its probs been done to death but im having a go anyway. how can we charge 24 quid on the door for that entertainment its just so frustrating,dont get me wrong for a big game when loads ov entertainment is put on for the kids ect fair play, but for that game ,well im more than inpresed with the 5.500 turn out. 4 of us went today so thats 96 quid pluss beer food ect probs around 150 quid, i understand thats good money for the club but i can garentee 2 of our 4 wont go agen. infact i have many friends who would like to come to games but just can't afford. i have allways thaught that it would be better to charge 12 to 16 quid and get 10 thousand crowd thats 10 thousand people buying shirts food drink ect and would be far better bussiness in the long run...

now befour i get my head bitten off with ked d tries that and people dont show up. i have to say that once in a blue moon isnt good enough, your once in a while fans probs never here about it befour the game has come and gone.
infact i think the marketing of the giants is poor to non , unless you read the examiner or walk through the pack horse every week i carnt see much else going on, most of our advertiseing come's from the die hard fans like i said befour i bring friends, the game is boring ,the aptmasphere dull and its expensive ,so why should they come back.

look am not saying i have all the answers but i do no abit about premotion nyt clubs ect and no that you realy have to get in the publics face to make them remember things, i would start with the gate fee to lesser games!
just to add one thing huddersfield is a massive town and should realy be a city so the people are there.
wigan is not exactly a massive place but they get 15 + regular, some people at the giants club get paid a wage to get people through the gate and arnt doing there job,the team has done what we asked and won something so someone needs to pull there socks up in the marketing department.

thoughts ????

£21 if pre purchased...the club do a new 'click and collect' service too.

my season ticket for this season was £184 so around £14 a game, cant grumble about that.

if your going to start lowering the day charge then people will stop buying season tickets which is a lifeline for the club.

Stop moaning- we charge a decent amount compared to other clubs.

i understan 14 quid a game for season ticket holders is ok but thats jus it your a season ticket holder you are allready a hooked fan .im geting at the fact we are trying to atract more fans, my argument is at the cost and aptmasphere for the non die hard. and still 24 quid is alot of money ie for 2 people thats 48 quid so thats a meal n drinks or cinima n drinks the list goes on of the things wer trying to compeet with

what other clubs they wouldnt be leeds wigan wire hull saints who have no problem getting fans to games

Bulls and wakey charge similar for seats in a much inferior stadium!

look am not having a go at the giants i love my team i just dont see anything changeing to get people to come through the door n when my mates last words to me befour they left wer well mate ad like to say av had a good day out but, its upseting. anyway how dare i say owt bad about our famous club and fans maby am just having an off day. long live the giants.

and there doing fantastic at the min arnt they

Got to completely agree with you. I don't understand how they can condone £24!!! If people think that £24 is acceptable to watch what was on display today then you must be deluded!

Very valid points Squiffdog the marketing is awful at best. They seem to think contacting season ticket holders is the answer but they are already hooked. It's irrelevant what other clubs charge it's what our club charges and how they get bums on seats that's the issue. As a season ticket holder I know that there will (or should be) various offers during the season and I'm happy with that if it increases crowds. As you say there is lots of competition in the entertainment industry and we have to find a way to compete. On today would it have made a difference if we had played tonight? Not a school night because of hols.

im afraid i have to agree, £24 is steep, now before people start firing back i know it's the top league and how it compares to football and RU etc but we are supposed to be trying to attract new fans to the club and the sport, and charging £24 to me is not going to help.
i know season ticket holders are the lifeline etc but the club surely have to do other things to get bums on seats, today for instance, a bank holiday, nice weather leading up to the game, some people will have not made plans and would have been looking for things to do, so what did the club do to try and attract people to come to the game? nothing as far as i was aware, quite a few people in town before the game weren't even aware that the giants were playing today! and we got a pitiful attendance of 5,347!
the cinema next door was heaving with people as im sure the shopping centres/garden centres were. we should have done more to get people to come and watch a game of rugby league ( although the quality today was poor)

it's all well and good saying the season ticket holders have put money into the club but even some of those probably found other things to do today.
the reason the likes of wigan and leeds can attract people who are willing to pay £24 is because they are successful and are a popular pull for the people in those area's,the giants clearly are not attractive to the people of huddersfield.

i fear unless the cost comes down and/or the trophy cabinet fills up that our crowds will continue to disappoint

So let's charge £10 a game that will help..... Oh no actually it doesn't because charging that price didn't make a great deal of difference to the home support did it--although the Leeds fans certainly took advantage--- in fact we gave seats away for FREE and still didn't half fill the stadium!!!!

Comes back to marketing ultimately and Meast is right, how do you get people in if they don't know there's a game? Not sure how much PR work the players do in the area .....this can only help as well. Who is the marketing guru anyway, is it Brammer? This subject was discussed last year and it seems nothing has changed.

The average joe still doesn't turn up whether its free a tenner or £24!! It's all been tried before!! £24 on the door is relatively cheap considering how much it is watch a second tier football team that share the stadium!
Even if its £15 which is what London charged last year they'd still be fans looking out for cheap tickets meaning the club still miss out! They can't win they need as much money to be sustainable yet they're battling folk wanting summat for nowt or near enough! They can't under value themselves neither they can't win!
Given that there is hardly any advertising in town centre they did give it a go for the kr game but done nothing since the marketing like the fans want summat for nowt it would seem!

the point about 2nd tier football is irrelevent nic, people will pay to watch town because it's football, it's promoted, people are familiar with the name huddersfield town and familiar with football, people will pay to watch football regardless.
as for us, you are right that they can't under value themselves, i am guilty of using cheap tickets, but season tickets that are already paid for so i'm not doing the club out of money.
i just think there is not much we can do without really going to town on the marketing of the club, this year should have seen us push the club to the people of huddersfield as much as we can on the back of the first league win in 81 years but what has been done?
we can't just expect people to turn up willing to pay £24 when most people who aren't ST holders just use someone elses who cant go.

I understood the club was planning to do match day tickets based on the quality of th eopposition which i think they should have done. but it seems to have been shelved,

It should be £15 Wakey, Catalans and London

£20 Hull and HKR etc

£24 Wigan and leeds.

The marketing and pricing does need to be looked at IMHO

Many football clubs operate this tiered system including our co tenants! It doesn't necessarily work as town have found.

You are aware that the marketing dept has been cut form 8 to 2 within the last year or so which obviously means there is less being done.
James Brammer does a decent job trying his best on what he has to work with, myself and other individual fans have offered to help out in various ways and this seems to be a way in which the marketing team may have to look to in the future if there aren't the funds there to employ more. I have got my workplace to promote the next home game via posters and flyers which the club are happy to send for us to put up, whether this helps i'm not sure but it does mean that the opportunity is there to for our customers to see details of the next game.

ATEOTD people in Huddersfield aren't interested in watching the Giants, harsh but, as it seems, true !

Not living in the area, it's difficult to gauge how much is put behind the marketing.

I find it hard to fault the club regarding ticket prices though. The club has semi regularly ran special offers, saints in cc only a fortnight ago was dirt cheap. The free tickets for kids, coupled with excellent season ticket offers etc. All to watch a team comprised of a lot of current internationals in a cracking stadium.

It's all well and good saying the matchday tickets are too expensive, yet when the club does put offers on, the uptake just doesn't happen. Certainly not to the extent it should anyway.

KD recently intimated that break even was between 10,000 and 12,000 av home attendance (someone with a better memory please correct me if I have that number wrong). You would presume that figure is based on the current pricing model. If the match day pricing is slashed at, then that number will have to go up. Very difficult to balance.

One factor that will make a difference to getting folk to return is atmosphere, and the image (or even illusion) that the Giants is the place to go. The former is obviously driven by us, and the topic has been done to death on here again and again. The latter is largely driven by the club, and is costly with no guarantee of success.

if we paid folks £24 to come we wouldnt get more than 7-8k Huddersfield Giants fans!!!!

At a loose end yesterday & we decided to go watch the giants. Checked out prices online and it was £48 - Blimey was first reaction. Priced out for this match I'm afraid!

I was a season ticket holder for many years, 9 in fact- so understand why you need sensible pricing for season tickets & walk up prices.

Good luck for the rest of season hopefully may pop down when a promotion is on as I cannot commit to a season ticket at present due to other commitments.

I wish they did something like what Bradford city Fc do - a flexi card?

I think a flexi thing is a good idea- and one we have put forward to the club. We went to a couple of ice hockey matches in the off season and really enjoyed it- they play twice each weekend so a lot of games 27 home games a season means the family season tickets are £700 early bird going up to £750 after. (This is not first grade ice hockey either!) it usually £34 for a family ticket per game.
But they offered two flexi tickets- one for 5 games- £150 per family and one for 12 ~£350 per family and you can go to whichever games you want on those. If they do the same offer for the forthcoming season we are probably going to get some as it's something to do at the weekend oct-feb!
The club should be looking to put something similar in place for when the football season is over!

Like some others have said the club have done promos... how many times have we had the £10 offer, did it make much of a difference? did it hell, the average joe just aint interested.

the marketing should be looked into though, especially the multimedia side of things.... twitter is the way forward..the club should be doing different things with this

like hull kr did pre season they announced the squad numbers for the coming season on twitter..got more followers, little ideas like this.

but if the department has been cut from 8 to now just 2 we will struggle.

its not just home fans but away fans are keeping away. £20 max for me . the question is what is going to happen next year with the new structure . The clubs get a big increase from sky to 1.86 million 21 game season then playoffs do fans think the clubs will do with season tickets ect

i remember you!

you should get down again sometime,although like the subject says it's a lot of money if you aren't a ST holder.