*** Brighton & Hove Albion Official Matchday thread ***
Jul 23, 2017 9:05:46 GMT
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Post by Bianchiboy on Jul 23, 2017 9:05:46 GMT
Jul 23, 2017 8:35:59 GMT alun said:
I see the hand dryer still hasn't been fixed but what about the stale burger buns, not entering the ground this season until that's been sorted!
Did I want to pay money to CTFC to get into the ground? Yes.
DId I want to pay money to CTFC in exchange for a can of Dier Coke? Yes
Did my nephew want to pay money to CTFC in exchange for a beef burger? Yes
Did I attempt, or have the remotest interest in paying money to CTFC in exchange for hand dryer, working or otherwise? NO!
It would be preferable if the hand dryer worked, but as most people don't even wash their hands after having a wee these days, it's hardly a problem is it?
Do you think, having watchied Crawley for 36 years, that I want them to fail? I want the club to develop and grow, but getting the basics wrong on a consistent basis will ensure nothing changes.
The club needs to squeeze every penny it can out of everyone who turns up, and to do that they need to stop being a league club with a non-league mentality.
Sadly, it seems too many fans share the all too apparent apathy.
Every minute someone is queuing for a ticket, their not in the bar spending money. If it's pouring with rain and the ticket queue is the length of the pitch, people aren't going to buy a ticket or spend in the bar.
It's not rocket science is it? The ticket sales need more resource and speeding up. As I've stated previously, why on earth aren't there pre-printed tickets available for the terracing?
I appreciate seating is more difficult, but let's say there's an average of 1500 people on the South terrace each week, and 300 are STHs, the club know they will sell around 1200 additional tickets.
They'll also have the figures available to establish trends in terms of adult tickets, OAPs and kids.
They'll also know the figures for tickets sold prior to the Saturday, and as such how many adult, OAP and kids tickets they're likely to sell on matchday itself.
Armed with this info, they will have a reasonably good idea of how many of which types of tickets are still to be sold.
By printing off the estimated amounts by 1pm on a Saturday they could punt them out three or 4 times as quickly as they do now.
You could buy your pre-match pint(s) and ticket at the same time, and if a particular type of pre-printed tickets are running out, simply churn more off because the machines aren't tied up doing anything else.
Any leftovers can be quantified against the amount sold, so although 150 pieces of paper may get thrown away one week, the positve is that the club have also shifted an extra 75 pints at £3.50 each.
Blimey that is a impressive essay in response to an an attempt at humour on my part! It was actually a reference to a fan meeting many moons ago when somebody kept banging on about broken hand dryers and stale burger buns!