2024/2025 Season Tickets

You swerved my point quite succinctly. I wasn't arguing about a price increase but how the money is spent. You should become a politician.

 

From reading on here a lot of people were on about not renewing before the price announcing so that money was gone any way, unless it was all talk.

 

Exactly this.

Our group of 6 aren't renewing not because of the price, but purely because we're no longer enjoying what's on offer and we can't really see it getting better unless there's drastic change (i.e Sparks and/or Rupp being replaced).

They should have really capitalised on those who fit into the latter and just stuck ST prices at £400+ from the off. Those renewing won't care if it's £250 or £500, they might moan but they'll still renew.

 

My stance was 'not a penny more', so if the club had kept prices the same I probably would have renewed.

That makes it sound way more about the money than it actually is, though. The money is just a line drawn in the sand on principle, and the principle is based on the running of the club and the gutless CEO.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the hierarchy are happy to hear some won't renew, to be honest. Not that they would ever say that, of course.

 

I was wondering if you knew someone wasn't renewing and got them to tell the club if you could arrange to buy the tickets before deadlines and cut offs.

 

I literally just said it's nothing to do with the price, as is the case with the majority of the others who won't renew.

Our seats in the upper Main stand have been vacant through this entire calendar year despite having ST's.

 

Had a few shandies, Rod? Not like you.

 

NAIL. ON. HEAD.
And that is exactly why he shouldn't be CEO!!!

 

nice leg room upstairs

 

They won't reply......

 

Was more thinking if they did let you do it then if people didn't want to pay and keep their ticket they could rebuy them as kids tickets for £19 for the year

 

Basically it's going on the bills.....ambitious playing budget means not to get relegated....forget the mediocrity bit.....

 

They're all right. Midland Road, row H, block C.

Had them for decades.

 

Well that’s me told

Pipe down. that’s the first time I’ve ever commented on the issue. Imagine getting so triggered by a harmless comment such as that! Need anger management lessons maybe?

 

Some have alluded to a "slight" price increase. It's not really on anyone else to allude to what is determined by slight.

I have two adults and a young person to buy , I'm not 100% but I think they have gone up by £50 each, so £150 in total. That's not slight, and regardless of the cheap base rate it's still 25% increase per ticket.

I can afford that, yet others may not be able to. Whether I'm minded to pay that is a different argument.

Would you spend 150 more on a product that is essentially inferior to the one you already had? Last year I paid to £199 to watch a team that had just finished 7th, should I pay £249 to watch a team that finishes 15th?


They have to be real careful here, as someone mentioned earlier in the thread, it's clear that the fans income keeps this club running.

We are sustainable, so there is no pot in the background to dip into.

The extra income from fans is need to cover increased overheads, why? Commercial income is at a record high, what is this supporting exactly?

Any funds left over will go towards an ambitious budget. What is an ambitious budget? I made a comment in a thread on Wednesday, we've gone from the highest budget, to a top 3 budget, then a top 7 budget and now an ambitious budget. I'd say an ambitious budget is more an ambiguous budget in reality.

So in theory they are asking you to pay more, for a team costing less.

Sparks and Rupp are taking this club to the dogs.

It will probably kill me come may when I haven't renewed , and the full price is above what I can afford.

It will dawn on me that after 30 odd years I won't be going no more, and most likely that will be that, but truth be told going to games this season and last has got harder. There isn't the motivation to go no more. Even if I was going on my own, I'd go because it was somewhere I could disappear for 90 mins and not worry about anything else going on in life, it was my place, but now the games are that dull I drift off in games, indeed thinking about work or home!

It's not just the price for me, although that will ultimately tip my mind. Price, product, pillock in charge, and a club with no true aim or ethos is why I'm out.

 

Yeah it's going to be horrible to not renew.

That's what I think people don't realize.

If they knew what it meant, I doubt we'd be getting smarmy responses for what is a very difficult decision.