FA Cup R3 | Salford City (H) | Sat 11 Jan 1745

EastMidlandsBlue said:
It's something that is completely dependent on factors such as the income of the consumer.

Due to us having a fairly low income fanbase, we're more likely to have elastic demand than Fulham for example, or Liverpool with tourists for days. If our ticket prices were doubled we'd lose a lot more than a third of our local working class fanbase, and we don’t quite have the tourist element to replace them.

As for this game, it's not £25 for a father and son to attend. It's £60 right now as you need at least one £35 matchday membership to buy a ticket. When it eventually goes onto general sale you'll see how many more people are willing to pay £25 than £60.
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I was on about football being relatively price inelastic, which is a recognised universally as correct.

There are enough season ticket holder and members to sell the ground out twice, however take up is low compared to Hudds and Burnley at the same stages, especially lower tier which I needed to buy extras for those games. You can get a £20 membership and buy 4 tickets on it by the way. Most of the local priced out blues will know a ST holder who can get them extra tickets.
 
BungleBear said:
I was on about football being relatively price inelastic, which is a recognised universally as correct.

There are enough season ticket holder and members to sell the ground out twice, however take up is low compared to Hudds and Burnley at the same stages, especially lower tier which I needed to buy extras for those games. You can get a £20 membership and buy 4 tickets on it by the way. Most of the local priced out blues will know a ST holder who can get them extra tickets.
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But that's such a vague statement to make, because as we've already established the market is going to react differently based on the attractiveness of the game, the level of football, the income of the fanbase...

Yes a UCL final will be inelastic, however the attendance for a 3rd round FA cup game vs Salford is going to be hugely dependent on the pricing making it more elastic.

And yes you are correct, a junior could purchase the £20 membership and buy the tickets on their account
 
give it to gordon said:
You get out of the habit. I've gone from around 12 to 15 games a season. Got 2 games in April and May. I don't feel part of the support anymore, don't see the point of just doing 3 or 4 games.
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Bingo!

My sister falls into this bracket.

She would have gone to all CL games early rounds and FA Cup games like this,

She now can’t be arsed anymore as feels she has been frozen out.
 
East Level 2 said:
But I thought we had thousands of fans who have been priced out. I keep reading it on here.
Where the f are they, or do they just want cheap tickets for PL and CL games?
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We do have thousands of fans who have been priced out. Games like this always show that - lots of families, younger fans in particular, something you never see for league games. The games on January the 12th as well..

I’d also say yes most people would like to attend league games, like they always used to be able to. Shame on the legacy fans for not crawling back instantly against a league 2 side
 
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