Re: Next Season for the FAX : Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:24 pm  

You need to be very careful with this type of deal , you can de value your product to the point where people will not see it as worth anything , and will only pay the special deal price in the future

Re: Next Season for the FAX : Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:49 am  

The championship will have a very unglamorous feel about it next season. Only Fax v Leigh to really look forward to. Fax v Fev games will have low crowds due to past problems, Batley wont be a plum tie as they wont be a force next year if Harrison leaves the club, I dont think uncle Des will be bankrolling Barrow next year, Sky are probably selling TV rights to premier sports, so less coverage to attract new fans, all we need now is Wood/Lewis to announce championship franchising so no relegation making the sport at this level utterly pointless. Hardly gonna attract a fairweather into buying a season ticket. We have a good loyal fanbase though, so I dont expect a huge decline in season ticket sales and attendance. I certainly dont expect an increase though

Re: Next Season for the FAX : Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:25 am  

jeffvickers wrote:

The championship will have a very unglamorous feel about it next season. Only Fax v Leigh to really look forward to. Fax v Fev games will have low crowds due to past problems, Batley wont be a plum tie as they wont be a force next year if Harrison leaves the club, I dont think uncle Des will be bankrolling Barrow next year, Sky are probably selling TV rights to premier sports, so less coverage to attract new fans, all we need now is Wood/Lewis to announce championship franchising so no relegation making the sport at this level utterly pointless. Hardly gonna attract a fairweather into buying a season ticket. We have a good loyal fanbase though, so I dont expect a huge decline in season ticket sales and attendance. I certainly dont expect an increase though

Yes , very ' vibrant and worth winning in it's own right '

Re: Next Season for the FAX : Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:19 am  

How about trying to sort out a similar event to that Melbourne game, but maybe against this years Super League winners or the likes of Wigan, Leeds or Warrington? Play it on a Friday or Saturday night, lots of free tickets, lots of advertising.

A big crowd, a great game (hopefully) and a great atmosphere could attract a lot of new interest!

Re: Next Season for the FAX : Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:40 am  

Electricityscape wrote:

How about trying to sort out a similar event to that Melbourne game, but maybe against this years Super League winners or the likes of Wigan, Leeds or Warrington? Play it on a Friday or Saturday night, lots of free tickets, lots of advertising.

A big crowd, a great game (hopefully) and a great atmosphere could attract a lot of new interest!

What about James' testimonial game against the Burleigh Bears? Not quite Melbourne, but it's a different team to the usual SL teams. Get it in the weekly rugby press and may draw in some punters.

Re: Next Season for the FAX : Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:50 am  

Starbug wrote:

So 9 in Championship 1 , they'll be happy

Thought Hemel Hempstead were ready to join Champ 1

dazednconfused wrote:

What about James' testimonial game against the Burleigh Bears? Not quite Melbourne, but it's a different team to the usual SL teams. Get it in the weekly rugby press and may draw in some punters.

Thats a great game, not sure if the Bears are touring over here or what, but great to have a different opposition, than (no disrespect intended) someone like Keighley.

Re: Next Season for the FAX : Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:13 pm  

At the risk of being controversial and leaving myself wide open for making a poor business decision, couldn't we try to use the super league clubs to our advantage? Yep, I see the irony!

I do believe our hard core will always buy a ticket regardless of a big discount, we want money to go to our club, therefore target the loyal ticket holders of all super league clubs. Something daft like twenty or thirty quid on presentation of your super league season ticket might just appeal to true rl fans who don't get the chance to watch a game on a lot of Sundays due to loads playing Friday and sometimes Saturday.

I understand they won't come regularly but a few from various clubs is better than none at all. They may come down on a Thursday too.

Sweeten the deal by giving them a ticket to a block in the east stand kept for any travelling super league fans. It might give the powers that be a wake up if we sold a few hundred and had many various club colours watching our championship games.

Sorry if this sounds silly or unworkable, I'm probably overlooking some big drawbacks but just want my club to benefit

Re: Next Season for the FAX : Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:45 am  

A friend from Hartlepool got their season ticket for this season for £100 instead of £320. Chairman announced pay £100 deposit, if 4000 sold by mid-July no further payment required. It was then on a sliding scale so if for example 3000 sold, price would be £150 so £50 extra to pay, 2000 sold was £200 with £100 extra to pay etc....

Having averaged crowds of 3500 last year (helped by decent away followings) with around 1500 season ticket holders, this season they have sold 5674 season tickets and the club and town are buzzing ready for the new season.

They sold more season tickets in first 10 days on sale than the whole of last year.

They put up matchday prices (not sure we can given they're already £15/£18) so as to encourage season ticket purchases and thus upfront payments. For £100 this now gets you around 5-6 games of football instead of 23 plus reserve matches with a season ticket.

Also 5700 people buying programmes, raffle tickets, merchandise, cashfax etc much better than 1500 die-hards. Also extra food/drink on matchday too (appreciate council would get this but maybe could then reduce prices due to extra volume). Admittedly they all won't turn up every game but will help average attendance and additional matchday revenue.

Because of the extras associated with more supporters in attendance, they felt it would be more beneficial to have 4000 at £100 (400k) than 1500 at £320 (480k). As it turns out they've got 5700 at £100 (570k).

Just a thought....

Re: Next Season for the FAX : Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:54 am  

Huddersfield Giants are offering season tickets right now for £50.00 for the first 2000 and then some more at £99.00. Seriously how can championship teams survive/compete for spectators when the club over each hill, Bradford/Huddersfield offer such cheap deals.

Re: Next Season for the FAX : Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:56 am  

shelfsox wrote:

A friend from Hartlepool got their season ticket for this season for £100 instead of £320. Chairman announced pay £100 deposit, if 4000 sold by mid-July no further payment required. It was then on a sliding scale so if for example 3000 sold, price would be £150 so £50 extra to pay, 2000 sold was £200 with £100 extra to pay etc....

Having averaged crowds of 3500 last year (helped by decent away followings) with around 1500 season ticket holders, this season they have sold 5674 season tickets and the club and town are buzzing ready for the new season.

They sold more season tickets in first 10 days on sale than the whole of last year.

They put up matchday prices (not sure we can given they're already £15/£18) so as to encourage season ticket purchases and thus upfront payments. For £100 this now gets you around 5-6 games of football instead of 23 plus reserve matches with a season ticket.

Also 5700 people buying programmes, raffle tickets, merchandise, cashfax etc much better than 1500 die-hards. Also extra food/drink on matchday too (appreciate council would get this but maybe could then reduce prices due to extra volume). Admittedly they all won't turn up every game but will help average attendance and additional matchday revenue.

Because of the extras associated with more supporters in attendance, they felt it would be more beneficial to have 4000 at £100 (400k) than 1500 at £320 (480k). As it turns out they've got 5700 at £100 (570k).

Just a thought....

Seems a brilliant idea to me.