Season ticket prices (5 Viewers)

Nick

Administrator
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.

They never really check anyway, would be hassle.
 

SkyBlue_Bear83

Well-Known Member
Would be interesting to see what happens when the 299 tickets sell out, they would have to open another block I guess.

The premium pricing is bollocks, imo the people who pay it are mad.

obviously with STH all the £299 tickets won't sell out so if someone wants a season ticket in the cheaper area they would be able to get one. The problem would be if we have a big game and have 14-17k attendances as we did a couple of time this year.

They would have two options, open more cheap blocks in the telegraph stand. Fans become more dispersed and spread around the stadium, there will be big pockets of empty seats in the premium zone and a worse match atmosphere because of it.

Or force people to sit and fill the premium zone before other blocks are opened which is a scam.
 

Brylowes

Well-Known Member
The premium pricing is bollocks, imo the people who pay it are mad.

obviously with STH all the £299 tickets won't sell out so if someone wants a season ticket in the cheaper area they would be able to get one. The problem would be if we have a big game and have 14-17k attendances as we did a couple of time this year.

They would have two options, open more cheap blocks in the telegraph stand. Fans become more dispersed and spread around the stadium, there will be big pockets of empty seats in the premium zone and a worse match atmosphere because of it.

Or force people to sit and fill the premium zone before other blocks are opened which is a scam.
I think there are two things we can assume:

1. Whatever happens SISU WILL fuck it up .

2. Whatever happens Nick willl always stand up for SISU.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
Would be interesting to know how many of the people who have renewed paid full price, maybe a fairer way to do it would be a set price in block 20 regardless of age I pay a large amount more than the two guys I sit next to but they get the same view and both have far more spare money than me.
 

Nick

Administrator
I think there are two things we can assume:

1. Whatever happens SISU WILL fuck it up .

2. Whatever happens Nick willl always stand up for SISU.
Stand up? It's common sense being used

If they were 600, I'd be just as annoyed! I think 13 a game is still good value isn't it?

Anybody would think ticket money is our main income and went on players wages and stuff, it's obviously just all going to sisu and ccfc have the highest ticket prices in the league.

Another thing we can assume is our fans with cry about anything to be offended. There was a guy moaning about the club because his kids have got older so pay more!!!
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
trying to find my number on the old website but the log in seems to have disappeared. Anyone else having trouble with this?
 

Brylowes

Well-Known Member
Stand up? It's common sense being used

If they were 600, I'd be just as annoyed! I think 13 a game is still good value isn't it?

Anybody would think ticket money is our main income and went on players wages and stuff, it's obviously just all going to sisu and ccfc have the highest ticket prices in the league.

Another thing we can assume is our fans with cry about anything to be offended. There was a guy moaning about the club because his kids have got older so pay more!!!
It's not just ticket prices I'm on about, it's everything and anything that happens at the club.
But I agree £13 is good, what I don't understand is how they can shut half the ground and
then re-introduce premium zones.
 

Warwickhunt

Well-Known Member
can you imagine if the improbable happened that we get 10k season ticket holders this season which gives 30% off towards the next seaseons ticket and we get promoted to the championship, bargain if you ask me. Before anyone slaps me im just day dreaming!, reality soon strikes home. However £13.00 to watch football is not bad at all! whether its shite or not. Cheaper than some of the Conference teams!
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
I am surprised that so many are surprised by a price increase to be honest. It was always going to happen and puts our ticket prices just about average for the division. Percentages always look bad when based on one off low figures and the prices for 2016/17 only return us to the levels before we left the Ricoh. The Club need to maximise their income sources and this is one that is obvious and I doubt will lead to fewer number uptake

Ticket sales bring in 37.7% of total income in the 2015 accounts for the SBS&L group. These price rises should bring the club in up to £300k additional income. But Ticket income clearly is not the only income or even the majority of the income the club receives, so that belies the often spouted nonsense that CCFC gets no other incomes

As for the gimmicks that go with it well I doubt it will cost the club much, because I can not see ST sales being more than 7000, had we been pushing for promotion and on a decent run since November I might have taken a more positive view

The other real sting is the other fees added and interest level on the monthly payments. I assume CCFC get a cut of that? Also why could they not have used Zebra Finance last year with the consumer credit licence Zebra had? (they have done it before)

Yes the money or extra money needs to be spent well. Yes TM made mistakes but equally he made right decisions also otherwise (a) he wouldn't still be here (b) we would have been relegated. I think you have to look at the season record as a whole, yes there is certainly disappointment but no real drama, we were as the table suggests an average L1 team without the ability to see its potential through. We can all say we should have won this or that so can other teams. We can all agree that the team had potential but so what - its points that win things not potential. The team lacked the right decisions at the right time and didn't have the mental strength required from all involved to see it through (players, manager, directors owners).

All we can do as fans is to put some faith in the team and manager then see where that takes us next season.

Final questions - I am sure the SCG were to be involved in discussions about ticket pricing & marketing isn't it about time our representatives gave us a run down on what was said and who they consulted to make such recommendations to the club? Also how many of the suggestions got adopted?
 
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Nick

Administrator
I am surprised that so many are surprised by a price increase to be honest. It was always going to happen and puts our ticket prices just about average for the division. Percentages always look bad when based on one off low figures and the prices for 2016/17 only return us to the levels before we left the Ricoh. The Club need to maximise their income sources and this is one that is obvious and I doubt will lead to fewer number uptake

Ticket sales bring in 37.7% of total income in the 2015 accounts for the SBS&L group. These price rises should bring the club in up to £300k additional income. But Ticket income clearly is not the only income or even the majority of the income the club receives, so that belies the often spouted nonsense that CCFC gets no other incomes

As for the gimmicks that go with it well I doubt it will cost the club much, because I can not see ST sales being more than 7000, had we been pushing for promotion and on a decent run since November I might have taken a more positive view

The other real sting is the other fees added and interest level on the monthly payments. I assume CCFC get a cut of that? Also why could they not have used Zebra Finance last year with the consumer credit licence they had?

Yes the money or extra money needs to be spent well. Yes TM made mistakes but equally he made right decisions also otherwise (a) he wouldn't still be here (b) we would have been relegated. I think you have to look at the season record as a whole, yes there is certainly disappointment but no real drama, we were as the table suggests an average L1 team without the ability to see its potential through. We can all say we should have won this or that so can other teams. We can all agree that the team had potential but so what - its points that win things not potential. The team lacked the right decisions at the right time and didn't have the mental strength required from all involved to see it through (players, manager, directors owners).

All we can do as fans is to put some faith in the team and manager then see where that takes us next season.

Final questions - I am sure the SCG were to be involved in discussions about ticket pricing & marketing isn't it about time our representatives gave us a run down on what was said and who they consulted to make such recommendations to the club? Also how many of the suggestions got adopted?
I don't think the interest level is that much of a sting is it? Is 25 over a season for the convenience of paying monthly.
 

skybluebeduff

Well-Known Member
11,500 against how many in previous seasons? What does an increase to 11,500 look like in percentage terms?

they reached 11,500 last season too, and sales are suspended because they're to announce new details of pricing and sale dates.

"Joint owner Kevin McCabe, who last week met supporters at a Fans' Forum at Bramall Lane, commented: "In gratitude to our great, great fans, home and away, we thought a reduction in next season's prices was the relevant thing to do.

"I ask all our fans, let's rally round the club. We know we've had a frustrating season. We know we've got to get out of this league. We know where our aims lie, and when I say we, I mean as owners, Prince Abdullah and myself, plus directors and vice-presidents."


Meanwhile, fellow joint owner Prince Abdullah added: "There is an absolute desire to regroup immediately to achieve progress for our great club. Some clubs have frozen prices but we are taking the positive step of introducing lower prices bringing everyone together - current and past season ticket holders, young and old."



Our owners never say f-all.
 

Ashdown

Well-Known Member
I am surprised that so many are surprised by a price increase to be honest. It was always going to happen and puts our ticket prices just about average for the division. Percentages always look bad when based on one off low figures and the prices for 2016/17 only return us to the levels before we left the Ricoh. The Club need to maximise their income sources and this is one that is obvious and I doubt will lead to fewer number uptake

Ticket sales bring in 37.7% of total income in the 2015 accounts for the SBS&L group. These price rises should bring the club in up to £300k additional income. But Ticket income clearly is not the only income or even the majority of the income the club receives, so that belies the often spouted nonsense that CCFC gets no other incomes

As for the gimmicks that go with it well I doubt it will cost the club much, because I can not see ST sales being more than 7000, had we been pushing for promotion and on a decent run since November I might have taken a more positive view

The other real sting is the other fees added and interest level on the monthly payments. I assume CCFC get a cut of that? Also why could they not have used Zebra Finance last year with the consumer credit licence Zebra had? (they have done it before)

Yes the money or extra money needs to be spent well. Yes TM made mistakes but equally he made right decisions also otherwise (a) he wouldn't still be here (b) we would have been relegated. I think you have to look at the season record as a whole, yes there is certainly disappointment but no real drama, we were as the table suggests an average L1 team without the ability to see its potential through. We can all say we should have won this or that so can other teams. We can all agree that the team had potential but so what - its points that win things not potential. The team lacked the right decisions at the right time and didn't have the mental strength required from all involved to see it through (players, manager, directors owners).

All we can do as fans is to put some faith in the team and manager then see where that takes us next season.

Final questions - I am sure the SCG were to be involved in discussions about ticket pricing & marketing isn't it about time our representatives gave us a run down on what was said and who they consulted to make such recommendations to the club? Also how many of the suggestions got adopted?

I hate that word faith, it's bullshit it really is. You make your own luck in this world !
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
I hate that word faith, it's bullshit it really is. You make your own luck in this world !

and how does a fan make the luck for CCFC? We are in the hands of the players, manager & owners aren't we. Call it what you like but all a fan has is faith, trust, hope, belief, desire that others make the right decisions to bring success to the club and happiness to the fans. Oh and the ability to part with hard earnt cash for an often sub standard product

Fans are a cash cow to any club often with very little return for those £'s tangible or otherwise.
 

Nick

Administrator
they reached 11,500 last season too, and sales are suspended because they're to announce new details of pricing and sale dates.

"Joint owner Kevin McCabe, who last week met supporters at a Fans' Forum at Bramall Lane, commented: "In gratitude to our great, great fans, home and away, we thought a reduction in next season's prices was the relevant thing to do.

"I ask all our fans, let's rally round the club. We know we've had a frustrating season. We know we've got to get out of this league. We know where our aims lie, and when I say we, I mean as owners, Prince Abdullah and myself, plus directors and vice-presidents."


Meanwhile, fellow joint owner Prince Abdullah added: "There is an absolute desire to regroup immediately to achieve progress for our great club. Some clubs have frozen prices but we are taking the positive step of introducing lower prices bringing everyone together - current and past season ticket holders, young and old."



Our owners never say f-all.
It doesn't really back up the fact about a reduction then if they did it last season and they get the same.
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
I don't think the interest level is that much of a sting is it? Is 25 over a season for the convenience of paying monthly.

Wonder what it costs the club for the facility to get that money up front in addition to the cost to the fans?

As I suggested earlier there are ways round it in any case
 

sky_blue_up_north

Well-Known Member
I tried to buy mine the morning with 2 JSBs. I get an error message saying I'm not in BL 22/23 I am, and the JSBs are not accompanied by an Adult.. which I clearly am. However I have a feeling it because I'm over 60 and the system can't work out that is an Adult.... I fear some fun with this one. Sent a mail off, nothing back yet....
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
That really would alienate even more fans at that price, what happened to 'twenty is plenty '

Twenty is plenty campaign is for away tickets.

Twenty's Plenty aims: Supporters call upon football clubs at all levels of the game to recognise and reward the amazing contribution of away fans by getting together to agree an across the board price cap on away match tickets of £20 (£15 for concessions).
 

Nick

Administrator
I tried to buy mine the morning with 2 JSBs. I get an error message saying I'm not in BL 22/23 I am, and the JSBs are not accompanied by an Adult.. which I clearly am. However I have a feeling it because I'm over 60 and the system can't work out that is an Adult.... I fear some fun with this one. Sent a mail off, nothing back yet....

I get the same, it says that the JSB isn't a child. Going to ring them in a bit when I get chance. I will let you know what they say.
 

sky_blue_up_north

Well-Known Member
Nick I've called them, they did not have the answer, said they will get back in touch.... so the new ticket office is the same as the old one.....
 

italiahorse

Well-Known Member
I hate that word faith, it's bullshit it really is. You make your own luck in this world !

Every season I reset my disappointment and start again.
I want CCFC to be successful so I take a leap of faith and assume everything is going to be okay and buy my season ticket regardless.
It's a strange feeling that for a few months I don't mind chucking money at my team on the assumption I am part of the promotion push.
It lasted 6 months this season but I'm assuming it's 12 months next season .......... Again !!
 

Ashdown

Well-Known Member
and how does a fan make the luck for CCFC? We are in the hands of the players, manager & owners aren't we. Call it what you like but all a fan has is faith, trust, hope, belief, desire that others make the right decisions to bring success to the club and happiness to the fans. Oh and the ability to part with hard earnt cash for an often sub standard product

Fans are a cash cow to any club often with very little return for those £'s tangible or otherwise.

For the players, manager and owners to be making the correct decisions isn't faith, it's what they are paid to do as professionals and custodians of the community asset.
 

Brylowes

Well-Known Member
matchday tickets are gonna be like 24 quid a game i heard

up from 18. wow
If this is true I would presume £24 is for the standard zone, so if ST holders take up these seats
how much will match-day tickets in premium zone be.
Even at £24 that's penalising people who (cant,wont) buy ST to the tune of £11 per game.
Seems a bit excessive to me, will definitely make me think before I travel.
 

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