[Albion] Unsold seats
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Maybe initially, but if the club is tonking along at the top of the Championship (not guaranteed, I fully concede) then fans will come in droves. People like seeing winning football teams.
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Terry Butcher Tribute Act
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- Aug 18, 2013
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yes, but as only members and season ticket holders can buy it seems not much is shifting.
Ooh it’s a corner
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Lots of valid points in the thread and agree with this too.
Essentially I support Brighton because it’s my home town and I lived nearby til leaving for Uni. Therefore my allegiance was forged predominantly in the old Division Three(League One for youngsters).
Youngsters now find their local league club is in the Premier League and well respected. I’m sure the club do a lot to forge links with schools and that is where the long term growth lies.
It is disappointing when I visit my sister in Hassocks to see kids in bloody Chelsea tops for instance - parents even worse! Support your local team!!!
- Jun 27, 2012
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i coach football with 5 and 6 year olds for a mid sussex village club. The number of Brighton shirts the kids sport to sessions has gradually increased over the last 10 years from practically zero. . Last week there were 9 Albion related shirts, 1 Leeds, 1 Newcastle, 1 Arsenal, 1 random sport shirt, 1 Barcelona, 1 Spider Man top, and 3 club shirts (ie: our club).
I'd imagine that's not too dissimilar to a first team training session at Lancing tbf
Kalimantan Gull
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The thread title is slightly misleading. All the seats on Saturday were sold, as they have been for every single Premier League match. There are just quite a lot of people who, after buying their tickets, decided not to go.
Terry Butcher Tribute Act
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- Aug 18, 2013
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Yes, it's two debates
1) are more season ticket holders not bothering to go or is it just more apparent now the club are sending shirty emails about listing tickets
2) Why are tickets on the exchange seemingly not selling
maresfield seagull
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What seems a new thing is the removal of ticket history on the exchange
sold / unsold fixture etc
Still showing previous seasons though ?
sold / unsold fixture etc
Still showing previous seasons though ?
Jimmy Grimble
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Question on the membership/passing tickets on to mates subject… Wasn’t this partly done to stop away fans in the home end? An issue that many have moaned about on here before. From that point of view the club have been successful (at least where I am in the WSU) as there’s been a definite decline in opposition fans bluffing in.
I do agree though that at this point the club could extend their offer of how often you are able to transfer your ST for free. All they’d need to do is make it abundantly clear that if you transfer it to an opposition fan you will end up with a ban.
I also wonder if there’s scope for a mini referral reward scheme with this. For example, you transfer your ticket for free to Friend A 3 times in a season. As a result of their perked interest, Friend A purchases a season ticket for the next year. You then receive a club shop voucher or pie and pints vouchers. I know it shouldn’t necessarily need to be incentivised but it might help convert a few potential new fans. It also helps to present the club and fans working together to recruit new fans/convert casuals to STH. The added benefit for the club is that they can frame the change in a positive light rather than a row back on their initial decision on the transferring of tickets.
I think after 10+ years at The Amex and sustained PL football it would be easy to suppose the battle to win our fan base back is complete. To some extent it is, because you wouldn’t find more than a handful of people on here who expected us to pull in the numbers we do. That is an astonishing success from the club when framed in the widest context.
Ultimately though, the battle for our core fan base is never over, largely because of the nature of the population and Brighton and Hove, and because we still have the issue of a ‘lost generation’. This issue shouldn’t need to arise again with another generation, but it will do if young people are priced out to the point where they can’t make going to football part of their social culture. Most fans become STH when The Albion is embedded in the fabric of their life: it almost has to be a non-negotiable bi-weekly event that happens with their family or peer group.
If you capture people in this culture when they’re young/transitioning to the age when they start going to football with their mates, then it is much more likely to stick long term and manifest as core support. The same can’t be said for some of the middle aged Amex newbies who view their ST as a little bolt-on to their social life that they pick and choose when to utilise. Not that these types of fan aren’t also needed to fill bums on seats, but they should be lower on the list of the club’s long term strategy.
Ended up on a long old tangent there, sorry to anyone who read the whole way through.
I do agree though that at this point the club could extend their offer of how often you are able to transfer your ST for free. All they’d need to do is make it abundantly clear that if you transfer it to an opposition fan you will end up with a ban.
I also wonder if there’s scope for a mini referral reward scheme with this. For example, you transfer your ticket for free to Friend A 3 times in a season. As a result of their perked interest, Friend A purchases a season ticket for the next year. You then receive a club shop voucher or pie and pints vouchers. I know it shouldn’t necessarily need to be incentivised but it might help convert a few potential new fans. It also helps to present the club and fans working together to recruit new fans/convert casuals to STH. The added benefit for the club is that they can frame the change in a positive light rather than a row back on their initial decision on the transferring of tickets.
I think after 10+ years at The Amex and sustained PL football it would be easy to suppose the battle to win our fan base back is complete. To some extent it is, because you wouldn’t find more than a handful of people on here who expected us to pull in the numbers we do. That is an astonishing success from the club when framed in the widest context.
Ultimately though, the battle for our core fan base is never over, largely because of the nature of the population and Brighton and Hove, and because we still have the issue of a ‘lost generation’. This issue shouldn’t need to arise again with another generation, but it will do if young people are priced out to the point where they can’t make going to football part of their social culture. Most fans become STH when The Albion is embedded in the fabric of their life: it almost has to be a non-negotiable bi-weekly event that happens with their family or peer group.
If you capture people in this culture when they’re young/transitioning to the age when they start going to football with their mates, then it is much more likely to stick long term and manifest as core support. The same can’t be said for some of the middle aged Amex newbies who view their ST as a little bolt-on to their social life that they pick and choose when to utilise. Not that these types of fan aren’t also needed to fill bums on seats, but they should be lower on the list of the club’s long term strategy.
Ended up on a long old tangent there, sorry to anyone who read the whole way through.
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Dave the OAP
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Sold out or pretended attendances?
Isn’t that the same?
Dave the OAP
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For my tuppeny worth, I think there is a combination of issues at play..
yes your point about not bothering is actually a good one. I have a few mates who are all STH whose priorities have changed and although we all remain STH through loyalty to the club and it is because we have “ always done it” most of us have put more and more tickets on the exchange.
travel when you look at it has always been a ballache wether it is by a sporadic train service, or massive queues on the roads leading to the ground from the day it opened. We all knew that and have signed up for it..moans and all! The last couple of weeks with the A27 has exacerbated the travel issues and at the end of the day, Falmer was the only option and we all knew getting to and away was going to be an issue…sometimes when it is bad it is really bad and people think twice about if they want to have that “ experience ”
we have a lot of fans who do come from a decent distance like @hans kraay fan club etc and they are really dedicated to the cause that they battle through roadworks etc to get here. That is NOT a criticism of those who “ cant be arsed” but more a example of people who in effect put up with what we have.
your perspective on life changes as you get older and there is a bit of a feeling about of “ we have seen it all” ( from the bottom of the 4th division to the week we were top of the premier league) and therefore, like Sunday, I wasn’t that fussed that we didn’t get back to Brighton in time to sit on a bus for 2 hours to get to the game. Years ago I wouldn’t hesitate to have tried to go
Dave the OAP
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Probably
Sums it up for our generation. I wonder how the younger fans feel. I see some of them “less hurt” by a defeat and out for a good day out with their mates.
The Wookiee
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I’ve yet to decide if I’m going. I’m rather disenfranchised and need to get my BHAFC mojo back.