As a ST holder - walk up prices don't effect me but £24 is too much. I pre buy away tickets for this reason and the fact that it helps the Giants by buying through them. But then I am a committed fan and RL would be the last thing to economise on if I had to (except maybe the mortgage as the kids seem to like having a bed to sleep in - strange girls ). I would not be happy to pay £24 away - but would pay that only because I am a committed fan. I certainly would not attend any SL game as a neutral and pay that much - better to go watch the lower divisions, or U19s for my dollar.

I really do appreciate the dilemma for the club though - cheap offers - £10 tickets etc... have not worked and therefore cannot be sustained. It appears that cheaper tickets alone does not equal higher attendances - and so the club makes a loss - or at least makes less than not doing the special offers.

Despite being a SL ticket I couldn't care less how little other people have to pay on the day if I thought that this would radically increase our support over time. Clearly though it is not as simple as that.

Not sure what the club do to encourage the casual or first time supporters along to games, and I am no marketing expert. However I would target big games similar to what Wigan have done in recent years. Let school kids in for nothing, and back this up with a really low price if they are accompanied by say two other adults. We would have to go a long way to get any issues over ground capacity and this would surely give the best possible first impression to those who did attend. It would also help to win the game of course (have we ever won a game where the cheap tickets were on offer?) - then again we could appoint Bentham to Ref as he surely owes us

some very good ideas there mate.

No problems. PM them to me if you don't want the general public to read them beforehand.

£24 is too high. I think it needs to be about £16

I agree that as a season ticket holder i wouldn't be that bothered if people on the day were paying the same or not too far off what i was, i buy a season ticket because it's easier for me, i can pay in installments and once its paid for i knwo i have a ticket for every home game so dont have to worry about finding the money come gameday.
I buy mine for convenience more than the actual price per game it costs and certainly wouldn't bother me if 5,000 extra were coming and only paying £1 more a game than me !!.

I also think a similar idea to Wigan's 'big one' is a good idea, we could market them as the 'Giant match' etc and target not only schools/colleges but large companies around the town, choose a certain one for each game and let their workers buy tickets at a reduced rate. It may not pay off it may lose money but surely it's worth a try.

As we have seen with the cheap ticket deals it doesn't actually seem to boost crowd numbers, away fans love them and come in droves, but not in the home stands as all this does is mean that people who use cheap tickets picked up from elsewhere for SL games can still get into a game for cheap, the lower ticket deals are only bringing in the same people who usually come but for cheaper and we need new fans as well as the existing fans coming in cheap !!.

Another thing you need to realise is that not only do we allow under 12's in for free but we're the only club who has one price for all stands! Also like for like we're relatively cheaper than everyone else! Something has to give as its not sustainable! This idea of a part season ticket is bandied as being the same price as we sold full season tickets a few seasons ago it didn't help the overall average attendance! Plus it doesn't help the on the day deciders!
I often wonder how our attendances would be affected if we had cards rather than vouchers for season tickets obviously more would have to pay the full match day price maybe then that entry price is substantially reduced!

Of course 6 pages moaning the price is too high and doesn't give value for money is great publicity for the club. They must be soooooo happy.

Wouldn't say its 6 pages of moaning, there's a hell of a lot of good ideas and constructive posts too !

+1

My apologies.

5 and a half pages of people moaning £24 is too much with the occasional bit of sense from some posters who understand economic reality and don't live in a world of unicorns, rainbows and no such thing as bills.

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...