New beginnings - 25% Truth, 80% Bollocks

[Bennett]

Bit more difficult to tell whether someone is 63 or 65 than whether someone is over 16 or 18.

Plus in a shop it’s face to face and you haven’t got hundreds queuing up behind. Hardly a good comparison.

I agree, there are licencing issues selling products to incorrectly aged people.
Protecting your bottom line for an extra £2 isn't inherently the same thing

[Peter Venkman]

FWIW from everyone that I speak to about STFC, those not involved with lower league clubs cannot believe that the club charges £27 a ticket, they assume it would be around £15-20

Its a lot of money but a few clubs charge even more than we do and most seem to average £25 which is still too much. 20 is plenty.

[4D]

Surprised they haven't thought about doing a Christmas raffle.

[Batch]

The person operating the turnstile has no way of knowing what sort of ticket you have just that the bar code lets you in.

The light colour denotes type of ticket doesn't it? Admittedly spotting a dodgy looking person/ticket combo in thousands is a bit of a challenge.

[Riddick]

Its a lot of money but a few clubs charge even more than we do and most seem to average £25 which is still too much. 20 is plenty.

Its plenty given cost of living, inflation, low wage growth etc.

However the club isn't outside those factors sadly. £25 sound fair to me. The problem driven by premier league tv money is that gate receipts for the clubs at the top is a tiny fraction of income, so they can sell tickets cheaper than lower league clubs can, and it becomes really difficult for lower league clubs to justify ticket prices based on quality of football. Its a real mess.

[tans]

Surprised they haven't thought about doing a Christmas raffle.

A meat raffle in the legends

[Mooneyraker]

Surprised they haven't thought about doing a Christmas raffle.

Surprised they haven't thought about doing a Pyramid scheme.

[Riddick]

The club is not going to be sustainable by upping ticket prices, reducing the price benefit of season tickets, catching the 100 people who use a child's ticket instead of an Adult, and/or slashing the player budget to fit the current income.

It would be pretty clear that very few EFL clubs are sustainable, so its quite a pipe dream anyway.

However if they are going to get closer to it, the only way forward is diversifying the clubs revenue streams, and that comes from things like the concert (i hope it works), but mainly the ground development with associated hotel/casino/housing etc. Dicking around with the small fry that Antony Hall lambasted on that interview is not going to make the difference.

Clem/Antony have done nothing so far to show the club is serious about development, probably because they are trying to sell.

[TailBetweenLegs]

Let's be honest. In what world will the people on the turnstiles give a fuck and check a ticket.Stood there in the pissing rain popping tickets on to bags they don't want any confrontation.

Car crash of a interview wasn't it, i just want someone to come out and say you know what this is a lot harder than we fucking thought and we are struggling here.

All we seem to get is oh everything is alright you are wrong when it clearly isn't  

[Riddick]

The last car crash interview was by Sando right, then they had to trot out Rob Angus afterwards to smooth it all over.

Nobody there to paper over this car crash is there. I genuinely wonder what Clem thinks about this interview, if he even cares.

[Mooneyraker]

Interesting to note the recent likes here from a Trust Board member: https://twitter.com/socialPolly/likes

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

FWIW from everyone that I speak to about STFC, those not involved with lower league clubs cannot believe that the club charges £27 a ticket, they assume it would be around £15-20

Crewe also charge £27. My brother in law goes to watch Ipswich which is £32.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

A meat raffle in the legends

Pork sword? Lamb lance? Beef bayonet?

[Batch]

Crewe also charge £27.

So Crewe:

£365 for early bird ST, £440 for late ST

£27 x 23 games= £621 walk in.

621 - 365 = 256 . 256/27 = 9.48 FREE GAMES!
621 - 440  = 181. 181 /27 =  6.7 FREE GAMES!
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Clearly the answer for us both is to reduce the walk in price. Then you get less FREE GAMES!

[Bob's Orange]

Not watched the interview but sounds like another in a long line of amateur hours.

The 'free games' line seemingly aimed at long term, loyal supporters when you've got every dodgy Tom, Dick and Al Capone hanging about doing fuck all and getting free hospitality tickets to matches as well as god only knows what else is a very low blow.