Spurs Tickets (28 Viewers)

[Deity]

The prices for non St holder kids have been scandalous for a while, under 17s should be no more than £10 regardless of who we're playing

I’m torn on this.

I think the pricing is too high but equally £10 is too cheap.

I’m struggling to think of any premium live experience where you can take your kids to for £10

Certainly not a pop concert or the theatre

walk into an coffee shop in any town or city and it’s full of teenagers spending £4+ on a drink and the same again on food. All consumed in about 15 mins !

 

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[Liquid Gold]

I want Matty James now or Doug is gonna get a knuckle sandwich

 

[napolimp]

Yeah, don't bother bringing through the next generation of support, great idea.

You think there's a significantly higher bond being formed between a child and the football club in one cup match, than the 23 home league games they have a ST for during the season?

I don't believe you think that.

 

[clint van damme]

You think there's a significantly higher bond being formed between a child and the football club in one cup match, than the 23 home league games they have a ST for during the season?

I don't believe you think that.

What if they don't have a ST?
The pricing for kids is a piss take.

 

[napolimp]

What if they don't have a ST?
The pricing for kids is a piss take.

Your argument is that this Wednesday night cup match against Spurs is the one chance for kids to form a lifelong bond with the club?

By the way, I do think that walk up prices for u18's are a little on the high side in the league, although you do have JSB pricing.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

This is where some formal consultation would have been good
I can’t believe the club keep getting things wrong for pricing of kids tickets

 

[David O'Day]

Yes and get 45%

So there's every chance Spurs would say no to cheap tickets anyway.

 

[bradwellskyblues]

2008/9 v Chelsea i think the last home game against a top 6 side was £25 allowing for inflation today's prices look about correct

 

[Deity]

This is where some formal consultation would have been good
I can’t believe the club keep getting things wrong for pricing of kids tickets

Pete what would you have advised as the right price ?

 

[clint van damme]

Your argument is that this Wednesday night cup match against Spurs is the one chance for kids to form a lifelong bond with the club?

No it isn't, that's how you've interpreted it.
Like me saying your argument is supporters, especially kids, should be rinsed for as much as possible in as short a space of time but I'm sure that's not what you're saying.

 

[clint van damme]

2008/9 v Chelsea i think the last home game against a top 6 side was £25 allowing for inflation today's prices look about correct

You're comparing the latter rounds of the FA cup to an early game in the Caraboa against a reserve team.

 

[David O'Day]

2008/9 v Chelsea i think the last home game against a top 6 side was £25 allowing for inflation today's prices look about correct

that £25 works out to about £39

 

[napolimp]

No it isn't, that's how you've interpreted it.
Like me saying your argument is supporters, especially kids, should be rinsed for as much as possible in as short a space of time but I'm sure that's not what you're saying.

That's the only way to interpret it. Because in reality, this one match is irrelevant to a childs bond with the club, when the season is at least 48 games long.

I'm also pretty sure kids aren't getting rinsed at all, because I reckon at least 99% of them won't be paying for their own tickets.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Pete what would you have advised as the right price ?

That’s for the club
I would have said be careful of pricing u 18’s and consider families at this time of year

 

[Ashdown]

Its about what I expected to be honest. £60 for me and t’other half. Glad our kids aren’t still kids now and we were taking them three though
If you haven’t got a pretty decent job, most prices in this country for all sorts of stuff are ridiculous!

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Its about what I expected to be honest. £60 for me and t’other half. Glad our kids aren’t still kids now and we were taking them three though
If you haven’t got a pretty decent job, most prices in this country for all sorts of stuff are ridiculous!

USA was outrageous

 

[prufrock]

I’m torn on this.

I think the pricing is too high but equally £10 is too cheap.

I’m struggling to think of any premium live experience where you can take your kids to for £10

Certainly not a pop concert or the theatre

walk into an coffee shop in any town or city and it’s full of teenagers spending £4+ on a drink and the same again on food. All consumed in about 15 mins !

yeah fair, i am quite old so £10 seems like a lot to me when it probably isn't to most. when i first started going to Highfield Rd i would cycle over and pay about £4 to stand in the kop. that is probably £10 now but with the cost of football/entertainment moving up more than inflation maybe a bit more than £10 is still fair for kids.

still £150 to take to fam to see cov play tottentham reserves/youth in an early round of the carabo cup is too much for me. but if there are lots of others who will pay and it's a big healty gate then the club have it right

 

[Potbellypig]

Genuinely don't see what all the fuss about. I'm fine with the prices. It's a one off game against a top PL opposition, from a business pov makes perfect sense. DK running a business not a charity. If people are moaning about paying £37 quid for ONE game they should've got a ST. Some people are so entitled.

I think when you grow up you'll see what the fuss is about.

 

[Cov4life]

Record season ticket sales
Record shirt sales
Away following selling out
Superstore doing well
Wembley FA Cup allocation sell out
I could go on
This isn’t London
It’s a working class city

 

[Tommo1993]

Expected, but firmly disapprove.

 

[napolimp]

I think when you grow up you'll see what the fuss is about.

I don't think that's the burn you think it is. They are probably just better earners than you are, and so can afford the prices.

 

[Grendel]

yeah fair, i am quite old so £10 seems like a lot to me when it probably isn't to most. when i first started going to Highfield Rd i would cycle over and pay about £4 to stand in the kop. that is probably £10 now but with the cost of football/entertainment moving up more than inflation maybe a bit more than £10 is still fair for kids.

still £150 to take to fam to see cov play tottentham reserves/youth in an early round of the carabo cup is too much for me. but if there are lots of others who will pay and it's a big healty gate then the club have it right

£4 in 1970 is £66 now

 

[clint van damme]

That's the only way to interpret it. Because in reality, this one match is irrelevant to a childs bond with the club, when the season is at least 48 games long.

I'm also pretty sure kids aren't getting rinsed at all, because I reckon at least 99% of them won't be paying for their own tickets.

You can be as facetious as you like, others have laid out the reason for this being a bad idea, particularly at this time of year.
But sometimes it's just about doing right by your fanbase and not trying to rinse them

If you think pissing off people who go home and away every week is no big deal then we've probably got different ideas about what a football club should be all about

 

[rob9872]

I'd take a charity wager now that the FZ is less than 2/3 full. It also means that some who would've gone won't now, as they have kids so despite being season ticket holders will have to move and pay £37. As I said, back at school, 8pm (+ closed roads) kids back likely 11pm when it's on Sky. Missing a kid could miss an adult too plus food, drink, programme etc that we get 100% of not 45% as per tickets. The difference is negligible to the club at concession values imo. It's round 3 of the Carabou cup. We had decent Oxford pricing and still only 11,000 attended. Post holidays after season tickets and shirts lots will be feeling the pinch. I think it's too high and whatever we say on here, the crowd will reflect the truth. I think sensible pricing sells out. We'll be well short of capacity at these rates. I'll be going, but I'm the kind of idiot who travelled miles in L2, it's not about me and I'm not arguing the point for me, I think the pricing is too high and especially for kids.

 

[Ashdown]

£4 in 1970 is £66 now

I think tickets in 1970 were about 15 shillings or 75p ?! Not that I bought any at 3 years of age.

 

[Liquid Gold]

You can be as facetious as you like, others have laid out the reason for this being a bad idea, particularly at this time of year.
But sometimes it's just about doing right by your fanbase and not trying to rinse them

If you think pissing off people who go home and away every week is no big deal then we've probably got different ideas about what a football club should be all about

It's all well being rinsed when things are going well but if we have a bad season he will not be happy at how the fans react.

 

[Balli001]

So there's every chance Spurs would say no to cheap tickets anyway.

Exactly that. Everyone is pinning the blame on the club but in this case it takes 2 to tango.

 

[wingy]

Yeah no chance
On sky
Not playing well
Likely to be tonked
Oh well

Or coming back to form?

 

[Mild-Mannered Janitor]

Whilst ticket revenue is important, the revenue from this one singular game is not game changing for the club and therefore the child ticket should be cheaper, not about bond with club or anything, just the fact that its not a financial game changer with the volume of children x £5 cheaper or £7.50 cheaper.

Assume all ST's have their ticket then we have what - 8,000 tickets available, assume 80% of those are adult tickets then you are talking 1,600 children at a price point of £20 or £15 equates to £8,000
Apply the same to child ST's and assume we have 4,000 of them at under 18 and its another £20,000 so does £28,000 really make a difference to us versus trying to give families good value for an under 18 at £15

I know we are commercial and can sell out etc with adults but I still feel it should be better priced

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Whilst ticket revenue is important, the revenue from this one singular game is not game changing for the club and therefore the child ticket should be cheaper, not about bond with club or anything, just the fact that its not a financial game changer with the volume of children x £5 cheaper or £7.50 cheaper.

Assume all ST's have their ticket then we have what - 8,000 tickets available, assume 80% of those are adult tickets then you are talking 1,600 children at a price point of £20 or £15 equates to £8,000
Apply the same to child ST's and assume we have 4,000 of them at under 18 and its another £20,000 so does £28,000 really make a difference to us versus trying to give families good value for an under 18 at £15

I know we are commercial and can sell out etc with adults but I still feel it should be better priced

Always balanced

 

[David O'Day]

Exactly that. Everyone is pinning the blame on the club but in this case it takes 2 to tango.

aye, spurs want as much money as possible and they now they'll sell 3000 tickets at 30 a pop in minutes

they aren't going to care about how much u18 cov fans will have to pay

 

[pusbccfc]

Against Middlesbrough..

Only 28,900 there for that with 2000 away fans

 

[pusbccfc]

Fuck that, I'll save the cash and the trip and watch it at the pub

The irony is you'll go to the pub and spend £30 on a few pints and a meal.

 

[Saddlebrains]

Genuinely don't see what all the fuss about. I'm fine with the prices. It's a one off game against a top PL opposition, from a business pov makes perfect sense. DK running a business not a charity. If people are moaning about paying £37 quid for ONE game they should've got a ST. Some people are so entitled.

Pretty sure the main gripe is the kids prices not the adults

 

[Saddlebrains]

This is where some formal consultation would have been good
I can’t believe the club keep getting things wrong for pricing of kids tickets

There comes a point where it's plainly obvious he doesn't want children there because they don't earn him as much coin let's be honest