£38 quid though.....

[Key]

4 minutes ago, Etchesketch said:

It was £36 on the Kop even.Cheapest matchday ticket for an adult-catergory C game

 

Yep, and when I was at school they taught me that £36 was less than £38. 

 

 

As has been pointed out there were actually no tickets available at £38, so the thread is a bit pointless really! Just like Rovrum!

 

 

 

 

 

[bigthinrob]

11 hours ago, whyte_owl said:

£38 to watch that garbage is a disgrace and you have my sympathy.  I have a season ticket, so I'm one of the

I'm alright jack brigade, but there is no way I would pay on the day to watch that rubbish.

And their you have the entire reasoning behind DCs strategy in one fell swoop.

 

"I'll go when they are playing out of their skins, I'll go when it gets interesting towards the end of the season. I'll go if it's not raining. I'll go if it's a big game". Etc etc!!

 

The people who commit up front regardless (as you do) have the right to expect preferential treatment as against the 'pickers & choosers' . 

 

Might not suit the socialist inclusivity agenda but it is a fact of life that businesses need a degree of 'certainty' in order to plan and football clubs are no different.

 

 

 

[Bluesteel]

1 minute ago, bigthinrob said:

And their you have the entire reasoning behind DCs strategy in one fell swoop.

 

"I'll go when they are playing out of their skins, I'll go when it gets interesting towards the end of the season. I'll go if it's not raining. I'll go if it's a big game". Etc etc!!

 

The people who commit up front regardless (as you do) have the right to expect preferential treatment as against the 'pickers & choosers' . 

 

Might not suit the socialist inclusivity agenda but it is a fact of life that businesses need a degree of 'certainty' in order to plan and football clubs are no different.

 

 

 

 

If someone can make every game because they live in Sheffield and can get a ST then yes I agree.

 

I understand the high walk up costs with regard to FFP, I have to pay them ("off set" by a 50 quid membership) as I don't live here any more. But when you're getting toward 40 quid it's ridiculous even when the club does need to raise money

[1867Heaven]

12 hours ago, bagelybear said:

Well done to all those, owls & millers who paid what is quite frankly is an atrocious amount at ANY time of the season not just xmas...

 

UTO

£17 for me. I committed to 3 years in January. Paid in instalments 0% finance, just paid last one so no more. Had 2 other season tickets in last 10 years and previously went to most home and a few away games but I bought into what Chansiri is trying to do and was rewarded for it.

[bigthinrob]

1 minute ago, Bluesteel said:

 

If someone can make every game because they live in Sheffield and can get a ST then yes I agree.

 

I understand the high walk up costs with regard to FFP, I have to pay them ("off set" by a 50 quid membership) as I don't live here any more. But when you're getting toward 40 quid it's ridiculous even when the club does need to raise money

I've been there as well where it wasn't feasible for me to get a season ticket so had to pay the pay on the day premium, but there has to be an incentive to commit up front for the majority of people or they just wouldn't bother.

 

It's a sad fact but there will always be some people who it affects adversely, but sometimes the considerations of the majority and the future of the club in this case have to take precedence.

 

[Roscoe P. Coltrane]

4 minutes ago, Bluesteel said:

 

If someone can make every game because they live in Sheffield and can get a ST then yes I agree.

 

I understand the high walk up costs with regard to FFP, I have to pay them ("off set" by a 50 quid membership) as I don't live here any more. But when you're getting toward 40 quid it's ridiculous even when the club does need to raise money

I'll be with you next season mate, I'm currently a season ticket holder but I've reached my tipping point what with travel costs on top as well I will be with the walk up crowd .

[Bluesteel]

4 minutes ago, bigthinrob said:

I've been there as well where it wasn't feasible for me to get a season ticket so had to pay the pay on the day premium, but there has to be an incentive to commit up front for the majority of people or they just wouldn't bother.

 

It's a sad fact but there will always be some people who it affects adversely, but sometimes the considerations of the majority and the future of the club in this case have to take precedence.

 

 

I don't disagree with that. But the premium has never been this high and it doesn't sit right that many people are making light of some of the top end prices just because they got their season ticket.

 

I agree there should be a premium but anything over 30-35 quid breaks a barrier into the realms of punishment.

[stocksyuto]

I found out that rovrum paid £34 at udders and took over 2000 and now they are crying at 4 quid more lol. Take into account travel costs they still spend more at udders regardless

[Bluesteel]

2 minutes ago, Andoverowl said:

I'll be with you next season mate, I'm currently a season ticket holder but I've reached my tipping point what with travel costs on top as well I will be with the walk up crowd .

 

Yeah it's pretty expensive with the travel costs. I've been to a few this year and I'll have done a couple away by Boxing Day. Fulham only charged 25 quid, Newcastle much closer to our prices. 

 

I don't mind paying more for paying for individual tickets, it's always been the case. I even paid the 40 quid one for the Bristol city game to get my fix. But at I can at least recognise that it's a ridiculously high price at times. I'm not sure the more transient support needs to feel the hit quite that much.

[Bluesteel]

5 minutes ago, stocksyuto said:

I found out that rovrum paid £34 at udders and took over 2000 and now they are crying at 4 quid more lol. Take into account travel costs they still spend more at udders regardless

 

I think more would've come had they not feared a beating. But anything north of 35 quid seems to be a psychological barrier for fans.

[1867Heaven]

13 minutes ago, Bluesteel said:

 

If someone can make every game because they live in Sheffield and can get a ST then yes I agree.

 

I understand the high walk up costs with regard to FFP, I have to pay them ("off set" by a 50 quid membership) as I don't live here any more. But when you're getting toward 40 quid it's ridiculous even when the club does need to raise money

I completely get your point but I believe the club have got it about right, although it is high at times. If you don't live in Sheffield and so only come to a few games then in reality is the little extra really that much of a big deal a few times a year? Travel costs will have fluctuated more with the ever changing petrol/diesel prices in the past few years if you live that far away. It's a business at the end of the day and attendances and results on the whole are proving Chansiri right. I understand people have other priorities (I have a family) and don't buy into this true fan bolox but if you want to go there are ways of making in cheaper, considerably if you try hard enough and if you only go a handful of times then it doesn't cost that much more over a year and there are games like Wolves where its cheap tickets. I have a friend who does 30 hours minimum wage and has a season ticket and a friend who's an accountant who goes twice a year and then goes on twitter to moan about prices! Why shouldn't my mate be rewarded? Because if it wasn't so expensive on the day his season ticket would no doubt be that little more expensive which would mean he can't go.

[Cersei]

It's gotten to the point that if you go to half the games at home it's cheaper to buy an ST. That's how mental it is. Potg is double.

 

Fans who like to pick and choose are not some kind of bad fans who need punishing, we need those fans too.

 

The gates are holding up for big games and derbies but look at the frustration in the fans this season because we look only at best to get in the play offs again.

 

Hopefully we go up and the prices will seem ok but I imagine these prices and a mod table season would do some damage.

[kevtheowl]

If we have just over 20,000 season ticket holders, and Rotherham only brought one man and his foooking dog in a crowd of 27,200. That's one hell of a walk up paying £30 plus, or is somebody gout on tell me different ?    UTO 

[the monk]

The only club in world football that has fans wanting fellow fans to pay more !

[Bluesteel]

1 minute ago, 1867Heaven said:

I completely get your point but I believe the club have got it about right, although it is high at times. If you don't live in Sheffield and so only come to a few games then in reality is the little extra really that much of a big deal a few times a year? Travel costs will have fluctuated more with the ever changing petrol/diesel prices in the past few years if you live that far away. It's a business at the end of the day and attendances and results on the whole are proving Chansiri right. I understand people have other priorities (I have a family) and don't buy into this true fan bolox but if you want to go there are ways of making in cheaper, considerably if you try hard enough and if you only go a handful of times then it doesn't cost that much more over a year and there are games like Wolves where its cheap tickets. I have a friend who does 30 hours minimum wage and has a season ticket and a friend who's an accountant who goes twice a year and then goes on twitter to moan about prices! Why shouldn't my mate be rewarded? Because if it wasn't so expensive on the day his season ticket would no doubt be that little more expensive which would mean he can't go.

 

Dont get me wrong, your pal with a season ticket deserves his discount. I'm not sure it's relevant about your mates job as an accountant, so what, he should rightlfully question the top end price.

 

For now i am fortunate enough to not have to worry about the extra couple of quid on the ticket and if I couldn't afford to come down I wouldn't. I don't mean it to be about me, more rather a general view as a fan that no one should be paying near to 40 quid for a second division football match. I think we can help the club with FFP through paying higher prices but that seems to be going beyond help. Just my view.

 

 

[Bluesteel]

10 minutes ago, Cersei said:

It's gotten to the point that if you go to half the games at home it's cheaper to buy an ST. That's how mental it is. Potg is double.

 

Fans who like to pick and choose are not some kind of bad fans who need punishing, we need those fans too.

 

The gates are holding up for big games and derbies but look at the frustration in the fans this season because we look only at best to get in the play offs again.

 

Hopefully we go up and the prices will seem ok but I imagine these prices and a mod table season would do some damage.

 

Yeah, our gates have been class this season. I hope people don't give up on it next season if we don't go up. 

[1867Heaven]

3 minutes ago, Bluesteel said:

 

Dont get me wrong, your pal with a season ticket deserves his discount. I'm not sure it's relevant about your mates job as an accountant, so what, he should rightlfully question the top end price.

 

For now i am fortunate enough to not have to worry about the extra couple of quid on the ticket and if I couldn't afford to come down I wouldn't. I don't mean it to be about me, more rather a general view as a fan that no one should be paying near to 40 quid for a second division football match. I think we can help the club with FFP through paying higher prices but that seems to be going beyond help. Just my view.

 

 

I only used my more well off mate as an example to my other mate who see's Wednesday higher up his list of priorities. I think the club has it right catering for the many instead of the few. It's a shame the ticket price issue continues to divide our fan base, especially as were in the best position in years that could go onto our best position in our history. The examples of my friends show that it isn't just an issue of cost, more an issue of priorities.

[torryowl]

12 hours ago, whyte_owl said:

£38 to watch that garbage is a disgrace and you have my sympathy.  I have a season ticket, so I'm one of the

I'm alright jack brigade, but there is no way I would pay on the day to watch that rubbish.

you buy a ticket and take your chance ,anyone paying 36 quid for the Bristol game would have thought that was great value for money that it wasn't yesterday is how it goes sometimes...

[Jay1867]

19 minutes ago, the monk said:

The only club in world football that has fans wanting fellow fans to pay more !

Hit the nail on the head right there 

[Cersei]

This is what grinds my gears about it;

 

The fans who were moaning about Leeds doing it - I wasn't very vocal myself as I was worried we might do the same one day.

 

We have a lot of fans who we remember clearly on here berating Leeds for it and now we are more expensive they have the cheek to have a go at our fans now! For moaning, they say don't go if you don't agree with it. Then expect you to stop following your football club and posting on here about results.

 

So the club say look it's 40 quid or an ST then your fellow fans tell you you're not a fan for not paying it. That is not very nice and I may be able to take it but what about the people it's genuinely upset and ruined something for them?

 

Next is the 20 is plenty campaign, something we all would get behind... but when we sign FF and charge double it's suddenly 26 is plenty of you go to every game! 40 is plenty if you want to go to 6-12 a season. 

 

The country is in a recession. South Yorkshire is not affluent at all, we've got over 10,000 empty seats and we are charging 36 quid to sit behind a pillar, 39 quid to sit on a stand with an outdoor concourse and 43 quid in our only stand for for purpose.

 

And you get your pride and loyalty questioned when you complain or wont go along with it, by people who have had ST's for years and have chosen to do that with their lives and have faced a smallish increase for a better squad, but not double. 

 

And why have we upped it? To make an extra 400k a season on the gate, doesn't cover a years wages of some of our bench or reserve players.

 

It's not about FFP it's about the most Chansiri thinks he can get per game. The categories are decided by if it's Boxing Day or first game of the season. Nothing else. Just the most he can charge.

 

And it squeezes up, then it's the highest we can push it to force an ST purchase.

 

So you've got fans now sat watching and wanting their return, so even with 27,000 the atmosphere is bad.

 

I haven't even mentioned people being priced out but taking a family at 50-60 quid compared to 100 is huge, because that extra 40 quid comes out of an already stretched budget.

 

26 quid was madness for a championship football game if you can look at it objectively. But people are Wednesday mad so they paid it, paid it with a sense of humour to the cost. 

 

30 quid is day light robbery but ya know what, cinema is 11 quid now so we say ok.

 

39 quid.... it's 40 quid basically, humour gone, can go and do 3 other things for that money over a weekend.

 

You could go watch the new Star Wars, go for a meal later and a couple of cocktails, you can go and have a coffee and croissant Sunday morning and still have enough money to have 3 pints at the boozer and watch all of super Sunday, for the price of spending 90 minutes on a plastic seat, amongst 15,000 empty seats.

 

So please continue to go as it's great for the club, but don't question my loyalty and fandom and suggest I don't comment on and follow SWFC because I've can see the bull crap in all this.