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Post by DazaB on Feb 11, 2010 13:39:33 GMT
Will not entice the student population of Worcester to come and watch the City. So we may as well charge any of them who want to come to games the full £11 - same with OAPs.
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Post by city4evaa on Feb 11, 2010 13:45:16 GMT
7 quid , fxck that!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2010 13:54:47 GMT
Why do you say that? How does this affect you? |
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Post by city4evaa on Feb 11, 2010 14:04:14 GMT
if u was a kid would you pay 7 pound mate?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2010 14:43:58 GMT
Its just the way you said it, its as though you pay concessions yourself!
And I'm not a kid, so I don't really have no idea, it doesnt sound a great deal to pay. How much is a decent X-box game these day? How much are the mobile phones all these concessionary kids have?
I personally don't imagine too many "concessions" will say "£7? f**k that!" and if they do? well so what! I think the biggest issue will be that they will be checking ID at the turnstiles, and a lot of these "concessions" will have to choose between paying full price, or going home! It'll be interesting to see what effect it has on the proportions through the gates.
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Post by noel14 on Feb 11, 2010 15:35:48 GMT
As someone who pays as an unwaged (with proof every time) I have always thought the amount was too low and so tried to make up by spending more inside the ground on half time draw and a beer in HKL.
Happy to pay the extra and so will most genuine supporters I imagine
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2010 15:52:27 GMT
Noel, i've always considered you to be a true supporter of the football club, and that post proves it beyond doubt.
Top man!! and you're right! I will buy you a beer in the HKL sometime
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Post by prestonwcfc on Feb 11, 2010 15:53:49 GMT
if u was a kid would you pay 7 pound mate? No I'd take my dad and get in free then join up with my mates |
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Post by si1268 on Feb 11, 2010 16:30:38 GMT
I think it should be £20 for genuine supporters and a fiver for the rest of us.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2010 17:28:06 GMT
if u was a kid would you pay 7 pound mate? No I'd take my dad and get in free then join up with my mates Glad you said that, thinking about it kids would either not have the money and would just raid Bank of Dad for an addtional quid, or have the money and not appreciate the value of it so pay £7 anyway like all of us posh boys!! Mr Hendersons cries of "f**k that" sound mighty suspicious, there again I can't stop thinking Pablo Fanques Fair anyway!! Will Mr H demonstrate 10 somersaults hes got to do on solid ground? any sign of Henry the horse waltzing? |
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Post by voiceofreason on Feb 15, 2010 1:44:45 GMT
Think it should be £4 for U-16's & £6 for students or those on benefits and £7.50 for OAP's.
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Post by Tim Munslow on Feb 15, 2010 11:16:10 GMT
As I told the lady on the gate on Saturday I am more than happy to pay the extra two quid; and no - it didn't stop me having a draw ticket and a drink in the Social Club.
If the club is in trouble it's the least I can do. (Sorry delete the "if")
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Post by prestonwcfc on Feb 15, 2010 12:25:19 GMT
As I told the lady on the gate on Saturday I am more than happy to pay the extra two quid; and no - it didn't stop me having a draw ticket and a drink in the Social Club. If the club is in trouble it's the least I can do. (Sorry delete the "if") Totally agree Tim, as I also told the season ticket holders complaining about the faithful card ! |
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Post by DazaB on Feb 15, 2010 13:38:58 GMT
As I told the lady on the gate on Saturday I am more than happy to pay the extra two quid; and no - it didn't stop me having a draw ticket and a drink in the Social Club. If the club is in trouble it's the least I can do. (Sorry delete the "if") To play Brooksider for a minute: Why, then, don't you go through the £11 gate? It's not about whether or not the "hard-core" fans will go and pay it or not, it's about the fact that there is almost zero chance of getting new people through the gate at that price. The argument that it brings prices in line with other teams in the league is bollocks. We don't compete with them for gates, we compete with the likes of Aston Villa who were charging a tenner to get in for their game with Brighton the same day Worcester were charging £11 for the game with Weymouth. 99% of football fans in this City would have gone to Villa if they'd had to choose |
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Post by city4evaa on Feb 15, 2010 13:43:30 GMT
a lot of my friends now actually go watch the villa and brum, so when i tell them to come watch worcester and they ask how much and i say 11 quid they are all like fxck that, worcester have no chance of attracting new fans,
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Post by voiceofreason on Feb 15, 2010 14:32:28 GMT
Except that £10 isn't the normal price for any PL team FFS.
It's nearer £30-40 as a one-off, walk-up purchase. Obviously the product is usually better, but three times as much?
Typically even Div.3 is twice as much.....
Not to mention the cost or hassle of travelling and prices for food/souvenirs, which make WCFC look cheap by comparison.
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Post by city4evaa on Feb 15, 2010 14:55:05 GMT
watch a prem game or conference south game? i doubt people would pick cs
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Post by voiceofreason on Feb 15, 2010 18:30:57 GMT
Well obviously they don't as a rule, due to an exaggerated media profile.
But some football is better than none. And if costs far less, then so be it.
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Post by DazaB on Feb 15, 2010 19:16:29 GMT
Aston Villa v. Burnley on Saturday - £17 adults.
A much more attractive proposal than £11 Worcester v. Havant & Waterlooville.
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Post by DazaB on Feb 15, 2010 19:22:20 GMT
It's on Sunday, but you know what I mean.
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Post by voiceofreason on Feb 16, 2010 9:31:46 GMT
Aston Villa v. Burnley on Saturday - £17 adults. A much more attractive proposal than £11 Worcester v. Havant & Waterlooville. Except it's being subsidised by Villa's rich American owner and is a gimmick as the match is live on TV on a Sunday, in the middle of a recession..... WCFC Don't currently have such a choice. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2010 19:55:41 GMT
Actually its not subsidised by Randy Lerner, he's simply not rich enough to do things like that. Its subsidised by the TV money, and also from the £35 pricing against the bigger clubs. actually the deal is better than that, £40 for a family of four!! thats a deal!!
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Post by voiceofreason on Feb 17, 2010 10:47:06 GMT
Saw an article earlier in the season where Lerner was behind the price cuts.
Maybe TV money was a factor.
However, this is all presuming you'd want to go to watch Villa in the first place....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2010 14:36:15 GMT
Randy Lerner isn't investing his personal money in AVFC, or indeed bank-rolling the club. He provdies funds via one of his companies, to the company which bought AVFC, with interest payments being made by AVFC, and via income from supporters. It is therefore in Randy Lerners best interest to keep ticket prices high to ensure his companies loans are serviced.
But he's a shrewd guy, and has "got" the idea of what football support is all about, and he knows that a successful club has to embrace its fans (unilke the Glazers, or Hicks and Gillette). So he has matched the fund raising by the AVFC Supporters Trust to erect the statue of William McGregor at Villa Park, has personally invested in the refurb of the Holte Hotel, and won the hearts and minds of supporters and the community by turning away commercial sponsorship in favour of Acorns Hospice as shirt sponsors!!
If only he was a wealthy man!!
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Post by gazwcfc on Feb 17, 2010 19:17:16 GMT
One thing that a most premiership teams do is have various category games with various prices according to the level of opposition. However I'm not sure if it would work at blue square south level but who knows maybe a reduced price against the smaller or less well known names might entice one or two more through the turnstiles.
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Post by Tony is not to despondent now. on Feb 18, 2010 9:37:09 GMT
I suppose this rise in the admission price will affect the season ticket prices for next season. That is if we have a club!
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Post by JohnInglisIsGod on Feb 18, 2010 11:13:34 GMT
Not sure if this should go here or in 'money raising ideas' thread.....
This is just my view on it, but for what it's worth - I think the problem is that the gate is not going to get to much more than 700 whilst we are in this league
We are fairly steady at 500 - 700 each week. If you reduce the entry even by 1 pound then you are not going to attract that many more and instead of boosting the crowd I think you just reduce the income. Even a significant reduction by £3 or £4 will only manage to bring in maybe another 100 or so people and I am not sure that would cover the difference in income - But what it would do is bring in supporters and improve the atmosphere. It would give people the chance to make up their own minds in deciding if we have a team worthy of support. In my opinion we have players now who are worth watching. Emery, Carter, Clyde are all decent players worth watching and supporting. Now, if we can string a few wins together these new found supporters might actually want to come back and pay the £10 or £11 ( Seems more clubs in this division charge £10 rather than £11. ).
The days of a regular 1500 in the 70s are long gone unless we can get into the higher divisions or gain league status. Then away fans will increase the revenues too. The new loyalty card is a good idea but I feel that is aimed at the supporters who are going to come anyway and is reducing the revenue stream for that one free game. It is a nice gesture to loyal fans who I am sure will appreciate the free game but most of those would have supported thier team and been happy to pay the £11.
Season tickets bring in much needed revenue when the club is idle in the summer. If everyone coming in was a season ticket holder we would have to rely solely on away supporters and the few occasional home supporters. The start of the season is when we need to make the most of pre season optimism. Get the local papers building up the club, hopefully highlighting new signings, promoting loyalty cards informing supporters of the improved deal by buying their season ticket early etc. Get them sponsoring the club by offering a free ticket in the paper to the 1st home game of the season with a voucher scheme in the paper. Pass the mailing list of those who apply for the tickets back to the club as they are obviously interested in the club and write to them with other offers to draw the new support into the club.
The Huddersfield game proved that their are people out there who want to attend under the right circumstances.
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Post by prestonwcfc on Feb 18, 2010 12:57:50 GMT
Could I also suggest we strongly consider going back to the North next season as this will add another 150 or so to the average gate. Just look at the average last time we were in that league 843 with a lowest gate of 574 v Vauxhall Motors. Whats more big gates vs Telford, Redditch etc
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Post by city4evaa on Feb 18, 2010 13:15:49 GMT
why we chose the south this year, bemused me
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2010 14:51:00 GMT
Well, it was mainly down to a couple of reasons all built around the "grass is greener" arguments.
The South was considered an easier league to win, and not as "hard" physically as the North. Of course this is all bollocks, and the better teams will always win whichever league they are in.
I wonder though whether our average crowd is more down to the fact that the level of disinterest is now higher than it was when we were in the North?
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