January Transfer Window, 25/26 Season

[jd1981]

Aren't the vast majority of Championship games on the red button anyway now? Not 100% sure but isn't it just the 3pm Saturday games that aren't available?

Yep just Saturday 3pm so you’ve got very few games that the only way you can watch it legally is by being there.
People will always attend games for various reasons habit, something to do, escapism and social reasons even if the game isn’t that appealing.

 

[Tredman]

Yep just Saturday 3pm so you’ve got very few games that the only way you can watch it legally is by being there.

If your only motivation in going to games is to actually watch the match then I think that ship has sailed long ago. Actually dropping down to the champ might make that argument more valid rather than less.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Hierarchy at the club need to understand that the hardcore of fans is only between 12-15k so you have real battle on enticing fans back through door when the PL status is removed.
we’ll play 23 home games im guessing 4 will be midweek before Sky get there hands on it. About the same number budged to Friday nights and about 5-6 moved to 1230 Saturday lunchtime gives you at best 9-10 Saturday 3pm games most were craving. That’s 13 games fans can sit at home instead of forking out to actually go and watch.
It’s a massive problem they need to realise, that’s before we even get onto the demographics of the fanbase.

Albion if they stay up will be 12.00 on a Sunday. Blues too possibly.

 

[Langers]

My main motivation for going is the Great Western. Only been once since Covid I think.

 

[Tony Towner]

Hierarchy at the club need to understand that the hardcore of fans is only between 12-15k so you have real battle on enticing fans back through door when the PL status is removed.
we’ll play 23 home games im guessing 4 will be midweek before Sky get there hands on it. About the same number budged to Friday nights and about 5-6 moved to 1230 Saturday lunchtime gives you at best 9-10 Saturday 3pm games most were craving. That’s 13 games fans can sit at home instead of forking out to actually go and watch.
It’s a massive problem they need to realise, that’s before we even get onto the demographics of the fanbase.

It's less than 9 or 10 if you are successful. Leicester didn't have a 3pm home game until November 22nd when the schedulers caught up with them being crap. Leeds had 7 last year I think. Anecdotally it doesn't feel like Derby have many home games at that time.

 

[jd1981]

It's less than 9 or 10 if you are successful. Leicester didn't have a 3pm home game until November 22nd when the schedulers caught up with them being crap. Leeds had 7 last year I think. Anecdotally it doesn't feel like Derby have many home games at that time.

Yep I was being liberal with the reality, you basically get the same pain in the arse fixture movements with lesser quality.
The Saturday lunchtime games need chucking in the sea. No one likes it, football is very close to abolishing the Saturday 3pm black outs to I think.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

were discussing that saturday. general consensus was that reasonably there is an expectation ST's come down by £200 or more, alongside an acknowledgment that senior management fucked things up. Unlikely to happen, and many people are likely to have a tough decision to make in the summer I expect.

Prices are £250 or more compared to average ST prices in the championship. Be interesting to see what kinda benchmarking we do then.

Also noticeable that as others mentioned saturday, Shi 2 has said v little about ticket prices, but is distancing himself - by saying there is an internal review being conducted by others.

A £200 reduction was exactly the conversation [agreed number] that we came up with in the pub after the last game. Unless lemonjelly is someone I know in person and not online and it was the same conversation!

 

[jd1981]

I think from 16 jan until about mid March I think you can watch a game everyday or night without a break from either of Englands top 4 divisions or European competition if you have all the packages, over 50 days

 

[lemonjelly]

A £200 reduction was exactly the conversation [agreed number] that we came up with in the pub after the last game. Unless lemonjelly is someone I know in person and not online and it was the same conversation!

we were having the chat pre match sir, but nice to see we agree!

 

[lemonjelly]

My main motivation for going is the Great Western. Only been once since Covid I think.

PACK FTW.

 

[Langers]

PACK FTW.

Can't believe I've still not been here yet!

 

[Lycan]

PACK is quite good tbf. Very weird how it's basically still a KFC upstairs though.

 

[Jack Regan]

Only problem I've found with PACK is they never have anything high ABV above 6% on. I love a NEIPA (which tend to be at least 6.5,%) or DIPA but never seen anything like that on so far.

I guess it's because they want to stick to pints, and once you go around that ABV they obviously get more expensive and are likely to get people pissed easier. And judging from the only other proper craft beer place in Wolves (that lasted about 18 months) most people who went in didn't want to be drinking anything other than a pint, especially if they're paying upwards of a fiver for the privilege.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

You just wait til the news reaches Ireland

So tempting...

 

[lemonjelly]

Only problem I've found with PACK is they never have anything high ABV above 6% on. I love a NEIPA (which tend to be at least 6.5,%) or DIPA but never seen anything like that on so far.

I guess it's because they want to stick to pints, and once you go around that ABV they obviously get more expensive and are likely to get people pissed easier. And judging from the only other proper craft beer place in Wolves (that lasted about 18 months) most people who went in didn't want to be drinking anything other than a pint, especially if they're paying upwards of a fiver for the privilege.

Oh they do! Someone was enjoying a 7% beer not too long ago. First half went down in 10-15 minutes. Someone then pointed out it's strength and he nursed it for an hour as he was driving!

ON the pricing issue, almost everywhere is north of a pint now isn't it? (says the person who only has the odd half...)

 

[Jack Regan]

Must just be unfortunate timing when I've been in then.

Anyway one for the beer thread rather than here.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

A quarter of Championship games are 12:30 Saturday, 1/6 is either Friday or Monday. With Wolves at face value to TV schedulers being relatively attractive I doubt we’ll get more than about 8 home games at 3pm on a Saturday.

Unless STs fall by at least £200 can’t see crowds above 25,000 being very common. No doubt by we’ll make a “signing of intent” in the week before renewals close, what happens after that is far less predictable.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I think regardless of when it is played Albion (hopefully not!) Blues and Stoke games will be 25k plus, Leeds or West Ham if one of them drops, then one or 2 rivals around us if we are doing well.

 

[Lycan]

Stoke?

I know they try to engineer a rivalry as they never get to play Vale but do any Wolves fans actually care about them?

 

[C.L.D]

This might be a naïve question, but can someone help me, a non-ticket-buying fan, why attendance gets so much lower in the Championship? Excepting midweek games.

Your team NBA team is New Orleans and in the Western Conference you're playing week after week against the superstars in that conference despite being epically shit yourselves. Then next season Adam Silver brings back the Sonics, and suddenly your team is forced into the Eastern Conference...