Season Ticket Renewal Thread (Read first post)

[yankspurs]

As an outsider here, the state of that pricing in the kop

Thats the stand the club wants to have the most atmosphere?

The word for this calamity is spursy

 

[yankspurs]

I respect the work of the trust, but this is a somewhat disappointingly bland statement

http://www.thstofficial.com/thst-news/season-ticket-pricing-at-spurs-thst-comment

I’ve always found them to be spineless

 

[southlondonyiddo]

I think everyone expected an increase in price but not to this extent.

We all expected a price increase and we probably all feared it would be something like this but hoped it would be more reasonable

 

[topper]

As an outsider here, the state of that pricing in the kop

Thats the stand the club wants to have the most atmosphere?

The word for this calamity is spursy

Yep - very pricey for a ‘popular’ stand. The only chanting from the sort of crowd that can afford that is a chorus of ‘we’re going to smash the oiks rah rah rah’ (yankspurs - apologies as I expect you won’t get the ‘Young Ones’ reference!)

 

[southlondonyiddo]

I respect the work of the trust, but this is a somewhat disappointingly bland statement

http://www.thstofficial.com/thst-news/season-ticket-pricing-at-spurs-thst-comment

Thought it was a decent response. What else can they say without telling the club to go fuck itself!

They have no power and the club listens when it wants to and does as it pleases when it wants

The Trust might think they make a real difference but in reality....

 

[bubble07]

"So we knew the cheapest GA tickets and the most expensive were comparable to prices at White Hart Lane. But as we digested the detail, it soon became clear those headline prices masked a different reality"

No shit. It's like the trust dont know who Levy is

 

[dagraham]

Might just get one between 3 of us and rely on spares for games. The amount of people I'm reading not being able to renew is mad. I'm really worried about the atmosphere tbh.

The South will have a good atmosphere ( although not as good as it should have been because a lot of groups will be split up ; why didn’t they move people as close as possible to where they all were at WHL?).

Parts of the North might be ok near the away fans.

The rest of the stadium will be like a morgue imo. We all know the importance of the Park Lane fit generating atmosphere, but the shelf was a big part of it too and they’ve decimated it. Unnecessarily so imo.

 

[N17TJK]

I spoke to the ticket office and they said the club has taken a decision that they will not amend peoples sales phase even if they (the club) have made a mistake. I’m furious as I am in the same situation. I love spurs but not sure the club will be getting any of my money at this rate. I’m expecting a call in the next 48 hours, but don’t expect a positive outcome. If there are no east stand lower (or even west stand lower) tickets available by phase 4 (which I have to wait for because of the clubs fu(k up) I will not renew. I don’t mind the extra cost or how they intended to do the phasing, but when they won’t correct their mistake that’s unacceptable.

I was just told the complete opposite. The woman on the ticket renewal line told me there is nothing she can physically do and to call the complaints line. I just called the ticket office direct and the bloke on the phone told me that he would look into it and if we are in the wrong phase we would be moved.

 

[yankspurs]

The South will have a good atmosphere ( although not as good as it should have been because a lot of groups will be split up ; why didn’t they move people as close as possible to where they all were at WHL?).

Parts of the North might be ok near the away fans.

The rest of the stadium will be like a morgue imo. We all know the importance of the Park Lane fit generating atmosphere, but the shelf was a big part of it too and they’ve decimated it. Unnecessarily so imo.

Arsenal will no longer be alone with having a library

 

[Rob]

I spoke to the ticket office and they said the club has taken a decision that they will not amend peoples sales phase even if they (the club) have made a mistake. I’m furious as I am in the same situation. I love spurs but not sure the club will be getting any of my money at this rate. I’m expecting a call in the next 48 hours, but don’t expect a positive outcome. If there are no east stand lower (or even west stand lower) tickets available by phase 4 (which I have to wait for because of the clubs fu(k up) I will not renew. I don’t mind the extra cost or how they intended to do the phasing, but when they won’t correct their mistake that’s unacceptable.

Who did you talk to?

Can you outline here exactly what mistake they made with you and whether they admitted it?

I feel like we should be collecting these examples together and kicking up a fuss.

 

[samspurs92]

In what world did the club think it would be a good idea to now have the most expensive season tickets in the PL/world.

Seems like a massive fuck up made by highly paid people that are out of touch with the normal, paying public.

 

[thebenjamin]

Im gonna change my opinion. If someone said to me when we had Jol, if you pay an extra 300 quid a season to play champions league football and keep Harry Kane. then play in this.....I think id bite their hand off. Fuck it, lets enjoy it.

I love how enclosed it is.

No doubt the stadium is great. And like you, I can afford it. I don't think that's the point, however.

In my naive dreamland I thought the fact ENIC were building a characterful stadium and were therefore aware of the difference between a proper football stadium and a conference centre with a bit of outside space in the middle (Wembley, Emirates), perhaps meant they were aware of what a huge opportunity this stadium was for Tottenham Hotspur. You look at Arsenal and see that the problem there isn't only their generic stadium, but the people inside it. People who buy a season ticket but only go to games now and again for the big games because they have so much disposable income that wasting a few hundred quid doesn't matter. People who also have a debenture at Wimbledon, are members of the MCC, and go to Monaco Grand Prix for the weekend. It may be a cliche, but mostly these aren't the people who are going to get behind the team and drive them on to a difficult 1-0 victory at home to West Brom or whoever. They won't even be in the stadium.

So it was an opportunity to say that while they down the road are a club for rich people, and their stadium was built for only one purpose - to extract as much money from those people as possible - our club, our stadium is for the people, for the real supporters and while we give a large part of the ground over to corporate facilities, the parts where the real fans go, where the atmosphere comes from, are sacrosanct. And we will hoover up a generation of young fans because parents who follow our club can afford to take their children to games. To follow the German model, to say we respect our supporters and given that in reality, tickets sold isn't really that large an income stream for the club anyway compared to TV and sponsorship, we'll take a small hit on what we could rake in from our fans in order to say this is a proper football club.

But no, just 600 tickets at £795 - clearly there only to make headlines at the lowest priced ticket, while it's £2,200 right in the middle of the 'iconic' home end. It is and has obviously always been an exercise in taking our fans for everything they've got. If they can't pay, Premier League football is so big that a rich foreigner with a couple of houses in London will just buy a season ticket and occasionally visit if they happen to be in the country when Spurs are at home and happen to be playing one of the top 6.

Make no mistake, they have made us like Arsenal. "62,000 attendance" -- half that in the stadium. Instead of building a huge bond between the club and it's support base, and making sure the ground is absolutely rocking for a good proportion of the games, what they've done is alienated everyone and made it abundantly clear that they have absolutely no respect for the supporters.

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

Thought it was a decent response. What else can they say without telling the club to go fuck itself!

They have no power and the club listens when it wants to and does as it pleases when it wants

The Trust might think they make a real difference but in reality....

I agree, thought the comments were pretty critical really.

 

[yankspurs]

No doubt the stadium is great. And like you, I can afford it. I don't think that's the point, however.

In my naive dreamland I thought the fact ENIC were building a characterful stadium and were therefore aware of the difference between a proper football stadium and a conference centre with a bit of outside space in the middle (Wembley, Emirates), perhaps meant they were aware of what a huge opportunity this stadium was for Tottenham Hotspur. You look at Arsenal and see that the problem there isn't only their generic stadium, but the people inside it. People who buy a season ticket but only go to games now and again for the big games because they have so much disposable income that wasting a few hundred quid doesn't matter. People who also have a debenture at Wimbledon, are members of the MCC, and go to Monaco Grand Prix for the weekend. It may be a cliche, but mostly these aren't the people who are going to get behind the team and drive them on to a difficult 1-0 victory at home to West Brom or whoever. They won't even be in the stadium.

So it was an opportunity to say that while they down the road are a club for rich people, and their stadium was built for only one purpose - to extract as much money from those people as possible - our club, our stadium is for the people, for the real supporters and while we give a large part of the ground over to corporate facilities, the parts where the real fans go, where the atmosphere comes from, are sacrosanct. And we will hoover up a generation of young fans because parents who follow our club can afford to take their children to games. To follow the German model, to say we respect our supporters and given that in reality, tickets sold isn't really that large an income stream for the club anyway compared to TV and sponsorship, we'll take a small hit on what we could rake in from our fans in order to say this is a proper football club.

But no, just 600 tickets at £795 - clearly there only to make headlines at the lowest priced ticket, while it's £2,200 right in the middle of the 'iconic' home end. It is and has obviously always been an exercise in taking our fans for everything they've got. If they can't pay, Premier League football is so big that a rich foreigner with a couple of houses in London will just buy a season ticket and occasionally visit if they happen to be in the country when Spurs are at home and happen to be playing one of the top 6.

Make no mistake, they have made us like Arsenal. "62,000 attendance" -- half that in the stadium. Instead of building a huge bond between the club and it's support base, and making sure the ground is absolutely rocking for a good proportion of the games, what they've done is alienated everyone and made it abundantly clear that they have absolutely no respect for the supporters.

There was a bond built between support and squad and manager. You’d think the club would want that to continue? But nope! Levy has other ideas

 

[YiddoBirdy]

Anyone know roughly how many seats are available in the south stand for season ticket holders? I'm trying to work out what my chances are of getting two together there in phase 7

 

[NickHSpurs]

It's no surprise is it really, all of the creative industries are pushing prices up and pricing out the majority of fans.

Look at some of the big events at The O2... Justin Timberlake tickets £100-£150 each, Kevin Hart tickets £145 each, Anthony Joshua's fight at Wembley was £100 minimum. Even if you want to go cinema in London these days you're looking at £20 a ticket.

Tottenham are considered an event on par with those at The O2, like it or not the Premier League is now a global "brand" which includes us and the demand will be there for people to pay these prices.

I'm one of the lucky ones who can afford to do it but that doesn't mean I'm happy about the increases, it's just the way it is across the board, not just football and unfortunately there's very little we can do about it.

 

[nicdic]

Shoutout to those who have never been able to afford a season ticket.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

There was a bond built between support and squad and manager. You’d think the club would want that to continue? But nope! Levy has other ideas

Lol that's BS. Wembley's atmosphere can be utter shite but I don't think anyone could argue the bond has therefore gone.

In what world did the club think it would be a good idea to now have the most expensive season tickets in the PL/world.

Seems like a massive fuck up made by highly paid people that are out of touch with the normal, paying public.

It is the best stadium in the PL tbf.

I spoke to the ticket office and they said the club has taken a decision that they will not amend peoples sales phase even if they (the club) have made a mistake. I’m furious as I am in the same situation. I love spurs but not sure the club will be getting any of my money at this rate. I’m expecting a call in the next 48 hours, but don’t expect a positive outcome. If there are no east stand lower (or even west stand lower) tickets available by phase 4 (which I have to wait for because of the clubs fu(k up) I will not renew. I don’t mind the extra cost or how they intended to do the phasing, but when they won’t correct their mistake that’s unacceptable.

That's pathetic on the club's part. The ticket pricing being controversial in one thing but refusing to correct a mistake which can greatly affect a paying member is disgraceful.

 

[sxboy]

We are a tourist club at Wembley, we will be back at Tottenham as are Arsenal and WestHam.

Supporting football has changed so i dont really understand why people are surprised. There will still be 40000 season tickets holders at the new stadium despite the complaints, a portion of those tickets wont be used by the holders very often or remain empty just as they are now at Wembley. The simple fact is people do afford to buy them and the businesses that own the clubs dont care as long as they make money and in the same breath why should they.

Im not saying its right but thats the case im afraid. Do you really think the owners of these clubs really give a toss about the fans or building bonds in the grand scheme of things?

 

[bk75]

Some of our group in the same situation, one in pot 2, one in pot 4, despite having the season tickets the same amount of time. They've spoken with the ticket office and they will get back to them in 48 hours.

They've had a large number of people phone in with the same issue, would suggest anyone in this situation phones up and makes hell, so they know the scale of the problem.

Im in the same boat mate been going with my brother and his two kids for over 20 years. I'm in phase 2 he's in 4 and his kids are phase 1.
Just wondered I will probably wait till we get to phase 4 and hope we can all sit together.