Tottenham are failing their fans on season ticket prices
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I was left of Centre in the south stand of the old ground, closer to the corner flag and happily paid £860 for a season tickets with a few cup games thrown in.
Now i’m right of centre still closer to the corner flag, were the opposition used to sit, my price jumped to £1200 .
Ouch. With zero cup matches.
What can you do? Levy has got us by the short and curlies.
Now i’m right of centre still closer to the corner flag, were the opposition used to sit, my price jumped to £1200 .
Ouch. With zero cup matches.
What can you do? Levy has got us by the short and curlies.
Dougal
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If you voice your concerns you’ll probably still lose. If you remain silent you will lose. Very little we can do but we should do it. This is year one at our new ground. I’ll be a Spurs fan for many years to come and a fight for affordable seats should only just be beginning. Especially as I want my two girls to be able to go should they want to when they are of age.
WhiteHeartLowe
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The artical makes a good point, empty seats will result in a loss of advertising revenue that will cost the club a lot more than the extra ticket prices will rake in.
Archibald Leitch
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Levy and Co learnt from all the mistakes our rivals made when moving to new stadia, and invented some new mistakes.
dagraham
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That's chicken feed compared with the broadcasting revenue we are continuing to receive. In fact, Joe Lewis probably saves more in tax per year.
There is no justification for the prices or for the huge hole they've left in the East stand to make way for corporate seating.
As has been said though, they have us by the balls because of the huge emotional attachment fans have. Which basically means the club will charge simply what they can get away with.
It's greed, but they'll get away with it..........for the moment and providing we still do well on the pitch. In the long term though it's not so clear cut what will happen.
TottenhamMattSpur
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People ignore the fact in the last few years that, at the lane, the prices barely went up, it at all.
They weren't much different at Wembley and, as has been repeatedly stated, no seat is "your" seat. It's a completely different stadium.
You can, if you so chose, still by tickets "around" the £850 mark, if that's what you wanted to spend, so you haven't been priced out of a season ticket at all. That's just fans who can't understand change, inflation, demand etc.
As for the Telegraph - I can't read the whole article, ironically the story about prices is hidden behind a pay wall, but my best guess is the writer is dumb and not dee. I very much doubt he's bothered to look at all the stats and facts about prices and I very much doubt he understands people's tickets haven't gone up by headline grabbing amounts, they've just chosen to stay in a similar area at a greater cost.
I bet he hasn't bothered to tell people there are more tickets priced at £995 or less at the new ground than there were at any price in the old ground. Effectively meaning, if that's all the existing 20k season ticket holders bought from old WHL, the average price would have dropped.
They weren't much different at Wembley and, as has been repeatedly stated, no seat is "your" seat. It's a completely different stadium.
You can, if you so chose, still by tickets "around" the £850 mark, if that's what you wanted to spend, so you haven't been priced out of a season ticket at all. That's just fans who can't understand change, inflation, demand etc.
As for the Telegraph - I can't read the whole article, ironically the story about prices is hidden behind a pay wall, but my best guess is the writer is dumb and not dee. I very much doubt he's bothered to look at all the stats and facts about prices and I very much doubt he understands people's tickets haven't gone up by headline grabbing amounts, they've just chosen to stay in a similar area at a greater cost.
I bet he hasn't bothered to tell people there are more tickets priced at £995 or less at the new ground than there were at any price in the old ground. Effectively meaning, if that's all the existing 20k season ticket holders bought from old WHL, the average price would have dropped.
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Gaz_Gammon
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I think Levy should demolish the stadium, build a five thousand seat stadium and charge twenty five quid a season ticket.
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Southport is a beautiful place to visit and watch football in the Summer months.
Martin Cloaked wrote pretty much the same thing in The Guardian, and he's a very smart cookie.
Gaz_Gammon
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According to some in here, someone, somewhere will pick up the tab.
Too many of them woke up the night after putting a tooth under their pillow and found a fiver their the next morning.
TottenhamMattSpur
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Why'd you disagree then?
Because he said the same thing as the Telegraph reporter, not you.
TottenhamMattSpur
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Lots of people are saying the same as the telegraph reporter.
Lots of people on here for example. Lots of people that can't seem to see past "my seat costs more"
Archibald Leitch
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So the massive increases will guarantee that we keep our stars? No, I don't think so either. Levy obviously can have it both ways.
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