Charlton 2024/25 season ticket discussion (details on P2)

seth plum said:

I want to be certain we’re not getting relegated.

I'll buy your season ticket next season if we get relegated

I went to renew and got this message

 ‘Please select the 2021/22 Season Tickets that you would like to renew for the 2022/23 season. Then, click 'Proceed', and the 2022/23 Season Tickets will be added to your basket’.

so amateurish.

DA9 said:

The bring a friend scheme for ST holders works, got 2 x free with ours for Lincoln, they bought tickets for their kids separately, and all four of them came back for the Carlisle game under their own steam 

They’ve now been back for every home game since, the eldest kid who is a Gooner has now bought himself a Charlton home shirt 😎 the scheme works 

No idea why Bolton thought they’d get away with using pictures of Derby fans for their season ticket promotion…

roseandcrown said:

Am I right in think kick off times next year are going to be different and not all 3pm?  Seem to recall ths is part of teh TV deal with Sky. 

Don't think any of our home games kick off at 3pm it's usually 3.02, 3.03 or 3.04.

iaitch said:

roseandcrown said:

Am I right in think kick off times next year are going to be different and not all 3pm?  Seem to recall ths is part of teh TV deal with Sky. 

Don't think any of our home games kick off at 3pm it's usually 3.02, 3.03 or 3.04.

5 games combined from League One and Two to be moved for TV coverage. I assume Wrexham will be one of those every week, so it's just a question of which other 4. Probably depends how well we're doing in terms of how many we get moved. 

Redmidland said:

Up here in East Midlands the Forest fans and supporters club are really pissed off! Their most expensive ST cost is going up from £660 to £850 and the cheapest from  £465 to £550, rises range between 28% for the most expensive to 111% (yup 111%) for a child's ST! They've also changed their age brackets for younger supporters, this season youth ST were for age 12 to 19, next season it's 14 to 17.
To say the natives up here are restless is an understatement!! They also don't know what league they are going to be in!

The previous top price of £660 looks very cheap when compared to our Zone 1 pricing in recent years for 3rd tier football.

clive said:

It might have been better to release the phase 1& 2 prices at the same time & also announce the matchday prices so that people will know exactly how much they will be saving by buying a season ticket.

Joined up thinking? - It hasn't happened at Charlton for a long time.

clive said:

LargeAddick said:

can't even decide if they are going to run Valley Express next season but want people to commit to a season ticket. People won't commit unless they know if Valley Express is going to run on not. I reckon if they don't run it they will lose 75% of those that travel on the Hastings route.

Valley Express 

The club are reviewing the Valley Express offering and will be confirming the plans for Valley Express well in advance of the Phase One deadline. Fans interested in purchasing a seasonal pass for the Valley Express service should email tickets@cafc.co.uk with details of where they travel from.

https://www.charltonafc.com/news/season-tickets-phase-two-pricing-confirmed

They will be shooting themselves in the foot if they ditch the Valley Express service. I can only speak for the Hastings route but when talking about it the other week quite a few people said they would stop going if the service stopped. I use it for convenience because I don’t want to drive up and back on my own and it’s not cost effective to do so but others use it because they don’t feel they have a choice. Either they are elderly, have some form of disability or both. I really hope for all concerned that the Club commit fully to Valley Express for a number of years.

Dansk_Red said:

lancashire lad said:

Can someone explain where in the NWQ the teens creche will be located

NWQ BLOCK E

Is this confirmed anywhere? Only asking as I've had the same seats with my son for years in NWB and i just tried to buy a ticket for tomorrow for my brother next to us and NWA and NWB are blanked out so unable to get one. I intend to renew and will be pretty pissed off if I'm forced to move as I sit with people who are now friends

Charlie Methven is expecting Charlton Athletic to have more than 8,000 season-ticket holders for the new campaign and says it is down to the club’s hierarchy to ensure they build on “cautious optimism” felt by supporters.

The Addicks finished 16th in League One last season, their lowest standing in 98 years, but a swathe of changes have taken place both on and off the pitch in 2024.

Charlton’s fortunes were pepped up by the arrival of former Luton Town boss Nathan Jones at the end of January and he has started to remould the squad in his own vision in the summer transfer window.

The board have also committed to new pitches at both The Valley and Sparrows Lane training ground, the latter in a bid to end a history of injury woes.

“Last season the total amount of season tickets sold – as opposed to the relatively small amount of complimentary ones that are awarded for one reason or another – was 7,600,” Methven told the South London Press.

“As of today (Tuesday) we have sold 7,500 but there are three weeks until the start of the season and normally you’d carry on selling them until a week or two into the season.

“At a comparable moment last season the club had sold around 6,700.

“We’re nearly a thousand ahead of where the club was this time last year which reflects a level of cautious optimism about what has happened to the club in the last six or seven months. I wouldn’t put it much more strongly than that. Charlton fans will say they have been burned too often before by optimism.

“But I think a cautious optimism is healthy. I’d like to think cautious optimism can gradually translate to optimism as a result of concrete results and outcomes, as opposed to just hope.

“I’m certainly, by no means, at all critical of any Charlton fans who say: ‘I’d still like to wait and see’.

“I can’t be critical of that. The club has under-performed significantly enough over the last few years that I don’t think the club as a whole can expect people to simply part up front with a reasonably large chunk of money on pure hope.

“We are extremely grateful to the people who have – 7,500 already. I’d be absolutely as confident as anything that number will go beyond 8,000, for sure.

“Then there will be a degree of last-minute decisions probably based on what performances look like right at the end of pre-season and the start of the proper season – that is totally normal across all clubs.

“It’s our job to convince those remaining 1,000 or 2,000 people who have bought a season ticket in recent years – but haven’t yet done so this season – that it is a good use of their money and their time.

“You also need to believe that it is going to be time well-spent, right? It’s not just a financial thing – it’s also an emotional and time-commitment as well.

“Part of that is some show-and-tell about the improvements that are being made at the club.

“Hopefully when people turn up and see the new shop, new fan zone, new terracing in the North Stand and new pitch – they will think ‘yeah, this starts to feel like something I might be more inclined to believe in’.

“But that is a trust we have to earn. That is a faith we need to build. Faith has to be built off concrete reality, rather than just blind hope.”