I don’t wish to be argumentative but why do we need two seasons of success to increase attendances?
Are there folk sat at home watching us top of the league NOW thinking no I won’t go along to see us win the league this season I’ll wait a couple of years for a mid table league one clash against Stevenage.
I don’t get it.
People are only going to attend regularly if we’re winning regularly over a period of time.
Otherwise they might turn up for a game or two and then drift off.
If you’re successful for a period they’ll keep coming and then get in the habit which will make it less likely they then stop coming when we have a few bad games.
No but the longer your decent for the more people might think “oh ill spend 27 quid on an afternoon out”
Same as the pricing argument.
NEWS FLASH … completely irrelevant to putting your prices up
Also addressed why comparing prices has literally no impact whatsoever either. The ground wasn’t even half full at the old prices, they won’t be now. It’s simple really. You can not like it all you want.
If putting the prices up means a better product on the pitch, I’m ok with it.
Can see why some don’t agree with it though.
The only people who care that we are top are the Walsall fans who go anyway
Being top will increase attendances minimally with a few floating Walsall fans maybe deciding to go to a game more
People of Walsall don’t care for Walsall fc
been true my entire life, i dont expect it to change quickly. We had 30 thousnad at Wembley anyway, and that was like pulling teeth. They can all bugger off we will carry on and enjoy it…
Because ANDY we have had many poor seasons over the past 2 decades and a lot of folk just lost heart. It is going to take some time for that to be repaired. In addition PHIL has a point about the demographics of our town. It is only this season that efforts have been made to attract Asian followers. I think it is beginning to work but will take time. In addition the constant televising of games is bound to keep some folk at home although nothing can replace being there live.
I’m not sure how the standard of L2 is seen by people whose relationship to football is mainly via media. It might change if we get to L1. More casual supporters can see teams in L1 they know from recent Championship and even EPL seasons. This doesn’t really happen at L2 level.
Really good interview once again from Mat, honest, nothing over the top but just pressing home the importance of what we do, praising those where deserved, but making it about the whole, the collective as always. And you could hear how horrendous it was as well with that wind!
After the last game I predicted he would only have WALS left on his gillet this game, and it was proved right, ha ha! It’s like a reverse game of hangman - on Boxing Day it will just say WAL!! Unfortunately I can’t make boxing day due to family commitments at Christmas, but I will be keeping as close on how we are doing!
UTS!!
You don’t get it, and I don’t get it, and others on here don’t get it…. because we’re all Walsall fans.
The people you’re talking about are not Walsall fans.
They’re either not interested in football or they’ve chosen to throw their lot in with the Vile or Dingles.
I suspect the only time they’d ever crawl out of the woodwork for a Walsall game would be if we got to Wembley again.
Until then they’re happy watching Villa or Wolves on the TV.
The club have literally said they expected and costed lower ticket sales … how are the fans still puzzled?
Increasing the gates over time may well be important for us to be a top League One club again.
Right now, I’m not going to worry about it too much. We did actually raise our gates during terrible times.
If we can do it and nothing is certain yet, but if we can then that success is for all the ones who stuck with it when things were really grim. For all the ones who left their season ticket money in the club when everyone was worried about their own future. For all the young fans that follow Walsall rather than a Premier League club on SKY, that have never seen us do anything of note.
Pain in the arse getting off the retail park when too many turn up anyway 
That’s pretty much how I saw / heard the interview too. Although he moaned a bit more at the start, mainly about the ref and decisions, later on he was complimentary about the team, about us being top, and clearly refenced how good both our goals were, the strikers who scored them, and talked about the experience of Adomah from a higher level.
The only thing I thought he was out on was saying there wasn’t much between the teams - I think the stats would prove that to be wrong! Shots, corners and ultimately goals showed that.
When we had the old prices, the football was dire though. They deserve more people coming to see them now.
I think that is the real reason. Even now we still question if this will last as we are so used to false dawns.
People paid for those tickets before they’d seen the football. Unfortunately that’s just not how it works. They also did that in the years it was dire. I’d be surprised if there isn’t an increase next year, as long as the prices remain what they are.
It was dire week after week, year after year so people knew what would be coming. It takes time for people to truly believe that we can be successful.
That’s just not true. Every summer people talked about how that year was different. I remember. They called me negative for doubting it.
Kind of hacks me off that people describe it as dire now to be honest, because at the time I was a troll for saying it was.
How do you become a supporter of a club?
Well first, you go there, and you enjoy it and feel like you want to go back for more.
The offers and promotions are important to initially get you through the door, but it won’t do it on it’s own. How many times have we said, typical it’s an offer and we were crap, they won’t won’t to come back for that. So the experience has to be better than it was been in the past.
Then if they want to come back, you’ve not got to put barriers in their way, so pricing is important.
Then, if they come back, you’ve got to keep them coming back, so if they are going to sign up for the long term they have to have hope that the next cup run or promotion challenge is just a couple of seasons away. We’ve not had the cup runs and are one of only about 3 clubs that haven’t had a promotion in 17 years.
If you are going to build support you have to have all 3 of those right for a number of years because it ain’t going to happen instantly.
If you want to know why our support hasn’t grown like others, what’s different about us? We hàven’t had any of these right with the possible exception of price until the recent increases for nearly 2 decades.
Non of these work on their own.