Stated on the Football for a fiver thread that I wasn't happy as a season ticket holder. Within minutes of the Footy for a fiver tickets the Peterborough tickets are reduced by a tenner!!! We've already had a two for £30 deal on Blackburn and Hull. And the season is still exciting. What on earth will happem if we are in boring mid table by March - paying people to come? This is getting stupid now. And I know that the Brighton tickets have gone up before anyone reminds me but I'm now seriously considering whether my season ticket is worth it as opposed to just turning up every week. I do understand the need to chase new supporters but this is becoming false economy and I'm beginning to feel cheated. Off early to wade my way through legions of plastics.........Harrumph!!!
Everybody has the right to talk b*llocks on this board, jimbob and Super and I will make sure it stays that way... I thought you were making a valid point, myself. I was thinking how unfair it was when I was buying my 'two for 30 quid' for Middlesborough and Cardiff City just now. Oops.
Ybabo, In all honesty perhaps they are setting day ticket prices to reflect the ****e we are being served up at home this season?
I see they are selling 17-game season tickets which are actually more expensive than the 23-game season tickets I bought in March! Shurely shome mishtake?
I'm a season ticket holder and to be honest I don't mind if the club want to lower the prices for some games to boost the crowds. The club do tell us that they would only do so many offers so not to devalue the price of a season ticket but even then I wouldn't be bothered if it worked out cheaper for me to pay on the gate each game as my money will only go to the club anyway and there are plenty of teams in the same league as us charging way more money than us to watch the same 24 teams slug it out over a season. My only issue with days like yesterday is being surrounded by fans who have had more than one drink clearly not understanding the game of football shouting things like "do something Powell" when all three subs have already been made....or "it's only Barnsley" as though we should be winning 5-0 because of whom the opposition are called or generally shouting out what we should be doing ie switching the ball from left to right even though there's no chance of it actually happening, I will be glad for the next game when those fans go back to whererver it is they usually reside on a matchday.
I had a first-class pranny sitting behind me who actually said, 'You wouldn't see crap like this at Maine Road.'
Similar experience for me. But then I also had an entire under 11's football team to the right of me, who were brilliant. They showed more passion than 91% of the regular crowd.
Ha! I almost had an U11s girls team (my daughters and their friends) with me. The people in the queues for food and drink were not happy. Why 91%, SuperC? That is an exact statistic.
It's this obsession with marketing. Just like in the supermarket there's all these offers, 3 for 2, BOGOF, buy on get one half price etc., why not just have everything a little bit cheaper? Always seems to me they're trying to get inside your head. To be fair the season tickets were also cheaper before April.
Agree Bill. I bought my season ticket at the cheaper price thank goodness. But the value is eroded by £40 already due to all the deals. Will be redressed a bit by the Ipswich and Brighton tickets increasing but it does make you wonder. My season ticket at £375 is equivalent to 15 games at full price so I can technically afford to miss up to eight and still be quids in. The people who paid £425 only get six "freebies". Now I know that the point of a season ticket is much wider than the cost but I have already missed one game (Watford) due to being away on business and there will be more. And don't tell me that if the season peters out into mid table mediocrity that there won't be offers all over the place. I can understand the odd offer but we've effectively had offers in six of our first eight home games. It's too many.
