JLA: The club are giving away home shirts to kids at the Derby game as they did at the Southampton game.
How many soon to be out of dates shirts do kids want ?
They must have a lot of unsold stock to be giving them away. It's lazy marketing. Change the offers to entice parents to take their children even if its a match day ticket for £3 for the child an adult would have to pay full wack.

Would we all agree 20-25 is a fair price?

2006/2007

Adult Kop cat A 26 cat B 21
Kids kop cat A 15 cat B 10

Family area adult cat A 26 B 21
Family area kids cat A 10 B 10

Season ticket prices New 525

This was in a year after the playoff final and we had spent millions on the team.

But because we was struggling

Average 21,613

Shamefully support really. Where they all go???

Roz: I suppose they could sell voucher's, the more voucher's you bought the more the discount.

LIW, are you talking about when we got promoted in 1990. Remember when we got promoted it was the only way to guarantee a standing ticket was to get it for the season. Don't remember us have to cap ST's

Here's some pricing for you. These are genuine prices for the Kop through the years for ST's:

85/86 - £39 early, £45 late
89/90 - £60 early, £70 late
93/94 - £140

I think an average reduction in ticket prices of around 10-15% for match day tickets and 20-30% for season tickets would see a big enough increase in av attendance to maintain the same level of revenue we currently attain.

An average attendance of circa 26,000 is attainable and probably the max youd expect whilst still in the championship.

I would also scrap the requirement for a membership to get in the family stand and reduce junior prices in the family stand by 40-50%

Though as a few have pointed out the attendance tends to be proportional to how well we are doing

Good Shout tommy2times:

What a pointless debate.

Although price is always a consideration, I think what is produced on the pitch also has a big say. With the reductions mentioned Tommy you'd need to average more than 26k to receive the same income as with a 23k average.

Chorleywhite: is that all you've got to add.

WHY O WHY did you comment?

Yes and no, an increase of 3k average is around 15% increase plus matchday tuckets far outweigh st s at the mo, so i reckon you would probably lose some revenue but not a massive amount and added to this people would likely spend more on ancillaries like food and drink, its a best guess scenario any way

Tickets even

Cas

No am taking around the turn of the century, 01/02

Of course what your watching on the pitch matters

That's the same at every club

If s c u m had four or five years of mid table rubbish, there crowds would drop

Fair point Tommy. Think a 20% reduction in ST prices is possible as that would be £413 for Kop (£17.95 per match), but 30% is very unrealistic as would be £361 (£15.70 per match).

Must admit if I knew a % of my ticket was going into a fund to purchase ER then I would be happy paying what I have renewed at this year. Say £50 and maybe 50p for every matchday ticket. Of course if then repurchased would be a drop in prices the next season!!!

Caswhite
Here's some pricing for you. These are genuine prices for the Kop through the years for ST's:

85/86 - £39 early, £45 late
89/90 - £60 early, £70 late
93/94 - £140
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Do you remember how we complained when the price went up to £140 LOL.

I think they would have been the price to stand but even then with inflation we should be paying around 150% more now compared to then I would of thought.

Like the idea on a repurchase of elland road percentage would instill the fans with a sense of ownershipb as well, your right 30% would probably be too much

Cas

I like your idea of paying more for to fund the purchase of ER

Until I thought of it this way

What your saying is the fans pay to buy ER but the owners get ownership of ER for no cost.

Bates will love you

Wakey.
West ham will be in Wakefield before the game tomorrow.
Get your boys rounded up, let's give them a nice Yorkshire welcome!

Why should he lower them? When he knows will will turn up on success!

It's worth the risk.

Just think if we started struggling next season and prices was low and every one stoped going.

So insted of 516-616 a season ticket, he got say 400 season ticket.

That's 116-216 per head loss. With out the match day tickets loss added. For a few more season tickets sold. That may not even happen. Then the rest have to go down.

Knowing the ones that turn up game by game have to pay more.

Knowing we will get over 20k every time every season. Match by match.

Is it worth it?

NO

They was 400 in L1 average was 26k

But we did well. What what that have been if we had go e bad????

Don't you think Ken Bates already owns the ground?

LIW
I understand what your saying. If it was restricted to ST holders, maybe you could get a 5-10% reduction for every year after the purchase for every year you purchase a ST during the scheme.

Don't remember us having they number of ST's you've stated at the turn of the century though.

Not really no tbh

Yes he does Cozer.