Blades to boycott over ridiculous ticket prices!

[Armchair Wanderer]

If you set a standard price, then when nobody turns up you drop it to buttons, ST holders complain - and understandably so, as they're the ones who committed first and hardest.

In a market of elastic demand, it makes complete sense to me to have grades (and flexibility within them). I'd argue the top one is too high - £30 is an emotional barrier - but I'd also argue we'd be daft to charge the same price for a November midweeker against MK Dons and a late-April promotion decider against Bradford. (Hypotheticals but you get the point.) Remember that last time we were in this division there was a big swing between gate figures – 4,000 in October, 20,000 in May – and it wasn't a smooth graph reflecting a rise up the table.

I reckon they must do some sort of elasticity analysis. If you were to get 10,000 @ £30 you'd need 15,000 @ £20 to not lose out and I doubt you'd get that much of a swing.

I obviously couldn't be arsed, but it'd be interesting to see a graph of ticket prices vs attendances for last season.

That would be interesting. Different seats would be different amounts so you're really just looking at which band the game is. Is there a website that shows this?

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Apropos of little, here's our attendances last time we were in this division.



The reds are midweek games (which didn't seem to matter much); Swansea's orange because it was Easter Monday.

[Dr.Karl]

As a general rule, fans have to vote with their feet. I've refused to go to many a match on the principle of it not being value for money even though I could afford it. It's all situational and dependent on what you think value is. So I'm fully with the Sheffield United fans. All this exploiting fans loyalty is complete garbage. You have a free will not to go, it doesn't make you less of a fan.

In the case of the premierleague, they know they can charge ludicrous prices because there's an army of either day trippers or foreign fans to fill the seats. The local fans are the losers of globalisation. Like with anything(stocks, housing, even premierleague TV deals), when prices are overpriced, we'll see a correction eventually. Bolton prices have been steep for far too long IMO. Maybe after this season, we will see that correction.

[Harry Genshaw]

We could do worse than look at Parkys previous club. Season tickets for adults £149. Juniors £99. Average gate last year was I think 18000. This is a side without a history of high support that's spent the bulk of its lifetime in the lower divisions. I don't know if it would work for us but it shows it can be done

[BWFC_Insane]

We could do worse than look at Parkys previous club. Season tickets for adults £149. Juniors £99. Average gate last year was I think 18000. This is a side without a history of high support that's spent the bulk of its lifetime in the lower divisions. I don't know if it would work for us but it shows it can be done

And as Iles points out, before their rich new owners they were relative paupers in the transfer market.

[BWFC_Insane]

Apparently Sheffield Utd have sold 3000 tickets. Glad we didn't drop the prices. And those who argue half the prices to get more fans in, this is why clubs model the optimal price to maximise revenue.

[Worthy4England]

Apparently Sheffield Utd have sold 3000 tickets. Glad we didn't drop the prices. And those who argue half the prices to get more fans in, this is why clubs model the optimal price to maximise revenue.

No Shit Sherlock. Twice as many at half the price would still "maximize" the same amount of Revenue - but yes, trying to get 6,000 away fans in would be some feat for a season's opener....

Seriously, this is against an average of around 1600-1700 Sheff Utd away fans a couple of seasons ago...

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Good show by them.

[Harry Genshaw]

We could do worse than look at Parkys previous club. Season tickets for adults £149. Juniors £99. Average gate last year was I think 18000. This is a side without a history of high support that's spent the bulk of its lifetime in the lower divisions. I don't know if it would work for us but it shows it can be done

And as Iles points out, before their rich new owners they were relative paupers in the transfer market.

Genuine question as I dont know - Are Bradford loaded? They must have some clout to do a deal like that on ST's but it's been running for a couple of seasons now and I haven't noticed them spending loads on transfers

[boltonboris]

We could do worse than look at Parkys previous club. Season tickets for adults £149. Juniors £99. Average gate last year was I think 18000. This is a side without a history of high support that's spent the bulk of its lifetime in the lower divisions. I don't know if it would work for us but it shows it can be done

And as Iles points out, before their rich new owners they were relative paupers in the transfer market.

Genuine question as I dont know - Are Bradford loaded? They must have some clout to do a deal like that on ST's but it's been running for a couple of seasons now and I haven't noticed them spending loads on transfers

Probably because of their low ticket income

[BWFC_Insane]

Apparently Sheffield Utd have sold 3000 tickets. Glad we didn't drop the prices. And those who argue half the prices to get more fans in, this is why clubs model the optimal price to maximise revenue.

No Shit Sherlock. Twice as many at half the price would still "maximize" the same amount of Revenue - but yes, trying to get 6,000 away fans in would be some feat for a season's opener....

Seriously, this is against an average of around 1600-1700 Sheff Utd away fans a couple of seasons ago...

http://www.efl.com/news/article/2015/fo ... 98261.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good show by them.

We gave them just over 3000 tickets and are giving them few hundred more. Ultimately I suspect we will be slightly better off with 3000 at full price as presumably 6000 at half price would add some cost to policing bill etc...and I doubt we'd get that many anyways.

[thebish]

Apparently Sheffield Utd have sold 3000 tickets. Glad we didn't drop the prices. And those who argue half the prices to get more fans in, this is why clubs model the optimal price to maximise revenue.

No Shit Sherlock. Twice as many at half the price would still "maximize" the same amount of Revenue - but yes, trying to get 6,000 away fans in would be some feat for a season's opener....

Seriously, this is against an average of around 1600-1700 Sheff Utd away fans a couple of seasons ago...

http://www.efl.com/news/article/2015/fo ... 98261.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good show by them.

they're only coming to watch Trotter...

[Worthy4England]

Aye so if that isn't worth every bit of £15 a ticket, nothing is.

[Norpig]

Apparently Sheffield Utd have sold 3000 tickets. Glad we didn't drop the prices. And those who argue half the prices to get more fans in, this is why clubs model the optimal price to maximise revenue.

No Shit Sherlock. Twice as many at half the price would still "maximize" the same amount of Revenue - but yes, trying to get 6,000 away fans in would be some feat for a season's opener....

Seriously, this is against an average of around 1600-1700 Sheff Utd away fans a couple of seasons ago...

http://www.efl.com/news/article/2015/fo ... 98261.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good show by them.

they're only coming to watch Trotter...

Fall on his arse AGAIN!