Casino Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 If we were top of the league wed be pushing 20k Our low crowds are little to do with price, imo I loved yesterday and I definitely wasn't looking at empty seats as the game went end to end
MickyD Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Yesterdays crowd 14,250, are you seriously saying there was 3000 Watford fans, id suggest nearer 500.below 300 according to stewards
Piemon Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 bottom line is that the club could do more (a lot more) and they seem not too. They dont deserve the fans back. Lennon has been a breathe of fresh air the club should be all over marketing game bundles etc. They seem more interested in selling boxes on deal bundles etc etc. Should concentrate on the every day fan not the corporate cockmeasurers. Next season we will have 3 young lads Clough,Vela, Clayton who should be cracking to watch and can build a team around. 2 of them being 'our own'. theres surely some scope in that for marketing and having a fuller ground for them lads to perform in. The supports there really innit? You wont bring them back sending 1 email every Friday thats for sure at £28+ a ticket
jules_darby Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 below 300 according to stewardsThen they are as full of shit as they are thugs 758 away fans were there
MickyD Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Admittedly it was before the game so maybe they were surprised.
ex_midlandwhite Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Then they are as full of shit as they are thugs 758 away fans were there So about the same as we took all the way to Derby. I'm with you, very uncomfortable criticising other teams' support. It's annoying enough the abuse I'm getting for our average away following being quite a bit less than Rotherham's. I thought crowd size cock waving was left to Geordie's and Yorkshireman.
waffer cup 07 Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Your obviously VITK if you know there were only 11.000 home fans there.
Piemon Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 NO MATTER WHAT CROWD IS ON THEY ALWAYS MANAGE TO RUN OUT OF GUINNESS IN NSU
Traf Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 NO MATTER WHAT CROWD IS ON THEY ALWAYS MANAGE TO RUN OUT OF GUINNESS IN NSU They only get a dozen cans each week.
gonzo Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Your obviously VITK if you know there were only 11.000 home fans there. Did you look around yesterday? Did you watch FLS??
davidjack Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 It didn't look much different to most other league games this season - bar the Blackburn game really. About half full in other words. Yes, a winning side in the top 6 would pull in more, but until we get to that point - hopefully next season - we have to do something more than we're currently doing to try to draw more people in. Because it clearly isn't working. And Millwall, Reading, Brighton, Charlton etc are hardly likely to set pulses racing are they?
anewman Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 Buy one get one free to new season ticket holders
Horwich Posted February 16, 2015 Author Posted February 16, 2015 If you didnt have a season ticket, would you pay £56 to watch us play fulham and watford?
Mounts Kipper Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 If you didnt have a season ticket, would you pay £56 to watch us play fulham and watford? For most folk the answer is a resounding no judging by the attendance. I thinks it's plain to see that at £20 per ticket there would have been a bigger crowd the club need to re-think the pricing structure especially as there is now very little to play for this season.
Casino Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 drop it by a quid or a fiver and you'll see no difference drop it by half and you wont get 28k
Guest Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 As said before, will small ticket price reductions make any difference? Are people not going because of price primarily? I mean if you said a quid a ticket you'd sell out for a game or two, but after that? I think people aren't going because we're lower mid table not on a very good run of form since Christmas with little to play for. If you aren't invested in going to every game or most games, now is exactly the time you'd not bother, as reality is we only have something to play for if we carry on the current run of form.
radcliffe white Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 Don't get me wrong prices and how well the team are playing bumps your attendance,but was Saturdays crowd just not our level support?. Yes early prem days were good crowds but a good proportion came due to the league we was in. As said before we do have a good support for the big games or ones that mean something,just had a look from the 96/7 season and they wasn't sell outs and that's with us romping it so for me 15k is where we are.
Horwich Posted February 16, 2015 Author Posted February 16, 2015 My point is theres 12000 empty seats. The club should be doing something to try and increase our attendances. They dont seem to be doing alot at the moment Did they reply to the email???
COYW Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 I have a question for the people who think that the attendance was poor. What size of crowd were you expecting?
Tonge moor green jacket Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Historically (up until the eighties at least) Boltons crowd more closely mirrored the divisional average than any other club. Since the advent of the premier and champions league, I would imagine that this has dropped off a bit when in the top flght. Wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that this is still pretty much true in our current league though. I guess the club is a bit of a barometer of social and economic times throughout the nation. Bleating about peoples apathy or whatever will make no difference. Some prolonged, inovative initiatives involving schools, clubs etc is needed to achieve a long term effect. Cutting prices for a short term effect probably wont result in full houses, but I'm confident it would yield some more bums on seat, and these may chose to come back next season given the improved football they witness. Should the club chose to do nothing, then there will be no change and these discussions will continue perenially Edited February 16, 2015 by Tonge moor green jacket
Guest Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 I think the question is, whether there is anything feasibly the club can do that will have a positive effect short and or long term. They aren't in a position to lose money so anything has to be break even or at least very minimal loss and has to be realistically within that margin. For example they aren't going to cut prices to £10 a ticket and no matter how many people claim they make the loss back on refreshment and bar bills, they don't. I'm genuinely not sure what the club can realistically do. It could look at kids tickets prices I guess to try and attract more families in but even then what difference will that make overall? I doubt they can get close to filling the stadium other than taking a large hit in revenue that we all know they simply cannot do now. Other clubs like Blackburn and Wigan have had cheaper season tickets, plenty of match deals etc and aren't pulling any bigger crowds. I'm not sure the club can actually do anything about it. We've had cheap deals in the past, it hasn't led to a swelling of the crowd. The only thing that will bring fans back long term is success on the pitch and promotion, I suspect.
anewman Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 Or alternatively build a new ground in Bolton
Carlos Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 Or alternatively build a new ground in Bolton Would you go then?
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