A good way of bringing the debt down

Make the Burnley fans pay through the nose   .......

Lower Tier:

Adults: £28

Over 65s: £22

Under 23s: £22

Under 18s: £12



Upper Tier:

Adults: £33

Over 65s: £23

Under 23s: £23

Under 18s: £13


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( I've already got the script of how this thread is going to go and who is playing the main characters)

A bit cheeky if you ask me. Wigan, Blackburn, Bolton and Burnley should all charge each other £15. It would increase attendance and everybody would be happy. ( Apart from the Directors )

It's quite ridiculous Reebok Trotter, as are the prices at t'Turf (and when you lot came).

Copper Dragon wrote:It's quite ridiculous Reebok Trotter, as are the prices at t'Turf (and when you lot came).

Was it the same price when Bolton fans came to Turf Moor?

I think it was £28/£29 Karlypants.

It was a silver category game anyway.

Copper Dragon wrote:I think it was £28/£29 Karlypants.

It was a silver category game anyway.

So it's about the same price then.

I remember when Bolton used to do the £10 tickets for the BBurn games at the Reebok and also Ewood, was always full!

Copper Dragon wrote:It's quite ridiculous Reebok Trotter, as are the prices at t'Turf (and when you lot came).

How many do you expect Burnley to take Copper? I think you'll do well to shift 3k, with it being an 8pm kick off on a Tuesday night.

I remember us playing the clarets in the old div 2 when i was a kid, going with my dad and my uncle to both burnden and turf moor. If my mum had heard some of the chants directed at us and by us at them she'd have banned me from ever going to footie again but for the most part it was banter in good spirits. I like the burnley fans, they're quite a good bunch.

Culcheth_White wrote:

Copper Dragon wrote:It's quite ridiculous Reebok Trotter, as are the prices at t'Turf (and when you lot came).

How many do you expect Burnley to take Copper? I think you'll do well to shift 3k, with it being an 8pm kick off on a Tuesday night.

Yes I make you about right there Culcheth. If it had have been a saturday we would have touched 5,000 plus.

Although, if we were to win all our games between now and the Bolton game then the number could be anything.

luckyPeterpiper wrote:I remember us playing the clarets in the old div 2 when i was a kid, going with my dad and my uncle to both burnden and turf moor. If my mum had heard some of the chants directed at us and by us at them she'd have banned me from ever going to footie again but for the most part it was banter in good spirits. I like the burnley fans, they're quite a good bunch.

And I like you PeterPiper.

Was that the old old division 2 (late 70's) or just the old division 2 (mid 90's)?

I remember my Dad going to Burnley away without me, I was gutted. He brought me back my first away football programme. I've just had a look at the fixture and it was on the 12th April 1977, League division 2 and the game finished 0-0.

The thing with admission pricing is that whist there are empty seats - unworked assets - there's an issue. Can't remember which (L2) club it is but they fill their spare capacity with free or £1 tickets for kids. This means:
* a full ground most weeks
* develops a pipeline of future fans
* additional crowd management costs are exceeded by income from additional sweets, food, shirts etc. sales

Increased pricing for away fans just means a poorer attendance, worse atmosphere and less add on sales.
It annoys me - not just the missed opportunity to engage more fans, but the fact that the club has assets it isn't using.

I think the club has been questioned about this before and they said they regularly give away tickets to schools etc

Il be honest, Ive tried to give free tickets away in the past to both Kids and Adults.

Truth is, no fucker wants them.

you cant give our tickets away for free - that's how shit or support is.

Reebok_Rebel wrote:Il be honest, Ive tried to give free tickets away in the past to both Kids and Adults.

Truth is, no fucker wants them.

you cant give our tickets away for free - that's how shit or support is.

Then the club need to revisit their offering - they could do a lot more to make the experience enjoyable (apart from what happens on the pitch). Other clubs have done it.

Reebok_Rebel wrote:

you cant give our tickets away for free - that's how shit or support is.

No, that's how shit Bolton have become under Dougie.

There are a hardcore of about 5000 happy clappers like Reebok Trotter who would turn up even if Phil Gartside made them sit on nails, pissed in their half-time tea, and shit on their front lawn.

But the fans with half a brain need a reason to go to a football match, and free tickets isn't one of them.

If every game was open and entertaining more people would come. But while Dougie tries to win games by boring the opposition to death our gates will only get smaller.

And half our support is from Chorley - if Chorley FC get promoted this year expect another mass exodus to Victory Park next season.

Copper Dragon wrote:

luckyPeterpiper wrote:I remember us playing the clarets in the old div 2 when i was a kid, going with my dad and my uncle to both burnden and turf moor. If my mum had heard some of the chants directed at us and by us at them she'd have banned me from ever going to footie again but for the most part it was banter in good spirits. I like the burnley fans, they're quite a good bunch.

And I like you PeterPiper.

Was that the old old division 2 (late 70's) or just the old division 2 (mid 90's)?

Late 70's mate. I went to my first match in 1975/6 season against Macclesfield on a very wet weeknight with my dad. For a six year old it was an amazing thing to be up so late on a schoolnight and dad told me not to listen to the singing in case I tried to repeat any of it in front of my mum when I got home. It was the first time I heard the song asking who the onanist in the middle of the pitch wearing a dark coloured outfit was.   

When we played Burnley there were a number of suggestions concerning our parentage among other things and I repeated one of the gestures I'd seen at home. When my mum was finished dealing with me for it I was rather tender in the gluteus maximus for a week.   At the time I didn't realise it had anything to do with sexual intercourse of any kind, I thought it was simply a referral to the score being 2 - 0. Oops.