kinleycat wrote:
At a little over £15 per game I think £200 for a ST is reasonably priced if the team is challenging for a top eigh place.
I know times are tough, but that is also the case for the club too and at the end of the day, the more money the club generate helps to propel the club forward.
While I entirely accept your point, it isn't a charity and without necessary income we will never achieve much.
It's a personal decision based on people's wish for club success against what they are able to see as spare or affordable.
I suppose the silver and bronze memberships are a key to this too.
This is the conundrum for all professional sports clubs.
Until they reach a situation where they can sell the capacity of the stadium, they have to balance the bums on seats (and the associated match day spend), to maximise their income.
Obviously there is sponsorship on top of this but, for matchday it is better to fill the stadium by selling lower priced tickets, than it is to charge a higher price and have the place half empty.
As a club, Wakefield have done really well in increasing attendances, especially in view of the ecconomic situation and ther should be an increase in numbers once Newmarket is in place but, until they can achieve close to capacity, then discounted tickets will need to remain.
All of this assumes that a lower entry price has a positive effect on crowd numbers.
ST's have been an absolute bargain this season although many ST holders have also joined the 1873 club, so there has probably been an increase in income when the two are put together, especially when factoring ion matchday spend from the increased numbers.
The club deserve congratulating on this aspect and as fans we need to keep banging the drum and helping them go forward.