hutch1972
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Tbf it was interest free for years.
Season ticket prices (16 Viewers)
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Tbf it was interest free for years.
The Lurker
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You should be a politician with the spin you put on things and the shit you chat. I know for a fact numbers will be down compared to last year and likely by a 1,000.
italiahorse
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It works with your number.
hutch1972
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The entire football league is a class one rip off , but we keep paying up.
Rusty Trombone
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Nuneaton Town seating £10.95 per game
Cov Rugby £12.86 per game (last season)
CCFC £13 to £15 per game
For an adult, if you want to watch live sport, we are good value, especially as our overheads are a lot more than the other 2 local examples.
For an adult and 2 kids under 13 it is fantastic value.
Cov Rugby £12.86 per game (last season)
CCFC £13 to £15 per game
For an adult, if you want to watch live sport, we are good value, especially as our overheads are a lot more than the other 2 local examples.
For an adult and 2 kids under 13 it is fantastic value.
Nick
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Not forgetting the kids get other perks (xmas party etc)
Kingokings204
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Isn't that if you got season tickets to all of them?
Cov blaze aren't cheap I know that also. But it's longer matches tbf.
I think £299 is ok but I can not stand this premium seating bollocks. It's nonsense as the Ricoh has great views from all over. It's just another way of fleecing genuine fans. It's not like we sell out every fucking game as then I would understand it. Whoever decided to bring back premium seating needs their bumps felt. It's a joke.
Nick
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Huckerby
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well you dont
Wheelfass
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Anyone heard anything about club membership that cost £20 this season and gave you same priority as ST holders for cup tickets etc.
Also I could only get to 15 home games and so mainly used the match packet system which worked well for me but can't see anything listed for that either. Anyone know?
Also I could only get to 15 home games and so mainly used the match packet system which worked well for me but can't see anything listed for that either. Anyone know?
Nick
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I think they will do match packs, they said info will be in the next few weeks about those!
Rusty Trombone
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Yep, that would be cheapest per match with season tickets, match day is more.
I don't get the argument of complaining that the middle costs more, and then saying the view is all the same. If I thought that I'd happily buy a ticket and sit in the cheaper area and get the same view, and then if there were seats available on a particular game (because we don't sell out every game), and I wanted to move to the middle, I'd just move to an empty seat (and get the same view anyway, apparently).
Kingokings204
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Get one for £299 then just move
I can't they blocked off the whole of the telegraph stand remember
Nick
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I mean to Block 20 or somewhere.
I have had a look, I didn't know that Block 1 and 2 were classes as the cheaper zone too! Decent seats there.
Kingokings204
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Well I hear what you're saying but premium seating is for clubs who sell out and therefore makes sense as you can then charge more for the premium seating. When we get 10-12k gates it's not worth it and quite frankly rips off the genuine fan even more so as the telegraph stand will be blocked off again I'm assuming so it's like you have to pay it perhaps.
The view is great all round the stadium. I dont care where I sit at the Ricoh personally having sat in most blocks. So I repeat blocking off the telegraph stand and if we do well and get 18k again like we did for gillingham then we are forced to pay extra for the middle seats if that makes sense.
(Obviously we haven't seen the match day prices yet)
I get that most clubs do the premium seating by the way and it works but normally it's clubs that sell more tickets and more of the ground. If we were selling 32k every home game then fine but at 10-12k a home game seems silly and ripping fans off.
As for £299.... Yeah standard pricing for me. Not great and not bad. £13 a game is decent let's be fair.
Grendel
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If the view is the same then those seats will be empty. What's the problem?
Rusty Trombone
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I think it would be more of a rip off to force people into premium seats if we were selling loads of tickets, as then there is little choice, at the moment we have a huge choice of tickets. Cinemas have premium seats regardless of whether it's full or empty, and if I have a choice that's fine I'll go cheap, if I had to pay for premium due to a lack of choice I wouldn't go (to the cinema (I rarely go anyway, it's just an example)).
When I've sat in the family stand I struggle to see the other end of the pitch, middle suits me, and you can appreciate the vision that some players have, and boo all the other ones of course (that always helps).
Kingokings204
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Yeah I see you're point and yes I have acknowledged other teams and cinemas and such like do this but I just can't understand why do it Now? Seemed to work last year not having premium seating of course
Nick
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Would be interesting to see what happens when the 299 tickets sell out, they would have to open another block I guess.
Kingokings204
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Yeah I guess so but why not just make it the same all ground. I guess it doesn't really affect me as I won't be there paying it but if we get 18k like against gillingham then you would have to if you wanted a ticket.
I'm just struggling to see the rational to it. Why discourage people from buying centre tickets in such a good viewed stadium anyway and we never sell out.
Anyway exhausted this now.
chiefdave
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What's the % increase compared to 2014/15 or even our first season at the Ricoh?
I hope we do but I wouldn't guarantee it. I think most people will renew, and some new ST holders like myself will come in to replace those who don't. I do think the revenue from season tickets will be greater than last season.
Pretty simple really. There was a huge reduction last year, there wasn't a large enough uptake so revenue was actually down so its not worth keeping the low prices.
The game itself is 60 mins but there's a fair bit of stopping and starting. Cheapest early bird season tickets there are £382.
Londonccfcfan
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Nick I just did,
Took just 10 mins, activated Ticketmaster account, my old details were auto populated once I entered my old reference number.
last year sat in block 24, got our new seats in block 18 Row CC seats 9 and 10.
Total cost £347....plus 4 quid processing fee. Works out at 15 quid for both of us per match in one of the best football stadiums in the country. A bargain! There was no credit card charge added bonus.
All in all the Ticketmaster platform seemed good wasn't laborious.
The new ticketing strategy I'm not going to grumble about at all. In my eyes last year was our first season buying season tickets and that was risk.
This season TM has a full pre season to prepare and in my view if we all back the team now we will see this reflected in the calibre of signings we make.
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chiefdave
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Its crazy, you've got people on here moaning the price has gone up for the premium seats then when you suggest they buy the cheaper seats they say no as they aren't as good. That's why they're premium and more expensive!!!
Revenue. A lot will just pay the extra and those that won't will just move and pay the standard rate. It's just a way of generating more money. Remember this season, the 'open' areas sold out on 4 occasions and they had to start opening blocks in the north stand. Happens again next season and you'll have a couple of thousand people paying premium prices because those will potentially be the only seats available until extra blocks are open. Nothing particularly wrong with that.
Not really arsed personally. Happy to sit the in the cheaper section anyway.
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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I don't think you can compare us to other teams, especially some of the smaller teams that are up and coming who actually have something to be excited about. Burton had a comparable budget and a much smaller stadium, therefore tickets for a bigger club could afford to be cheaper, and we could still be very competitive on the pitch.
They reason we didn't get promoted is down to Mowbray, and it goes as far as that. If someone said next season we are guaranteed promotion then the price increase would be justified, but football doesn't work like that.
We have been on such a downward spiral for a long time that the club need to take positive steps to retain and build the fan base.
When you put money into the club, you want to see it go somewhere. When someone like Maddison get sold for '£2m' plus, but the prices go up, it makes you question what you're investing into.
Even if last year was a 'discount', on what basis is that? The club should say 'if we get 10,000 deposits for season tickets the price will be fixed at £250 for adults etc'. That will encourage people to invest into the club, whilst getting bigger attendances. Win win.
They reason we didn't get promoted is down to Mowbray, and it goes as far as that. If someone said next season we are guaranteed promotion then the price increase would be justified, but football doesn't work like that.
We have been on such a downward spiral for a long time that the club need to take positive steps to retain and build the fan base.
When you put money into the club, you want to see it go somewhere. When someone like Maddison get sold for '£2m' plus, but the prices go up, it makes you question what you're investing into.
Even if last year was a 'discount', on what basis is that? The club should say 'if we get 10,000 deposits for season tickets the price will be fixed at £250 for adults etc'. That will encourage people to invest into the club, whilst getting bigger attendances. Win win.
Rusty Trombone
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I guess the income from tickets this season showed that making everywhere cheap didn't get enough people buying season tickets, the club needs a core of people to come regardless of performances, and they know that putting the prices up in the popular areas won't put off that many, so overall income will go up. If we want to be successful on the pitch I think we have to be prepared to pay more than £11 a game.
We'll find out soon enough whether it works, but I think the trial of 'make it cheap and loads more will come' has been shown not to work.
To some extent I don't know how much all of this matters. Clearly we want as many ST holders a possible - but actually we have easily the highest number of fans who pay on a match by match basis in the league, so our gate revenues must be pretty good. Bradford's average gate was only about 1000 higher than their stated ST sales, suggesting they pretty much went through the whole season without much gate revenue at all. I'm willing to bet our gate receipts across the season were pretty much equivalent to Bradford despite a sizeable gap in average attendance.
The club know they'll sell 6000ish STs whether they hold prices or increase them like they have done, so you can't blame them for eeking out a bit more revenue, and they're hardly fleecing us.
Matchday pricing is much more important and how they set that will have a much bigger affect on gates. They made a big fuss about the 'twenty's plenty' campaign, and I hope they don't go back on that. Start pushing prices up to £24 again and that would be a big step back.
Rusty Trombone
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Agree on match day prices, there's no way I'd pay over £20 to go to a home game, I'd consider it away as that's more of a one off. If I didn't get a season ticket I'd hardly ever go.
italiahorse
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With the print at home tickets available now charge £20, they should charge £23 on the day on the turnstiles. .
chiefdave
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It will follow the same pattern I'd imagine. The premium blocks will be more.
Londonccfcfan
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Good point, but will it be policed, last season you sit anywhere where seats were empty.
Nick
Administrator
I doubt it, it would be impossible (unless you sit in somebodies seat)
chiefdave
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will be impossible to police 100% but I think most of the premium blocks are taken up with ST holders so it should work out OK. They'll have to check tickets on the way into the blocks and try and spot people wandering around.
Good question for the SCG.
chiefdave
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Even if they spot people are the stewards going to bother?