SkinnyShrimp wrote:How many times have you not gone to an away match because its £2 more than you would like to pay? - none
How many extra away fans go to Moss Rose because its cheap to get in and they don't rip you off for a programme? -none
Charge the market rate - you don't get any thanks, extra points or extra revenue by not charging the market rate -a bit of goodwill maybe but thats not what we are moving for!.
I'm sure the board want the club to stand on it's own two feet and not to need the support of a generous benefactor - charging £13 to watch league football in a brand new stadium wouldn't seem like good business sense to me - this is not a charity - the club needs more revenue from ALL income streams - wake up that means all of us!
So you now know that some people do indeed avoid going to certain grounds because they rip fans off, and as I've said, if I've been charged more to get in than home fans, I don't buy a programme or anything else. Not go because they charge an extra £2? Well a family of four may consider £8 extra to be too much. What if it was £3 more? That family may decide that £12 has swung it. I agree that we should maximise our income, I disagree that this is best done by ripping people off.
Caged Lion wrote:Re the programme/pie/pint issue. To be honest Keith that sounds a bit like cutting your nose off to spite your face. In 40 years of watching football games I have bought a programme for every game and still have them stached in various old suitcases.
Not at all, I can survive an hour and a half without eating, find a pub for a pint before/after and while you are a programme collector, for me it is simply something to read at half time or on the way home before they finally end up in the bin. If everyone did this at grounds that rip the away fans off, they would stop ripping away fans off! Perhaps that should be a coordinated campaign next time or even something that becomes a campaign that involves all fans next season. If every visiting fan refused to buy a Rochdale or Bradford programme, they may reconsider.