What annoys me (every year) about our ticket pricing

Is why is a match day ticket the same price for an East stand upper tier ticket as it is for a ponty end ticket but a season ticket for the east stand upper tier is £85 more expensive than one for the ponty end.

If you are a pay on the day fan there is no penalty for wanting a good view but if you commit your money and buy a season ticket in advance there's a £85 fine.

 

And.

 

What bugs me (and this really is little and really doesn't matter) is how the club refer to the Ponty end as "The South Stand". Whilst technically correct, it will always be the Ponty end ... or the Ponty sponsored by xxx, or the xxx Ponty end (or the Ora stand).

 

My take on this is:

When sponsored, they refer to it by the sponsor’s name. However, for certain announcements, they refer to the stands by East, West etc. This is for more formal announcements and usually linked to H&S announcement etc. No confusion then.

In the back of match day tickets, it used to say East and West etc. As they were printed in bulk and could last over 1 season.

 

Interesting perspective, I wonder if the stretford end, the kop etc are referred to like this in similar situations

 

I know you say that there's no confusion but if you are a first timer going to a game how would you know which stand faces which way?
To confuse matters further the south stand logically would be the stand which is most southerly (is the one which faces north) right? Well that's the Brittania drilling corner stand then. The ponty end should be the south west stand as that's where it faces.

 

Is this entirely true though? Or are you allowed to do many promotions a season where you can charge the away fans fully whack and your home fans less money.

Reason I ask is I live in Huddersfield and the majority of my friends follow hudds last season they must of had lower home ticket prices than away on at least 10 occasions one of them being when we played them and I paid £30 and my mate paid £5. I realise this example is extreme pricing but they did reduce their tickets prices a lot throughout the season definitely a lot more than you see at oakwell.

 

Doesn't really matter in the prem as the most you can charge away fans is 30 quid

 

Quite a few times at Huddersfield they have got round the rules by having local businesses pay the difference so technically against us the home fans still paid £30 but a local business paid £25 of it leaving only a fiver left to pay. They than gave thanks to the local company quite regularly and clearly. Essentially using money from a sponsor to fund a price reduction but not calling it that to get round the rules.

At least that's what it looks like to me