Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
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Why so few tickets sold V Charlton?
- Thread starter kingcole
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The one guarantee is that if you go game by game you will attend fewer games.
Absolutely, yes, for a whole host of reasons. Season ticket holders are very precious. Let them go and it's very difficult to get them back. The current pricing structure makes renewing an attractive proposition for most.
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
Ha haaaa...you have got me on my high horse. Duran Duran tonight is £65 fecking rediculous. Also, wanted Adele tickets for the Mrs's birthday and hung in the phone for 2 hours and then found out they had all gone. I bet they appear in the ticketsheister site in the next few days as " get me in " at 5 times the face value.
Tickets are a fecking rip off
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
I have a ST and that is what I am doing now.
Hastings gull
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- Nov 23, 2013
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Bozza's point about season tickets is very valid, as the club has to keep the holders sweet, in everyone's interest. If the season ticket holders sense that it is better to pay on a day to day basis, then the club is in trouble. It is a real balancing act, though I can see that if you want to be in e.g ESU and are faced with a bill of £42.00, that does seem a lot., though other areas are cheaper.
As an aside, I turn 65 in January, have bought an oldie's half season ticket for £245, which gives me 11 matches at just over £22.00 a game. Cheaper prices started at £185.00, and of course you can stagger the interest-free payments, plus direct debit payees have an automatic right to their seat next year. . . Plus, now that the travel scheme has been widened out to include Eastbourne, I save a further £5.00 per match. Not all benefit like that, I appreciate and not all are over 65, but it does at least show that it is not all bad news by any means.
As a season ticket holder I don't care how cheap they sell match day tickets. Just want to see more people tempted to take up seats. I have a season ticket because 1) To sit with friends 2) Guaranteed seat for season 3) Chosen seat for season 4) Price
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
If you gave it up to go match by match - do you think you would still go to the same number of games ?
(and if you don't go - does it get used by anyone else - give my regards to BAG by the way )
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
That's fine for you as an individual but the club has to judge whether there would be a trade off as Bozzs rightly pointed out.
Do you go to dancing on ice 50 times a year?
kingcole
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This has got me thinking about what, if it did happen and we was promoted.
No doubt, a few more wins and such a debate will be had.
But I'l kick off now with my proposals....
Season ticket prices to stay exactly the same. This is effectively a 20% increase.
Cat B and Cat C match day prices to stay the same
Cat A prices to increase so the cheapest tickets are £3 extra at £35.00.
Cat to to only include the games the glory hunters will want: Arsenal, City, United, Chelsea, Liverpool, (Spurs?)
All other games to have their status assessed when they go on sale, based on time of match, perceived away attendance and how both teams are doing (promotion/relegation critical etc).
My proposal would significantly close the gap between the match day and ST prices, but we would of course see a massive uptake in ST due to the promotion.
STH's would also be able to take part in the 'exchange' should they not be able to attend for a credit against ST renewal.
Under 16 tickets allowed a free upgrade to an adult ticket for Cat B and Cat C evening games.
My proposal would mean a ST holder would effectively be buying every game at a CAT C price.
As a final sweetener for ST holders I would also have it include one home cup game or pre season friendly.
No doubt, a few more wins and such a debate will be had.
But I'l kick off now with my proposals....
Season ticket prices to stay exactly the same. This is effectively a 20% increase.
Cat B and Cat C match day prices to stay the same
Cat A prices to increase so the cheapest tickets are £3 extra at £35.00.
Cat to to only include the games the glory hunters will want: Arsenal, City, United, Chelsea, Liverpool, (Spurs?)
All other games to have their status assessed when they go on sale, based on time of match, perceived away attendance and how both teams are doing (promotion/relegation critical etc).
My proposal would significantly close the gap between the match day and ST prices, but we would of course see a massive uptake in ST due to the promotion.
STH's would also be able to take part in the 'exchange' should they not be able to attend for a credit against ST renewal.
Under 16 tickets allowed a free upgrade to an adult ticket for Cat B and Cat C evening games.
My proposal would mean a ST holder would effectively be buying every game at a CAT C price.
As a final sweetener for ST holders I would also have it include one home cup game or pre season friendly.
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
I certainly will..she is doing well thanks.
MKD was not as attractive as a lunch at the golf club after getting soaking wet in the morning. No- one took my ticket as I left it late...Birmingham I was in Edingburgh visiting my youngest and I offered by ticket to laura, but she didn't want the hassle of getting these etc which is well documented so she didn't go.
I think if we were not to go up next year, and I did chuck in the st, I would probably give up going entirely. I haven't really enjoyed it for a few years now and found other things that I prefer. Certainly when we were at withdean, I sat with loads of mates and it was a real social gathering and good fun. As we went to falmer, people ended up all over the ground and having my brother in law not renew and losing tony who sat next to me last year, although I have great mates sat behind, it is not the same. It's a shame but there you are.
can you get a discounted season ticket if you do??
brakespear
Doctor Worm
This - I went to the Birmingham match because of the offer that was on (child and adult ticket for £15) but generally can't justify £30 or whatever out of the money available. To be fair to the club though (I think
), if I did have the cash available then I would pay it
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
Shame - but times change.
Funnily enough at the Amex - I meet more friends than I did at Withdean.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Maybe more are released earlier, as I said in your Brum thread the manner in which seats are released defies logic
I doubt Charlton will be bringing too many
Pissing down
Seaford Xmas Fayre
You turncoat, you were a fellow RH13 fan until recently! I take on board what you say, but don't think, with all due regards to Seaford, that their Xmas fayre will stop too many Albion fans from attending.
Taybha
Whalewhine
Think its talk like a Pirate day so there will not be anybody from Rottingdean going .
I crossed over to the dark side ... a function of age!
You've obviously never been to the Seaford Xmas Fayre .... as Seaford goes there isn't anything bigger ... latest estimate is for crowds in excess of 43!
Peter Grummit
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LamieRobertson
Not awoke
True and we've said it before. However, why not abandon categories and sell match-by-match at a fixed (small) percentage above ST in the same stand / area. Maybe then add in the odd family deal (especially for bank holiday games) and do the bring a mate for a tenner deals on evening games only?