covcity4life
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to make people get tickets in advance? rush the customer in to a buy?
all it does really is discourage walkups
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So you need a under 16 to get in for £18 so actually cheapest is £22. So really it's 22-27 and that's not to suit my argument.
Question.
Why do the club put on £2 for walk ups? Makes no sense to me.
to make people get tickets in advance? rush the customer in to a buy?
all it does really is discourage walkups
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Expensive is always to some degree in the eye of the beholder - but paying over £20 for a L1 football game is too much for me personally. That's a level at which I have to pick and choose the games I'm going to go to.
At say £15, which feels like about the right price for L1 (again for me), it's a no-brainer and I'll go to a lot more games at that price just 'on spec'.
When the kids have grown up and my time's my own again, I'll have an ST which from memory is good value - but at the moment I can't get enough games in to warrant the expense.
The walk-up fee was either to discourage walk-ups and avoid queues, or to milk people who didn't have enough time/weren't organised enough to sort tickets before the day, depending on how cynical you are! With where we are now, this seems pointless to me too...
Completely agree duffer, but perhaps if I may from a slightly different angle, being fortunate enough to take my son to games as a season ticket holder.
The "walk up " charge feels almost like a stealth tax on those who aren't able to plan their weekends/day(s) due to circumstances X,Y,Z often beyond their control. As a season ticket holder (Seats TBC for this year)- the benefit of having a ST isn't just cost/game reduction alone, the 'package' around it, perhaps the softer aspects outside of the monetary gain shouldn't be underestimated: A known seat, a known "neighbour", no stress re ticket collection for games, priority allocation on cup games and away fixtures etc etc... to some these might seem trivial "benefits", but not in my experience. And so based on your cost analysis, but from a slightly different perspective, I would welcome the fiscal structure you propose.
Couldn't agree more. I loved having a season ticket for all of the reasons you mention there. And personally, I think the walk-up charge is a rip off for exactly the reasons you state - I can't get out to get a ticket during the working week, and I like to get my ticket next to whoever's coming with me, which often isn't certain until the day.
I don't mean to whine - plenty of people are perfectly happy with how things work, but personally I'm at the point where the club have to do a little more for me to part with my money these days. I'm obviously getting tighter as I get older. Turn that light off!
The two pounds extra on the day has always been a load of bollocks, but apart from that think that ticket prices overall for us not too bad in this league.
Pretty much the only revenue the club gets in this league really is ticket prices, a little on merchandise, a little on sponsorship, tiny bit from TV.
We all want decent players(who will want decent wages, or command a fee), but we don't want to pay for them ourselves unfortunately.
The two pounds extra on the day has always been a load of bollocks, but apart from that think that ticket prices overall for us not too bad in this league.
Pretty much the only revenue the club gets in this league really is ticket prices, a little on merchandise, a little on sponsorship, tiny bit from TV.
We all want decent players(who will want decent wages, or command a fee), but we don't want to pay for them ourselves unfortunately.
Our season tickets are good value, single match tickets are too high.The two pounds extra on the day has always been a load of bollocks, but apart from that think that ticket prices overall for us not too bad in this league.
Pretty much the only revenue the club gets in this league really is ticket prices, a little on merchandise, a little on sponsorship, tiny bit from TV.
We all want decent players(who will want decent wages, or command a fee), but we don't want to pay for them ourselves unfortunately.
Our season tickets are good value, single match tickets are too high.
Iron shed rates , i said 18 pound was reasonable , not a fiver
So you need a under 16 to get in for £18 so actually cheapest is £22. So really it's 22-27 and that's not to suit my argument.
Question.
Why do the club put on £2 for walk ups? Makes no sense to me.
To encourage fans to buy earlier to avoid massive queues presumably. Like most clubs do in this league. I don't really have a view on the matchday increase tbf and anybody that has an issue with it can easily avoid it by buying before. It's not rocket science.
I just don't understand why people think we should charge less than everybody else in this league. If everybody else charged £15 then I would agree ours are too high.
That's the problem a lot of posters like me don't know what their plans are til a Saturday. That's not bad planning that's life. I would love to buy tickets in advance but mates let you down and work gets in the way or you find some extra money to pay for your ticket? Lots of variables. You seem to be punished for going on the day. Not a massive fan of this.
Like I said, I don't really have a view on walk up prices. My view is that our prices generally are perfectly reasonable. It costs £11 to watch my local team play in the 7th tier of English football. Its little better than pub football. Why on earth should we charge £15/£18-odd when there is no evidence of it having anything other then very marginal impact on our attendances?
people dont choose to go to a leicester game who may consider a cov game
But as other posters have pointed out if you go to Leicester games some are the price for a premier league matches? My view is this doesn't make any sense when it's 15 miles up the road.
But as other posters have pointed out if you go to Leicester games some are the price for a premier league matches? My view is this doesn't make any sense when it's 15 miles up the road.
Like I said, I don't really have a view on walk up prices. My view is that our prices generally are perfectly reasonable. It costs £11 to watch my local team play in the 7th tier of English football. Its little better than pub football. Why on earth should we charge £15/£18-odd when there is no evidence of it having anything other then very marginal impact on our attendances?
So are you saying Coventry fans will go and watch Leicester because we charge a £2 walk up fee? If you're not then your point is irrelevant.
Well, the predicted gate for Saturday is now only 9000 based on current sales. If you are happy with that then fine, but personally I think the club have missed a trick here. £22-£27 (you can't count JSB, because not everyone has kids, and £22 increases to £24 on the day obviously), may be reasonable to you, but it is actually amongst the most expensive in the league - only a handful of clubs charge more. Given our recent history, does our club really have the right to charge amongst the highest prices in the league? Circumstances have dictated that this season we have just about the lowest number of season ticket holders for a generation (excluding last season obviously), so unless we want to avoid some really embarrassing home gates, we have to have a matchday pricing structure that strikes a balance and that is fair and which encourages people to go.
Those who thought our attendance would be 20K (of which there were many) were clearly deluded. I predicted 12K which I still think will be there or thereabouts. It is so much less about pricing and so much more about a large chunk of our fans that don't really give a shit unless its a big occasion (Gillingham, Crewe, Chelsea).
All this nopm nonsense and now we're back and people won't go to the 2nd game because the tickets are £3 too much? Its laughable.
You think there would be an extra 10K fans there on Saturday if our prices were £15-£18 then? Seriously?
Chelsea wasn't cheaper. All 3 games were 'big' occasions, many have said we would have sold 32k for the Crewe game at full price
How many were at the burton, sheff united, PNE, arlesley and Morecombe games all vastly reduced games £5-10 per game?
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Those who thought our attendance would be 20K (of which there were many) were clearly deluded. I predicted 12K which I still think will be there or thereabouts. It is so much less about pricing and so much more about a large chunk of our fans that don't really give a shit unless its a big occasion (Gillingham, Crewe, Chelsea).
All this nopm nonsense and now we're back and people won't go to the 2nd game because the tickets are £3 too much? Its laughable.
You think there would be an extra 10K fans there on Saturday if our prices were £15-£18 then? Seriously?
well considering in our relegation season from the championship we were getting an average of 15000 , why is it wild to suggest that we can pull in the same average in a promotion pushing season in league 1Those who thought our attendance would be 20K (of which there were many) were clearly deluded. I predicted 12K which I still think will be there or thereabouts. It is so much less about pricing and so much more about a large chunk of our fans that don't really give a shit unless its a big occasion (Gillingham, Crewe, Chelsea).
All this nopm nonsense and now we're back and people won't go to the 2nd game because the tickets are £3 too much? Its laughable.
You think there would be an extra 10K fans there on Saturday if our prices were £15-£18 then? Seriously?
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