I was talking to a friend at the weekend and he told me that his daughter joined the waiting list at the end of the 2011-2012 season and was approximately number 1200 on the waiting list. A couple of weeks ago she got a phone call to tell her that she has a ticket in the Jarrold Stand for next season!!!! I wonder if CH's style of play last season has made some fans give up their highly prized season tickets, or is it more likely that the price rise has forced people to give them up - especially as it's not just the cost of the ticket, but the cost of travel, food and drinks to be added on to the cost???
i think it's the prices personally. i know four people who have given theirs up (one after 28 consecutive years) simply because they cannot afford to go anymore. i don't know anyone who has stopped for 'footballing reasons' – as a fan you go through the good and the bad times, its something you accept. if you don't, it's probably not the game for you. what league we are in, the standard of football, whatever, it's all irrelevant to me - i go because i support my team, but even i'm getting close to my self-proclaimed ceiling. once it gets to that, i won't be going. i shall be off to watch non league games every week. it's not impossible next season will be my last...
I agree with the rise in travel costs. I had three lads who sat next to me for three seasons but stopped coming last season. They had to travel from King's Lynn and the cost of petrol and parking was just getting too much even when they were sharing the driving between all three of them Some of it will also be the fact that she only wants one ticket. When I got mine there was a waiting list but because I only wanted one ticket and I didn't care where I sat I managed to get hold of one. A lot of people on the waiting list will be groups of mates who want to sit together or families that need to sit together and its going to be a lot harder to get three or four tickets together than it is to get one on its own.
I think your right supers, when u was kid going 15 years or so ago it cost me £25 for the season, bargain. If the stadium is expanded I would like to see prices drop. If we we went to 40,000 but dropped ticket prices so we made similar revenue we would fill it. I do think the high prices are because we are restrained with a smallish stadium.
there must be a reasonable amount of movement in the ST holders, be it for money reasons, people move away, get ill etc etc with my simple view however, to take 1 season to go up 1,200 places, or 6% equivalent of the ST number, seems quite quick! price will be a big factor
I had/have a couple of friends who, a few weeks before the start of the 2011/12 season, walked up to the ticket office, asked for two season tickets and got them on the spot. I think it therefore likely that they probably have quite a few going before each season. The amount of cancellations probably stays quite constant.
Brilliant!!! IMO, it's more to do with costs and fans having less 'disposable income' to pay for going to football matches as the cost of living goes up, but the increase in salaries hasn' matched it for several years now. I'm quite lucky in that I paid for my season ticket for 4 years ahead when we were in League 1 (I had already purchased 2 years ahead), but when that runs out after next season, then I'll be paying full price. At least I live in Norwich, so travel costs/parking are not an issue for me.
partly. prices are high due to supply and demand certainly, but i wouldn't hold out too much hope that prices would fall if say, the ground capacity increased to a realistic 35,000 (anything larger imo is too risky). first of all, the club has to pay for the development, then there is the cost of players wages to be covered in the premier league, and with a bigger ground will come bigger expectations, so there's the price of top flight football right there. i just don't see prices dropping any time soon, only increases. even a price freeze would be brilliant and highly praised - how sad is that?!
Could this effect the possible expansion of Carrow Road do you reckon? If theres a fall in the people that were on the list then whats the point in making the stadium bigger??
The current capacity of Carrow Road (27,000) represents a little over 3% of Norfolk's population. The latter is projected to increase annually by about 7000, to reach 1,022,700 by 2035. 3% of that projected figure for 2035 is 30,700. It seems to me, therefore, that any idea that the club could sustain attendances far greater than the current level is almost certainly wide of the mark. The club has strong support because it uniquely serves the county, but by the same token the potential is limited by the capacity of the county to absorb greater increases in population. The sort of relatively modest capacity increase which is being mooted (2000 to 3000 maximum) is thoroughly sensible and realistic. Anything above that is wishful thinking.
I would say that she was extremely lucky. My son and me have been on the list for 2 seasons and missed the boat again this season. I rang the club to inquire and was told that only 180 season tickets were not re-newed this season. Having said that, my mate and his lad both got lucky and have 2 tickets in the River-end Upper, although they've been on the waiting list a season longer than me.
