Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:25 am  

Stealth Comic wrote:

Or £6 for a couple of hours at the cinema as opposed to £14 for a couple of hours at the Rugby.

Cougars are in the entertainment business and there's a lot of competition about.

I agree, but a £6 cinema ticket quickly inflates when you take into account all the "extras" at cinema prices. They get you in then rip you off. If you inflated beer prices by the amount cinemas inflate popcorn and pop you'd end up with a mutiny.

I wonder if the club could do a promotion such as buy a ticket for £14 and get a beer and a burger for a £1, or something along those lines.

Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:28 am  

col88 wrote:

just an idea..maybe you should try speaking to the club about having home games on a friday/saturday night next season if you are looking to attract the younger generation? we did it at widnes last year..the general concensus was that the younger fans preferred fri/sat nights and the older fans preferred to stick to sunday afternoons. although we have now gone back to sundays this year..i prefered the fri/sat nights mainly because im 21 and usually go out on saturday nights, im not a big fan of the sundays because im in work monday morning ha

Although I'm and "oldie" I quite like Friday night games and you get the bonus in summer of having Sunday free for other things.

Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:59 am  

Maybe we could conduct a poll as to favoured kick-off days and times, corresponding to age groups? I don't mean on here, but at a home game. I.e how old are you? Friday nights, or sunday afternoons? that kind of thing.
Personally, I like sundays but if friday night gets a bigger crowd, I'd go for that.
Here's one - a spot prize for someone wearing a Cougars shirt around town during the week, say fifty quid or so, so's it's worth buying a shirt just in case...

Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:24 am  

Dreamer wrote:

I agree, but a £6 cinema ticket quickly inflates when you take into account all the "extras" at cinema prices. They get you in then rip you off. If you inflated beer prices by the amount cinemas inflate popcorn and pop you'd end up with a mutiny.

I wonder if the club could do a promotion such as buy a ticket for £14 and get a beer and a burger for a £1, or something along those lines.

I don't think you would need to raise the price of "extras". If you can get 1400 in paying £10 as opposed to 1000 paying £14 you should make more 40% money from these extras anyway due to there being 40% more people in the ground, possibly more due to economy of scale.

I know they tried this at Br*dford City and they are by far the best supported club in their league.

Not sure moving games to Friday would work. Firstly we're dealing with part-time players with jobs, they are more likely to working during the week. Secondly you'd lose away support for the same reason.

Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:34 am  

Higher profile and winning games - only way to get fans in - Cougars have improved the match day experience. We have lost our young male thread/pull.

As for reducing prices:-

I would be mighty peeved if I were a Season ticket holder and Cougars reduced prices. Wouldnt buy one for next season.
£10 or £14 you wouldnt get many more I dont think.

Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:49 am  

Well, I'm a season ticket holder too; I'm sure I could be appeased by some vouchers for the shop or summat to compensate, if match day prices were to drop. If it gets more fans in, it makes my day more enjoyable too.
Sounds like a plan to me.

Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:33 pm  

Stealth Comic wrote:

I don't think you would need to raise the price of "extras". If you can get 1400 in paying £10 as opposed to 1000 paying £14 you should make more 40% money from these extras anyway due to there being 40% more people in the ground, possibly more due to economy of scale.

Are you saying pay £10 on the gate or an equivalent £10 per game if you buy a season ticket?

I think some of the really good deals from last year (both from football and RL) were for season tickets.

If it was £10 on the gate would you differentiate between home and away support? If so how?

£10 on the gate puts all the risk with the club whereas a cheap season ticket is money up front.

Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:58 pm  

I think the idea is a tenner for all, instead of fourteen. The idea being that you'd get more folk in to watch, making for a better atmosphere, which would perhaps get more of them to return/encourage new support. And of course, more people paying a tenner as opposed to less people paying fourteen might not cost the club too much in lost revenue - assuming the plan works, and folk turn up in greater numbers.

Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:50 pm  

Dreamer wrote:

Are you saying pay £10 on the gate or an equivalent £10 per game if you buy a season ticket?

I think some of the really good deals from last year (both from football and RL) were for season tickets.

If it was £10 on the gate would you differentiate between home and away support? If so how?

£10 on the gate puts all the risk with the club whereas a cheap season ticket is money up front.

£10 on the gate for people like my Dad, who doesn't come to every game and to attract new support, I know a fair few people who'd come if it wasn't so expensive. Then lower the season ticket price a little too to comepensate.

I wouldn't differentiate between home and away fans. Away fans' money is as good as anyone elses'.

Attracting more fans is incredibilly difficult, especially when we have a league system with a glass ceiling.

Re: Cougars 18 Widnes 48 : Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:51 am  

I think they missed a trick with the posters this season. Instead of lots of smallish ones before each home game, we just had one massive - and not very clear to read - fixture list to try and get put up in shops etc. Most of the people who had willingly put up posters in their window every week last season said it was too big, so as a result Silsden at least has no Cougar advertising whatsoever.There must be a way of tapping into these outlying areas...