I’m sure when leicester city won the pl the first thing on all the owners minds was can we all support leicester tigers please. the Newcastle fans are , I’m sure, saying I hope the new owners are going to support the rugby union team as well or my pass is in the bin. We have a new owner who is winning the pr battle very easily but now we need him to help the rugby club too!! Only in hull We’re hardly in a great state ourself are we but we should help fc only city fans eh
100% correct. No more cheap tickets, just loyalty based discounts such as bring a friend for £10. We need to show that as a fan base we are ready to stand up and be counted. The £3 per month I pay for my two kids memberships is outstanding value and because it is so cheap I buy them plenty of merchandise as well as food and drink at games. Whatever you thought of the previous owners they have gone and it is time to back the club now. I see no value in £2 tickets, it is so cheap that the people using them are unlikely to stick. You need to offer something that is priced high enough to feel valuble but still discounted enough to entice the fence sitters. I'm not sure the price of memberships and general admission tickets are actually the issue either. People have found other things to do on weeekends and right across sport there are a lot of clubs seeing significantly lower attendances. Making it more than just a game helps to attract people. Hull KR have done an amazing job with Craven Street and the food stalls/entertainment adds to the whole occassion. We are still asking people to come to a stadium with very little around it entertainment wise and to stand on a concourse watching a band or have our faces painted. These things are decent gestures from the club but surely some street food, craft beer tents and a band set up in the West Stand Car Parks would entice people to come and come early?
The problem with this is you're preaching to people who already come. What we need to do is get people who aren't coming to start. And just telling them that they should do isn't going to be very convincing is it. The question isn't whether the price is reasonable, it's whether the price gets enough people through the door. Currently it doesn't. We've got many more fans to win back. Results would be one way to do that, but it's not easy, particularly if the team has to initially get those results in front of an empty stadium. The other way is to make tickets really appealing financially. From what I can see, it really has to happen in order to generate the wave of signups that we need.
£2 tickets is just a temporary measure, to try and improve things in the short term, as you can't change your matchday pricing half way through the season. And though the membership prices are very good, the matchday pricing is currently too high and that will have to be addressed ahead of next season.
No one suggested helping FC. One person asked how he felt about sharing a ground with them and another asked about a joint-season ticket with the aim of increasing crowds for both. Acun tentatively agreed with the second suggestion. Palmer incorrectly going on about rugby's popularity was embarrassing, but the questions were a separate thing and they really weren't that unreasonable. I think we're a bit obsessed on here with FC needing or wanting subsidisation or help from City sometimes. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but City, the SMC and FC will work that out between them and something will get sorted either way. It certainly wasn't something that was discussed last night though.
I agree and the elephant in the room here is the cost of living increase. There will be some Members looking at their monthly incomes and outgoings and sadly City is an easier cost to give up than other bills. The next couple of seasons will be tricky for all Football League clubs to get right. I’m sure the club are well aware of this, but I don’t think it’s as simple as ‘we need to support Acun as he’s requesting us to’, the club need to be looking at the best way to get people to want to part with their money.
Or another way to look at it is it costs the same to watch City for a season now as it did 20 years ago. The calls for cheaper memberships aren’t coming from priced out fans, but people who already go, but would prefer it if it was cheaper.
Rather than lowering the prices, what about considering ways that give a better perception of value for the money?
I agree with OLM that memberships and multi game passes are pretty good value already. A change in walk up pricing and kids pricing would be far more effective getting absent bums on seats. That and winning more than we lose at home.
Basically our fans want our owner ( whoever it may be ) to spend a fortune on new players to take us back up to the prem, but don't want to help fund it by paying a fair price and just expect the owner to fund it from their pocket ( and who knows possibly lump the club full of debt ) we have absolutely fantastically priced monthly memberships for all ages. Let's just back the new owner, players and club full stop by going to the games. Let's be honest and fair... If we got to the prem again. A good majority of the people staying away due to prices and or not wanting to commit would suddenly forget and get a membership. The allams are gone, concessions are back, memberships are cheap and the club is on the up..... Surly the excuses have to run out soon
Good post. My band are doing the pre match in the RL derby game and we did the pre match televised Catalans v Rovers match last season. Despite the heavy rain on that occasion and the match on the big screen, there were still 1700 folks there enjoying themselves and the atmosphere was great. It is really well organised by Craig Franklin at HKR.
Craig Franklin is doing a very good job at HKR. He came from Manchester United and City tried to get him but he chose Rovers.
One from left field, that's bound to annoy, but given that local 'football' fans are bound in to their chosen flavour of Prem club, what about finding ways to get them in, and ween them off it towards City?
Said it years ago Shirt amnesty Free city shirt if they bring in their Man U Liverpool etc shirts in And we can get acun to burn them in a big bonfire pr exercise