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i think the prices to get into conference matches are too high,£17 for the debanke,while you can get into the likes of peterborough for £20!!!wigan for £25 ...a couple of seasons ago my dad was on holiday in portsmouth and went to watch pompey vs man utd.......price......£16 (probabley why they went bust )my point is .....1000 fans @ £17 or 2000 fans @£10 creating better atmosphere,ie more bums on seats,more teas drunk,more burgers chomped
or a better price pyramid lower games cheaper,bigger games dearer
or the mini season ticket ,,,say 5 games for the price of 4
or after you have been to 4 consecutive games ,5th half price
or 4 consecutive games and get a free burger......
you get the idea,
without fans a club is nothing ,we are their lifeline(or rather our wallets and purses are ;) )

any other ideas??????

There's absolutely no proof that lowering the price will have a significant impact on the gate. Kettrin lowered their matchday price to £10 last season and, in the end, were forced to increase it to £15 as it simply wasn't sustainable. The only way to increase the gate is to perform on the pitch and even that didn't work for us when we unexpectedly reached the play offs the season before last - we need to start blowing our own trumpet, making sure we're out in the community, in the paper , on the radio.....all the things that, historically, we've not ever needed to do or aren't very good at!

Having said that, our matchday price for next season (assuming there is one!) has already been announced as £15. I'm pretty sure that no-one will disagree that £17 is too much.

being a trust member i was geting the discount ,so i was paying £14 for the debanke......next season ill have to pay £15 ....so to me that means £1 increase :lol: .i have to say i dont mind paying ,just provoking thought not argument,what about a family ticket????? as you say, needs more advertising etc .you need to get future fans hooked at the start of the season ,when its t shirt weather,and hopefully some of them with stay with us through the long cold winter months.
i agree its all about what happens on the pitch ,but i have to say i have only been a fan in recent years(conferance)and only watched 1 league game.......we were rubbish on that day and i vowed i would never put my hard earned money through their doors until they vastley improve.....funny how things turn out ......relegation,relegation ...conferance.....watched a match......NOW HOOKED :lol: .....cant wait for pre season friendlies(i hope) bring it on

[quote="discodunk"]being a trust member i was geting the discount ,so i was paying £14 for the debanke......next season ill have to pay £15 ....so to me that means £1 increase

I think that the real losers when the revised season ticket prices were announced were the concessionary ticket holders who, at £220 at the lowest early purchase price, were then being asked to pay an additional £100.00 for the coming season.
Buy that ticket today and it would cost me £240.00
Contrast that with Coventry City - and, incidentally, am I the only RDFC season ticket holder who has received unsolicited ticket offers from the Ricoh situated, admittedly, just down the road from me? - where a concessionary season ticket price for Championship football next season would today cost me £198.00!!

Season ticket @ RDFC £300.00

Nearest Premiership team to me - Bolton Wanderers season ticket £285.00 (early bird)

someone explain that to me ?????

RDFC4ever wrote:Season ticket @ RDFC £300.00

Nearest Premiership team to me - Bolton Wanderers season ticket £285.00 (early bird)

someone explain that to me ?????

Rupert Murdoch.

We get this every season and the response is the same.

SPONSORSHIP and TV MONEY subsidise the Premiership and Football League season ticket and gate prices.

The Conference gets bugger all TV Money and bugger all Sponsorship money in comparison.

Formic wrote:

RDFC4ever wrote:Season ticket @ RDFC £300.00

Nearest Premiership team to me - Bolton Wanderers season ticket £285.00 (early bird)

someone explain that to me ?????

Rupert Murdoch.

Still no club outside the premier league should charge more than the lowest season ticket prices in the prem, then maybe people will start to follow lower divison sides as it will be value for money

Biggles wrote:We get this every season and the response is the same.

SPONSORSHIP and TV MONEY subsidise the Premiership and Football League season ticket and gate prices.

The Conference gets bugger all TV Money and bugger all Sponsorship money in comparison.

Perhaps we do get this arise every season....
....perhaps because the answer you've suggested is inadequate when it comes to explaining to people why they should pay a higher admission charge to a BSB Conference game than that for a game played three Divisions higher.
Perhaps somebody needs to try again.

I tend agree that pricing is an issue both for single tickets and for season tickets. I know I would not make every match each year due to work and on the balance of probabilities it is cheaper therefore to buy a ticket as and when I go. I would certainly prefer to buy a season ticket soI don't have to bother queing (sometimes anyway!).

I also think that Rushden and Diamonds suffer from a lack of history so there is not generation after generation supporting the team. This is coupled with much of the youth of today all supporting teams miles away who are predominantly in the premiership and some parents not encouraging local support - even as a second team. Many locals have arrived in the area from elsewhere and carry allegiance to teams elsewhere because of that.

I would say that an aggressive campaign, even for one year, of selling heavily discounted season tickets may pay rewards and convert some of the non believers.

A few good salesmen and techniques would work. I agree you can't just drop prices and hope people turn up,you have to goout and sell sell sell.