Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:25 am  

TimmySmith wrote:

Boils my mickey that tickets are so expensive.

Totally agree, prices for a single Matchday Ticket are too expensive and would put a lot off IMO.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:31 am  

altofts wildcat wrote:

Totally agree, prices for a single Matchday Ticket are too expensive and would put a lot off IMO.

Yet people want us to splash the cash to get better players. Quite a conundrum.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:39 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Yet people want us to splash the cash to get better players. Quite a conundrum.

Chicken and egg fella but for a good few years now we've had some of the highest ticket prices in Super League and served absolute dross up season after season.

All well and good sitting there with a face like a slapped booty blaming the fans but eventually one of the two will have to budge and I don't see it been the 2-3 thousand extra fans that are required.

Albeit not looking good this year but Castleford under Powell demonstrated how good rugby can bring the gate up. The fans are fans out there, especially in the younger generation... we just need to entice them in but our time is running out.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:55 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Yet people want us to splash the cash to get better players. Quite a conundrum.

You are better off with 1000 people paying £20 than 750 people paying £26 plus more people means more takings in bar/food sales. I have no idea what the increase would be if we reduced prices but then again neither do the club unless they try it.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 10:12 am  

altofts wildcat wrote:

You are better off with 1000 people paying £20 than 750 people paying £26 plus more people means more takings in bar/food sales. I have no idea what the increase would be if we reduced prices but then again neither do the club unless they try it.

You are also better off with 750 people paying £26 than 750 paying £20 which is more the reality when a team is not performing to supporter expectations

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 10:41 am  

REDWHITEANDBLUE wrote:

You are also better off with 750 people paying £26 than 750 paying £20 which is more the reality when a team is not performing to supporter expectations

The gist is that the admittance and the performance of the team impact the attendances. To compensate for the latter maybe a reduction in the former may attract more supporters. I unfortunately believe it is the latter that has the greatest impact and we have seen these stagnate since the end of 2018 with only the occasional bright point.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:10 am  

Stood behind sticks for last home game against Huddersfield and they were plenty around but many looked bored stiff and as the game progressed a group were not even bothering to watch the game. Also my teenage grandson used to go with about a dozen mates, everyone of them don't bother anymore, they have lost interest.

The fact is for the last few seasons what we have served up has not been entertaining in the main. You could even give away free tickets but if the fayre on show is rubbish no one will want to come. I do believe we are pushing it for charging top buck for poor facilities right now and poor team performance. But without entertaining rugby you can discount all you want but it will fail attract people in numbers.

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Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:12 am  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

The gist is that the admittance and the performance of the team impact the attendances. To compensate for the latter maybe a reduction in the former may attract more supporters. I unfortunately believe it is the latter that has the greatest impact and we have seen these stagnate since the end of 2018 with only the occasional bright point.

Yet with the capacity as it is, we wouldn't get that many more anyway.
I understand the point and it's key in any retail environment to get the optimum price on your product.
Difficult to do.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:42 am  

altofts wildcat wrote:

You are better off with 1000 people paying £20 than 750 people paying £26 plus more people means more takings in bar/food sales. I have no idea what the increase would be if we reduced prices but then again neither do the club unless they try it.

One thing we all know about MC is he is a numbers man and if this tactic worked you'd bet he would reduce ticket prices without fail.

He has said publicly before that when we have reduced tickets or given them away for free the bar and food sales don't make up for the loss of income from ticket sales.

The last regime went with dirt cheap season tickets and we went bust.

On the other hand £26 is a lot of money, you can get 6 pints for that in town (more if you go to one of the dumps) and unfortunately most folk would rather do that.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:03 pm  

charlie wrote:

One thing we all know about MC is he is a numbers man and if this tactic worked you'd bet he would reduce ticket prices without fail.

He has said publicly before that when we have reduced tickets or given them away for free the bar and food sales don't make up for the loss of income from ticket sales.

The last regime went with dirt cheap season tickets and we went bust.

On the other hand £26 is a lot of money, you can get 6 pints for that in town (more if you go to one of the dumps) and unfortunately most folk would rather do that.

I agree with you, I don't think free tickets or even cheap tickets are the answer, I think that reducing tickets down to a more reasonable level, somewhere around the £20 mark might work but then you have the issue of it being cheaper to buy individual tickets than season tickets.

I am not a season ticket holder due to the fact I know I won't be able to get to all games but I do try and go when I can. However, £26 to watch to poor onfield product that we have been producing is not value for money and had the game been on TV I certainly would not have been going.