Re: The club needs fans....
 

Gentlemen,
We 'regulars' all have our own reasons why we devote our time & money in supporting our beloved club. It's convincing the uncommitted 'armchair' fans of Accrington to get off their backsides and experience the atmosphere that only live football can provide.
How can we all help the club to achieve this? Well, we all have family & friends. If every 'regular' brought just one mate along, we'd almost double the attendance!
The club must play their part in this, as you won't hook anything without bait.
What about 'bring a friend for ten' (£10) or 'bring a kid for a quid', aimed at season ticket & loyalty card holders.
Yes, these fans would benefit from a discount, but they are people who would not normally even be there. The club would get some extra income and more importantly, the gates would increase.
The club could run this for a limited time only. As Lord D has inferred, once we've 'hooked-em', hopefully some of them will start to crave the drug that is Accrington Stanley and come back for more.
This season, I've cajoled a couple of friends to attend and they've found that they loved it and now look forward to home games.
So come on Stanley, give your regular fans an incentive and we'll all bust-a-gut to help improve things for everyone.

Re: The club needs fans....
 

Could be a pyramid selling scheme opportunity,

Bring a friend and get £10 off YOUR ticket
Sign em up for a season ticket and get £100 off yours
If the people you've introduced introduce others you get an additional £25 back.

Re: The club needs fans....
 

I have no family that lives anywhere near here, and yer sadly mistaken if yeh think i got friends.:D apart from the gang i go stanley with,

Re: The club needs fans....
 

Oh, Cashy .... :(:(

:D

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Don't feel sorry for him, he's got Davo as a best mate.;)

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That explains why he hasn't got any others :D. - sorry Cashy, couldn't resist!

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Cashy - you need to get yersen on Twitter. Loads of new mates await you there.

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Lord D, as an expert on the Twittersphere, surely you could launch your pyramid scheme to double the gates single handed. I guarantee you'd be given the freedom of Accrington.

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Could be a nice incentive but think £100 of your season ticket is way too much!

Maybe something more realistic like a few beer tokens to get say 3 pints free over the season as an incentive.

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Ok Mr Baldy. You choose:

In My pyramid scheme I find a new fan. He/she pays £200, I only pay £100. Increased revenue = £100.

In your scheme what's the overall benefit to the club?

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I'm friends with you Cashy!:drunk:

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What happens in your scheme when the 2nd person would have bought a season ticket anyway then the club loses £100.

Invariably schemes like this mean roughly the same number of people attend but generate less income or create bad feeling among existing fans if they are excluded but others are eligible who don't normally follow the team.

A good idea in theory but may have unintended consequences.

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Deeayess - that is true, and there is scope for skullduggery.
Maybe the club caveats the scheme by saying that money will be paid out to the season ticket holders who introduce new ones only if the overall season ticket revenue increases.
Since we are all in this together (ultimately we all want gates to increase) that doesn't seem unreasonable. it means it could be piloted with no one losing out?

Re: The club needs fans....
 

Nice to read some creative thinking on how to increase the gates.

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could say the same for a lot of us. i,ve got friends who are committed to other clubs or other sports and would no more go to stanley than i would a barry mannilo concert. i,ve got relatives in hartlepool and my son lives in rugby. i,m not knocking any ideas that people come out with to increase gates but i do think its harder than people think without promotion. we might be happy supporting a side in the 4th tier but some people will only watch football down to a certain level.