The club need to take a reality check when deciding on Season ticket prices. Charlton who are a similar club to ourselves have the following prices for early signup. Behind the Goal £325 Half way Line £525 Midfield £475 18 yard Box £375 Goal Line £175 -£275 Family Stand £275 U18 £100 U11 £25/Free Plus there are concessions for 65+ Disabled So it will be interesting to see what Fulham come up with, considering the prices for this season were extortionate keeping them the same price should not be an option. Update 8th April from Fulham Website We know that the 2014/15 campaign has been tougher than all of us expected, and that we still need to get some points on the board to be able to plan for next season in the Sky Bet Championship. However, to thank you for sticking with us throughout this campaign, we want to reward your loyalty next season at Craven Cottage. When we launch 2015/16 Season Tickets, you will see that it gives you even more for less: There will be a reduction on ALL adult Season Tickets for the 15/16 campaign. ALL junior Season Tickets will be HALF PRICE. Not only will these prices provide value like no other, but we will also make football at Craven Cottage more accessible. We're increasing age bands for junior supporters from Under 16 to Under 17, and Young Persons tickets will be available for 17 to 21 year olds. Supporters will continue to receive a number of benefits across the season, which you’ll find out more about at launch. Season Tickets will be available to purchase from Monday 13th April. More information, including full pricing and how to purchase, will be available prior to and on this day.
What's it today? The 8th of April? What's the point of this 'warm-up'? Nothing is going to change in the next 5 days and if things don't go well on Friday night the new corporate jingoism please log in to view this image could well reflect demand ... lowest sales "like no other" season this century.
How many of us actually have season tickets at the moment? I currently don't, as the mate I used to go with can't afford it anymore. However, my new job is ten minutes from the ground so I may consider just going to the evening games on an ad hoc basis next season. Wonder how pricey that would be?
I have a season ticket despite my job only allowing me to get to half the games! Let's give the club a bit of credit it's been a horrendous season so they have reduced all prices , assuming we are in the championship next season ( which I believe we will be) how many clubs who are staying I the same division are actually putting prices down I reckon we will be the only ones
I'm an ST holder Surly. As a concessionaire though can't really lose out whatever they do, especially when you throw in Academy games for free. The per game charges this season I think have been too high and unfortunately I doubt if there will be a lot of movement next year. So you're not likely to see much change out of £30 for most matches.
I'm a season ticket holder, and have been for many years, but I'm looking a not renewing if the price is too high, I don't see why other London clubs can charge less, they are playing the same teams as us, it not as if the facilities at CC are better, I don't see why I should pay over £200 more then clubs like Charlton and Millwall for a similar seat, this season I have cut back on buying food and beer because of the high prices and poor quality. I've stopped buying a programme and haven't bought any merchandise, so I can still travel to some away games and have had a far better experience then I do at CC.
People keep talking about other teams being a lot cheaper than us but there was an article in one of the papers this season about championship season tickets, now don't be fooled by the press the headline which was all about Fulham having the most expensive season ticket in the division but a little reading into the article and the paper was only comparing each clubs most expensive tickets, if they had looked at each clubs cheapest adult season ticket then only Charlton were cheaper than us in the whole division SuperMcbride as for facilities I thought Charlton was dreadful, the stadium was nice to look at once pitch side but one toilet in the away end for 2000 people and one refreshments hatch only big enough for 4 servers, horrendous god knows what happens when Leeds bring 4000 down.
I've given up defending Fulhams high prices to away supporters, basically they are ripping us off. So they better start being realistic next season. Our cheap seats in all stands are open to the elements or restricted views. I Think (can't find the letter) our top price in Riverside was £799 then midfield Seats £699 then outer wings £499 the JH was £599 £499 £399 Hammersmith £399-£299, and I think that was earlybird prices but were never changed. What happens when they start to build the mystical Upper tier of the Riverside. Don't get me started on the facilities, quality and price of food at football grounds.
Your mention of these being 'earlybird' prices raised a question in my mind SuperBri. When the Club say in that warm-up advert that "There will be a reduction on ALL adult Season Tickets for the 15/16 campaign" I trust they are not going to do the Supermarket con trick and reduce the price on the retail price as opposed to the earlybird price! [Hope that makes sense]
I'm going to renew particularly if they are a bit cheaper. In mentioning above the food at the Cottage I have to say that I never used to buy food at the ground but this year when a "fully loaded burger" at the Burger stand just inside Bishops park went to £6 I thought I'd try eating at ground instead. I got put money on my season ticket and queue in a special quick queue for all us that do it - can't for the life of my remember what it is called. Anyway, all sounds good but nobody bothers with the queue rules and they just serve anyone so it is no quicker. In fact it's longer because then comes along fellow arrogant prepaid chaps who jump the whole queue as they are "pre-paid" and assumes us in the queue are cash buyers and in the wrong queue. Whole stupid thing bloody annoys me - especially when we're losing at half time, and being British we say nothing and just moan on a football forum !!
I’ve renewed. Cost just over £50 less than last season, although this time round the offer doesn’t include 2 x free Cup tickets. Not bad value, subject to all the usual caveats about what I’ll actually see on the day.
Stand Blocks 2015/2016 The Three prices are Renewals - New Purchasers - Full Price# Johnny Haynes A AL K KL (Family Zones) £254 £259 £299 Hammersmith/ Riverside/ Putney H1 H8/ SL ZL/P1 £254 £259 £299 Hammersmith/ Riverside/ Putney H2 H7/ TL XL/ P2 £305 £319 £359 Hammersmith H3 H4 H5 H6 £382 £409 £449 Johnny Haynes/ Riverside B BL C CL H HL J JL/ S Z £441 £479 £519 Johnny Haynes D DL G GL £501 £549 £589 Johnny Haynes/ Riverside E EL F FL/ T X £586 £649 £689 Riverside VL W WL £713 £713 £839 Still concession for 65+ (didn't change it to 60+ like some clubs.) Young Persons are now 17-21 Under10 £25 and starting from £47 in the Family stand.
Any idea on how the season tickets sales are going? The deadline to keep your seat has been extended to today.
Not very well I’d guess if they are extending the deadline - although can’t see 24 hours making much difference. The crunch will be next Wednesday (20thMay); the date when ST holders can change seats.
I thought the same, Cottager, that it can't be a good sign. The club statement said the delay was due to unprecedented demand, but I suppose that could be unprecedentedly low!
I suspect that some people left it till the last day to renew their seats probably hoping for a change of management but not wanting to lose their seats, so there was a last minute surge that the ticket office couldn't cope with. Interesting that they now have a 4 day break before giving ST holders a one day window to change seats for the discounted prices. The ST renewals are probably down on last year as there will be numerous disenchanted supporters who wanted a change in management or a sign that the club were ambitious. It will be interesting to see if sales of STs are well down, what the club brings in as an incentive to sign up before the season starts. Last season if I'm not mistaken they kept the discount open till near the start of the season. There's been no mention about the Riverside restructure and how it would effect the seats there if started next year. Strange that they are not allowing any more New STs in the Putney End.
Season tickets went on general sale today, so I had a wander around the Club's map of seats now available. There are huge swathes of 'empty' places in each of the three main stands. At the prices the Riverside didn't surprise me but to see so many not taken up in the popular H5 and H6 sections of the Hammy End certainly did. At a rough estimate it seems only about 7-8000 ST holders have renewed. I think we sold about 12000 last season. While I'd stress that both of those figures are very much 'finger in the air', there's no question but that sales are way down - possibly as much as 30%. If Shad Khan needs "analytics" (qualitative and quantitative) of how his project is progressing, they're right there!
As previously stated I have not renewed my ST which was in the riverside stand, of the 12 around me, of today as follows 3 not renewing including myself 1 not renewing due to health reasons 1 not renewing due to re location 3 relocating to cheaper seats 4 cannot locate ,therefore cannot comment for the last 9 seasons all the above group have been continuous ST holders in same seats. As you say Cottager it does not look good. It begs one to ask the cynical question was Khan wearing his property speculators hat on when purchasing FFC
Funnily enough (in the by co-incidence rather than the ha ha sense) this occurred to me as well, rosc. Khan is a businessman and having paid over the odds for the Club, he just, must have an agenda other than owning it for the kudos. He strikes me as the kind of man who looks for a return on his investment. The kind who spends his money for a 'Picasso on the wall', not for 'p*****g on the wall'.
Though Khan has made mistakes I honestly don't believe he has an alteria motive as in our his first transfer window he broke our transfer recored then in his second he sanctioned the record championship signing of McCormack! I ve renewed I think under £300 for a championship season ticket in London is amazing value, what's that work out as over 23 games £12 ??? And with a new season brings new hope! Although I wanted a manager change the main thing I wanted is an investment in the squad and I honestly think we will spend a bit this summer!
