Charging fans more as a PL team sounds sensible but if anything they should charge less. Guaranteed TV income of £100m makes increasing costs to fans nothing more than profiteering.
We have 32k seats, across 19 games that is 608k seats.
Plenty of assumptions but my maths tells me we will make about £8m from season tickets at 18k sales. If we sold 32k we'd make £14m, basically about £450k for every 1k season tickets (based on 63% of our tickets being adults, 19% OAP, 18% U18 and an average ticket price of £23 based on the number of seats in each area of the stadium). We could put our prices up to £30 average and it would only be an extra £5m if every ticket is sold. It's nothing compared to the extra £100m.
This is one of the points I made earlier.
The ticket money is peanuts if we go up. It is a crucial element of the revenue mix if we don't.
The EB encourages/bullies supporters into committing to a season, without knowing what they are getting.
Because of Carrick and the players' excellence of late, they have a serious chance of promotion this season. The club have chosen to significantly exploit their position.
They may coax more SC holders as a result for next season whatever the status, but if we don't go up then they will have suppressed crowds with ridiculous walk up prices next season.
Players usually have relegation clauses in their contracts, yet fans don't.
How about a partial refund on the EB prices if we don't go up, and then walk ups and new SC's are not so constrained next season by PL level pricing. Alternatively the club could hold such a refund on account to offset a SC when the club is next relegated. They have the capability to do this as shown through Covid.
Additionally I do hope Bausor is being challenged on non ticketing revenues. The revenue generated through Sponsorship, Commercial and Merchandising is pitiful by comparison to other clubs.
atypical is right in saying that Gibson is hardly profiteering given he has only ever twice made a profit in any season since taking control of the club. He is minimising the future loss he is prepared to cover through his Group.
Charging fans high prices will not touch the losses Gibson's mis-management of the club created. Oh and atypical, those losses were much bigger post 2006 than 96-06.
The club lost £73m in the 10.5 years to Dec 2006. They lost £96m in the 10 years thereafter and £60m in the 7 years since 2016.
Having paid to watch utter tripe since 2006, I don't much feel like paying more to watch us now to cover those losses.
I will buy again because I am hooked, not by Gibson, but my club and what the whole ritual means to me.