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Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A 10:27 - Jan 21 with 3019 views

harrygunter

That was an odd one.

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Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A on 15:37 - Jan 21 with 483 views

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Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A on 14:54 - Jan 21 by E_I_E_I_E_I_O
Seems a fair point and ironically look at all the empty seats yesterday. That along with the stupid prices for all the food and drinks for mediocre offerings. What baffles me is they could sell drinks and food much less and make more by selling more. Not strategic at all.

"What baffles me is they could sell drinks and food much less and make more by selling more. Not strategic at all."

That's far from a given though. If you reduce pricing by 20% (so for a £5 'food item' it would now cost £4), you need to increase volume by 25% to achieve the same revenue. Would £1 make that much difference? For a sale of 5,000 'things', that's 1,250 more you need to sell, just to keep the revenue the same, not 'make more'.

A 50% reduction (which is significant, and may well increase sales by a reasonable number) would require a 100% increase in volume (just to make the same revenue, not more), which is increasing sales from 5,000 to 10,000.

Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A on 20:57 - Jan 21 with 385 views

BlueBadger

Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A on 11:04 - Jan 21 by Zx1988

For the same fixture in 2024, the attendance was 28,001 (albeit at the start of March).

There are no directly-comparable mid-week fixtures from the 2023/24 season, however the attendance for the Rotherham game on 20th February was 28,026.

It's difficult to draw conclusions based on the lack of a January mid-week fixture, but there's certainly evidence that one could use to suggest that increases in ticket prices are playing a part.

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Accidental double vote. Meant to uppie, obvs.

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Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A on 22:21 - Jan 21 with 350 views

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Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A on 10:41 - Jan 21 by rkc123
I think it is always appropriate. I went to the Bristol City home game two years ago on a Tuesday night and I think my ticket in the Alf Ramsey Stand lower was £23, I believe the cheapest ticket last night was £38? A 65% price increase for the same fixture in the same league over just two years seems like a good enough reason for the banner. [Post edited 21 Jan 10:42]

I paid £25 to watch those bits of Grimsby v Barnet that were not obscured by a pillar.

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Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A on 10:41 - Jan 21 by rkc123
I think it is always appropriate. I went to the Bristol City home game two years ago on a Tuesday night and I think my ticket in the Alf Ramsey Stand lower was £23, I believe the cheapest ticket last night was £38? A 65% price increase for the same fixture in the same league over just two years seems like a good enough reason for the banner. [Post edited 21 Jan 10:42]

Posted this before but worth a reminder:

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Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A on 13:45 - Jan 22 with 242 views

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Cost of football crisis banner last night in block A on 13:44 - Jan 21 by TRUE_BLUE123
It shouldn't be normal though.. and that's the point.

Supply and demand though our average crowd this season is over 28,000. People keep moaning the ground capacity is too small. Tickets are impossible to get for away games,yet all charging these same prices.

Clearly price isnt the problem, even if we'd all like to pay less, clearly the demand is still there regardless of price

I mean the irony being BA moved to the those seats knowing they were some of the most expensive seats in the ground, they didnt have to, did they ? Or did they move when they were U23 and just realised the adult cost for next season

I fully expect as I said last week prices to increase next season across the board by about £2-£3 so that would be £45 for those seats then.

I mean the reality is the club arent making super huge profits on ticket prices, their costs at operating the stadium for us to be there, through the energy for lighting, heating, paying staff to clean, serve food/drink, maintenance, upkeep etc etc. All those costs have risen too substantially.

So do we pay the increase or go back to the Evans days of not doing any of the ancillary stuff to save money, so you can have £5 off your ticket. And the ground ends up looking like a tip again.

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