Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy

[UsualSuspect]

We're shit
McLeish is clueless
It's too expensive (up to £47 for that? laughable)
The football is diabolical

Simple really.

This.

I've just looked at the OS and the cheapest Norwich ticket is 24 quid for an adult. I expect a sub 30K attendance unless it's knocked down to 15.

So you want us to charge less than Kiddy do?

Errrr yes

Like we did against man city last season - 2 for £30.00
Sunderland - 2 for £25.00

I really couldn't give a shit what other clubs charge, I just cannot see what the club expect to gain by having 8000 empty seats at a local derby and 12000 empty seats against norwich

[Des Little]

I must admit that if I weren't conditioned to having aseason ticket for ever, there's no way I'd be paying £45 for a seat against Norwich City given the utter shite we are serving up this season.

[itbrvilla]

Britney spears has apparently Only sold half her tickets for tonight's show at the LG.

[LeeB]

Britney spears has apparently Only sold half her tickets for tonight's show at the LG.

*Finds phone, calls Ticketshafter*

[PeterWithesShin]

We're shit
McLeish is clueless
It's too expensive (up to £47 for that? laughable)
The football is diabolical

Simple really.

This.

I've just looked at the OS and the cheapest Norwich ticket is 24 quid for an adult. I expect a sub 30K attendance unless it's knocked down to 15.

So you want us to charge less than Kiddy do?

Errrr yes

Like we did against man city last season - 2 for £30.00
Sunderland - 2 for £25.00

I really couldn't give a shit what other clubs charge, I just cannot see what the club expect to gain by having 8000 empty seats at a local derby and 12000 empty seats against norwich

Apart from the fact we'd probably make less gate money than we would by charging the prices we are currently charging as cheap tickets don't seem to be bringing many in as it is, and we'd also alienate 20K of season ticket holders.

But good on you if you think charging less than a Conference side is going to help our finances.

[Apyadg]

Only took 7 months for him to complain and get a correction. Time well spent. It's not like the little tosser has anything better to do these days.

[Legion]

Only took 7 months for him to complain and get a correction. Time well spent. It's not like the little tosser has anything better to do these days.

Wrong thread?

[Lambert and Payne]

Its the fact that were basically accepting were going to struggle, there isn't that same buzz down at vp anymore. I had a season ticket a few years back and travelled away, these days I pick and chose my games, bburn and wba so far and ill go to 1 game before christmas. Its the prices that are stopping me going, I probably could afford a game or 2 more, but when you consider travel (from gloucestershire in the middle of nowhere) food and drink even a cheap ticket in the north stand at 25 quid and I'm still looking at 60/70 quid, and I don't enjoy it that much anymore, I have other things to do these days

[old man villa fan]

I think back to the days of standing on the terraces.  You could go down to the pub on Friday night with your mates and suggest going to the match the next day.  You would even sometimes manage to drag a Blues/Albion mate down with you.  Even popping into your local on Saturday lunchtime before the game, you could usually get somebody to tag along.

It just seemed so easy in those days to go to the match on the spur of the moment.  Today, you have to plan so long in advance if you want to guarantee a seat in your favourite part of the ground.

I have great admiration for the people that do invest in a season ticket, particularly the ones that travel a long way to the game.

The big worry I have about football is that genuine fans of clubs that do not have a real chance of winning anything are being turned off the game by the media who peddle the notion that, as a fan, you do not count unless you support one of the top four or five teams or one of the 'media darling' teams.

[Lizz]

I must admit that if I weren't conditioned to having aseason ticket for ever, there's no way I'd be paying £45 for a seat against Norwich City given the utter shite we are serving up this season.

Tend to agree. Yesterday afternoon, in a futile attempt to increase my fitness levels rather than increase the finances of already very wealthy individuals, I went swimming. It hasn't changed anything, but it made me feel slightly better.

[Californian Villain]

it costs too much what with the cost of petrol / the tickets for me and the family / the programmes / drink / food / the shirt  /and the mugs, i can be spending over £400 every week, twice a week if we have a midweek game, thats almost £50k per season

It's definitely very expensive and overpriced, but it's also nothing like GBP 50K a season.....!!

[hawkeye]

it costs too much what with the cost of petrol / the tickets for me and the family / the programmes / drink / food / the shirt  /and the mugs, i can be spending over £400 every week, twice a week if we have a midweek game, thats almost £50k per season

It's definitely very expensive and overpriced, but it's also nothing like GBP 50K a season.....!!

cant see his future as a chartered accountant working out

[UsualSuspect]

so against Albion

8500 empty seats = £0

or shift say 3000 @15-20 = £45,000 + additional spend in ground = plus bigger crowd and better atmosphere

Yes lets just carrying on charging full price

[PeterWithesShin]

I have no problems with the occasional cheap price game, but where does it end? Do we do it for every game? It's going to get the to the stage where it's cheaper to rock up on the day than buy a ST with the amount of offers we do as it is without charging £15 on a regular basis . Or do you you think the club should piss off 20K ST holders?
As it is you can get tickets for £29 against the Manure, Arsenal and dippers. £24 for Norwich, £20 for Swansea.

And I would have thought that if people will only go to VP if the tickets are cheaper than non league football then the odds are they probably don't have much spare cash so won't spend much at the ground either.

[UsualSuspect]

I think it has got to a point that barring probably 6 games a season the club need to be discounting tickets and come the close season seriously review our pricing structure and discount season tickets to make them worthwhile again.

By that I mean that if you buy a season ticket you get a number of free games. The current offer for half season tickets in the Lower North Stand is 11 games for £225 (if bought by 5 Nov) which equates to £20.45 per game, or 10 games for £225.00 which is £22.5 per game.

bearing in mind we have sold out once in the last 25 odd games, fans who don't go to every game know that with a booking history they can get a ticket for any game so why bother with a season ticket?

I take my hat off to ST holders and agree that they should get compensated in some way for their commitment in stumping up the money.

In fact if next season the club said £100.00 off every season ticket that would cost in the region of £2 million. Bear in mind that Habib Beye has cost us 8 million and heskey gets 50k per week then that puts it in perspective

Kidderminster charge £15 to stand and £17 to sit which I think is ridiculous and is borne out by the fact that they have a capacity of 6238 and average under 2000 so their stadium is 2/3 empty.

Pure marketing genius that one....