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Rich Tea thinks Hereford United are charging too much to watch Conference football at Edgar Street and feels a drop in prices could help balance the books.
A tenner for adults anywhere in the ground, and a fiver
for all the rest! Easy money to keep change on the gates, and cheap
enough to entice people out if the pr is right.
On top of that you make your money by hammering the starlight rooms/ radfords/ food units inside!!! Even do some sweet deals in the starlight rooms, and use bottle bars for round figure prices to ease the crowds at the bar!
On top of that you make your money by hammering the starlight rooms/ radfords/ food units inside!!! Even do some sweet deals in the starlight rooms, and use bottle bars for round figure prices to ease the crowds at the bar!
I fail to see how a club our size needs break even gates of 2400 at these prices, unless we are paying far too much money to extra unneeded staff, or we are paying our players rock star wages, because we were not going bust in the latter conference years and we were not rocking massive gates at stupid prices either!
We are nine grand down per gate, if we had another 900 adults rock up for a tenner a head , which is entirely possible it bridges that gap! Then if the average at current prices per ticket is £11/ £12 a head, then with kids/concessions at a fiver too I dont think it would be hard to nearly double the gate and be near as damn it with all the taking elsewhere to more than break even. assuming that we market them properly!
DK's money comment is very very out of touch.
The hardcore, and regulars may well have enough free disposable income to get to games and the starlight rooms. Other folks are quite simply struggling to make ends meet, so giving up the best part of £20 to watch unpredictable entertainment is not high on the list.
The £2 rise took the biscuit, as the previous prices were hard enough for many. It's not the chairmans fault the economy is on its arse, or that footballers demand such ridiculous salaries. However football is not going to get huge crowds from the regular man on the street anymore unless its successful, or brought back down to working mans entrance rates. Before long someone will have to do it, because half filled stadia across the country will result in many clubs going pop, while the fat cat premier league clubs through sky etc take all the custom. Reduce the price significantly DK or don't moan!
It costs me more than
a full sky sport HD subscription to go to one game at ES (I'm lucky
enough to be able to afford to come when free), and pubs across the
country show up to 3 games on a Sunday for free so long as you buy a few
beers! Local football is less than a 5 spot to enter, and there is your
competition for those few individuals who have some free cash to spend
on a weekend! It's those you need back, not charge the regulars more!
Just assume the average low paid Fordian, after mortgage/rent, food, bills and all other living expenses has £20 to £30 for "fun" and social.
He/she then has to pay the best part of that just to enter the gate, and if lucky scrape a pint with a £20 note?! They have seen the papers and current form, they see the doom and gloom and think sod it, I'd rather go into town and watch super sunday and spend that money watching two to three games and drink enough to get merry!
That's our competition, sky, and we need to compete, if your asking them to come in at a less risky price, and are able then to give them the "sky" experience once in too, we get this free cash. That's how the smaller clubs are becoming more successful, as a fiver to watch local footy followed by beers in the club house is a great and inexpensive way to spend the day watching footy! On a low wage, with familys to support, the club is too risky to spend the admission fee on, unless you know we are successful.
Lower price admission, means people are not so bothered about the results, or performance, as it has not hit the pocket quite so hard, and they can still have sufficient cash to spend drowning the sorrows!
The prices across football are ridiculous now, and people have forgotten about the club in the county.
By reducing them vastly, even for a trial basis, and with brutal advertising, especially making the points about Addisons etc, you are giving people the opportunity to come look at what the club has on offer.
At the moment your asking a fairweather/new fan to part with the best part of £20 for what they will see on paper as a poor team.They most likely have little or no idea of the new facilities!
Get the new crowds in, once they are in get the cash of them using other means, the shop and addisons, but without a vastly reduced price and a reason to visit the new facilities you're not going to do that!
Plus to speed up half time (busy times)drinks etc, use bottle bars at a round price (ie £3 on the nose), much easier to do!
Just assume the average low paid Fordian, after mortgage/rent, food, bills and all other living expenses has £20 to £30 for "fun" and social.
He/she then has to pay the best part of that just to enter the gate, and if lucky scrape a pint with a £20 note?! They have seen the papers and current form, they see the doom and gloom and think sod it, I'd rather go into town and watch super sunday and spend that money watching two to three games and drink enough to get merry!
That's our competition, sky, and we need to compete, if your asking them to come in at a less risky price, and are able then to give them the "sky" experience once in too, we get this free cash. That's how the smaller clubs are becoming more successful, as a fiver to watch local footy followed by beers in the club house is a great and inexpensive way to spend the day watching footy! On a low wage, with familys to support, the club is too risky to spend the admission fee on, unless you know we are successful.
Lower price admission, means people are not so bothered about the results, or performance, as it has not hit the pocket quite so hard, and they can still have sufficient cash to spend drowning the sorrows!
The prices across football are ridiculous now, and people have forgotten about the club in the county.
By reducing them vastly, even for a trial basis, and with brutal advertising, especially making the points about Addisons etc, you are giving people the opportunity to come look at what the club has on offer.
At the moment your asking a fairweather/new fan to part with the best part of £20 for what they will see on paper as a poor team.They most likely have little or no idea of the new facilities!
Get the new crowds in, once they are in get the cash of them using other means, the shop and addisons, but without a vastly reduced price and a reason to visit the new facilities you're not going to do that!
Plus to speed up half time (busy times)drinks etc, use bottle bars at a round price (ie £3 on the nose), much easier to do!
Massive advertising campaign with reduced prices, if it doesn't work after a 3 game or so trial, then so be it, but once people get inside and start drinking, they generally like to stay a bit longer, especially seeing old mates etc etc!
The league status would not help attendance anymore than we have now, in fact with the price rise I imagine it would drop. There are little or no derbies there this season for us, and also had we started like Barnet just now (2 points in 7 games) we would certainly lose all bar the very hard core!!
A bit of success should be more realistic in this division, and this should draw the crowds. What's alarming is the fact we have no longer got the budget for this, and that can only be down to financial mis-management, or poor planning.