Attendances

[Campsall rover]

What I can’t figure out is why our average gates are lower this season than last. It doesn’t make any sense.
Does any one know how many season tickets we have sold this season in comparison to last.
What do we need to do to wake up the Doncaster public.
Barnsley are averaging 4,500 more than us.
Population of DMBC 305,000
       ..           BMBC 234,000
Yes I know they have been in the Premier league and yes I know there is nothing else to do in Barnsley on a Saturday afternoon or at any other time in all probability.
But a 4,500 difference in ave gates. Something is wrong
WAKE UP DONCASTER we have a team worth watching.
GET OFF YOUR BACKSIDES and GET DOWN TO THE KEEPMOAT.

[red w(h)ine]

Too many floating fans with Leeds sympathies in Doncaster, and Leeds are doing at least as well as us in a league above. We need Leeds to hit a slump (they usually do!)

[winegums]

Let's hope some of the kids with the free tickets enjoyed the game and start coming more often

[Padge_DRFC]

I think dingles season tickets are cheaper than ours

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

The numbers mean nowt nowadays all inflated or treated differently.  I would say visually it seems more full.

[Filo]

Too many Doncaster folk quick to to slag their own town off, I hear it on a daily basis in my job

[DINGLE]

What I can’t figure out is why our average gates are lower this season than last. It doesn’t make any sense.
Does any one know how many season tickets we have sold this season in comparison to last.
What do we need to do to wake up the Doncaster public.
Barnsley are averaging 4,500 more than us.
Population of DMBC 305,000
       ..           BMBC 234,000
Yes I know they have been in the Premier league and yes I know there is nothing else to do in Barnsley on a Saturday afternoon or at any other time in all probability.
But a 4,500 difference in ave gates. Something is wrong
WAKE UP DONCASTER we have a team worth watching.
GET OFF YOUR BACKSIDES and GET DOWN TO THE KEEPMOAT.

It’s not just Leeds I found a Young lads driving license yesterday outside the valley, the address on it says Skellow Doncaster.

[selby]

 Dingle, you have got to make an exception in that case, he was dropped on his head when a bairn in arms.

[roversdude]

Or his family moved their caravan from Barnsley to Skellow
Out of interest who have Barnsley played at home
I think they do have a bigger fan base but 4500 difference seems high

[DINGLE]

Oxford, Wimbledon, Gillingham, Walsall, Plymouth, Luton.

[selby]

 Two games a week does not help, and the attractive one seems to be the midweek game on a regular basis.
  Plus they now clash with European matches televised.
   Just another thing the football authorities get wrong, why could we play home away as the norm in the past and not now, they are like the police nowadays, they have a job they don't want to do if it gets hard.
  In one recent season we went nearly a month without a home fixture, the budgeting must have been horrendous, and no need for it, just a little thought, which does not seem to be that common nowadays.
  But the biggest difference to last season is starting the season with a good cup run to get some interest from the part timers,and have we still got the ticket outlets in town for games we gave publicity to as I remember last season.

[adamtherover]

Is the 10th Nov, fa cup round one ? 

[RoversAlias]

Our opponents haven't brought many this season yet, that must be a factor. Wycombe, Gillingham, Shrewsbury in midweek, Luton, Portsmouth. These are all a long old trek and some aren't that well supported to begin with. Fleetwood hardly got any fans either.

[vaya]

Plus the fact a family ticket at Barnsley gets half the population in.

[Campsall rover]

Plus the fact a family ticket at Barnsley gets half the population in.

Hey I think you’ve solved it. Only Joking Dingle. One thing I will say given you are massive rivals, is that Barnsley fans are much more hospitable ( if that’s the right word ) than Rotherham ones.
Generalising of course. But much more of a friendly rivalry whereas at Rotherham last season it felt as if we were at war.

[WheatleyRover]

Brainwashed public who are fans of premier league teams that they are spoon fed from motd and other media outlets

[Campsall rover]

Brainwashed public who are fans of premier league teams that they are spoon fed from motd and other media outlets

Agreed but the question also was why are Barnsley getting ave gates of 4,500 MORE THAN US.
They have just been relegated as well.

[raggytash]

There’s nothing to promote games, or incentives, the marketing department are a shambles, last season gates were given as 8k etc but it was clear there was nearer 6k and other posters agreed, it’s odd but a shake up in the marketing department needs doing...

[Alan Southstand]

Barnsley have kept most of last season's Championship side together, so why wouldn't they want to come and watch them?

At the same time, we were a mid-table 'ish L1 side last season and subsequently lost our manager and didn't make any earth shattering signings. 2 of our loans have turned out to be great, but the missing few need to come back and see for themselves before making longer term commitments. It's all about convincing people (again) to make the initial effort.

[sedwardsdrfc]

Don't think last season helped with the floating fans but the entertainment we're seeing now should bring some back and more you'd think. Maybe theres something in it that Barnsley were expected to have a really good season and we the opposite after the last manager making it seem that way

[Donnywolf]

There’s nothing to promote games, or incentives, the marketing department are a shambles, last season gates were given as 8k etc but it was clear there was nearer 6k and other posters agreed, it’s odd but a shake up in the marketing department needs doing...

... but to be fair yesterday there were Loads of Kids there with their School being given Tickets to let them in free with a paying adult AND it was also WATG (Women at the Game) promotion.

I noticed both of those on Facebook Twitter and on Official Site this week so they (The Club / Marketing Team) certainly got their message through to me - although I was not involved in either - I noticed !

The Kids offer looked to be well received from where I was sat in the West - and I presume the Ladies one was well patronised so praise to the Club for both

[Campsall rover]

Don't think last season helped with the floating fans but the entertainment we're seeing now should bring some back and more you'd think. Maybe theres something in it that Barnsley were expected to have a really good season and we the opposite after the last manager making it seem that way

Yes we were not expected by many to be a promotion contender but although it is still early days we are now in late October and we haven’t been out of the top 6
So the question is When are these ‘floating’ fans going to turn up.
And yes as someone from a sales background I do think the marketing dept need to do more.
How many listeners do Trax FM and Sine FM have? Those stations represent the  Doncaster catchment and maybe that’s one avenue that needs exploring further.

[GazLaz]

Last season Virgin bought 1500 season tickets I believe. That artificially inflated the attendances.

[keith79]

I also heard the same as gazlaz . Take 1500 from last season's be around the same this season .

[graingrover]

raggy tash ...have you visited the Doncaster Foundation site .It paints a very different picture of the club's Marketing to the one you describe in this thread.

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[silent majority]

Last season Virgin bought 1500 season tickets I believe. That artificially inflated the attendances.

No they didn't. That was just a stupid rumour.

ST sales are higher this year than last.

[Alan Southstand]

What about 'attendances' though, SM?

Genuine query as I havn't a scooby, but my gut feel is that they seem slightly lower.

[raggytash]

To be fair if you drove or walked around Doncaster you wouldn’t even know there was a football club, there’s no identity at all.... they should do a massive push or promotion.... people won’t just turn up

[Campsall rover]

So far our official ave is 7,300 ish
Last season over all 23 league games around 8,100.
So it seems very odd that we can be doing so much better both in the quality of the football being served up and the league position we have occupied since the start of the season and lose 7/800 fans.

[GazLaz]

Last season Virgin bought 1500 season tickets I believe. That artificially inflated the attendances.

No they didn't. That was just a stupid rumour.

ST sales are higher this year than last.

Well something was fishy last season then. Attendances were definitely announced higher than they were. And it can’t have been season ticket holders not turning up either. I’ve been in that stadium so many times I can tell the attendance by just looking around and estimating the empty seats in every block.