dagraham
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Yeah I know and that's what I'm clinging onto.
Wembley Season Ticket Prices
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Yeah I know and that's what I'm clinging onto.
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Even if we are with them, they'll have to change the method as it will make no sense as things are.
nightgoat
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The club will be well aware that at White Hart Lane the demand for tickets by far outstripped the supply and that almost every game would be a sell out even if we weren't doing as well on the pitch as we have been the last two seasons.
Next season the club will need to bring in higher ticket revenues just to tread water considering the rental fee for Wembley and will no doubt be concerned that while certain games will naturally have a high demand (Arsenal, Chelsea etc) if our form suffers then attendances may well drop off.
By effectively forcing 18,000 members to buy a season ticket they're guaranteeing £18m up front.
WalkerboyUK
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And with 65,000+ people on the waiting list, it makes me laugh when some of those 18,000 get to the front of the queue and then moan about the price of the ticket. Not like you haven't had years to start saving for it.
Don_Felipe
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Well, once all the ticket prices come out we probably will see that the club has reduced prices to fill the extra capacity at Wembley... just not for ST holders.
It's as if they are thinking of it as two different products:
1) the bottom bit of the stadium, with the best view, atmosphere and WHL-style prices.
2) the top bit full of fair weather fans, tourists, the priced-out, and wrongending opposition fans, with crap atmosphere and low prices
The point of a season ticket is that it gives the club guaranteed income, so I can see why they don't let people use stubhub (or any replacement) for non-sell outs - not sure that's going to change, and Wembley's size means that it won't happen often. If 65,000 people supposedly want season tickets (yeah, of course it's not really that many... but it's still a lot), I can't blame the club for not accommodating people who don't want to go to all the games.
The club know that if people don't like that, they don't have to buy a season ticket, someone else will.
That's the problem with football fans, if I can switch to the much-more-comfortable ground of criticising that lot down the road - if they really want #wengeroutfam they need to stop buying tickets rather than paying for plans and ad vans. If fans want change they need to organise and start arranging boycotts etc.... that might make clubs listen.
It's as if they are thinking of it as two different products:
1) the bottom bit of the stadium, with the best view, atmosphere and WHL-style prices.
2) the top bit full of fair weather fans, tourists, the priced-out, and wrongending opposition fans, with crap atmosphere and low prices
The point of a season ticket is that it gives the club guaranteed income, so I can see why they don't let people use stubhub (or any replacement) for non-sell outs - not sure that's going to change, and Wembley's size means that it won't happen often. If 65,000 people supposedly want season tickets (yeah, of course it's not really that many... but it's still a lot), I can't blame the club for not accommodating people who don't want to go to all the games.
The club know that if people don't like that, they don't have to buy a season ticket, someone else will.
That's the problem with football fans, if I can switch to the much-more-comfortable ground of criticising that lot down the road - if they really want #wengeroutfam they need to stop buying tickets rather than paying for plans and ad vans. If fans want change they need to organise and start arranging boycotts etc.... that might make clubs listen.
stonecolddeanaustin
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Well by being given the opportunity to skip Wembley out yet retain their place in the season ticket waiting list for the new stadium, members would be getting more from the club than existing season ticket holders. Nobody's going to be forced to buy a season ticket at Wembley but if they want one at the new ground then they'll have to buy one at Wembley. Everyone's in the same boat that way which seems entirely reasonable to me.
I'm just pissed off there's no reduced prices or anything. The Wembley match day experience is absolutely nothing compared to the White Hart Lane one.
WalkerboyUK
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Is this really the case though??
I would imagine it's more a case of "here's your chance, if you say no, you're heading to the back of the queue".
camaj
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SH isn't really the problem, it's the policy we have of not having tickets for sale unless the game is sold out
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It's not quite that. But you do risk the chance of not getting a ticket next season.
It's been in place for years though, so moaning now is stupid.
stonecolddeanaustin
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Yeah, that's what happening, hence the use of the word "would". Apparently though, THST are saying they're pushing for members to be allowed to turn a season ticket down for this year and keep their place in the queue. I'm saying that wouldn't be fair on season ticket holders (so probably won't happen).
BringBack_leGin
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Anybody have any idea yet what will be deemed equivalent areas to the current season tickets?
nightgoat
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No they wouldn't be.
dagraham
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Well they would. They'd be allowed to skip Wembley in the knowledge they would be able to get a ST in the new stadium, whereas existing ST holders taking the same stance would be shoved to the back of the queue.
Don_Felipe
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The club applied for permission to use the full stadium for every game... I can't imagine they would impose any limits on any games... but how many will they get for Burnley on a "Tuesday night in February" (TM Sky Clichés dept)?
I think for the Gent game, they sold off some of the upper-tier tickets block-by-block until they knew they could sell it out (or didn't sell the upper tier tickets until the lower ones sold out - can't remember exactly) - so they might do that, but if they can sell 90k tickets, they will.
Gent did sell out, but then tickets were a tenner - would they do that to sell out the cheap seats for the less popular games?
RichieS
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Your last paragraph is where the club could find itself pissing off the ST holders. I think my ticket is going to be £775 - if there are cheap seats available over the course of the season that mean I could have attended all 19 league games for considerably less then I will be somewhat disgruntled.
Saoirse
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I'm assuming that's why they're not offering season tickets in most of the upper tier. That way they can put cheap tickets up there, but justify it saying season ticket holders have a much better view and aren't paying more than those attending one-off matches in the same blocks.
Lighty64
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I know I'd most probably feel differently if I had a season ticket, but if it meant selling tickets in areas people would rather not go, but meant the club where making money to help us progress, pay off the stadium quicker, increase important players wages, help towards transfer funds, help towards the rental of Wembley, or even help to keeping the season ticket prices from going up to much when we start in the new stadium, then surely them selling tickets cheap to fill it up to 1 enhance the atmosphere, and 2 for all what the money could go towards is surely a bonus to the club.
we are most probably talking about 6-8 games they might have struggles, yet buying a season ticket works out cheaper over a season compared to what members pay if they got tickets for all 19 games. also if they did the cheap option and sold out, and used stubhub those that can't/don't want to go every game because it's Wembley might get something back, which is better than nothing even if some/most don't see it that way.
the only people it will really effect if they use stubhub due to being away due to work for a set period but don't want to give up their ST, or the few that use it too make huge profits.
we are most probably talking about 6-8 games they might have struggles, yet buying a season ticket works out cheaper over a season compared to what members pay if they got tickets for all 19 games. also if they did the cheap option and sold out, and used stubhub those that can't/don't want to go every game because it's Wembley might get something back, which is better than nothing even if some/most don't see it that way.
the only people it will really effect if they use stubhub due to being away due to work for a set period but don't want to give up their ST, or the few that use it too make huge profits.
Can someone answer a question for me?
My son (9 years old) is about 15k on the waiting list.
I am about 21K on the waiting list.
Should they offer my son a ST for Wembley, and I turn it down (on his behalf) does that mean he goes to the back of the list and so misses out on a ST at NWHL?
My son (9 years old) is about 15k on the waiting list.
I am about 21K on the waiting list.
Should they offer my son a ST for Wembley, and I turn it down (on his behalf) does that mean he goes to the back of the list and so misses out on a ST at NWHL?
