Originally Posted by
Gray77
As in, you get to pick 10 games (for example) over the season? Edit - saw your previous post, it’s a decent idea and you’ve gotten rid of the main issue by saying it would be for unreserved seating and terracing. I had wondered how it would work where the club wouldn’t know who was turning up for which game and ending up with prime seats unoccupied for some games, etc, but you’ve cleared that up.
The main issue with the idea is that it’s probably over complicated and wouldn’t be taken up by enough people to make a real difference. I still think an all-encompassing ST covering all games would be the most practical solution.
As a compromise, maybe set the ST prices for all games and make that the default, noting that the ST covers all home games including any Cup and Play-Off games, but then note that for a reduced price (£20 less) you just get the 13 league games. Frame it that way and encourage people to see the default option as the value for money deal where they wouldn’t need to think about spending extra for a big Cup tie or a Play Off semi final, games that they’d want to go to but may think twice about financially. If people want the slightly cheaper version it’s available as well.
End of the day, our last two home QFs have had crowds of 6453 and 9644. That’s awful for a club that averages 12000 for far less important regular season games. I don’t think the thousands who stay away from the Cup games deem the Cup to be less important, they just don’t want to pay extra because they’ve been accustomed to one payment per year for their games. It needs to change because the Cup is our window to the world. It’s the comp we have that is on free TV and gets the biggest audiences. It’s the time we have to showcase the sport, with big knock out games which could easily be played in front of packed houses in prime Sat and Sun afternoon slots in the summer.
Are we willing to ignore all this? Are we willing to avoid making an easy step to eradicate the issue, and therefore admitting that we’re happy to look like a crap small time sport on the BBC? All for £20 a person every year? If so, we deserve to fail.