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Post by boooothy on Apr 29, 2024 14:54:30 GMT 1
65 inch Tvs and Huddersfield Town season tickets. The only things that go down in price. Fascinating.
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Post by townarentbest on Apr 29, 2024 14:56:31 GMT 1
£249.00 was extra special for the one season, its not something that was ever expected to be repeated. Circa £300 - £350 is predicted and still very very fair by L1 standards. Incorrect...it wasn't a gift, it was a reset of the pricing, to reflect the cost of living challenges, and doing the right thing in response to that - probably whilst being mindful and recognising firstly that had the price been £300 or £350+, then revenue would likely have gone down, and secondly that a fluctuation of a couple hundred k here and there is not going to make one jot of a difference to the clubs financial state and ability to sustain at any given level - when on the other hand the club for at least the last 15-20 years has massively underperformed on the commercial side of the house, where there's much more significant gains that could be made. www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/football/news/huddersfield-town-reduce-202324-season-26683359"Also at a time where the cost of living is at the forefront of our minds, doing what we can to ensure that being a Town fan isn’t a financial burden and available to as many Terriers as possible is only the right thing to do. Nothings changed significantly in the last year, the cost of living is still at the forefront of many fans minds.
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Post by Junior & Onuora on Apr 29, 2024 14:57:33 GMT 1
Absolutely ridiculous that price discrepancy. That year it was £423 in the Kilner Bank and £560 in the Riverside upper. Is it really 33% 'better' in there? Hardly the prawn sandwich tier. Sounds bonkers but i think some folk liked that. It was something to brag about that you were in the upper tier. They should give it a face lift and charge double so the well off can look down on the peasants. I think you mean look directly across at them in many instances. 😉
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Post by Sio on Apr 29, 2024 15:05:30 GMT 1
£249.00 was extra special for the one season, its not something that was ever expected to be repeated. Circa £300 - £350 is predicted and still very very fair by L1 standards. You’d still be asking people to pay more money on the back of 2 awful seasons AND we’ll be playing at a lower level next year. Also, we’ve got worse since Nagle took over, nearly every decision that has been made since he came in has been a bad one. I think he’s got good intentions but he completely underestimated what he was taking on, and it’s gonna cost him a lot more money now to sort it out. He can do what he likes, he owns the club, but he needs to realise that we’ll lose a big chunk of fans if prices go up, and they’re very difficult to get back. The poster is likely fed info to test the response on here - his previous 'opinion' from a few months ago on what prices should be were almost identical to the prices subsequently quoted at the ATT. So, the club are reading, and clearly still aren't learning.
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Post by fredcarno1 on Apr 29, 2024 15:25:16 GMT 1
Can we just get this notion out of our heads that cheap tickets is some kind of philanthropic gesture by the club. It was a business decision to have a fuller stadium, bringing in extra revenue from other streams (catering, shirts etc). It’s also about getting new fans and young fans to come down and become supporters for life. Even a reasonable increase will not pay for one decent standard signing.
You also loose people that who can’t attend most games but carry on getting a season cards out of habit. I work shifts and it probably doesn’t work in my favour to get one at £250, and one of my group has 2 season cards that have only been used twice, so if between us we go to pay on the day the club will be losing. Suspect there’s many in the same boat. Big rise and I won’t bother. It will be pay on the day if I can even be bothered enduring a load of garbage players going through the motions playing soul destroying football.
It’s largely immaterial what other clubs pay as people will see any price rise vs what they are paying now for football that is absolutely awful played by a set of players who play like they don’t give a shit.
We’re told that the prices are unsustainable whilst we continue to pay off the contracts of appalling managers and players appointed by people like Cartwright who themselves will be drawing hefty 6 figure salaries.
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Post by mallyb on Apr 29, 2024 15:42:00 GMT 1
Can we just get this notion out of our heads that cheap tickets is some kind of philanthropic gesture by the club. It was a business decision to have a fuller stadium, bringing in extra revenue from other streams (catering, shirts etc). It’s also about getting new fans and young fans to come down and become supporters for life. Even a reasonable increase will not pay for one decent standard signing. You also loose people that who can’t attend most games but carry on getting a season cards out of habit. I work shifts and it probably doesn’t work in my favour to get one at £250, and one of my group has 2 season cards that have only been used twice, so if between us we go to pay on the day the club will be losing. Suspect there’s many in the same boat. Big rise and I won’t bother. It will be pay on the day if I can even be bothered enduring a load of garbage players going through the motions playing soul destroying football. It’s largely immaterial what other clubs pay as people will see any price rise vs what they are paying now for football that is absolutely awful played by a set of players who play like they don’t give a shit. We’re told that the prices are unsustainable whilst we continue to pay off the contracts of appalling managers and players appointed by people like Cartwright who themselves will be drawing hefty 6 figure salaries. What’s Cartwrights salary got to do with anything? Or ex managers payoffs? We have to pay off managers salaries and for the most part the sackings are what the majority of fans demanded. Such a terrible attitude to life in general. What they are getting doesn’t affect you at all. Prices need to go up, cheap tickets aren’t filling the stadium, like you say you and your mate hardly attend. You will be replaced if we are playing winning football next season with new fans or you will come back. £10 a game is too cheap and we need change in mindset of the fans. Some complain on here about shirt prices, food and drink prices but will go out and think nothing of spending £50-£100 on a night out every week. Priorities, and town clearly aren’t your priority so we shouldn’t be pricing tickets to suit you and your mate.
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Post by brighousebandbred on Apr 29, 2024 15:47:30 GMT 1
Can we just get this notion out of our heads that cheap tickets is some kind of philanthropic gesture by the club. It was a business decision to have a fuller stadium, bringing in extra revenue from other streams (catering, shirts etc). It’s also about getting new fans and young fans to come down and become supporters for life. Even a reasonable increase will not pay for one decent standard signing. You also loose people that who can’t attend most games but carry on getting a season cards out of habit. I work shifts and it probably doesn’t work in my favour to get one at £250, and one of my group has 2 season cards that have only been used twice, so if between us we go to pay on the day the club will be losing. Suspect there’s many in the same boat. Big rise and I won’t bother. It will be pay on the day if I can even be bothered enduring a load of garbage players going through the motions playing soul destroying football. It’s largely immaterial what other clubs pay as people will see any price rise vs what they are paying now for football that is absolutely awful played by a set of players who play like they don’t give a shit. We’re told that the prices are unsustainable whilst we continue to pay off the contracts of appalling managers and players appointed by people like Cartwright who themselves will be drawing hefty 6 figure salaries. What’s Cartwrights salary got to do with anything? Or ex managers payoffs? We have to pay off managers salaries and for the most part the sackings are what the majority of fans demanded. Such a terrible attitude to life in general. What they are getting doesn’t affect you at all. Prices need to go up, cheap tickets aren’t filling the stadium, like you say you and your mate hardly attend. You will be replaced if we are playing winning football next season with new fans or you will come back. £10 a game is too cheap and we need change in mindset of the fans. Some complain on here about shirt prices, food and drink prices but will go out and think nothing of spending £50-£100 on a night out every week. Priorities, and town clearly aren’t your priority so we shouldn’t be pricing tickets to suit you and your mate. This attitude thankgod is not portrayed by the club, good marketing tries to include all or as many folk as possible, your post is one the club would definitely not want to portray , so has a life long town fan ignore this and if town unfortunately out price you this year , hopefully there are decent offers on pay as you go to draw you back into supporting YOUR CLUB 👍 if you are out priced for renewal.
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Post by H6dds on Apr 29, 2024 15:48:06 GMT 1
Can we just get this notion out of our heads that cheap tickets is some kind of philanthropic gesture by the club. It was a business decision to have a fuller stadium, bringing in extra revenue from other streams (catering, shirts etc). It’s also about getting new fans and young fans to come down and become supporters for life. Even a reasonable increase will not pay for one decent standard signing. You also loose people that who can’t attend most games but carry on getting a season cards out of habit. I work shifts and it probably doesn’t work in my favour to get one at £250, and one of my group has 2 season cards that have only been used twice, so if between us we go to pay on the day the club will be losing. Suspect there’s many in the same boat. Big rise and I won’t bother. It will be pay on the day if I can even be bothered enduring a load of garbage players going through the motions playing soul destroying football. It’s largely immaterial what other clubs pay as people will see any price rise vs what they are paying now for football that is absolutely awful played by a set of players who play like they don’t give a shit. We’re told that the prices are unsustainable whilst we continue to pay off the contracts of appalling managers and players appointed by people like Cartwright who themselves will be drawing hefty 6 figure salaries. What’s Cartwrights salary got to do with anything? Or ex managers payoffs? We have to pay off managers salaries and for the most part the sackings are what the majority of fans demanded. Such a terrible attitude to life in general. What they are getting doesn’t affect you at all. Prices need to go up, cheap tickets aren’t filling the stadium, like you say you and your mate hardly attend. You will be replaced if we are playing winning football next season with new fans or you will come back. £10 a game is too cheap and we need change in mindset of the fans. Some complain on here about shirt prices, food and drink prices but will go out and think nothing of spending £50-£100 on a night out every week. Priorities, and town clearly aren’t your priority so we shouldn’t be pricing tickets to suit you and your mate. If the board had got 10% of the decisions right instead of 0% (not a big ask) they could have given away the season tickets for free and be better off financially than we are now. That’s why it matters
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Post by Tango on Apr 29, 2024 16:09:10 GMT 1
These were the season ticket prices in 2015/16: www.htafc.com/news/2015/june/201516-season-cards-on-sale/Adult prices ranged from £295 (Fantastic Media/North Stand Lower) to £560 (Revell Ward/Riverside Upper). Adjusted for inflation, that's £392 and £745 in today's money. Show's how good we've had it (or how bad it was), depending on your perspective! Absolutely ridiculous that price discrepancy. That year it was £423 in the Kilner Bank and £560 in the Riverside upper. Is it really 33% 'better' in there? Hardly the prawn sandwich tier. Also worth noting that the 'best seats' in that stand (the middle two blocks, probably totalling around 500 seats) are not available at those prices as these are where those in the White Rose Club & other corporate areas sit, which they sell for considerably more! So you can arguably get a better view (halfway line) in the top middle of the Kilner Bank than you can in the Riverside Upper.
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Post by fredcarno1 on Apr 29, 2024 16:23:15 GMT 1
Can we just get this notion out of our heads that cheap tickets is some kind of philanthropic gesture by the club. It was a business decision to have a fuller stadium, bringing in extra revenue from other streams (catering, shirts etc). It’s also about getting new fans and young fans to come down and become supporters for life. Even a reasonable increase will not pay for one decent standard signing. You also loose people that who can’t attend most games but carry on getting a season cards out of habit. I work shifts and it probably doesn’t work in my favour to get one at £250, and one of my group has 2 season cards that have only been used twice, so if between us we go to pay on the day the club will be losing. Suspect there’s many in the same boat. Big rise and I won’t bother. It will be pay on the day if I can even be bothered enduring a load of garbage players going through the motions playing soul destroying football. It’s largely immaterial what other clubs pay as people will see any price rise vs what they are paying now for football that is absolutely awful played by a set of players who play like they don’t give a shit. We’re told that the prices are unsustainable whilst we continue to pay off the contracts of appalling managers and players appointed by people like Cartwright who themselves will be drawing hefty 6 figure salaries. What’s Cartwrights salary got to do with anything? Or ex managers payoffs? We have to pay off managers salaries and for the most part the sackings are what the majority of fans demanded. Such a terrible attitude to life in general. What they are getting doesn’t affect you at all. Prices need to go up, cheap tickets aren’t filling the stadium, like you say you and your mate hardly attend. You will be replaced if we are playing winning football next season with new fans or you will come back. £10 a game is too cheap and we need change in mindset of the fans. Some complain on here about shirt prices, food and drink prices but will go out and think nothing of spending £50-£100 on a night out every week. Priorities, and town clearly aren’t your priority so we shouldn’t be pricing tickets to suit you and your mate. If fans don’t need the likes of me and my mates as long standing fans of 40 plus years fair dos. They can stick to super fans like you who’ll swallowed any old dross.
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Post by brighousebandbred on Apr 29, 2024 16:27:35 GMT 1
What’s Cartwrights salary got to do with anything? Or ex managers payoffs? We have to pay off managers salaries and for the most part the sackings are what the majority of fans demanded. Such a terrible attitude to life in general. What they are getting doesn’t affect you at all. Prices need to go up, cheap tickets aren’t filling the stadium, like you say you and your mate hardly attend. You will be replaced if we are playing winning football next season with new fans or you will come back. £10 a game is too cheap and we need change in mindset of the fans. Some complain on here about shirt prices, food and drink prices but will go out and think nothing of spending £50-£100 on a night out every week. Priorities, and town clearly aren’t your priority so we shouldn’t be pricing tickets to suit you and your mate. If fans don’t need the likes of me and my mates as long standing fans of 40 plus years fair dos. They can stick to super fans like you who’ll swallowed any old dross. HTFC does need fans like you , 40 years of following town and somebody else’s attitude to your worth as a town fan isn’t worth a bean. I’ve followed town for a similar amount of time and I can say every fan ESPECIALLY someone with your long history is part of the family and needed when ever you can attend even more so now . UTT ignore the poster it’s not what we are as club .
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Post by mallyb on Apr 29, 2024 17:33:50 GMT 1
What’s Cartwrights salary got to do with anything? Or ex managers payoffs? We have to pay off managers salaries and for the most part the sackings are what the majority of fans demanded. Such a terrible attitude to life in general. What they are getting doesn’t affect you at all. Prices need to go up, cheap tickets aren’t filling the stadium, like you say you and your mate hardly attend. You will be replaced if we are playing winning football next season with new fans or you will come back. £10 a game is too cheap and we need change in mindset of the fans. Some complain on here about shirt prices, food and drink prices but will go out and think nothing of spending £50-£100 on a night out every week. Priorities, and town clearly aren’t your priority so we shouldn’t be pricing tickets to suit you and your mate. This attitude thankgod is not portrayed by the club, good marketing tries to include all or as many folk as possible, your post is one the club would definitely not want to portray , so has a life long town fan ignore this and if town unfortunately out price you this year , hopefully there are decent offers on pay as you go to draw you back into supporting YOUR CLUB 👍 if you are out priced for renewal. What attitude are you talking about. He hardly attends so will only get a tickets if they stay at £10 a game. Fans like that leave the stadium with empty seats most weeks not buying programmes or food and drink because they aren’t there. As much as you might like the idea of football being some charity based on your ability to pay rather than the value of the product itself n the market it’s not. It’s a business and marketing is not about lowering prices to cater for everybody it’s about making money by identifying your target and making sure you product and message align with your target market. Maybe that target market is people who only want to pay a tenner a game and make it to 3 games a season but I doubt it. When the team plays badly the crowd will fall away when we have a winning team the place will be full. Americans generally get that concept so I expect us to have a winning season next year. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for us to charge the market rate in the league we are in. I think there should be some flexibility to help people pay but think prices should rise. I don’t think it’s fair KN picks up the bill for this, buying the stadium and fixing the stadium up and we have at the lowest prices in football. We may be a poor northern Town but we are not the poorest and most Town fans don’t live in Huddersfield.
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Post by DuffMan on Apr 29, 2024 17:41:03 GMT 1
This attitude thankgod is not portrayed by the club, good marketing tries to include all or as many folk as possible, your post is one the club would definitely not want to portray , so has a life long town fan ignore this and if town unfortunately out price you this year , hopefully there are decent offers on pay as you go to draw you back into supporting YOUR CLUB 👍 if you are out priced for renewal. What attitude are you talking about. He hardly attends so will only get a tickets if they stay at £10 a game. Fans like that leave the stadium with empty seats most weeks not buying programmes or food and drink because they aren’t there. As much as you might like the idea of football being some charity based on your ability to pay rather than the value of the product itself n the market it’s not. It’s a business and marketing is not about lowering prices to cater for everybody it’s about making money by identifying your target and making sure you product and message align with your target market. Maybe that target market is people who only want to pay a tenner a game and make it to 3 games a season but I doubt it. When the team plays badly the crowd will fall away when we have a winning team the place will be full. Americans generally get that concept so I expect us to have a winning season next year. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for us to charge the market rate in the league we are in. I think there should be some flexibility to help people pay but think prices should rise. I don’t think it’s fair KN picks up the bill for this, buying the stadium and fixing the stadium up and we have at the lowest prices in football. We may be a poor northern Town but we are not the poorest and most Town fans don’t live in Huddersfield. You are pissing in the wind here mate. I agree with everything you have said. The same fans that can't afford the increase are blowing £30 on 6 pints and another £20 on a takeaway on the same day. If they put the prices up at least we can start holding the board to account. We can't sit here whinging at a bloke losing 10 million a year for his efforts while I lose out on £13 a game
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Post by brighousebandbred on Apr 29, 2024 17:50:46 GMT 1
This attitude thankgod is not portrayed by the club, good marketing tries to include all or as many folk as possible, your post is one the club would definitely not want to portray , so has a life long town fan ignore this and if town unfortunately out price you this year , hopefully there are decent offers on pay as you go to draw you back into supporting YOUR CLUB 👍 if you are out priced for renewal. What attitude are you talking about. He hardly attends so will only get a tickets if they stay at £10 a game. Fans like that leave the stadium with empty seats most weeks not buying programmes or food and drink because they aren’t there. As much as you might like the idea of football being some charity based on your ability to pay rather than the value of the product itself n the market it’s not. It’s a business and marketing is not about lowering prices to cater for everybody it’s about making money by identifying your target and making sure you product and message align with your target market. Maybe that target market is people who only want to pay a tenner a game and make it to 3 games a season but I doubt it. When the team plays badly the crowd will fall away when we have a winning team the place will be full. Americans generally get that concept so I expect us to have a winning season next year. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for us to charge the market rate in the league we are in. I think there should be some flexibility to help people pay but think prices should rise. I don’t think it’s fair KN picks up the bill for this, buying the stadium and fixing the stadium up and we have at the lowest prices in football. We may be a poor northern Town but we are not the poorest and most Town fans don’t live in Huddersfield. He has supported town 40 years , if he gets priced out a wise owner looks at ways to draw him back in 8 ticket offers etc. or what hull are doing. No not you you just want to fuck off supporters who have followed town all their lives. You’re living in the dark ages if you think there are not solutions to shift patterns and different offers for fans that can’t do a full season. So yes your attitude doesn’t take the club forward. If we could sell our full stadium in div one it’s different at this moment we will be half empty.
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Post by philstarbuckscoffee on Apr 29, 2024 18:08:36 GMT 1
I saw posters in the ground saying Season tickets on sale from the 8th May but when will they announce the prices? Surely it must be before they go on sale and not on the same day. Anyone have any idea?
People I go with May not renew but might move to sit with a friend, so could do with knowing sooner rather than later
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Post by Dan on Apr 29, 2024 18:14:41 GMT 1
I saw posters in the ground saying Season tickets on sale from the 8th May but when will they announce the prices? Surely it must be before they go on sale and not on the same day. Anyone have any idea? People I go with May not renew but might move to sit with a friend, so could do with knowing sooner rather than later Yeah 8th May on sale...you'd imagine something on prices later this week www.htafc.com/seasoncards
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Post by softboy on Apr 29, 2024 20:57:03 GMT 1
I really wouldn’t want to be making the ticket price decision. On the one hand the club have sold tickets for too long, too cheap. On the other the club need to price similar to other league 1 clubs to keep us competitive even at that level.
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Post by CurlyWurly on Apr 29, 2024 21:38:36 GMT 1
I saw posters in the ground saying Season tickets on sale from the 8th May but when will they announce the prices? Surely it must be before they go on sale and not on the same day. Anyone have any idea? People I go with May not renew but might move to sit with a friend, so could do with knowing sooner rather than later Yeah 8th May on sale...you'd imagine something on prices later this week www.htafc.com/seasoncardsTiming will be interesting. Town officially relegated, oh by the way it's £150 more next year
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Post by brighousebandbred on Apr 29, 2024 22:08:28 GMT 1
Timing will be interesting. Town officially relegated, oh by the way it's £150 more next year 60 percent rise in ST sales for going down into league 1 . No way the place will be like a ghost town. Where have you seriously heard that it’s comedy gold. It’s not notts forest that you’ve mixed us up with is it.
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Post by Orinoco on Apr 29, 2024 22:15:14 GMT 1
£249.00 was extra special for the one season, its not something that was ever expected to be repeated. Circa £300 - £350 is predicted and still very very fair by L1 standards. Are you on commission?.
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Post by Polish Hippy on Apr 29, 2024 22:17:06 GMT 1
£249.00 was extra special for the one season, its not something that was ever expected to be repeated. Circa £300 - £350 is predicted and still very very fair by L1 standards. Very fair? You’re talking out of your arse mate. Last time season ticket prices were so high there were around 10k season ticket holders or less. If you want to go down to those levels again then go ahead with your ridiculous plan to hike up season ticket prices to Championship average and see that it will make bugger all difference to your revenue.
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Post by space hardware on Apr 29, 2024 22:24:16 GMT 1
£249.00 was extra special for the one season, its not something that was ever expected to be repeated. Circa £300 - £350 is predicted and still very very fair by L1 standards. Are you on commission?. I don't know which would be a more disturbing scenario: 1. The guy does work for the club, which would suggest a large rise in prices is coming on the back of a pitiful season which ended in embarrassing failure on all fronts. 2. The guy doesn't work for the club but is in fact a Walter Mitty character, trying to get people to believe he does.
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Post by Sio on Apr 29, 2024 22:27:54 GMT 1
I don't know which would be a more disturbing scenario: 1. The guy does work for the club, which would suggest a large rise in prices is coming on the back of a pitiful season which ended in embarrassing failure on all fronts. 2. The guy doesn't work for the club but is in fact a Walter Mitty character, trying to get people to believe he does. Most likely: 3. He has a connection of some sort and gets fed information to test for reactions / set expectations. Note just how strongly he is in favour of a very specific price increase. Coincidentally very similar to what htafc35 used to do who vanished into thin air...
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Post by space hardware on Apr 29, 2024 22:29:32 GMT 1
I don't know which would be a more disturbing scenario: 1. The guy does work for the club, which would suggest a large rise in prices is coming on the back of a pitiful season which ended in embarrassing failure on all fronts. 2. The guy doesn't work for the club but is in fact a Walter Mitty character, trying to get people to believe he does. Most likely: 3. He has a connection of some sort and gets fed information to test for reactions / set expectations. Note just how strongly he is in favour of a very specific price increase. Coincidentally very similar to what htafc35 used to do who vanished into thin air... That very specific price increase will see the ground back to "Ken Davy's end days" levels of attendance.
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Post by gledholt terrier on Apr 29, 2024 22:41:12 GMT 1
Absolutely ridiculous that price discrepancy. That year it was £423 in the Kilner Bank and £560 in the Riverside upper. Is it really 33% 'better' in there? Hardly the prawn sandwich tier. Also worth noting that the 'best seats' in that stand (the middle two blocks, probably totalling around 500 seats) are not available at those prices as these are where those in the White Rose Club & other corporate areas sit, which they sell for considerably more! . Yep. And they increase in price pretty much every year!
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Post by brighousebandbred on Apr 29, 2024 22:48:06 GMT 1
I’m starting to think about next year now. I was always buying but didn’t for one minute expect a stupid price rise on the back of one of the worst seasons for decades . They need to be sensible because if they can loose fans like me on price increases they will loose an awful lot. For folk to even mention a 40 to 60 percent rise ( £350/400) is just beyond ridiculous. What company seriously would try to raise prices by 40 to 60 percent in a year . Never mind a company that’s product as been so shoddy if it was possible most folk would have returned it and asked for their money back. Get real and earn your price rises in STs.
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Post by Polish Hippy on Apr 29, 2024 22:54:05 GMT 1
Can we just get this notion out of our heads that cheap tickets is some kind of philanthropic gesture by the club. It was a business decision to have a fuller stadium, bringing in extra revenue from other streams (catering, shirts etc). It’s also about getting new fans and young fans to come down and become supporters for life. Even a reasonable increase will not pay for one decent standard signing. You also loose people that who can’t attend most games but carry on getting a season cards out of habit. I work shifts and it probably doesn’t work in my favour to get one at £250, and one of my group has 2 season cards that have only been used twice, so if between us we go to pay on the day the club will be losing. Suspect there’s many in the same boat. Big rise and I won’t bother. It will be pay on the day if I can even be bothered enduring a load of garbage players going through the motions playing soul destroying football. It’s largely immaterial what other clubs pay as people will see any price rise vs what they are paying now for football that is absolutely awful played by a set of players who play like they don’t give a shit. We’re told that the prices are unsustainable whilst we continue to pay off the contracts of appalling managers and players appointed by people like Cartwright who themselves will be drawing hefty 6 figure salaries. Exactly this! Hoyle brought ticket prices down in order to fill the stadium. Ticket prices had increased significantly since the centenary season and sales had dropped off a cliff. This also had led to a drop off in advertising and other commercial revenue. The drop in prices saw an immediate upturn in season ticket sales which in turn saw an increase in commercial revenue. No one expects prices to stay low forever but given the fact a lot of people won’t have had a pay rise for a few years, and any who have certainly haven’t had inflation busting ones, under the current circumstances anything above a 10% increase on top of current prices is taking the piss.
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Post by BlueValour on Apr 30, 2024 2:33:06 GMT 1
I’m starting to think about next year now. I was always buying but didn’t for one minute expect a stupid price rise on the back of one of the worst seasons for decades . They need to be sensible because if they can loose fans like me on price increases they will loose an awful lot. For folk to even mention a 40 to 60 percent rise ( £350/400) is just beyond ridiculous. What company seriously would try to raise prices by 40 to 60 percent in a year . Never mind a company that’s product as been so shoddy if it was possible most folk would have returned it and asked for their money back. Get real and earn your price rises in STs. I love that idea; return your ticket at the end of the match, quoting the Sale of Goods Act, and claiming that the game was not 'fit for purpose' or not of 'merchantable quality'. Sometimes I wish we could!!
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Post by stevvy on Apr 30, 2024 6:53:47 GMT 1
No one expects prices to stay low forever I disagree. I genuinely think some people expect them to stay low (if not lower than this) forever, even more so after they cut prices for this season
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Post by irverino on Apr 30, 2024 7:24:39 GMT 1
Not sure when season tickets for terraces started at Town, I remember we had a family/group ticket in the early 70's so it may well be then chairman Frank Drabble who started them.
Those of us who have watched Town for decades will tell you just how quickly the fan base can disappear overnight leaving the empty stadium a pretty soulless place. I think Kev will have to take a hit, he bought Town 'as seen' & knew from watching the end of last season his 1st year would be difficult, but made even more so from some poor decisions.......Laughable at present, but the PL is still 24 months away if he starts to get things right.
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