll see the growth. Hopefully see it sooner than that too.
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Agree JJ

L47 - you haven't struggled compared to what we've been through, not even remotely. You've spent 18 out of the last 22 seasons in the championship, many of which with a completed stadium. While we've been enduring court cases involving the owner stripping the club of millions of pounds, causing us to spend 13 of the last 22 seasons in the lower leagues, not to mention the 20 years before that.
Not even close to struggling compared to us. It's not an excuse, it's just a fact.

I'd say that PNE have reached their peak in what crowds they can achieve in this league, whereas we have some way to go yet. We're not going to become a huge club or anything, but in 2014 we averaged over 14k, with seven attendances above 15k and that was with a restricted away section due to the stadium being incomplete. The support at Blackpool will be there with a competitive team, the right pricing strategy and a completed stadium.
 
BFC_53 said:
Agree JJ

L47 - you haven't struggled compared to what we've been through, not even remotely. You've spent 18 out of the last 22 seasons in the championship, many of which with a completed stadium. While we've been enduring court cases involving the owner stripping the club of millions of pounds, causing us to spend 13 of the last 22 seasons in the lower leagues, not to mention the 20 years before that.
Not even close to struggling compared to us. It's not an excuse, it's just a fact.

I'd say that PNE have reached their peak in what crowds they can achieve in this league, whereas we have some way to go yet. We're not going to become a huge club or anything, but in 2014 we averaged over 14k, with seven attendances above 15k and that was with a restricted away section due to the stadium being incomplete. The support at Blackpool will be there with a competitive team, the right pricing strategy and a completed stadium.
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Exactly, ridiculous to compare or to claim what weve been through has no impact or is an excuse.

Anyone sensible will admit it would be damaging.

I know some pne fans do get it but some just want to think this is us at our peak right now, which is silly as we've had more fans in the championship before and still don't even have the completed stadium or many years of stability.

Were also charging a high price for the area.

We could grow quicker if we priced it right.

But like the nobbers, if we could actually progress in cups and get big sides at home, that helps massively by filling the stadium and over many seasons will build a fanbase up. So will being near the playoffs and playing great football.

Even some of our own fans have no real vision and say well were not filling it now so we don't need the east, forgetting it has to happen anyway because we won't get the safety cert. But also in a cost of living crisis at high prices and some early season apathy, we hardly at our peak are we.
 
I really hope this is a sell out

I bought a handful of tickets last week presuming it would be sold out within days and I could make a few hundred quid selling them on but that’s not even looking likely at this stage.

If we can’t sell out for this game it really is embarrassing - and some of us wanted us to have a 20k seater stadium ffs
 
BlackpoolJord said:
I really hope this is a sell out

I bought a handful of tickets last week presuming it would be sold out within days and I could make a few hundred quid selling them on but that’s not even looking likely at this stage.

If we can’t sell out for this game it really is embarrassing - and some of us wanted us to have a 20k seater stadium ffs
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We won’t improve our supporter base until we have a 20K plus stadium. It’s as simple as that.
 
BlackpoolJord said:
I really hope this is a sell out

I bought a handful of tickets last week presuming it would be sold out within days and I could make a few hundred quid selling them on but that’s not even looking likely at this stage.

If we can’t sell out for this game it really is embarrassing - and some of us wanted us to have a 20k seater stadium ffs
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You're embarrassing mate.
 
423 left. Think they’ll be around 200 left. Should’ve gave them 3,000 so we got the same at Deepdale
 
Athers said:
423 left. Think they’ll be around 200 left. Should’ve gave them 3,000 so we got the same at Deepdale
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Get a positive result against Sheff U/ Hull and more will go. We aren't even into the week countdown yet. They will go. I'm confident of that.

Admittedly sales aren't going as quickly as last season vs the nobbers. Goes to show that people just won't fork out £30 for a game of football.

Oh and I counted 403 by the way.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
But if we can’t sell them (and I doubt we will) surely you can see the benefit in the club selling another 2k tickets to those that want them?
2,000 £30 tickets = £60,000.
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It's Simon's money, I'd be very surprised if he's not bothered.

We were never going to need to east, so I can only assume it's still our own fans behaviour that's preventing us selling more to Preston - and getting 10% at dumpdale as a result.

It's nonsense.
 
Halifax71 said:
It's Simon's money, I'd be very surprised if he's not bothered.

We were never going to need to east, so I can only assume it's still our own fans behaviour that's preventing us selling more to Preston - and getting 10% at dumpdale as a result.

It's nonsense.
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What on earth are you on about, how is it our fans behavior?
 
BlackpoolJord said:
I really hope this is a sell out

I bought a handful of tickets last week presuming it would be sold out within days and I could make a few hundred quid selling them on but that’s not even looking likely at this stage.

If we can’t sell out for this game it really is embarrassing - and some of us wanted us to have a 20k seater stadium ffs
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It's people like you talking the team down.
 
Halifax71 said:
It's Simon's money, I'd be very surprised if he's not bothered.

We were never going to need to east, so I can only assume it's still our own fans behaviour that's preventing us selling more to Preston - and getting 10% at dumpdale as a result.

It's nonsense.
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Preston already stated we were only getting 2000 not even 10% of 23000 seater stadium so NO a we shouldn’t give them more
The tickets they got from Blackpool were on police advice as was the 12.30 kick off and they’re already netting off the first few rows of the away end when Preston come here on the 22nd because of their behaviour I believe last season so they’ve done themselves out of over 100 tickets
I’ve never known netting be put on the first few rows of any away fans before. Has anybody seen this before?
At the end of the day it’s a game of football and things like this shouldn’t really have to be done at all.
 
BlackpoolJord said:
I really hope this is a sell out

I bought a handful of tickets last week presuming it would be sold out within days and I could make a few hundred quid selling them on but that’s not even looking likely at this stage.

If we can’t sell out for this game it really is embarrassing - and some of us wanted us to have a 20k seater stadium ffs
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Well you've made a school boy error and a miscalculation.

Firstly, if and when the remaining seats sell out another area was going to open or so were led to believe, so you would have been out of pocket anyway.

The 20k stadium comment is another miscalculation. Your basing it off right now at high prices, a bit of apathy in the fanbase this season at the start and in a cost of living crisis.

You do realise when you build a stadium it'll last decades.

We've already had 14k home fan in the championship in the past.

A 20k stadium for the bigger games allows us to give away fans 4-5k should we want to and have 14-15k pool fans, segregation takes a chunk too.

When you're building for the future and have plans to grow the club its not that big a capacity.

If we got to the prem it could be filled easily.

It's called ambition and having a plan, even now with cheap tickets and a promotion push we could get far more in.

Really narrow vision you have.
 
michellebutterflyhotel said:
Preston already stated we were only getting 2000 not even 10% of 23000 seater stadium so NO a we shouldn’t give them more
The tickets they got from Blackpool were on police advice as was the 12.30 kick off and they’re already netting off the first few rows of the away end when Preston come here on the 22nd because of their behaviour I believe last season so they’ve done themselves out of over 100 tickets
I’ve never known netting be put on the first few rows of any away fans before. Has anybody seen this before?
At the end of the day it’s a game of football and things like this shouldn’t really have to be done at all.
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They said 10% which weirdly if accurate means we'd get more than last season, we got 2200 like they got, I can't see us getting more but they did say 10% which would be a bit more.
 
BlackpoolJord said:
I really hope this is a sell out

I bought a handful of tickets last week presuming it would be sold out within days and I could make a few hundred quid selling them on but that’s not even looking likely at this stage.

If we can’t sell out for this game it really is embarrassing - and some of us wanted us to have a 20k seater stadium ffs
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It's Blackpool v Preston, not the El Classico.

Very bizarre thing to do is acting like a tout. Every club should ban people for stuff like that.
 
Halifax71 said:
From last season, throwing stuff from the North - it gave them an excuse. Same thing this season, think it was Blackburn, irrespective of them doing the same.
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Nothing that I can recall got thrown from the north for the Preston game as Blackpool fans were in the north east. Only thing I remember getting thrown onto the pitch at the Preston game here was a tangerine flare for which the culprit received a three year banning order.
 
michellebutterflyhotel said:
Nothing that I can recall got thrown from the north for the Preston game as Blackpool fans were in the north east. Only thing I remember getting thrown onto the pitch at the Preston game here was a tangerine flare for which the culprit received a three year banning order.
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Didn't say it was Preston. There were a few occasions, e.g. barnsley
 
BlackpoolJord said:
I really hope this is a sell out

I bought a handful of tickets last week presuming it would be sold out within days and I could make a few hundred quid selling them on but that’s not even looking likely at this stage.

If we can’t sell out for this game it really is embarrassing - and some of us wanted us to have a 20k seater stadium ffs
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Surely, you must be joking; aren’t you?

It’s very hard to believe that you’d want to make money out of your fellow Seasiders 🙄.
 
BlackpoolJord said:
I really hope this is a sell out

I bought a handful of tickets last week presuming it would be sold out within days and I could make a few hundred quid selling them on but that’s not even looking likely at this stage.

If we can’t sell out for this game it really is embarrassing - and some of us wanted us to have a 20k seater stadium ffs
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Quite the entrepreneur. Bet Richard Branson is shitting himself. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂🤦🏻‍♂️😂
 
JJpool said:
See post further back to ODT where I explained am not mocking it, just has to be factored in if your comparing.

Of course it makes a difference.

You do realise that ST holders are counted in the totals, so kids will be counted for night games or anyone whether there or not.

There's no twisting, its a pretty simple concept if you give a decent chunk away for free and drastically reduce the ST prices, you'd expect to see attendances go up at any club, its just basic sense.

Our future is hopefully bright with SS wanting to get the training ground and east stand built. When we have a completed stadium it'll help as you can attract more for big games which is how fanbases grow, you can also then have proper deals and meet demand for bigger away followings should we need to. The hope seems to be to progress via selling and reinvesting.

A lot of us have said we'd like to see more being done to attract new fans etc and 30 is too high.
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Only season ticket holders that attend a match are counted on the gate .
If I don’t attend I am not counted as part of the attendance.
 
Just put that east section on sale for £20 to pool fans, it's a shit stand, with shit views, and poor food area, like the discount stand. That'll fill it with the section near the radio area flagged off
 
Jdseacidre81 said:
Just put that east section on sale for £20 to pool fans, it's a shit stand, with shit views, and poor food area, like the discount stand. That'll fill it with the section near the radio area flagged off
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And presumably charge Preston the same, including refunding those that have already bought?
 
Adams Kebab said:
Time for the Club to jump on this and a big push to get the ground sold out. I’ve not seen much of this, if any on social media, since they went on sale. There’s no better time on the back of yesterday now with the games only two weeks away and a week till we play again and any negative voices can be raised. Even the anti-Appleton crew must have been a bit buoyed by that performance.

Is the East section towards the North going to be made available if we sell out the rest? It should be for this surely. I’m wondering if it’s easier for the Club and police if we don’t hence the lack of marketing, but F to that, let’s get it sold rather than letting us know we’ve got the gents urinals sponsored or we’ve found a new energy drink provider.

There’s the argument that we shouldn’t have to and the game should sell-out, but for this one we need that ground as full as we can and some people in Blackpool need a nudge.

Use this positivity wisely this week and get our seats sold.
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Bump. This deserves to be completely and utterly sorted out. We don’t have to give them away like they did to Aunty Doris’s next door neighbour who once smiled when Preston won a league one game 1-0 in 1975…. We’ve got a lot of fans out there who are “fair weather” or have us as their second team (each to their own), so I’m sure with some clever marketing and pricing, and actively aiming to fill the family stand with families… why can’t we sell out?
Sadly there’s a couple at the club who come across as being out of their depth. Well, here’s the chance to shine. 🍊
 
koudo said:
Today
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Good, the thing is its a bigger draw being near the North with a decent view compared to the corner of the south.

Near the atmosphere of the north is a place I and many other would want to be if I wants to already in it and its the place most likely to sell imo.
 
Philbfctrois said:
No as its a different stand with less facilities
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I was about to reply to the other guy that we can't charge less as we'd have to match it for them. But infact you are right the facilities are under the SE corner for the away end.

So it's superior to the NE.

Still not sure we can charge less or how that's assessed. But I'm pretty sure we won't anyway and it'll be 29 quid.

Either way at least opening it is a positive.
 
Good morning, I don't suppose anybody has a spare ticket for the North Stand that I can purchase. My daughter is unexpectedly coming home from Dubai and I'd like her to experience the atmosphere of the North.
 
TarletonTangerine said:
Exactly, the Nobbers had their tickets on sale for about 2 or 3 months before their game against us.

And the tickets were dirt cheap.
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They weren’t cheap no discounts & £28 behind goals & £30 plus every where else .
Don’t talk shit . You just make things upset
I love reading all the bull shit & lies that are put on your forum .
 
JJpool said:
Good, the thing is its a bigger draw being near the North with a decent view compared to the corner of the south.

Near the atmosphere of the north is a place I and many other would want to be if I wants to already in it and its the place most likely to sell imo.
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Surely the nearest area to the north end fans are the 2 sections with loads of tickets left in them?
 
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