Most liked posts in thread: Who is responsible at VP for filling the empty seats at home games?

There was just over 14,000 there on Saturday. To put this into perspective thats to watch league 2 football after the previous season being the worst in my time of nearly 40 years of watching City. I wouldn't worry about empty seats.

 

We already pay heavily discounted prices to watch football
Game advertising possibly but the best promotion is winning games and we are doing that

 

I don't think he was talking about filling the ground for an 1st round FA Cup replay v bleedin Shrewsbury and he has had many good points, all coming up against the classic Bratfud "Can't do" attitude, which is why we are where we are, in the basement division.....again.............and Accrington & Fleetwoood are in a league above us........

 

With the run of fixtures we have currently, the Exeter game at the start of November could be top vs. second.

The club should be targeting this game and looking to get a big partisan home crowd in.

Crawley, Port Vale and Macclesfield should see us targeting nine points, accepting seven which would likely (possibly) see us top of the pile at the end of the month.

Let's up the ante now and show L2 what City is about.

 

It’s league 2!!!! We have more fans in the stadium than anyone could possibly expect in their wildest imagination.
The question about empty seats would be valid if we were in the Championship

 

That would tempt me to upgrade my flexi card for sure! As I'm sure it would others too. Convincing the wife on the other hand......

 

Marketing seems to be a complete mystery to the marketing team

 

The way we are going we could be in the top 3 ( hopefully top) before Christmas a half season ticket would be a great Christmas gift.
There would still be 14 home fixtures to play £75 for half a seasin ticket would be win win surely.

 

There's a big difference between the 2, we only have a small potential market and people are unlikely to swap between clubs like airlines. If someone isn't interested it doesn't matter if you make it £1 a match or £20, you only have to look at all the times we've done £1 tickets and they don't get above 20,000. We did it against Oxford when in the play offs and still in with a chance of automatics yet only got 19,000 so what makes people think get over 4,000 more in league 2 (accounting for 900 seats taken by away fans in Midland Road) The only times we've got close to sell outs have been when playing a premier league side and most of the extras are only there for the opposition. What should have been a big match against Leeds only got 18,000 and around 4,500 were away fans so you are looking at over 5,000 empty home seats.

 

The 72 bus to Leeds was 10% full today at 11am. They could let people travel for a penny and it still wouldn’t be full. It’s not lost revenue if there’s no market for it at any price.
The fans we have inside VP at the moment are the only people interested enough in league 2 football. We could let people in for free and there would still be empty seats.
This is at least the 3rd post you’ve made on this matter, please stop now.

 

I know mate, but I’m saying when did we last do a £1 game when we were in the playoffs? Because we definitely weren’t then

 

@Storck , just Let them in for a tenner aswell then

 

Wasn't there a reply possibly last year that they can only do so many promotions - ticket wise per game per season?

 

As I iunderstand it, a discount applies as a percentage across all ticket prices, a promotion would be a kids for a quid or BOGOF

 

Talking about seats, anybody had the problem of severe white staining from the seats. I had a black coat on last night and the back was coated with it as was a lad in front of me. It's like a film, won't come off either.

 

Yes, it's been like that for years now. If you look at peoples backs on the way out of the ground every dark coat has a dusty like appearence on the back. Its something to do with the seats being old and needing replacing.

 

What about one of the Christmas or New Year games for the offer. Would be an opportunity to buy tickets for stocking fillers on Christmas day for a loved one or equally for someone you dont like;-)
They could run an advertising campaign in the run up to Jesus's birthday along the lines of lets get twenty thousand in the ground or similar.
"Yule be mad to miss out on this offer" or summat equally cheesy

 

We are well supported for our position in the EFL.Fourth highest average attendance in the bottom two divisions and higher than a few Championship clubs.
Maybe Julian could do the £1 a ticket possibly the Salford game Saturday before Christmas. Could save some guys from Christmas Shopping.