Admission prices

[gael353]

http://www.limerick37fc.ie/gpage16.html

Season ticket is good value for adults. Shop open Thurs/Fri 1 - 5:30 and Saturday 10:30 to 5:30 buy them there and snap up some clearance bargins

[the hoops]

not bad price to watch an average team

[4tothefloor]

That's fine but €12 is excessive if the squad I've just seen is the final one. Cos that squad isn't worth €12 in

[Monkfish]

Leo the lion is worth E12 alone. :ball::ball::ball:

[lfc at heart]

5 euro for a child, they should be free, they are the future of the game.

[gael353]

5 euro for a child, they should be free, they are the future of the game.

child??? its €3 when with an adult. and special offers are available on the night. Trying to illiminate unsupervised running aroud the place kinder me thinks

[KevB76]

child??? its €3 when with an adult. and special offers are available on the night. Trying to illiminate unsupervised running aroud the place kinder me thinks

Is it €3 per child with Adult, or does every child have to bring their own adult?
;)

[L37Ultra]

Is it €3 per child with Adult, or does every child have to bring their own adult?
;)


Its 12 euro for an Adult

15 euro for Adult + U16

So ya, every U16 has to have their own Adult for it to be 3 euro.

Depends what you classifly as a child and a Adult though;):D

[Tommydaf]

i tink prices are fair & we dont need a load of un supervised kids running around

[KevB76]

My personal opinion on the matter is that its short-sighted to charge for kids.
They were free last season and I dont recall encountering hordes of kids running amok and causing a distraction.

Fact is if someone has to pay for example €12 + €9 for three kids, they'll think twice about it.
Or is it €12 + €3 +€10 for the two who didnt bring their individual adult :confused:

Also in the long term many of the kids who attend will eventually become paying adults, but if they're left at home with mam cos the dad cant be arsed paying the extra €9/€13, then thay are less likely to develop an interest in the club in later years.

[gael353]

My personal opinion on the matter is that its short-sighted to charge for kids. [QUOTE=KevB76;888231]

Agree but i think most clubs are doing it now.


[QUOTE=KevB76;888231]They were free last season and I dont recall encountering hordes of kids running amok and causing a distraction.

True but there were some


Fact is if someone has to pay for example €12 + €9 for three kids, they'll think twice about it.
Or is it €12 + €3 +€10 for the two who didnt bring their individual adult :confused:[QUOTE=KevB76;888231]

As i said there are special offers for the multples but they have to show on match night one to see them, cant explain over the net

Also in the long term many of the kids who attend will eventually become paying adults, but if they're left at home with mam cos the dad cant be arsed paying the extra €9/€13, then thay are less likely to develop an interest in the club in later years.

[harpin]

They were free last season and I dont recall encountering hordes of kids running amok and causing a distraction.

Wouldnt say hordes but there was a few scumbags around some nights. The little sh*ts squaring up to the stewards the Douglas Hall match after throwing cans at their supporters can definetely do without this element

[Lim till i die]

Wouldnt say hordes but there was a few scumbags around some nights. The little sh*ts squaring up to the stewards the Douglas Hall match after throwing cans at their supporters can definetely do without this element

They were National Front infiltrators

[Monkfish]

They were National Front infiltrators

Dont be silly, it was Shamrock Rovers at it again! :)

[Lim till i die]

Dont be silly, it was Shamrock Rovers at it again! :)

Who in turn had been infiltrated by Bohs fans who in turn had been infiltrated by the National Front ;)

[oldyouth]

i tink prices are fair & we dont need a load of un supervised kids running around

Does the price of €5 for children include their car parking?:D

[L37Ultra]

Does the price of €5 for children include their car parking?:D


Ya the local children will gladly park your car for you ;):D

[oldyouth]

Ya the local children will gladly park your car for you ;):D
Well done L37 Ultra, taken in the right spirit. See ya for our 1st away game soon. Seems like we played you every week last year:p

[L37Ultra]

Well done L37 Ultra, taken in the right spirit. See ya for our 1st away game soon. Seems like we played you every week last year:p


Yes cant wait :). Hopefully we will get to see your new pink Jerseys ;)

[oldyouth]

Our Suppoerters Club PRO says she will be wearing a Pink Panther outfit at the game. Give it the respect it deserves:D

[KevB76]

As i said there are special offers for the multples but they have to show on match night one to see them, cant explain over the net



Sorry to keep going on about this, but, people like to know what they have to pay beforehand, without any mystery.

I'm sure these special deals are well intended but if I was bringing kids each week these are the questions I would be asking myself:

Will I be charged something different each week?
Will the amount I am charged depend on who I am?
Will the person after me in the queue get a better deal bacause he can drive a better bargain.

Why cant the club just be up-front about its charges, it just looks amatuerish.

[KevB76]

Wouldnt say hordes but there was a few scumbags around some nights. The little sh*ts squaring up to the stewards the Douglas Hall match after throwing cans at their supporters can definetely do without this element


Of course we dont want that element, but they're not the same type of "kids" i was referring to (do you think those little sh*ts were U16?).
Anyway if they were U16, they can still get in unaccompanied by paying a fiver cant they?

[L37Ultra]

Anyway if they were U16, they can still get in unaccompanied by paying a fiver cant they?

Or by hoping the back wall of one of the houses on careys road which they did, so charging U-16's is not going to stop that element. It is just harsh on the Adults who have children U-12 who got in free with them last year but this year they will be charged.

[harpin]

[quote=KevB76;890233](do you think those little sh*ts were U16?).
quote]

Yes yes I do. And can anyone answer me this...Why do young fellas go around with their hands down their pants these days?

[Jofspring]

And can anyone answer me this...Why do young fellas go around with their hands down their pants these days?

and have the bottom of their tracksuit pants tucked into their socks :confused::rolleyes:

[redron]

Wouldnt say hordes but there was a few scumbags around some nights. The little sh*ts squaring up to the stewards the Douglas Hall match after throwing cans at their supporters can definetely do without this element


Of course we dont want that element, but they're not the same type of "kids" i was referring to (do you think those little sh*ts were U16?).
Anyway if they were U16, they can still get in unaccompanied by paying a fiver cant they?


My personal opinion on the matter is that its short-sighted to charge for kids.

Two of those little sh*ts at that Douglas Hall match paid in at the gate as over 16s (I know, because I was stewarding at the gate up until half time that night, and I took their tickets from them as they came in).
It's difficult to justify throwing people out of the ground when you don't actually see an incident. We didn't have enough stewards for three-quarters of last season. Any volunteers?
Anyway, they never came back after that (because they knew we knew who they were).


They were free last season and I dont recall encountering hordes of kids running amok and causing a distraction.

Fact is if someone has to pay for example €12 + €9 for three kids, they'll think twice about it.
Or is it €12 + €3 +€10 for the two who didnt bring their individual adult :confused:

Also in the long term many of the kids who attend will eventually become paying adults, but if they're left at home with mam cos the dad cant be arsed paying the extra €9/€13, then thay are less likely to develop an interest in the club in later years.

I'm in total agreement with this. Last season, kids only got in for free with an accompanying adult.
What the club should be trying to do is encourage consistent regular attendance. The apparent charging structure for this season would, in my opinion, hinder this. Parents might be less inclined to bring the kids to every game they go to, and instead only bring them to the odd one.
The idea of handing out tickets to kids in schools is very good, but each school will probably only get one allocation per season. This is fine for spreading the game, but does nothing to help build up consistent regular attendance.
And there's more to it than charging in for kids at the gate. Think of the other money parents spend on their kids while at the match: burgers, sweets and fizzy drinks, etc.
Also, if kids are regularly attending matches, they are more likely to want to acquire some of the merchandise the club will be selling: cap, scarf, badge, jersey, etc.

To sum up, this idea seems to me to be based on an accountancy exercise. The club obviously needs to seek out ways of increasing its income, and sees the number of kids they let in for free last season as one obvious way of achieving this.
But they don't seem to have fully taken into account the other factors.
Short term, this would be less kids attending the games, and less money spent elsewhere in the ground (match programme, tuck shop, etc.).
Longer term, this would mean less demand for club merchandise, and ultimately, less kids growing up with the club.

The way I think it should be done:
U-12s free with accompanying adult (i.e. primary school kids)
U-16s €3 with accompanying adult
U-18s €5
You could set the minimum age for unaccompanied entrance at 14.

Whatever cut off points you use, they are all arbitrary. But it is important to be clear and reasonable when setting them.

[Lim till i die]

If €3 is a deterrent then they are not that pushed to begin with.

If THREE EURO is a deterrent then how likely are they to buy fizzly pop and the like, let alone merchandise.

In Summary: It's THREE EURO people :rolleyes: