Attendances: A cause for concern

[roversfan99]

6 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

With only about 17k tickets in home areas for a team running away with the league. Supply and demand would be their justification…

Very true. Any cap would have to come externally and that wont be happening.

[tomphil]

I'm surprised at the surprise they are so expensive as everything tends to be down there. I don't recall Fulham ever being cheap and given the area it's to be expected, also i presume home fans pay the same. Now if it was West Brom charging that i'd be spitting feathers.

Yes it's too much for Championship football but they are very fortunate to be able to get away with it and still get full crowds in their tiny ground. It is though time for like for like pricing for the handful of their lot that usually make the effort up here, i think they paid £20 this season. They must have thought it was a steal off the pitch as well as on it.

[Mattyblue]

It’s a Cat A match by the looks of it (not surprising considering where both teams are).

Just the £50 (FIFTY) in the central areas of their side stand. 

https://www.fulhamfc.com/tickets-and-hospitality/match-tickets/ticket-prices/

Small capacity, well to do fanbase, top of the league. No surprise really, but they are an outlier, West Brom who also expected to be around the top of the league price their tickets around the £20 - £25 mark.

Edited February 14, 2022 by Mattyblue

[JHRover]

Expensive tickets but then again at least they have an excuse for it - limited capacity, high demand, top of the league

We've been guilty of charging similar at Ewood in the last few years.

It won't stop until an independent body introduces a cap on it. Clubs/EFL won't bother so time to take the power out of their hands.

[rigger]

How many of the double decker tickets have we sold ?

[JHRover]

46 minutes ago, rigger said:

How many of the double decker tickets have we sold ?

Not very many at all going off availability on the ticket planner last night. Looks like the half nearest the JW stand is open, the front 10+ rows are closed and there are a handful of sold tickets towards the middle. I'd guess a couple of hundred at most.

[Mattyblue]

No sympathy for them, they know they never sell, but they keep on doing it. I remember we did a ‘Big 6’ bundle the other season and about a 100 got sold.

Could the FF ask in the meeting next week why on earth they keep doing it, when all prior evidence would have been telling them it would flop?

Edited February 16, 2022 by Mattyblue

[Ryan]

Lads what's the chances of the game at Sheffield United being made available to non STH? Got travel booked but no ticket as yet 

[matt83]

6 hours ago, Ryan said:

Lads what's the chances of the game at Sheffield United being made available to non STH? Got travel booked but no ticket as yet 

They’re already on general sale I think. 
 

 

Edited February 17, 2022 by matt83

[Ryan]

2 hours ago, matt83 said:

They’re already on general sale I think. 
 

 

Nice one mate, sorted now. 

[JHRover]

I think as much of a problem as the bundle is the lack of time and effort the club has put into promoting it.

I'm sure they think flasing it across the scoreboard v Forest and putting it on Twitter and the website counts as marketing and promoting the offer but I'm afraid there's a lot more to it than that.

No prices or offers were announced until shortly before kick off v Forest a little over a week ago. The first game of the bundle is in 48 hours. That left 9 clear days between announcing the offer and the first game taking place.

I don't know nor care the reasons why it was left so late but surely even Waggott must accept that putting tickets on sale for an event 9 days before the event take place might be cutting it fine and limit the number of people buying?

I compare to a similar situation at Preston. Their derby game v Blackpool is on 5th April, yet back on 19th January they began selling tickets a whole 10 weeks before the match.

[glen9mullan]

Think wigans 2 x free tickets for every season ticket holder against Sunderland is fantastic.

Rovers always seem to forget their season ticket holders, yet initiatives like wigans are easier to attract future paying supporters, given the person they are going with already has the bug.

Bring a friend if just 25% took up the offer would boost the atmosphere, and if just a few percent of those then bought future tickets its a job well done

[Mattyblue]

‘Bring a mate for free’, ‘£5 a ticket anywhere in the ground’, they are offers that will get bums on seats… not a multi match bundle for consecutive weekends in one tier of one stand.

[Wheelton Blue]

Laziness. That's all it is.

[MarkBRFC]

"We have done all we can"

[Wheelton Blue]

Rich Sharpe has posted that the club have sold 500 Double Deckers thus far, with the hope of reaching 1,000 by kick off.

[BankEnd Rover]

43 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

Rich Sharpe has posted that the club have sold 500 Double Deckers thus far, with the hope of reaching 1,000 by kick off.

Shocking that! No doubt we would sell out Wembley in days if we got to the play offs…

[Mattyblue]

Not shocking, totally expected and I said as much as soon as I saw it released last week, I’d have been shocked if we had sold more than a few hundred.

I’d hoped the club had finally learnt the lesson after years of these bundles doing exactly this, but no, they’ve not only tried it yet again, but in a more restrictive way!

@only2garners Could it be raised in the FF next week?

I.e. why are they still attempting these when the club themselves have stated how they don’t sell well in previous FF meetings.

And what is the rationale behind not just doing a simple, cheap ticket like plenty of other clubs seem to manage?

Edited February 17, 2022 by Mattyblue

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Stand by what I say...the damage done to our fan base over the last decade is huge.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

1 hour ago, BankEnd Rover said:

No doubt we would sell out Wembley in days if we got to the play offs…

Not a chance.

[rigger]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

Not shocking, totally expected and I said as much as soon as I saw it released last week, I’d have been shocked if we had sold more than a few hundred.

I’d hoped the club had finally learnt the lesson after years of these bundles doing exactly this, but no, they’ve not only tried it yet again, but in a more restrictive way!

@only2garners Could it be raised in the FF next week?

I.e. why are they still attempting these when the club themselves have stated how they don’t sell well in previous FF meetings.

And what is the rationale behind not just doing a simple, cheap ticket like plenty of other clubs seem to manage?

According to the article we have sold more than a few hundred.

[Mattyblue]

500 then. Worked a treat, hasn’t it!

[rigger]

20 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

500 then. Worked a treat, hasn’t it!

Little acorns.

[Ozz]

29 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

500 then. Worked a treat, hasn’t it!

500 odd in the 5,000 seat capacity lower tier will look amazing.

[rigger]

10 minutes ago, Ozz said:

500 odd in the 5,000 seat capacity lower tier will look amazing.

I am more inerested in watching the team, than the crowd.