Your mention of Bradford City is interesting. They have adopted a policy of seriously cheap season tickets which undoubtedly swell their fan base. That’s very laudable but if we did the same, would it increase the attendance sufficiently to compensate the gate money? I suppose it’s a case of suck it and see which is not without its risks moneywise as I suspect we don’t have much of a buffer in the kitty.Stan A. Einstein wrote: May 19th, 2023, 11:05 pm Two points.
Firstly I believe that it is not possible to get the gates where we want them to be immediately. It needs in my view a plan to increase attendance over the long term. Season by season. Gates are disappointing but hardly disastrous.
Secondly whilst it is correct to point out out our gates today in tier 4 are better than they were in the mid 1980s in Tier 3, we are hardly unique in that. On 25 April 1984 Bradford City played us in a Division 3 game. The attendance?
3347.
Perhaps a joint enterprise with the dragons for a Rodney Parade universal season ticket might be an experiment that would be mutually worthwhile. Bit of market research needed?