Admission Prices : Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:10 am  

I know Wakefield did an offer for the Catalan game in order to boost attandance, and personally i do not think just under 5k was too bad to say that Catalans bring hardly any, but are the admision prices too high?

I am no maths genius and i know you have to take into account concessions/juniors and OAP, but the principle will still apply.

Surely it would be better if the prices were say £15 and we got 10k=£150,000 than charging £17 and getting 6k=£102,000????

The atmosphere and support for the team would be better too.

Re: Admission Prices : Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:15 am  

Jambon wrote:

I know Wakefield did an offer for the Catalan game in order to boost attandance, and personally i do not think just under 5k was too bad to say that Catalans bring hardly any, but are the admision prices too high?

I am no maths genius and i know you have to take into account concessions/juniors and OAP, but the principle will still apply.

Surely it would be better if the prices were say £15 and we got 10k=£150,000 than charging £17 and getting 6k=£102,000????

The atmosphere and support for the team would be better too.

I agree the prices are too high, I know a few who don't got every week due to the price it costs.

But the atmosphere IMO has improved quite a bit this season. Mainly in the "kop" end though

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:26 am  

Think the results matter more than a quid or two on the prices. Keep winning and they will come.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:29 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Think the results matter more than a quid or two on the prices. Keep winning and they will come.

You would have thought they would be turning up now then!

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:38 am  

£3 difference would almost double the attendance??

you should be the chancellor of the exchequer.

IMO to see a significant rise in gates (on price terms) you would need to charge about half, which wouldn't result in double the attendance.

i think the pricing is fair enough

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:19 pm  

free tickets to all the schools, and keep winning and they will come

Re: Admission Prices : Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:40 pm  

Jambon wrote:

I know Wakefield did an offer for the Catalan game in order to boost attandance, and personally i do not think just under 5k was too bad to say that Catalans bring hardly any, but are the admision prices too high?

I am no maths genius and i know you have to take into account concessions/juniors and OAP, but the principle will still apply.

Surely it would be better if the prices were say £15 and we got 10k=£150,000 than charging £17 and getting 6k=£102,000????

The atmosphere and support for the team would be better too.

There well may be games in which the club could try deducing the Admission against certain teams
But to be fair the club can't win can there, The club need every bit of revenue coming into the club as much as possible to help pay for ie Players wage's/ all Staff /Food / electric bills etc

Re: Admission Prices : Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:00 pm  

[quote="acko"]There well may be games in which the club could try deducing the Admission against certain teams
But to be fair the club can't win can there, The club need every bit of revenue coming into the club as much as possible to help pay for ie Players wage's/ all Staff /Food / electric bills etc[/quote]

I appreciate that and we all want the club to do well, but if we could reduce the price MAYBE more people would attend in the short term pushing revenue up immediatly as we have more through the turnstyle and increased support. Then when they are hooked increase prices again next year!

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:08 pm  

The great sporting public of Wakefield will always find an excuse why they
don't attend games. If we reduce the price there will be some other lame excuse why they don't go to games, we all know these type of people.

Leeds and HKR both charge more than us and they seem to be going in the right direction crowd wise.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:21 pm  

Fair enough.

There would be nothing better than going to a game with a packed house every week!

I just dont understand why people dont make the effort when we are playing well????