Looks like there's a price hike coming later this week...

Mickey Mouse wears an Assam Allam wrist watch.

Until he starts working with the council all this will continue. We might have done well on the pitch last season, but it will become detrimental to us sooner rather than later.

 

The club simply didn't have enough admin staff to organise Wembley tickets, the ballot and season ticket sales so the latter (being the least important at the time)
has been put on hold until now.

 

I see all of this completely differently.

Assem Allam does have a business plan and he is rolling it out, there is more evidence to show that he knows what he is doing than to suggest that he does not.

The club has stated that they will improve the Academy.
Steve Bruce has eluded to the fact several times that the owners impressed him with their long term plans.
Ehab has stated that the club will be self financing next season and will be in profit the season after.
Assem Allam has said that funds will not be taken out of the club.

As for people who bought season passes just to see the big names, well that is always a possibility. In the main another season in the PL may not generate an increase in season pass holders, but the price rise may lose some. But all in all I expect the attendances to be around the same level.

I do not have the luxury of paid employment. There is no minimum wage for me. I only get paid if I have work. Changes in law have meant that instruction rates have fallen from at least one job a day, to around one job a week. Now I have stronger competition for less work. I am having to make drastic changes in my business. I prepared for the downturn but the instruction drop off is so bad that my insurance costs alone are more than the rates for the jobs that I am getting in. I have just told my wife that I will be buying a season card next season. Her response was simple "You had better go out and get some more work then". I'm sat in my office this morning with no work and waiting for the phone to ring. Its the way that it is feast or famine. My point is this it isn't easy for anyone. Its a luxury and if I cannot afford it I will have to give it up. It costs me around £100 per home match.

 

Right we have decided to move into the North Stand (from E4) and see how it goes, the excess price increase will be funded by not buying any replica kit (or anything other than the pass (i.e. no refreshments or half time draw tickets) and going to probably one less away game although we may need to re-assess that depending on where and who we get in the Europa League.

 

mine has gone up 27%

 

Don't think the price rise is too unreasonable really when it breaks down to £27 per game. However, I am glad I am seated in E4 and not E1, E2 and E3 as I don't want to move behind the goal. I do believe it a good idea to move away fans to the NE corner and it should make for a better atmosphere.

 

Category C was £22 last year for an adult so reckon £16 is a concession. Swansea, palace and a few others were C this year so i reckon Burnley will join them next year.

 

Thats a very good price for category C should guarantee some good crowds for those games

 

It's an excellent price.

Cat B is a little high.

There's enough plastics about to sell out the Cat A games I reckon. All in all it's not all that bad a move.

 

They're the games I'll try and target if I'm up in Hull. £16 is a great price, plus you're more likely to get a favourable result.

 

Yes the price increase seems a lot but I think over the last 3-4 years the club has done all it can to protect the fans from any real increase in season tickets. £500 seems fair for a pass to watch premier league football and I will be renewing as normal. I would say if the 50% increase had come things may be different. We are saving for a house move, have a 8 month old son and everything costs.

Already missed about 6 games last season so it makes no sense to have a pass financially but I use it when family commitments permit.

Its an all day event going to see city for me virtually and as much as I love the team sometimes time with the lad is more important. Still with a interest free D/D on offer away we go!

 

Someone I know has spoken to the Club, and the reasons offered for the move are pure nonsense. They're getting a lot of complaints from E1 through to E4, but seem to be pretty much ignoring them as a whole, prefering to build on the half arsed justifications.

You couldn't make a worse job of PR if you tried.

 

So why is the north stand dearer than the south stand?

 

Assems Revenge??? I did warn you.

 

What? Sunderland has a bigger club right on its doorstep. We've got no competition for 60 miles and a catchment area probably bigger than any other club our size. Rugby League is our only competition and no one actually goes to watch that. We've got absolutely no excuse for such low support.

Those who have come to see Stevie G will get bored as the novelty wears off. Either we get relegated and there's a mass exodus or we stay up for a few years and there's a gradual decline in numbers until we do something to sort it out.

They do this all the time. It really is as if we don't want to get more fans. Other clubs get theirs out nice and early and incentivise it. They could have given priority for FA Cup final tickets to those buying a pass for next year over people who don't (after current pass holders obviously). I know most of our off-pitch staff and they admit it's a league 1 standard operation, but they also get league 1 wages. Same for the Chief Exec when we actually had one.

I like this but as I keep saying, we should appreciate the current singing section in E1-E3. They're louder than you hear at most PL grounds.

Cat C prices are very good but the demand isn't there. The people who want to see us play Burnley have season passes. To sell those cheap tickets they need marketing properly to the local area. To people who don't normally go. I can't even stress how enormous the market is of football fans in Hull who never watch live football.

 

So you wanted to continue to watch premier league football and championship prices whilst the chairman paid for it? Nice.

 

That wouldn't surprise if you had. You offered about every conceivable outcome.