Re: ticket prices : Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:46 pm  

As of today you can still ring up and join the membership scheme, you will be told that the rates are the same as last year. In fact, at no point has the membership scheme been unavailable, just that the Broncos haven't put the information on their new website.

Whether this will change when the ticket prices are announced I have no idea.

Re: ticket prices : Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:52 pm  

meliferra wrote:

As of today you can still ring up and join the membership scheme, you will be told that the rates are the same as last year. In fact, at no point has the membership scheme been unavailable, just that the Broncos haven't put the information on their new website.

How bizarre.

Re: ticket prices : Tue Jan 06, 2015 2:25 pm  

meliferra wrote:

As of today you can still ring up and join the membership scheme, you will be told that the rates are the same as last year. In fact, at no point has the membership scheme been unavailable, just that the Broncos haven't put the information on their new website.

Whether this will change when the ticket prices are announced I have no idea.

It does seem odd that if everything is to be as it was that the broncos have not put it all up on their web page.

Re: ticket prices : Tue Jan 06, 2015 5:32 pm  

I am hoping for a reduction in membership prices as we are in a lower league now, and I am assuming it will include our "super 8" and possibly million pound match. Last year was expensive for what we had to endure!

Re: ticket prices : Tue Jan 06, 2015 5:46 pm  

I get the impression at the Tower Bridge event that it was all in the hands of Barnet - I did wonder if the ticket prices would be the same as last season - SL v Championship. I've 2 memberships since last season and I guess it will revert to £20 from next month. I guess its one part of the operation that Broncos don't have control over.
Dont hold your breath ...

Re: ticket prices : Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:23 pm  

roger wrote:

I get the impression at the Tower Bridge event that it was all in the hands of Barnet - I did wonder if the ticket prices would be the same as last season - SL v Championship. I've 2 memberships since last season and I guess it will revert to £20 from next month. I guess its one part of the operation that Broncos don't have control over.
Dont hold your breath ...

I was told in July that AK and the Hive weren't happy to proceed in 2015 along the same lines as 2014. What I wasn't told was exactly what part or parts of the arrangement they weren't happy with.
It would seem that the delay in issuing ticketing info points to that being one of (if not the only) area that needed to be renegotiated, although the loss of our office space at Underhill as well as change of training pitch location may have to be factored in as well.
Personally, I'd prefer to see Hughes pay AK rent for the home games and training facilities and let him keep the bar/food revenue in return for the office space and for the club to keep all match ticket, season membership and shop revenues.
As for pricing? We are down to the bare bones of support now. I doubt the hard core that are left will stop coming if it remains at a score a game....and the number of away fans will be minimal.

[brian2]

Re: ticket prices : Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:07 pm  

I think we may be surprised about away fans. Apart from Wigan/, Leeds etc not all SL teams brought lots of fans. There may be a novelty factor for some Championship teams!

Re: ticket prices : Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:04 pm  

Agree with you about away fans, don't forget apart from Bradford it's a new ground to visit

Re: ticket prices : Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:43 pm  

brian2 wrote:

I think we may be surprised about away fans. Apart from Wigan/, Leeds etc not all SL teams brought lots of fans. There may be a novelty factor for some Championship teams!

As you can no doubt imagine, I have a comprehensive spreadsheet of all SL attendances for games either in the Capital or home games taken on the road.
Wigan, Saints, Leeds and Bradford are numbered 1-4 in the draw-ometer....I don't count teams like PSG who attracted a big crowd....and then vanished.
I've always taken Huddersfield, Salford and Catalans as the litmus test for actual crowds we can expect to attract on our own......with the "bigger" SL sides, there are always a good number of ex-pat northerners who will attend to watch "their" team......and given the average attendance in the Championship last year was 1,095, I suspect that Bradford, Leigh Fev and maybe Fax aside, we won't see many away fans.

I don't disagree with Michael that the "new place to visit" will impact a little, but it didn't impact last year when it was a new place to visit and you were pretty much guaranteed 2 points as well!

Edit:
1,217 fans watched us defeat Fev in the cup in 2013.....1,000 less than our season average. The Year before, 652 saw us defeat Desbury in the cup....1,900 less than our average that year.

Re: ticket prices : Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:08 am  

Cup games weren't part of the season ticket, so attendance was extra - although only £10 if I recall. These games are always down on normal attendances, not really relevant.
How many were at the Barrow game? I seem to remember that being a dismal turnout.