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Re: Match Day Thread: Charlton
I hereby declare a standing ovation in the 3rd minute for JJ, whether he is on the bench or on the pitch I do not care!
Who’s in?
Re: League One Season Tickets 24/25
As Floyd points out above, you have also cherry picked a club to support your argument. I chose Maidenhead because they are local to us and play in a division two tiers lower in the football pyramid. I believe the average admission price in the National League is £15-20.Also, according to the Football League World website, there are 13 clubs in League One who charge more for their season tickets than Wycombe.
Re: League One Season Tickets 24/25
The trouble being that new generations of kids don't ever get the chance to sit in those seats
Re: League One Season Tickets 24/25
Move the ground = build the attendances. We really have the worst positioned ground I think I have experienced, who chose that as the new Loakes Park?
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Completely agree with other posters that point to Northampton, Cambridge and Shrewsbury as better examples
There are three key factors (outside of pricing) slowing the attendance growth in my opinion:
1) Change in demographic of the Wycombe area - fewer football fans, more families crammed into a single household, more poverty, those from backgrounds that do not follow football
2) Poor health of the nation - our ground is a 20+ minute walk away, when you’ve got millions and millions of people on waiting lists for operations then our geographical challenge is larger
3) Awful family experience - expensive to bring children, 20+ minute walk from the car in a world of short attention spans, £10(!) parking on site and subsequent queueing out the ground as an alternative, £8 burgers etc.
The marketing is poor. The pricing is poor. Those can be changed. The three above are more difficult unless you can move the ground or hope for structural economic reform of the Wycombe area.
Re: JJ's last game
We started a Sunday league goalkeeper in goal for about 5 games at the beginning of last season. This game is a dead rubber. There is absolutely nothing up for grabs other than pride. The real pride would be allowing one of our club’s best ever servants to start his final game for us. He helped drag us to the Championship! You won’t remember if we finished 10th or 11th this season in a few years’ time. You will want to remember JJ’s final game.
Re: League One Season Tickets 24/25
Everything is relative but the matchday prices have been on mission creep. It was £26 for myself and under-10 son a couple of seasons ago, now £29 in the Family Stand. Will this soon be, £30-£35? Plus add parking and a snack (I’m usually fairly frugal in the ground). I can’t commit to 23 games a season owing to many other weekend priorities, and even a subscription possibly wouldn’t justify itself. I’m no business whizz and understand suggestions are easy to make, tougher to implement, but more flexible pricing and incentives for paying for match bundles, possibly with options to split payments, could be attractive. For example, paying in advance for say a ‘Thames Valley bundle’ (yuk) double header of games against Oxford/Reading, with a small bulk discount, or ‘Christmas/New Year’ bundle if we have a couple of home games in late December, might be interesting to some. Likewise, a discounted bundle for bulk games against less attractive opposition.
In terms of making comparisons with other clubs, the likes of Cambridge, Northampton, Stevenage, Shrewsbury always come to mind. They are similarly sized clubs that seem to have grown attendances to 5.5k-6k+. I’m sure catchments, relative success play a part but I’d be interested to know if they’ve done other things we can learn from.
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When I was in short trousers I used to love the Flowerpot Men
Re: League One Season Tickets 24/25
Cambridge's support on Tuesday was great wasn't it? I'm always impressed by their numbers. Shrewsbury too to a lesser extent. of course, neither of those two are an 40 minute train ride from some of the biggest clubs in the world.
Northampton are a good example for us, obviously more football league history and further from London, but not by much. And they've not had the success we've enjoyed over the last ten years. If they can average just short of 6000 I'd like to think we can.