Season Ticket Prices

[Maxman]

I went to Stonebridge today to ask for a form for a friend and was told the matchday price is raising to £13.00.

[Hempstead Gaz]

If that is the case, I wonder how well reseached this decision has been?

£1 per home game for about 900 fans x 23 odd games = less than £21,000, not enough even to buy a 2 year contract for a player and certainly not enough to pay for plans and legal costs for the new ground.

However, as I said, it just might be enough to put some supporters off what is becoming an increasingly expensive hobby.

In my case (and mine is not the worst case)

£4 petrol

£13 entrance

£2.50 beer

£2.50 programme

£2.50 Fleet gristleburger

£2 to Harry's 50/50.

 

Nearly £27 for 90 minutes of football is ok (just) every fortnight, but when the games come thick and fast after Easter, the costs can really mount up, and become prohibitive.

Something will have to give, probably the programme, beer and burger, and it will be the club that suffers.

 

Multiply that scenario out countless times, and you have to ask is it any wonder that club cannot encourage more fans to stand on a wet and windy terrace or under a leaky, rusty roof or wading to a loo that looks and smells like a sewer.

 

 

[Alan W (GNFC)]

Probably £7 for concessions then, as Concession Season Ticket is more than 50% of Full Priced one.

[Stu M]

Originally Posted By: Chatham Gary

Multiply that scenario out countless times, and you have to ask is it any wonder that club cannot encourage more fans to stand on a wet and windy terrace or under a leaky, rusty roof or wading to a loo that looks and smells like a sewer.

But then when the club have produced half-price initiatives, etc, while there is a slight upsurge on the gate, it doesn't really do much damage to the season's average attendance. Even at £13, the price is the price for Conference football these days, and most clubs raise their prices on a two-year basis or so... there must be a financial reason for it, I'm sure they're not raising the prices just to piss of the 50 or so who might otherwise turn up if it was three quid cheaper.

[kieronoliver]

to save a little bit Gary why don't you buy a 10 book flexi ticket you're save about £13 over the 10 games and it would ease the cost when there is 2 close home games

[Slartibartfast]

Or simply cut out the gristleburger, you will be paying less than last season and you will be much healthier.

 

Anyone who regularly takes their children to the Fleet should consider enrolling them in the Junior Fleet scheme which I understand is £25:00 this year and gives free admission to all home league games...bargain.

[BustaGut]

Originally Posted By: Chatham Gary

If that is the case, I wonder how well reseached this decision has been?
£1 per home game for about 900 fans x 23 odd games = less than £21,000, not enough even to buy a 2 year contract for a player and certainly not enough to pay for plans and legal costs for the new ground.
However, as I said, it just might be enough to put some supporters off what is becoming an increasingly expensive hobby.
In my case (and mine is not the worst case)
£4 petrol
£13 entrance
£2.50 beer
£2.50 programme
£2.50 Fleet gristleburger
£2 to Harry's 50/50.

Nearly £27 for 90 minutes of football is ok (just) every fortnight, but when the games come thick and fast after Easter, the costs can really mount up, and become prohibitive.
Something will have to give, probably the programme, beer and burger, and it will be the club that suffers.

Multiply that scenario out countless times, and you have to ask is it any wonder that club cannot encourage more fans to stand on a wet and windy terrace or under a leaky, rusty roof or wading to a loo that looks and smells like a sewer.

2007/8

£4 petrol
£12 entrance
£2.50 beer
£2.50 programme
£2.50 Fleet gristleburger
£2 to Harry's 50/50.

£1 Difference
what can you buy for a pound now days? not even half a pint.
we have to be realistic about things,and realise to progress we have to pay for it.
To employ better players we have to pay better wages.
To be a good employer we have to pay top dollar to get better players.etc etc
If In 6 years time we are in the premiership, how you going to pay the £60 to get in if we are struggling to pay £13?

As its only a pound I think we should all chill, it just the number 13 I am not keen on lol

[kmj]

Drinking and driving CG! Tut, tut. Not very responsible behaviour is it?

 

I thought that civil servants were law abiding citizens? I also

thought that you read the Daily Mail too!

 

This really is the start of that slippery slope!

 

 

[eufckev]

Well, it is one beer.

[Hempstead Gaz]

1 beer, suitably soaked up by a hearty gristleburger with 2 ladles of colesterol free lard!!!

As for reading the daily Wail, God forbid!!

That fascist rag doesn't go a bundle on us civil servants, even those like me who are doing a (comparitively worthwhile) job protecting society from pondlife.

Sadly I haven't managed to make any pre-season games, working 2-mdt next Wednesday, and am going on my hols on the 11th Aug.