New Season Tickets on sale for 2024/25

Diego said:
It’s easy to understand why. If I wasn’t a season ticket holder I wouldn’t be one who walked up and bought tickets for every home game. It costs too much money when you have a family.

I rarerly speak on these topics but think the club have this badly wrong.
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As you know Diego, I’m the same and say little publicly. I’m usually 100% behind the club, especially in matters such as ticket pricing.

However, this is a very strange strategy. We all know that there have been massive increases in the cost of living especially since the Ukraine war and Truss’ disastrous tenure of PM. I think the season ticket increases are slightly above the current inflationary rate, and really can’t be justified. To give already stretched families only four weeks to pay at the early bird cost is, to say the least, punishing. To send out an email outlining costs and deadlines without any hint of current inflationary pressures, borders on the insane.

I will still renew, as it’s an important part of my life, but the club really need to think about how they play this in the future.
 
I`d gladly crawl blindfold naked through a pit full of vipers and stinging nettles to pay double the price to see us draw with Peterborough, Barnsley and Derby next season!
UTMB!
 
When you consider that around 40% of all weekend matches will get moved to a different time and all the midweek, plus Christmas, New Year and Easter games are on TV, this doesn't seem very sensible.

Just reading back to the forum response from last year about having a higher percentage of concessions, that to me wouldn't suggest finding ways to exacerbate that state of affairs.
 
As Bert said above, the club seem to be sending out very different messages in terms of ambition and actions.
It's all well and good saying we want to buy and develop young talent, but if you don't actually keep them long enough to improve matters on the pitch then any plan you have relies totally on luck. Get one season where it all falls into place then you are golden, but in reality you need to build year on year and at the moment we don't look like we're doing that.
As for the stupidly short deadline to commit to renewing when we don't actually know how the current season will pan out, we'll, it's been covered above.
No guarantee that any of our best players or the manager will be here next season or that we'll be giving it a go. Just hand over your money and accept whatever we try and sell you.
It's all too easy to defend Gibson for what he's done in the past, but it's absolutely true that without investment we won't be building for the future. Yes, I know he covers our losses every month and if he's happy to guarantee peeing away money then fine, but stop selling us as some sort of sleeping giant which we are not.
 
Inflation and energy prices will be the main 'justification' for the price rises, but as the ticket sales cover less than 1/3 of club revenue, it seems daft to me to try and pump that lever again for more, when there must be better ways of raising significant enough revenue from other means that doesn't squeeze the fan.

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I'm not a season ticket holder and haven't been for many years, but I've always said the club often plays with fire by charging top end prices at the start of the season, while getting itself into a habit of changing the football plan in October which puts us in a tight spot.

Premium prices for very average product at the moment across the whole offer (hospitality prices, club shop merchandise, food and drink at the ground).

Very frustrating and it really clouds over the good and great things the club does and is capable of.
 
I understand the overwhelming bad reaction from this. I just dont see what the club can do.

However, this is the reality of football today. Players are being paid vast sums of money. Very, very ordinary players are getting 10s of £1000s/week. If you look at the clubs annual return, the wage bill is ridiculous in terms of turn over.
We are all living through high inflation and all prices are going up every single year.
English football has become a plaything for foreign billionaires who are spending billions on players and wages without any hope of profit. FFP has, so far, done nothing to dissuade any wealthy owners from from spending this mental amount of money.
Over the last couple of years, even the championship has been bought up by foreign billionaires.
It is inevitable that, sooner rather than later, a big club is going to go bust when these people decide they actually dont want to play anymore. Or FFP will be enforced and some big clubs end up being demoted.

We, as a club, have been propped up for many, many years by a chairman who is happy to absorb the losses as a tax write off for other, successful businesses he owns.
To watch a team paid so much money is going to keep going up and up. Sport in the US does the same to the point that average people just cannot afford to attend the games.
Either every single club gets together to make a stand or individually they each have to decide what level they can afford to play at. At the moment, it looks as though we can manage to stay in the Championship. But if it wasnt for the losses being written off - could we afford to break even in the Championship?
 
Moreno said:
Why not have the early bird until April ? There is no reason other than greed Steve.
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I don't honestly think its 'greed' as he isn't pocketing the profits.

I think they are hoping some will renew now, in the hope that we revive our play off run (even if just temporarily) before mid-March. Wait until April with the guarantee of second tier football and it could result in lower revenues.

Its going to be a very big summer this one, which could 'make or break' the Carrick era.
 
MoggasDog said:
I understand the overwhelming bad reaction from this. I just dont see what the club can do.

However, this is the reality of football today. Players are being paid vast sums of money. Very, very ordinary players are getting 10s of £1000s/week. If you look at the clubs annual return, the wage bill is ridiculous in terms of turn over.
We are all living through high inflation and all prices are going up every single year.
English football has become a plaything for foreign billionaires who are spending billions on players and wages without any hope of profit. FFP has, so far, done nothing to dissuade any wealthy owners from from spending this mental amount of money.
Over the last couple of years, even the championship has been bought up by foreign billionaires.
It is inevitable that, sooner rather than later, a big club is going to go bust when these people decide they actually dont want to play anymore. Or FFP will be enforced and some big clubs end up being demoted.

We, as a club, have been propped up for many, many years by a chairman who is happy to absorb the losses as a tax write off for other, successful businesses he owns.
To watch a team paid so much money is going to keep going up and up. Sport in the US does the same to the point that average people just cannot afford to attend the games.
Either every single club gets together to make a stand or individually they each have to decide what level they can afford at. At the moment, it looks as though we can manage to stay in the Championship. But if it wasnt for the losses being written off - could we afford to break even in the Championship?
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Maybe.. not have the renewal so early for starters!

Stop wasting money.. imagine being able to buy a pint at half time and not have to down it without talking to anyone.

Imagine being able to buy a replica shirt.. ffs
 
For those wondering here’s the rallying cry email…

Early Bird Season Tickets are now available to renew for 2024/25.

Buying a Season Ticket is cheaper than purchasing tickets on a match-by-match basis, and offers benefits including Priority Points for in-demand away and cup fixtures, as well as your seat reserved for the season.

The Early Bird deadline is 5pm on Friday 15 March.


I’ve had warmer gas bills
 
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