Fill Firhill - Sat 9th August

[Fawlty Towers]

https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/lets-fill-firhill-for-the-visit-of-morton/

Hopefully this will get a good response.

[jagfox]

Win on Saturday and we could hit 4-5000, hopefully.

Good to see slightly better communications from the club recently.

[Norgethistle]

Whilst I welcome any initiative to try and get more fans in, I think in Scotland there needs to be a bigger discussion on ticket pricing to generate fans.

I attend the Bryne games in the top league in Norway, my admission price is 175 Norwegian Krone (£12.85) equivalent to 1.5 pints.

Viking (Current league leaders) are around £18 (240kr) and highest in league.

Admission in Scottish 2nd tier (Championship) is £24 roughly 4.5 pints. 

Cinema ticket locally is 210 kr so more expensive than Bryne, just below Viking, so on a par with a top league match ticket.

In Glasgow its £12 for cinema, half a championship match ticket 

Average wages in Norway is way higher than Scotland, so you’d expect admission prices to be higher, they’re not.

Clubs tend to utilize sponsorship to keep pricing down, chasing tons of small to medium sponsors with 1 or 2 large ones. 
 

Bryne is a small town half an hour from Stavanger with a population of 13,000 normally brings in 2500 to 3500 fans, obviously if there’s a derby stadium is full at 5500

Viking in Stavanger pulls in 16000 average from a population of 15000 (This also covers Sandnes and Ulf who play there).

Ultimately if we (or any club) want more fans attending and attending regularly it needs to be more cost competitive. 

[lady-isobel-barnett]

I don't disagree with anything Norge posted. I'd add that a larger league with less repetitive fixtures would help. Certainly help with away attendances.

[Norgethistle]

54 minutes ago, lady-isobel-barnett said:

I don't disagree with anything Norge posted. I'd add that a larger league with less repetitive fixtures would help. Certainly help with away attendances.

Top league in Norway is 16 teams, play each team home and away once, so 30 game league campaign. 
 

[jaggy]

Have they dropped prices NJ? I went to see Haugesund play maybe 8 or 9 years ago and I’m sure I paid the equivalent of around £30. when I went back to work on Monday at the airport where I was doing some work a couple of guys told me they were security at the stadium and would have got me in for free 🙄

[dpj]

I am correct in saying that SFA/SPFL sets a minimum price for each division so there is no way we could decide to charge something like £12 or £15 as this would be below it?

[Jaggernaut]

To summarise NJ's original post: welcome to rip-off Britain. Highest taxes, highest retail prices, highest amenities costs, poorest pensions, poorest services.... Because it's all about keeping the small percentage-- the richest-- the richest, and keeping the peasants that make them rich (most of the people) poor and (especially now) in debt.

Thank you.

[Lambies Lost Doo]

Yeah but the club need the all the £ it can get.

[Jaggernaut]

I honestly don't know if supporters of other teams would say the same, but for me there are so many recollections of "huge" games, "unique opportunities", and "no-bigger-than-this" matches at Firhill, that have ended in total despair, that I now wonder whether hyping up specific games is, in the long term, an advantageous marketing strategy. 

[ChiThistle]

Would like to add that I’m stealing Norge’s idea of framing everything in terms of how much a pint costs.  😄

[JAG1970]

2 hours ago, Norgethistle said:

Top league in Norway is 16 teams, play each team home and away once, so 30 game league campaign. 
 

Presumably they don’t have their own version of the ugly twosome that must be accommodated as the number one priority above all other teams? 

[Norgethistle]

4 minutes ago, JAG1970 said:

Presumably they don’t have their own version of the ugly twosome that must be accommodated as the number one priority above all other teams? 

The 16 team team league seems to help bring balance to competition 

[Norgethistle]

2 hours ago, jaggy said:

Have they dropped prices NJ? I went to see Haugesund play maybe 8 or 9 years ago and I’m sure I paid the equivalent of around £30. when I went back to work on Monday at the airport where I was doing some work a couple of guys told me they were security at the stadium and would have got me in for free 🙄

£30 would have been top top seats even when exchange rate was 9 to pound rather than today’s 13.

Prices have dropped and clubs try to ensure gate money is not the major income and usually have well over 100 sponsors 

[JAG1970]

1 hour ago, Jaggernaut said:

. Because it's all about keeping the small percentage-- the richest-- the richest, and keeping the peasants that make them rich (most of the people) poor and (especially now) in debt.

Thank you.

How very true. To add my favourite quote by Noam Chomsky 

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

Anyway, back to Thistle…

[Lambies Lost Doo]

100 sponsors!

Thats what you expect with Man Utd.  Official tyre partner, Official Ready Noodle partner etc etc.

[Norgethistle]

4 hours ago, Lambies Lost Doo said:

100 sponsors!

Thats what you expect with Man Utd.  Official tyre partner, Official Ready Noodle partner etc etc.

From small local restaurants, local papers all the way up to National companies. 
 

Bryne have 13 sponsors for kit alone.

Full list of sponsors 

https://heiabryne.no/samarbeidspartnere/

some sponsors are just on website others sponsor advertising board (they are digital as it pays itself back due to numbers they can display), sponsors for team travel to away games, sponsor for team meals,  fooodlights, food kiosks, hospitality, kit, the whole lot. If you can put a sponsors name on it, they’ll get one and cash in from it.

Even Vidar (4th division club) have about 60, they don’t charge admission at that level, but you can donate on entry and most folk donate a fiver on entry.