That there is no new 'offers' on the season tickets. While I appreciate people will respond by saying we offer one of the cheapest season tickets in the league I was hoping the new owners would have promoted an offer similar to Bradford or Huddersfield. We've had to put up with some right **** since January 2017 and while success isn't guaranteed in anything you do, selling pretty much all your best players and failing to offer new fair and reasonable contracts along the way doesn't help matters. It seems a number of fans have become disillusioned with what's happened and an offer on the season tickets would have been a great gesture to try and bring those disillusioned fans back on board and to also tempt new fans to Oakwell (performance / results and player recruitment permitting too!) An offer could have even been promoted on the basis that so many season tickets have to be sold by a certain date or otherwise the price increases to what they are currently advertised at, that way the risk is mitigated somewhat - It's not like we can't afford to do this anymore!
I thought similar.... What we were told at the beginning was that we would see an improved can experience and we were looking to increase revenue streams. The fan experience barring the new hand dryers has stayed the same and not offering anything new on the season tickets means we can't expect much change in the next year at least. We have gambled on an unknown manager and failed to get the experience needed to climb away from the bottom 3 in January so it looks much the same as when Patrick had the club. The difference being Patrick didn't have the finances to make things happen and offer cheaper season tickets to build the fan base whereas if the new board would have wanted they could have looked at putting some cash in to lower ticket prices and entice supporters back. I'm really quite disappointed so far in what we have done on and off the field since the takeover.
I'm disappointed too. To be charging slightly more after how poor this season has been (and half of last), and it's not as if the new owners need the money desperately, is really poor in my opinion. Let alone the fact those prices may be for league one football as is looking fairly likely. I can't justify paying those prices so it's with regret that I probably won't be renewing.
Either it's your religion, and you will go come what may (which the club's advertising today seems to be promoting) or you want to see some entertainment value, in which case you may be one of the 2-3,000 that will 'lapse' following relegation back to League One. I reckon only about a third of our home games this season have been truly entertaining. So while it's good that the prices have effectively been frozen, some will want to see better value on the field to part with their money again. But for those not prepared to exercise 'blind faith' before seeing which league we are in, and what our response to that is in the transfer market, the pricing structure is a disincentive to purchase a season ticket after the April 30 deadline. That may ultimately cost the club some business.
Think that's summed up very nicely. So from the club's point of view it's probably a sensible approach to get people to commit before they see what league we are in.
It would be interesting if they did do that. This thread though is about season ticket prices, in some people's views, being higher than they should be. Not sure what you're on about.
Try re-reading my post! I stated at the bottom if such an offer was promoted they could mitigate or remove the risk by saying so many have to be sold by a certain date otherwise the cost reverts to what's its currently advertised at! I understood why Cryne was unwilling to do it but jeez given the combined wealth of our new owners I just thought it would be something positive and really get the fans onside!!
I honestly don’t see how much cheaper you think they should make it. If they’d priced it at £150 for adults there’d be a decent take up but nothing special. And folk would be less bothered about missing games, there’d be two or three thousand not turn up every home game, and less availability to sell tickets match by match. It’d generate less money in the first place, cost money on match by match ticket sales and little to no improvement on stuff like food and drink sales. It would just be giving money away for no reason. Don’t be fooled into thinking the club is rich. It isn’t. It is merely owned be a consortium of people who are, allegedly, very wealthy. That wealth though is theirs, not anything to do with Barnsley FC. It is also guessed based on the nominal worth of the various other businesses they are owners of. They did not buy the club to throw money at it like the folk at wolves. They never at any point suggested that they would. They even said they wouldn’t go crazy and that the club would continue to live within its means; that they would use their contacts and expertise to increase those means. I honestly don’t see what some folk aren’t comprehending, not necessarily on this thread but folk clearly think that we won the lottery. They aren’t opening the chequebook any time soon and they aren’t going to piss money away experimenting with halving ticket prices in the hope they’ll shift more. We aren’t Bradford or anything like the size of it. Huddersfield have an owner prepared to fund such experiments. Our owners have no emotional attachment to the football club or any responsibility to fund anything to do with the club with their own funds. And they are very unlikely to do that.
Personally no Matter which league we are in or how we are performing I will still continue to get a season ticket. Not sure how you can decide if you will go or not based on what the recruitment will be (like some have said) or which league. But that’s just my opinion. Supporting your team is like a marriage, through good times and the bad.
I can understand the standpoint that home games have been toilet for over a year and value for money is lesser as a result. It's also the case that season tickets are extremely cheap and any rise seems to be a very moderate one. You've also got to look at it in business terms, inflation is high, meaning many of our costs have probably gone up in the last year, player wage inflation has also probably boomed again off the back of the cascading inflationary effect of high end TV monies to the prem. If the new owners have the intent of changing the club it will take time. And while I'm patient in allowing them time to do that, I'm also keen to hear in some form of detail what their plans and strategies are for advancing the club... if that's their intent. With the amount of time in close season, I'd be very disappointed come the start of next season if we're still collectively none the wiser as to what they wish to do with this club and some outline strategy for doing it.
Only we would find billionaire owners who don't want to spend money on the club. Such a Barnsley thing to do!
When the season ticket renewal comes around, the only thing which is guaranteed is that some people will complain , nothing wrong with that , its human nature . I personally think in today"s football market they are cheap, especially when you think what matchday prices are likely to be, but at the end of the day its down to the individual to decide whether to have one or not , the club are offering various ways in which people can purchase in order to be helpful but people will always find fault & of course every ones circumstances vary so the club cannot cater for everybody , its impossible
