I'm a wire fan living up on taylor hill. Work etc means I don't have a season ticket. when wire are up here and I'm off work I'll get down to the match. First time in about 4 years, the stars aligned and I could go the match the other week. I looked up on the website, saw 24 quid, closed the website got a beer from the fridge and parked myself in front of the tv. If a fairly die hard fan is put off by the price, then what chance have you got attracting joe public & family?

I can't say this for every club necessarily, but go for a walk around warrington any day of the week and you're guaranteed to see replica shirts, hats, coats etc. on top of promotional stuff in shop windows, and billboards advertising upcoming games.

In Huddersfield there's next to nothing. On home matchdays, you see more away shirts in boozers around town that home shirts. You have a town that simply isn't interested in the club, and until you get some decent marketing folk to tap into the thriving uninitiated student, eastern-european and asian communities then you won't get the attendances desired.

I do get it. You can get a family ticket next door at the odeon for about £24 and get approximately the same time of entertainment for a family of four there as for 1 adult at the stadium.
The clubs problem is reducing the prices hasn't persuaded more to come- so they may as well just charge £24. That's down to apathy on the part of sometime supporters and they can't really complain.
BUT there are people who just cannot make enough games for a season ticket to be value for money-for that reason I really think the flexi ticket or some sort of membership thing is the way to go.

Thanks, will get something over to you.

I agree if you aren’t a regular fan then £24 seems quite high.....but once you’re hooked you’re hooked! I started watching the odd game in 2009 and after a few years I now rarely miss a game (home or away).

I think it’d be quite a good idea to get the cheerleaders out into the centre of town a few times a week/weekends (if schedules allow) and get them handing out vouchers - say £5 off your ticket this weekend type thing...

Ther is the "hooked" effect as we are similar in watching the odd RL game now and then a few years back and now travelling from Derby every Sunday to either watch Giants or Crusaders (and if really slumming it South Wales Scoropions!!!). I think the problem RL has if unlike us you only watch one team is the fact you could go a couple of months with only 1 or 2 Sunday home games and away games on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sundays (as indeed the next few months pan out for us) it is very easy to get out of the habit of going to games and the current state of SL where blow outs are becoming more and more common will not help matters.

Not sure there is an answer as clubs like Leeds and Saints seem happy with Friday night games as most non TV fixtures on a Sunday afternoon would help but I think it is a case of we are where we are and tinkering a few pounds with the price will not make much difference though still think making the FM Stand a "cheap" enclosure might be not a bad idea with perhaps a few hundred tickets put up for sale by the away team to get round any arguments about like for like pricing.

here's and idea

scrap season tickets

make it £14 a game on the day pay, see what crowds we get..

everyones happy then...apart from ken davy.. prob end up in admin after he pulls the plug