Season Tickets

[Bad English]

It's still not as bad as £150 to see Deacon Blue.

[Flin5tone]

Looking at Man City and they offer all the hospitality light crap but also they have season tickets from £385 with it £180 for under 18s , as one category. Also other attractive price ranges.

There's a market for the padded seats but come on, £63 in the Holte End is a f*****g piss take

[VillaTim]

Don't get the inconsistency of fair pricing for away fans £30 but absolutely can't wait to rip off home fans adult and children alike.

[Pete3206]

These prices are absolutely disgusting and a clear message of "if you don't like it, fuck off"

[frank black]

£63 for a ticket on the Holte End

I warned you all what's happening and you tried to make a joke of it all. They are driving out the working class, be careful what you wish for you greedy b******s

Disgrace

Spot on.

[Nelly]

Extremely distasteful, especially in the current financial climate. This is the worst thing the club has done in a long time, including being relegated.

[Des Little]

At those prices, we may not be needing a new stand, unless we can fill it with day trippers or corporates.

[Nelly]

That's probably the intention. Legacy fans and all that.

[pauliewalnuts]

It is disappointing that after a handful of years with a massive waiting list to buy season tickets they’ve decided that if they’re only going to have 8,000 match by match tickets, they’re going to exploit the pent up demand and absolutely screw the financial fuck out of people for them.

Where were you venal fucks when you struggled to give season tickets away?

Or when we were in the fucking second division four years ago.

Different story then.

[VillaTim]

The first grave error under NSWE. Well perhaps the second after Gerrard. This is a real slap in the face for the fans though. Truly disgusted by it.

[Brend'Watkins]

We’ve had years of price stagnation in reality, due to us being duff for quite a while. It was plainly obvious that as soon as we started to show improvement prices would go in one direction. The steepness of them though is quite alarming. The demand has been created and those that vote with their feet will allow others to get in. That’s capitalism. The fact that your loyalty over many, many years has been discounted is what rankles with me. Yes, they’re homing in on those with the money as they’re the ones they want.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's very clear that their modus operandi = if the seat is in any way classifiable as 'a really good one', squeeze every penny they can for it.

So a cat A for a kid in an area with concessions available = 24-32, which doesn't strike me as too bad. But in the nice seats, 68 quid. Cat B kids in areas with concessions, £20.50-23, again, not that bad (comparatively, at least).

I think this is basically an advance setting of expectations for the reallocation of more seats to the highest price band, both in the Trinity (for example) and the new North Stand.

What disappoints me is just how much of the Holte is now in the second highest price band.

[PeterWithesShin]

Never mind going back 10/20/30 years, imagine going back 5 years and saying it will cost £63 to sit in the Holte and watch us play fucking Newcastle in the league.

[trinityoap]

I'm old enough to remember when somebody unemployed could afford to stand on The Holte. An esteemed correspondent on these pages once said that what we need is three years of unremitting violence to get our game back. He was only half joking. In the 1960s/1970s/ 1980s going to football was a release from the general tedium of a lot of people's lives. The joy of seeing your team win and the camerarderie of being with your mates was something you could look forward to as almost an entitlement after  week's work. I'm lucky enough to be able to afford a season ticket but quite frankly I'd swap today's great seat seat in the Trinity for the sheer youthful exhileration of the football special to Bury in my Dad's workboots because I could not afford to buy Doc Martens  for the sanitised safety of the  middle class modern "soccer experience"as a "valued customer". I'm a bit pissed and will no doubt look back on this post tomorrow and wonder if I meant it.  I hope I will think" Course I fucking do"

[pauliewalnuts]

I'll tell you what will happen in the aftermath of these price bumps (which, looking at last year's, represent more or less 20% across the board).

Absolutely nothing. They'll still sell the tickets, and we'll still buy them.

Some people won't be able to afford to, but other people will instead.

And they know that.