I came to Meadow Lane on Saturday to see us play Morcambe but 18 quid is extortionate to see Division 4 football, No wonder the attendance was so low 3671 is appalling. Lets see some deals to get that attendace up and maybe the teams performaces will improve as well.

With the Lincoln and Rotherham games close together during the xmas period are there plans for a dicount ticket if both are bought together in advance?

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The Rotherham game is going to be discounted see
the announcement on the club website

Nigel

I think it's a disgrace that the ticket reductions haven't been extended to the Rotherham fans. The decision seems to run counter to the whole ethos of Supporters Trusts.

Does the Trust Board support the pricing decision?

No response.

I'll be boycotting the match today; a small and probably ineffectual protest.

Still nothing

Phil,

Apologies about the late reply on this forum but we have had technical difficulties with the site forwarding notification through.

As per our telephone conversation I was interested in your views on the inequality of the pricing for all fans for the Rotherham game. I know you are aware that the Football league allows each club to have a local special promotion 4 times per season. Rotherham was selected as a possible marketing opportunity and also a thank you to our fans at this festive time of year.

We have reciprocal arrangements with other Clubs, namely Bury and Rochdale which allow our fans to enjoy their benefits when travelling to visit them. We do not have a similar arrangement with Rotherham thus resulting in the differential pricing structure.

Apart from the on field role, the exercise was a success in bringing many additional football followers into our football ground. I understand your sentiments with the pricing structure, this being very difficult to manage when involved with a football club which is starting to at last make progress and balance the business aspect.


Regards
Glenn

PS. We have resolved the IT issue too.

Glenn,

Thanks for the phone call and the reply on here.

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We have reciprocal arrangements with other Clubs, namely Bury and Rochdale which allow our fans to enjoy their benefits when travelling to visit them. We do not have a similar arrangement with Rotherham thus resulting in the differential pricing structure.

Would you please explain how this reciprocal arrangement works? Did Notts try to reach such an arrangement with Rotherham?

Our club was saved with the help of clubs from up and down the country; we, in turn, have dipped into our pockets when other clubs have hit problems. I though that the principle of supporter solidarity was one of the foundations of NCST. The pricing scheme in place for the Rotherham game runs counter to that principle. I would like to see it acknowledged that a mistake has been made and a commitment made to never repeat it.

Phil

Phil,

I’ve been offline for a few days due to a virus!

To answer the question re: the reciprocal arrangement, this is part of the Football League special promotions initiative and allows us to forge reciprocal arrangements with 2 other clubs. The arrangement is that they afford the same benefits with the visiting fans when running a local promotion. Rotherham was not part of our initiative allowance thus the pricing differential.

Whilst it would be ideal to have a level pricing platform across all league clubs the football league initiative obviously conflicts with this, the football club could be seen to be miss managed if they did not make the best decisions with respect to our football club and utilise the resources available to it. These may be not ideal to all but can be essential when balancing the forward progression of our club.

Regards
Glenn

I'm shocked.

Are you really claiming that the football league "initiative" means that Notts had to charge an inflated entrance fee to the Rotherham fans?

Are you really claiming that if the club hadn't charged Rotherham fans four times the entrance fee being charged to the majority of home fans then the Club Board could have been accused of mis-management?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised about the three day (and counting) delay in response to my request in the Paul Whitby thread given the three month silence here.

I totally agree that it's too much money to watch Notts. Ideally i'd like to see us priced at around £10 per adult per game to attract more floating fans - we certainly won't attract many neutrals at the moment with these prices. But I also understand that it's easier to say that than implement it and there are financial risks in doing so.

Ideally i'd like to see the FA support lower division clubs by making up the shortfall of a season-long reduced price scheme to cut League Two ticket prices en mass - as it would benefit them in the long-term too, with more people watching their local team and being interested in football.

Do we have any mechanisms in place to feed this back to the FA and to other clubs?

Also Wycombe did an interesting deal at the weekend offering season ticket holders for other clubs entry for a fiver - on production of a valid season ticket at the gate!

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Originally posted by Phil Marshall:
I'm shocked.

Are you really claiming that the football league "initiative" means that Notts had to charge an inflated entrance fee to the Rotherham fans?

Are you really claiming that if the club hadn't charged Rotherham fans four times the entrance fee being charged to the majority of home fans then the Club Board could have been accused of mis-management?

Still waiting

I realise the Trust chair is very busy answering all the other questions on the message board, but I really would like an answer to the above.

Phil,

The Rotherham prices were not inflated but normal matchday prices for that area of the ground.

At the time of your original post I was looking into some of the issues being directed at the way the club was being managed. We did that in a professional manner that would be expected from our members. These have now been put into the public forum by others, with scant disregard for confidentiality and democracy. This has caused enormous damage to our Club and Trust. I was mindful at that time of some of these issues, which I found then to be extremely weak in somke cases and have been recognised as such by the majority of the membership. If some of these issues could be levelled at the management of the club then IMHO almost anything could.

Glenn Rolley
Trust Chairman

Of course the prices paid by the Rotherham fans was inflated, it was four time the price being charged to the home fans. Four times!

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At the time of your original post I was looking into some of the issues being directed at the way the club was being managed. We did that in a professional manner that would be expected from our members. These have now been put into the public forum by others, with scant disregard for confidentiality and democracy. This has caused enormous damage to our Club and Trust. I was mindful at that time of some of these issues, which I found then to be extremely weak in somke cases and have been recognised as such by the majority of the membership. If some of these issues could be levelled at the management of the club then IMHO almost anything could.

Eh? What has this got to do with the questions I asked above?

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Originally posted by Glenn Rolley:
... the football club could be seen to be miss managed if they did not make the best decisions with respect to our football club...

Regards
Glenn