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  • bobmunro said:
    Ticket pricing is an inexact science - priced too low and you might have sold out twice over, price too high and overall revenue falls. Ultimately it is about profitable revenue generation which, as a loss making entity, is reasonable for that to be the driver for the owners. We all want success on the pitch - that of course comes with a price tag.

    I have no idea whatsoever whether the current ST and match day pricing will achieve optimum revenue - people can speculate as to whether they are too high or too low, but nobody really knows.
    Surely a key measure is the extent to which any match day purchasers repeat on other occasions or ultimately convert to a season ticket. 

    I’d suggest the pricing is not going to reel many in on a semi permanent basis. 

    They want ‘tourists’ who are less price sensitive. I don’t see much  incentive   to attract new families / groups. 

    Sadly we aren’t unique as it’s the direction of travel but our previous boasts on affordable football are now historic it feels.  
    Given the number of empty seats we have, they can have tourists and attract additional regular support. Tourists won’t be deterred by tickets being £5 cheaper. 

    My observation is that they struggled with some of the gold games last season because they were overpriced in the context of the opposition and the season. Portsmouth (abandoned) was an obvious example. On that basis I don’t think making that the minimum price for most games is likely to work.


    It's SUCH a shame there's no-one around these days who could advise as to best  practises & what has/hasn't worked in the past. ;)
    Full transparency: at the club's request I recently did a piece of work (unpaid) on how to adjust Valley Express to provide more opportunity to develop support (based, as ever, on the data). Unfortunately, they aren't going to take it forward. That's up to them, obviously, but it is why I say that I think they are excessively risk averse.
    When you say ‘risk averse’ do you simply mean they won’t spend any more / increase their costs before they see a rise in income / ticket sales? 
    There isn’t a lot of scope for increasing ticket sales as it is currently set up because they are more or less at capacity across most routes (with some fall-off in midweek) as they operate them. This doesn’t necessarily mean the coaches are full - you will have season pass holders who don’t travel, as with no show ST holders, but the seats are paid for. However, Valley Express was deliberately set up with interconnecting routes, so you can add one coach which creates capacity on two routes if required. And not if it isn’t. 

    I don’t think the existing fare structure will fill the extra coaches, but for example it’s very family unfriendly. So yes you need to take a few short term risks to find out where the market is, but you can react to that and the only change for the existing passengers (Hailsham apart) is fewer stops, which is a major consideration in my experience. 

    The costs at risk here are piddling for a Championship club, but of course it’s easier to run it at the lowest possible level or not at all. It just won’t help you develop support.

    Ultimately it comes down to whether you are focused on the cost of the coaches or the total revenue the passengers generate, in the short and long term. And the club’s choice is to have the empty seats in the stadium, because the evidence is that they can’t sell it out. Different story if they could.
    I’ve previously put the suggestion to them that they could have a simple method for VEX season ticket holders to notify them in advance if they are not travelling to a specific match. Then the club could re-sell that seat. But that was a couple of years ago and nothing has come of it. 
    They'd not be interested in reselling a seat when there are many thousands unsold.
    There’s probably somebody making the argument of ‘never mind the average 7 thousand empty seats each home match, when we play Chelsea we will more or less sell out…’

    until they realise they have got to sell a lot more season tickets so that they reduce the number available for every match. Starting off having 12 thousand seats available every match simply takes away any urgency to buy a ticket.having to sell those tickets when fans are also buying away tickets and sometimes tickets for another home match a few days or a week later then puts unnecessary pressure to get them out and answer the various queries that inevitably will occur when some don’t turn up.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 22,105
    bobmunro said:
    Ticket pricing is an inexact science - priced too low and you might have sold out twice over, price too high and overall revenue falls. Ultimately it is about profitable revenue generation which, as a loss making entity, is reasonable for that to be the driver for the owners. We all want success on the pitch - that of course comes with a price tag.

    I have no idea whatsoever whether the current ST and match day pricing will achieve optimum revenue - people can speculate as to whether they are too high or too low, but nobody really knows.
    Surely a key measure is the extent to which any match day purchasers repeat on other occasions or ultimately convert to a season ticket. 

    I’d suggest the pricing is not going to reel many in on a semi permanent basis. 

    They want ‘tourists’ who are less price sensitive. I don’t see much  incentive   to attract new families / groups. 

    Sadly we aren’t unique as it’s the direction of travel but our previous boasts on affordable football are now historic it feels.  
    Given the number of empty seats we have, they can have tourists and attract additional regular support. Tourists won’t be deterred by tickets being £5 cheaper. 

    My observation is that they struggled with some of the gold games last season because they were overpriced in the context of the opposition and the season. Portsmouth (abandoned) was an obvious example. On that basis I don’t think making that the minimum price for most games is likely to work.


    It's SUCH a shame there's no-one around these days who could advise as to best  practises & what has/hasn't worked in the past. ;)
    Full transparency: at the club's request I recently did a piece of work (unpaid) on how to adjust Valley Express to provide more opportunity to develop support (based, as ever, on the data). Unfortunately, they aren't going to take it forward. That's up to them, obviously, but it is why I say that I think they are excessively risk averse.
    When you say ‘risk averse’ do you simply mean they won’t spend any more / increase their costs before they see a rise in income / ticket sales? 
    There isn’t a lot of scope for increasing ticket sales as it is currently set up because they are more or less at capacity across most routes (with some fall-off in midweek) as they operate them. This doesn’t necessarily mean the coaches are full - you will have season pass holders who don’t travel, as with no show ST holders, but the seats are paid for. However, Valley Express was deliberately set up with interconnecting routes, so you can add one coach which creates capacity on two routes if required. And not if it isn’t. 

    I don’t think the existing fare structure will fill the extra coaches, but for example it’s very family unfriendly. So yes you need to take a few short term risks to find out where the market is, but you can react to that and the only change for the existing passengers (Hailsham apart) is fewer stops, which is a major consideration in my experience. 

    The costs at risk here are piddling for a Championship club, but of course it’s easier to run it at the lowest possible level or not at all. It just won’t help you develop support.

    Ultimately it comes down to whether you are focused on the cost of the coaches or the total revenue the passengers generate, in the short and long term. And the club’s choice is to have the empty seats in the stadium, because the evidence is that they can’t sell it out. Different story if they could.
    I’ve previously put the suggestion to them that they could have a simple method for VEX season ticket holders to notify them in advance if they are not travelling to a specific match. Then the club could re-sell that seat. But that was a couple of years ago and nothing has come of it. 
    They'd not be interested in reselling a seat when there are many thousands unsold.
    There’s probably somebody making the argument of ‘never mind the average 7 thousand empty seats each home match, when we play Chelsea we will more or less sell out…’

    until they realise they have got to sell a lot more season tickets so that they reduce the number available for every match. Starting off having 12 thousand seats available every match simply takes away any urgency to buy a ticket.having to sell those tickets when fans are also buying away tickets and sometimes tickets for another home match a few days or a week later then puts unnecessary pressure to get them out and answer the various queries that inevitably will occur when some don’t turn up.

    Last season we averaged what 20k or thereabouts? (I know it looked less at times but that's ST no shows primarily). That's about the most I reckon we will get in The Championship (unless we are pushing for promotion). The only way we get close to selling out most games is if we make the Premier League, and anything else we do unless/until then is tinkering with those figures.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,969
    edited July 15
    bobmunro said:
    bobmunro said:
    Ticket pricing is an inexact science - priced too low and you might have sold out twice over, price too high and overall revenue falls. Ultimately it is about profitable revenue generation which, as a loss making entity, is reasonable for that to be the driver for the owners. We all want success on the pitch - that of course comes with a price tag.

    I have no idea whatsoever whether the current ST and match day pricing will achieve optimum revenue - people can speculate as to whether they are too high or too low, but nobody really knows.
    Surely a key measure is the extent to which any match day purchasers repeat on other occasions or ultimately convert to a season ticket. 

    I’d suggest the pricing is not going to reel many in on a semi permanent basis. 

    They want ‘tourists’ who are less price sensitive. I don’t see much  incentive   to attract new families / groups. 

    Sadly we aren’t unique as it’s the direction of travel but our previous boasts on affordable football are now historic it feels.  
    Given the number of empty seats we have, they can have tourists and attract additional regular support. Tourists won’t be deterred by tickets being £5 cheaper. 

    My observation is that they struggled with some of the gold games last season because they were overpriced in the context of the opposition and the season. Portsmouth (abandoned) was an obvious example. On that basis I don’t think making that the minimum price for most games is likely to work.


    It's SUCH a shame there's no-one around these days who could advise as to best  practises & what has/hasn't worked in the past. ;)
    Full transparency: at the club's request I recently did a piece of work (unpaid) on how to adjust Valley Express to provide more opportunity to develop support (based, as ever, on the data). Unfortunately, they aren't going to take it forward. That's up to them, obviously, but it is why I say that I think they are excessively risk averse.
    When you say ‘risk averse’ do you simply mean they won’t spend any more / increase their costs before they see a rise in income / ticket sales? 
    There isn’t a lot of scope for increasing ticket sales as it is currently set up because they are more or less at capacity across most routes (with some fall-off in midweek) as they operate them. This doesn’t necessarily mean the coaches are full - you will have season pass holders who don’t travel, as with no show ST holders, but the seats are paid for. However, Valley Express was deliberately set up with interconnecting routes, so you can add one coach which creates capacity on two routes if required. And not if it isn’t. 

    I don’t think the existing fare structure will fill the extra coaches, but for example it’s very family unfriendly. So yes you need to take a few short term risks to find out where the market is, but you can react to that and the only change for the existing passengers (Hailsham apart) is fewer stops, which is a major consideration in my experience. 

    The costs at risk here are piddling for a Championship club, but of course it’s easier to run it at the lowest possible level or not at all. It just won’t help you develop support.

    Ultimately it comes down to whether you are focused on the cost of the coaches or the total revenue the passengers generate, in the short and long term. And the club’s choice is to have the empty seats in the stadium, because the evidence is that they can’t sell it out. Different story if they could.
    I’ve previously put the suggestion to them that they could have a simple method for VEX season ticket holders to notify them in advance if they are not travelling to a specific match. Then the club could re-sell that seat. But that was a couple of years ago and nothing has come of it. 
    They'd not be interested in reselling a seat when there are many thousands unsold.
    There’s probably somebody making the argument of ‘never mind the average 7 thousand empty seats each home match, when we play Chelsea we will more or less sell out…’

    until they realise they have got to sell a lot more season tickets so that they reduce the number available for every match. Starting off having 12 thousand seats available every match simply takes away any urgency to buy a ticket.having to sell those tickets when fans are also buying away tickets and sometimes tickets for another home match a few days or a week later then puts unnecessary pressure to get them out and answer the various queries that inevitably will occur when some don’t turn up.

    Last season we averaged what 20k or thereabouts? (I know it looked less at times but that's ST no shows primarily). That's about the most I reckon we will get in The Championship (unless we are pushing for promotion). The only way we get close to selling out most games is if we make the Premier League, and anything else we do unless/until then is tinkering with those figures.
    I agree we’re not filing the ground, other things being equal, but for me it’s about leaving seats empty because you’re worried that they might return less than the full price, I.e. through spending money on filling them. Valley Express is operating at about 40% of where it should be historically. It’s only part of the jigsaw but the timidity of the club’s overall approach is apparent. 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 22,105
    edited July 15
    bobmunro said:
    bobmunro said:
    Ticket pricing is an inexact science - priced too low and you might have sold out twice over, price too high and overall revenue falls. Ultimately it is about profitable revenue generation which, as a loss making entity, is reasonable for that to be the driver for the owners. We all want success on the pitch - that of course comes with a price tag.

    I have no idea whatsoever whether the current ST and match day pricing will achieve optimum revenue - people can speculate as to whether they are too high or too low, but nobody really knows.
    Surely a key measure is the extent to which any match day purchasers repeat on other occasions or ultimately convert to a season ticket. 

    I’d suggest the pricing is not going to reel many in on a semi permanent basis. 

    They want ‘tourists’ who are less price sensitive. I don’t see much  incentive   to attract new families / groups. 

    Sadly we aren’t unique as it’s the direction of travel but our previous boasts on affordable football are now historic it feels.  
    Given the number of empty seats we have, they can have tourists and attract additional regular support. Tourists won’t be deterred by tickets being £5 cheaper. 

    My observation is that they struggled with some of the gold games last season because they were overpriced in the context of the opposition and the season. Portsmouth (abandoned) was an obvious example. On that basis I don’t think making that the minimum price for most games is likely to work.


    It's SUCH a shame there's no-one around these days who could advise as to best  practises & what has/hasn't worked in the past. ;)
    Full transparency: at the club's request I recently did a piece of work (unpaid) on how to adjust Valley Express to provide more opportunity to develop support (based, as ever, on the data). Unfortunately, they aren't going to take it forward. That's up to them, obviously, but it is why I say that I think they are excessively risk averse.
    When you say ‘risk averse’ do you simply mean they won’t spend any more / increase their costs before they see a rise in income / ticket sales? 
    There isn’t a lot of scope for increasing ticket sales as it is currently set up because they are more or less at capacity across most routes (with some fall-off in midweek) as they operate them. This doesn’t necessarily mean the coaches are full - you will have season pass holders who don’t travel, as with no show ST holders, but the seats are paid for. However, Valley Express was deliberately set up with interconnecting routes, so you can add one coach which creates capacity on two routes if required. And not if it isn’t. 

    I don’t think the existing fare structure will fill the extra coaches, but for example it’s very family unfriendly. So yes you need to take a few short term risks to find out where the market is, but you can react to that and the only change for the existing passengers (Hailsham apart) is fewer stops, which is a major consideration in my experience. 

    The costs at risk here are piddling for a Championship club, but of course it’s easier to run it at the lowest possible level or not at all. It just won’t help you develop support.

    Ultimately it comes down to whether you are focused on the cost of the coaches or the total revenue the passengers generate, in the short and long term. And the club’s choice is to have the empty seats in the stadium, because the evidence is that they can’t sell it out. Different story if they could.
    I’ve previously put the suggestion to them that they could have a simple method for VEX season ticket holders to notify them in advance if they are not travelling to a specific match. Then the club could re-sell that seat. But that was a couple of years ago and nothing has come of it. 
    They'd not be interested in reselling a seat when there are many thousands unsold.
    There’s probably somebody making the argument of ‘never mind the average 7 thousand empty seats each home match, when we play Chelsea we will more or less sell out…’

    until they realise they have got to sell a lot more season tickets so that they reduce the number available for every match. Starting off having 12 thousand seats available every match simply takes away any urgency to buy a ticket.having to sell those tickets when fans are also buying away tickets and sometimes tickets for another home match a few days or a week later then puts unnecessary pressure to get them out and answer the various queries that inevitably will occur when some don’t turn up.

    Last season we averaged what 20k or thereabouts? (I know it looked less at times but that's ST no shows primarily). That's about the most I reckon we will get in The Championship (unless we are pushing for promotion). The only way we get close to selling out most games is if we make the Premier League, and anything else we do unless/until then is tinkering with those figures.
    I agree we’re not filing the ground, other things being equal, but for me it’s about leaving seats empty because you’re worried that they might return less than the full price, I.e. through spending money on filling them. Valley Express is operating at about 40% of where it should be historically. It’s only part of the jigsaw but the timidity of the club’s overall approach is apparent. 

    Agreed.

    Even if it's cost neutral after VEX, extra stewards, marketing etc... it's still better having more bums on seats.
  • bobmunro said:
    bobmunro said:
    Ticket pricing is an inexact science - priced too low and you might have sold out twice over, price too high and overall revenue falls. Ultimately it is about profitable revenue generation which, as a loss making entity, is reasonable for that to be the driver for the owners. We all want success on the pitch - that of course comes with a price tag.

    I have no idea whatsoever whether the current ST and match day pricing will achieve optimum revenue - people can speculate as to whether they are too high or too low, but nobody really knows.
    Surely a key measure is the extent to which any match day purchasers repeat on other occasions or ultimately convert to a season ticket. 

    I’d suggest the pricing is not going to reel many in on a semi permanent basis. 

    They want ‘tourists’ who are less price sensitive. I don’t see much  incentive   to attract new families / groups. 

    Sadly we aren’t unique as it’s the direction of travel but our previous boasts on affordable football are now historic it feels.  
    Given the number of empty seats we have, they can have tourists and attract additional regular support. Tourists won’t be deterred by tickets being £5 cheaper. 

    My observation is that they struggled with some of the gold games last season because they were overpriced in the context of the opposition and the season. Portsmouth (abandoned) was an obvious example. On that basis I don’t think making that the minimum price for most games is likely to work.


    It's SUCH a shame there's no-one around these days who could advise as to best  practises & what has/hasn't worked in the past. ;)
    Full transparency: at the club's request I recently did a piece of work (unpaid) on how to adjust Valley Express to provide more opportunity to develop support (based, as ever, on the data). Unfortunately, they aren't going to take it forward. That's up to them, obviously, but it is why I say that I think they are excessively risk averse.
    When you say ‘risk averse’ do you simply mean they won’t spend any more / increase their costs before they see a rise in income / ticket sales? 
    There isn’t a lot of scope for increasing ticket sales as it is currently set up because they are more or less at capacity across most routes (with some fall-off in midweek) as they operate them. This doesn’t necessarily mean the coaches are full - you will have season pass holders who don’t travel, as with no show ST holders, but the seats are paid for. However, Valley Express was deliberately set up with interconnecting routes, so you can add one coach which creates capacity on two routes if required. And not if it isn’t. 

    I don’t think the existing fare structure will fill the extra coaches, but for example it’s very family unfriendly. So yes you need to take a few short term risks to find out where the market is, but you can react to that and the only change for the existing passengers (Hailsham apart) is fewer stops, which is a major consideration in my experience. 

    The costs at risk here are piddling for a Championship club, but of course it’s easier to run it at the lowest possible level or not at all. It just won’t help you develop support.

    Ultimately it comes down to whether you are focused on the cost of the coaches or the total revenue the passengers generate, in the short and long term. And the club’s choice is to have the empty seats in the stadium, because the evidence is that they can’t sell it out. Different story if they could.
    I’ve previously put the suggestion to them that they could have a simple method for VEX season ticket holders to notify them in advance if they are not travelling to a specific match. Then the club could re-sell that seat. But that was a couple of years ago and nothing has come of it. 
    They'd not be interested in reselling a seat when there are many thousands unsold.
    There’s probably somebody making the argument of ‘never mind the average 7 thousand empty seats each home match, when we play Chelsea we will more or less sell out…’

    until they realise they have got to sell a lot more season tickets so that they reduce the number available for every match. Starting off having 12 thousand seats available every match simply takes away any urgency to buy a ticket.having to sell those tickets when fans are also buying away tickets and sometimes tickets for another home match a few days or a week later then puts unnecessary pressure to get them out and answer the various queries that inevitably will occur when some don’t turn up.

    Last season we averaged what 20k or thereabouts? (I know it looked less at times but that's ST no shows primarily). That's about the most I reckon we will get in The Championship (unless we are pushing for promotion). The only way we get close to selling out most games is if we make the Premier League, and anything else we do unless/until then is tinkering with those figures.
    Most of the other clubs in the Championship seemed to get closer to selling out their stadiums last season and they weren’t all pushing for promotion.

    our business model seems more along the lines of trying to get an extra half million or so from STs and match tickets and risk selling fewer tickets if the team isn’t flying and consequently needing the owners to put up more cash instead of riding the momentum of the past two seasons and trying to sell more STs and match tickets and getting more fans behind the team.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 34,607
    On Valley Express I just think they are after an easy life. Run a coach on each route, as long as the regulars are catered for then it’s job done. Not interested in speculating to accumulate, increase matchday sales, maybe entice others to then buy season tickets. Fact is if Valley Express ceased they’d lose a fair number of current season ticket holders because many are aged, have mobility issues etc and Valley Express is the practical option to get to games. Don’t know if they realise that or not but they are doing the bare minimum and not prepared to go any further. 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 31,098
    MrOneLung said:
    On the coach Elf’s not ground 
     :'(
    Ooops, sorry. 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 31,098
    On Valley Express I just think they are after an easy life. Run a coach on each route, as long as the regulars are catered for then it’s job done. Not interested in speculating to accumulate, increase matchday sales, maybe entice others to then buy season tickets. Fact is if Valley Express ceased they’d lose a fair number of current season ticket holders because many are aged, have mobility issues etc and Valley Express is the practical option to get to games. Don’t know if they realise that or not but they are doing the bare minimum and not prepared to go any further. 

    Perhaps if they did a package selling a match and coach package at a reduced rate could entice more to go?
  • Cafc451
    Cafc451 Posts: 346
    When they selling the West ham tickets?

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  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,236
    Cafc451 said:
    When they selling the West ham tickets?
    I would think when wet spam give us the tickets. 😉
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 31,098
    The squad celebration package, is that on a sale or return refund basis depending on the result?
  • Cafc451
    Cafc451 Posts: 346
    What are our home match with QPR prices?.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 20,155
    Cafc451 said:
    What are our home match with QPR prices?.
    No different to the Derby game 
  • Cafc451
    Cafc451 Posts: 346
    Thanks
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 20,155
    This is a gold category match, with ticket prices starting from £35 for adults and £12 for U12s. Family Bundle ticket availability, starting from £50 for two adults and two U12s, has now extended to the Alan Curbishley Stand, as well as the Family Stand. 

    Martin Lewis has spotted a saving a chunk of cash opportunity here. Especially if you want to sit in the Curbishley stand with a mate 
  • Spanish
    Spanish Posts: 876
    Croydon said:
    That's insane !! And I am guessing you pay for your child's kit too ?? 

    • A mascot hoodie *if purchased*

    Appreciate the club needs to generate funds and offer experiences but your pulling on the heartstrings of parents, most of the time. No idea what other clubs sell similar packages for but it's too much money IMO.

  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,969
    shirty5 said:
    This is a gold category match, with ticket prices starting from £35 for adults and £12 for U12s. Family Bundle ticket availability, starting from £50 for two adults and two U12s, has now extended to the Alan Curbishley Stand, as well as the Family Stand. 

    Martin Lewis has spotted a saving a chunk of cash opportunity here. Especially if you want to sit in the Curbishley stand with a mate 
    Good price but wide open to abuse.

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  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 17,752
    edited August 3
    Cue a lot of imaginary kids appearing on the CAFC database who all come down with a mystery illness on a match day morning. 

  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 31,098
    shirty5 said:
    This is a gold category match, with ticket prices starting from £35 for adults and £12 for U12s. Family Bundle ticket availability, starting from £50 for two adults and two U12s, has now extended to the Alan Curbishley Stand, as well as the Family Stand. 

    Martin Lewis has spotted a saving a chunk of cash opportunity here. Especially if you want to sit in the Curbishley stand with a mate 
    Great news that the Family Bundle can be used elsewhere.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 20,812
    Tickets for the Addicks' Sky Bet Championship clash against Portsmouth at The Valley on Saturday, September 12th (3PM BST) have gone on restricted sale, with the away end having sold out.
    https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/portsmouth-h-tickets-now-restricted-sale
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,860
    I was only looking at Pompey tickets this afternoon. Not got a ST and very rarely go to matches nowadays. 

    Gobsmacked at the price for the AC stand. I usually go for either block F or G and was paying around £30 last year.

    Now £38. 

    That's almost a 30% increase.

    Sorry, but I probably wont be going to that one.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 31,098
    I was only looking at Pompey tickets this afternoon. Not got a ST and very rarely go to matches nowadays. 

    Gobsmacked at the price for the AC stand. I usually go for either block F or G and was paying around £30 last year.

    Now £38. 

    That's almost a 30% increase.

    Sorry, but I probably wont be going to that one.

    You won't be alone in thinking that.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 20,155
    I was only looking at Pompey tickets this afternoon. Not got a ST and very rarely go to matches nowadays. 

    Gobsmacked at the price for the AC stand. I usually go for either block F or G and was paying around £30 last year.

    Now £38. 

    That's almost a 30% increase.

    Sorry, but I probably wont be going to that one.
    First Gold prices home game of the season.

    Those matchday prices will certainly make you take a breath when you see how much is being charged.

    The tourists would pay it but if they have no previous ticket history (Which is more than likely) then that’s the market gone for that game 

    Keep winning games and people may decide to go at that price. Not a cheap day out anymore 
  • Chef_addick
    Chef_addick Posts: 2,215
    My Cardiff tickets arrived today, look at the on the day increase - and some think our £2/3 an hour before kick off is bad!!!
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,728
    This gold and silver differentiation is a further anti fan trend. 

    Surely the whole point about football is that on the day any result is possible. Jones always  tells us how good / difficult the opposition will be. 

    We don’t need to manage demand. 

    It’s an out and out money grab and a disappointing feature of football that isn’t going away - sadly. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 23,056
    This gold and silver differentiation is a further anti fan trend. 

    Surely the whole point about football is that on the day any result is possible. Jones always  tells us how good / difficult the opposition will be. 

    We don’t need to manage demand. 

    It’s an out and out money grab and a disappointing feature of football that isn’t going away - sadly. 
    It's purely linked to how many away fans will come so the club can grab as much money from them as possible, it sucks
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 14,667
    The family bundle for £50 is a great deal, will definitely use that for Pompey. I didnt realise it was a regular offer.