SIMMO SAYS
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Oh, go on then, I'll be there
Me! Feeling a lot more positive for next season now!
I think it will be lower than people think, most are fair weather supporters who thought they were jumping on a promotion band wagon. My first game was in 1979 and I have seen a lot of bad times, newbies are not interested in bad times. 14,000 max!
I think it will be lower than people think, most are fair weather supporters who thought they were jumping on a promotion band wagon. My first game was in 1979 and I have seen a lot of bad times, newbies are not interested in bad times. 14,000 max!
If correct this equates to a drop in income of around £3M, so probably the same off the playing budget for next season then?
Not necessarily. I think STs will be well down (20% or so based on what we were told at the club recently) but matchday attendances nowhere near that much as people buy individual games instead. Actual matchday bums on seats may be higher than this season as a result (but we'll never know for sure) as the STHs who often stay away drop their tickets and are replaced by people buying match by match (at higher prices)
We currently sell an incredibly small number of match by match tickets. The prices are too high.
We'll have to be pushing at the top of the league to shift any reasonable quantity on a regular basis.
Between 17000 and 17500
Oh how wonderful you are,... in 1979 you didn't have to pay premium prices, queue to get to the match and queue to get home......different ballgame...... People who make a choice to stop buying STs are not fairweather as you put it, they are just realistic.....they decide that there is more to life than football, they share their support of the Albion with a raft of other things.I think it will be lower than people think, most are fair weather supporters who thought they were jumping on a promotion band wagon. My first game was in 1979 and I have seen a lot of bad times, newbies are not interested in bad times. 14,000 max!
We currently sell an incredibly small number of match by match tickets. The prices are too high.
Not necessarily. I think STs will be well down (20% or so based on what we were told at the club recently) but matchday attendances nowhere near that much as people buy individual games instead. Actual matchday bums on seats may be higher than this season as a result (but we'll never know for sure) as the STHs who often stay away drop their tickets and are replaced by people buying match by match (at higher prices)
Oh how wonderful you are,... in 1979 you didn't have to pay premium prices, queue to get to the match and queue to get home......different ballgame...... People who make a choice to stop buying STs are not fairweather as you put it, they are just realistic.....they decide that there is more to life than football, they share their support of the Albion with a raft of other things.
I cannot work out why any genuine Albion fan would give you a thumbs down for that post.
Well I think in these first 4 seasons at the Amex, myself included, a lot were prepared to make sacrifices to enable them to attend games. They would tolerate the sometimes difficult travel arrangements, tolerate the high prices, tolerate the night game logistics, tolerate the earlier up and down food and beer quality and availability, all to ensure they had a place to call their own at the Amex....... that drive of necessity is not there as much anymore......hence the drop of circa 20%.......sadly the club have missed the boat of goodwill.....now they need to provide entertainment and a quality competitive squad again to get people back.Surely this applies regardless of whether they've renewed their ST or not? Attending 23 games of league football at the Amex is not an absolute priority for me or any of the STH's I sit with or know, and never has been.