Was hoping to get two mates I hadn't seen for ages to come to the Lincoln game on Tuesday. Both asked me how much it is for a seat. I said £16.
My mates told me I was mad as Charlton were selling tickets for their game against Wolves on Tuesday for £15! I didn't believe them until they sent the link.
Was hoping to get two mates I hadn't seen for ages to come to the Lincoln game on Tuesday. Both asked me how much it is for a seat. I said £16.
My mates told me I was mad as Charlton were selling tickets for their game against Wolves on Tuesday for £15! I didn't believe them until they sent the link.
This argument is quite simple really and been said 100 timed. However... Charlton can charge £15 because they get 10,000+ people. If we dropped our price from £15 to £12 then based on an attendance of 500 we would need an extra 125 people through the gates just to break even, would this really happen? I doubt it. The less money we charge the less budget the team has, the more likelyhood that the team get worse results = even less attendances etc
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This argument is quite simple really and been said 100 timed. However... Charlton can charge £15 because they get 10,000+ people. If we dropped our price from £15 to £12 then based on an attendance of 500 we would need an extra 125 people through the gates just to break even, would this really happen? I doubt it. The less money we charge the less budget the team has, the more likelyhood that the team get worse results = even less attendances etc
I hear what you're saying. Even £12 is too much. Most of my friends and family say £5-£8 (cinema ticket prices roughly) would be reasonable. Anything above that is a rip-off. The problem is that we have overcharged for so long that the club have shot themselves in the foot where they have deterred virtually all floating and potential supporters, leaving us with a hardcore of 400 or so supporters and a very fragile budget meaning we can't reduce ticket prices to entice new supporters.
It's a very difficult situation. The only positive is we let kids in for free so when it's a family of two adults, two kids it works out £7:50 a head.
Hopefully the target 1,000 initiative will come up with a few ideas, as at the moment we're heading for target 100 looking at the direction the attendance figures are heading in.
I fail to see how people can say we over charge, we are still one of the cheapest clubs in the conference premier, we have to be competative with other clubs, i think one of the major reasons our crowds are so low, is the lack of coverage in local media, no proper radio coverage, Bexley has no proper local newspaper anymore, nothing to promote us, & i am afraid i have no answer to that.
What we charge is too much, but our hand is forced by that of the other clubs in the division, budget/attendances being low, etc, as all mentioned above by Polo and others.
However, £15/16 to watch "non-league football" is too much money yes. Us being one of the cheapest doesn't mean that what we charge is correct. We are comparing ourselves to other sides also charging too much. I think I paid £18 to get into Barnet away last season, a complete rip-off.
Football at all levels is too expensive. I have real doubts that dropping prices would attract sufficient numbers not to have a detrimental effect on the budget. People in Bexley would rather watch rich people falling over at the drop of a feather on television in a pub than seeing real football up close.
Agreed! But why play when Millwall / Charlton are usually playing and why play when there is live European football on free TV? Perhaps we simply needed a 3 for 2 ticket for the 3 September Tuesday fixtures?
Because everyone in our division plays on a Tuesday night, and the only exceptions in recent years are clubs with running tracks around their pitch.
There is live football on tele on Wednesday's too last I checked.
It's not a new issue, and it isn't going to change.