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A week off then two home matches in 4 days. A classic chance for the club to fill empty seats pre Christmas. Loads of excuses not to attend, lets turn it on its head and get an offer out early.
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Now is time for a club offer, Kids a quid?
QUID A KID for Brentford and Notts County!
QUID A KID for Brentford and Notts County!
Come on Mr Ridsdale......Lets make the most of the teams current performances, lets try to get a few thousand extra seats filled for the back to back games. Quid a kid for the U14's. Lets just give a little. We need to show more initiative IMHO, the team on the pitch are delivering, we need the team off the pitch to do the same. A three quarter full Deepdale will help make it more intimidating. Plus for every 10 U14s we get 5+ paying adults.
QUID A KID for Brentford and Notts County!
Come on Mr Ridsdale......Lets make the most of the teams current performances, lets try to get a few thousand extra seats filled for the back to back games. Quid a kid for the U14's. Lets just give a little. We need to show more initiative IMHO, the team on the pitch are delivering, we need the team off the pitch to do the same. A three quarter full Deepdale will help make it more intimidating. Plus for every 10 U14s we get 5+ paying adults.
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At 6.17 I started a better/similar thread. Mods please link putting mine above Saints!
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Quid a kid incentives are all well and good, but it's paying adults who the clubs needs to attract back.
I think kids tickets are £5 at most throughout the whole of the ground; whilst the cheapest adult ticket is £20. When I was a kid (back in the 90s) I'm sure it cost £5.50 to stand on the Town End so they get a good enough deal as it is.
I said about 4 years ago when attendances first started falling, under Irvine, that tickets should be no more than £15 a game (for adults) and that was for a team who were challenging for promotion to the Premiership. In the present financial climate, attending a football match is seen as a treat rather than an essential, so there's not much that Ridsdale can do this season to attract the fans back without seriously devaluing the price of a season ticket. And by the way, I don't have a season ticket but I've attended every home game this seaon, including the 4 cup games.
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Its not so much about the offer or price its the positive spin or publicity the club could achieve.
Half season tickets as Christmas presents
Reductions in club shop prices
Anything will help surely.
Half season tickets as Christmas presents
Reductions in club shop prices
Anything will help surely.
Just a little wrong on a couple of points. Kids tickets were £5 but they've seen a massive hike upto £8 this season.
And the other is attendances didn't start falling under Irvine, I think they averaged around the 13 -13,500 mark.
Winning consistently and getting into the top two would create enough positive spin or publicity to increase the attendance by a thousand or two regardless of the price. However, although we're playing well away from home at the moment our home form has dropped off recently.
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Okay, fair enough, but in the 2001-02 season (when the Alan Kelly Town End opened) it was £8 for kids. So they still get a good deal.
Also, when we played Reading at home in September 2009 when we were 3rd in the Championship, it was reported in the LEP before the game that PNE were expecting a crowd of less than 10,000 for the first time since the 1990s. It was a Tuesday night and we lost 2-1 with Chaplow being subbed at half-time for having a shocker. In the end the attendance was 10,987.
One of the daftest things the club has done this season is to scrap the half season tickets. I've never had a decent explanation as to why this was done. It attracted two lots of supporters: a) the lets wait and see how PNE progress before coffing up cash in advance type of supporter, and b) Those who cannot afford a full season ticket, yet would like one for Christmas as PNE are often a "second half of the season" type of team.
There is still time for PNE to do a U turn and reintroduce half season tickets in time for Christmas. It would not inconvenience anybody to do so, and those already with season tickets would surely have no gripes (as happens with many other types of offers). As to PNE being a second half of the season type of team, that is looking ever more likely as this season has progressed. All the more reason for Ridsdale to cash in right now with a change of policy.
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And should we get 2 decent results next week we could well be within shouting distance of a pop at automatic promotion. If so PNE could well be missing a trick here. Seriously Mr Ridsdale reconsider this policy.
And as A ST holder it wouldnt concern me one bit if we had a couple fiver admission prices, I think the vast majority odf us can see the need to re-promote the club again.
But by stating that no half tickets would be available they were presumably hoping to tempt more into buying for the whole season. I wonder how many extra tickets were sold as a result of this.
Many would argue there hasn't been an awful lot to tempt people into buying a half season ticket so far anyway - the next month will be massive if they change their minds
Answer to your question
The reason there are no half season tickets is that it allows fans to sit on the fence.
I have this in writing from mr risdale.
Regular readers will know I am probably obsessed with this subject as like you I cannot see one justifiable reason not to offer them other than the fact that we are discussing a stuborn minded man that won't reverse a poorly made decision
£1 or £10 games do just that - get fans on for one game. We need them on until the season end.
Brothers and sisters join me in my crusade to overturn this daft decision !
Any member of the forces free for Brentford as a Rememberance day gesture
Agree completely, getting anyone's money in the coffers in advance HAS to be a good thing.
Another mid judged ticketing move by the chairman.
Cheers for that Norky. That pretty much confirms what I said.
Not really. Attendances under Irvine were the lowest for 7 years.