Play-off Ticket prices, .....why the massive difference?

[Sharrowblade]

Can ayone explain why there is such a massive difference in the clubs pricing for the play-offs.

As a season ticket holder with 2 juniors with either club. Its £14 (1 x £12, 2 x £1) for the 1st Leg at BDTBL.

Come monday night and the County ground, if you want to be under cover its £41 for us. (1 x £19, 2 x £12).

 

[sitwell]

Can ayone explain why there is such a massive difference in the clubs pricing for the play-offs.

As a season ticket holder with 2 juniors with either club. Its £14 (1 x £12, 2 x £1) for the 1st Leg at BDTBL.

Come monday night and the County ground, if you want to be under cover its £41 for us. (1 x £19, 2 x £12).

Hopefully its their cup final

 

[Gee]

I would guess they know the team visiting them will have the biggest following in the league regardless of cost, if they get knocked out it is their only means of a good payday.

 

[DI36O]

Can ayone explain why there is such a massive difference in the clubs pricing for the play-offs.

As a season ticket holder with 2 juniors with either club. Its £14 (1 x £12, 2 x £1) for the 1st Leg at BDTBL.

Come monday night and the County ground, if you want to be under cover its £41 for us. (1 x £19, 2 x £12).

We've got plenty of seats to sell and the board just want the ground full. The Swindon prices aren't really unusual.

 

[Sharrowblade]

We've got plenty of seats to sell and the board just want the ground full. The Swindon prices aren't really unusual.

I'm not being critical of United and I know that Swindon normally charge £23 and £12 for juniors. Thats £47 usually to take two juniors and myself to a game of third division football.

At the end of the day in regards to the play-offs that's a £27 difference!!! for basically the same fixture, which is wrong.

 

[Chezzy Blades]

I'm not being critical of United and I know that Swindon normally charge £23 and £12 for juniors. Thats £47 usually to take two juniors and myself to a game of third division football.

At the end of the day in regards to the play-offs that's a £27 difference!!! for basically the same fixture, which is wrong.

Swindon actually charged us £27 adults in the league game in September. It's a sad state of affairs when £19 for a third division playoff game is almost a third less than they charge for league games.

I'm sure they'll do well out of it too, when I came out of the ticket office at 10.15 there were already Blades queueing as far as the superstore.

 

[Maidenhead]

Can ayone explain why there is such a massive difference in the clubs pricing for the play-offs.

As a season ticket holder with 2 juniors with either club. Its £14 (1 x £12, 2 x £1) for the 1st Leg at BDTBL.

Come monday night and the County ground, if you want to be under cover its £41 for us. (1 x £19, 2 x £12).

errr don't want to spoil your day but that's actually £43 ;-)

 

[Sharrowblade]

Swindon actually charged us £27 adults in the league game in September. It's a sad state of affairs when £19 for a third division playoff game is almost a third less than they charge for league games.

I'm sure they'll do well out of it too, when I came out of the ticket office at 10.15 there were already Blades queueing as far as the superstore.

I'm sure they will and yes you're right it was £27 for an adult ticket, but it still doesn't explain the huge difference in prices, unless of course its for the added excitement of navigating around that bloody magic roundabout of theirs.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

What channel is the match on on Monday?

 

[LA Blade]

Bein TV.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Both games are on Sky. Thursday on Sky Sports 2, Monday TBC.

 

[Deadbat]

Fair play to United for very cheap tickets. Trouble is they could almost give them away and would still struggle so shift em. Apart from ST holders (spoke to 3 near me on Sunday who said they were not going - lived a distance away and could not get Thurs night preferring to watch on TV) and a few floaters, most will either watch on TV or have lost interest sadly. It was the same a few years ago. We sold was it 15,000 for Yeovil in the play offs? Heard we have sold 14,700 for Thursday. They may sell another couple of thousand at best but most who were going will have got tickets. Swindon will bring maybe 1,000 so we will probably only get 17-18,000 on Thursday I feel.

Odd that the biggest game of the season (bigger than Spurs, Barnsley, Donny etc) will see one of lowest crowd of season - only twice less than 18,000 - Colchester and MK Dons and Thurs might be the next lowest.

I think a side full of confidence, playing attacking football and showing no fear and the backing would have been greater. Last season for instance if we had sneaked it, I would wager the crowd would have been a lot more.

I think if United somehow scrape through that they will struggle to shift the allocation for Wembley this time. Makes it all the more remarkable we have shifted 10-11,000 ST holders already.

 

[finlaytheblade]

Fair play to United for very cheap tickets. Trouble is they could almost give them away and would still struggle so shift em. Apart from ST holders (spoke to 3 near me on Sunday who said they were not going - lived a distance away and could not get Thurs night preferring to watch on TV) and a few floaters, most will either watch on TV or have lost interest sadly. It was the same a few years ago. We sold was it 15,000 for Yeovil in the play offs? Heard we have sold 14,700 for Thursday. They may sell another couple of thousand at best but most who were going will have got tickets. Swindon will bring maybe 1,000 so we will probably only get 17-18,000 on Thursday I feel.

Odd that the biggest game of the season (bigger than Spurs, Barnsley, Donny etc) will see one of lowest crowd of season - only twice less than 18,000 - Colchester and MK Dons and Thurs might be the next lowest.

I think a side full of confidence, playing attacking football and showing no fear and the backing would have been greater. Last season for instance if we had sneaked it, I would wager the crowd would have been a lot more.

I think if United somehow scrape through that they will struggle to shift the allocation for Wembley this time. Makes it all the more remarkable we have shifted 10-11,000 ST holders already.

I guess there is a lot of negative blades around at the minute and in the last six months deadbat your reports tell me you are one of them,try to put a positive spin on things you have a lot of readers of your posts on this site.We have a good a chance as anybody so try to be positive. come on you blades.

 

[Deadbat]

We do have as good a chance of anyone in the sense we are all level. However league table says we are third best of the four sides and have finished the season in poor form.

All 3 of the other sides look more settled, that is reality not pessimism. I would like to put a positive spin on but seeing maybe 5 or 6 decent performances in the league out of 46 is not something that leaves me thinking we will win 3 games on the bounce (something we have rarely done this season).

The only thing with Swindon is they also have messed around with the side recently. Players will be fresh but you cannot turn it on like a tap. I think the key to the whole playoffs is how PNE react. If they start badly at Chesterfield and lose they may not recover.

My gut feeling at the moment tells me they have the experience and strike force to see of the other three but does depend if they can be lifted. Grayson has know how to do in the playoffs.

This season smacks so much of 2 years ago when we went out meekly at another side from that part off the country. A week tonight I hope I am wrong and we are planning for Wembley.

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Reading the Swindon fan sites earlier this week they were pleased to hear the prices for both games - they didn't expect any reduction for their home leg. BTW - they have plans to arrive with masses of red and white streamers to announce their presence and have used the supporters club money to buy them. Hope our guys have something planned.They seem more optimistic than Preston's supporters who were totally disconsolate after losing the automatic place.