Season tickets 2022/2023 (going up)

[foxfanazer]

Just now, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Just pointing out the big picture. Don't pretend they're here for a jolly.

I'm not pretending anything. I said they've been very fair since they bought the club. You're welcome to disagree

[hejammy]

8 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

And made a lovely wedge whilst doing it.

This sort of comment really outlines the problem with our society. They are businessmen! They make money. They've done so much for our club and city and they still get ungrateful comments like the one above. They didn't have to give us all the free stuff, they didn't have to price freeze all those years, they didn't have to donate millions to our hospitals. Even that comment about "why should we have to make our own sarnies!?" just screams 'woe me!' some people need to grow up! Some people have done well for themselves and some people struggle, it's life and sometimes it's your input vs your output. 

Edited 9 March 2022 by hejammy

[Corky]

If the club are in a position where they have to raise prices they need to do everything they can to reduce unnecessary costs elsewhere.

 

 

[hejammy]

2 minutes ago, adam said:

Why should they have to. With my shit maths the club are gonna make less than a million quid out of this increase. Surely they are not that hard up that they need to irritate a section of the fan base with this increase. It's pure greed. 

No its not! It's business! Pure greed would be to double the price. When you go and buy a pint from the pub vs buying the same pint from a supermarket do you say the pub is charging more because of pure greed? 

[Reg Vardy]

2 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

As predicted the "I'm a better fan than you peasants" out in full force.

Started supporting them in 1965….ticket prices have risen during those 57 years…..not a case of “better than,” more a case of being realistic

[adam]

Just now, Corky said:

If the club are in a position where they have to raise prices they need to do everything they can to reduce unnecessary costs elsewhere.

 

 

Can't see them reducing anything for the fans. No doubt the food and drink prices will go up next season and the club shop certainly won't be getting any cheaper either. 

[MalletFox]

1 minute ago, adam said:

Why should they have to. With my shit maths the club are gonna make less than a million quid out of this increase. Surely they are not that hard up that they need to irritate a section of the fan base with this increase. It's pure greed. 

Well, you don’t HAVE to do anything. You don’t HAVE to take home made sandwiches or take any other action, in which case, accept the extra £3.60 a month inconvenience or don’t renew.

 

In the grand scale of things it may seem insignificant, however I would still argue £700k a season is a decent wedge, not when talking about players and player’s wages, but I’d bet that would be a welcomed contribution to supporting Seagrave overheads etc, for example.

[Reg Vardy]

Just now, adam said:

Can't see them reducing anything for the fans. No doubt the food and drink prices will go up next season and the club shop certainly won't be getting any cheaper either. 

Nor beer, petrol, food, wages, power…..

[hejammy]

5 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

As predicted the "I'm a better fan than you peasants" out in full force.

More like I'm a more realistic fan than some that live on cloud cuckoo land 

[adam]

1 minute ago, hejammy said:

No its not! It's business! Pure greed would be to double the price. When you go and buy a pint from the pub vs buying the same pint from a supermarket do you say the pub is charging more because of pure greed? 

It's greed. They no they will get away with it and they no they will have folk like you banging your clapper about and never hearing a bad word said about the owners. 

[grobyfox1990]

14 minutes ago, adam said:

Why should a family have to make their own sarnies at home though just so they can still afford to support the greed of the Premier league. 

Lol come on having lunch at home isn’t a hardship!?!??! Prices are through the roof in almost every metric, cutting down on processed lunches outside and eating at home should be the least of anyone’s worries. Petrol is 153p and marching to 200p whilst our own govt laugh at us 

[MalletFox]

4 minutes ago, hejammy said:

This sort of comment really outlines the problem with our society. They are businessmen! They make money. They've done so much for our club and city and they still get ungrateful comments like the one above. They didn't have to give us all the free stuff, they didn't have to price freeze all those years, they didn't have to donate millions to our hospitals. Even that comment about "why should we have to make our own sarnies!?" just screams 'woe me!' some people need to grow up! Some people have done well for themselves and some people struggle, it's life and sometimes it's your input vs your output. 

Spot on, I do accept that this will impact some supporters considerably more than others, but there seems to be some kind of entitlement here about ticket prices should be frozen forever, I don’t think people have grasped how good we’ve had it from a price perspective since promotion.

[Craig]

It'll pay for ten weeks of Vestergaard. I'm in.

[tom27111]

1 minute ago, adam said:

It's greed. They no they will get away with it and they no they will have folk like you banging your clapper about and never hearing a bad word said about the owners. 

 

Get a grip.

[hackneyfox]

2 minutes ago, adam said:

It's greed. They no they will get away with it and they no they will have folk like you banging your clapper about and never hearing a bad word said about the owners. 

If it was greed would you care to explain why they haven’t increased prices for the last few years?

 

[hejammy]

1 minute ago, adam said:

It's greed. They no they will get away with it and they no they will have folk like you banging your clapper about and never hearing a bad word said about the owners. 

If the owners deserve to have bad words spoken about them I'll be the first to shout. On this occasion, it's fair. They are a business. They want to make money. But they've done it in a fair way. No price rise for how long? If you pay the same price for your ticket today as 5 years ago they actually make less money. Inflation is a bugger. 

[ozvaldo]

Time to get the Mrs streaming a smorgasbord of x-rated content live on OnlyFans.
Big Daddy’s not giving up his season ticket.

If anyone wants to see a picture of my wife’s box for £14.99, let me know.
Regards.  

[moore_94]

14 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

And that success has also come with a significant amount of prize money, additional TV revenue, international rights, better sponsorship deals, increased merchandise sales. 

The revenue of the club during that/this period of success has risen substantially. 

As I’ve just posted, every PL clubs is due a 30% rise in TV money over the next three seasons. 

At the same time though if the club actually wants to continue bringing in those significant amounts of prize money, better sponsorship deals etc. they have to spend more on operating costs to remain competitive

 

In football it is incredibly hard to "stand still" financially and stay towards the top

 

It is a vicious circle; win more, make more, have to spend more to stay successful

[CosbehFox]

Just now, MalletFox said:

And we, the match going fan, have benefitted incredibly from a hugely discounted rate since our promotion into the Prem.

Which is vastly, vastly, vastly peanuts sums of money considering the increase in finance coming to the club.
 

For example, if we take the average season ticket price as £600 at 27,000 ST holders, that’s £16.2 million. An 8% increase gives just short of £17.5 million. An additional income

of £1.3 million. 
 

By contrast, broadcasting rights for the PL on the last accounts were worth £142 million once deducting deferral costs from the lockdown. If that’s further increased by 30%, that’s an additional income of over £40 million by the club. 
 

To contextualise that additional income from ticketing alone, it would pay for 30 weeks of a players salary of £40k a week. 

[hejammy]

25 minutes ago, South Shire Fox said:

Take it out of the managers 10 million pound a year salary then or off squad players on obscene wages who’re lucky to get 5 minute cameos once in a blue moon. Shouldnt be penalising loyal fans who a fair percentage will be struggling to make ends meet in the current climate.  The extra few quid generated from ticket sales will be absolute peanuts to the club. 

OK so when you go to your place of work, try telling them to charge customers less and take the money from the business owner, or ceo or another high earning manager instead. See how that goes down. 

[CosbehFox]

5 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

At the same time though if the club actually wants to continue bringing in those significant amounts of prize money, better sponsorship deals etc. they have to spend more on operating costs to remain competitive

 

In football it is incredibly hard to "stand still" financially and stay towards the top

 

It is a vicious circle; win more, make more, have to spend more to stay successful

But we are talking an additional sum of money in the region of £1 to 2 million.  
 

It’s not a sum of money which is going to fund a star signing. It would do well to pay someone like Youri for about 3 to 4 months. 
 

And the Tv deal money stays static as well - a larger chunk of it is increasingly substantial from the summer. 

Edited 9 March 2022 by Cardiff_Fox

[coolhandfox]

56 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Aren’t individual match tickets around £30 odd? Personally I think that’s ok for the most elite level of the most popular sport in the world. Regularly pay more for the theatre, gigs are wildly expensive now too. It’s all a con job

Cheapest adult for a Cat A fixture is £32, but only in P2, P3 and C2, A1, everywhere else is between £42-£53 

 

So at least 80% of the ground is £42+

Edited 9 March 2022 by coolhandfox

[CosbehFox]

10 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

If it was greed would you care to explain why they haven’t increased prices for the last few years?

 

Well they have through the £1.50 booking fee nonsense but that’s an argument for another day

Edited 9 March 2022 by Cardiff_Fox

[CosbehFox]

21 minutes ago, Reg Vardy said:

Club has just gone through covid too

The King Power duty free has been crippled by no flights for two years

Football club has just lost £30m

Can’t see that the clubs running costs haven’t gone up,significantly.

Season tickets have been pegged back for a long time.

8% will be lower than inflation by August

The club has a choice regards a fair price to watch the team

The fans have a choice whether they pay it or not

Clappers per item, will be pence, and we only get two a month,the saving is negligible.

Suggestions regards lowering staff wages to protect ticket prices are nothing short of madness…try it in your own workplace tomorrow, see how it goes

The pure revenue of the club actually increased last year to the second highest in the clubs history. 
 

The running costs are higher because the poor management of the wage bill. 

Edited 9 March 2022 by Cardiff_Fox

[hejammy]

5 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Which is vastly, vastly, vastly peanuts sums of money considering the increase in finance coming to the club.
 

For example, if we take the average season ticket price as £600 at 27,000 ST holders, that’s £16.2 million. An 8% increase gives just short of £17.5 million. An additional income

of £1.3 million. 
 

By contrast, broadcasting rights for the PL on the last accounts were worth £142 million once deducting deferral costs from the lockdown. If that’s further increased by 30%, that’s an additional income of over £40 million by the club. 
 

To contextualise that additional income from ticketing alone, it would pay for 30 weeks of a players salary of £40k a week. 

Its like saying if you earned £25k a year you wouldn't bother doing something that made you £100 as it was such a small percentage of £25k

 

Like with any business, they need multiple revenue streams. Some more than others but in the end it all adds up.