Couple of thoughts

[thegen65]

Jim Thomson is now the match safety officer.

Thank you for the info Islay.

[Returnofrros]

Jim Thomson is now the match safety officer.

More difficult than a verruca to get rid of is hosey.

[islaydarkblue]

Difficult to justify reducing prices for a TV game where the club get no extra payment for said broadcast and it has been largely proved that reducing prices rarely increases attendances by the numbers predicted. Put a good product on the park and folk will turn up providing ticket prices aren't over the top. There were few queues at all for shop purchases of tickets on the day and although I take your point re double journeys to the ground entrance for the home crowd went very smoothly. Arbroath did not sell any tickets, all of the away support was patg for yesterday's game.

A couple of points.
Why is there PATG for away supporters but not for Dundee supporters in the Main Stand.
There were greatly reduced prices for the last home game of the Deefiant season against Partick Thistle and from memory
the attendance was 7,776.

[troodee1893]

A couple of points.
Why is there PATG for away supporters but not for Dundee supporters in the Main Stand.
There were greatly reduced prices for the last home game of the Deefiant season against Partick Thistle and from memory
the attendance was 7,776.

You are right about the Partick game and the important word was greatly. As a thank you to fans the prices were slashed to a ridiculously low figure. The club brought in way less than they would have from normal prices and the consequent normal/lower crowd. Even filling the ground at the price on that day would have resulted in less income but the club knew that and accepted the loss as part of the thank you gesture. The often suggested reduce prices and bigger crowds will make up the difference rarely if ever works. Firstly it really hacks off season ticket buyers if it is used more than once or twice. Secondly you really have to slash prices greatly to get folk who had no or little intention of going to the game to attend taking it into loss making territory. Sometimes I reckon we could not fill Dens if tickets were given away free. Thirdly and sadly it just plain does not work. Halve the price/double the crowd, I'm afraid is just pie in the sky!

[jdfc]

You are right about the Partick game and the important word was greatly. As a thank you to fans the prices were slashed to a ridiculously low figure. The club brought in way less than they would have from normal prices and the consequent normal/lower crowd. Even filling the ground at the price on that day would have resulted in less income but the club knew that and accepted the loss as part of the thank you gesture. The often suggested reduce prices and bigger crowds will make up the difference rarely if ever works. Firstly it really hacks off season ticket buyers if it is used more than once or twice. Secondly you really have to slash prices greatly to get folk who had no or little intention of going to the game to attend taking it into loss making territory. Sometimes I reckon we could not fill Dens if tickets were given away free. Thirdly and sadly it just plain does not work. Halve the price/double the crowd, I'm afraid is just pie in the sky!

I’d like to see the DSA / Dee4life get involved in getting the crowd in, maybe subsidise tickets to be giving out free at schools, it worked for them across the road and they reaping the rewards now

[Returnofrros]

I’d like to see the DSA / Dee4life get involved in getting the crowd in, maybe subsidise tickets to be giving out free at schools, it worked for them across the road and they reaping the rewards now

I've been very encouraged with our two crowds, we are stubborn ****s who generally refuse to chuck it.

The trick is to keep crowds up in the winter with maybe couple of targeted/theme days.

The sell out the Derry was a guid idea

Maybe a sell out the Derry and Cox day?

I'd also try a family day as well?

The concert thing proved attractive, could this be incorporated into a match day?

[Returnofrros]

There's a much better feeling around the club so strike while the iron is hot.

We cannot go back to the apathy of last year or so.

The Arbroath game was very enjoyable, still plenty head in hands moments but it was dare I say "entertaining".....hopefully we can keep the momentum going.

Not going to Morton but Ayr a possibility and looking forward to Falkirk at home.

[islaydarkblue]

You are right about the Partick game and the important word was greatly. As a thank you to fans the prices were slashed to a ridiculously low figure. The club brought in way less than they would have from normal prices and the consequent normal/lower crowd. Even filling the ground at the price on that day would have resulted in less income but the club knew that and accepted the loss as part of the thank you gesture. The often suggested reduce prices and bigger crowds will make up the difference rarely if ever works. Firstly it really hacks off season ticket buyers if it is used more than once or twice. Secondly you really have to slash prices greatly to get folk who had no or little intention of going to the game to attend taking it into loss making territory. Sometimes I reckon we could not fill Dens if tickets were given away free. Thirdly and sadly it just plain does not work. Halve the price/double the crowd, I'm afraid is just pie in the sky!

At the time of the Partick Thistle game in April 2011 it was stated that Kilmac were going to pay the difference in the loss of income from ticket sales compared to the prices charged for a normal home game.

[islaydarkblue]

I’d like to see the DSA / Dee4life get involved in getting the crowd in, maybe subsidise tickets to be giving out free at schools, it worked for them across the road and they reaping the rewards now

Tim Keyes’s Keyes Capital Charitable Foundation donated £100,000 to the Dundee FC in the Community Trust in 2019 to purchase season tickets and match day tickets for disadvantaged groups and families. (Source Dundee FC in the Community Trust 2020 annual accounts).
These annual accounts were published earlier this year after the new website for the Dundee FC in the Community Trust was published at the beginning of April 2022.

[islaydarkblue]

I've been very encouraged with our two crowds, we are stubborn ****s who generally refuse to chuck it.

The trick is to keep crowds up in the winter with maybe couple of targeted/theme days.

The sell out the Derry was a guid idea

Maybe a sell out the Derry and Cox day?

I'd also try a family day as well?

The concert thing proved attractive, could this be incorporated into a match day?

I do not understand why the club did not organise a Fans Open day at Dens Park prior to the start of this season.