Roy's View From... Pre-Match View From Preston

[XM657]

Looking at their last 3 results Blades will have to be on their metal, be a good yardstick for assessing our potential improvement. Excited, as I feel Blades will pull through.
Regarding the away pricing, I'd round it up to £35 now we're decimal.
What's not to like. Visiting BDTBL is like visiting any ancient monument, think of all the illustrious sporting legends that have graced it's playing surfaces. Remember your walking amongst the physics of all these greats, breath it in and rejoice. It'd be cheap at £50.
Away fans get to see their team also, Wow, wara nit art in Sheffild. That'll be £60 please. Come on Prince, you know it makes sense.
Thank you Roy.

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

My Daughter-in-Law has got into the Blades since moving up from darn sarf.
She's bought a shirt and I'm taking her to her first game tonight.
It's cost me 70 quid plus travel from Worksop for the two of us.
The prices are putting me off going more regularly.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

It certainly is as the £1 discount will be gobbled up by the £1 booking fee when booking online or over the phone.

The only other advantage is as a member you get to use your loyalty points for away tickets. I have to wait for general sale as I'm not paying £40 just to use my the points

 

[Maidenhead]

I agree that prices are too high but in mitigation.....

How long since we paid £36 for a game at Bolton in League 1?

Tim Minchen (who?) at Leeds Arena - cheapest ticket £46.50

Alanis Morissette (good but not great) - cheapest ticket £74.85

In terms of entertainment costs generally £33 is not really over the top.

 

[ghandi]

The only other advantage is as a member you get to use your loyalty points for away tickets. I have to wait for general sale as I'm not paying £40 just to use my the points

Same for me as they still give you the loyalty points when you buy on General sale.

 

[GrayBlade]

I too have sympathy, £33 is way too much but let's be right, PNE's away support has been pitiful for decades considering the club's size/ potential. I don't think they'd have brought many even if it was only £20.

 

[DifferentClass]

I too have sympathy, £33 is way too much but let's be right, PNE's away support has been pitiful for decades considering the club's size/ potential. I don't think they'd have brought many even if it was only £20.

I'd put PNE in the "Wendy complex" set of clubs, along with Forest.

Think they're bigger than they really are, the truth is they haven't played in the top flight since the Tom Finney days and are unlikely to in the near future.

On the plus side, they gave the world Alan Kelly so they're not as offensive as the pigs and Florist.

 

[Tuns25]

Not only are the prices too high but we see to have no imagination or drive in selling match tickets. Mid week matches are always a hard sell. Simple things like decent marketing and offers - anyone buying a Peterborough ticket should have been hit with an offer before they checked out for a Preston ticket at reduced price.

We seem to sell STs every year and then sit back as if by magic thousands of people who did not want a ST will pay daft money match by match.

The reality is that however well we do this season attendances are already fixed within a band of a thousand or two either way whether we are top or bottom of the league as the walk up will not increase proprotionate to success on the pitch - it hasn't done for years

 

[ekke287]

I'm hoping that everyone complaining about the pricing is also aware that it's what we're charging home fans too?

I'm paying £50+ for me and my student cousin on the kop.

 

[Ecco1889]

Whatever happened to Category C games?
The club used to do a couple a year(think tickets were £10-£5) to give a chance for families on low income to come and watch a match,not sure when this was stopped

 

[N20 Blade]

£27 Hull away on Saturday for us. Perspective and yes, overpriced for away Tuesday night match Vs Preston for their fans. There should be a cap imo of c £22.00 this season for away matches.

Problem is we've sold all our tickets for Hull, so why where's the incentive for clubs to cap at £22.00? Once the novelty of going to games again wears off I'm sure away numbers for all clubs will dip, especially for the more expensive grounds.

 

[Bearlie]

I too have sympathy, £33 is way too much but let's be right, PNE's away support has been pitiful for decades considering the club's size/ potential. I don't think they'd have brought many even if it was only £20.

They have some massive clubs in the North West to compete with for fans

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

They have some massive clubs in the North West to compete with for fans

Yeah - but so do we.

 

[Bearlie]

I'd put PNE in the "Wendy complex" set of clubs, along with Forest.

Think they're bigger than they really are, the truth is they haven't played in the top flight since the Tom Finney days and are unlikely to in the near future.

On the plus side, they gave the world Alan Kelly so they're not as offensive as the pigs and Florist.

Forest are a Big club 2x European Cup winners
That means their name sits on a trophy along side Barcelona Real Madrid Man utd etc ....
You can't argue with that I'm afraid

 

[N20 Blade]

Yeah - but so do we.

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[Sheffsteel]

Forest are a Big club 2x European Cup winners
That means their name sits on a trophy along side Barcelona Real Madrid Man utd etc ....
You can't argue with that I'm afraid

Forest are an anomaly, a unique case regards the big club debate.

Most of their history they were a medium sized club with quite mediocre support.
Notts County still hold the record for having the highest average attendance of 35K in that city just after the war.

They currently have a decent hardcore of 20K but even now they’ve rarely averaged over 25,000 in the last 40 years.
(just checked the statistics, it shows that in the last 41 years Forest have broke the 25K average gate barrier a grand total of THREE times.
They have averaged over 30K on just FOUR occasions in their entire history).
They’ve spent quite a few years (56) in the top flight but their historical average is still only about 16K compared to our 19K.

However I agree any club that wins the main European trophy automatically deserve special kudos
and Forest won the European Cup twice…..so just based on this become a “big club”.
However take away those 2 trophies and we are statistically/ factually slightly bigger than Forest in most other criteria.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

??

Massive club. Few miles away. Legendarily large fan base.

 

[ben1987]

My Daughter-in-Law has got into the Blades since moving up from darn sarf.
She's bought a shirt and I'm taking her to her first game tonight.
It's cost me 70 quid plus travel from Worksop for the two of us.
The prices are putting me off going more regularly.

good to see other Worksop based blades about.