Should football clubs

hertfordseasider

hertfordseasider

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Including ours, offer follow season tickets? I know the 4000 who bought season tickets get that as part of the deal and the club aren't looking to sell more season tickets, should they, and all the other EFL clubs, do a deal with follow where supporters can buy a season pass to include the clubs home and away games rather than the £10 per game as it is now?

The season ticket deal was actually a very good one as you get all the matches on follow as part of it but I don't think it includes the away games does it? to watch all 46 league games plus cup games on follow would cost over £500 a season, which is fine as obviously not everyone is available for every game so if you can only watch a few then pay per game makes sense. But if you can watch the majority of games surely it would be worthwhile doing a season pass as this would raise more revenue. I suppose it's getting the away games too which is the issue as the home club would want the money, but if there was some way of making it fair then is it something that could work?

EFL clubs need to be able to survive. If each club had a lot more supporters watching on follow than they would normally get in the ground then surely it would make sense?

Anyone with any great ideas re this?
 
Surely the free ifollow is for home games only for ST holders?
If you want to watch an away game it's £10 per game.
 
Loco said:
I thought a season pass for ifollow has always been available?
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I'm not sure there is. I am happy to pay £10 per game but was thinking of a way to get funds to the club in a lump sum. I just thought as it looks like there will be no spectators in grounds for the rest of the season or until April why can't there be some creativity in how the games are broadcast get more people subscribed so even if the season long pass is less expensive, more of a take up would mean clubs get more money and don't get it in dribs and drabs. It's just a thought.
 
The logic is that not all fans go to away games, so they've decided in their wisdom that the first 500 away fans ifollow revenue will go to the home club. So most clubs won;t see any ifollow revenue when they are playing away, and their home revenue is pretty much fixed. And let's be honest, the most it will vary id a few hundred quid. It's peanuts in the grand scheme of things. Five thousand Sunderland fans paying 20 quid each to go to Bloomfield Road is 100k + food etc. 5k from iFollow instead is nothing.
iFollow is a fallback for home fans with season tickets really. The numbers for the rest are trivial. And the quality of the service/experience simply isn't good enough to justify it. For fans who don't regularly go to away games, they aren't going to shell out for the poor offering of iFollow.
 
I think clubs should be allowed to offer home/away/combined streaming season tickets, but I think the collective tv deal will prevent it. I'd also add the caveat that every club should charge the same, and that there should be a guaranteed minimum income in each league given to all clubs to protect those who aren't as well supported.
 
They should definitely do a season ticket for away game at least. I would happily pay for that every season as I can't get to away games now due to health issues. Be a good way to inject some cash into the club.
 
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