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Originally Posted by maccawozzagod
walk on prices SHOULD have been announced at the same time as season tickets and flexi tickets to give people all the information they need or want in order to make an educated decision.
£20 walk on at Accrington is an absolutely shocking decision and will come back to bite us on the arse.
I love my club but rarely get chance to get on due to work or finance restrictions and £20 a game is a nail in the coffin for me. I understand the marketing ploy is to incentivise the bulk buys and reward the regulars in order to maximise the away fan (or irregular home fan) BUT I personally would like to see a far greater effort going in to persuading the irregulars to attend more often. Sitting round a table and discussing figures, or offering 3for2's etc isn't an offer to attract irregulars - they need a plan of some sort.
Good luck this season Stanley.
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I don't particularly agree with the new price either but I can see where the club is coming from. It seems that, even at a fiver when we played Wimbledon a couple of seasons ago, the crowd wasn't boosted enough to make it worthwhile and they didn't come back at the next full price game. Some people would rather stay in the pub and watch the Premiership than go to a game at any price. Football these days is available on TV at 3 o'clock via foreign channels and people will watch it with a pint rather than spend the money to stand in the cold watching a team of triers. I've never been to our local team who play in the Lowland league for years and I can see into their ground from my window.
The economics are that for every 100 away fans paying £20 instead of £15 that would need 34 walkons paying the same £15 and you can't charge away fans more than home fans on a single basis. The club appear to be trying to placate regulars by cheap season tickets and semi regulars with cheap flexi tickets. I'm not sure how successful targeting Rovers and Clarets fans with flexi tickets will be as rovers will be at home when we are and all the clarets games will be on TV or available online as they are in the premiership but it has to be tried and it also meas that Stanley fans can get cheaper flexi tickets and it could boost the home attendance at the friendlies.
Macca is right that the club should have announced the prices earlier as there may have been a bigger early bird take up under the new price structure. I also think that cash or check is a mistake as nobody carries a chequebook these days. I'm not even sure where mine is as nobody takes them anymore. And how many people carry an extra £135 to a game? It works fine if people have read about the offer and bring cash or a cheque but what about those that see it at the match and want to pay by card?
Are the flexi tickets going to work like they did in previous season where 1 person can go to 10 games or 10 people to 1 game or any other combination? If it does than get it pushed as such. Someday might not want to go to 10 games but a group might want to go to 2 or 3 together and club together to buy one or two flexitickets.
Why not push them online as well as such. If card are out then go for bank transfer, it costs next to nothing and is instantaneous. The business plan can't just be based on the away fan economics there needs to be work done to push all ticket sales and I'm sure the club would welcome all suggestions and any constructive criticism.
Now time for the pub
