Re: 24 quid : Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:50 pm  

im afraid i have to agree, £24 is steep, now before people start firing back i know it's the top league and how it compares to football and RU etc but we are supposed to be trying to attract new fans to the club and the sport, and charging £24 to me is not going to help.
i know season ticket holders are the lifeline etc but the club surely have to do other things to get bums on seats, today for instance, a bank holiday, nice weather leading up to the game, some people will have not made plans and would have been looking for things to do, so what did the club do to try and attract people to come to the game? nothing as far as i was aware, quite a few people in town before the game weren't even aware that the giants were playing today! and we got a pitiful attendance of 5,347!
the cinema next door was heaving with people as im sure the shopping centres/garden centres were. we should have done more to get people to come and watch a game of rugby league ( although the quality today was poor)

it's all well and good saying the season ticket holders have put money into the club but even some of those probably found other things to do today.
the reason the likes of wigan and leeds can attract people who are willing to pay £24 is because they are successful and are a popular pull for the people in those area's,the giants clearly are not attractive to the people of huddersfield.

i fear unless the cost comes down and/or the trophy cabinet fills up that our crowds will continue to disappoint

Re: 24 quid : Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:00 pm  

So let's charge £10 a game that will help..... Oh no actually it doesn't because charging that price didn't make a great deal of difference to the home support did it--although the Leeds fans certainly took advantage--- in fact we gave seats away for FREE and still didn't half fill the stadium!!!!

Re: 24 quid : Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:20 pm  

Comes back to marketing ultimately and Meast is right, how do you get people in if they don't know there's a game? Not sure how much PR work the players do in the area .....this can only help as well. Who is the marketing guru anyway, is it Brammer? This subject was discussed last year and it seems nothing has changed.

Re: 24 quid : Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:50 pm  

The average joe still doesn't turn up whether its free a tenner or £24!! It's all been tried before!! £24 on the door is relatively cheap considering how much it is watch a second tier football team that share the stadium!
Even if its £15 which is what London charged last year they'd still be fans looking out for cheap tickets meaning the club still miss out! They can't win they need as much money to be sustainable yet they're battling folk wanting summat for nowt or near enough! They can't under value themselves neither they can't win!
Given that there is hardly any advertising in town centre they did give it a go for the kr game but done nothing since the marketing like the fans want summat for nowt it would seem!

Re: 24 quid : Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:02 pm  

the point about 2nd tier football is irrelevent nic, people will pay to watch town because it's football, it's promoted, people are familiar with the name huddersfield town and familiar with football, people will pay to watch football regardless.
as for us, you are right that they can't under value themselves, i am guilty of using cheap tickets, but season tickets that are already paid for so i'm not doing the club out of money.
i just think there is not much we can do without really going to town on the marketing of the club, this year should have seen us push the club to the people of huddersfield as much as we can on the back of the first league win in 81 years but what has been done?
we can't just expect people to turn up willing to pay £24 when most people who aren't ST holders just use someone elses who cant go.

[Durham Giant]

Re: 24 quid : Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:04 pm  

I understood the club was planning to do match day tickets based on the quality of th eopposition which i think they should have done. but it seems to have been shelved,

It should be £15 Wakey, Catalans and London

£20 Hull and HKR etc

£24 Wigan and leeds.

The marketing and pricing does need to be looked at IMHO

Re: 24 quid : Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:13 pm  

Many football clubs operate this tiered system including our co tenants! It doesn't necessarily work as town have found.

Re: 24 quid : Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:25 pm  

You are aware that the marketing dept has been cut form 8 to 2 within the last year or so which obviously means there is less being done.
James Brammer does a decent job trying his best on what he has to work with, myself and other individual fans have offered to help out in various ways and this seems to be a way in which the marketing team may have to look to in the future if there aren't the funds there to employ more. I have got my workplace to promote the next home game via posters and flyers which the club are happy to send for us to put up, whether this helps i'm not sure but it does mean that the opportunity is there to for our customers to see details of the next game.

ATEOTD people in Huddersfield aren't interested in watching the Giants, harsh but, as it seems, true !

Re: 24 quid : Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:18 pm  

Not living in the area, it's difficult to gauge how much is put behind the marketing.

I find it hard to fault the club regarding ticket prices though. The club has semi regularly ran special offers, saints in cc only a fortnight ago was dirt cheap. The free tickets for kids, coupled with excellent season ticket offers etc. All to watch a team comprised of a lot of current internationals in a cracking stadium.

It's all well and good saying the matchday tickets are too expensive, yet when the club does put offers on, the uptake just doesn't happen. Certainly not to the extent it should anyway.

KD recently intimated that break even was between 10,000 and 12,000 av home attendance (someone with a better memory please correct me if I have that number wrong). You would presume that figure is based on the current pricing model. If the match day pricing is slashed at, then that number will have to go up. Very difficult to balance.

One factor that will make a difference to getting folk to return is atmosphere, and the image (or even illusion) that the Giants is the place to go. The former is obviously driven by us, and the topic has been done to death on here again and again. The latter is largely driven by the club, and is costly with no guarantee of success.

Re: 24 quid : Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:53 am  

if we paid folks £24 to come we wouldnt get more than 7-8k Huddersfield Giants fans!!!!