That includes 2000 Everton fans up to now Shut the west stand at least it will look Farley full and hope the cameras facing the other way haha I don't blame non season tickets holders watching at home or in the pub £20 for a league cup 2nd round game is too much Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I can mostly only make midweek games, and obviously not a season ticket holder. I do begrudge paying £20 for a ticket when everyone around me gets in for half price. And I don't really want to watch it on tv, so £20 it is. Do I get a discount with a Colchester stub?
as a season ticket holder , i think 20 pounds is too much to attract any others to come especially when its on sky . Would have made it a tenner for everybody and a fiver for concessions . Missed opportunity to attract new fans and the staying at home /pub fans
Everyone getting in half price has already payed between £300 and £400 to the club already I dont think you can really complain at the fact they get a discount
Completely agree. Typical Barnsley attitude though. £20 to watch Barnsley take on premier league opposition. The return of our best export. Decent that.
totally disagree. I'm just as much of a fan even though I can't get to all games. If I make 18 matches a season, I contribute £432 to the club (slightly more than an ST holder). Yet I pay a tenner more for a one off match. ST holders seem to hold God-like status on the simple premise that they pay the club up front. As the other reply to this says, £20 to watch Prem opposition and the return of our favourite son is 'OK' ........ and I earn a reasonable salary so it shouldn't affect me, but it IS a missed opportunity to get the floaters in and attract them to the Oakwell experience.
The club wants to encourage ST sales so there must be clear benefits to fans for doing this. Its your choice to pay more than a ST holder - no idea why you would do this - I get to around 10 home games a season but still have a Season ticket so I give the club more than I need to. You could argue that the pricing is not correct and £20 is too high for a league cup game - and I could have some sympathy for that argument - personally I would have thought £15 for non ST holders would be a fair price, but I dont accept the argument that there shouldnt be a discount for ST holders and irregular fans should pay the same
ST holders (inc me) already get cheap football And priority on other games. To make non ST holders pay TWICE what we do is grotesque.
As an ST holder, I was pretty surprised non-ST were charged double. Especially with it being on telly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It wasn't a complaint about them getting a discount. More that the club are not trying to fill the stadium, A tenner for season tickets holders, then doubling the price for those that want to be season ticket holders, but who work EVERY Saturday. Maybe £12 or even £15, but double? When it's on tv?
You mean irregular fans that work EVERY Saturday, yes I know a lot don't, but more and more people do. I've worked in food retail for 15 years, Saturday is the busiest trading day.
I suspect the £20 figure has been dreamed up to catch those who are coming to watch an Everton side. What's been forgotten about it those that do regularly buy home tickets. We've heard a lot about this CRM system the club now have. Shouldn't there have been an offer to those who did buy a certain number of home tickets last season to get a discount also? Or even those who have bought the tickets for the first or second games of the season? (Maybe even away games) I don't think £20 is unreasonable to watch us take on Everton either but charging regular fans who haven't got a season ticket double does send out a negative message to those fans.
I think you have summed up the quandary of trying to satisfy all types of fan in one post. Yes, ST holders should see some form of benefit for boosting the club coffers at a time when an injection of finance is required, i.e. close season. But by the same token, fair-weather fans, long distance fans (like your good self) and floaters / unemployed amongst the 8k or so 'missing' since probably the miners strike, would also surely benefit from some sort of incentive to get back to the ground? And charging them £20 for a non-event such as a League Cup round 2 match (albeit a Prem team) is not the way to attract them. As I say, personally £20 doesn't affect me, but there are many amongst the 'missing' who can't stretch to that. I feel for them. other commitments, and a bit of distance (though nothing like yours). Plus I am fast approaching 50, I drive around 1000 miles a week at times and some Saturdays I am just not up for it. You have no idea why I do this, but it seems you are just as happy to give them more than you need ? Contradictory. Bottom line, we both swell the clubs coffers in 'slightly' different ways, donating more than we actually need to (notwithstanding the travel costs) yet next week I pay twice what you do. If that is fair, we are going to have to differ.
Why can't you complain about ST's getting it cheaper? They have many more discounts/incentives etc and they've paid up front for league matches. Let Ben and Patrick keep going down this road of hanging out of the back end of the ST holders and that's all they'll have watching them next season, unless of course, the miracle of promotion happens.
Along those lines, but as Gally says you can get a hell of a lot of stats and reporting from a decent CRM system. I shouldn't have to find stubs when the ticket office could press a couple of buttons and say "ah yes, Andy and Tom attended X amount of matches last year and the daft b4st4rds even attended the pre-season games" ............ I'd have loved an incentive, or the occasional marketing mail to make me sit up and take notice.