The Botwell Warren

Isn't it about time the club announced season ticket prices.

Does anyone know when next seasons prices will be known and announced on the Hayes & Yeading website???

All 2010/11 prices should be revealed at the end of the week following the Directors' Board meeting. The General Manager did advise that there would be an increase at the Supporters' AGM, just not how much it would be.

Getting all of the prices correct for next season is a massive decision and I hope the board of directors get it spot on. How many moaned at Luton having to pay £18 for me, plus a tenner for my boy..........i did.
We need a price that will attract the curious fan, who no longer wants to pay £50 to watch Premiership matches and maybe support his local club. Even now I know several Hayes old boys who go Uxbridge/AFC Hayes as it's only 3-5 pound.
I agree Haylock needs a bigger budget this season, but dont expect the few fans we have to pay for it. Time for the club to be more creative in getting more revenue.We are amongst the big boys now , so lets start acting like it.

Luton was a joke. Can't remember the 17-21 price or whatever it was, but they still didn't have enough change for me. Supposedly one ofthe "bigger" clubs in the BSP and they don't have enough change to give me?

Just looking through some old paperwork & came across what I paid for season tickets in the last two years.

Date 07/07/08 £150-00. Conference South.
Date 07/06/09 £200-00. Blue Square Premier.

So not to far away (date wise) from the club issuing the new prices, as said else-where by the end of the week.

My estimate for the coming season would be £225-00 to £230-00, with the same "PERKS"
Pay on the day £14-00 for adults & extra for transfer to seating.

IMO to go any higher & it will put many people off, as unit has indicated, they will go to other local clubs!

Question: How many of you who purchased said season ticket take up your seat in the main stand?
I don't, as the banter is so much better under the Shed, & nearer the true action & feeling.......

So it will be interesting to find out the uptake of season tickets this time compared to previous years.



"BIGGER CLUBS ON THE WAY TO CHURCH ROAD"

I do!

Since getting season ticket we have mostly sat in the stand. It maximizes the savings! I would drive and park in the car park but bearing in mind I live so closely it is beyond silly I don't ...

I think that the thing with tickets is to make the Kids and Concessions as cheap as possible. Getting families through the gate is a long term winner.

What annoys me is that nearly all other clubs offer an early bird, yet we are leaving it so late, there will not be time and this will impact season ticket sales IMO

Think of it from a purely business point of view.

There are probably only about 50 - 70 season ticket holders. If we were to run an early bird special 30 of those will get one cheaper.

Will we sell more? Maybe one or two

Will we have lost revenue? Definitely because those 30 would have paid full price.

If the club could get another 40 season tickets I would imagine it would pay to do that because it would increase crowds by 10% ish. But it wont. So why lose money?

It does us no favours but at the end of the day the club has to manage its finances correctly.

A concessions season ticket last season was £120. The club needs to think about this as I think it is too much. I could get a season ticket at Fulham for £90.

A young person would much rather go to watch Fulham, which would cost them a maximum of £2 to get too, rather than watching Hayes. It is important we do our best to get young people in Hayes to watch their local team.
The Junior Reds scheme is a great way of doing this (is this continuing by the way?) but it needs to be promoted though, in schools maybe. Lets face it, it's going to be them youngsters who watch Hayes in the future.

An idea would be to let school kids into the home friendlies at cheaper prices? Would this be ok?

Have to disagree Mr Moog. If you know what price you want to achieve, and charge that as an "early bird" price, then charge more to those who buy after, you're only giving the impression of a discount, and hurry people into tying themselves to Church Road for the next year. That's probably what most clubs do.

The regulars will buy their ticket regardless, and that period of apparent discount makes it more attractive for any potential newcomers to take the dive and buy one now, rather than end up dithering before eventually forgetting about it until the season is underway and it no longer seems worthwhile.

Also worth remembering every extra season ticket sold may really turn out to be much more, as they may become regulars for years to come. Also, in our case the numbers may be far smaller but it works out the same really (30 fans pay a lower price than they would have been prepared to pay with 2 new fans may in the case of a bigger club be 3,000 pay a lower price than they would have been prepared to pay with 200 new fans); in other words, the only difference is in scale, assuming we have a similar propensity to attract new fans. It seems almost every other club sees the benefits of such a system, and repeatedly employ it. Can they really all be wrong? And even if they are wrong, as a club who are in need of support more than anyone right now, with the current methods clearly not doing the job surely it's worth a pop?

Let everyone with a hillingdon green card or whatever it is into the ground for a discounted price ? Then im sure people would see this as supporting there local club. If we did it for like a pound for the first 5 games or something maybe we could entice people to come and if u go to 5 games for 5 pound we will surely have some wanting to carry on going i mean after going to 5 games surely there will be people who will be like yeah thats enjoyable.

I've posted it before and I still think that some sort of incentive for season ticket holders from QPR and Brentford etc to make them come along when their team plays away would be good. Now I know it is hard to do so because they can play on the same day as Hayes, but I think it would work. I've heard this sort of thing used to happen and had some teams crowds up to a good level.

Fair point Scott. I would suggest that there is a large price sensitivity to the season tickets though. They are fundamentally linked to the entry price to offer a discount so that the club receives the cash well in advance. Without getting all maths equationy and ignoring the perks (such as free seat transfer, car park etc) You can only discount so much. If say last year buying a season ticket meant that you saved the cost of getting into 6 games that is the limit of your discount. You could offer this as your early bird then reduce that saving to only 4 games for the later applications it starts to reduce the saving on offer and hence it's attractiveness.

Maybe the way to boost it would be to offer a programme special. Early applications before end of June get a free programme for every home game. Not a massive saving but a nice little perk?

Lee the Hillingdon car d holders already get a 10% discount I think

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Actually it was a quid last season and it has been alleged that the club were reluctant to grant that.

Ahh I never used it as a season ticket holder so didnt quite know ..,