Or £6 for a couple of hours at the cinema as opposed to £14 for a couple of hours at the Rugby.

Cougars are in the entertainment business and there's a lot of competition about.

just an idea..maybe you should try speaking to the club about having home games on a friday/saturday night next season if you are looking to attract the younger generation? we did it at widnes last year..the general concensus was that the younger fans preferred fri/sat nights and the older fans preferred to stick to sunday afternoons. although we have now gone back to sundays this year..i prefered the fri/sat nights mainly because im 21 and usually go out on saturday nights, im not a big fan of the sundays because im in work monday morning ha

I agree, but a £6 cinema ticket quickly inflates when you take into account all the "extras" at cinema prices. They get you in then rip you off. If you inflated beer prices by the amount cinemas inflate popcorn and pop you'd end up with a mutiny.

I wonder if the club could do a promotion such as buy a ticket for £14 and get a beer and a burger for a £1, or something along those lines.

Maybe we could conduct a poll as to favoured kick-off days and times, corresponding to age groups? I don't mean on here, but at a home game. I.e how old are you? Friday nights, or sunday afternoons? that kind of thing.
Personally, I like sundays but if friday night gets a bigger crowd, I'd go for that.
Here's one - a spot prize for someone wearing a Cougars shirt around town during the week, say fifty quid or so, so's it's worth buying a shirt just in case...

I don't think you would need to raise the price of "extras". If you can get 1400 in paying £10 as opposed to 1000 paying £14 you should make more 40% money from these extras anyway due to there being 40% more people in the ground, possibly more due to economy of scale.

I know they tried this at Br*dford City and they are by far the best supported club in their league.

Not sure moving games to Friday would work. Firstly we're dealing with part-time players with jobs, they are more likely to working during the week. Secondly you'd lose away support for the same reason.

Higher profile and winning games - only way to get fans in - Cougars have improved the match day experience. We have lost our young male thread/pull.

As for reducing prices:-

I would be mighty peeved if I were a Season ticket holder and Cougars reduced prices. Wouldnt buy one for next season.
£10 or £14 you wouldnt get many more I dont think.

Well, I'm a season ticket holder too; I'm sure I could be appeased by some vouchers for the shop or summat to compensate, if match day prices were to drop. If it gets more fans in, it makes my day more enjoyable too.
Sounds like a plan to me.

Are you saying pay £10 on the gate or an equivalent £10 per game if you buy a season ticket?

I think some of the really good deals from last year (both from football and RL) were for season tickets.

If it was £10 on the gate would you differentiate between home and away support? If so how?

£10 on the gate puts all the risk with the club whereas a cheap season ticket is money up front.

I think the idea is a tenner for all, instead of fourteen. The idea being that you'd get more folk in to watch, making for a better atmosphere, which would perhaps get more of them to return/encourage new support. And of course, more people paying a tenner as opposed to less people paying fourteen might not cost the club too much in lost revenue - assuming the plan works, and folk turn up in greater numbers.

£10 on the gate for people like my Dad, who doesn't come to every game and to attract new support, I know a fair few people who'd come if it wasn't so expensive. Then lower the season ticket price a little too to comepensate.

I wouldn't differentiate between home and away fans. Away fans' money is as good as anyone elses'.

Attracting more fans is incredibilly difficult, especially when we have a league system with a glass ceiling.

I think they missed a trick with the posters this season. Instead of lots of smallish ones before each home game, we just had one massive - and not very clear to read - fixture list to try and get put up in shops etc. Most of the people who had willingly put up posters in their window every week last season said it was too big, so as a result Silsden at least has no Cougar advertising whatsoever.There must be a way of tapping into these outlying areas...

Last season's shirt was top notch in my opinion.

Me personally, I don't wear replica shirts at all, but I'd like to see a retro and simple kind of shirt like last season and I might be persuaded. Maybe I could buy one just for something to wear with shorts in the summer.


In regards to admission prices. I made my opinions quite clear at the start of the season. Although I understand Keighley want to compete at a financial level, £14 sounds like an awful lot to a neutral or to someone who has not shown interest in rugby league before.

Surely if Keighley want £14 it's just as good value to pay £20 or whatever to watch b***ford or Leeds and be entertained?

Particularly people who are the same sort of age as me will not turn up due to the price.

£10 sounds like a decent enough price to me.

I'd prefer more Friday night matches aswell personally. Means I can watch the rugby and have a few drinks and then go into town for a few more.

Diddle for middle then - twelve quid do you?

I suppose it doesn't sounds as dear as £14. I just think £10 is a better round figure and doesn't sound like such a turn off.