I don’t get this at all. if you want to watch 2, 5 or 10 games of season, it’s most cost-effective to pay walk up prices. If you want to do 15, it’s about 50-50. if you want to do more than that, get a season ticket. if you were lucky enough to be able to do all 23, you are doing quite well on the discount. It’s just maths. The only real argument is whether 15 is the right break even number.
In fairness I think most people understand the concept of a loyalty card. If I’m behind somebody in Tesco using the clubcard scheme to get money off I don’t kick off and walk out of the shop in disgust.
The maths has changed though. When the majority of games are on Sky, people will pick and choose in favour of staying away.
If you have to pay 40% more then you probably do.
Well, indeed, so maybe the right breakeven number has changed. But it’s still the same basic equation. Which is most cost-effective for me?
So let's say its 32 quid a match next season plus booking and we have 8 or 9 non televised matches. How many are people buying tickets for?
Are you Jonathan Woodgate?
Ok fine if that’s accurate. I still argue that more than half of that reduction is likely to be because we are not facing, even the remote prospect of playing in the Premier League next season, whereas some of us naïvely bought last year because we thought we might. If that’s the case, the argument still holds. But I accept that is speculative.
me too but you had reasons for not being there. Why increase that reasoning?
That depends whether you value being there in person. If you do, it’s still more or less the same equation. If you don’t, you can do them all on streaming anyway, if you’re prepared to “stretch” the law. So I don’t think it’s changed that much
I'm going to keep coming back to this but the current model is specifically designed to stop those people coming back.
And they did come back, this year, in the face of the biggest price increase in a decade, despite all disappearing when the team was awful under Strachan and Mowbray, even though we had a price freeze. The evidence is against you my friend.
Too add to this, if the Club had frozen all the ST prices (as I would have done) sales would still have dropped, because we are likely to finish with around 63 points (12th), compared with 75 points and (4th). Last season in March, we were around 6/4 for promotion too i.e. 40% chance of promotion.