AOM
Well-Known Member
Think about £300
how much did you pay for yours?
Just having a gander online to see if they've put any tickets for sale yet and it looks like the uptake behind the goal isn't great. This is probably the best sold block.
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You're talking about our wilderness years though. I take your point, but we've sold as many season tickets this season as our 1st Ricoh season when we averaged 21K. Pricing was fixed at £23 that season for all games, but it was 16 years ago. We were pulling in 24K against the likes of Luton and Crystal Palace back then.
The pricing for Cat A games will effect attendances, but hopefully not too much. We'll see.
Got ours there but had a look at this and reconsidering, think 29 was more full when I checked but not many.Just having a gander online to see if they've put any tickets for sale yet and it looks like the uptake behind the goal isn't great. This is probably the best sold block.
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Just having a gander online to see if they've put any tickets for sale yet and it looks like the uptake behind the goal isn't great. This is probably the best sold block.
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Those cheap tickets are just one-offs. First of all, it can't be commercial to sell at tenner a ticket. Second, as one-off opps people attend whereas no way would you have say, 3 times the amount buying a ticket at a tenner vs 1 at 25-30 over the season.
I'd be pretty sure the club will have done their analysis rather than having plucked a figure out of the air.
On Saturday 23rd October you can watch Coventry City v Derby County for £30 or you can go to Warwick Arts Centre and see Sarah Millican for, you guessed it, £30.
One is supposed to be part of your identity, your heritage, something you love and experience with those closest to you, some of you have the badge and name or initials tattooed on your body. The other is a fat lass telling 'jokes'.
If a couple of quid makes all the difference then you shouldn't be spending the money on a day out at the football anyway.
A season ticket doesn't mean you have to go to every game. At these prices you could miss nearly half of them and still end up better off.
We're talking about far bigger teams than Notts County nowadays. Plus I think you have to take into account the anger against our owners is not as intense as it used to be. Those same fans who won't pay £30 for Derby at home will be scrambling for tickets on a good cup run or Wembly visit.Our first Play Offs, against Notts Country proves this wrong. 22-25 quid a ticket and fans didn't turn up.
Most of our big attendances at the Ricoh have been cheap tickets or a big away following.
We have a huge number of fans who jump on the bandwagon. They won't pay £30 for Derby at home.
That's bloody obvious though, a massive cup game or a wembley visit is a once in a blue moon occasion, and a far bigger draw than fucking Derby!We're talking about far bigger teams than Notts County nowadays. Plus I think you have to take into account the anger against our owners is not as intense as it used to be. Those same fans who won't pay £30 for Derby at home will be scrambling for tickets on a good cup run or Wembly visit.
That's bloody obvious though, a massive cup game or a wembley visit is a once in a blue moon occasion, and a far bigger draw than fucking Derby!
I wouldn't count any anger against the owners either, the harsh reality is that too few people in and around Cov give enough of a fuck to spend the time and the money to actually attend matches.
It's not just the ticket price, but also car parking, beverages a program etc.
Coupled with the fact that the highlights are on line an hour after the game, why bother?
I used to love the atmosphere in the old west end at HR, you just dont get that anymore in today's "family friendly" sterile environments.
I say family friendly, but how many families can afford to go? That may explain why 3/4 of the ground is empty.
So, with no atmosphere and families priced out, greedy players and parasitic agents, is it any wonder that so many clubs are in financial crisis.
That’s one point of view. The other is our club is returning to its city, is on the rise with a great manager and a vibrant team with prospects of improving year on year, decent merchandising, good season ticket pricing, a fan base that has stuck with them through the toughest of times and don’t remember the West End and its “Yellow Wall“ style status and do their best to raise an atmosphere in this stadium that if everybody that is a Coventry City fan could be bothered to go would be electric and would be rushing home to see the highlights on the TV.That's bloody obvious though, a massive cup game or a wembley visit is a once in a blue moon occasion, and a far bigger draw than fucking Derby!
I wouldn't count any anger against the owners either, the harsh reality is that too few people in and around Cov give enough of a fuck to spend the time and the money to actually attend matches.
It's not just the ticket price, but also car parking, beverages a program etc.
Coupled with the fact that the highlights are on line an hour after the game, why bother?
I used to love the atmosphere in the old west end at HR, you just dont get that anymore in today's "family friendly" sterile environments.
I say family friendly, but how many families can afford to go? That may explain why 3/4 of the ground is empty.
So, with no atmosphere and families priced out, greedy players and parasitic agents, is it any wonder that so many clubs are in financial crisis.
I agree, but the fact is, that experience clearly isn't worth the money to many people.The thing is, football is an experience and anyone who prefers to watch the highlights after the game or the match on TV can't be compared to those who go to the match.
Watching football on TV isn't the same as going. The match is about the day out, seeing friends, getting behind the players. That's what you don't get by watching on sky.
I agree, but the fact is, that experience clearly isn't worth the money to many people.
If it was, we wouldn't of closed 3 of the 4 stands!
I agree, but the fact is, that experience clearly isn't worth the money to many people.
If it was, we wouldn't of closed 3 of the 4 stands!
Spot on. We have a catchment area of 750,000. Many would say they have some form of attachment to CCFC but not enough care.
Years of garbage didn't help.
But, I'll reiterate, we have returned to the city before, we sold out our return game, then attendances declined to the extent that only 1 stand was open, and even that was rarely full.That’s one point of view. The other is our club is returning to its city, is on the rise with a great manager and a vibrant team with prospects of improving year on year, decent merchandising, good season ticket pricing, a fan base that has stuck with them through the toughest of times and don’t remember the West End and its “Yellow Wall“ style status and do their best to raise an atmosphere in this stadium that if everybody that is a Coventry City fan could be bothered to go would be electric and would be rushing home to see the highlights on the TV.
Catchment area is completely irrelevant unless you give them a reason to be interested and come along to games
It’s hardly irrelevant
But, I'll reiterate, we have returned to the city before, we sold out our return game, then attendances declined to the extent that only 1 stand was open, and even that was rarely full.
We have to accept that we have a hard core fan base of around10-12k that's it, and we have a stadium that holds 30k+
Coventry is a big city, but honestly, how many of the locals actually follow the club.
I'm sure we will do well in a cup final or play off game, because that represents a big day out, but Preston at home on a cold wet night wont attract more than 12k max.
But, I'll reiterate, we have returned to the city before, we sold out our return game, then attendances declined to the extent that only 1 stand was open, and even that was rarely full.
We have to accept that we have a hard core fan base of around10-12k that's it, and we have a stadium that holds 30k+
Coventry is a big city, but honestly, how many of the locals actually follow the club.
I'm sure we will do well in a cup final or play off game, because that represents a big day out, but Preston at home on a cold wet night wont attract more than 12k max.
Catchment area is completely irrelevant unless you give them a reason to be interested and come along to games
With vision like that we really are screwed
People have moaned about a lack of excitement yet in the past 5 years we've won at Wembley twice. Been promoted twice. We now play in the Championship full of decent sized teams.
Pandemic aside, following Coventry in recent times has been far more exciting than the whole period we had in the Championship before.
It’s a fair assessment imo
And where were we playing? Did we have stability? You’re not comparing apples with apples
This club hasn’t had a period of time without a major crisis in well over a decade, we’re still in the crisis now but the team is masking it.
Not really.
Would you say Stoke City are historically a much bigger club than us?
Fair point but people are looking for excuses always. Fair enough if you didn't go because we played elsewhere but we're back now and on the back of success.
But, I'll reiterate, we have returned to the city before, we sold out our return game, then attendances declined to the extent that only 1 stand was open, and even that was rarely full.
We have to accept that we have a hard core fan base of around10-12k that's it, and we have a stadium that holds 30k+
Coventry is a big city, but honestly, how many of the locals actually follow the club.
I'm sure we will do well in a cup final or play off game, because that represents a big day out, but Preston at home on a cold wet night wont attract more than 12k max.
Total complete and utter bollocks, we have just achieved 2 promotions in 3 years, followed by a successful fight to survive our first year back in the Championshiop! We have one of the best young managers in the game, the club are on the rise, we are returning to our rightful home after a 2 season absence, we have season tickets at massively reduced cost offering fantastic value, and yet STILL, STILL we cant sell 10k season tickets!!!Rubbish, we closed the stands as we were shite week in and week out and sunk to the lowest point in our entire history- nobody wanted to watch the endless garbage
I know nobody will change your mind as you’re one of the “those were the days” brigade, but give it a run at promotion and you’ll find any worries about the “matchday experience” would mysteriously disappear and people would be falling over themselves to get tickets
It is irrelevant if you do not have a product that anyone wants (hate to use the corporate lingo).
Get yourself a product, ie a team that people want to watch, that’s when your catchment area becomes relevant as you see what you could aim at and budget for.
Of course it’s not the bigger the catchment the greater the opportunity - if you are in the shetlands you could win the champions league and you’d get no fans
Total complete and utter bollocks, we have just achieved 2 promotions in 3 years, followed by a successful fight to survive our first year back in the Championshiop! We have one of the best young managers in the game, the club are on the rise, we are returning to our rightful home after a 2 season absence, we have season tickets at massively reduced cost offering fantastic value, and yet STILL, STILL we cant sell 10k season tickets!!!
People in Cov just arnt interested in football to bother going consistently.
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