And for the Final people queued up overnight to pay upwards of £45 for a ticket. Every ticket sold, people advertising in the local newspapers for tickets and on the blackmarket tickets were being sold for anything up to a £1,000 each. So, yeah, there is no demand for tickets and they are too expensive.
Don't want to go down the name change debate again, even Ehab said there were no sponsor's and guessed about potential revenue increase. Consolidating our place in the premier league is the most important part. Our current squad did OK this season, a few smart additions, no big ego's and stay up. The gate income is comparativly small ( 7% ) 1 or 2 places higher in the league would have been equal to the ticket price increase. The advocate's of cheap tickets for kids are spot on, get them hooked on the premier league football drug, they will never be able kick the habit, provided we don't get relegated then they will be gone in a blink of the eye.
We're a small time club with an incredibly small-time attitude. If we actually tried to increase our fanbase we'd easily be able to hit 30-40 thousand fans. The stadium would need expanding but at the moment we aren't even filling it regularly enough to justify that. We need to sort our marketing out, get all the local football 'fans' who only watch it on the telly off their arses and into an actual football ground. There's a huge market for it. We've got a catchment area some clubs wish they had and we've got the good quality product, we just need to get someone into the club capable of selling it.
Agree with all of this. The final was "The Final", so people will find ways to go. The regular season will attract regular fans. The semi was a one off and a good number of people took the view that we should win and therefore, if they could only afford one trip to London, would make it a big one! Nothing I've seen on here makes me think we would struggle to fill a 35,000 seat stadium on regular match days.
Everything I have seen on here says that we will struggle to fill an expanded stadium. We have supporters who will not buy from the club shop, move seats, eat the pies and even attend home matches. No matter what the owners do there will be complaints. The clamour for away tickets does not happen for every away match. Cup fixtures generally do not fill the stadium. We have an owner who compares the KC to a council house. He will not invest in it and nor will the HCC. What money will HCC put forward to buy the lease back from the SMC? How loud will the protest be if HCC "give" the stadium to a trust? Taking an asset from the citizens of Hull and giving it to a group of Hull City supporters as a community asset? Political minefield.
Practically all our home games were sold out and if I remember correctly there was 3 we struggled with; Fulham, Swansea and WBA. Fulham was slap bang in middle of Christmas period and people probably struggled with cost. The latter 2 were in and around the semi final so no doubt people couldn't afford to go. Plus the away following in the Fulham and Swansea games were poor due to long distances. We filled our stadium 96% give or take and there was a great surge for season tickets when the fixture list came out and prior. A smaller increase to 32k or something along those lines would probably work as we would fill it for the big teams but we just need to gain the interest for the smaller teams by making it cheap for all to attract both struggling financially fans and new fans to come along (My grandad took me to my first game because it was 5 quid to take me) really doesn't take a genius
Kids upto 10 a quid. 10-18 a tenner. 18-21 twenty quid. Over 21's full pops. imho You are correct re. Arsenal btw. Fact. 40k stadium would be perfect IF A MASSIVE IF, safe standing was to return. That would allow more people into an area. It is said that for every 2 seats you can stand 3 people. Standing imo would allow AA to charge the prices he first mentioned.
Season tickets didn't sell out this season, so the demand isn't there for any more pass holders, therefore to fill a 35,000 seater stadium we would essentially have to sell as many match day tickets as we have pass holders per game, that's never going to happen.
The demand probably is there for more passholders but the amateurish way they are scattered round the stadium just leaving single seats between groups means no one can really get one unless they fancy sitting on their own. Like I've said numerous times recently, we tried to move our group of 4 last season and there wasn't a vacant slot of 4 seats anywhere in the stadium after the premier league day trippers got their grubby little mitts on their new premier league season pass whilst it was supposed to be renewals only.
If the price is right then we shall sell out. But what is a sell out figure - capacity wise @ the KC atm ?
I think we could realistically achieve c30k week and week out for home games with pricing as proposed for next season. Beyond that then the club would have to offer cheap tickets for teens (say £10 max) and/or offer bigger incentives for season ticket holders
Our attendances will drop with the proposed price structure next season so I'm not sure why you think we'd get 30k if we had a bigger stadium.
They should build a new tier and make it a family stand. Offering adult passes and getting child's pass free. That's 2 fans for every ticket sold and loads of people I know would snap that up
And they should put the second tier on the north stand and let the kids get used to singing at games as the rest of the KC is usually on mute
