Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:33 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

There's some debate elsewhere about whether season tickets will be include the play-offs or whether they'll be issued for the Twelve and then another "season ticket" for the Eight.

Clubs need to think hard about that.

I do believe Hull FC will be selling a separate mini season ticket for when the leagues split into 8. I think this could be the best way to go

Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:28 pm  

Duckzilla wrote:

I do believe Hull FC will be selling a separate mini season ticket for when the leagues split into 8. I think this could be the best way to go

Could be a hard sell. If you get three home games, what do you sell them for ? If you sell them for more than double your walk-up price, folk will start thinking they'll be out of pocket if they miss just one game. If you sell them for double or less, that's one hell of a discount.

OK - we're likely to get four home games, but the principle's the same.

There's been nothing like this before so clubs are just going to have to go with their gut feelings.

Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:49 am  

The whole proposed system is utter bobbins

Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Mon Jan 20, 2014 12:29 pm  

brummie-eagle wrote:

The whole proposed system is utter bobbins

Is that good or bad ?

Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Mon Jan 20, 2014 3:12 pm  

Not very good, I had to self censor bobbins in place of a similar sounding word

Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Mon Jan 20, 2014 3:33 pm  

Thanks for clarifying.

Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:48 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

Could be a hard sell. If you get three home games, what do you sell them for ? If you sell them for more than double your walk-up price, folk will start thinking they'll be out of pocket if they miss just one game. If you sell them for double or less, that's one hell of a discount.

OK - we're likely to get four home games, but the principle's the same.

There's been nothing like this before so clubs are just going to have to go with their gut feelings.

Only solution I can think of at the minute is clubs have two prices for when the leagues split into 8

Price A for 3 home games and Price B for 4 home games with each giving a saving on the match day price.
Obviously the club's couldn't sell these until it was known whether they have 3 or 4 home games which wouldn't give them much time to sell them.

I'm not to sure what else clubs could do? apart from have the league's of 8 games pay on the day but as we've seen with the playoff's and Challenge Cup in the last few years pay on the day has been a bit of a flop

Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Mon Jan 20, 2014 5:28 pm  

Duckzilla wrote:

Only solution I can think of at the minute is clubs have two prices for when the leagues split into 8

Price A for 3 home games and Price B for 4 home games with each giving a saving on the match day price.
Obviously the club's couldn't sell these until it was known whether they have 3 or 4 home games which wouldn't give them much time to sell them.

I'm not to sure what else clubs could do? apart from have the league's of 8 games pay on the day but as we've seen with the playoff's and Challenge Cup in the last few years pay on the day has been a bit of a flop

Well- yeah -obviously the price would depend on how many home games you were getting.

I was thinking along the lines of how you'd set that price at a level which would make people want to buy them.

Look - we're likely to have four home play-off games, whether we make the cut or not. Suppose our walk-up price is £15. If you sell the mini-season ticket at, say, £50, then folk will think "If I just miss one game, I'm out of pocket." But if you sell them at £45 (or less), that's a big discount on the walk-up price.

And you're right - not much time to sell them is there ? A week ? Two, maybe ?

I'm thinking it's not practical. You have to go for the whole season.

Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:24 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

Well- yeah -obviously the price would depend on how many home games you were getting.

I was thinking along the lines of how you'd set that price at a level which would make people want to buy them.

Look - we're likely to have four home play-off games, whether we make the cut or not. Suppose our walk-up price is £15. If you sell the mini-season ticket at, say, £50, then folk will think "If I just miss one game, I'm out of pocket." But if you sell them at £45 (or less), that's a big discount on the walk-up price.

And you're right - not much time to sell them is there ? A week ? Two, maybe ?

I'm thinking it's not practical. You have to go for the whole season.

In that case I would sell them at £45 (or less) based on a £15 walk up price. I don't think people will turn up for pay on the gate games as mentioned in my last post also supporters like to make a decent saving which is why a lot buy full season tickets.

Maybe they could do a whole season ticket where in the very unlikely situation we go into the bottom league of 8 with only 3 home games they could refund 1/15th of the season ticket price or make a discount for renewing the following season or some other offer?

Re: RFL's Proposal agreed 2 x 12 then 3 x 8 : Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:41 pm  

Why not sell a season ticket based on 14 Games (11 League 3 8's) but include an free extra ticket incase we have an extra home game in the 8's.

I presume in the Challenge Cup revenues are split between both clubs if not you could sell a season ticket based on 15 Games (11 League 3 8's and 1 other game either Challenge Cup or 8's in the unlikely event of us not having an additional game you could return the ticket to the club for a refund or give it to charity)