I wonder if an issue like this is why the naming rights are not yet done and dusted. I can see Levy thinking this could be a bigger deal to supporters than the likely harrumphs on the ticket prices announced this week.
Rumours the other week we're Hewlett Packard were interested in stadium naming rights ....the hp lane doesn't sound right.probably be hp stadium or arena .I'm sure levy will rince em for money whoever gets it .
The prices range from £795 to £2,200. There appear to be very few tickets below £1,000. It's just bad business to rinse the fans, in my opinion. You end up with an atmosphere like The Emirates, which nobody wants. We already charge very high prices as it is, so any increase basically pushes us into a higher bracket than anyone else. Becoming the most expensive club to watch? Unjustified and unnecessary. We're nearly doubling the matchday revenue anyway and that's before extra money from naming rights, the NFL deal and other events. Here's the THST take on it: http://www.thstofficial.com/thst-news/season-ticket-pricing-at-spurs-thst-comment
It suggests to me that more money is needed from match day revenue in order to try and pay down the overall debt. Once you set the price bar high, nobody ever does a significant future price drop if/when the finances can easily accommodate it.
I give it ten days before the club announces a drop in season ticket prices - and a subsequent debate about whether or not that was the plan all along.
I'm not overly chuffed about the prices to be honest, especially as we don't warrant such high prices. I paid about £820 at The Lane and then about £780 at Wembley this season. For where I want to be sitting - ideally blocks 209/ 210 in South Stand as that's the equivalent of my seat at WHL & Wembley - I'll have to pay £995. I'm in phase 4 for ticket selection. Most of my mates are in phase 7 which sucks but we knew that was going to be the case. We all really wanna sit with one another but everyone's getting the impression the South Stand will sell out quick seeing as it's going to be the biggest attraction.
That is a serious PR risk to play that kind of game. One big PR win could be in announcing the actual number of seats that will be in each of the "price points" in each stadium section (the THST said this was not yet made clear to them) . Either way I am not too optimistic.
Courtesy of Imperial Aero on SSC...We have lift off. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=549397&page=2806
Look in the NE and NW 'corners' For some reason the 4 nearest the camera don't move but the others are off the ground.
I completely agree with you on this. Match day revenue streams in the new stadium will far exceed income from through the turnstiles, so there is no justification in hiking the prices up by 40% which is the case in some areas. The 1882 ticket at £2200 is just a piss take and to have one of these areas in the south stand goes some way to defeating what this "kop stand" is all about. The THST statement is surely a political one as reading between the lines, it' s pretty obvious they are not happy. The club seems to have given them nothing more than lip service and then carried on regardless.
Levy obviously has forgotten more about business than I'll ever know, but in this case I think the club has made a big mistake for exactly the reasons outlined above. It seems to me the goal of having a great new stadium is to present a spectacle to the millions viewing remotely which includes a packed and wildly enthusiastic crowd of the kind Borussia Dortmund have. Not only do high prices endanger full houses, they make it far likelier that younger fans who live and bleed Tottenham and shout their lungs out will be priced out, and the stadium will be filled by old farts with money, their annoyingly quiet families, and useless tourists like myself. It's penny wise and pound foolish.
Will never be able to afford seasons ticket for me and my girls but will be gutted if we can't afford to 10 or so cup and league games like we do. We have been to 3 FA Cup games, 2 league cup games, 4 CL games ... for me and my youngest these 9 games cost me a total £240. All 3 of us went to spurs v Chelsea, Arsenal and Burnley and we have tickets to the Newcastle match. I have also gone with a mate to Brighton and West Brom. These 6 matches have cost a total of £360. From the rise of season tickets I am guessing that next season we will not be going anywhere near as much due to match day price rises.
Unfortunately this is the way football has been going since sky came into football hiking up the prices for fans paying players hideous amounts of money in wages .The game used to be a working class man's game but not no more it's always the fans that suffer despite being the most loyal people at the club.families with a mortgage and a couple of kids now have to pick and choose what games they prioritise and it shouldn't be like that.we have all been thinking the bubble will burst but with the new tv deals that's not gonna happen.I feel sorry for you and the kids you are missing out through no fault of your own and I feel spurs have missed out on the chance to reward the loyalty us fans give to the club.
I’m really sorry to hear that, RCL Your situation has encapsulated the issue for me and it is just plain wrong that the core fan-base are the likely victims. As others have said, its also self-defeating, as all the money and effort (supposedly) going into making the new stadium an evolution rather than revolution in the club, keeping the unique atmosphere of WHL, will be lost. I’m not sure whether we are talking blind Corporate greed or just the financial realities of constructing a massive state of the art stadium, but have a feeling that the likes of Bill Nick and club stalwarts of years gone by will be spinning in their graves. (Which would be a pity as they have probably been enjoying the stability of the last few years post-Scholar) Just one request please - no piss-sock throwing demonstrations! Or at least let us know where you’re sitting......
As a single-income parent with young children living in London, like RCL I can only really afford to go to cup games, CL games and the odd away game (as long as transport isn't too expensive). It's a situation that I accept and, in a weird way, I go so rarely that every live match is a massive excitement to me. So I'll turn up for the Wimbledon game and almost get thrown out for standing up and shouting too much. But at the same time, I can see these prices hikes limiting my access even further. I worry that after a year at Wembley we've moved the fans closer to the pitch but further away from the football...
sad to hear and there really isn't a good reason for clubs to put prices up, they got more than their fair whack from tv companies so i don't understand why clubs need to charge so much. The Germans really have done it the right way and don't have stupidly priced tickets. It's a shame that the game has come to this but as much as we hate TV money, TV is not the cause of this, it's greedy clubs all around
