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Of the eleven matches tonight in the Championship, eight were lower than our lowest of the season (17,623 v Colchester). Ipswich's attendance was 17,630.a grand total of seven more than our season's low!
 



It's the only thing that still has any pride about it our support..

Pity every fucker from the club seems to blame the fans in some sort of way when a microphone is shoved in front of em..... We're undervalued...
 
I had to do a double take on the numbers at masivborough last night. Why do they say only 19k turned up? Everyone knows there were over 30k there, do they think we're stupid.
With so few turning up at Barnsley and South Barnsley why don't they merge together. That way they might even get over 20k for a home match.
 
Edinblade said:
I had to do a double take on the numbers at masivborough last night. Why do they say only 19k turned up? Everyone knows there were over 30k there, do they think we're stupid.
With so few turning up at Barnsley and South Barnsley why don't they merge together. That way they might even get over 20k for a home match.
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Barnsley get decent attendances for such a poxy club don't they?

The massive have no excuses, 6000 away to preston, then just 19000 for the next home game.
 
Caveblade said:
Crowds are irrelevant, the only thing they illustrate is the shambolic failure of this club at a board level.

We are starting to sound like the pigs, all we have left to shout about is the size of our crowds.
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In a perverse way our attendances are part of our downfall. It's sending a signal to the board they can screw up season after season, manager after manager in the knowledge we will still turn up. We will get our season tickets as per wherever we end up in the league. We will budget and scrimp and save to afford our footy, shame those above don't feel it as bad as we do when they fail.
 
Blade56 said:
In a perverse way our attendances are part of our downfall. It's sending a signal to the board they can screw up season after season, manager after manager in the knowledge we will still turn up. We will get our season tickets as per wherever we end up in the league. We will budget and scrimp and save to afford our footy, shame those above don't feel it as bad as we do when they fail.
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Partially true, it also means that they have their pricing structure just about right for where we are.
 
SwissBlade said:
Partially true, it also means that they have their pricing structure just about right for where we are.
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Correct. There was a bloke on RS t'other night who said 'United should lower their season tickets for next year by 20% to reward the fans' loyalty.'

I suppose he's the same type who demand that we 'sign more players.'
 
SwissBlade said:
Partially true, it also means that they have their pricing structure just about right for where we are.
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For where we are I would like to see £20 / game max and a full stadium. Someone soon will try it, the loss of income would be made up by increased attendance and the revenue from increased food, drink, betting and programs etc would make an overal profit on the day one would argue.
 
Blade56 said:
For where we are I would like to see £20 / game max and a full stadium. Someone soon will try it, the loss of income would be made up by increased attendance and the revenue from increased food, drink, betting and programs etc would make an overal profit on the day one would argue.
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Someone has tried it - Bradford. And it works.
 
Blade56 said:
For where we are I would like to see £20 / game max and a full stadium. Someone soon will try it, the loss of income would be made up by increased attendance and the revenue from increased food, drink, betting and programs etc would make an overal profit on the day one would argue.
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But Bradford have tried this route:

PUBLISHED
06:48 7th May 2015

The Bantams have maintained their commitment to making football affordable for their fans after confirming season ticket prices for the forthcoming 2015/2016 season.
Supporters over the age of 16 - adults, senior citizens and students - will pay only £149.00 - that is £50.00 cheaper than last season's adult season ticket price.
That amazing price works out at an average of only £6.50 a game for fans attending every match, significantly cheaper than any other club in the local area and offering arguably the best value anywhere to watch professional sport in the UK.
Junior season tickets will remain at only £99.00.

Read more at http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/new...es-confirmed-2444707.aspx#Du2z8ZmY8pGZ0gdr.99

This giveaway was on top of a good FA Cup run last season. So, at £6.50 per fan, you'd have to sell a lot of pies and programmes. (And their chairman would have already eaten all the pies).

Average crowds in the League this season?

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A max. of £20 would not result in a full stadium. Even being fifth in the Championship only attracts crowds of 19,000. :D
 
Blade56 said:
For where we are I would like to see £20 / game max and a full stadium. Someone soon will try it, the loss of income would be made up by increased attendance and the revenue from increased food, drink, betting and programs etc would make an overal profit on the day one would argue.
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I think £15 - 20 would be about right for league 1 mediocrity, however it certainly wouldn't guarantee a full stadium every week. And it doesn't. I think my season ticket was £ 306, at 23 games, that works out at around £13 per game. Which is cheap. But the club aren't going to get 30000 fans in who can afford to pay £300 up front every April.

If we say that we rely on perhaps a core of 12,000 season ticket holders (presently) and taking our best crowds/ full ground, you're looking at about 18,000 fans that float... 6-8000 of those 18,000 fans arent coming week in week out. I don't think its just about price, it'll be other commitments such as family, work, sport, idleness or the Barney factor of just refusing to go (sorry fella, couldn't resist that one)

Obviously the figures aren't entirely accurate as we don't know how many actual season ticket holders attend each game because they don't count the actual attendance, but tickets sold so these are just examples.

Unless we're top half of the championship, i think we're always going to struggle to fill a ground completely which means that its always a gamble, extra costs for stewards, policing (and wall of steel), catering and everything which goes with it is a risk.

I'd be interested to know what our break even is on attendances, but perhaps its around 12-15,000
 
Blade56 said:
For where we are I would like to see £20 / game max and a full stadium. Someone soon will try it, the loss of income would be made up by increased attendance and the revenue from increased food, drink, betting and programs etc would make an overal profit on the day one would argue.
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Not sure of the terms but don't United sell the Catering rights etc per season? If so, there would be no bigger take on food/drink.

That's what used to happen.
 
grafikhaus said:
Correct. There was a bloke on RS t'other night who said 'United should lower their season tickets for next year by 20% to reward the fans' loyalty.'

I suppose he's the same type who demand that we 'sign more players.'
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Season tickets pay for players?

When did that happen then? :)

pommpey
 



Aren't mid week attendances generally worse than Saturday ones? I'm pretty sure ours are. Away fans are certainly more non existent at BL for obvious reasons, unless the fixture is local.

I also reckon Arsenal V Barca didn't help, even if it was on BT sport.
 
Caveblade said:
Crowds are irrelevant, the only thing they illustrate is the shambolic failure of this club at a board level.

We are starting to sound like the pigs, all we have left to shout about is the size of our crowds.
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It IS the only thing we've got left to shout about though.

No one cares that we've got a nice pitch.

It's sad, as others have said, that people within our own fan base are so quick to heap blame on the fans for where we are rather than mismanagement.

I even read on here the other day that our attendances are nothing special and it's purely down to the size of Sheffield.
 
SwissBlade said:
Barnsley get decent attendances for such a poxy club don't they?

The massive have no excuses, 6000 away to preston, then just 19000 for the next home game.
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It's been years since I ventured into the unholy place.
How is Swillsboro these days?
Is it really still a ghastly ancient rust bucket or have the Thai Tuna folks invested any money in improvements?
 
Pittsburg Blade said:
It's been years since I ventured into the unholy place.
How is Swillsboro these days?
Is it really still a ghastly ancient rust bucket or have the Thai Tuna folks invested any money in improvements?
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They've put it up on stilts to overcome the flooding issues, but whilst doing this, they've rebuilt the rusty bits (all of it) with some old Tuna tins that ol' John west had laying around. They didn't wash the tins out properly, so the remnants of tuna and mackerel that were left in the tins have gone a bit crusty. The whole of pork talk have declared it a success.
 
SwissBlade said:
They've put it up on stilts to overcome the flooding issues, but whilst doing this, they've rebuilt the rusty bits (all of it) with some old Tuna tins that ol' John west had laying around. They didn't wash the tins out properly, so the remnants of tuna and mackerel that were left in the tins have gone a bit crusty. The whole of pork talk have declared it a success.
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Ironically it's that busy on match day they they are packed in like sardines.
 
SwissBlade said:
They've put it up on stilts to overcome the flooding issues, but whilst doing this, they've rebuilt the rusty bits (all of it) with some old Tuna tins that ol' John west had laying around. They didn't wash the tins out properly, so the remnants of tuna and mackerel that were left in the tins have gone a bit crusty. The whole of pork talk have declared it a success.
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Its true, Nohopeiu claims he tripped over this when he fucked that penalty up last night.
 
I'm not wanting our prices to go up but what are the average costs of going to watch our "massively' neighbours? I bet it's nearly double so 19000 is like getting, my mate's lad works in their club shop and on a Saturday on match day they gross ( good word for them) £1 million in sales not sure if that's tickets and shirts etc
 
Shaun Ashmore said:
I'm not wanting our prices to go up but what are the average costs of going to watch our "massively' neighbours? I bet it's nearly double so 19000 is like getting, my mate's lad works in their club shop and on a Saturday on match day they gross ( good word for them) £1 million in sales not sure if that's tickets and shirts etc
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Ha ha ha The-Fuck-Outta-Here-Trash-Can-Meme.jpg
 



SwissBlade said:
They've put it up on stilts to overcome the flooding issues, but whilst doing this, they've rebuilt the rusty bits (all of it) with some old Tuna tins that ol' John west had laying around. They didn't wash the tins out properly, so the remnants of tuna and mackerel that were left in the tins have gone a bit crusty. The whole of pork talk have declared it a success.
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As an inhabitant of S6, the smell of rotting fish actually makes the stench of the sewage farm slightly more bearable though it does make you baulk as you drive by
 
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