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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Has anyone asked the people of Accrington why they don't go ? Maybe the leaflets should actually be questionnaires and be collected again after ?

I have been known to go on to the occasional match, my last one was against Wrexham so I have answered my own question why I haven't been since.

This is a good point, if the club doesn`t know why people aren`t attending then how can they even begin to entice the punters in, its ok Coleman and Whalley whinging that people aren`t coming but are they supplying what the people want, if not then they will never get them through the turnstile.
When they let people in for free against Torquay it proved that people made the effort to come, and at least there was some interest among the people of Accrington, now we all know you can`t keep letting people in for free, but it should have been a pointer that people were prepared to come, its just finding the balance of how much people are prepared to pay and how much the club can let people in for whilst still making enough money to keep the club afloat.

I think most people agree that £13 is to much to pay for what they are actually getting.
£10 then £11 in conference was a good deal, and not only that (apart from the roof) the facilities have not improved, infact the whole experience of a trip to the FES is not as good, because no matter which stand you wanted to stand in you could still use the bar and just walk out before kick off onto the terrace, and you were free to swap ends at half time to stand behind whichever goal Accy were attacking, i know this is not allowed in the league but its been for the worse not the better.
I think people will see it as they are paying more but not actually getting anything more for their money.
I also think £8 for juniors is way to much, you have a lot of teenagers that are either still at school or college that just simply can not afford that, and coupled with our poor home record this season who wants to pay what is a lot of money to them just to see a team that is under performing.
There is no simple answer to the problem but things will need to be done otherwise things will not get any better.