Biggles?

I suspect that Mr Galt sits with people who, like himself, are “considerably richer than you”- as such, whether he and his mates are willing to pay an extra £12 per ticket per game isn’t necessarily an indication of what the fanbase as a whole would do (and, by the way, even that would only raise approximately £1.8m even if you could sell every seat for every game at that higher price, so would still leave us needing to cut our budget by £1m). If you wanted to cover the full loss (still no increase in budget) you would need to raise prices by £18 per game, even assuming 100% sell outs- good luck with that…

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Paddington I know I’m a fool to be sucked in, at my age I should know better

Karen- I nearly bit has soon as he posted. I didn't because Colin said that if we ignored him he'd go away.

Ps, was anyone on here asked to take Part in a straw poll ? No ? I thought not. If he did do a poll, most people sitting near him must thinking to themselves, "oh no, not again, that bloke is doing my fucking head in with this kind of bullshit every other week, I just want watch some football".

JG won't be happy until he is the only one who can afford to watch football at plough lane and then he'll be able to sit in a different seat every home game.

Not that I put much trust in surveys of what people would pay but if such a survey suggested we could sell 8K tickets at £12 more should we do it knowing it would price some long term fans out of attending? For some like JG the answer is obviously yes, for die-hard fan ownership people the answer is no, I'd be torn.

Karen - same here, I’m off for an early night… 😂🥱

Where do you get that average price of £14.50 from? Are you taking the simple average of adult and child, or something like that? Our tickets are a lot more than £14.50. And we're not going to sustain a long-term fanbase by being a lot more expensive than the alternatives of Premier League football at Fulham or Crystal Palace.

Now I am annoyed with myself for engaging and enabling a fantasist

JG I couldn’t care less about what other forms of entertainment costs, as I said you are completely delusional about what our fans not the casual visitor is prepared or able to pay

a4e - of course the majority do. They go to different gigs, concerts, plays, musicals, films etc. And those that can only afford an annual treat, save up and go once a year. No one is forcing Wimbledon supporters to attend 23 home matches a season.

Mark - my season ticket is around £500. If it increased to £746 I would still come. It's extremely cheap entertainment (well not always entertaining! - but I'd hope that with an increased playing budget it might become more so). But look if it is too expensive for a few fans then they could come less often or the Club could offer 10 match tickets etc.

Do those same people go to the Nutcracker at £65 a pop 23 times a year…? No, they do not. 🙄

Mark L - “Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make…” 🤪😂🤷🏻‍♂️

Karen - you might be right - but I suspect not. £12 added to the average match day ticket would take the average up from £14.50 to £26.50 + vat i.e. £31.80 - sot lets round up to £32. I went to see The Nutcracker in Havana at the Storyhouse Theatre in Chester this afternoon. Tickets were £62 and it was heaving. The Storyhouse is run by a Charity but they don't seemingly see the need to sell tickets at a below market price. But I accept that neither of us have the data to make an informed decision - which is why I suggest that the Club undertake the relatively simple research. However I suspect that even if that research indicated that we could sell 8000+ tickets to every home game at a significant average increase - you would still be against - on the grounds that you want someone else to pay.

“let the market dictate…” 🥱😵‍💫

JG - £12 extra per seat works out at £276 per season which is as a guess 60% increase ?

John Galt KC - it's fewer matches not less.

£12 extra you must sit next to people as delusional as you

We should be increasing our playing budget - not decreasing it, To do so I would happily increase the amount I pay for my ticket. Whether we could close the £2.8m deficit - I've no idea - but doing some market research on pricing should be relatively simple. On a different subject has anyone managed to navigate the Port Vale website to buy a ticket for Tuesday's game? I can only see tickets for home fans.

who is john galt, things that never happened.

Silk - or let the market dictate and sell the match day tickets at a price which maximises our gross margin.

OI - some market research would be a starting point. I took a straw poll a few weeks back of around a half a dozen people who sit around me as to whether it would make any difference to their attendance if they had to pay another £12 per match - all of them said that they would still come. One person said they would stop buying a season ticket for their daughter as she only comes 4-5 times a season when he has custody.