Just reading that an early bird season ticket in East Stand Lower is £330,bought after the early bird dates it's then £405.That seems such a big difference to pay.Was it same last season?
East Lower last season Frozen price £315 ( for anyone who bought previous seasons ticket during early bird period) Regular early bird (3rd April to 30th April) £330 May offer (any time during may) £370 Regular price (1st June onwards) £405 East lower this season Early bird (3rd April to 30th April) £330 Regular (1dt may inwards) £405 So basically the change other than not having a frozen price is that they have scrapped the may price band
It should be £200 season ticket...... £20 pay on the gate after what the fans have had to endure over the last season n half. Give something back to the fans that have parted with their hard earned cash and put up wi the ***** on the field.... All this while the clubs bank balance has been apparently been rising due to the sale of our key players. Give something back to the customers.
The season tickets are sound & I think you will find that they are as cheap if not cheaper than a lot of division one clubs , its the match day prices that need reducing but I think we are all singing from the same hymn sheet with that one
We have a fan base of between 11 and 12 thousand ish that turn up to games, most have season tickets, the rest pay on the day, some go to every game the others pick and choose, regardless of ticket prices it stays roughly the same despite what offers they put on, a few years back it was £20 a game with no category pricing and we still got the same core support, no matter what the pricing band we end up with around the same attendances give or take a thousand, if it’s a fiver for a friend or a one off game for £20 20s plenty promotion, we get the same people turning up, other fans just aren’t bothered about being supporters anymore, so the club have no option but to price the tickets at a level where the can get the money they need to run the club from the supporters they have.
The club have the option of producing on the pitch regularly, not once a flood, then the fan base will rise, even more so with sensible pricing.
I'm not sure I fully agree with that. The thing with a promotion is that people have to a) see it and b) be available and want to go then. If prices were constantly lower then people may come along more often when it suits them, which in turn may make them want to come more often and eventually get a season ticket. A lot of season ticket holders seem to presume that everyone loves football and wants to go and the only thing stopping non ST holders is that they are too tight to pay up or simply can't afford it. Their solution is then always to suggest paying on finance, or saving up or other strategies to try and make the money. That's fine and well and good advice to those who do fit in that category but what too many people seem to not think about, are those who aren't that bothered about football yet. The sort of people who at the minute could take it or leave it - and are leaving it because the prices are too high to justify when they're not that bothered about going in the first place, or the special offer which they would pay is on an inconvenient date and they don't care enough to be inconvenienced yet. What you want to do is encourage those people to get interested and eventually become such big fans that they decide to become season ticket holders. The way to do that is to make it so that whatever random date they decide they might go along falls on, the price isn't too high. For example, my mates know I go to football and said they might come along one time. They asked how much the next match was and it was £30 so they politely said thanks but no thanks. My work colleague was going to take her daughter for her birthday and looked online to see what the prices are at Bradford on the closest date. She decided she'd rather get her a shirt she can wear all the time than attend one match. Both those groups of people probably won't ever bother checking again because they'll just remember that it was expensive last time they looked and it's unlikely to get any cheaper. Had the price been cheaper they may have gone and enjoyed it and wanted to go again. If a special offer comes up and a) they see it and b) it's on a convenient date they may decide to go but they may also just decide not to bother as they'd already made peace with not going and the fancying of going has already passed. It needs to be affordable at the customer's convenience, and that includes pay on the day.
Totally agree. Exactly why I would stick £100 extra on every season ticket. Pay on the day fans would just be additional income then.
Thats mental though? Why should people be charged an extra 100 quid when its enough already and we certainly arent arent getting much for our money. The club messed up and sent us on a downward spiral, we as fans shouldnt have to 'carry the can'.
People constantly underestimate how many fans are caught up in and affected by category pricing. 1,000 people may pay for an individual game, but they aren't the same 1,000 people each time.
