Dover monday

[Slartibartfast]

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David Holden said:

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Fleet fan said:
anyone know tha admission price for monday surely they cant expect us to pay 12 quid can they?

It's a first team fixture and we are required to charge first team prices.

If the first team play then the club should charge first team prices, if the pase lads are going to play then the club should charge pase team prices.
Either way the club should let the supporters know beforehand what sort of side they plan to turn out. I am happy to leave work early, change my travel arrangements and bugger up my familys eating arrangements to watch the first team but if the club can't be arsed then why should I?

[Fleet fan]

if its a first team fixture then we should be fielding our first team which we are probably not so the prices should be reduced.By the way anyone that went yesterday would have noticed that Cambridge only charged 3 quid for kids

[Riverview Supporter]

I will probably go as theres no game next Saturday. Unless I find soemthing more entertaining at a lower price in kent for the Saturday.

 

This is an ideal opportunity to get a reasonable crowd if the price was reasonable. £8 would be acceptable I believe , byt "12 if its a reserve team is a little micky taking.

[Fleet fan]

**** taking more like

[kmj]

Liam seemed to have forgotten about the KSC game when interviewed on RK after the Cambridge match. He mentioned training and responded to the point that there was no game next weekend and that players would have time to recover for the Conference game the weekend after. It may have been an oversight, but don't get your hopes up that he will field too strong a side. However, I will still go. I just hope it isn't as dire as the game against Erith & Belvedere ( a defeat) a couple of seasons ago. Mind you that was Andy Ford in charge. Liam simply followed suit away to Dover last season when a stronger side probably would have beaten a young home side. Unless Liam wants to feel the wrath of Slarti's scathing posts again like last year, he should seriously consider fielding a strong side.

[Harry J Allstars]

Whatever team we play the price should be £8.00 for adults but £5.00 if they are bringing a child.

 

Children coming with an adult should be allowed in for free and if they are coming in alone be charged a kid for a quid.

 

Theres no telling how many will turn up with this sort of price structure but I reckon it'll be about 400 (lets 300 at £8.00 a time that'll be £2,400 profit on the full price paying adults alone) while if you charge the full £12 price 50-100 will turn up which will make you 1,200. Plus the club will be seen as more of a familly club which speaking to many as I do it isn't being seen as at the moment.

[David Holden]

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Harry J Allstars said:
Whatever team we play the price should be £8.00 for adults but £5.00 if they are bringing a child.

Which bit of the word required don't you understand?

We have this same old arguement every year, so why don't you just read back and somewhere you will find the appropriate regulation from the playing conditions of the KSC.

If we were allowed to charge less then we would, but we can't so we won't (unless the Kent FA have a change of heart)

[Harry J Allstars]

David where did the I say that the club should charge these prices? The price should be does not mean the club should change it to. The Kent FA should let us charge what we like.

 

I think that illness has gone to your head, but then you never had much up there in the first place.

[Harry J Allstars]

Sorry David I didn't mean that I take it back as I've just had some bad news. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

 

Why are The Kent FA making us pay our normal prices? Surely it is up to us what we pay and with a different one off price structure can we not pay what we want?

 

In the FA Cup recently we saw different teams changing their prices structures to reflect the opposition or importance, so why can't we?

[Robbo]

Sorry to the club but I'm just not going to pay 12 quid for a KSC game. I really think we'll be lucky to get 200 down there next monday with them sort of prices. Are Kent FA trying to make this competition even more mickey mouse than it already is?

[mikefleet]

according to the dover forum there not coming if its £12 and they got a livematch thing on there site.

[Harry J Allstars]

So Dover appears to be watching us? Okay well lets make it clear to them now that The Kent FA are making us charge the full price, it is not our decision and we would if we could charge a cheaper option.

 

No doubt someone from the Kent FA will be at the game and we can question their reasons for this pathetic price structure. Although I can not see how a boycott of the match will help anyone. We may have had a game that weekend anyway but as we don't we could use the money we save on this game and let our feelings be known to those at the KFA.

 

If you want to contact the Kent FA via email you can at info@kentfa.com for genral enquiries or the Chief executive keith.masters@kentfa.com.

[Wobbly Wayne rides again]

The KSC lost its appeal to me , once we became the highest placed team in it.

 

When we were below Margate, Dover and Welling some satisfaction could be gained by getting some scalps, but now I am afraid I find it very difficult to get motivated for it, and I won't be shelling out 12 quid on Monday night.

 

 

 

Up the Fleet

[Nols1974]

The rules actually say you can lower admission if both clubs and the KCFA agree , otherwise its the normal admission.

Of course the club might have already tried this.

[Riverview Supporter]

Some of these comments are intresting. A few points

 

1) Dave , no one is getting at you. You are a source of much information and on this occassion , your information has bought about some unsavoury comments.

 

2) Is there anything the trust can do via their meetings with the club. Maybe a letter of protest at the prices. I know a lot of people put in a lot of time , driving , in the shop , doing figures and so on. Maybe , someone on the trust could actually put together a letter of protest to The Kent FA , and copy it into the club (after all it is not their decision on pricing) and also copy into the FA in lanacaster gate.

 

3) if this is a full price fixture , will all full price facilities be available including Bar,50/50,club shop (trust run) catering etc.......

 

4) In the event of Gravesend reaching the final. Will a protest be in order. Make it know to the players and clubs that it is not them we are protesting at , but the KFA.

 

This is the kind of thing that really hits supporters in the balls. Along with the decision to play league games when there is Championship Footie on ITV and then trips awasy to Forest Green and hereford on a midweek night , shows how the leagues and FA`s want to follow the top leagues and commercialise this league to a point hwere the audiance it should be aimed at is alienated.

[jc]

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mikefleet said:
Ramsgate are charging £7 for adults and £3.50 for kids/OAPs. Think thats what we should be doing if we want a couple hundred turn up instead of a couple.

That couldn't be because they're their normal admission prices, could it?

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mikefleet said:
where is the final this year?

I doubt anyone will be able to tell you that, since none of us know who will be in the final, nor who will be drawn as the home side.

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Robbo said: Are Kent FA trying to make this competition even more mickey mouse than it already is?

Having to charge full price may be misguided, but ultimate blame lies with the clubs for putting out weakened sides and devaluing the competition in the first place.

As Dave suggests, this thread must be exactly the same in nature as the ones we have every time we have a KSC match at home, and it's getting a bit monotonous and repetitive now.

[Rob_Butler]

Gravesend charging £12 when Charlton have a special promotion with tickets for just £15 + £5 children. If you are going to play a weak team people will think" hold on, GNFC 2nd team £12 CAFC premiership team only £3 more".

 

Also how come Burton where aloud to put there prices UP but another club can not put them down?

[Fleet fan]

well it would be nice of the club to inform us supporters through the reporter of the pricing for this game unlike previous seasons when you turn up and they expect you to pay the full amount on the night

[UP FLEET]

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Robbo said:
Sorry to the club but I'm just not going to pay 12 quid for a KSC game. I really think we'll be lucky to get 200 down there next monday with them sort of prices. Are Kent FA trying to make this competition even more mickey mouse than it already is?

100 0/0 behind you, my point exactly, and those of many more hundreds i expect. sorry for the club, but unless the club try to help them selves and us out,there is only one loser and that is gnfc.the fa can get stuffed.

[FleetFanatic]

I'm amazed the Kent FA can impose a price as it will quite obviously have a negative effect on attendance / income, it could be argued it's actually a restraint of trade?

 

The problem is, as I know Dave will point out that,

it's a condition of membership that we as a club have to agree to, to be affiliated to the county FA.

 

Am I right in thinking that without the county membership we would not be allowed into other competitions?