‘Fill the Valley’ - repeated for Ipswich and Cambridge Utd (p17)

palarsehater said:

So as a st I get 20% off a drink for 1 game yet 

yet someone will go to 3 games for free for not forking out for 1 

You , as a season ticket holder, get the opportunity to choose 3 punters who you would like to come along,  for no charge and then said punters can thank you for the money saved supplying you with alcohol or if you’re me you get 3 empty spare seats near you so you don’t have to sit next to anyone cos you hate people , win win 

Maybe the outcome of this season's offers alongside additional sales, effect of 15k plus might see a change in the prices of both season tickets and matchday tickets next season.

addickson said:

Think Wayne Mumford will have had a big say in this, easier to attract sponsors on the back of the potential of big home gates

The value to significant sponsors is in media coverage, not eyeballs in the ground, so League One is the obstacle not attendances per se.

In any event, the value of any sponsorship likely to be available to Charlton is heavily outweighed by ticket revenue. 

MrOneLung said:

I wonder what the take up would be if we just made all season tickets £199 with a kids ticket £1 when purchased with an adult season ticket  (existing ticket holders get priority to keep their posh seats) 

We modelled this ten years ago. One problem is that you would sell lots of tickets to people who would not in practice attend more than a dozen games - this is replicated where it’s been done elsewhere and is related to the reason we have thousands of no-show season ticket holders each game already. 

clb74 said:

Airman Brown said:

MrOneLung said:

I wonder what the take up would be if we just made all season tickets £199 with a kids ticket £1 when purchased with an adult season ticket  (existing ticket holders get priority to keep their posh seats) 

We modelled this ten years ago. One problem is that you would sell lots of tickets to people who would not in practice attend more than a dozen games - this is replicated where it’s been done elsewhere and is related to the reason we have thousands of no-show season ticket holders each game already. 

The other problem is the risk that people acclimatise to it and won’t then accept much higher prices in a higher division. 

In League One you are heavily dependent on ticket revenue as a proportion of turnover. A price of £199 is actually £165.83 plus VAT. Add in child concessions and you’re probably looking at an average yield of £100 net, so sell 20,000 (doubtful) and you’ve just replicated your existing ST revenue of circa £2m but pretty much wiped out your home match ticket revenue. Let’s say a £1m hit.

You maybe get an extra few thousand people actually attending and make £2 per head out of them in ancillary sales, hence say £6 a game or £138,000 over the season.

Airman of the 9000 season ticket holders we have , how many roughly miss each game?

It goes up and down depending on circumstances of the game, but it’s rarely fewer than 2,000. So for Accrington, for example, the actual was under 7,000 but there will have been some ticket sales and comps (so few aways for that one they are not material). If we have 9,888 season tickets as stated by the club and given the published attendance was 11,813, I’d say it’s reasonable to assume that circa 4,500 season ticket holders didn’t attend.

That’s an extreme example, but it’s not unprecedented, going back to PL days, although the starting point was higher then. I think 2,500 is not untypical.

You have a whole range of people in the mix here - people paying £260 so not caring if they pick and choose, people unable to travel in midweek, small children who may or may not attend in midweek or more than occasionally, people buying just to support the club even though they can only attend occasionally and people just missing that game for work or family commitment.

sam3110 said:

Thing is you need the season ticket holders to buy the season tickets to be able to redeem the free tickets. I have a season ticket as do both my parents, I hope we continue to get to fill The Valley, but I also hope we get value for our tickets, if that makes sense

‘Value’ can be interpreted in many different ways. In a very simplistic way it might be ‘am I / my family paying the lowest possible amount of money achievable to get into all the games we attend’

But in reality, that’s not achieving the best ‘value’ if each game you attend is a less enjoyable occasion and the team are doing worse etc because the ground is 70% empty the atmosphere is rubbish and we’re in the bottom 6 losing at home to Accrington. Ultimately every season ticket holder has a direct vested interest in seeing the side do well and in having a good atmosphere at matches. I’ve bought my season ticket for the last 30 odd years and am willing/happy to pay for it, but I feel I’m getting more ‘value’ from it if I’m actually enjoying being there and ideally the team are doing well. If that’s achieved by filling half the seats including those next to me with people who want to come but are only interested in doing so for free, then to be honest I’m absolutely fine with that -certainly in league one. Others might feel differently. But I just want us to win matches and get the hell out of this league , quite frankly I’d buy 10 season tickets and go round trying to persuade random tourists at London Bridge to come down before every game if it would get us promoted! 

Local residents (SE7) have been sent two tickets each for the Ipswich game, sat in the AC Stand. 

felix_31 said:

If anyone's got a couple of spares for the Ipswich game please let me know!

@felix_31 do you still need ? I've got 2 you can have 

Mendonca In Asdas said:

matt88 said:

Airman Brown said:

eaststandmike said:

Airman Brown said:

No mention of half season tickets, launched the previous day, in the programme on Saturday. 

Blimey, they missed a trick there then, I take it it was well advertised in the stadium and on the big screen though?

I understand there were ads in the toilets. I didn’t notice the big screen. My point though is the lack of joined-up thinking within the club. It’s not as if the idea of doing half season tickets will have come up at a meeting on Friday after the programme had been printed. Nobody is joining the dots.

There were still adverts in the upper west toilets for the Cheltenham Festival in March 2020. A bit of a morbid reminder of that super-spreader event...

Are they still up on the wall?

Weirdly I can confirm that the Shrewsbury bog, still has the Cheltenham 2020 adds in their framed adverts. Have a piss an think about going to an event 20 months ago.. 

shine166 said:

felix_31 said:

If anyone's got a couple of spares for the Ipswich game please let me know!

@felix_31 do you still need ? I've got 2 you can have 

Shine - apologies for the late response I've have been away from the site as studying for an exam - If these are still available then yes please! 

shine166 said:

mendonca said:

Anybody able to help me with a ticket for the Cambridge game please? Be good to have that to look forward to as am away till then.

I've got one, just let me know where you want to sit and il book it.

Also.got 2 spares for Ipswich 



Do you still have one left for ipswich?  I would be delighted if ya did!

Cheers.

Does anyone have a pair of spare seats for Cambridge in ESE or F near row R please? Trying to persuade the BIL to become an STH

Morning

Looking for 3 Ipswich tickets please if possible.

Many thanks!