Bradford sell 14000 season tickets

Yes there is plenty of new blood coming through , last season my lad went with 4 other season ticket holders this year it’s 12 all of them 15 year old and most it’s their first season ticket. The pricing of £75 is an amazing value for money ticket for teenagers.

I just think you have to take a pragmatic view over a medium term to see if building a new stadium is viable.

I would be happy to look at maximising the potential of blundell park’s capacity then looking at average home crowds over next 3-5 years.  

It has to be mentioned that they were in the Premier League for 2 seasons. Those young uns hooked back then will be taking their own crotch gremlins now.

Definitely.

So of those young ones we've got hooked in the last 12 months or so, how long before they bring along their own kids?  

I get the affinity to Blundell Park, I really do.  I'm also really eager to see what they can do with it to redevelop it and I believe that we've got the best people in the building to lead on that. But I'm incredibly sceptical that it can be redeveloped to the point of really unleashing the potential for this football club.

It's a tough one but I would imagine the long term vision goes a bit like absolutely wringing out every possible development of Blundell Park imaginable.  To the point where it simply isn't possible to add any extra seats and we can't increase the capacity anymore, hopefully this comes at a point where we're consistently seeing demand outstrip capacity.  Concurrently a new stadium is being built that will allow capacity to meet demand and some more room for growth.  

The trick is going to be timing.  

Quoted from diehardmariner

Definitely.

So of those young ones we've got hooked in the last 12 months or so, how long before they bring along their own kids?  

I get the affinity to Blundell Park, I really do.  I'm also really eager to see what they can do with it to redevelop it and I believe that we've got the best people in the building to lead on that. But I'm incredibly sceptical that it can be redeveloped to the point of really unleashing the potential for this football club.

It's a tough one but I would imagine the long term vision goes a bit like absolutely wringing out every possible development of Blundell Park imaginable.  To the point where it simply isn't possible to add any extra seats and we can't increase the capacity anymore, hopefully this comes at a point where we're consistently seeing demand outstrip capacity.  Concurrently a new stadium is being built that will allow capacity to meet demand and some more room for growth.  

The trick is going to be timing.  

I remember being at school and a stat said that Grimsby/cleethorpes had the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.

So that could be the massive spike in sales and they’re bringing them this season

3925 the latest!!

75 to go until we hit the big 4k!

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

I remember being at school and a stat said that Grimsby/cleethorpes had the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.

So that could be the massive spike in sales and they’re bringing them this season

A lot of them can;t go with their dads for obvious reasons

Given the noise around the Prem League, I think it is incredible that that are teams in the lower leagues that have really re-thought how they get fans in through the gates.   Bradford have a decent stadium, big crowds so much be exciting as a kid to walk through the gates for the first time.  If you get them in early you have fans for life.  I still remember walking into Blundell Park as an 8 year old and how exciting it was.  If Bradford (and others) are pricing tickets at such reasonable levels then good luck  - investing in the future.

Just for some perspective, it's worth noting that Bradford's season ticket prices average out at about 55% of Town's, so in effect 14,000 Bradford tickets equate to a cash value equivalent of about 7,700 Town. Naturally, they wouldn't sell as many without the heavily discounted prices that their large capacity allows.

We should be around 70% of that figure by the time we're done (based on current figures), which isn't bad for an area 30% the size of Bradford.

It works in so much it fills the ground, ish but with the significant discounts, financially it doesn’t see them rake in thousands more.

That said, still cracking numbers and shows that there’s life outside the top flight, not that the media would recognise.

Quoted from aldi_01

It works in so much it fills the ground, ish but with the significant discounts, financially it doesn’t see them rake in thousands more.

That said, still cracking numbers and shows that there’s life outside the top flight, not that the media would recognise.

Yeah but those extra 8000 fans will all buy drinks food and maybe club shirts ect , They’ll  rake in a lot more by having a full ground at discounted ticket prices