How much would you pay for a ST?

[LouTheBlade]

Based on Linz' thread regarding the season tickets, how much as a supporter would you be prepared to pay? Or; worded differently, what do you think is a fair price?

Base your decision on anything you like but try to be realistic, where possible!

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

£414.00 [@ £18/match] for the south stand is not bad but in present climate £299.00 [@£13/match] would be better.

 

[Linz]

I reckon anywhere between £17 - £18 a match in the South Stand.

So between £391 and GB's figure of £414 I think is realistic.

£15 a game works out at £345... which I think would be a very good price.

 

[LouTheBlade]

£414.00 [@ £18/match] for the south stand is not bad but in present climate £299.00 [@£13/match] would be better.

Interesting. At the moment I couldn't bring myself to pay £414. At £299 I would buy one. I would probably bite at £322 to be fair (£14 a match).

They won't price it like that, nowhere near. But that's what I would be prepared to consider.

 

[SwissBlade]

I've got mine on the Kop.

I think GBP 200 is a fair price for a second tier mediocre club like us.

 

[Linz]

Interesting. At the moment I couldn't bring myself to pay £414. At £299 I would buy one. I would probably bite at £322 to be fair (£14 a match).

Would you wanna sit in the South Stand though?

Personally, as a South Stand dweller, I wouldn't and don't mind paying more for where I sit compared to the rest of the ground. In fact, back in the day, I used to have to pay a premium on top of South Stand Prices because of the gangway I sit on. They scrapped that a few years ago though.

I reckon prices on the Kop should be around £100 cheaper. John Street should be £50 cheaper than South Stand.

I'd also make it so that any freebie STs for under 12s had to be on John Street... as surely it's there to be a kindergarten?

As for the upper tier, make it unreserved seating like it used to be.

 

[raul]

Tricky one for me because Raulito this year moves out of the £10 ST bracket into the full junior one (£150 or something??) so any potential reduction on mine (which i think unlikely anyway given we need to increase income) will be well and truly obliterated anyway. Be interesting to see how many others are in the same boat and if someone has flagged up this bit of a banana skin in the pricing strategy meetings.

 

[Linz]

Tricky one for me because Raulito this year moves out of the £10 ST bracket into the full junior one (£150 or something??)

If it is £150 though, that isn't too bad in terms of price increases.

I'm sure my first ST at the lane 10 years ago cost £130.

 

[Darren]

If it is £150 though, that isn't too bad in terms of price increases.

I'm sure my first ST at the lane 10 years ago cost £130.

When I first started going regularly on the Kop in 1980 a juvenile ticket cost me 75p and an adult season ticket for the kop was around £25.

We were 'appier then when we had nothing...etc..etc.

 

[sitwell]

I think mine was £24 ,makes me laugh that people wont cough up £400 but expect new players every couple weeks ,a new tier on the stand etc etc.

 

[LouTheBlade]

Would you wanna sit in the South Stand though?

Personally, as a South Stand dweller, I wouldn't and don't mind paying more for where I sit compared to the rest of the ground. In fact, back in the day, I used to have to pay a premium on top of South Stand Prices because of the gangway I sit on. They scrapped that a few years ago though.

I reckon prices on the Kop should be around £100 cheaper. John Street should be £50 cheaper than South Stand.

I'd also make it so that any freebie STs for under 12s had to be on John Street... as surely it's there to be a kindergarten?

As for the upper tier, make it unreserved seating like it used to be.

I sit in the South Stand currently. Have had a season ticket in there for about the last 7 years. It used to be my favourite place to sit but i'm not so sure anymore.

I personally think that John Street should be the most expensive as it is more modern, has better facilities/catering and has a more pleasant atmosphere. People assume because there are families on there the atmosphere is rubbish. I had a season ticket on there for 4 years and we used to make a fair bit of noise but without the unnecessary swearing!

Apart from the Kop, which I think has a shite view and overrated atmosphere - I don't think there is a great deal of difference in terms of the other areas of the ground for matchday experience.

 

[raul]

Not sure I'd agree that a fourteen fold increase "isn't too bad"

I understand the comparison you make and don't expect to pay £10 every season until he's old enough to pay for his own, but when he only comes to half the games or so it's easier for me to say no to than yes as it'll cost me less to bring him on a game by game basis assuming all the cat c games and offers still abound.

And if I don't stump up for him, I'll probably not stump for me ......but I'll see what the prices are, the options are and make a decision when I've got all the info. Essentially, like a lot of other waverers I suspect, heart is saying yes whilst head is saying no.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

'expect new players every couple weeks ,a new tier on the stand'

adding a bit there Sits; to suit an agenda?

 

[Tizertrance]

I probably can't afford it whatever the price is but i'll be renewing anyway. I've been in the same seat on the Kop since the turn of the century and its a bloody good view. Can't risk losing it

 

[Linz]

I personally think that John Street should be the most expensive as it is more modern, has better facilities/catering and has a more pleasant atmosphere. People assume because there are families on there the atmosphere is rubbish. I had a season ticket on there for 4 years and we used to make a fair bit of noise but without the unnecessary swearing

Aye but you've got the chabbies getting up every two minutes wanting a pie/piss/chips/wander down to look at the tellies.

I'd pay more not to put up with that

Not sure I'd agree that a fourteen fold increase "isn't too bad"

In a decade though, I'd have expected them to have gone up more.

It's still fairly affordable in terms of it being a "Christmas and birthday present" for kids... when you consider how much PS3 games cost.

 

[raul]

'expect new players every couple weeks ,a new tier on the stand'

adding a bit there Sits; to suit an agenda?

Somewhere for all his celebrity chums to sit?

 

[raul]

Aye but you've got the chabbies getting up every two minutes wanting a pie/piss/chips/wander down to look at the tellies.

I'd pay more not to put up with that



In a decade though, I'd have expected them to have gone up more.

It's still fairly affordable in terms of it being a "Christmas and birthday present" for kids... when you consider how much PS3 games cost.

Shush. He doesn't know there is Christmas AND Birthdays...

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

I think the unreserved seating was one of the better ideas. When did it end? We were in there when Saunders scored his cheeky goal against Port Vale and I'm sure we were on season tickets.

Used to have one on the kop when it was standing but stopped when seats went in due to our requiements [with the kids] altering each week.

Once the lad was old enough to go on the John St we got season tickets for the BL upper which I'm sure coinsidered with the unreserved.

As our daughter moved onto the John St I think we then 'upgraded' to South stand and have been there ever since.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

I think I was paying about £50 for the kop.

 

[Linz]

The piggies ST prices by comparison look like a flight offer by Ryanair, but here's a gander at their adult renewal prices (offline and online)

Kop: £333/£350
North: £405/£426
South: £468/£492

They've also committed to "fans not paying more for the next 3 years" and apparently 5000 have already bought for next season.

So some people may have paid £492 to watch Sheffield Wednesday play in the third tier of English football next season. And in the event that Wednesday do get promoted to the Premiership in the next couple of season (haha... yeah but really) they can't charge their fans any more.

Oops!

I hope ours would be cheaper again for this season as they have been for the past few years.

 

[LouTheBlade]

The piggies ST prices by comparison look like a flight offer by Ryanair, but here's a gander at their adult renewal prices (offline and online)

Kop: £333/£350
North: £405/£426
South: £468/£492

They've also committed to "fans not paying more for the next 3 years" and apparently 5000 have already bought for next season.

So some people may have paid £492 to watch Sheffield Wednesday play in the third tier of English football next season. And in the event that Wednesday do get promoted to the Premiership in the next couple of season (haha... yeah but really) they can't charge their fans any more.

Oops!

I hope ours would be cheaper again for this season as they have been for the past few years.

£492 to watch the pigs! It's like burning money!!!

I nearly sprayed my coffee at that post when I saw it!!!

 

[Vancouver]

I remember in the early 90's my student season ticket cost me £80 which seemed like a bargain for a premiership club. I could drive down from Bradford in about an hour so it made a great satdi trip - of course most games were on saturdays back in the day.

 

[Linz]

What about a different attitude to full ST pricing based on performance? Not sure how this would work in practice, but something like...

You pay £250/£350 up-front for your ST in the Easter as the previous season is coming to an end.

Then, come Christmas, you have to "top up" for the remaining bit of the season and the price you pay is linked to league position. The higher we are, the more you have to pay.

If we're in the top six, you pay another £100. Top half, another £70. Bottom half, another £40. Bottom three, you don't pay any more.

Then it's clear to the club in the first half of the season that the money the manager will receive is tied directly to the performance of the squad.

It'll never happen, because they want our cash. But would that tempt anyone compared to the system we currently have?

 

[SBSP]

Something like that would be good but as you say would never happen.

Although I do think the cost should be relevant to our league position.

It would be good if they set a total price, £250 for arguments sake. Pay £100 up front, if by christmas were doing well you pay the balance. If were doing shit that money comes out of the players wages.

We can dream.

 

[Latters]

Something like that would be good but as you say would never happen.

Although I do think the cost should be relevant to our league position.

It would be good if they set a total price, £250 for arguments sake. Pay £100 up front, if by christmas were doing well you pay the balance. If were doing shit that money comes out of the players wages.

We can dream.

But the club's trying to give out the message that we're doing well "given the circumstances" at the moment when the majority of us would agree that we're actually playingshit. They'd never do it by performances as it's too subjective.

I think a price freeze would be reasonable as our ticket prices are still decent for clubs at our level.

 

[sharrow]

Interesting how I responded to this. I've been less than enthused about renewing my South Stand ST but as soon as I read unreserved Upper Tier all doubt disappeared. Great times in there in the past and only bettered by the atmosphere in G and H block pre that flare.

And no, I'm not a hooligan, just someone who likes to be surrounded by passionate supportive 'supporters' - remember them?

 

[Linz]

I think the unreserved seating was one of the better ideas. When did it end? We were in there when Saunders scored his cheeky goal against Port Vale and I'm sure we were on season tickets.

It was when the work was being done on that end when the corner was being built wasn't it?

Mouse or Deb will probably know as their STs used to be up there before they were forced to move across to the Kop.

Unreserved STs on the Upper Tier might be an idea for the club to look at, following the positivity on here towards them?

 

[sitwell]

Found my stub from 1976 £12.50.
And unreseved seating is a great idea Grumpy.

 

[Darren]

Found my stub from 1976 £12.50.
And unreseved seating is a great idea Grumpy.

According to this site

http://safalra.com/other/historical-uk-inflation-price-conversion/

If the price of your 1976 season ticket had kept pace only with inflation it would have cost £68 in 2009!

Just shows how massively prices in football have gone up.

 

[Linz]

Lou might want to look away now at this comparison

This is for going into the Box Office and buying tickets (Wednesday offer a discount for online sales, something we'd charge more for!)

Cheapest:

Pigs - £350
Us - £299

£51 difference

Most expensive:

Pigs - £492
Us - £409

Difference - £83

Yeah, good luck Lee