We're the most expensive team to watch in the whole of the championship, and we're serving up the direst entertainment. The club has a lot to answer for. Forget the Jewell debacle, the club seriously needs to start winning the fans over, and even getting them back into the stadium. They can't expect us to pay over £50 to watch that pile of ****e, and that's before you include travel costs. So for me to watch that ****e would amount to over £100, and then you sit through that ****e!!!!
The club have lost all respect for us the fans its quite clear now, i would rather have my club back in the League 2 without Marcus Evans then how we are now, its got that bad!
I have to admit, i don't go to too many games nowadays, but i don't think it's co-incidental that my decline in attending has dipped in the last 3-4 years. At this rate, we will never be in the premiership, and what will ME do then to get his outlay back? Increase the prices even more? They seriously need to find alternatives to increase the revenue, like REDUCING prices and listening to the fans. Surely its logical economic sense to have 25,000 people paying £20 a ticket, then it does to have 15,000 paying £40 a ticket (if you include all the added extras of food, drink and merchandise), plus we'll have a better atmosphere, and maybe it would rub off onto the team and maybe they could start winning a few more games.
My argument has always been that the club is the biggest problem and that Jewell may not be doing a good job but has certainly been hindered by those above but thats not really the point of this post so onto the actual subject On this survey it is partially misleading as they have only done it based on what the club offers as both highest and lowest priced tickets. It says the cheapest is 22.50 for which I have never seen tickets available and that the highest is £42.50, again I have never seen tickets available for at this price. To be fair I have never looked at other areas of the ground but always take notice of the price when walking through the turnstiles at Churchmans and the price is normally £30.00-35.00. It is very expensive and not good value for money but I think the survey should also have included the average price of a match day ticket for good measure. Our high is stupidly high but how many seats are at that price and how many matches are they charging this at as we have tiered prices in place? At this level of football I dont see that adult prices should exceed £30 but also wouldnt expect them to drop much below £20 and I do agree with the original poster that the club has to do more to engage with the public. Its difficult mid season due to those who have paid for season tickets but at the end of the season at the latest a new policy is needed. Its a part of business that things with demand will be price certain people out but we have a half full stadium and thats not good for anyone.
Although the stats show that we have the most expensive tickets in the league, you have to look at the information on face value. Our most expensive ticket for a match is the most expensive in the league. (That much we probably already know) However that is our top end and looking at the bottom end prices we are around the same as everyone else and come in lower than Brizzle, Barnsley, Watford and Boro among others, also for a season ticket our cheapest comes in at neary £100 cheaper than Hull's cheapest! It seems that for additional items such as a Pie, Programme and a cup of Tea the cost across the league is fairly even with everyone charging a similar amount, so it is not simply ITFC who are fleecing their supporters... We do however seem to have stretched the top end for prices with the highest price for 'most expensive season ticket' and 'most expensive matchday ticket' so it really begs the question as to why? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19842397
somebody has got to pay for that turnstile paint yorkie, norfolk is also an affluent part of the country, yet our season tickets are cheaper than yours despite us being a league higher and our match day prices are similar. our tickets are expensive but that is because of demand - there are only ever about 3k available per home game - tickets are like gold dust so the club can charge obscene amounts for them. ipswich don't have that excuse. you're being fleeced. what is clear is that pretty much ALL football clubs are driving prices far too high and its getting close to being the cut-off point for many fans attending matches at all. the only way prices will go down is if players wages go down. can't see that happening any time soon...
Supers you've missed the point in your rush to score points. We have the highest most expensive ticket because we have thousands of wealthy businessmen and women. Norfolk does too but it's a different breed than in Suffolk because it's harder to commute to London. It's not ticket prices keeping fans away its the football and the PR.
no, sorry, you're talking bollocks. plenty of people commute to london from norwich - i know - i do! Plus, THEY MOVE HERE! many of the people around here are seriously minted because they've sold their three bed in enfield for £1m and moved to norfolk to live in a five bed cottage for £600k. i'm sure that's the same in suffolk but you seem to be suggesting that people in suffolk have more money than those in norfolk, which is just bizarre. and there was you saying i was trying to point score... also, how does that excuse ipswich and norwich for that matter, charging more than some london clubs?
3 bed semi in Enfield for £1m ?? seriously, i''ve not long come out of Enfield, and i certainly didn't get that for my 3 bedder...but i know what you meant, it's got sod all to do with affluent areas, look at Tottingham, one of the most deprived areas in the country, and yet they still charge what they do. It's purely our owner wanting to get us much back from his outlay, and as our six-fingered friend mentions above, all clubs are fleecing the poor spectator, purely because they know we are all glutten for punishment and will still pay!!
I've said it a few weeks ago and I will repeat it again. I feel like I am being alientated by NCFC these days. In league 1 and the championship there was this huge battle cry from the club saying that we are on the edge of going bust etc..... etc.... and begging the casual fans to fill the staduim and for the season ticket holders to pass up their discounts they were offered for going down to league 1 and I attended with my son more than usual to try and help them out. Now everything is rosy in the garden and we (the fans) got them out of financial strife the casual ticket price has rocketed and the league cup games are now really expensive and usually dire. Thanks a lot.
Clegg has said in the past that the prices are set to make the most money for the club. His evidence for this was having 1 game with cheaper prices, seeing only a small rise in attendance and scrapping the idea. He is a moron. He is also missing the point, the fans really are the 12th player and can have a huge impact on the players.
quite right kemp. the club are charging £30 for a league cup 4th round tie with spurs which in all likelihood will be a reserve run-out for both sides. farcical price. what a missed opportunity to get youngsters and newcomers through the gate. i doubt we'll even get 10k. i was one who decided to waiver my season ticket refund when relegated to league one but as soon as things make a turn for the better, us fans are soon forgotten about. i don't regret refusing the refund - that generous money from numerous season ticket holders bought grant holt i believe, but football as a whole needs to cut wages as its the only way to stop all this getting any worse. i certainly can't see it getting any better anyway! our match day prices are ludicrously high but season ticket prices are 'competitive' i would say, but i've set myself a limit and when the cost reaches that i shall no longer go... and we are not too far away from that limit today. if things carry on as they are i expect next season will be my last as a season ticket holder. football is eating itself...
what also annoys me is that it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you charge a little less but get a few more fans in, you will make more money from general sales at the ground. ok, its a rough estimate but surely its better to keep fans onside by charging a bit less and get more in. it doesn't have to be peanuts. i think £20 for a championship game is perfectly reasonable and £30 for a premier league game, but we charged £55 for the liverpool game! fine for me as my season ticket works out about £25 a game but all those liverpool fans had to pay full whack!!
Thing is I could afford a season ticket but I have not got the time to go regulary, got a young family and have work commitments. The odd league game and the cup games are enough to fulfil my needs as a supporter but I will not have the pee taken out of me and allow myself to be taken advantage of by the club. This all leaves a sour taste in the mouth and if we end up in the same situation again when the club is experiencing hard times and they start making those kinds of pleas to fans to attend games they best remember and consider how they are treating the fans now, because I will.
Are you for real? Have you ever been to Lowestoft? The rural areas of Suffolk may be fairly affluent, but in the urban areas, there is particularly high unemployment... Suffolk is actually pretty economically deprived (No wonder when its only real industries are farming and tourism (And who would want to visit Suffolk?!?)) so to call it one of the most affluent parts of the country is simply untrue. And neither is Norfolk either...
Unfortunately supers your ground is going to be full every game. 95% of your seats are sold to season tickets holders so the 'casual*' fan, for want of a better phrase can be charged stupid amounts as there is going to be demand. Clubs gets money, some fans gets annoyed and others pay the cash! We have a different problem with the ground half empty we either stick to 'expensive' tickets whereby we can afford to not get numbers in or we can lower to try to attract the casual* fan. The more fans expected then the more steward and policing costs increase and how much can you knock off a price to attract more fans. I would suggest that in our current form it would have to go down to somewhere nearer "£20-£25 a ticket to make people think about coming more regularly but thats £10-15 less then prices currently and I cant see attendances doubling to somewhere around a sell out to make it realistic, even then if you do it tomorrow then it annoys all season ticket holders that already make up the bulk of our support. I dont like it but its a business these days and money in and profit counts for a lot more than anything else. The only thing I think we can do at this stage is kids free when accompanied by an adult. Get the next generation in before its too late. *casual as in turn up at the gate rather than trying to suggest they are lesser fans.
In fairness to lancs, I assume he meant the immediate areas of Ipswich,Woodbridge and Bury combined with the likes of the North Essex fans which are within easy reach of PR rather than the further afield outposts such as Lowestoft. Off Course we will have fans from the wider suffolk area and further afield but its not where the club are likely to be basing prices on.
the kids for a quid scheme was something norwich did about 15 years ago and it worked brilliantly. football is a different beast now though. it all boils down to player wages. puts it into perspective really, especially as norwich have a wage cap at just over £20k a week! what ever must teams like qpr have to charge to cover costs! i realise they don't need to cos of their owner but imagine if he walked out... they'd go bust straight away. what do ipswich charge for kids match day tickets? could they conceivably make them a fiver?
