Is the price rise this season effecting attendance

It's not the cost keeping me away but I know people on tighter budgets who think twice about spending money on Town to watch dire football.

Yes the price is an issue when the football is dire. Doesn't seem to be a problem when we are doing well which tells the story.

If you want Town to get good players in and stay here you have to pay the price for them. The budget for running the club has to come from somewhere. Are you suggesting that we let fans in for next to nothing and Fenty ploughs in millions he hasn't got so you can watch good football on the cheap?

There has to be a balance between income and outlay otherwise we end up like Bury.

Quoted from mimma

Yes the price is an issue when the football is dire. Doesn't seem to be a problem when we are doing well which tells the story.

If you want Town to get good players in and stay here you have to pay the price for them. The budget for running the club has to come from somewhere. Are you suggesting that we let fans in for next to nothing and Fenty ploughs in millions he hasn't got so you can watch good football on the cheap?

There has to be a balance between income and outlay otherwise we end up like Bury.

The prices went up this year and we’ve 500 less season ticket holders. Does that mean we’ve still got more money? I’ve still got a season ticket at the new price, I must have missed the quality players and good football.

Prices go up just to stand still. What I mean is if the price stays the same you end up worse off because of inflation and the fact that other teams increase their budgets. To be competitive the price would had have to go up a lot more than it did.

If we were top of the league and scoring for fun would we even be having this conservation?

Quoted from mimma

Prices go up just to stand still. What I mean is if the price stays the same you end up worse off because of inflation and the fact that other teams increase their budgets. To be competitive the price would had have to go up a lot more than it did.

If we were top of the league and scoring for fun would we even be having this conservation?

We’ve ended up worse off because the prices have gone up.
If we were we probably wouldn’t, but we are so very far away from that.

If prices go up 10% but attendance goes down 11% you have less money.

Quoted from Yoda

Yes but at 22 pounds a lot of fans will put a bet on go to the pub in the warm and watch the a match and the football results come  in.
It’s enough to put people off.
As was proven on Tuesday.

This.
The worrying thing been the amount of people offering free tickets for the game on Tue.

If it was just £22 it might not be such a barrier, but in my case (and probably similar for many others too) it’s that, plus £20 fuel plus something to eat and drink, and if I take my little boy that’d add a fair bit more. It’s also the time to get there and back and the effort, for a full time working Dad with 2 kids. It’s £50 at least and a huge effort to do 150 miles to sit in the cold and wet and watch no football and no goals. Money and time are tight and it’s a miserable experience and easy to give up on that basis.
If there were some performances and entertainment and the occasional win I’d still do it for a fair few games but I’ve really dropped off this season.

I very much doubt that a small price rise has anything to do with the poor attendance the other night. It is definitely the shapeless and dismal football we've suffered for the past few years which will have been the main culprit.

In the Buckley and Hurst eras (and Slade Mk 1, for that matter), it was at least obvious what we were trying to do, even when it didn't work out or we were simply outplayed. From Bignot onwards, I can't say that there has been any obvious plan which has lasted more than a game or two and that's what I'm desperate to see. It would be nice to turn up to a game with a reasonable idea of who will be playing, how we will line up and to be able to recognise some patterns of play. Other than a long, hopeful whack upfield in the general direction of a forward, of course.

Price might be a factor for some but in the main it’s just that the standard of football is currently crap, the club is in regression, the facilities are Dickensian and mainly they club treat supporters like it’s some form of privilege to go to BP

Oh yeah and we seem to have forgotten that the aim of the game is to get the ball in the opponents net.