What A Joke - ST Prices on the hike....

[BigGibbo]

It's a disgrace. The sooner the Unholy Trinity of Mandaric, Holloway and Aldridge disappear the better.

There just taking us for mugs, in what other business could you get away with hiking your prices up after having the least succesful year in your history & offer much less for the fee?

[Phlashman]

For a bit of perspective, here's Colchester's prices:

http://www.cu-fc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Seas...1280191,00.html

My ticket would be £50 more on their early bird prices (which end the day after ours) and would be £150 more after.

[Matt]

With risk of people coming down on me like a brick wall, I have to say this.

Unfair perhaps, and I know people don't have the money/can't get the money till next month but there is a finance deal (With no intrest to pay ) so why are people moaning?

I don't see the reason or why they deserve a price rise but you either buy now or pay more later. Simple.

I also feel this is sticking two fingers up to all those "Not getting a season ticket because Holloway is still here" - Whether he goes on the 1st or 2nd week of June or not those people will either not bothering getting a season ticket anyway or they will have to pay more.

I have already got my Season Ticket for next season so tbh i'm really not bothered.

[purpleronnie]

Huddersfield Town ST next season, £100.

Thats a good price for a League One Season ticket! ye feckers!

Yep they averaged around 9,000 last year they have already sold well over 10,000 season tickets.

When will clubs learn that reduced prices might actually make the club money in the long run plus a full stadium looks a lot better.

Greedy bastards.

It will be more expensive to watch 3rd division football in england than most top flight leagues in europe.

Glad I'm in the USA. £8 a ticket, standing sections, cheap beer, drinking in the stands, now thats what I like.

Yes colchesters more expensive but so what does that make it right?, plus they are building a new stadium.

[Matt]

Yep they averaged around 9,000 last year they have already sold well over 10,000 season tickets.

When will clubs learn that reduced prices might actually make the club money in the long run plus a full stadium looks a lot better.

Greedy bastards.

It will be more expensive to watch 3rd division football in england than most top flight leagues in europe.

Glad I'm in the USA. £8 a ticket, standing sections, cheap beer, drinking in the stands, now thats what I like.

Yes colchesters more expensive but so what does that make it right?, plus they are building a new stadium.

And even shitter 'micky mouse' football.

Sorry.

[sjs484]

This is just the ending of the early bird prices. Last season, it was announced that prices for 08/09 would be the same as prices in 07/08. We are coming to the end of the early bird prices (which were in effect this time 12 months ago) and from 1 June 08 we will be paying the same rate as we did from 1 June 07. Prizes are frozen. We aren't paying anymore than we did last season. What's the problem?

[Daggers]

I can't complain at the price of my season ticket.

I can complain about what it makes me have to watch on Saturday's, but not the price. It's reasonable.

[SamL]

I think it was to be expected really. It's the state of modern football these days- prices will always be going up from now on until they become even more ridiculous.

It was to be expected but it doesn't make it right.

I don't feel as though I get value for money anymore. We paying more for a lower quality of football, it's not on.

If they're still planning on clamping down on standing next season then I just won't find it enjoyable.

I can't afford to pay for a season ticket before the deadline, yet I hardly missed a game last season which is hardly fair is it?

We've given the club our loyalty, now we need some back.

[Matt]

It was to be expected but it doesn't make it right.

I don't feel as though I get value for money anymore. We paying more for a lower quality of football, it's not on.

If they're still planning on clamping down on standing next season then I just won't find it enjoyable.

I can't afford to pay for a season ticket before the deadline, yet I hardly missed a game last season which is hardly fair is it?

We've given the club our loyalty, now we need some back.

I don't know, but I could have sworn I saw something about a finance type deal with no interest to be paid, as I said I can't be sure but if thats the case is this not an option?

[Filbert_Ross]

the prices go up in june every season dont they? May prices 2007the same as May 2008, june prices 2007same as june 2008?????

[SamL]

I don't know, but I could have sworn I saw something about a finance type deal with no interest to be paid, as I said I can't be sure but if thats the case is this not an option?

I thought that was only available before the May 31st deadline? That's usually the case.

[leicester1884]

Just shows exactly how out of touch the club are with the genuine fan.

Last season was the first season in many I didn't bother with a season ticket as I struggle to make mid-week games due to work commitments but was going to buy one this year & now no longer going to bother.

I know the extra £30-£50 is not exactly gonna break the bank & I could just renew before the'deadline' but it's a matter of principle.

[Ultra]

I don't know, but I could have sworn I saw something about a finance type deal with no interest to be paid, as I said I can't be sure but if thats the case is this not an option?

No interest as such is being charged, but the club is imposing an "admin fee" of £4/month until the balance is paid off.

It amounts to pretty much the same thing.

If folk didn't bother with STs last season they're hardly likely to lay siege to the ticket office in an effort to buy one now.

Still, I guess the money to pay off the latest failed manager and his "coaching" team has to come from somewhere..

[Matt]

I thought that was only available before the May 31st deadline? That's usually the case.

But you'd be getting it at the cheaper price then, so surly thats a good thing. As for a 4 quid admin charge, It's easy to say if you've got the money i'm sure but 4 quid...its not going to break the bank is it?

Just shows exactly how out of touch the club are with the genuine fan.

Last season was the first season in many I didn't bother with a season ticket as I struggle to make mid-week games due to work commitments but was going to buy one this year & now no longer going to bother.

I know the extra £30-£50 is not exactly gonna break the bank & I could just renew before the'deadline' but it's a matter of principle.

But when you didn't bother with a season ticket last year, You knew or should have expected and knew that you would have to pay more, potentially alot more, when you drop out of buying a season ticket you lose your 3 season priority/honour/loyalty bonus (Whatever you want to call it) fair enough the prices are being raised anyway but in your circumstance you should have expected a price raise anyway.

Its like I said in a shirt thread last week, I slag the club off myself and I see people's points on this subject but there are some things the club just can't win on, and on this subject I can see both points.

[Uncle Albert]

But you'd be getting it at the cheaper price then, so surly thats a good thing. As for a 4 quid admin charge, It's easy to say if you've got the money i'm sure but 4 quid...its not going to break the bank is it?

You could just save £1 a week from your dinner money.

Durrr!

[SamL]

But you'd be getting it at the cheaper price then, so surly thats a good thing. As for a 4 quid admin charge, It's easy to say if you've got the money i'm sure but 4 quid...its not going to break the bank is it?

I can see your point mate, but what happens if one month I can't make a payment for whatever reason?

[Tommeh]

There's only 1 Paul Aldridge

One Paul Aldridge

Seats are a plenty, the walkers is empty

Walking in a Leicester wonderland

[SamL]

There's only 1 Paul Aldridge

One Paul Aldridge

The walkers is empty and seats are a plenty

Walking in a Leicester wonderland

That's quality.

[Tevez]

There's only 1 Paul Aldridge

One Paul Aldridge

Seats are a plenty, the walkers is empty

Walking in a Leicester wonderland

Well done Tom.

[Uncle Albert]

There's only 1 Paul Aldridge

One Paul Aldridge

Seats are a plenty, the walkers is empty

Walking in a Leicester wonderland

You arent just a handsome young chap I see Tom.

[iancognito]

I've said what I think about Aldridge in the anti-Mandaric thread but I just don't understand the club's thinking on the tickets. Bradford did a cheap season ticket scheme and filled the ground, Huddersfield will probably do the same.

If they did a basic rate for all STs it'd be so much easier to fill the ground

£199 Adult price,

£129 Young adult,

£99 Juvenile & OAP,

Under 8s free when purchased with any of the above.

And instead of the 'early bird' bollo<ks, just put a thirty pound voucher in the back of this years tickets redeemable against next season.

Isn't it amazing btw that this time last year they were quoting figures for renewals left, right & centre and all of a sudden the only 'figure' they will say is "encouraging". That translates as "piss poor". If the renewals don't pick up, by October they'll be giving tickets away in the Mercury donating them to scout groups and down grading every game just to put bums on seats. And it'll serve the fu<kers right.

[Matt]

I can see your point mate, but what happens if one month I can't make a payment for whatever reason?

As I said 'easy to say when you have the money' in my thread, which I know you can't guarantee, things can go wrong, money may need to be paid out which wasn't expected, e.t.c, but if/when/should you have a little extra money left over every month could you not put that aside?!

I know the problem, point your making, i'm just thinking of ways to help, options to take.

[Tilley]

Joke or what.

I'm glad I've brought mine already.

[SamL]

As I said 'easy to say when you have the money' in my thread, which I know you can't guarantee, things can go wrong, money may need to be paid out which wasn't expected, e.t.c, but if/when/should you have a little extra money left over every month could you not put that aside?!

I know the problem, point your making, i'm just thinking of ways to help, options to take.

I know mate, cheers. One of the reasons why I've been put off by the idea is the fact of a £50 deposit before May 31st. OK, it might not seem a lot but I just haven't got £50 at the moment.

It seems like a good option, I just don't think it's a good option for me.

[ThorpeAstleyFox]

I for one will not be renewing my Season Ticket which I have held for six years. I generally miss 3-4 games per season due to holidays/work and I'm willing to wager that with all of the special offers which the club will have to run this season that I will more than break even come the end of the season.

If all goes well this season then I don't see there being a problem with attendances - we're a fickle bunch and everyone likes to see their team win. But lets be honest, how many times over the past 4 seasons have you not felt like going to a game because the last few have been so dreadful? Now if that game is against Hartlepool on a Wednesday night and it's pissing it down I can save myself £20+ and not bother!

I know a few of you die-hard supporters out there will question my spirit but to put our "entertainment" and "value for money" into perspective consider this: I went to see a band a couple of weeks back which have had 4 top 10 hits in the past year. They played a two-hour set and it was absolutely fantastic - for £14.50 - that's what I call value for money!

A couple of smaller points. When I was younger (Lynex, Smith, Wilson era) I used to pay £2.50 to stand in the old family enclosure. At the time my pocket money was £3 per week and allowing a 10-year-old to go to the football on his own (usually with friends) was considered fine. This is why I have grown-up loving Leicester City. Nowadays the tickets are much more expensive (not only due to inflation but greed also) and I don't know many parents who would let their children go to the football on their own! My second point is that just under a year ago Milan said that there would be no more early bird discounts as the club no longer had a cash flow problem - I really don't appreciate being lied to by somebody who asks me to trust him! And finally I find it disgraceful that the club will not put a number on just how "encouraging" the season ticket sales are - and coincidental that the official messageboard is down!