empty grounds

[DIFFBROOK]

There is an opportunity here for Brighton and other lower league clubs. Yes, its riduculously expensive to travel miles to see a Premiership side, say in London. The cost of railfare, tube and the ticket will set you back around £75 a go each!!. So local clubs need to make it far more attractive for families to attend.

Hopefully, Falmer will be priced so that families will opt to see Brighton play, rather than say Spurs.

Also, if I were in charge of a football club in these difficult economic times, I would have children under 16 pay a £1 to get in with a fare paying adult. 16 - 18 year olds half price (as they will be in school, but with pockey money/ Sat morning job) and 18 year olds full fare.

That way you will get the families in, and once you have hooked a 16 year old, then they will in turn be full paying adults hopefully for life. Season tickets to be on a similar basis.

Airlines would rather have a £1 a seat rather than seat be empty, so why are football clubs different

 

[Napper]

There is an opportunity here for Brighton and other lower league clubs. Yes, its riduculously expensive to travel miles to see a Premiership side, say in London. The cost of railfare, tube and the ticket will set you back around £75 a go each!!. So local clubs need to make it far more attractive for families to attend.

Hopefully, Falmer will be priced so that families will opt to see Brighton play, rather than say Spurs.

Also, if I were in charge of a football club in these difficult economic times, I would have children under 16 pay a £1 to get in with a fare paying adult. 16 - 18 year olds half price (as they will be in school, but with pockey money/ Sat morning job) and 18 year olds full fare.

That way you will get the families in, and once you have hooked a 16 year old, then they will in turn be full paying adults hopefully for life. Season tickets to be on a similar basis.

Airlines would rather have a £1 a seat rather than seat be empty, so why are football clubs different

Like the thinking but I can't see Falmer offering any cheap deals. Got to be priced the same as Withdean or more I would of thought

On a side not, good to see only 16k at Pompey on Saturday. They'll be back to 10k before long

 

[brunswick]

In spain only 20 or so euros to get into a top game - unless its barca or real.

 

[DerbyGull]

There is an opportunity here for Brighton and other lower league clubs. Yes, its riduculously expensive to travel miles to see a Premiership side, say in London. The cost of railfare, tube and the ticket will set you back around £75 a go each!!. So local clubs need to make it far more attractive for families to attend.

Hopefully, Falmer will be priced so that families will opt to see Brighton play, rather than say Spurs.

Also, if I were in charge of a football club in these difficult economic times, I would have children under 16 pay a £1 to get in with a fare paying adult. 16 - 18 year olds half price (as they will be in school, but with pockey money/ Sat morning job) and 18 year olds full fare.

That way you will get the families in, and once you have hooked a 16 year old, then they will in turn be full paying adults hopefully for life. Season tickets to be on a similar basis.

Airlines would rather have a £1 a seat rather than seat be empty, so why are football clubs different

Don't forget student prices, around half the adult price.

 

[crodonilson]

I really don't see the issue here, audiences in all leagues have been on the up and up in the past 10-15 years, at some stage this is bound to level out. In the lower league historically clubs have very rarely filled their ground on a regular basis, that's no different now than what it was 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

 

[Gritt23]

In spain only 20 or so euros to get into a top game - unless its barca or real.

A couple of years a go I read that the cheapest season ticket (adult) for Juve was about £100. They don't sell out every week, so they drop the price ..... the problem seems to be a British one.

 

[fire&skill]

only 1,500 at darlington yesterday :'(

You've gotta speculate to accumulate I suppose. Gulp.

 

[ebfc1]

only 1,500 at darlington yesterday :'(

Thats no suprise their doing poor, isnt their capacity like over 10,000 ?

 

[fire&skill]

Thats no suprise their doing poor, isnt their capacity like over 10,000 ?

25,500 (Restricted to 10,000 by local planning regulations)

 

[Uter]

Attendances at league matches may just top 30 million this season for the first time since the late 1960s so prices don't appear to be putting that many people off.

To put this into some context in the 80s attendances dipped to around 16.5 million.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

This may sound crazy, but in 20 years time if the Premiership bubble hasn't already burst, SKY - or whoever has the Broadcasting rights at the time will be giving tickets away - or even paying people to attend some games - for all those games not involving a few elite top teams.

With Internet and TV showing ALL games live in a few years, who will actually bother to turn up 'in the flesh' to watch Wigan v Birmingham on a wet Monday night?

The TV companies will want people there to create an atmosphere, thus the need to give tickets away.

 

[Storer68]

only 1,500 at darlington yesterday :'(

because its too expensive. Now where do i pick up the Nobel przie for rocket science

 

[Storer68]

A couple of years a go I read that the cheapest season ticket (adult) for Juve was about £100. They don't sell out every week, so they drop the price ..... the problem seems to be a British one.

Juventus very rarely sell out. Since they moved out of the centre of turin to the Stadio delle Alpi in 1990 their support dwindled and there was even talk of them moving to a city where they could guarantee better support than they were enjoying in Turin. They have moved back to the Stadio Communale, but their attenedances are still vey poor for all but the biggest eUROPEAN GAMES.

Attendance v Fulham 11,406

 

[DerbyGull]

Another one to get people through the turnstiles would be discounts for those on the social. I know some clubs that do this.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Some of the matches I've been to I'd have paid more to get out.