Heil Clegg, the master of PR.

Whilst its good to see an attempt at winning back some fans I think the club are worried by the falling gates and cash flow

Yes, I would expect them to be and applaud them in attempting to get fans in and bums on seats. Plus its against Millwall so hopefully a winnable game to advertise Ipswich further. No point doing this for a game against Southampton for example...

We'll never get significant improvements crowd wise when the prices are cut by such small fractions. Stick your neck out for the fans, we do it every week.

ITFC average attendances since 2001/02 PL relegation season.

2002/3 25,454 7th
2003/4 24,519 5th
2004/5 25,651 3rd
2005/6 24,252 15th
2006/7 22,444 14th
2007/8 21,932 8th
2008/9 20,873 9th
2009/10 20,840 15th
2010/11 19,614 13th
2011/12 18,201 ?

Time for a CEO who knows how to raise crowds its takes more than just lowering prices now and again. ITFC should be the focus of Ipswich and Suffolk like NCFC is in Norwich and Norfolk. Norwich ran offers in tandom with great PR to keep high crowds even with the team in decline. The same conditions exists now with us.

Clegg out.

ITFC, take out the away fans and then see how bad it is.

itfc1981 those stastics are alarming - 7,000 lost supportes in the last 10yrs or so......the club needs to do far more to get those empty seats filled.

Itfc81, any coincidence our attendances have gone down with our performance in the league? Each time we've had a brief improvement the figures have stabilised.

What's wrong with the club offering these deals to try and get people through the door? Especially when they are viewed as a trial to see if cheaper tickets will get bums on seats.

I agree that attendances have been in decline for years BUT look back further than that. Before our last spell in the Premier League we regularly got gates smaller than they are today. Some were as low as 12,000 and 13,000 in the nineties.

It was the 2 seasons in the Prem that saw the big increase and, of course, many of the people that jumped on that particular bandwaggon have gradually wandered away again.

It's nothing to do with CEO's it's about winning matches. Get that right and attendances will rise

If we finish the season strongly we might just be looking at gates going up again next year and, of course, if we mount a promotion challenge next season all of the glory hunters - sorry, lifelong fans - will be back

20 quid make them a tenner and the people will be scrapping over them

I was one of those people regularly watching Ipswich alongside 12,000 or 13,000 other fans back in the nineties. I remember one midweek game (against Barnsley I think) where we got around 9,000. So current attendances are probably what I would expect them to be for a town the size of Ipswich in a rural area. In truth we punch above our weight given the crowds we get.

Having said that, the club has shown that it can get 25,000 through the door every week, as have Norwich which is a club of a similar size to us. The difference is Norwich realised the worth of playing in front of a full stadium every week and priced tickets appropriately, running promotions to reach out to the fans and get them in the ground (and then spending money inside the ground). You have to speculate to accumulate and Norwich should be an example we look to follow.

These days I hardly get down to Portman Road at all. I can't have a season ticket because of work commitments so I have to pay the extortionate match-day prices. Then when I do take advantage of cheap tickets (Middlesbrough) I get shafted by the club, which leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I agree with these ticket promotions but I don't think they go far enough. Drop tickets down to the £10-15 mark and get people inside the ground and spending money.

I also agree with the idea of ticket promotions but there is a limit to what they can do.

By definition season tickets must be the cheapest way to watch matches. If they did too many promotions or if they dropped the price too far they would alienate the seaon ticket holders

Itfc81, any coincidence our attendances have gone down with our performance in the league? of course But as I say in Norwich's case League placing had no relation to crowd size, so thats no excuse for the poor running of ITFC.

We are meant to be owned by a specialist in ticketing yet he cant even get his own club in order.

How the EFF is £20 cheap anyway?!

I don't see why people are criticising an offer of a cheaper ticket. This to me seems to be part of an ongoing experiment to determine whether lowering the ticket prices will increase attendances, which should be encouraged by fans (who have been calling for lower ticket prices for years!)