Mid-week Attendances - What Can Be Done?

[pjg1876]

I think local bus companies could be approached to put on ‘football specials’.Back in the day there was this type of transport available,especially to Stoke.(PMT).Even local taxi firms could offer their mini buses for use.6 of us oocasionally use a large taxi from Newcastle to Vale.It works out ,for a return ,about £3pp.

 

Interesting that travelling down the A500 after the MKD game, how many Potteries buses were travelling in the opposite direction from the Stoke game. Wonder whether the supporters pay for these or their cash rich football club ?

[Phil]

Interesting that travelling down the A500 after the MKD game, how many Potteries buses were travelling in the opposite direction from the Stoke game. Wonder whether the supporters pay for these or their cash rich football club ?

 

Boils down to supply and demand. The bus companies would do it for Vale if the demand was there. Needs canvassing.

[Phil]

Midweek attendances are only going to get worse now that you can watch them on a laptop for a tenner, a move that is completely designed to lower gates! There are far too many alternatives now against actually attending.

[Santa]

In the old days kick off would be half seven, only ten minutes for half time, injury time would be a couple of minutes tops, you'd be done nice and early and home before ten.

[whotobeakiller]

Too many working class people in this city earning no more than NMW...I should know, I was one of them.

 

Unfortunately, that is the problem, too many people won't pay £23 when it can pay for a decent food shop or electric token. Times are hard and as it comes to Xmas even harder.

 

If Vale can make an effort and make the club all inclusive again (By drastically dropping prices), people may start to turn up. Until then, it will be the cushy middle 'clarss' Monday to Friday brigade with Season Tickets and who don't necessarily have to get up to work at 4am

 

The number of times I've hated coming back from an away game in the week because I have to go f**** work the next day

[smithie]

Midweek attendances are only going to get worse now that you can watch them on a laptop for a tenner, a move that is completely designed to lower gates! There are far too many alternatives now against actually attending.

 

Agreed, it is a bad development.

[Aussie Rules]

Midweek attendances are only going to get worse now that you can watch them on a laptop for a tenner, a move that is completely designed to lower gates! There are far too many alternatives now against actually attending.

 

Agree Phil, supply & demand versus disposable income.

 

Consequence of online accessibility sport, entertainment and shopping choices are now 24/7, but disposable income for most of us remains the same ergo some will still choose laptop viewing to going to a game no matter how low the entry fee is - in my opinion that is.

[mr.hobblesworth]

Have we ever had a noticeable increase in gates (for 'normal' games) when admission has been cheaper? My gut reaction is no.

[smithie]

Have we ever had a noticeable increase in gates (for 'normal' games) when admission has been cheaper? My gut reaction is no.

 

We'd have little to lose by making all midweek League games ''Ten quid Tuesdays' ' with all kids £1.00.

[Howjy04]

=smithie;830611]We'd have little to lose by making all midweek League games ''Ten quid Tuesdays' ' with all kids £1.00.

Kids under 12 are free,smithie.Ten for adults and £2/3 for over 12s?School nights may put a block on younger ones attending.

[smithie]

We'd have little to lose by making all midweek League games ''Ten quid Tuesdays' ' with all kids £1.00.[/quote

Kids under 12 are free,smithie.Ten for adults and £2/3 for over 12s?School nights may put a block on younger ones attending.

 

It never stopped me! But then I can't help feeli ng football plays a smaller part in many kids lives these days.

[Howjy04]

 

It never stopped me! But then I can't help feeli ng football plays a smaller part in many kids lives these days.

 

Me too.Sod the consequences.I can speak for my grandson.He has a ST but would rather play than watch.

[Essex Vale]

This is an interesting debate. Like many older Valiants I had fond memories of Monday night games, with a great atmosphere and much bigger gates. I have just checked at random from our 69/70 promotion season. I wanted to make sure I did not have false memory syndrome. I haven't. There were quite a few Monday games that season. In every case, the gate was bigger on the Monday than it was for the most recent Saturday home game. Why? There are lots of reasons. Firstly back then, I remember lots of Stoke fans used to come to the Vale for Monday home games. I have good memories of a few beers with Stokie mates on those occasions. The world was a simpler place then, with hardly anyone commuting so people got home from work much earlier than they do now. There were 3 TV channels then, and no live televised football. Also entertainment generally was a bit harder to find then. Right now there is huge competition for our leisure spend. There have not been too many games in the last few years that leave us impatient for the next one. Add all this together, and that is the answer. I am afraid those glorious Monday nights will not return. For example, the famous Hartlepool game, where their GK was snowballed, was cold, snowy, a mid week Monday, but we still got over 5 and a half thousand, with virtually no away fans. That was a very low gate for a Monday. Anyway nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

[smithie]

This is an interesting debate. Like many older Valiants I had fond memories of Monday night games, with a great atmosphere and much bigger gates. I have just checked at random from our 69/70 promotion season. I wanted to make sure I did not have false memory syndrome. I haven't. There were quite a few Monday games that season. In every case, the gate was bigger on the Monday than it was for the most recent Saturday home game. Why? There are lots of reasons. Firstly back then, I remember lots of Stoke fans used to come to the Vale for Monday home games. I have good memories of a few beers with Stokie mates on those occasions. The world was a simpler place then, with hardly anyone commuting so people got home from work much earlier than they do now. There were 3 TV channels then, and no live televised football. Also entertainment generally was a bit harder to find then. Right now there is huge competition for our leisure spend. There have not been too many games in the last few years that leave us impatient for the next one. Add all this together, and that is the answer. I am afraid those glorious Monday nights will not return. For example, the famous Hartlepool game, where their GK was snowballed, was cold, snowy, a mid week Monday, but we still got over 5 and a half thousand, with virtually no away fans. That was a very low gate for a Monday. Anyway nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

 

Hull in the FA Cup replay on a Monday was 13,000 from memory. A gateman got robbed of his turnstiles admission money.

[Howjy04]

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Hull in the FA Cup replay on a Monday was 13,000 from memory. A gateman got robbed of his turnstiles admission money.

 

42,000circa on Monday night v Liverpool,1964,you were lucky if you weren’t robbed.