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Post by bean on Oct 4, 2011 18:15:58 GMT
Come on Russ, I said "a" game. That means one game, to see how it goes.
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belly77
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Post by belly77 on Oct 4, 2011 18:25:30 GMT
But we aren't really getting many pay on the gate this season so I can't see what harm it will do. Especially if we stagger the season tickets like Hartlepool have done which should guarantee at least making the equivalent of what we did this season. There is the hardcore 1000 or so season ticket holders who will buy them whatever the cost so if we could come up with a way of guaranteeing that income it lessens the gamble.
Re- The Food. I haven't bought food inside the Abbey for years. I'm not into hoof burgers. Give me a decent burger and I would happily buy it and come into the ground earlier to do so. Surely an extra £25k through catering is better then what we get now?
The saving on the season tickets this season wasn't enough to entice the floaters into getting one. what with the pay on the gate prices still too high we find ourselves in a lose lose situation.
The £5 deal for the FGR game was a success and it wasn't even advertised properly. The potential is there we just need to tap into it. I noticed Fulham Blackburn the other week was £10 for adults and £1 for kids. If a premier league club is offering that then how we can charge a home fan £17?
A couple of years ago we seemed to be buzzing with ideas off the field (ie beer festival etc). I get the feeling that has all died down now which is a massive shame. I know we don't have the staff anymore but maybe CFU could take over the batten.
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bean
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Post by bean on Oct 4, 2011 19:15:41 GMT
Belly, I never buy food in the ground (the burgers and sausages look like dog food) , and haven't bought tea or coffee this season as it was ficking disgusting last year.
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belly77
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Post by belly77 on Oct 4, 2011 20:03:53 GMT
Not to mention the hot chocolate.
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Post by Russ Greaves on Oct 4, 2011 20:21:56 GMT
Nothing wrong with being cautious
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Alan
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Post by Alan on Oct 4, 2011 20:51:54 GMT
I noticed Fulham Blackburn the other week was £10 for adults and £1 for kids. If a premier league club is offering that then how we can charge a home fan £17? I wouldn't pay £10 to watch Fulham v Blackburn and if it was free on terestrial TV I wouldn't bother to watch.
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Post by terrycufc on Oct 4, 2011 21:29:07 GMT
On the beer festivals, CFU helped organise two, the first under the South Stand, then in the Abbey Arms behind the main stand when the South Stand space became a gym. Both were well attended and made money. I believe the big stumbling block is the current brewery agreement...they do not want other beer brands being sold! CFU have been in discussion with the Supporters Club, but again there are issues with what beer can be sold. If anyone has any suggestions please contact CFU.
Terry
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Post by capnbob on Oct 5, 2011 6:14:50 GMT
Terry is right about the difficulties on beer festivals. Having put a lot of cash into CUSC's refurbishment, their brewery won't allow a festival which is outside of their agreement and CUSC has to do its barrelage to keep it's part of the deal. The football club has a similar arrangement with Greene King.
The other difficulty is that during a festival, a lot of beer gets slopped about, inevitably, and this was not a problem under the South Stand or too much in the old Abbey Arms. But I wouldn't want to mess up the SC. This suggests a big marquee, but that comes with a price tag which makes the thing uneconomic, and you then have the problem of where to locate it, as well.
Although we did make a bit of money, it was not huge for the effort required. For all of those reasons, another beer festival is probably not going to be possible.
So far as the teabars are concerned, I know that the club has been doing its sums on those, as the agreement with the supplier is now in the second year of two. The big problem is the ability to have enough people to staff the bars properly and to deliver the quick turnaround service over a limited period, reliably.
The caterer does this pretty well, but the club always struggled to have enough and the standard of service suffered, leading to fans boycotting an unreliable and substandard product. CFU has also looked at the potential for taking over the teabars, but has concluded that it would not be viable, unfortunately. Fans don't generally volunteer to do stuff which means they don't see the football.
Financially, for the club, the present arrangement works better, so it would take a really well thought out, staffed and innovative proposal by someone who really knows the business to change that.
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Post by shaunxX on Oct 7, 2011 7:35:08 GMT
Season ticket holders could use vouchers to introduce a friend at midweek or games where away support is expected to be minimal.
An increase in crowds creates an atmosphere and further encourages floating support, at the moment only die hards are likely to turn up on a cold wet and quiet event at the Abbey.
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Post by lennypack on Oct 7, 2011 14:32:28 GMT
What I don't understand about our current attendances is who these 300 people are who still came every week to watch Callum Willock fall over, but for whatever reason won't come along to watch a young relatively exciting team. I know that's not a particularly original insight but I find it genuinely odd. I'm not sure it can be simply put down to the economic system, it wasn't exactly great one or two years ago either.
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Post by pct on Oct 7, 2011 14:34:20 GMT
What I don't understand about our current attendances is who these 300 people are who still came every week to watch Callum Willock fall over, but for whatever reason won't come along to watch a young relatively exciting team. I know that's not a particularly original insight but I find it genuinely odd. I'm not sure it can be simply put down to the economic system, it wasn't exactly great one or two years ago either. This is exactly what has been baffling me so far this season. Even in the darkest days of the Ling era, the gates were still better than they are at present. Truly bizarre.
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Post by lennypack on Oct 7, 2011 14:38:54 GMT
Were season tickets cheaper than they are now? I remember one year when they were particularly cheap. I suppose if you have a season ticket you're more likely to force yourself to go because it's already been paid for.
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Post by face on Oct 7, 2011 15:02:11 GMT
They were a little cheaper, but not by much. I remember Rolls offering them up cheap, but that was a while back now
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Post by pct on Oct 7, 2011 15:15:35 GMT
I'm not sure of the 'England Winning the World Cup' promotion made much difference compared to now?
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Post by rayhertford on Oct 7, 2011 16:17:44 GMT
This seasons was the same price as last season. The season before that it was slightly cheaper but not by much.
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