Opinion Pay what you like.

[Dirty Bird]

I was just reading the thread on the main board "The culture of donating to your club (above and beyond)" and I thought of what FC United of Manchester does. Their season ticket system is "Pay what you like"

It's not as simple as that. You can't just say "I would like to have a season ticket for $10", there is a minimum. In 2012-13, FC United had a minimum of 90 pounds (~$155) but the ~1000 adult members averaged 105 pounds (~$180). So on average, that's about an extra $35. This current season I'm funding 10 junior memberships for kids in the Manchester area. The minimum for kids is 20 pound, but I thought I'd go with 1 pound per home game, so went with 23. So the club got an extra 30 pounds out of me (3 per kid).

if the Adelaide Football Club did this, would you be for it?

The club could freeze the minimum for 3-4 years at the current price, and if it proves successful, they can keep it permanently, if it fails, no harm done in the short term, they can just up the prices again in a few years and ditch the scheme.

But say on average people are willing to donate an extra $10-15 as they want to help the club? 50,000 members, average $15 extra and the club gains an extra $750,000.

Would people be supportive of the idea?
Would you consider offering a little more to help the club?

I know if I were a Silver member I'd pay $300 (rather than $265) to round it out at a full number. Club would get $35 extra there.
But as a Gold, I'd only add an extra $10 to round it out at $500 (Though, that is a rip off, shouldn't be $125 more than silver just for confirmed access to GF if we make it)

 

[spenze]

If you could propose an amount where they would sack Trigg, I'd be mashing the keyboard with my fists to put my credit card details in

 

[Dirty Bird]

That makes me wonder.
Could we as a supporter base create a 'sack Triggy fund' - Say all 46,405* members donate $21.55. That's $1,000,000. We could buy out the contract and replace him

*except jenny61_99

 

[mattymac]

The afl would find some way to take the extra off us and redistribute it to poort, melbourne or sydney

 

[AFC3000]

Interesting thread on the main board. I read it and thought the only time the club really asks me for extra money is for the Crows Foundation so we can't be in too bad shape.

I would probably also round up to the hundred if the club asked. Our seats to membership ratio makes it hard to get very creative making money out of extra season tickets. Maybe a way of making it a feel good thing we can tick a box to donate a ticket (to an unpopular game) to some charity or something, a bit like those announcements about players donating tickets, the 19th man contributes to.

Or instead of giving away the usual crap with memberships run it like a Kickstarter type way of selling... Base fee then tick here to add the junk for $10, or add $50 gets that stuff plus a tshirt, $80 gets you the crap, the tshirt and a signed copy of the club magazine. Anyway that's just an example but keep adding stuff for that little bit more money that makes it hard for people to resist the next thing. I guess that's a bit like the infomercial way of doing it... Just spend a little more and get all of this.

Or just offer to print our name on a heritage away guernsey or something haha I don't know I probably appreciate that we support a club who isn't desperate enough to annoy us for more money, like someone else on that thread said, the bigger clubs charge the right amount for the 11 games while the poorer clubs don't have the demand so sell their memberships for less and then wonder why their small crowds don't make any money.

Even at AO I am fairly certain we have a lot less of the ground designated to the lower price areas compared to the team we share it with.

Sorry for the long reply, in other words... Yeah might as well try it, what harm could it do.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Great idea

 

[ManInTheArena]

Love it.

 

[little graham]

For all you rich pricks reading, our best bet is to give a player some meaningless job that pays big bikkies or your daughter as dowry. Anything else we'll lose to the club equalization fund.

 

[jenny61_99]

Our interstate memberships are essentially a donation. They don't "do" anything. We never take the free seat (general admission) at the Brisbane games because we buy reserved seats. We also get hit up to sell a raffle book (which I end up buying all the tickets in) normally once a year, but this year they've done it twice. So I think you'll find a few people already contribute when they don't really have to. I have a friend who's been up here for years - still pays for his gold tickets every year and let's his family use them.

 

[Smoooothy]

Our interstate memberships are essentially a donation. They don't "do" anything. We never take the free seat (general admission) at the Brisbane games because we buy reserved seats. We also get hit up to sell a raffle book (which I end up buying all the tickets in) normally once a year, but this year they've done it twice. So I think you'll find a few people already contribute when they don't really have to. I have a friend who's been up here for years - still pays for his gold tickets every year and let's his family use them.

except VIC memberships. they are the exception here. VIC memberships give you access to all crows games in VIC with the exception I think of any Geelong games

 

[Dirty Bird]

Our interstate memberships are essentially a donation. They don't "do" anything. We never take the free seat (general admission) at the Brisbane games because we buy reserved seats. We also get hit up to sell a raffle book (which I end up buying all the tickets in) normally once a year, but this year they've done it twice. So I think you'll find a few people already contribute when they don't really have to. I have a friend who's been up here for years - still pays for his gold tickets every year and let's his family use them.

That pisses me off immensely, contemplated dropping my membership just to stop them bugging me all the ****ing time.

 

[Sling tackle]

That makes me wonder.
Could we as a supporter base create a 'sack Triggy fund' - Say all 46,405* members donate $21.55. That's $1,000,000. We could buy out the contract and replace him

*except jenny61_99

"Dear valued members. Thank you for the $999,978.45. We have heard you message loud and clear. Because the $1 million target was not reached, Steven Trigg's contract has been renewed for the next ten years. Thank you for your endorsement. - AFC"

 

[Footypie32]

Could you imagine Port supporters doing this? How many bottles and cans is $200?