frenchred Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 Reading: Away fans offered £20 tickets by Championship club - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62050851 Be very interesting if city reciprocate this or their excuse not go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never to the dark side Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/content/tickets-huddersfield-town-v-burnley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Geoff Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 Should be universal across the Championship, imo. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Army 75 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weepywall Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 Would be interested to know the reason why City won't do the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 5, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 1 minute ago, weepywall said: Would be interested to know the reason why City won't do the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, weepywall said: Would be interested to know the reason why City won't do the same. The article above makes some attempt to explain it, though I'm not particularly convinced. They charged £28 for Reading fans last season. Given they would likely sell more tickets at £20, sell more beers, do their own fans a favour and generate some positive PR....I'm not sure it's the smartest decision by the club to dig their heels in for the sake of a few grand. I guess the worry from the club's point of view is that the arrangement grows organically to quickly become a division-wide thing and they don't feel able to support it financially. Edited July 5, 2022 by ChippenhamRed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 27 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said: Thats disappointing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 37 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said: Lets hope then that they charge us the same. Pretty poor from the Club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchred Posted July 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 An absolute shit show from our club that just exasperates the feeling that they don't really give a shit for their fans 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) Why would the club charge away supporters less than home supporters ? Unless they also decrease the cost for home supporters in a similar stand (South stand) to £20, I can't see the sense in it. Burnley have a similar scheme costing £25 which is closer to reality/parity imo. Edited July 5, 2022 by bcfc01 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 5, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 21 minutes ago, bcfc01 said: Why would the club charge away supporters less than home supporters ? Unless they also decrease the cost for home supporters in a similar stand (South stand) to £20, I can't see the sense in it. Burnley have a similar scheme costing £25 which is closer to reality/parity imo. I wonder what we are charging Sunderland supporters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 11 minutes ago, phantom said: I wonder what we are charging Sunderland supporters? Arm and a leg.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post And Its Smith Posted July 5, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) Everyone wants everything from the club. Cheap everything and we are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds every week. But they also want signings and to compete. We can’t have literally everything and if away fans pay £25-30 instead of £20 then I don’t think it would stop a massive percentage coming. That sort of price seems fair to me. Every announcement seems to have get a moan unless it’s a signing Edited July 5, 2022 by And Its Smith 22 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 6 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: Everyone wants everything from the club. Cheap everything and we are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds every week. But they also want signings and to compete. We can’t have literally everything and if away fans pay £25-30 instead of £20 then I don’t think it would stop a massive percentage coming. That sort of price seems fair to me. Every announcement seems to have get a moan unless it’s a signing Fair comments, I think when reading are offering it we should reciprocate to be honest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 6 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: Everyone wants everything from the club. Cheap everything and we are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds every week. But they also want signings and to compete. We can’t have literally everything and if away fans pay £25-30 instead of £20 then I don’t think it would stop a massive percentage coming. That sort of price seems fair to me. Every announcement seems to have get a moan unless it’s a signing Difficult to prove but I think initiatives like this foster goodwill towards the club which in turn may make supporters encourage mates to come along, buy an extra pint/pie at a game.. little things like that. I appreciate what you’re saying about signings to compete, but the positive PR and opportunity to give back to supporters may outweigh it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsaw Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 Disappointing from the club with the huge increase in the costs to get to away games next season think every club in the championship should be limiting away tickets to £20 due to the cost of fuel 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 49 minutes ago, bcfc01 said: Why would the club charge away supporters less than home supporters ? Unless they also decrease the cost for home supporters in a similar stand (South stand) to £20, I can't see the sense in it. Burnley have a similar scheme costing £25 which is closer to reality/parity imo. I’m glad you wrote this as I was as beginning to think I was as the only person who thought the same. There is no logic in charging away supporters less than home supporters. The facilities in the Atyeo are not as good as the South Stand, so a slight differential between the two would be reasonable, but that’s it. I know the cost of travelling to away matches has increased but, imo, any reduction in prices should be directed at home supporters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 6 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said: Difficult to prove but I think initiatives like this foster goodwill towards the club which in turn may make supporters encourage mates to come along, buy an extra pint/pie at a game.. little things like that. I appreciate what you’re saying about signings to compete, but the positive PR and opportunity to give back to supporters may outweigh it. I appreciate the opposite view but I’d say that PR over money can’t win on every single thing really when running a business. Charging £20 over £28 would probably cost them less than £150k over the season so they could of course do it in isolation but I just think they have to draw the line somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 5, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 35 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: Everyone wants everything from the club. Cheap everything and we are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds every week. But they also want signings and to compete. We can’t have literally everything and if away fans pay £25-30 instead of £20 then I don’t think it would stop a massive percentage coming. That sort of price seems fair to me. Every announcement seems to have get a moan unless it’s a signing So charging £12.50 for mates rates against Sunderland is a bad thing for the club? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 13 minutes ago, phantom said: So charging £12.50 for mates rates against Sunderland is a bad thing for the club? If you have got that from what I’ve written then I have no words mate 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 5, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 46 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: If you have got that from what I’ve written then I have no words mate May be not completely clear what I meant, but the argument must be the same, that if "we" want success at some point we have to contribute. Surely we will lose more by our Sunderland offer than what we would by charging Reading fans less? Possibly doesn't read as I mean it to come across Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, phantom said: May be not completely clear what I meant, but the argument must be the same, that if "we" want success at some point we have to contribute. Surely we will lose more by our Sunderland offer than what we would by charging Reading fans less? Possibly doesn't read as I mean it to come across But by offering cheap tickets to home fans on occasions we are hopefully attracting new fans. Short term it costs but a long term gain. Away fans are different for obvious reasons 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 5, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 4 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: But by offering cheap tickets to home fans on occasions we are hopefully attracting new fans. Short term it costs but a long term gain. Away fans are different for obvious reasons I guess it'll be interesting to see what the attendance is that day I do agree with your point that hopefully it attracts new supporters but suspect pricing further into the season may be a bigger factor in some attending again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 1 minute ago, phantom said: I guess it'll be interesting to see what the attendance is that day I do agree with your point that hopefully it attracts new supporters but suspect pricing further into the season may be a bigger factor in some attending again I bought my tickets yesterday and sales seem to be pretty good despite obvious bad timing with people on holiday. I’d be surprised if it’s not close to a sell out for home fans as the excitement builds. Problem is that most of the time we try to attract new fans we play crap! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 Not massively surprised at my clubs stance . Nice gesture from the Royals throwing it out there hoping the football family will look after each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 27 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: But by offering cheap tickets to home fans on occasions we are hopefully attracting new fans. Short term it costs but a long term gain. Away fans are different for obvious reasons But are we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 5 minutes ago, Monkeh said: But are we? I took my son when he was five which was earlier than planned because it cost £15 for us both to go. City fan of 6 years, gets a full kit every season for birthday and he’s probably been to about 50 games with either me or his grandad. That’s only one example but I do think it works having 4-5 really cheap games in a season 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 5, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 I do believe Richard Gould is much more on the ball than many of his predecessors and will keep the pricing as affordable as possible comparable to a season card holder 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 8 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: I took my son when he was five which was earlier than planned because it cost £15 for us both to go. City fan of 6 years, gets a full kit every season for birthday and he’s probably been to about 50 games with either me or his grandad. That’s only one example but I do think it works having 4-5 really cheap games in a season Good to get them hooked, I'd like to see the data to back it up with regards to mates rates, because that's how my mind works, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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