Hands in pockets and butt in the seats – Sheffield Wednesday must get the right price for this season’s tickets – The Joe Crann Chronicle UK News

According to a survey of more than 1,000 people we conducted at The Star, 80.3% of Wednesdays think the club’s ticketing structure needs a “radical” change, with 70.2% saying their feelings towards the club have worsened since the start of the pandemic. .

Worse yet, 37.5% have gone so far as to say they now feel “totally out of touch” with the club, and that’s a worrying number.

Dejphon Chansiri certainly has a job to do in the coming months. This disconnection needs to be corrected, wounds need to be healed and bridges need to begin to be rebuilt …

Obviously that’s easier said than done, but you can’t help but think that if Wednesday is going to continue, and if this season is going to be a success under Darren Moore, then win back the fans and bring them back into the game. the soil will play a big role in it.

Since the start of the pandemic, many fans have been hit hard economically, and when you add to that the feeling of discontent and eventual relegation to League One, it may not come as a major surprise as to why so many fans are feeling this. they are feeling – and why so many refund requests on their 2019/20 subscriptions.

Subscription refunds are still a hot topic at the moment as the process has “taken a lot longer than expected”, and there is still 2020/21 to process and whatever could happen for 2021/22 based on government guidelines in place.

It is vital that Wednesday gets it right. And this process must begin as soon as possible.

Whether it’s reduced fares (subscriptions and match days), additional incentives, a regular return of the “kid a quid” program or other similar suggestions, the fact is that many fans footballers have found other things to do with their weekends, and / or they just can’t afford to watch Wednesdays as much as they could before.

Senior Wednesdays know how the 2011/12 promotion season felt. Now it’s up to the club to try to forge that kind of atmosphere again – because as it stands, it seems difficult to reach the 17,000 and 21,000 home spectators on average. last two seasons of the Owls in the third level.

That might oversimplify things, but it’s surely better to have more fans paying less money each than fewer fans paying more money. Hands in pockets and buttocks on the seats, that’s what Wednesday must try to achieve.

And if they get the ticket prices right, with the support of the fans Moore has managed to house and the growing sense of a team rebuild, then they stand a chance.

The season starts in two months and time is running out.

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