SiJ Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 If we go up, then the tickets will go up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cersei Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 When you think about it, all those years hoping the owls make it back up and we'll probably end up all sat watching us get tonked by swansea on our laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfast Owl 2 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I was told £76 a ticket (South Stand) Why would the club tell you that? Who feeds you special information? Doesn't seem to be the DC style Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mkowl Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 If the club is losing money then and we need to help the short fall... are we going to get free tickets if we go up and get 100 million? Probably not. Its how you approach it though The club has jumped from one type of ticketing policy that it can be argued didn't work. We may get the numbers but only if it was dirt cheap and even then it wasn't sustained. Instead we have a category pricing method of which anything above Category D is extortionate and risks alienating and excluding a high proportion of the natural fan base, with no evidence that there are sufficient higher disposable income families in the area to take their place. Clearly DC or his advisors have financially modelled this and what they consider the end result will be. I just think they have possibly got their core assumptions wrong because they did insufficient research on the local market. I actually think the mid way method would have been sensible. Make modest increases, but keep it simple and encourage the season ticket / membership route. The feel good factor around the club could have been fantastic, i think overtime with success on the pitch you would have seen a sustained increase in attendances and with it revenue but without folk feeling ripped off As i have said the potential revenue gain from the current pricing structure, even taking the positive of similar crowds might only account for 3 - 4% uplift in cash inflows overall The downside risk is however huge if you end up alienating several thousand of our fan base who can"t justify paying top whack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deleted member Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Why would the club tell you that? Who feeds you special information? Doesn't seem to be the DC style Really?? How many transfers have come in that we didn't know about beforehand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkerowl Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 reyt Reyt queen is old Nige! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkerowl Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 (edited) Why would the club tell you that? Who feeds you special information? Doesn't seem to be the DC style DC's go to guy Edited September 3, 2015 by parkerowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deleted member Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Why would the club tell you that? Who feeds you special information? Doesn't seem to be the DC style As you're on the admin team you might want to go look at the thread I posted when I heard what the match day pricing was going to be (long before it was announced) which had to be moved and hidden because of the abuse I got from the idiots who think I would make stuff like that (and the proposed pricing for Rotherham/Leeds, and the play off game) up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfast Owl 2 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 As you're on the admin team you might want to go look at the thread I posted when I heard what the match day pricing was going to be (long before it was announced) which had to be moved and hidden because of the abuse I got from the idiots who think I would make stuff like that (and the proposed pricing for Rotherham/Leeds, and the play off game) up So cause I'm a mod I should go through old threads. For the record I think you are making it up. The club does not blab in public. So why would they tell a random fan the prices so he can blab them on a forum? I don't understand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Its how you approach it though The club has jumped from one type of ticketing policy that it can be argued didn't work. We may get the numbers but only if it was dirt cheap and even then it wasn't sustained. Instead we have a category pricing method of which anything above Category D is extortionate and risks alienating and excluding a high proportion of the natural fan base, with no evidence that there are sufficient higher disposable income families in the area to take their place. Clearly DC or his advisors have financially modelled this and what they consider the end result will be. I just think they have possibly got their core assumptions wrong because they did insufficient research on the local market. I actually think the mid way method would have been sensible. Make modest increases, but keep it simple and encourage the season ticket / membership route. The feel good factor around the club could have been fantastic, i think overtime with success on the pitch you would have seen a sustained increase in attendances and with it revenue but without folk feeling ripped off As i have said the potential revenue gain from the current pricing structure, even taking the positive of similar crowds might only account for 3 - 4% uplift in cash inflows overall The downside risk is however huge if you end up alienating several thousand of our fan base who can"t justify paying top whack I agree. Didn't have an issue with a hike (everything goes up), but a modest, sensible increase would have made so much more sense. It's a real gamble by the club and one that we may regret long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ash76 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 This thread is going to be brilliant in 6 months time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkerowl Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 (edited) So cause I'm a mod I should go through old threads. For the record I think you are making it up. The club does not blab in public. So why would they tell a random fan the prices so he can blab them on a forum? I don't understand it. He should just let Chansiri run the club without trying to look like some ITK'r - total P E N I S, bashing fans for using 'any stick to beat the club with' then bangs on about tickets for a month with kivo on here.Get behind the club you talk so much about Edited September 3, 2015 by parkerowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cersei Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 He should just let Chansiri run the club without trying to look like some ITK'r - total P E N I S, bashing fans for using 'any stick to beat the club with' then bangs on about tickets for a month with kivo on here. Get behind the club you talk so much about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deleted member Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 So cause I'm a mod I should go through old threads. For the record I think you are making it up. The club does not blab in public. So why would they tell a random fan the prices so he can blab them on a forum? I don't understand it. Why ask if you don't like the answer? He should just let Chansiri run the club without trying to look like some ITK'r - total P E N I S, bashing fans for using 'any stick to beat the club with' then bangs on about tickets for a month with kivo on here. Get behind the club you talk so much about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cersei Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Fwiw Nigel is rarely wrong imo, he's just very Salty. Owlstalks Walder Frey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluey9 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Another boring ticket thread ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1867Heaven Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Thought QPR were more expensive? We're 14th most expensive in country and there 12th. Is that not the case or is this article wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forza SPAL Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Really? "Tickets at some Championship clubs have been described as “ridiculously expensive†after a Guardian survey found that adult prices this season will regularly surpass £35, with Sheffield Wednesday charging £52 for certain games." Which of our games this season will be £52 then? Should there be an A* game announced at all this season then an adult ticket on the south stand will be £52. UTO FTB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stocksyuto Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 9million spent on transfers in 1 pre season thats not including loan fees and wages dare say we have not spent that much in the last 10 seasons combined Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salli Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 9million spent on transfers in 1 pre season thats not including loan fees and wages dare say we have not spent that much in the last 10 seasons combined and all done out of the kindness of his heart. im sure he will share out his profit with us once promotion is achieved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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