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Just goes to prove the point if you make football affordable in the lower leagues you will get decent crowds. I am pretty sure if we were offered Season Tickets at £138 for league1 or League 2 then we would sell close to 10K

Fair play to them, got a lot of respect for the club to do that.

Not inc cup games

£138 x 12,000= £1.65m
£17 (average price for our tickets) x 7,000 (likely crowds) x 23 (home matches) = £2.73m

Given that Bradford will attract a few away fans etc looks like they'll get around the same return from gates, but a better atmoshpere, more beer, burgers, programmes, shirts sold and general interest levels raised.

Fair play to them.

Thats a lot of beer & burgers to make up that difference Jan.  

Will Bradford generate an ADDITIONAL (ie on top of what STFC make though this) £47.8k per game through food, drink and merchandising? I doubt it.

If each seat was £17, they'd need an extra 2,000 or so fans through the gate each match.  A fair few league 2 sides are northern so should bring a few to Valley Parade.

I'd imagine the fact they have 12,000 season ticket holders would make potential sponsors queue up to be involved.  So even if they only get say 1,000 non season ticket holders through the gate they'll be doing fine!

I'm pretty sure we wouldn't. Even when the team is doing well we rarely get that many turning up for one game, let alone buying season tickets. I think it would be more like 5,000

That is mainly down to cost e.g. £20 ,at £6 a game I can not believe we would not sell at least 8K. It is all hypothetical as our board would never do anything like this.

Don't forghet the average price paid on the day at Swindon is probably less than £15 (you have to account for concessions, TE tickets etc).  PLus the 3000 season ticket holders will be at a reduced amouint beyond that as well.  We take £2m ish give or take in gate receipts over a season.

I'd imagine 12,000 season ticket holders will spend more at each game than 7000 fans split with half paying on the day and seaosn tickets.

It's a great move, and they've pushed it no end up there so it got a lot of publicity.  They needed 10000 for it to pay off so they've already exceeded their seasons budget I would presume for revenue.

Only problem is when they raise prices people get funny then

I think we would sell out or pretty close to it...saying that I'm sure they have to hold back enough tickets to sell on match days.

who cares northen cunts

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We wouldn't sell out even if we sold season tickets for £50.