I can't see Burton paying that sort of money on wages. Having said that, I agree that there's no reason why Notts shouldn't survive (which is all Burton are doing) at Championship level.
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Attendances up doesn't equate to improved gate receipts. We're doing £2 tickets for Crewe and my view is that many who pay full on the day will save a lot and a few will take advantage of a cheap match not to be seen again till the next offer. Need 10 people to pay for one normal and someone's saying we need to attract people who could not normally afford - what kind of business is that? Charity?
It would help if we actually played well when we put on these offers and there's a bigger attendance.
People aren't going to come to one or perhaps two or three cheap games and be converted and that's it. Alan Hardy is no fool, he knows this and he knows he needs to keep these folk wanting more, it's his money and he budgets for short term losses and what's more it's working, slowly, yes, but he and Nolly know what they're doing. With the recent signings of two new players - there maybe more - and the return of Noble, I'm expecting a bumper crowd against Crewe which should offset the low ticket prices.
My guess is that AH was genuinely worried that we had lost our core support of 5,000ish.....he needed to get these back plus build for the future.....once we get back to a solid 6,500 plus, he can ease up on the offers and start banking the full money......as Del states, it would help if we could stick 3 or 4 past Crewe and get the neutrals to return for more......speculate to accumulate
Let's say we got 50 new semi-regular fans for each fixture they put an offer on. Doesn't sound significant, but over 10 games in a couple of seasons that would be 500, a fair percentage of our average.
A free drink and bring a friend for free. I'm a Notts season ticket holder, i have no friends ;D
Interesting that the details also include a "price promise" that you will see the games at the cheapest price. I'm sure Mr Hardy will have had someone do the sums to make sure this promise is kept.
Only having a bit of fun as I buy my ticket each year to follow my team. It also gets me out of all those Saturday afternoon shopping trips with the Mrs, worth every penny.
1) We have lost a core support, but not through ticket cost
2) Agreed that getting people through the gate is a step towards improving attendance in the long run providing:
3) We put on a performance. It is not that long ago I started a thread pointing out that the bigger the gate the worse we perform
4) I also was commenting on the tweet that AH liked and retweeted, namely:
"This is giving a great opportunity to people who wouldn't be able to afford to go normally. "
and saying why are we trying to attract people would can't afford to go normally? Surely we should be attracting people who can afford to go normally otherwise what is the point?