No more rip-off!

[Lush]

Maybe I won't miss so many of you as I thought. 1 or 2 of you have good, sensible answers but the rest are just the sort of neanderthals who go around beating the crap out of anyone who doesn't support the same team as you and got the away members scheme imposed in the 1st place. You pay your money, you take your choice.And thanks for the picture Incredigull that pit a smile on my face.

Oh yes, you should see THPP and bhaexpress when they're roused....

 

[Gullet]

With 3 kids and a mortgage I am finding it increasingly difficult to maintain my season ticket. But if you want to go enough you will always find a way. So next season I am going to share the cost with someone else, 50/50. I'd rather see only half the home matches than not see any at all.
Having said that, everyone is allowed their own opinion.

 

[the full harris]

Maybe I won't miss so many of you as I thought. 1 or 2 of you have good, sensible answers but the rest are just the sort of neanderthals who go around beating the crap out of anyone who doesn't support the same team as you and got the away members scheme imposed in the 1st place.

i think we might have pissed this guy off!!



For the record I have NEVER beaten the crap out of anyone. I really am soft as shit mate.

 

[bhaexpress]

Oh yes, you should see THPP and bhaexpress when they're roused....

Shhhh Lush, Mrs BHA is here right now and I think we should keep our little secret just that !!!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I'm with bhaexpress on this one

 

[Faldo]

Idiot! I'll happily pay extra for the good of the club.

For example - my housemate is a Watford fan, and every season he renews his season ticket, and makes a £100 donation to the "buy back the Vic" fund. He doesn't grumble. He puts his hand in his pocket and does what he can.

I'm not advocating large donations, or condoning huge ticket prices. What I am saying, is that we are lucky to be where we are, and we have to pay a little bit extra to ensure we keep it, then fair enough.

 

[El Presidente]

Whilst Ziggy does raise a fair point, he does not offer any solutions to the problem of Albions finances. The position as I understand it is as follows.

1. The club is currently losing £30,000 a month, cutting prices will not reduce those losses, which are underwritten by the directors.

2. The WIthdean licence with the council prevents tickets being sold at the ground to prevent people milling around the area without tickets. This is quite common, if you want tickets for many Prem and Div 1 games you have to make the effort of....... a phone call or email or drive to the ticket office to order one. If Man Utd can do this and still get 67,000 fans per match to turn up then surely Albion fans can get off their backsides too.

3. If the club decided to adjust the wage structure and pass on the 'savings' to the fans in the form of lower ticket prices, we would be watching a poorer side in a lower division. Does anyone really want that?

4. Included in the ticket price is £6 to Ecovert and a further sum for the travel voucher. Other clubs in Div 2 do not have these overheads to absorb.

 

[Hart's mistress]

Enough is enough!
That's why next season I am buying a season ticket for The NEC Harlequins (just £99) and be back at Albion games when they have sensible prices and remember that we are customers and not an inconvenience! Also it is great not to have to expose children to constant offensive language and mingle with opposing fans in a friendly way without the need for segregation!I'm going to miss you all!

Brighton 'till I diet!

Can you carry on posting here though, you're really quite funny.
Rugby over football HAHAHAHAHA

 

[Gullet]

Whilst Ziggy does raise a fair point, he does not offer any solutions to the problem of Albions finances. The position as I understand it is as follows.



4. Included in the ticket price is £6 to Ecovert and a further sum for the travel voucher. Other clubs in Div 2 do not have these overheads to absorb.

Serious question on the above point El P. Now that the Albion have rid themselves of Ecovert does that mean that in future the ticket prices will be reduced by the £6 or do you expect the price to stay the same in an effort just to reduce losses. In other words they will carry on charging the current prices because the fans are used to paying them regardless of the fact that the only reason the £6 was added on was to cover the charges implemented by Ecovert?

 

[El Presidente]

Ecovert charged £30,000 a match but did provide services for the Albion. The club will now have to provide those services itself, but hopefully will not incur the same level of cost.

Given that we are losing £30,000 a month at present, the savings made on the Ecovert contract will merely reduce those losses to something a bit more sustainable, but that will be without any price reductions.

If we are promoted (and assuming that there will be no more seats next season), that still leaves a big hole to fill in the playing budget as we will need to make asome signings. Our only hope is that players wage demands will be more realistic

 

[Dancin Ninja BHA]

Ziggy, you were talking alot of sense until you hit us with the bombshell that you were off to watch rugby next season!!!!

I, like you, am not renewing my season ticket, had enough of shit football in a crap ground, I don't find going to Withdean excites me anymore, its too expensive as well, much rather (especially if we get the new seats) cherry pick 6-8 home games next season and go away a little bit more

If the great and the good on NSC deem this as unacceptable and question my loyalty to BHA FC, then fair enough, we're all entitled to opinions

Mine is that until we/I get to Falmer, I'm not prepared to pay over the odds to watch boring football in a non-league ground

HOWEVER if we get promoted I might reconsider

 

[kevinsmith]

ANOTHER GLORY HUNTER.

I SHALL BE GOING IF ITS DIV 1OR 2

ARN'T YOU SUPPOSED AS A SUPPORTER TO SUPPORT THE CLUBE THROUGH THICK AND THIN

 

[El Presidente]

Errr, No. Whilst we are supporters, and therefore do some things that make no sense, we are also consumers, and entitled to vote with our feet too if the product and the price is not right.

 

[Dancin Ninja BHA]

ANOTHER GLORY HUNTER.

I SHALL BE GOING IF ITS DIV 1OR 2

ARN'T YOU SUPPOSED AS A SUPPORTER TO SUPPORT THE CLUBE THROUGH THICK AND THIN

I shouldn't bite, but I will!!

Glory Hunter eh?

60 plus away grounds visited watching Brighton, Hull on a friday night, Hartlepool midweek, Blackpool during the petrol crisis, "home" games at Gillingham, etc, etc, I am anything but a glory hunter

Unfortunately, the product on the pitch, and the ground itself does not warrant the cost thesedays to watch Brighton at Withdean. Much rather, as I stated before, cherry pick the home games and go away a few more times.

That's hardly turning my back on the club I love, just losing the bug a little at the moment and would rather do other things every other saturday than religiously go to Stadia Withdean and get fed up...there is a world away from football you know, something that some people on NSC fail to realise

 

[ziggy]

I think some people are missing the point.
1- I am not deserting Albion for Rugby because I prefer it. Quite the contrary I much prefer football and will still be going to some away games and the occasional home game(but not many cos it's so expensive) I chose Quins because I could never chose another football club!
2- If someone offered you £1000 per week to do a job you enjoyed immensly with 10 weeks paid holliday a year would you turn it down? No! Me neither. Players thoughout football are taking far too much money from the game. If all clubs got together and said "We're not paying stupid wages any more" so many clubs would not be in such a mess and the working man could pay a sensible price for entertainment.
3- Don't question my loyalty over the years. Ive seen Albion play at over 70 diferent grounds, I've been on marches, staged sit-ins and walk-outs. I even formed a branch of the supporters club with the help of 2 even more loyal fans based in Hastings (they know who they are). I've organised travel for other fans and driven minibuses more than 100 times to places like Plymouth , Hartlepool and Burnley in the snow and mid week, as a result losing 2 days money because I am self employed, and had arguments with my partner who is the only thing in my life more important to me than the Albion.
In short I love this club and it is with very heavy heart that I chose not to renew my season ticket. You may not agree with my reasons, but please have the guts to admit I am as much a "real" fan as any of you!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I think ziggy does have a sort of point. Most of us on here never ever had a season ticket at the Goldstone. Never ever crossed our minds. You just went along to football and never gave it a second thought. Same at Withdean til the div.2 championes season when it got progressively more difficult to get a home match ticket. The ticket office phones would be engaged like it was fuckin' Glastonbury or something, culminating in the Swindon game having queues half way up the road to the station - with some muppet actually smashing up the shop in frustration at not getting a ticket - and loads of us having to watch the match from the away end. That was the Golden Age of Albion ticket sales and they couldn't cash in - through no fault of their own. Now it's a buyer's market, and who could blame anybody for cherry-picking. cos twenty two quid is not chucked aroubnd like confetti, it's a serious outlay of money. Sort of respect ziggy's point of view on economic grounds, apart fom he thinks there's somebody somewhere down the line ripping him off. Simply ain't the case.

 

[ziggy]

Sort of respect ziggy's point of view on economic grounds, apart fom he thinks there's somebody somewhere down the line ripping him off. Simply ain't the case.

Fair enough Tom, if you can compromise so can I. Clearly Dick Knight is an Albion fan too and is not out to fleece me, but the burger vans and the w***** with the "1 for the price of 3" ice cream van are!
**Mental note** Think I might tip that over last game of the season

 

[Jimbo Jones]

**Mental note** Think I might tip that over last game of the season

You don't wan't to do that they may jack up the away membership fee

Bloody contradictive!

 

[b.w.2.]

Agree the price is expensive... but with good reasons...

My job currently under review / may well lose it, but I have still renewed my season... as I have done for over 25 years...

Yes, I have a mortgage, a wife and 2 kids... and they are my top priority... but the Albion is in my blood / and I think it is in yours too...

Think of it like this... you going to a few away games helps the Albion very little financially... you turning up at Withdean helps them a great deal... and I don't think there has been a lack of entertainment on the pitch recently...

Change your mind and come back to the mighty Seagulls... going and watching rugby as an alternative seems like a poor decision IMHO...

Repent, sinner!...

Bloddy butterflies!...

 

[the full harris]

I think some people are missing the point.
1- I am not deserting Albion for Rugby because I prefer it. Quite the contrary I much prefer football and will still be going to some away games and the occasional home game(but not many cos it's so expensive) I chose Quins because I could never chose another football club!
2- If someone offered you £1000 per week to do a job you enjoyed immensly with 10 weeks paid holliday a year would you turn it down? No! Me neither. Players thoughout football are taking far too much money from the game. If all clubs got together and said "We're not paying stupid wages any more" so many clubs would not be in such a mess and the working man could pay a sensible price for entertainment.
3- Don't question my loyalty over the years. Ive seen Albion play at over 70 diferent grounds, I've been on marches, staged sit-ins and walk-outs. I even formed a branch of the supporters club with the help of 2 even more loyal fans based in Hastings (they know who they are). I've organised travel for other fans and driven minibuses more than 100 times to places like Plymouth , Hartlepool and Burnley in the snow and mid week, as a result losing 2 days money because I am self employed, and had arguments with my partner who is the only thing in my life more important to me than the Albion.
In short I love this club and it is with very heavy heart that I chose not to renew my season ticket. You may not agree with my reasons, but please have the guts to admit I am as much a "real" fan as any of you!

Fair enough, it is obviously up to you. It is not like you are completely abandoning the stripes.

I presume the supporters club is the A21 club who good guys. I used to travel to some games with them when I lived there. The amount of work Stuart (I know there are others but he seemed the obvious person to name) puts in is absolutel quality and shoudl be applauded. Ziggy, you might have even driven me to a couple of games in the minibus so thanks. I always did crap in the predictions game!