attendance numbers, just factual

[Northyorksblade]

I paid £18 for my 5 y/o to attend a game a couple of weeks ago. Seems a bit steep, I think anyone under 16 should be a fiver max.

I think £18 for an adult ticket is perfectly reasonable BTW

I pay £40 for my 13 year old grandson. Was £10 till last season. Had you paid for your boy to be a junior Blade, I think the tickets per game are less. The deals for kids have been great over the years. Let's hope it continues!

 

[wizadry]

The MD was on RS about a week ago and said we had got just under £2million income. Don't forget they have already ready that £800k of that is to sort the pitch out. That leaves £1.2million to spread over the term of players contracts(e.g. if 4 years and extra £400k per season . If we have to take 60% due to ffp,you are lookin at £340k per season over 3 years

Thanks for that bartman i looked into it earlier and saw we earnt just over 800k in tv money,just over 1.2mill in prize money and thats without the gate receipts so i reckon that will be somewhere closer to 3 mill wouldnt it?

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

"The only way to keep your attendances up is to be more imaginative with season tickets and one off game offers."

The best way to cash in (with increased season ticket sales) on the current feel good factor at the Lane is add some quality to the current squad and don't sell the better players. If they're blowing £800k on a bleeding pitch, then I'm assuming there's a very decent transfer kitty for Clough to bring in some decent players. If not I'd argue the £800k would be better spent on players than grass.

 

[grafikhaus]

We only made 1.2 m from cup run,i thought it was more 2.5 mill graf?

Yes, I was only quoting the 'prize money' figures. With TV money and gate receipts, I don't think £2.5m is wide of the mark. And think of the takings from selling the Brayford masks!

 

[borbokis]

I pay £40 for my 13 year old grandson. Was £10 till last season. Had you paid for your boy to be a junior Blade, I think the tickets per game are less. The deals for kids have been great over the years. Let's hope it continues!

Haha, my daughter actually, we went to the orient match because she said she wanted to go so we went as a one off to see if she enjoyed it but i'm not sure it was really her bag in the end. she's only 5 though so there's still time.

 

[Bladeforlife]

I am hoping for cheap as chips U10 seats, Want to take the little un to his first few blades matches next season but at £14 a pop, might have to reconsider, not sure if he would even stay for the full game!

What the club did this season was do free junior membership which offered tickets for u16s for £6, regardless of the category/opponent

 

[oaklandrdblade]

I am hoping for cheap as chips U10 seats, Want to take the little un to his first few blades matches next season but at £14 a pop, might have to reconsider, not sure if he would even stay for the full game!

If the prices for Juniors are the same as this year buy them a season ticket, think in the 5 years I've been taking the young un they've been a tenner for 4 years then this year it cost me £30 so you can't lose really.

 

[Balham]

I paid £18 for my 5 y/o to attend a game a couple of weeks ago. Seems a bit steep, I think anyone under 16 should be a fiver max.

I think £18 for an adult ticket is perfectly reasonable BTW

Sign your kid up for Junior Blades - then it's a fiver a game and as a bonus (and unlike South Barnsley) signing up for Junior Blades is free. I've signed up Mrs Balham's nephew - whose dad is from the dark side - to save money, all you need is a birth certificate.

http://www.sufc.co.uk/news/article/20130627-free-junior-membership-255367.aspx

 

[borbokis]

She was a bit bored towards the end so i think she might be a bit young but will deffo look into junior blades if she decides she wants to go again

 

[Balham]

She was a bit bored towards the end so i think she might be a bit young but will deffo look into junior blades if she decides she wants to go again

We had the same with the niece: she was asleep by 75 mins of the Stevenage game but that's understandable, it was an awful game and she's 4!

You get a membership pack through the post and a few other benefits so given that it's free you've nothing to lose! I had to stop the Ticket Office sending stuff for the nephew as it was causing family issues **

**Might ignore that for the new season...he needs his membership pack.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

That is a very good point.

 

[oldblade]

Shame our gates are down, but I sometimes wish they would measure attendances with AND without away fans. Last year we had some big followings at the lane (Chezzy, Donny, Huddersfield) whereas our 'bigger' home games this year (Basically just Rotherham and Wolves) fell at unfortunate times/dates. I would imagine our core support hasn't dipped hardly at all in real terms, and as Digger says, this should be addressed when we actually have something worthwhile to turn up for!

We didn't play Chesterfield ot Huddersfield in the league last year - not unless we managed to play in the championship, division 1 and division 2 all in one season!

 

[United Aren't Back.]

overall attendances are down 5 % in FL72 , partly cost partly apathy maybe

sufc gates down by 1000 on last season 17360 from 18472 around the average drop
our attendance loving neighbours
swfc down now to 20997 , falling under 21k after the charlton game 3000 down on last seasons 24078 or 12 % rounding off

its a general malaise in football as football prices keep pushing fans away

not just prices , its also turgid,dull football plus saturation coverage of top teams on tv

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Shame our gates are down, but I sometimes wish they would measure attendances with AND without away fans. Last year we had some big followings at the lane (Chezzy, Donny, Huddersfield) whereas our 'bigger' home games this year (Basically just Rotherham and Wolves) fell at unfortunate times/dates. I would imagine our core support hasn't dipped hardly at all in real terms, and as Digger says, this should be addressed when we actually have something worthwhile to turn up for!

surely hudds n chesterfield both waved goodbye to us in 2012 not 2013??

 

[United Aren't Back.]

£300 for a season ticket in the Kop is, and should be, as cheap as it gets. I wish it were different, but it's unrealisitc to charge less and compete in the modern game. We are regularly rated as one of the cheapest season tickets in our respective league.

It's not about prcing, IMHO. It's about being shite, or not.

When we next get back to the premier league, I can gaurantee that the "financial pressures" that have put some off from renewing season tickets will completely disappear.

UTB

not so sure about that. I note the glory hunters turning out in droves for the cup run, I know one man who went to fulham away, forest ,charlton and wembley. league games, none. So yes that sort will emerge when prem is next achieved, but in what numbers i dont know.

 

[blade too long]

its a fact that armchair football is king now, man utd claim 100 million fans worldwide , bur all but 76000 are armchair fans.and bt sport canalplus sext and sky dominate how fanscan watch their teams,making us play friday nights when no one wants to . or Sunday lunch time, when I actually felt sorry for Charlton fans