Phil Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 I know a couple of Town fans that have been put off by the ticekt prices, although to be fair to Leicester they have offered Gold card holders (around 4000 people that hold season tickets and get aditional benifits such as ticket priority) the tickets for the £22 discounted rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 11 August 2005 Author Share Posted 11 August 2005 How many live events would you get into for £10?What would you say is the average price for a pop concert? Prices have not gone up, with membership it is a significant saving for grade A games which easily refunds the membership fee for attending a few games. Also we believe there will be less grade A games than less season 155187[/snapback] You don't go to 23 pop concerts in a year, and before you say if you're going to all 23 matches get a season ticket, some people can't guarantee in advance they will be able to get all the games, especially not when the TV and now the police change the dates on a regular basis. But they're obviously happy to get 20000 supporters in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 11 August 2005 Author Share Posted 11 August 2005 I know a couple of Town fans that have been put off by the ticekt prices, although to be fair to Leicester they have offered Gold card holders (around 4000 people that hold season tickets and get aditional benifits such as ticket priority) the tickets for the £22 discounted rate. 155194[/snapback] £22 is still too much in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxes_Trust Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 How long do pop concerts usually last for though? 155192[/snapback] Main act - about the same time as a footy game if you are lucky. Not talking about music festivals And you can't include support bands, that's like including all the pre-match stuff within the timescales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scow Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 Why is that relevant?£27 for a casual supporter who maybe works saturdays, is a foxile, has never been before is outrageous and without question a rip off. I say that as a long term season ticket holder with all the discounts. If my daughter or son, who both live outside Leicester come to visit no way are they going to be able to afford those silly prices. 155193[/snapback] Bearing in mind that there are 24 home games, and someone who would perhaps want to go to a 1/3 of those, but can't afford a season ticket, would be paying almost that amount over a whole season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester_Mad Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 well i decided as a student that it would be cheaper to buy a season ticket rather than go to individual games. Takes the piss - 21 and under gets discounted price but my degree finishes when im 22 - so i have to pay adult price which wont have come down in 4 years just so i can watch an average side (at the minute, and who i love watching) play 90minutes football. The prices are stupid and need to be adressed as £213 for my season ticket (the guy who sold me it at the ticket office got it wrong on his side fock knows how i got it that cheap!) is still too much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxes_Trust Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 Why is that relevant?£27 for a casual supporter who maybe works saturdays, is a foxile, has never been before is outrageous and without question a rip off. I say that as a long term season ticket holder with all the discounts. If my daughter or son, who both live outside Leicester come to visit no way are they going to be able to afford those silly prices. 155193[/snapback] Pop promoters don't base pricing on all the factors you have stated either. On the Saturday workers front, at one of the recent Fans Open Meetings a suggestion was put forward of a package which would be like a Part Season Ticket to contain just mid-week games only. Overall fans will pay less this season if they plan to attend a few games & use the membership scheme. At the end of the day, if the grade A prices were not used this season, the number of squad signings made would have fallen. There is no certainty that the crowd would have significantly increased to overall make it more profitable and therefore the club would have budgeted accordingly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 more importantly foxes_trust, any idea on amount of tickets sold so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxes_Trust Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 You don't go to 23 pop concerts in a year, and before you say if you're going to all 23 matches get a season ticket, some people can't guarantee in advance they will be able to get all the games, especially not when the TV and now the police change the dates on a regular basis.But they're obviously happy to get 20000 supporters in. 155196[/snapback] The ST purchase would still be more financially attractive even if several games were missed. We worked out last season that if a ST fan had bought individual match tickets instead, the same money would have been spent by early Feb. Put it another way ST's had matches for free for part of Feb & all of March & April Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxes_Trust Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 more importantly foxes_trust, any idea on amount of tickets sold so far? 155214[/snapback] No - don't know if the website 'selling fast' is true or hype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 11 August 2005 Author Share Posted 11 August 2005 Pop promoters don't base pricing on all the factors you have stated either.On the Saturday workers front, at one of the recent Fans Open Meetings a suggestion was put forward of a package which would be like a Part Season Ticket to contain just mid-week games only. Overall fans will pay less this season if they plan to attend a few games & use the membership scheme. At the end of the day, if the grade A prices were not used this season, the number of squad signings made would have fallen. There is no certainty that the crowd would have significantly increased to overall make it more profitable and therefore the club would have budgeted accordingly 155210[/snapback] There's no certainty that it wouldn't have increased either, I know many people who arn't going because of the crazy match day ticket prices. A vital ingredient of the football experience is to do with the atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 11 August 2005 Author Share Posted 11 August 2005 The ST purchase would still be more financially attractive even if several games were missed.We worked out last season that if a ST fan had bought individual match tickets instead, the same money would have been spent by early Feb. Put it another way ST's had matches for free for part of Feb & all of March & April 155217[/snapback] I suspect that's if you include all the discounts, it's becoming like the housing market you need a bloody mortgage to get on the season ticket ladder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 No - don't know if the website 'selling fast' is true or hype 155219[/snapback] oki thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scow Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 No - don't know if the website 'selling fast' is true or hype 155219[/snapback] Probably hype as they're not backing what they say with evidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationwider Posted 11 August 2005 Share Posted 11 August 2005 Why is that relevant?£27 for a casual supporter who maybe works saturdays, is a foxile, has never been before is outrageous and without question a rip off. I say that as a long term season ticket holder with all the discounts. If my daughter or son, who both live outside Leicester come to visit no way are they going to be able to afford those silly prices. 155193[/snapback] I always reckon on £60-65 per matchday as a foxile who travels to the match solo to 75% of the games I can make. Ticket prices don't help this, although I'm lumbered with the travel costs. I never get value for money, but I'm part of a captive market, so I'm damned if I do (go) and damned if I don't. The cost of away tickets is always a joke, although with the advent of indentikit stadia, at least you tend to get a decent view at more and more grounds. I found Foxes_Trust analogies a tad insulting too, to be honest. Going to the footie is one of the staples of normal everyday working class life, or at least it was until about 10 years ago. To compare this weekly/fortnightly ritual with going to 23 Meatloaf concerts a season annoys me somewhat. Football isn't entertainment. Football is football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 I think feedback the public gives should be taken very seriously. The max I could afford to go to a game is £10 excluding membership. the casual fan is not going to want to buy membership and ideally especially for a first time experience will not want to pay premium prices. I think the club needs to return to reality and think they got a god given right to charge £30+ for a championship games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 I think feedback the public gives should be taken very seriously.The max I could afford to go to a game is £10 excluding membership. the casual fan is not going to want to buy membership and ideally especially for a first time experience will not want to pay premium prices. I think the club needs to return to reality and think they got a god given right to charge £30+ for a championship games. 155276[/snapback] Twenty thousand at £30 equals £600.000. Thirty thousand at £10 equals £300,000. Which would you charge if it were your business and which do we want if we're going to be successful? There may be a happy medium somewhere cos the club can't be happy with 10-12,000 empty seats. More attractive incentives maybe, four for three ticket sales. Plus, perhaps, a cheap junior latecomer ticket which would encourage the fans of the future and hopefully fill those empty spaces. The club could probably calculate how many latecomer seats (available from, say, 30 minutes before kick-off) will be on the market and make an announcement on the OS 24 hours before the match. The four for three idea or something similar is especially worth exploring because it encourages people to drive in with a car full and the petrol costs will be (virtually) the same whether there's two in the car or four. If enough car fulls take up the scheme then it also means more programe/food/merchandise sales so the knock-ons are considerable. And, of course, the fuller ground means a better atmosphere. The above is just flying kites in the wind cos each idea would have to be properly evaluated for practical and economic feasibility (apologies if any of them already exist) but the vacant seats do need filling, that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 well its not 30000x £10 you take into account 15000 ST holders plus 2500 away allocation so we are talking approx 13000 available seats. As it stands on a 20000 attendance 3000 matchday tickets get sold so 3000 x £30 is £90000 or if you sold 13000 at £10 then you make £130000 also their is another idea where you can just have a section of the ground available for £10 and charge more for a better stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lush Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 Which would you charge if it were your business and which do we want if we're going to be successful?If enough car fulls take up the scheme then it also means more programe/food/merchandise sales so the knock-ons are considerable. And, of course, the fuller ground means a better atmosphere. 155429[/snapback] Lets just give them all our money, that way we could buy owen No seriously, we need atleast 25,000 in the ground spouting good audio. Maybe a single ticket sale costs 20.00 2 for 17.50 each 3 for 15.00 each 4 for 12.50 each 5 or more for 10.00 Or the purchase of any game on the above basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox in a Box Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 Lets just give them all our money, that way we could buy owen No seriously, we need atleast 25,000 in the ground spouting good audio. Maybe a single ticket sale costs 20.00 2 for 17.50 each 3 for 15.00 each 4 for 12.50 each 5 or more for 10.00 Or the purchase of any game on the above basis. 155519[/snapback] you cant just drop ticket prices like that nimwit........ if you buy 2 season tickets do you get that cheaper? 1 for 360 (whatever) 2 for 300 3 for 250 4 for 200 5 for a quid.. dont work like that ... The incentives are at the start of the season, would you accept less for working if helped by 2,3,4 people....dont think so sunshine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cisono Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 Ipswich will bring 2500 - 3000, they have a good away following.Sadly it is the 34 quid in the West Stand that'll mean we get 27000 max. Our ticketing policy is a disgrace. 154852[/snapback] Yeah, had a look too and cannot afford those prices :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultra Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 Last week the club were predicting 26000 for tomorrow. I reckon they're being a little optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefoxtim Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 i dont know why the club doesnt put prices down. If they could fill it more people would buy beers etc. 5 people spending £30 each on tickets isnt better than than the 10 who would buy it if it were £20 surely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lush Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 you cant just drop ticket prices like that nimwit........ if you buy 2 season tickets do you get that cheaper?1 for 360 (whatever) 2 for 300 3 for 250 4 for 200 5 for a quid.. dont work like that ... The incentives are at the start of the season, would you accept less for working if helped by 2,3,4 people....dont think so sunshine! 155562[/snapback] Sorry oh great one. YOU come up with a solution? No, thought not. Would i accept less? Would players recieve less under my proposal, no, so whats your point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Nicky Posted 12 August 2005 Share Posted 12 August 2005 Got my tickets for the game! Should have been £22 but I got it at membership rate Come on the Foxes! :fox: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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