The club are putting on the bring a mate for £5 promo.

 

Any lapsed mates get em along.

 

http://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/article/friends-for-5-for-millwall-offer-still-available-2313965.aspx

 

Well that fiver promo worked then.

Sorry![/qu. Hardly a roaring success ,but with 14,700 on and only a couple of hundred from millwall, probably 2k more than there would have been.so a reasonable response. JSL.

 

I agree think a sub 13k would have be in attendance without the promo, and I doubt we're out of pocket as i can't see many of the extras going to that game at over £25 a ticket. I think the club seem to know what their doing contrary to popular belief. Well done BWFC.

Edited March 17, 201511 yr by Mounts Kipper

i believe we have about 9k sth

 

3k paying on the gate would pay 75k at £25

 

at £5, 5k paid 25k

 

fag packet figures but just chucking it out there

 

now, if those 5 definitely wouldnt have come at £25, its adifferent argument but we both know agood percentage wouldve done

 

if some of the extras have never been before and become life long fans, maybe it worked

But Casino, you keep telling us the average ticket price works out at £8...so £8 x 3k...which is actually less than £5 x 5k.

I don't think anyone in favour of the offer expected thousands more to turn up for a game at this stage of the season, with a patched up team etc etc. The point was to try to draw a few more people back. As it was, well over 10 per cent of the crowd on Saturday was made up of people who otherwise wouldn't have bothered. A win, another good debut from a promising youngster...who knows how many of those may well be tempted back again, and tell a mate or two as well?

ii keep telling you cos its fcuking true

 

not some fanciful might be or could be

 

cold, hard facts

 

and if folk wont pay 350 quid for seasons football theyre lost to us

 

ffs, its only a days pay

 

if id never been before, id not go again

 

it was too cold

 

we really need to do something about that

Edited March 17, 201511 yr by Casino

if id never been before, id not go again

 

 

Surely that's one point everybody can agree on? No fairweather fan went on Saturday and thought 'Tip-top; I'd love to pay £25 for that again'.

 

It was barely worth the £8 per game my ST costs me

ii keep telling you cos its fcuking true

 

not some fanciful might be or could be

 

cold, hard facts

 

and if folk wont pay 350 quid for seasons football theyre lost to us

 

ffs, its only a days pay

 

if id never been before, id not go again

 

it was too cold

 

we really need to do something about that

A day's pay??? To most of our support I very much doubt that.

 

Also if you get a ticket for yourself not including

A kids ticket what's it cost you.

Is an adult ticket really £184 for a season

I was just pointing out that your 25 quid x 3k calculation didn't tally with your oft repeated £8 figure. Don't shoot the messenger.

There were more fans at the game and thats what the club should be trying to do.

Infact, they should do it for every game until the end of the season and try and sell some more ST for next year

A day's pay??? To most of our support I very much doubt that.

 

Also if you get a ticket for yourself not including

A kids ticket what's it cost you.

 

 

fcuk knows

 

i just buy 3

 

dont care what it costs me

 

the club have decided adults will subsidise kids

 

its along term plan that i think a lot agree with

 

in the prem, the kids ticket was actually costing me 11 quid a season

There were more fans at the game and thats what the club should be trying to do.

Infact, they should do it for every game until the end of the season and try and sell some more ST for next year

 

 

no, the club should be trying to increase revenue, not crowds

fcuk knows

 

i just buy 3

 

dont care what it costs me

 

the club have decided adults will subsidise kids

 

its along term plan that i think a lot agree with

 

in the prem, the kids ticket was actually costing me 11 quid a season

 

if you don't don't quote then. no problem with subsidising the kids but don't be telling me a days pay is £350 and its £8 a match. both for the majority of our support are utter bollocks.

no, the club should be trying to increase revenue, not crowds

Wont one potentially lead to the other?

potentially, aye, if the ground was big enough to fit 80 thou gates for the game against rotherham

 

but crawley would say it wont work

 

but he is working in another industry, granted

 

reducing prices does not guarantee increased crowds - it certainly doesnt guarantee increased revenue

 

the only thing that would be guaranteed to increase crowds is promotion

 

prices would also increase and people who cant afford it now would find the money to go

 

as i'm sure you know

Edited March 17, 201511 yr by Casino

Fuck me, we're going round in circles.

 

Casino's ST is £398, I think. ie £17.30 a game.

He also buys 2 kids tickets at £64 each.

 

So, his outlay is £526 for 3 people to attend 23 games ie £7.62 a game.

 

That's where his £8 claim comes from.

 

His kids are probably older than 12, though, with him being in his late 50's , but changing the £64 U-12 tickets to U-18 only adds a total of £20 a season (£10 each) and takes his spend to £7.91 a game.

 

*

 

The other thing about the £5 tickets. If 3,000 came at £5, I'll wager half of them were coming anyway.

 

So we took 3,000 x £5 (£15,000) instead of 1,500 x £25 (£37,500).

I'll guess the extra 1,500 attendees didn't spend an average of £15 on sundries etc and that even assumes every penny spent = profit!

 

So, in my eyes, the offer was a failure. We made less money and had to handle more people.

Edited March 17, 201511 yr by Traf

Fuck me, we're going round in circles.

 

Casino's ST is £398, I think. ie £17.30 a game.

He also buys 2 kids tickets at £64 each.

 

So, his outlay is £526 for 3 people to attend 23 games ie £7.62 a game.

 

That's where his £8 claim comes from.

 

His kids are probably older than 12, though, with him being in his late 50's , but changing the £64 U-12 tickets to U-18 only adds a total of £20 a season (£10 each) and takes his spend to £7.91 a game.

 

*

 

The other thing about the £5 tickets. If 3,000 came at £5, I'll wager half of them were coming anyway.

 

So we took 3,000 x £5 (£15,000) instead of 1,500 x £25 (£37,500).

I'll guess the extra 1,500 attendees didn't spend an average of £15 on sundries etc and that even assumes every penny spent = profit!

 

So, in my eyes, the offer was a failure. We made less money and had to handle more people.

 

 

traf, it doesnt come from there

 

it comes from the club accounts

 

its about 8.33 per seat

 

 

ps i dont think theres an u12 ticket

Edited March 17, 201511 yr by Casino

anyway, over and ooooot

Well that fiver promo worked then.

Sorry![/qu. Hardly a roaring success ,but with 14,700 on and only a couple of hundred from millwall, probably 2k more than there would have been.so a reasonable response. JSL.

 

dunno

 

using the Brighton game as a benchmark as they probably bought the same amount of away fans - that was 14,115

 

watford with reasonable following was 14,230

 

thinking 700-1000 at best

 

hopefully they enjoyed the quality finishes

So, in my eyes, the offer was a failure. We made less money and had to handle more people.

It was near me, the only extra people was some cunt in a Burberry coat who brought 4 kids who spent the game fighting and pissing everyone else around us off. Scum. Keep the prices high, keep out the riff-raff.

traf, it doesnt come from there

 

it comes from the club accounts

 

its about 8.33 per seat

 

 

ps i dont think theres an u12 ticket

 

There is an U-12 ticket, I've bought one for junior at £64 for next season.

U-18 is £74 and ESL /WSL is £398.

 

So it mightn't be your exact situation, but an adult and 2 kids can watch for less than £24 between them.

 

I'd imagine North is even cheaper.

I bought a bovril and a twix .Taking advantage of an amazing 2 items for £3 deal.

The club is to be commended on driving down my match day costs.

All we now need is a Super Match Day offer in conjuction with Barnstormers , with the club subsidising 50% of the price of a pint.

That's the way forward.

Plus a deal with Asda , so I can go online order my big shop and get dropped off with it at 7pm. Saving on my aftermatch taxi fare home.

I bought a bovril and a twix .Taking advantage of an amazing 2 items for £3 deal.

 

Bovrilnomics?

the club have decided adults will subsidise kids

 

 

This is the problem - lazy little kids sponging off us hard working adults. Bastards.

 

Send 'em out working - down asbestos mines or something - and put the children's price up to subsidise adults.

 

I'd think about going, then. If the kids were to subsidise my ticket.

 

As it is, it's the little fuckers that keep me away. Think about that next time you're arguing for free tickets for local schools. It's them or us.

Edited March 17, 201511 yr by Kill Cricket

Plus a deal with Asda , so I can go online order my big shop and get dropped off with it at 7pm. Saving on my aftermatch taxi fare home.

Do you get carried into the house in a plastic bag?

There were more fans at the game and thats what the club should be trying to do.

Infact, they should do it for every game until the end of the season and try and sell some more ST for next year

agree. Fairly recently there was a brochure sent through the door, containing an article by Josh vela. He stated how good it feels from a player's point of view to see good crowds and a decent atmosphere. The economics may show that it wasn't a roaring financial success an a one off basis, but who knows, it may have helped a little in achieving the victory in a poor game. Keep repeating it and who knows, crowds might even grow a little as opposed to potentially falling. If this ultimately helps yield better results and a higher placed finish, then it might be financially successful in the end.

That said I reckon £10 a ticket for every game would also be more than reasonable