£15 tickets for Bristol game

[jonnydog]

I am a Season Ticket holder. My gripe is not the reduction, but that they waited so long to announce it. The game's in a little over 48 hours! Surely this should have been done as soon as the Leeds game was drawn. They knew then that we'd be playing 5 home games in 2 and a half weeks. If people had known this earlier the crowd against Leeds may have been better as it takes the cost of 2 games in a week down to £35 from £47!

Whilst this is a moan, it's really just frustration wishing we'd think things through a little better!

Agree 100% there Maps. It does smell a little of \"hold on lads, I've got an idea\"

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The DRFC Marketing company vehicle!!

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Not misleading just an error given that I assumed someone else had worked out the match cost of the home league games.

So, based on my calculations the cheapest possible you'd get all 3 is £64 paying per match pluse the added cost of buying the Sun those days so make it £66.

BFYP your calculations are misleading as they are not based on equal amount of games.

Matchday South: £105.75 = 5 games
Season Ticket Cat C: £44.35 = 3 games
Season Ticket Cat B: £52.17 = 3 games
Season Ticket Cat A: £60  = 3 games


Regarding the Bristol game , i wonder what the 700 or so people who have already purchased a ticket at the full price will have to say about the offer.

I can't see them being very happy unless there given a refund.:dry:

[Jim Dobbin]

And still struggle to get 10,000. 2nd cheapest team to watch in the division, as we all know its the marketing that needs looking at.

[MrFrost]

And still struggle to get 10,000. 2nd cheapest team to watch in the division, as we all know its the marketing that needs looking at.

2nd cheapest when its £15, not when its £27.

[Norfolk N Chance]

Yet we score another home goal!!!

In the FP JR is confirming price is £27 and back of FP they say its £27!!!!!

[john_donc857]

£15 already ! That's great news. This is my 1st season for many years without a season ticket. I've missed the 1st 2 home games as I've been on my  hols. That still leaves me £325 from the £340 my ticket would of cost me before the march deadline for the remaining 20 games. It's starting to look like I'm on to a winner.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

I e-mailed the club shortly after the Cat 1 price was announced, and posted on here at a the same time, pointing out that there will be overwhelming pressure to reduce prices following predicted disappointing attendances v West Ham & Forest. However I did think they would hold out a bit longer to the next game.

Even now, they have not come officially published what Cat 2 & 3 prices are and they seem to be making it up as they go along. With a bit of careful foresight, we could go through the entire home fixtures and categorise each match appropriately, without undercutting the season ticket holder. This would at least make some form of commitment to pay on the day fans and, to ST and Flexi-Ticket holders

As said above, just over 48 hrs notice to push the reduced prices and, by all accounts not publishing it in the Free Press is not good enough.

If Alan Sugar was overseeing this lot, there can only be one conclusion.

[Superspy]

£15 already ! That's great news. This is my 1st season for many years without a season ticket. I've missed the 1st 2 home games as I've been on my  hols. That still leaves me £325 from the £340 my ticket would of cost me before the march deadline for the remaining 20 games. It's starting to look like I'm on to a winner.

Not really, if you'd paid the £340 and missed 2 games you're \"per match\" fee would be £16.19. Good luck trying to get 20 games for £325 paying per match.

[benaldo]

Sweet baby jesus and the orphans. Is it £15 or £27?

In the FP (out today folks) it's £27. Yet on here unknown people are saying £15.

Anyone got Brian Potters phone number, he could work wonders round here! I've a feeling that young Kenny is already working for the marketing department!

Not that the pricing bothers me as I've been on a fixed price since the stadium opened. Though the absence of tickets after new year in this years book leads me to shudder at the thought that my ticket price will go up from £90 a month (including the summer months)!! God only knows what ludicrous increase the club have in store for us premier club members!!

So spare a thought for us when you're moaning about a couple of quid increase here and there!

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Just to re-iterate there are no longer any Cat C seating. So Cat B is all there is in
South, East & West including corners, excluding Cat A Areas. The limited numbers will be about 4500 !

Doncaster Rovers are delighted to announce that a limited selection of £15 tickets for adult and concessions for Saturday's match with Bristol City are now available.

In order to qualify for one of the £15 tickets, all you need to do is join our e-mail subscriptions by sending your name and date of birth and the words £15 tickets to marketing@doncasterroversfc.co.uk

Once we receive your e-mail we'll send you an e-mail back in the form of a voucher, simply take this voucher into the ticket office to claim your £15 adult or concession ticket.That's a saving of over 40%.

This offer will close at 12pm on Friday. E-vouchers will be sent with 24 hours of your e-mail to the club.

The offer is strictly available on a first come first served basis and seats are only available in Category B match day seating.

[Superspy]

Match by match tickets in the South are all Cat A, so Cat B will only be east and west towards the ends.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

I beg to differ. South Stand was re-catergorised at Cat B this season. Just so happens Cat B seats are priced the same as Cat A, £27. Unless I've missed something.

Check you ST brochure.

[Superspy]

Ah fair enough mate, didn't realise they had to dropped them to Cat B again for this season

[john_donc857]

Superspy i reckon the £325 will do the remaining games no problem. I usually miss  3 or 4 games over the season due to work commitments and with the leeds game being shown on sky I shall not bother with that one. You never no I might get a couple of away tickets out of it.

[Superspy]

well if you're going to miss another 3 games, if they continue on the trend they are going you're looking at 27 quid x 17 = £459, now obviously not all the games will be Cat 1, but to be honest your personal situation is a completely moot point because season ticket pricing isn't setup to account for people missing 5 and 6 games a season, traditionally the benefit is 3.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Although, as you suggest, they may not offer £15 seats in South Stand as that could impact on the away fans being charged £27.

There could be ways round it though. They could be classed as competition winners by e-mailing the club with the correct answer to the question. Or, shoving the away fans on North East corner and selling £15 home tickets in the South East most corner, then you can say it's a different view !! Ha

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Superspy i reckon the £325 will do the remaining games no problem. I usually miss 3 or 4 games over the season due to work commitments and with the leeds game being shown on sky I shall not bother with that one. You never no I might get a couple of away tickets out of it.

john_donc857 Why not buy a 15 game multi-ticket @£315 ?

[john_donc857]

Don't forget. The free game that Mr ryan likes to throw in. Was it swansea last season, then there's all them £20 family tickets ( 2 adults, 2 children).

[Superspy]

That's assuming those offers drop the same as last year, but even then I think you're in for a shock. Either way, people such as yourself are the exact reason why I'm keeping track of it all this season, so next time round there can be no arguments

[DonnyRTID]

Don't forget. The free game that Mr ryan likes to throw in. Was it swansea last season, then there's all them £20 family tickets ( 2 adults, 2 children).

The free game was against Palace.
The family ticket was a Free Press promotion, just as the Sun offer, 2 for £19.50 v Bristol City or 2 for £9.50 v Palace.

[john_donc857]

Its not a bad offer that donnybazrover, but I'm gonna sit it out this seen I think and pick and choose my games. I certainly won't pay £27 to watch a game its just to much. when I think of all that overtime I've turned down due to having a season ticket maybe it will work out for the better. If not I'll renew next season

[DonnyBazR0ver]

That's the thing with it you can pick and choose your games. You just decide when to trade in one of your vouchers.

I cannot see a set of circumstances arising again where JR will put on a free game.

If you take advantage of the £15 for this sat plus a further 15 games that works out at £315 plus £15 = £330/16 £20.65 per game.

This is better than a Cat A ST bought at £500 (£21.74 per game) or to a Cat A ST bought at £480 (£20.86) or nearly a Cat A bought at £460 (£20)

[IDM]

Without doing the sums, I doubt very much that by taking advantage of all the ticket offers whilst attending EVERY game, the total spent would ever be less than the same seat as a season ticket.  Sure, the offers alone may work out cheaper for one game, or for a set of games, but not for all 23.

I can't go to every game this time, so haven't got a season ticket, so I'll make the most of the offers, and be grateful to the club for encouraging my attendance.

However, I agree the £27 tickets are too much, in general.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Well, the KM Website has been stuck on 6181 most of the week so your guess is as good as mine how well the promotion is doing. Anyone heard anything on the grapevine?

I hope the weather brightens up a bit, plus with the offer and the freebies to school kids and family lets hope we get somewhere near 9000.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Just had a call from a friend of mine who's a Sheff Wed fan lives in Worksop but is visiting friends in Donny this morning with his 2 sons. Been to Rovers before as he knows first hand about the football we play.

He asked me how much for Rovers today. The £15 offer now gone, I explained it was £27, for his 13 yr old son £15 and his 8 yr old £5, total £47 !

Guess where he's NOT going.

How can we attract first timers or casuals with these prices? And yes, I have e-mailed the club with this valuable feedback.

[RedJ]

Just had a call from a friend of mine who's a Sheff Wed fan lives in Worksop but is visiting friends in Donny this morning with his 2 sons. Been to Rovers before as he knows first hand about the football we play.

He asked me how much for Rovers today. The £15 offer now gone, I explained it was £27, for his 13 yr old son £15 and his 8 yr old £5, total £47 !

Guess where he's NOT going.

How can we attract first timers or casuals with these prices? And yes, I have e-mailed the club with this valuable feedback.

Dodgy Dave hasn't got a clue. That \"stadium half full at full price\" lark shows what he really feels about the fans. We're not supporters to him, we're consumers (well, we are anyway, but fans first, consumers second).