Don't think Wasps had 20k+ regular, paying customers at any point so I don't get the comparison. I know we're not competing with those clubs, but it's a way of finding out if you might be massively underselling yourself. Seems like we might be, sales will confirm it one way or the other.
You have expressed exactly my experience and feelings on the matter, as a now ex Club Coventry member. The price rise has been exacerbated by the lack of an early bird discount, which was available last year. I had hedged my bets by getting a STH elsewhere in anticipation of a likely price rise which has worked out to be 28.5% - god knows what the increase would have been if we had got promoted. I won’t miss the free match day programme ( I certainly won’t be buying one) nor the crap cheap instant coffee that is on offer.
Club Coventry works out at £40 per game this season, still good value in my book.
Oh fuck off with your sob story, no one cares.
You chose to buy in that area though right? You bought the shirt knowing where you were sitting. If the experience wasnt premium why pay the money? I also didnt claim anything and bought the same covid ticket but i am not abusing people on a public forum. All of these things dont make you a special case. Sorry but i have minimal sympathy with your 'plight'.
Just some minor points. You do not always get a pint in a glass or any other alcoholic drink. We also get crappy plastic beakers more often than not, certainly after the game. As for a seat, if your lucky, arrive much after 14.15 and very often there are no seats left, a team sheet if your lucky. My point here is, its not all its cracked up to be. But if match day prices are £35, and you dont have a season ticket then a game by game basis in the CC is going to be in the region of £80 per game going on last years prices and the increase.
I did all that out of loyalty and to support the club. As the experience isn’t premium I won’t be buying in that area again.
It is expensive for what you get. I look forward to the outpouring of grief if Cat A tickets are £35 plus. I won’t care.
You deserve a medal for that alone
Bit of a difference, no? Match Day tickets are for thousands of people who could never and probably won't ever be able to afford a box or anything like it. Reading page after page of a handful of people with sh*tloads of disposable income complain that the party might be over for them is getting boring now. I think your statement that you won't care says more about you than those pointing out that being priced out of corporate areas isn't a big issue. Literally. It's 30 boxes, and a few hundred other spots. You can still afford to go to the game. Some might not at £35. Wind your neck in.
Could you tell me what my disposable income is?
Nah. Sometimes people need calling on their bullsh*t. If you can afford corporate seats, safe to assume you're doing OK.
TBH, it isn’t the basic price increase, and I get the need to increase revenue. It is the no early bird (which affects me) and stopping he concessions (which were only for children and so doesn’t affect me) whilst delaying the lease of the prices until some options, such as Premier League or Family Zone seem to have ended/ gone. It’s going to end up being really difficult to accommodate ordinary people who took their children and other family members in to those “premium” areas for whatever, non-corporate reason ( maybe to avoid pissed, coked up morons - smoke bombs optional)
You sound like an elitist knob here. "Don't make me sit with the morons, Doug!" If you're after sympathy, this is a strange way of going about it.
Yes, I can. You referred to sitting where you did so you didn't have to be around "morons". Your words. Inferring that the only way to avoid being around people you'd use that word to desribe is to pay a fortune, and sit in a part of the ground that 99% of people couldn't afford, is ignorant snobbery. Plain and simple.
Why are you such a hater? People work hard for their money whether you like it or not
I'm not. No hate in that post. Pointing out that if you can afford corporate tickets to the football, you're probably doing OK for money.
Oh dear, you really can’t read and comprehend English. That’s not the reason I have given for sitting in Club Coventry, which was to put as much as I could reasonably afford in to the club I love. I referred to a potential reason for people with children to sit there to avoid stupid people who get pissed and/or snort coke and their consequential behaviours. Protecting your child is not ignorant snobbery or elitist.
and I think you bringing in child safeguarding is a smokescreen for you being a massive snob. Probably best left at that. Don't want to hijack the thread / forum more than I have already.
The problem with the seats in the bar was that people were coming in from the stands and boxes to use the facilities. For the Blues and Boro games they stopped this and there were plenty of seats available. I agree it was annoying though, we started to arrive at 13:30 so guarantee a table. I only recall two games with plastic pints though, strangely enough Blues & Boro.
Oh the meltdowns