Ryan Sparks

Imagine if we had got to the Championship this season with even a relatively small wage bill.

Rupp would be in tears.

 

Apparently we might as well not bother from what I've read, just leave it as is.

 

It's just a perverse argument.

Why are you, the paying customer, asking to pay more? Without getting an agreement from the club on how any extra revenue might be spent, it's just a meaningless discussion.

Are you gonna petition the club to raise prices in a stand, or across the stadium? What are you going to ask for in return? Are you looking at hot water, more new seats, an increased transfer budget?

For all you know with the absolute lack of guarantees that we've got, you're petitioning Rupp to raise the prices so his pockets have a slightly thicker polymer lining. It just makes zero sense to be making this argument as someone who isn't involved in the financial mechanisms of the club.

 

Let's make the tickets £100 then as its clear money makes no difference to you. I am honestly perplexed as to why a business would not try and raise revenue income? By reverse logic then every club would drop their ticket prices and half the price of merchandise and food. To even think of raising them now would be sheer lunacy, in the future its a given.

 

Doesn't really address what I'm saying about ticket prices not really being a concern for me and you though.

Without having any insight or say into how the money gets spent, there is no argument to be made to increase them.

It's like asking for higher taxes without campaigning for a specific reason for an increase in spending.

Makes no sense

 

We're going round in circles, i'll bow out to save me boring evryone.

 

The opportunity is there for the creative marketing to keep prices affordable but to maximise income.
If there is a ten month instalment plan, £20 a month isn’t that different to £15.
Discounts for unemployed, elderly, U16s, seats in the Bradford End or where you get wet at the front.
Premium tickets with suite access, or a ‘free’ signed shirt, meet some of the players before the game, a discounted iFollow pass and so on. All this stuff is easy is you have someone with the time and the imagination to think of it. Other sports manage it. You look at what earned the money for a transatlantic flight, it wasn’t the 350 plebs paying £250 in economy, it was the fifty business travellers paying £3000 a ticket on expenses in business.
The Club membership Edin wanted would have been a good idea properly implemented so long as it has tangible benefits.

 

With 6 million from various sources in the championship as against about 700k being in this league,I suspect Rupp would be the opposite to being in tears.

 

Problem with that is your costs go up exponentially as you rise up the leagues. Just as getting into the premiership may seem like the golden egg scenario, the costs of just turning up for a season are horrendous.

 

Very true, but it then comes down to what they spend it on. Bradford City will not be top of the list to a guy who earns £20k, has a couple of kids, has a mortgage or a rent that increases every year. BC want him to come and bring his kids. Obviously, 8000 x 250 is more than 12000 x 150 but which of those 2 figures is likely to spend more at the ground, on merchandise and which one will look more attractive to would be sponsors. It's Ryan's job to work that out and work it out, he will.

 

Were league two mate without cheap tickets we would be attracting 8/10,000 I think seat pricing could be brought in but not at the present moment in time.

 

No benefit really. Most seats have tge same view and this is league two not big time Charlie football

 

Agree, the thought that Bradford is any poorer than most northern industrial towns is nonsense

 

Yawn