by Stevie Clarke » Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:42 pm
Excellent post tumbleweed. I'll add the 50/50 draw. I've started jotting down the odd 50/50 winner tweets from other clubs.
Montrose v Peterhead recently, attendance 698, 50/50 prize £400.
Albion Rovers v Stenhousemuir, attendance 210, prize £200.
St Johnstone v Morton (SC), attendance 2,397, prize £513.
Accies v Aberdeen, probably 450-500 Accies fans, prize £80.
Accies v Livingston, attendance 1,487, prize £170.
Accies v Celtic, attendance 4,708, prize £400.
Accies v "Rangers" , attendance 4,050, prize £300.
Accies v Edinburgh City, attendance 1,040 (oh my sides!), prize £70.
Reason for such a poor uptake of tickets is obvious. For years the sellers, usually youth team players, have stood at the trackside fence next to the programme seller. If you didn't know better you would think we didn't have a half time draw. At Albion Rovers, the seller or sellers are right there facing you after you've gone through the turnstiles. Maybe there is an element of distrust at Accies too, as the winners usually come from hospitality. Does anyone know someone who has actually won it? Just looking at that Montrose figure we can see that Accies are throwing away potentially at least £400 every single home game for very little extra effort. Just someone with a bit of common sense to say to the boys, don't stand at the fence, engage with the fans as soon as they enter the ground. But this is a club with a pitiful club shop, embarrassing website, the worst match programme in Scotland year on year, that charges kids from 0-18 £12. Plus all the other stuff previously mentioned. And...and we trust one person to deal with the safety of almost a million pounds! I tend to agree with Craig Telfer from A View from the Terrace : "Ridiculous club".