Bigger crowd

[Willie Miller]

Originally Posted by DAV007

Jase,
I agree.
Similar to Bradford and Huddersfield who had minimum season ticket sales to get the price down to £100.

Im sorry, but the club needs to wake up to reality.
£17 for league 2 or £20 to walk into rovers and watch category B and C premiership games.
To 99% of people, local club or not, there is no comparison.

Until admission is a standard £10 and people on the street know its £10 and always £10, then you wil not encourage floaters.
Its fine to bump it up to £20 when Fulham come to town, but league 2 football for more than £10 is expensive.

I cant help but suspect the price hike is to benefit from away fans, although they are forgetting the nostalgia of coming to Accrington Stanley for most of the teams in the league has now worn out. I expect away attendances to drop of next year.

A slightly fuller ground is a better day out too

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Willie Miller

I would have been even more radical.....

Club works out a figure they need for a £10 admission, say minimum every week 2200 fans.... It openly appeals to the town to maintain this figure & the fee stays at £10....

Would that 2200 be home fans ?

What about extending the terms of the season tickets so that every season ticket holder can always take a friend ( or even several friends ) for a tenner per match. That way the home crowd walk ons increase while still getting the full dosh from the visiting fans. They could even have a meeting point before the game for season ticket holders with no mates

season ticket holders feel more special and will probably actively encourage people to go with them.

[Pendle Red]

All good ideas on this thread, Carpon perhaps it may be worth asking the Club if it is possible about paying in installments?

It is something that if the payments were made by standing order from say end of April, to include May & June it may be viable?

Perhaps not ideal from the Club point of view in terms of not getting the money all in one hit but if they got it before the Season Tickets were produced in say early July it may be possible?


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[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Pendle Red

All good ideas on this thread,

Course they are, we are all experts at running football clubs

[Pendle Red]

Accrington Stanley

An interesting development on the Accy Website on Ticket Promotion for Next Weeks re-arranged Barnet game

I wil let the thread run a bit before I put up my own thoughts

[VALAIRIAN]

Think it is a great idea and at least the club have tried something, let's just hope that for next season, it can be more structured, with more notice and done more often, all in all, a good effort by the club

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Pendle Red

Accrington Stanley

An interesting development on the Accy Website on Ticket Promotion for Next Weeks re-arranged Barnet game

I wil let the thread run a bit before I put up my own thoughts

Mates rates for season ticket holders, what a great concept

[cashman]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Mates rates for season ticket holders, what a great concept

How i have none. ideas fine if followed by MEDIA publicity to promote it.

[Preston Red]

I agree that if its £17 (increase of £2) to walk on and get a seat, it will have an adverse impact. I now quite a few people who stopped coming when it went from £13 to £15 a few years back - silly I know, but it happened! A lot of people like myself work away during the week, so struggle to get to the mid week home games, hence they pay the walk on prices. Agree that thinking outside the box is required bearing in mind the local competion for football matches.

[Pendle Red]

The offer for Barnet needs to be heavily publicised, it is a good offer but a little after the Horse has bolted so to speak in the lift it perhaps could have given the team a couple of months ago when we were on a roll and may have greatly increased the likelihood of these walk on's returning.

I know the reasoning behind the offer being now which is to roll out the new ticketing system which I am sure will be of benefit going forward for the infrastructure of most things around the Club.

It will enhance I am sure the online facility for the Club and be tailored to the benefit of us the fans.

As to the Barnet game being in effect an experiment I hope it works to help the Club build for the future and encourage them to offer similar deals at what may be poorly attended games in the future while helping to build the fanbase.

My only doubt is the system itself is not enough, the Club need to be expanding it's horizons on it's own doorstep by making it a place to come to watch football at an affordable & sensible price band for all and that is aimed more at the walk on who will possibly make up their minds after any offers through the system are possibly finished.

We need to be leaving no stone unturned in being out & about in the Community and I mean players & staff alike not just through the Community Lads, the Club has to be seen as progressive & proactive and by by setting the standards high and aiming high with everything in & around the Club then we may become the the hub of Accrington & Hynburn.

[DAV007]

Ladies and gents, are you not concerned with the pricing? If we want to compete in the football league long-term then the first task is to attract the locals which puts the club in direct competition with backburn and burnley to name just 2. We cant compete in terms of facilities, we cant compete in level of football or attractiveness of opposition teams. But we can compete in pricing. £17 or £15 is way to expensive. And before someone points out the £2 saving, floaters do not pre book. Its well known you can turn up at blackburn and pay £20. So who in their right mind will pay £15 for league 2. The season tickets should be more expensive and walk in prices should be £10. Until people in the town and beyond subconciously link going to stanley with a tenner then the club will continue to service its existing customer base. And mamx i add, ticket pre book systems outside the top league are a 100% waste of time. Congradulations to the software firm who convinced our genius chief exec to buy it.

[shakermaker]

Everyone knows that £17 to sit under a leaky (main stand) roof watching League 2 football played on a mountainside is a **** take. There's nothing we can do though. They're not going to change it now. They've messed up and will only realise it as attendances fall. Simple as.

[sparkie]

the ticketing sytem is just one small part of the bigger picture that the new system offers the club. The system includes club shop, ticketing, online features and many other features that will be of a massive help to the club and in the long run the fans of ASFC. My advice is to go and have a chat with Lew about it, the guy knows what he's doing. Have a bit of faith in the people behind the hard work that the club is undertaking, its not done lightly or easily, and is generally all done for the fans of ASFC.

Having had some ofthe new system explained to me and having been shown some of its many facets, I can see it becoming an integral part of the way we deal with the football club over the coming seasons. You amongst many others (me included) have regularly used the refrain that the club needs to be dragged kicking and screaming from the unibond all the way up the long road to League 2, maybe you should hop on board for the ride!!!

ASFC Onward and Upward!!!!! Forward into the 21st century!!!

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by sparkie

maybe you should hop on board for the ride!!!

Not much chance of that, he gave his season ticket away to some kid after the Port Vale match and he's boycotting home games next season!

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by DAV007

And mamx i add, ticket pre book systems outside the top league are a 100% waste of time. Congradulations to the software firm who convinced our genius chief exec to buy it.

I think you underestimate the power of a good system