Ticket Prices

[Deleted member 77198]

Works out £25 for me in the middle of SS3, so 'only' just over another quid a game....with all the timewasting & anti football we see (I'll not go on about us coasting many games in the second half) our tickets must be the dearest in the league per minute of actual football.
But, of course, City will get away with it and we'll, well nearly all, still pay up.

To be fair, we have the highest ball-in-play stats in the league every season.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

To be fair, we have the highest ball-in-play stats in the league every season.

I keep getting told this, I do wonder what constitutes 'ball in play' sometimes.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Hmm looks like we'll all be paying our KC's costs then as that'll most probably by the same rise around the ground.

I doubt it. I have heard from someone close that the club are keen to get some ST holders out of premium seats, particularly those who get subsidised rates. Pricing out seems like the first attempt.

I’m very surprised that the area around 231/232 with padded seats hasn’t been made corporate yet either. They said they was going to back when SS3 was built but it hasn’t so far.

 

[Stephen230]

I doubt it. I have heard from someone close that the club are keen to get some ST holders out of premium seats, particularly those who get subsidised rates. Pricing out seems like the first attempt.

I’m very surprised that the area around 231/232 with padded seats hasn’t been made corporate yet either. They said they was going to back when SS3 was built but it hasn’t so far.

I know nobody at the club. But it doesn’t take much insight to realise that it’s been there ambition for a long time to have a Wembley style set up, where the whole of tier 2 is corporate. And they’re slowly getting there. There was a load more this season who’s seats became part of 93:20 and they were given the option of sticking with them with a price freeze for two years or shifting.

My guess is that those hoping for some huge new one tiered North Stand are going to be disappointed for that very reason.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

That increase is totally unnecessary. The management of our club prove on a regular basis that they don't give a fuck about the fans. Under the present circumstances wouldn't the smart move be to freeze the prices. Get us fans onside and support both the team and the club together? But they know if you don't renew they can flog it on a match-by-match basis to a tourist and that is what they will do.

Has anyone else been informed of the price of their season ticket (excluding Joe’s). I haven’t seen anything myself.

Maybe the Club are realising the benefit of people jumping the queue for away tickets in Joe’s is greater than what they are currently charging. It does t mean everyone’s season card is going up 6% unless I’ve missed something.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Has anyone else been informed of the price of their season ticket (excluding Joe’s). I haven’t seen anything myself.

Maybe the Club are realising the benefit of people jumping the queue for away tickets in Joe’s is greater than what they are currently charging. It does t mean everyone’s season card is going up 6% unless I’ve missed something.

You're 100% correct it doesn't but, I'd say it's a fair indication

 

[PPT]

Has anyone else been informed of the price of their season ticket (excluding Joe’s). I haven’t seen anything myself.

Maybe the Club are realising the benefit of people jumping the queue for away tickets in Joe’s is greater than what they are currently charging. It does t mean everyone’s season card is going up 6% unless I’ve missed something.

I can’t see the club increasing the prices of Joe’s / hospitality seats and then not increasing the others to be honest. I can see the club doing it the other way around though. Of all seasons, next season is when the prices should be frozen as a gesture to the fans. But as we know there is no chance or slim chance and slim is out of town.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

You're 100% correct it doesn't but, I'd say it's a fair indication

It might be mate. I think the Club are looking to offset the large number of FOCs who are moving into the concession price band by maintaining price increases.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I can’t see the club increasing the prices of Joe’s / hospitality seats and then not increasing the others to be honest. I can see the club doing it the other way around though. Of all seasons, next season is when the prices should be frozen as a gesture to the fans. But as we know there is no chance or slim chance and slim is out of town.

I think the Club will continue to increase prices because once you freeze them, it’s harder to convince people to pay more. That’s not great for us of course but inflation is running at over 10 percent.

Going in Joe’s is a luxury so the Club aren’t going to take the cost of living crisis into account when pricing those tickets. Hopefully, they will when looking at standard season cards.

 

[HibbertStreetKid]

Has anyone else been informed of the price of their season ticket (excluding Joe’s). I haven’t seen anything myself.

Maybe the Club are realising the benefit of people jumping the queue for away tickets in Joe’s is greater than what they are currently charging. It does t mean everyone’s season card is going up 6% unless I’ve missed something.

Would be interesting to know if any other areas have had renewal invites cos i dont understand why we have had ours so early. My gut instinct tells me there is something in the pipeline and maybe they are starting at the bottom of the hospitality rung to gage feelings amongst us. With regards away tickets they added another 300+ season ticket holders to the hospitality ranks this season so chances for away tickets for us have been greatly reduced too and i suspect this will only get worse.

 

[jrb]

Would be interesting to know if any other areas have had renewal invites cos i dont understand why we have had ours so early. My gut instinct tells me there is something in the pipeline and maybe they are starting at the bottom of the hospitality rung to gage feelings amongst us. With regards away tickets they added another 300+ season ticket holders to the hospitality ranks this season so chances for away tickets for us have been greatly reduced too and i suspect this will only get worse.

The branch I'm in only got 9 tickets for Bournemouth. Considering the allocation is in the region of 2100, where are all the away tickets going?

As you say. The more corporate seats and areas that include an away ticket in the price, the less away tickets there are for long term season ticket holders who have accumulated away and home loyalty points over the years.

 

[CityBrat64]

The branch I'm in only got 9 tickets for Bournemouth. Considering the allocation is in the region of 2100, where are all the away tickets going?

As you say. The more corporate seats and areas that include an away ticket in the price, the less away tickets there are for long term season ticket holders who have accumulated away and home loyalty points over the years.

Didn't we only get approximately 1400 tickets for Bournemouth

 

[CityBrat64]

The branch I'm in only got 9 tickets for Bournemouth. Considering the allocation is in the region of 2100, where are all the away tickets going?

As you say. The more corporate seats and areas that include an away ticket in the price, the less away tickets there are for long term season ticket holders who have accumulated away and home loyalty points over the years.

I over did the allocation for Bournemouth, it was 1318

 

[IOWBlue]

The branch I'm in only got 9 tickets for Bournemouth. Considering the allocation is in the region of 2100, where are all the away tickets going?

As you say. The more corporate seats and areas that include an away ticket in the price, the less away tickets there are for long term season ticket holders who have accumulated away and home loyalty points over the years.

"only 9 tickets". There are 143 branches in Britain alone. If every branch got the same, theres your total Bournemouth allocation gone. I think we should give tickets to branches, but it should be a total of whats available, as a percentage.

 

[jrb]

"only 9 tickets". There are 143 branches in Britain alone. If every branch got the same, theres your total Bournemouth allocation gone. I think we should give tickets to branches, but it should be a total of whats available, as a percentage.

Apologies to all on the away allocation. Thought it was 2000. Looked at Bournemouths away capacity. They must have slashed it, as it used to be 2000.

The 9 tickets included people who got their own tickets, but attend meetings, and are traveling down in cars.

 

[jrb]

Apologies to all on the away allocation. Thought it was 2000. Looked at Bournemouths away capacity. They must have slashed it, as it used to be 2000.

The 9 tickets included people who got their own tickets, but attend meetings, and are traveling down in cars.

I doubt 143 branches would all apply. Isn't that all over the world. Doubt there are 143 supporters branches in the UK. Stand corrected.

 

[lancs blue]

The 9 tickets included people who got their own tickets

If they have the points to get their own tickets it's not really part of a branch allocation, surely?

 

[jrb]

If they have the points to get their own tickets it's not really part of a branch allocation, surely?

The 9 tickets included the people who got their own tickets. They are all going down in cars. People in branches do get their own tickets, but use the branches to travel to away matches on the coaches. Likewise, people get tickets via the branches, but make their own travel arrangements. Tickets and travel are gone through separately for each away game. I've done both previously myself. If there are spare seats on the coaches members from other branches some times fill them. Every empty coach seat costs the branch money, as the coach has to be paid for. I've got my own ticket for CL away games and made my own travel arrangements previously.

 

[Jazzyblue]

I think the Club will continue to increase prices because once you freeze them, it’s harder to convince people to pay more. That’s not great for us of course but inflation is running at over 10 percent.

Going in Joe’s is a luxury so the Club aren’t going to take the cost of living crisis into account when pricing those tickets. Hopefully, they will when looking at standard season cards.

I'm bracing myself for the worst next season in terms of pricing across the board. I don't think there will be a drop off in demand, either we win the league and people want to be there, or we don't win the league, the siege mentality survives the charges passing from the news, and so people want to be there either way. I'm not expecting the club to make a load of seasoncards available until the North Stand job and I can see dynamic pricing and restricted access to marquee matches sticking around for Cityzens. It will be hard on my wallet as a non-ST holder who has two lads who will happily attend every home game, but then again when they were too little for matches I saved that money, so I'll just have to take whatever comes. It's a shit situation and I think the club could do much better by loyal and local fans - not just because it's the right thing to do but because, to put it bluntly, we represent years of recurring income - but with the PL preferring bloodsuckers to sugar daddies and breathing down our necks we have to prepare ourselves for the reality that better may not come until the fanbase gets angry and organised about it. And that could be way off, because all our anger is likely to be directed outside the club for the foreseeable.

 

[shevtheblue]

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