broughtonblue Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 My mate is a season ticket holder at direby, his renewal price for next season is £320 (early bird offer for existing st holders) But if they win tomorrow and get promotion he gets 50% back, so £160, fantastic price for premier league football and also decent reward for renewing before he knows what league they will be in Could we have done the same?
jammie82uk Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 The only way we could have done it would have been if it was announced at the beginning of the season as when they did it in January I think it was we was cruising at the top on a mighty unbeaten run
Kyle_Le_Don Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 Would Derby get more for winning the play offs than we do the league? £120m sounds a shit load.
Danizen Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 Would Derby get more for winning the play offs than we do the league? £120m sounds a shit load.It includes parachute payments. £60m next season and if they get relegated, £60m over the following four seasons providing they stay down. So it's a guaranteed £120m same as it is for us. The papers love to call it the £120m game because it adds intrigue.
Dan Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 Say what you like about their fans but I think as a club they're run bloody well in this regard. Notice how they've moved the away fans into the corner to allow fans to have a singing section behind the goal? Take note LCFC.
lgfualol Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 If the Derby owners knew they would be in the play-off final they would absolutely NOT have offered this.
Dan Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 If the Derby owners knew they would be in the play-off final they would absolutely NOT have offered this. Why? You can't imagine they'd have announced this any earlier than say January, and they were well in the automatics race at that time (before we pummelled them). It's a genuine gesture IMO. I'm not using it against Leicester because I think our prices for 14/15 are very reasonable.
Guest Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 They've really cocked up there. I was talking about this with somebody the other day and there's no way the maths works out on that deal. If they get promoted they wouldn;t need this offer to sell the tickets so why give away millions?
Hirsty The Blue 94 Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 No way could we have offered this, unless we announced it December when we announced ourselves as the best team in this league. Brave move by Derby, good on em I say. Atleast the fans will get decent value for money, £10 per point they gain in the Prem.
Kyle_Le_Don Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 It includes parachute payments. £60m next season and if they get relegated, £60m over the following four seasons providing they stay down. So it's a guaranteed £120m same as it is for us. The papers love to call it the £120m game because it adds intrigue. Cheerz for clearing that up for me. They got me, they can make owt sound better than it is.
Riyad_Suarez Posted 23 May 2014 Posted 23 May 2014 I think its a fantastic idea by their board. I don't know how many season tickets they've sold for next season but the figure I last saw was over 17k. They've dangled a carrot in front of their fans (and rewarded them) to increase season ticket revenues for next season, which if they end up in the championship next season will help them enormously to comply with FFP. If they're in the Premiership next season the money they will reimburse their 'loyal' fans will be insignificant due to the ludicrous amounts of money they'll receive from TV and advertising. Everyone's a winner!
lcfc"weasel" Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 I'm guessing they only sold a limited amount of these though, due to them having to have so many seats available, same as us, for on the day sales?
promised land Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 I'm pretty sure Cardiff did a similar thing back in the 09/10 season although they never went up. I remember reading it somewhere and they said the pay off in the Premier league far out waved the money generated from ST sales.
Soar Fox Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 If the Derby owners knew they would be in the play-off final they would absolutely NOT have offered this. They could purchase a season ticket up until 16th March. At the time they were 3rd in the league but 10 points behind Burnley.
Candidcamera Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 There is still a 50/50 chance they will lose and I bet they have sold incredibly well with this attached. Sound business if they are in the championship.
Bayfox Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 But they don't get to watch kasper, big wes, wasyl, james, dd, knocky, mahrez, huge or vardy. Well they do twice a season when they had them their sheeps ass on plate. And that is why they are in a play-off not champions.
promised land Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 And that is why they are in a play-off not champions. This, yes you get a massive buzz on play off final day, it's a cup final after all, only the prize is a lot bigger. But I'd still go up as Champions weeks ago like we did even if you don't get a trip out at Wembley. They could be returning around 6pm still in that league. No guarantees.
Captain... Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 Would Derby get more for winning the play offs than we do the league? £120m sounds a shit load. They won't get more as such... Although I'm pretty sure I've read that the money generated by the 3 extra games involved in winning the playoffs; ticket sales, tv money, transport, merchandise etc, the play off winners get more money revenue than the league winners. The actual prize money for winning the championship is pretty poor. As for Derby's offer, sounds good, rewarding loyal fans, but they may be underestimating the costs of building and paying for a prem squad. Lowest wage bill last season (12/13) was Swansea forking out £30m that is the level us and Derby/QPR will be competing with financially. It is not a limitless pot of gold, and that extra million or so they will give back could pay 1 players wages for the season.
Captain... Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 This, yes you get a massive buzz on play off final day, it's a cup final after all, only the prize is a lot bigger. But I'd still go up as Champions weeks ago like we did even if you don't get a trip out at Wembley. They could be returning around 6pm still in that league. No guarantees. Especially as we are already building our prem squad and neither playoff team have been able to enter any discussions yet as their season hasn't finished.Massive advantage having secured promotion weeks ago.
Number 6 Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 Was a great idea and everybody wins. Fair play Derby (hope they do win today).
CosbehFox Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 They will be a couple of exec's there kicking themselves at halving a cash flow stream. Nice gesture mind.
Foxes1 Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 They will soon get their money back by charging away fans £60 a match.
promised land Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 They will soon get their money back by charging away fans £60 a match. Then the home fans in equivalent seats will be charged £60 a match as well.
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 24 May 2014 Posted 24 May 2014 Your mate is backing a loser. Q.P.R. That's right, ain't it 'Arry boy? It will be nice to see the geezer smile again. If he can remember how?
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