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or advertise on talkshite like spammers....
Or the standard. They haven't even sold out their game v Arsenal yet.or advertise on talkshite like spammers....
Giving 30,000 tickets away kinda defeats the object of building a new stadium if you're just going to give all the additional tickets away....
Exactly just about to post this, im sure there would the club would have statistics that show on which match days generate the most revenue.Get thre kids in cheap and guess what? The parents dig deep for burgers and drinks and hit the shop for a shirt or a training top and hey! Revenue shoots up.
Exactly just about to post this, im sure there would the club would have statistics that show on which match days generate the most revenue.
I would hazard a guess and say it would be the family games and not the derby matches
We don't need to give away tickets to fill a 70k stadium but they would need to alter the pricing strategy dramatically, but we'd still make more money than a 56k stadium. I'm absolutely convinced of that.
I think there must be a substantial change due to our share of the population growth of London, cant find any figures but to compare to 50s & 60s, but according to what I read 12% growth in London in just last 10 years.I'll just repeat what I posted way back in this thread, that even when the capacity was 65,000 and standing tickets were about 15p back in the 50s and 60s, we very, very rarely filled the ground. Go to Topspurs and check out the attendance figures. I honestly think things haven't changed that much.
I think there must be a substantial change due to our share of the population growth of London, cant find any figures but to compare to 50s & 60s, but according to what I read 12% growth in London in just last 10 years.
Plus hardly any tv coverage of football in those days, so Tottenham fans were very much more local, today people come to matches from Norway to Singapore.
Yep... Make something tricky to own and everyone wants to have it, whether it be consoles, cars, bikes or football tickets.It's certainly true that fans were more local, and of course there were far fewer alternative activities. Against that, a standing ticket was about 15p and there was hardly ever a problem getting in, although for games against Arsenal, West Ham and United, etc., you'd be advised to get down to the Lane early just to make sure. The real point, though, is that fans would cherry-pick. Check out the attendances on Topspurs and you'll see a very big difference in attendances for games against top clubs and the lesser fry. One example was when we played Wednesday, our only rivals for the title, in 1961, the decider (they still had a mathematical chance of pipping us). There were over 60,000 that afternoon. The next home game, against Forest, I think, the place was barely half-full.
The reason we max out for practically every league game thee days is that the overwhelming majority of tickets are seasons, and more people want seasons than the existing stadium can accommodate. Overestimate the number of punters who are willing to stump up for a season, you risk people not buying them because they know they can just turn up and buy a ticket on the door for any game, whereas less popular fixtures see swathes of empty seating.
Very true. It's also not necessarily about averaging whatever the capacity is. When there is close to full attendance at major games, attendances at lesser games will tend to drop. But does that really matter? With the right marketing and appropriate use of technology I can see a 71k capacity stadium being a huge asset to the club, just as it was when Archibald Leitch built the east stand.We're missing the point, giving away X amount of tickets to games of low importance, like Europa League games against part timers to kids in the local area helps increase the local fan base, there are far too many kids from Tottenham, Walthamstow, Leyton, Stratford, Chingford, Bow etc that are supporting le Arse.
Making Spurs more accessible to disadvantaged kids in the local area will be worth its weight in gold for decades to come
Very true. It's also not necessarily about averaging whatever the capacity is. When there is close to full attendance at major games, attendances at lesser games will tend to drop. But does that really matter? With the right marketing and appropriate use of technology I can see a 71k capacity stadium being a huge asset to the club, just as it was when Archibald Leitch built the east stand.