Season Ticket guess the price thread.

[dave.woodhall]

If Chelsea had just had the same last 15 years as we've had they'd be struggling to get 25K. Spurs however would still be in the 30-35K range.

Liverpool are a strange one, everyone has an image of a packed Anfield in the 80s and yet you look at their averages during that time and even though they were winning everything their average attendances were quite shit.

I think a lot of it's because they were bored with winning everything. The one year they won nothing, their crowds went up. As dan touched on as well, unemployment up there was much worse than we experienced.

[VillaBobby]

If the season ticket prices for P8 revert back to that of the others seats in the Doug Upper people will either move again or not renew. I have a seat in the block and it has not been full once this season.

I also choose a seat on the half way line in the more expensive seats if the crowd permits. Sitting next to the away fans has not been easy this season so to save myself from the abuse and a line of stewards blocking my view I treat myself.

[Ads]

Arsenal don't sell out anymore, their annual 60k attendances are just tickets sold.

There's loads of gaps for most of their games now.

They sell out the games, their season ticket holders just don't attend them all. It's said that up to 8,000 ticket holders fail to turn up at any given match.

When we beat them at the Emirates the other year, there were bursts of laughter and jeering from the Arsenal fans when they read out the attendance as a full house. There must have been 10k empty seats easily.

[andyaston]

If Chelsea had just had the same last 15 years as we've had they'd be struggling to get 25K. Spurs however would still be in the 30-35K range.

Liverpool are a strange one, everyone has an image of a packed Anfield in the 80s and yet you look at their averages during that time and even though they were winning everything their average attendances were quite shit.

I think a lot of it's because they were bored with winning everything. The one year they won nothing, their crowds went up. As dan touched on as well, unemployment up there was much worse than we experienced.

Also, they get a huge amount of support from outside of Merseyside. I've worked on the motorway services since the 1990s and they are only a close second to Manure for gloryhunting support. I work Sunday nights, and if the dippers are at home we get loads flooding back through afterwards going towards the south west. Man City support is increasing within this trend.

[Walmley_Villa]

I noticed hidden in the programme that prices for next season are released on Friday and go on sale the following Monday.... My guess is one month to buy at this season's price before a 5% increase.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Any increase would be a complete piss take considering the new TV income next season (or the fact that we could be watching Championship football).

[saunders_heroes]

I think they'll be a price freeze across the board next season. They wouldn't dare increase the prices after the shite we've been put through this season.

[Big Dick Edwards]

I think they'll be a price freeze across the board next season. They wouldn't dare increase the prices after the shite we've been put through this season.

....and without knowing what division we're going to be playing in!

[SoccerHQ]

Price increases can only be justified if there's an improvement on the pitch imo.

At the moment "achievement" for us would be 17th place....but that's still worse than last season and the season before etc.

[villajk]

I think they'll be a price freeze across the board next season. They wouldn't dare increase the prices after the shite we've been put through this season.

....and without knowing what division we're going to be playing in!

They could argue we'd get to see more games for our money if we get relegated.

[SoccerHQ]

That's called a tounge in cheek comment from a bluenose, not a serious business statement.

[RunRickyRun]

I reckon my £295 ticket will go up by £50 and the rest will stay more or less the same.

[sid1964]

I would be amazed if there was a price increase for any season ticket, if there was I would seriously consider not renewing, and picking and choosing my games.

[Dave Clark Five]

I reckon my £295 ticket will go up by £50 and the rest will stay more or less the same.

There's one bloke who will be jumping for joy if that happens. Not me. I've got one of them.

[Ad@m]

The truth of the matter is that in the list of factors which affect attendances, ticket prices are somewhere near the bottom.  Arsenal's the classic example - their prices are the highest in the country and have sky-rocketed over the past 15 years and for that whole period they've basically sold out every single home game, even when they moved stadium to one with a capacity 22,000 greater.

I think it is misleading to look at the situation at Arsenal and compare it to the rest of the league.

Arsenal could probably sell 20k tickets every home match just to tourists who fancy taking in a game. There is always going to be demand for their tickets, they are the biggest club in one of the most tourist attracting cities in the world, and they play in the best marketed league in the world.

Our attendances seem to be way more price elastic, though, and we are far from being alone.

Our attendances aren't as price elastic as you think.  What about the league cup games every year?  Prices are considerably lower than league games and so are the attendances.  Look at the trend of our ticket prices over the past 20 years - they've gone up massively and so have our average attendances, from less than 25,000 in 1992/93 to almost 34,000 this year.  During that period they've fluctuated massively and those fluctuations were nothing to do with ticket prices going up or down as they've pretty consistently risen year on year.

There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that lower ticket prices result in higher attendances.  Quite the opposite in fact as the highest ticket prices and attendances are in the Premier League and the lowest of both are in the lower leagues.

Whilst there will be individual exceptions, on the whole (and within reason) people who go to watch football will go whatever the price and those that don't go to watch football won't go no matter how cheap it is.

And that's why our ticket prices will be frozen as an absolute minimum.