aroud 4500 i would say 4200 the team still can improve

Huddersfield generally bring a decentish following so we should get at least 4,200 shouldn't we

Surely Manure v Celtic being on the box should be even more reason to go to Pools

Tuesday night is always lower on attendance and with a saturday gaming coming up too.. I reckon about 3700

3,851.

Don't talk shite Dibble. Have a day off.

'Uddersfield will bring about 350 I reckon there'll be a total of 3,500ish.

3852

Yes it will - Thats the floating supporters gone..... These are the ones the club needs right now! They know you the hard core will come, saying that l think that is starting to get smaller.

3, 734 ...If its below 3,500 - we have got problems and Pools commercial office should be sweating. Never mind jumping on the credit crunch b+++cks, something needs to be sorted. Cheaper tickets - more you purchase, Family tickets, Part - season tickets etc.

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A little bit of creative marketing might help attract a few of the absentees back. Huddersfield are promoting a "credit cruch" offer for their next two home game http://www.htafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/T ... 21,00.html .

How about Pools considering the same for Saturday?

...as I said a few weeks ago, it's a good job they've flogged the season tickets with their offer, or.....

What about pie money?

Now at that price I would happily snap a ticket up for the next 2 games.

If they reduced prices like that, Season ticket holders will lose out..

How will season ticket holders lose out?

Season ticket holders (including me) have paid their money in advance and they know exactly what they will be getting for that money. It won't cost us any more or any less if the entry price is reduced in any way. What is wrong with the club trying to attract a few more floating fans?

Tricky though innit.

IF you got a season ticket at the daft rate cos you or your mate or your pretendy friend didn't have one last season then you wouldn't lose out if they offered a bit off match day prices.

BUT if you bought a normal price season ticket where the saving was only the equivalent of about 2 games over the whole season and then other offers were introduced mid way through which would offer a bigger saving over the whole of the season then it would be a typical HUFC kick in the teeth to their loyal fan base.

Not really.

I'm not sure of the figures but if you bought a "normal" season ticket and it worked out, as you say, getting 2 free matches then it is a saving of £36. If, like Huddersfield, the admission was reduced to a tenner for 2 matches, you would only save £16.

still a better deal for season ticket holders.

Besides, weren't all of Huddersfield's season tickets £100 for their centenary? So it is easy for them to reduce prices without upsetting anyone.


For me, you are paying lump sum up front for entry into each home league match throughout the course of a season. As long as the terms of that deal are not changed halfway through the season, what is there to complain about?

If they reduce prices so that it woul;d have been better off NOT buying a season ticket then there is something to complain about.

Christ.

I concur.

However, if this was repeated several times during the season leading to a potential total saving which exceeded that of buying a season ticket then you surely you wouldn't think to be fair?

Maybe it should be- or is that why the club think that all season ticket holders will renew every year regardless of what they want to charge and therefore treat us all like mugs.

My first thought most certainly IS "what's in it for me and would I be better off paying in advance or buying on the gate when I see if they are worth it".

Exactly, I buy a season ticket because it will be cheaper. Simple as. If I think the club will start reducing prices through the season then I wont buy one.

Don't forget season ticket holders also have first call on Johnson Paint Trophy final, League Cup final, Durham Senior Cup final, FA Cup, play off final tickets

Surely season ticket holders want the club to address the problem of falling attendances just as they want the club to address problems on the pitch. Its abit like saying season ticket holders knew the players we had when they bought their tickets so can't ask for any new ones to be brought in.

No it isn't. It's sod all like saying that to be honest.

So season ticket holders never had any incling that the club might have some sort of marketing promotion at any time during the season?

Well they never have in the past so unless you were feeling particularly psychic the day that you bought your ticket it would probably be fair and reasonable to assume that there wouldn't be any this season either.

The thing is, there probably WON'T be any this season anyway, so where is the argument?

To be fair its nothing like it.

Exactly, the season ticket deal was cr*p but that can't constrain the club going forward and addressing the current problems.

So what are the current problems?

From my point of view they are (in no particular order) the fact that I feel disenfranchised with "my club" due to it's employees acting like vaginal discharge during the summer and the presence of Danny bastad Wilson as manager with his dreams of mid table mediocrity.

I posted Luton's pricing structure as a possible way forwar a few weeks ago. It seemed very good to me, basically they charge age groups by what is perceived to be their disposable income - which is a good way to get people in every home game IMO. Young'uns just out of school on apprentice wages etc, may not have the same money to spend as someone in a full time job on regular income, so a halfway point between child prices and adult prices would seem fairer (a 16 to 18 age group). Mind you their child prices were substantially lower to start with - this could be a problem with loads of bin lids running about - so it should be with the proviso that they are accompanied by an adult (i.e. a ticket has to be bought and purchased with an adult one) to stop kids running amok. There are a few ways forward, it just needs people to get round a table committee style and get a good deal for everyone - without the club losing out financially as the bottom line in the discussions.

joking aside, if i was that disillusioned with the club, or anything in my leisure time, i just wouldn't bother any more. life's too short.

I was looking at the attendance issue (as in the thread title)

To a certain degree I concur wholeheartedly.

Unfortunately football isn't as easy as that and as much as I think "fk em" a lot of the time cos of how they go on they're still "my club".

But I've missed 3 home games already this season for various reasons, first time I've missed any that I can remember for a long long time. On top of that I'm mulling over whether to go or not tonight cos I'm loaded with cold when in the past the thought of not going due to illness wouldn't have even crossed my mind unless I physically couldn't get out of my bed.

Maybe the tangent that we appear to have gone down is looking deeper into the issues regarding attendances this season?

I agree ,

I just want the club to show they care as much as the fans and start addressing all of the issues - including attendances

So we are back to Huddsersfield's idea of addressing the credit crunch and offering 2 cheap games for fans!

But, as I referred to above, is it just about cost?

Cost plays it's part for sure.

Some people will simply not be able to afford to go to Pools at the moment.

Others may have the money but think that it is better off spent elsewhere, and part of that is due to the general indifference felt particularly toward the current manager.

So you don't think that people might be more willing to spend £18 if they were able to see a manager who gave a fk and genuinely wanted more than a "safe" mid-table finish?

Well I can afford and will go to this and all the other homes games this season, I am pissed off with our manager but if he can turn this season around I have no problem with DW continuing to be our manager.

What has pissed me off more than anything is how IOR have turned our most important year ever into just another crap season. A paper thing squad, no new players of any note and a celebration tournament that was a joke, how many 100 year anniversary's will we have Ken?.