Is Ashley feeling the pain ?

[Geordie1974]

And the solution by the genius businessman is to cut prices .. Thereby pi$$ing off the 40000 paying full whack to get in ... How the feck did he become so successful .

Bit like the local selling beer to regulars at £5 a pint .. But selling it to everyone else for £2.50 .. Cracking business model that .

He has done far worse so cant see them being pissed off over this.

[ex_pat_magpie]

And the solution by the genius businessman is to cut prices .. Thereby pi$$ing off the 40000 paying full whack to get in ... How the feck did he become so successful .

Bit like the local selling beer to regulars at £5 a pint .. But selling it to everyone else for £2.50 .. Cracking business model that .

It will only serve to p1ss him off more if very few take up the offer of 1/2 price tickets knowing that they are only available because fans are loyal to their ethics and have deprived themselves of their main enjoyment in their lives in order to make a difference over the long term.

[ghostrider]

And the solution by the genius businessman is to cut prices .. Thereby pi$$ing off the 40000 paying full whack to get in ... How the feck did he become so successful .

Bit like the local selling beer to regulars at £5 a pint .. But selling it to everyone else for £2.50 .. Cracking business model that .

Not quite.
It's like having a time limit to sell goods at marked price and having a cut off point as to when you drop the prices to entice mass interest for the sale.

It's good business rather than bad.

[usedtobeshearer]

Not quite.
It's like having a time limit to sell goods at marked price and having a cut off point as to when you drop the prices to entice mass interest for the sale.

It's good business rather than bad.

Wrong again...

In good business you never get to the point where you need to sell at a discounted price as you've kept demand for the product high and sold when the goods are at a premium.

[bix01]

It's like one of those episodes of The Apprentice where they are desperately trying to sell a crate of fish or something for next to nowt before Lord Sugar's deadline for the task. What a buffoon of an oaf of a fat fůck he is. He's like a tűrd that won't flush.

[toonfalifekevbrown]

This above

[toptoon]

You’ve got to take your hat off to Ashley and the tea boy because it really is a spectacular effort to lose at least 10,000 seats for our home games for a unique set of supporters such as ours. There may well be as loyal supporters at other clubs but until they turn up in the numbers that ours have (home and away) while winning nothing and being relegated frequently then I’m afraid we hold the crown.
Incompetence isn’t a strong enough word and that analogy of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs keeps coming back to me.

The club is clearly rattled and we have it in our hands to hurt him even more.

[tinostongue]

You’ve got to take your hat off to Ashley and the tea boy because it really is a spectacular effort to lose at least 10,000 seats for our home games for a unique set of supporters such as ours. There may well be as loyal supporters at other clubs but until they turn up in the numbers that ours have (home and away) while winning nothing and being relegated frequently then I’m afraid we hold the crown.
Incompetence isn’t a strong enough word and that analogy of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs keeps coming back to me.

The club is clearly rattled and we have it in our hands to hurt him even more.

Spot on, STAY AWAY! I am!

[Sclox]

What ever reason it's done for it proves that those loyal supporters who are staying away have him rattled and the more who do miss, especially the big games, the more it will get to him.

Imagine the embarrassment of being the only home side in the Premiership to show vast empty spaces for one of the biggest visitors of the season.

Spot on.

Theres a chink in the armour there to be exploited. It shows that each match going fan does have leverage to help change the situation if they want to - they have a weapon at their disposal.

We now know for a fact that Mike dislikes empty seats.

Half a dozen empty stadiums for home games will have an impact.

[toonlegend]

well his strategy worked yesterday - ****

near enough a full house

the win won't help for future matches either