Season Ticket Reduction / Fans Forums

[Eskimo]

Hey and it's my first year as a concession too. I'm 60 in June. What joy cheaper third division football . COYRAWW

 

[Bert]

Hey and it's my first year as a concession too. I'm 60 in June. What joy cheaper third division football . COYRAWW

Indeed, it's 60 at Bramall Lane but across the city you don't get the concession until 65.

Sack the board etc....

 

[wizadry]

Indeed, it's 60 at Bramall Lane but across the city you don't get the concession until 65.

Sack the board etc....

That will soon change when David Cameron takes over from McCabe in the directors box.

 

[Maidenhead]

Hey and it's my first year as a concession too. I'm 60 in June. What joy cheaper third division football . COYRAWW

I've just renewed mine and taken great pleasure in the reduced rate of £198 this year. I was 60 last November

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Huddersfield sold all 11000 season tickets in just 4 days and will now extend it to a further 4000.

With a good offer like theirs, we could have filled BL. How many points would that be worth? And of course cash in the bank right now.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Huddersfield sold all 11000 season tickets in just 4 days and will now extend it to a further 4000.

With a good offer like theirs, we could have filled BL. How many points would that be worth? And of course cash in the bank right now.

I agree with this.

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

With a good offer like theirs, we could have filled BL.

Doesn't follow.

we could have filled BL. How many points would that be worth?

For us - or the opposition? Boooooooooooooo.

 

[alcoblade]

Huddersfield sold all 11000 season tickets in just 4 days and will now extend it to a further 4000.

With a good offer like theirs, we could have filled BL. How many points would that be worth? And of course cash in the bank right now.

The same amount of points as it gains for Bradford, who are third division rubbish like us?

It won't fill the ground, just halve your revenue for this and many years to come, when you can't row back on it.

UTB

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Perhaps if it's all the fans fault how shit we are Mcabe should have banned all fans, played behind closed doors and let the little lambs get on with presumably Champagne football to take us up.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

The same amount of points as it gains for Bradford, who are third division rubbish like us?

It won't fill the ground, just halve your revenue for this and many years to come, when you can't row back on it.

UTB

We are blades not Bradford. Better support and much more of it.

It wouldn't halve the revenue because a lot more people would buy tickets. If hudds can sell 15k (which I expect they will) then we could sell north of 25k.

 

[alcoblade]

We are blades not Bradford. Better support and much more of it.

It wouldn't halve the revenue because a lot more people would buy tickets. If hudds can sell 15k (which I expect they will) then we could sell north of 25k.

So how many more will buy at the 10% reduction then?

My prediction - they will fall, but less so than otherwise.

What's your number?

UTB

PS we could sell 25k and still have less revenue. It takes an awful lot of kids tickets at 50 quid a season to cover a few thousand pay on the day customers.

 

[lazyfecklessblade]

Damned if they do, damned if they don't, damned if the club have a 5th miserable season in league 1 (the first one was ok)

 

[west_yorks_blade]

So how many more will buy at the 10% reduction then?

My prediction - they will fall, but less so than otherwise.

What's your number?

UTB

I agree with you.

It's not enough to generate demand. A time limited, genuinely cheap offer would have been.

 

[alcoblade]

I agree with you.

It's not enough to generate demand. A time limited, genuinely cheap offer would have been.

If we'd halved the price, from an already low number, and sold 30,000 tickets (zero chance BTW), we would be much worse off.

UTB

 

[derryblade]

I believe Huddersfield are using the "solidarity payment from the Premier League" to subside the offer still a cracking idea.

From 2016/17 onwards Football League clubs will receive solidarity payments which amount to a percentage of the value of a year 3 parachute payment. The system will work as follows:

• Championship clubs will each receive 30% of the value of a Year 3 Parachute Payment
• League One clubs will each receive 4.5% of the value of a Year 3 Parachute Payment
• League Two clubs will each receive 3% of the value of a Year 3 Parachute Payment

 

[PeteBlade]

With a good offer like theirs, we could have filled BL. How many points would that be worth?

Pretty much zero, as we've found since we've been down here.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

If we'd halved the price, from an already low number, and sold 30,000 tickets (zero chance BTW), we would be much worse off.

UTB

Depends who 'we' are. More fans who are priced out could actually go and watch games more regularly. I'd like to see the ground fuller often and improve the atmosphere. I'm not too bothered about what it means for Arab business men etc.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Stevenage at home full house - drew 2-2 gave the pigs promotion

Full houses don't guarentee us fuck all

 

[PeteBlade]

Stevenage at home full house - drew 2-2 gave the pigs promotion

Full houses don't guarentee us fuck all

Swindon play off first leg, excellent and loud support from a large crowd.

Lost.

 

[Drunk blade]

Won't be buying until I find out what the squad will be, sod the 10% discount, the games are not worth a quid at the moment

 

[Barney]

Won't be buying until I find out what the squad will be, sod the 10% discount, the games are not worth a quid at the moment

Precisely my thinking, as well as whether or not Adkins is going to be here. If he is, we would have to have released nearly all those out of contract to get me to even think about it.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Should renewals, returning Blades and new season ticket holders pay the same discounted price on next season's STs?

 

[alcoblade]

It wouldn't halve the revenue because a lot more people would buy tickets. If hudds can sell 15k (which I expect they will) then we could sell north of 25k.

It would help if you decided point you were wanting to make then ;

Depends who 'we' are. More fans who are priced out could actually go and watch games more regularly. I'd like to see the ground fuller often and improve the atmosphere. I'm not too bothered about what it means for Arab business men etc.

Like it or not, revenue affects what you get to see, one way or another.

UTB

 

[Northyorksblade]

And I think your opinions are shite but don't want to hurt you're sensitive nature!

Sob, sob you just did. Oh and by the way, it's your.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

It would help if you decided point you were wanting to make then ;


Like it or not, revenue affects what you get to see, one way or another.

UTB

I was responding to a point, doesn't mean that it is something I am passionately wedded to. I understand that the club needs income and so there is a balance to be achieved. Football is very much a complex business nowadays as well as a passion for people like us who watch games, contribute to forums etc.

As a principle though, I am far more interested in actual Blades supporters being able to afford to come and get behind the team than the needs of rich business men who have attached themselves to our club in the mistaken belief that it was going to make them even richer.

 

[Revolution]

Perhaps if it's all the fans fault how shit we are Mcabe should have banned all fans, played behind closed doors and let the little lambs get on with presumably Champagne football to take us up.

I haven't looked at this recently but for a number of years it was remarkable how we hardly ever won when we had our biggest home gate of the season, but usually won when we had our smallest gate.

I might look into this again when I get time.

 

[alcoblade]

I am far more interested in actual Blades supporters being able to afford to come and get behind the team than the needs of rich business men who have attached themselves to our club in the mistaken belief that it was going to make them even richer.

Of course, we'd all like it to be fee. But given the balance that obviously needs to be struck between affordability and generating income, the club continues to get it spot on in rid area, IMHO.

UTB

 

[ghandi]

Indeed, it's 60 at Bramall Lane but across the city you don't get the concession until 65.

Sack the board etc....

Even at the 60 concession price Ghandi isn't tempted.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Of course, we'd all like it to be fee. But given the balance that obviously needs to be struck between affordability and generating income, the club continues to get it spot on in rid area, IMHO.

UTB

Agreed it's a difficult balance. And responses to this will be highly personalised as it means different things to different people in terms of affordability.

I would have and will renew my ticket anyway as I can just about afford it, but without a Huddersfield type initiative they have lost my 22 year son who has had a ticket since he was a nipper. With a Huddersfield type initiative I could have continued to afford to take him.

So for me and for many worse off than me, who struggle to afford the cost of football in 2016 despite the obscene amounts of money sloshing about in the game, not spot on at all.

 

[alcoblade]

Agreed it's a difficult balance. And responses to this will be highly personalised as it means different things to different people in terms of affordability.

I would have and will renew my ticket anyway as I can just about afford it, but without a Huddersfield type initiative they have lost my 22 year son who has had a ticket since he was a nipper. With a Huddersfield type initiative I could have continued to afford to take him.

So for me and for many worse off than me, who struggle to afford the cost of football in 2016 despite the obscene amounts of money sloshing about in the game, not spot on at all.

Only you know about your circumstance, but in many similar circumstances that affordability issue falls away as teams get promoted. Hence 70,000 people happy to pay treble what we pay, at ManUre.

Lowering price to generate support isn't sustainable long term. You have to become successful, and that inevitably means driving income up. That's a shame for the likes of your son mind.

UTB