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Originally Posted by Chewbacca
Not as a minimum price in the FA Cup it isn't, especially as most fans will be behind the goals and the facilities are not great. West Ham v Manchester City was £10/£15 behind the goals. Sunderland v Burnley was £10 a ticket.
Norwich fans protested at the £25 they were charged v Soton and lost half of their gate.
Stanley's cup pricing is economically myopic, as it won't attract new fans to grow the fan base. They should have learnt from the Burnley farce.
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What they did probably brought in as much gate money as charging a tenner with double the crowd but it's not just gate money that matters. If we want to build decent crowds then we have to attract people in the first place. Then there is the spin off of people spending money at the game on food, drink, programmes, merchandise etc
One thing that may also hit crowds in general is the fact that we have been in this league so long that it's the same old teams we are playing so neutrals don't have the same attraction of watching somebody different so other ways of attracting pople are required.
I gave it a miss yesterday for various reasons including that I wasn't going to pay £20 to watch Luton again. Instead I went to the Sunderland v Burnley game at the stadium of light partly because It was a new ground, it was a tenner to watch two almost full strength Premiership teams, It cost about half as much as getting to Accy and was easier to get to and I knew there was no chance of it being called off.
On the whole it was a decent game for 0-0 and a good day out to somewhere different. Would I go there again next year under the same circumstances? Probably not because now I've been and the novelty has worn off. That's what we need to avoid at Accy when trying to get more people in.