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pusbccfc

pusbccfc

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Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Why would we sell 24k season tickets ? Based on what ?
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1) Every other club has done it after being promoted.

2) If we have 13/14k season tickets currently, it's not unreasonable to sell another 7-10k when offering Premier League football.

I know so many people who are 4/5 game a season fans who would get a season ticket within an hour of being promoted.
 
Evo1883

Evo1883

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People , we'd only have a maximum of 25500/26000 home fans in the prem anyway due to the 4500/6000 away end we have plus segregation , we get 17/18000 home fans now ther or there abouts , it's not hard to see us add 7/8000 a week for premier league football , the question would be will every team bring 6000 down to us , which will see the attendances sometimes go below 28/29000

We would sell out the home end almost every match no question bout it
 
The Philosopher

The Philosopher

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Johhny Blue said:
24k people willing to go to every game
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I guess we could get closer if we looked at what Bradford City have done lately.

£150 (I think - rushing to 190 next year?) season ticket for level 4 football. They get an average of 16000 plus now and they’ve got every factor against them:

-“Glamorous” Neighbour in Prem.

-Bradford Bulls and Leeds Rhinos get about 16000 attendees between them.

-Similar to us, a population made up of many people with less long term ties to the city. (Contrast to Ipswich and Sunderland who’s dad/grandad supported their club)

-Bradford PA used to be big so many
Bradford OG might not be natural City fans (smaller factor and BPA are only a couple of Divs below now)

I’m not suggesting for a second charging £150/£190 in Prem and I know our season tickets are quite cheap but 16000 fans at L4 is some going. If they rise and hold on to them and grow then that’ll be interesting. Maybe the low price point balances with merch and F&B sales.

On the flip, Bournemouth seem to do ok on 11k fans. A rich owner and a bit of luck means that huge TV money totally makes up for lack of feet in the ground.
 
The Philosopher

The Philosopher

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The Philosopher said:
I guess we could get closer if we looked at what Bradford City have done lately.

£150 (I think - rushing to 190 next year?) season ticket for level 4 football. They get an average of 16000 plus now and they’ve got every factor against them:

-“Glamorous” Neighbour in Prem.

-Bradford Bulls and Leeds Rhinos get about 16000 attendees between them.

-Similar to us, a population made up of many people with less long term ties to the city. (Contrast to Ipswich and Sunderland who’s dad/grandad supported their club)

-Bradford PA used to be big so many
Bradford OG might not be natural City fans (smaller factor and BPA are only a couple of Divs below now)

I’m not suggesting for a second charging £150/£190 in Prem and I know our season tickets are quite cheap but 16000 fans at L4 is some going. If they rise and hold on to them and grow then that’ll be interesting. Maybe the low price point balances with merch and F&B sales.

On the flip, Bournemouth seem to do ok on 11k fans. A rich owner and a bit of luck means that huge TV money totally makes up for lack of feet in the ground.
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I guess another angle to my boring yarn is the view / desire that Frasers have of a packed stadium. They will probably have some interest in having a larger footfall being herded through whatever they build at the side or over the car parks (parking spaces below, stores above) (wouldn’t put it past them to stick a sports direct, flannels and whatever bike store they own at the back on the spare ground and just over the car parks and make the only way to parts of the ground or out of the car parks is through / past them). Maybe a rent deal that encourages / reduces costs / rebates per attendee is in mind.

I’m off subject now. Anyway.
 
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Peter Billing Eyes

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theferret said:
I am quoting conurbation sizes as these are a truer reflection of the size of a place than 'city' populations which are often meaningless as they are determined by artificial lines on a map drawn by civil servants. You acknowledge that but seem to have come up with your own system of determining the size of urban areas. I am simply using this definition: List of urban areas in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia when comparing Coventry to roughly equivalent urban areas by size.
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The information you are quoting is 12 years out of date. The current population of Coventry alone is nearly the same as total that listed for the combined total of Coventry and Bedworth in 2011. It also excludes areas such as Binley Woods, Balsall Common and Kenilworth which are arguably nearly as connected to Coventry as Bedworth if you exclude Exhall.
That wiki report is so skewed in terms of how the information is presented - Nottingham includes Ilkeston which although almost connected is in Derbyshire and a Derby stronghold. Sheffield includes Rotherham for example….Greater Manchester is an improbable attempt at a land grab of sorts. Some of the population densities defy being ‘built up areas’ and have possibly been created in conjunction with the voting constituency sweet-spot of 67,000 voters.
 
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itsabuzzard

itsabuzzard

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Skybluecol said:
A lot of my mates support Liverpool, United, or the other big teams in the Prem. We're all in our forties. I've taken most of them up on the boys ST when 17yr old is working or 10yr old has other plans (13yr old never misses a game!). Liverpool fan celebrated our 2nd goal against Sunderland like it was Mo Salah scoring against Utd. 1st time he'd seen City live for 8 years. He couldn't believe the atmosphere. Loved it and is going to the Hull game. Another Liverpool is going too based on what he's heard.
I will never stop trying to talk them coming up to the City...older they get, less time or want they have for travelling to their "so called" team!!!
My 2 older boys supported Utd up until 3 years ago....they're now City through and through! PUSB
Never give up on lapsed fans nor others who have Cov as their 2nd team. If we do hit playoffs, this year or next, encouraging them could mean additional fans for the foreseeable!
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Sounds like you should be working for the club's Marketing Dept...

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CV22SBA

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pusbccfc said:
That's excluding the 700 community tickets in block 27.
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Not all will turn up. In the early days, Wasps used to give tickets to my kid's school most weeks and only half would actually turn up unless it was against one of the bigger sides.

A bit like Reading away last season, I can't remember the reason for the free tickets and the massive discounted bring-a-friend season ticket but thousands still didn't turn up.

I noticed yesterday our home average has recently dropped with a couple of sides going above us yet our away average has gone up and we're now 5th.
 
GaryPendrysEyes

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There’s more home tickets sold than Sunderland. But Hull will being 500 less.
With the community tickets I think we are looking at 21.5k or so.
 
edgy

edgy

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Shame about the uncertainty with the weather. Probably putting a few off from committing to it.
 
matesx

matesx

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edgy said:
I meant the weather and conditions in general.

Sure the game will go ahead but the cold & travel conditions will be a factor to some.
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"im not going to go the City match today because its a bit cold"

are there really people like this? :rolleyes:
 
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