Knights v Toulouse

[Rooney's Ears]

Tickets selling fast in the prebook blocks.

[jroyales]

All the best for next weekend. Best team in the division except for your first game!

[georgeb1]

really hoping the club are going make this an event , let's have a band or some entertainment say 12.30 till 1.30, perhaps 20% off all drinks during that period , half time heworth juniors v acorn , 9 aside game .

lets all have a party together and win the grand final.

[Rooney's Ears]

17 minutes ago, georgeb1 said:

really hoping the club are going make this an event , let's have a band or some entertainment say 12.30 till 1.30, perhaps 20% off all drinks during that period , half time heworth juniors v acorn , 9 aside game .

lets all have a party together and win the grand final.

Yeah agree, as you say get a juniors game on before kick off rather than at half time though to encourage the families to come along and watch the games.

I remember this being done at the old Ryedale Stadium and it attracted a lot of families who were already in the ground before the normal turnstile opening time.

Still think they should offer YCFC season ticket holders £10 entrance fee.

[HaxbyKnight]

The Championship's top 2 teams, top 2 points scorers, 4 of the top 6 try scorers, and the 2 top goalkickers. Plenty of promotional material there, Get flyers all over Monks Cross, Vanguard, Designer Outlet and Clifton Moor, in the pubs and sports clubs, and use the Press. Remember not everybody uses social media.

[HaxbyKnight]

3 hours ago, Rooney's Ears said:

Still think they should offer YCFC season ticket holders £10 entrance fee.

 The Knights have not increased match day prices, although I'm sure many other clubs would have done. To be honest our own season ticket holders don't get a discount, and while it may boost the attendance, I wouldn't be offering discounts elsewhere for this game.

Edited September 29 by HaxbyKnight

[Rooney's Ears]

All bookable seats now sold out (blocks ED and EF).

[cookesp]

19 minutes ago, Rooney's Ears said:

All bookable seats now sold out (blocks ED and EF).

Surely  / hopefully we can get a bigger crowd than on Saturday against Halifax. I was in EG and the stand seemed pretty full but then you see the highlights and it was barely half full.

[Simon Hall]

11 minutes ago, cookesp said:

Surely  / hopefully we can get a bigger crowd than on Saturday against Halifax. I was in EG and the stand seemed pretty full but then you see the highlights and it was barely half full.

Not sure that playing on the Saturday was the right thing to do really, there's quite a crossover of City & Knights fans who favour the football, their game being played at 5.30pm and on the TV definitely cost us a fair few through the gate. I know a few who would have been at the game who stayed in to watch the football. Add that to the people who favour going out on the ale on a Saturday or had other stuff booked in and you can probably knock a few hundred off the gate.

There's nothing else going on on a Sunday at 2pm though, even the Bradford fans will be at a loose end. 

 

[Rooney's Ears]

Looks like Block EC also sold out.

[SUPERSTUD]

Big crowd test this for York. Surely the York public will dip their hands in their affluent pockets for a home based Grand Final. Difficult to put the prices up when the club are already charging £22 entry fee. If York are serious about entering Super League then the fan base needs to grow. I just can’t see where the increase in numbers is going to come from.

[Simon Hall]

1 minute ago, SUPERSTUD said:

Big crowd test this for York. Surely the York public will dip their hands in their affluent pockets for a home based Grand Final. Difficult to put the prices up when the club are already charging £22 entry fee. If York are serious about entering Super League then the fan base needs to grow. I just can’t see where the increase in numbers is going to come from.

Are you going?

[SUPERSTUD]

8 minutes ago, Simon Hall said:

Are you going?

No as i am not a supporter of either team. Me attending will not increase the York fan base going forward. I was really disappointed regarding how many York supporters turned out against Halifax. You have understandably attempted to cover it and dress it up re York City away and kick off time etc. But in reality you know the overall numbers are concerning. Ordinarily you may counter it by saying a higher league, better players will definitely improve attendances. But without freebies being dished out I am not too sure. Been going on for too long.

 

[Simon Hall]

7 minutes ago, SUPERSTUD said:

No as i am not a supporter of either team. 

Then wind your neck in.

[Rooney's Ears]

8 minutes ago, SUPERSTUD said:

No as i am not a supporter of either team. Me attending will not increase the York fan base going forward. I was really disappointed regarding how many York supporters turned out against Halifax. You have understandably attempted to cover it and dress it up re York City away and kick off time etc. But in reality you know the overall numbers are concerning. Ordinarily you may counter it by saying a higher league, better players will definitely improve attendances. But without freebies being dished out I am not too sure. Been going on for too long.

 

Do you know what the attendance was? you seem knowledgeable about our club,

Going by the TV camera's its hard to tell as its a big stand that holds i think 3500 people, the stand Halifax was in is small so makes it look like more as they spread out further along the stand.

[KnightsDadFan]

Controlled growth. No point in saying free entry if your in the ground before 1pm cause it's 2x £5 on Santis sambuca or thommos tequila's. You end up with big peaks but huge dips on your lower end fixtures as people expect the freebies and there are big variables eg weather. it's not a business model you can budget with or show an independent panel your planned finances for next 3 years.

We've got a steady 1800-2000 most games rain or shine now I think. It's gone up about 250 a season the past 2/3 years it's all controlled and measurable. Jorvik wasn't built in a day.

[Simon Hall]

1 minute ago, KnightsDadFan said:

Controlled growth. No point in saying free entry if your in the ground before 1pm cause it's 2x £5 on Santis sambuca or thommos tequila's. You end up with big peaks but huge dips on your lower end fixtures as people expect the freebies and there are big variables eg weather. it's not a business model you can budget with or show an independent panel your planned finances for next 3 years.

We've got a steady 1800-2000 most games rain or shine now I think. It's gone up about 250 a season the past 2/3 years it's all controlled and measurable. Jorvik wasn't built in a day.

I've been to Hull KR and Leigh in the past and there's been less than 2000 there, similarly, Bradford now get less than a quarter of what they got 20 years ago, yet people go on about their big crowds and how much they'll bring to SL. We are getting 5x what we were 10 years ago and have grown as a club year on year but everyone in losing their mind cos we aren't getting 8k in the Championship right now.

If the bloke who's running the club isn't concerned about attendances, I don't know why supporters of other clubs get their knickers in such a twist about them. Maybe it's because that's all they've got to knock us for now, little old York who used to be the easy-beats have now got their act together and winning things while their club just plods about.

[mn79]

14 minutes ago, KnightsDadFan said:

Controlled growth. No point in saying free entry if your in the ground before 1pm cause it's 2x £5 on Santis sambuca or thommos tequila's. You end up with big peaks but huge dips on your lower end fixtures as people expect the freebies and there are big variables eg weather. it's not a business model you can budget with or show an independent panel your planned finances for next 3 years.

We've got a steady 1800-2000 most games rain or shine now I think. It's gone up about 250 a season the past 2/3 years it's all controlled and measurable. Jorvik wasn't built in a day.

Santis Sambuccas & Thommos Tequilas sound good to me

 

[only 2 weeks away]

57 minutes ago, SUPERSTUD said:

No as i am not a supporter of either team. Me attending will not increase the York fan base going forward. I was really disappointed regarding how many York supporters turned out against Halifax. You have understandably attempted to cover it and dress it up re York City away and kick off time etc. But in reality you know the overall numbers are concerning. Ordinarily you may counter it by saying a higher league, better players will definitely improve attendances. But without freebies being dished out I am not too sure. Been going on for too long.

 

As a York season ticket holder I agree with every word.

[Rooney's Ears]

South Stand now open to York fans. Promising.

[AB Knight]

Attendances, one of my famous topics. Interestingly, here’s the percentage change from 2017 to the last ‘reported’ average attendances a couple of months ago

 

*I chose 2017 as that’s when the current Bradford Bulls club were formed, York’s first season under new ownership (Jon Flatman), and Halifax’s joint best Championship season (3rd)

York +108%
Halifax +13%
Bradford -14%

[White Knight]

50 minutes ago, Rooney's Ears said:

South Stand now open to York fans. Promising.

Combined capacity of both is just under 5400.

[Rooney's Ears]

Day 1 stats from Instagram - 

2500+ tickets sold

Hospitality sold out

2 Boxes left

South stand open

Premier Club sold out for non-season ticket holders.

Edited September 29 by Rooney's Ears

[Simon Hall]

Unless we sell out the ground twice over, put up a 10k capacity fanzone outside, have all the local pubs and cinemas showing the game then there’ll still be some bad meff from West Yorkshire saying “YoUVe GOt nO fANs lol”

[Expatknight]

40 minutes ago, Simon Hall said:

Unless we sell out the ground twice over, put up a 10k capacity fanzone outside, have all the local pubs and cinemas showing the game then there’ll still be some bad meff from West Yorkshire saying “YoUVe GOt nO fANs lol”

You can’t tar all Bradford fans with the same brush, we just don’t deserve to be in Super League, look at the facts,York Knights,  top of the league, best points for / against, 1895 cup win, top try scorer, top goal scorer, top points scorer, new state of the art stadium with working toilets, that’s before we play in the Grand Final, now look at what Bradford have to offer….in the dim distant past they, well, when I say they I mean the club that had their name but went bust twice, got a crowd of 10,000 allegedly, can’t think of many if any achievements this incarnation have attained, oh they have a massive hole in the ground, sorry stadium and a teeny weeny pitch which is so far away from the crowd they need binoculars to watch. Why would the powers that be ie big Nige pick York over Bradford?