Let me try for the final time to make my position clear as I am getting a bit fed up with being spoken to like a naughty little boy who should stand in the corner and be quiet every time I post something you don't agree with. I am not moaning - I am quite happy to pay only £10. I accept all the points being made about it being good PR and an opportunity for more people to attend but in my opinion they have lost an opportunity to maximise profit. Charge £20 and you only have to sell 14K tickets to be better off. I never said Luton were local - I said ' fairly local ' meaning that if you gave them an allocation of 10K they could sell them making it quite easy to get a full house even if we had difficulty selling the remaining 17k. Luton are moaning - they expected to make more money and consider our pricing unrealistic. I repeat my main point - is it really realistic to charge the same price to watch a Premiership Club in the 4th round of the Cup as you pay to watch a march in the Ryman league. IN MY OPINION it is unrealistic and I am entitled to hold that opinion without being accused of moaning.
well as I have been evicted by the Hatters from my normal seat going to watch this from the lower river end, am I allowed to still shout in there or am I to sit quietly with my G&T in my hip flask?, my last game in there was Gunnys testimonial so only a few years ago and me and my eldest lad were moaned at for being to loud!
this is where your argument is derailed time and time again, because it simply isn't true. unless, that is, you think the club won't sell any extra food, merchandise and god knows what else on the day. we aren't looking after luton - we are looking after ourselves as a club and looking after our fan base. there is NO WAY we'd sell out at £20 a head for a game versus a non-league side. we couldn't sell out when tickets were cheaper than that against a league one side! your argument is that luton are more local, but they aren't local enough to make that big a difference!
thanks JR, i knew it was above £50. well at least they won the game and got their moneys-worth with 7 goals
Whilst I have absolutely no problem with the pricing strategy and think it's a great idea putting on cut price tickets, especially in these times of austerity, I bet that we almost certainly would have virtually sold out a saturday afternoon FA Cup tie against a fellow East Anglian side - unless they put us on the telly that is I guess (currently the Oldham v Liverpool game is the only one that has been moved to the Sunday). Even so I'm sure we'd have sold 20k+ tickets for the match at £20 a pop, however rather than complain about the potential loss of revenue to me it makes the gesture by the club even the greater. Well done DM, I personally think this is brilliant
we charge far too much for our casual tickets. the club can justify this for our own fans because tickets are like gold dust and only a few are ever available. unfortunately, it does mean we over-charge the fans of each away side. difficult not to feel sorry for fans having the long journey to norfolk (no matter where they're from!) with all the expense of travel along with match ticket. unfortunately that's the way football has gone. i think our season tickets are excellent value for money - mine works out at about £25 a game which in the premier league is very good.
I took a 'punt' a few years ago and bought 4 years season tickets in advance at £214 a year, as I'd reached the ripe old age of 60 - it was quite hard for a year, but I managed it OK. The very next year, the OAP rate changed from 60 to 65, so my season ticket would have cost me on average £450 a season - net saving is approx £1,000 over the 4 seasons!!!
I didn't realise we charged so much for casual tickets to away supporters. So basically we sold 2500+/- to them at £55 a pop! If that is the case, the club can certainly make the gesture of £10 for the Luton game and don't necessarily need a pat on the back for the effort. The money you should pay to watch a game has to have a better criteria than if they are a big club charge more. Supply and demand must come in to it of course but I don't think our club has that problem. We are a football club not Ebay!
wow. that's one hell of a saving! but we could have bought a new centre forward with that money... #heartstrings
I think casual fans are being charged £45 for Newcastle and £48 for Spurs, so a season ticket at £500 to £600 is good value if you can get to most of the games. I've been in the same seat for 5 seasons now and only a handful of people around me have changed in that time. I'm sure there will be the usual 'moans and groans' when DM announces the prices for next year's season tickets in the next few weeks, but I'll be not many will be giving them up and would rather economise elsewhere.
I paid £48 for my casual ticket to the Man City game the other week which I thought was outrageously expensive, but it still didn't put me from putting my hand in my pocket. NCFC is the one organisation I don't mind being 'ripped off' by as I'm safe in the knowledge that there isn't some fat cat sat on an island somewhere creaming off the profits.
which brings us back to how we get cheaper tickets again which leads me to say terracing which leads to an almighty argument...! by the way, how good was the atmosphere in the away end on saturday?! proper old school support! it was great, loved every second of it.
if you want to sit near the half way line, add £10 to those prices - £55 / £58. it goes up to £60 if you are a non-member for A+ matches. but like munky says, people still pay it and turn up - although i believe there are still tickets available for Saturday. Probably post-xmas tightening of pursestrings. can i ask a ticket-related question to you knowledgable people? i'm a super-member, but if i want to take my children to the game in the spring (who aren't members); do i have to wait until the tickets for a certain game go on general sale, or can i get them when they go on sale to members? I'm assuming it's the former as they aren't members - does anyone know / done something similar? It's dissappointing that the club doesn't offer junior membership - i'm not paying £10-15 membership each for them to go to one game as season - Reading do one and it's £10 for membership until the age of 17
does the club not offer junior membership anymore? i didn't know that. that's not good. sorry though, i don't know the answer to your query
i must admit supers i haven't spoken to the ticket office, but certainly on the club website, i coudn't find anything. either way, for me it's not worth it - i live 3 hours away, and this would be their first trip to the Fortress, could be an expensive disaster if i pay for 2 x memberships as well! i'll wait for a less-in demand game like Reading or Saints
Max, I think (but am not sure) that you have to wait until that category goes on sale before you can order - i.e, if you are a super member and want to order an additional ticket for a casual fan you have to wait until te tickets go on general sale before you can order the ticket for your mate although you can still order yours on the day that the super member tickets become available - this does however, rather defeat the object as you probably won't get two seats together. May have got this wrong but that's my understanding - would be happy to be corrected mind.
I must admit I've been reading this thread with a lot of interest - particularly with my 'sport in the community' hat on and I must admit I see both sides of the coin. This is a potential money making venture and one that could be an opportunity missed if things go south for guys. But then if the club were to go along that route (Higher prices) there would be uproar that the club 'has lost touch' (similar to earlier this season) and that "Football was on it's last legs" etc. as the club only cares about the money and not the fans, that it was solely a money making business now. What Norwich have done instead however is a clever marketing ploy, they have taken the fall on a matchday income with the view of gaining in the long run - the sort of longsighted view that every clubs fans wishes they had! You may lose out on a few thousand on one day in the season but you will earn that and more in the long run with the added level of community engagement and higher morale within supporters and the potential wider matchday support you can call upon in years to come... After all there is nothing worse than a group of disillusioned fans - particularly if you may one day be in need of these fans to help the club out
You'd have to wait until the tickets go on general sale - which for Saints or Reading sholdn't be too bad, or find someone who's a season ticket holder to get them sooner. When we were still in the championship, a season ticket for under 12s was £37.50 (and I could just walk in and buy one), I believe it's nearer £75 now!!!
thanks OCF (and JR too), that's my understanding - yep that would defeat the object of taking my two boys to the football (not siting together) Or i could just go on my own and be able to enjoy the game in peace! Supers, you're right, i'll give them a call to see if there are any junior membership options. thanks
