Season tickets next season - what will they do?

[Dr Butler]

Well that is fucking shite.

It is, but I suppose they would argue that as it is more games the pro rata reduction is greater. Never mind that we are getting an inferior product.

and a few of them will be midweek, as to get up there from Cambridge is a bastard nightmare...grrr

UTV
The Doc

[exiled on the wirral!]

They are never going to win on the pricing, but fuck me the most depressing part of it is that is now all so real.

Yes they could win...by knocking at least £50 off them.

[joe_c]

Well that is fucking shite.

It is, but I suppose they would argue that as it is more games the pro rata reduction is greater. Never mind that we are getting an inferior product.

The quality of the Villa's opposition may be inferior over the season but if we're lucky, we'll have a similar squad to the current one so you could argue that the "product" is the same as before and therefore this represents a genuine steal for the loyal consumer.

Providing we hang onto Micah Richards and using my season ticket in L7 as a guide, it'll be £4.37 per game less for the privilege of seeing him surge into the opposition half, lose possession and be hopelessly out of position as the visitors open the scoring. Snap those tickets up.

[Dominic22]

I think it just shows how stale the club is. There is no imagination or marketing strategy about it.  What will happen as we all know is that our core base will renew (18000 to 20000?) we will get  a smaller percentage than normal of those wavering and then the rest will pay on a game by game basis.

We also know from experience of Leeds etc that a big draw like us will get lots of games moved to inconvenient times at relative short notice so lots  of "pay per game" people will not go.  Why recruit a new marketing guy when other than a couple of amendments you could have copied and pasted this from the last 5 years.

[Jimbo]

They know a lot of people will pay it. A lot won't, though. I did briefly consider supporting my club in its hour of need as it battles its way out of a tough league, but now I know I'll be able to pick and choose games as I wish, anywhere in the ground (apart from the upper Trinity), I won't bother.

[shipscat]

Dominic is spot on.Where's the imagination,the marketing foresight amongst a genuine opportunity to lay down a marker about the club-supporter axis.They've done the absolute obvious with the odd sneaky amendment(cash).

Whatever happens,we desperately need a rapid realignment of our faith after this year.Personally I'd have scaled it back dependent on years of suffering..£50 off for 5 years plus...£30 off for anything over a year..with the added bonus they you get the fixed price for next year.I'd have also attempted to make more of the concessions available and priced aggressively ...e.g the adult jnr combo could've been £500 in the lower trinity,Witton and Upper Holte.

Give people the hope back(which will naturally occur when we get a new manager/odd signing) and give people the excuse in terms of pricing and it'd be on a par with the last 4/5 seasons attendance wise.

I'm renewing,I'm desperate for my 14 year old to see us win a few,maybe even a few aways,and actually see him get on the train at Aston with a smile and a performance to talk about.I'm not sure how many of his peers will be there next season with this fudge.

[dave.woodhall]

The really frustrating thing is that until about 2009 they would have marketed the bollox out of this, come up with some genuinely imaginative pricing and made us feel we wanted to get relegated.

[Leicester_Villian]

Was Middle Trinity not £625 this season? Thats would be £30 reduction so approx 5% ....I can't find online prices but know I paid £615 season before and thought it went up slightly

What ever the price we would be unhappy .....

[Clampy]

Mine's only gone down a fiver. I thought they might have knocked off a bit more than they have, not just to entice people to renew, but to encourage newbies to buy one. Overall, they could have done a lot better than they have.

[rougegorge]

Was Middle Trinity not £625 this season? Thats would be £30 reduction so approx 5% ....I can't find online prices but know I paid £615 season before and thought it went up slightly

What ever the price we would be unhappy .....

It was £615 last season too, so £20 equating to a huge 3.25% reduction.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

15000 paying 500
30000 paying 250

it shouldnt be that difficult to work out. more matchday revenue and a fuller ground and better atmosphere

[Jimbo]

£200-250 would have been reasonable in the shit league.

[Leicester_Villian]

Before I start I would obviously have wanted better pricing BUT the Club couldn't really win ....

Lets just look at Middle Trinity - selfish but thats where I sit
2015-16 £615 for 19 games = 32.36 per game
2016-17 £595 for 23 games = 25.87 per game
There £6.49 saving per game or 20% reduction per game plus one cup ticket

And I am not defending just ytuing to look at it constructive - I have no idea what other Clubs charge

[Jean Quereue-Quereue]

Well it's consistent with what's been done by other relegated clubs in the last two seasons.

Here's last years prices for reference.  The map is the same except for the additional disabled area - not clear where these additional 500 economy tickets are.

Here's what other clubs charge in the Championship - looks like we're now average-priced.

As for me renewing, I'm in two minds.  Part of me says 'keep the faith', part of me says 'all hope has been extinguished'.

[villaxl]

L2 Lower Holte £10 off from last year over 65 same price