18,000+ ST Holders

Steve Bee said:
Don't know where you are getting your ST price from. £449?
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Yes - I used £450.

That my guess of the average season ticket price. Remembering anyone up to the age of 22 and over 64 gets a concession, plus anyone in the family section.

Oopps my maths was wrong on the total - should have been £0.9m for sale of 2k STs.
 
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Warwickboro said:
I known the loyal season ticket fans will have a legitimate gripe with this, but id love early bird to just be extended in the future seasons, and I'd love to see cheaper match day tickets.
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I think the views of ST holders sometimes get misrepresented here. From my point of view, I would not kick off or be angry if walk up prices were cheaper. I don't think many would, and I don't think this is the club's rationale for not reducing them.

I would, of course, make a cool, rational review at the end of the season and consider whether it was still economically worth my while being a ST holder. For me, it would be, as I want to attend the matches, but for a few thousand, it wouldn't be worth it any more and they'd become match by match fans instead.

Cheaper match tickets are an incentive to not renew. The club know this, so don't do it.

Warwickboro said:
I think if we got 27k plus every game and the place was rocking it would be like the equivalent of a good striker
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Big crowd does not = good atmosphere.

The crowd being really up for it = a good atmosphere.
Often, it also results in a big crowd, but the big crowd is the effect, not the cause.

Some of the worst atmospheres I've experienced have were smaller matches during the ST sellout era: 0-0 draw vs Wimbledon, for example. That last home match in 2015 when we knew we couldn't get automatic promotion for another.

If we'd given every fan at the Spurs match a free ticket for the Luton match 4 days later, it would not have recreated the atmosphere.
 
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There will be a few thousand empty seats in the West Stand Upper again this season, other than for Sunderland and the Boxing Day pilgrimage.
The seats are too expensive for match by match.
The best seats are sold as ST's, so it is £35 plus £1 per ticket booking fee.
For a couple to take two kids to the West Brom game live on TV would cost £114. £35x2 +£20x2 + £1x4.
No food, no drinks, no programme, no merchandise bought, no transport costs. £114 to sit in the seat for 95 mins.

I can't get my mind round that.
People who would defend that ludicrous fact need to give their head a shake.
 
indeedido said:
There will be a few thousand empty seats in the West Stand Upper again this season, other than for Sunderland and the Boxing Day pilgrimage.
The seats are too expensive for match by match.
The best seats are sold as ST's, so it is £35 plus £1 per ticket booking fee.
For a couple to take two kids to the West Brom game live on TV would cost £114. £35x2 +£20x2 + £1x4.
No food, no drinks, no programme, no merchandise bought, no transport costs. £114 to sit in the seat for 95 mins.

I can't get my mind round that.
People who would defend that ludicrous fact need to give their head a shake.
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Exactly this.
I have three boys. I can't take one without the others. They all love football.

I work too many hours during the week to palm them off on a weekend and go without them. I only really get to spend times at weekends with them. I'd say we have an above average household but with rising living costs/interest rates I can't afford £1,200+ to buy them season tickets. (Although it could be done for circa £800 if you limit yourself to the Gen Red area. The remaining seats with 4 together are not very good and I wouldn't bother).

I'll pick and choose a few matches through the season at around £100/match as and when I think there's a game that is worth that amount of money. There won't be many where I can justify it.

If they could extend the Generation Red pricing structure for kids throughout the stadium I would probably get season tickets.
 
Frozen Horse said:
I think the views of ST holders get misrepresented here. From my point of view, I would not kick off or be angry if walk up prices were cheaper. I don't think many would, and I don't think this is the club's rationale.

I would, of course, make a cool, rational review at the end of the season and consider whether it was still economically worth my while being and ST holder. For me, it would be, as I want to attend the matches, but for a few thousand, it wouldn't be worth it any more and they'd become match by match fans instead.

Cheaper match tickets are an incentive to not renew.



Big crowd does not = good atmosphere.

The crowd being really up for it = a good atmosphere.
Often, it also results in a big crowd, but the big crowd is the effect, not the cause.

Some of the worst atmospheres I've experienced have were smaller matches during the ST sellout era: 0-0 draw vs Wimbledon, for example. That last home match in 2015 when we knew we couldn't get automatic promotion for another.

If we'd given every fan at the Spurs match a free ticket for the Luton match 4 days later, it would not have recreated the atmosphere.
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Yes, its a fine balance. The value needs to be visible to loyal ST holders. Idnlove to see thebplace packed too, difficult one really
 
I wonder if it would be possible for a company to sponsor a block of seats maybe these would be singles even scattered about then give those seats away . Just a thought ,
 
'more than 18,500 sold ' per MFC on 6 June.
I see the South stand is now a season card sellout.
So is block 16 in the bottom corner of the North stand. Presume the club are reserving it for something.
 
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