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Post by hermannsays on Jun 2, 2023 12:05:12 GMT
www.stockportcounty.com/23-24-season-ticket-pricing/Summary: General/renewal £435 / £405 - Adult £310 / £280 - Conc. (disabled, student, senior) £100 / £090 - Youth £070 / £060 - Junior £035 / £025 - Child Free Junior/Child with a senior/adult ST for the Pop., number of STs being capped this season, and "the club will be introducing a new tiered system that will see home games categorised, with match-specific tickets priced accordingly."
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Jun 2, 2023 16:20:32 GMT
I can say for an absolute certainty that this decision has finished me off as a match going County fan. I've suspected for some time that this was the likely direction that the club would taken in and it gives me no satisfaction to say my suspicions have proved to be correct. I went to my first game at EP in 1975 and I've been a home and away supporter regularly going to 35+ games a season since I started work in 1981. Best of luck to the club in getting where its owner wants it to be but sadly, I'll not be a part of it.
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Post by harrogatehatter on Jun 22, 2023 10:00:00 GMT
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Post by hermannsays on Jun 22, 2023 12:37:39 GMT
+18.5%, 37% or 44% for us to go to a game, depending on category.
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Post by harrogatehatter on Jun 22, 2023 15:01:20 GMT
Quite a quick reverse ferret by the club
Prices still going up but now by as much.
Only two categories now. Five A games £24 for adults and 18 B games at £22.
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Post by gazz on Jun 22, 2023 15:16:55 GMT
I don't know who is in charge of pricing down there, but they're clearly bloody winging it.
I won't be bothering, even for that revised lower price. Train travel + match ticket + food and drink while I'm out = I'm out.
As for categorising games, are they serious? Sod off, County.
If I'm up to see family and a game is on, I MAY consider the odd walk-up, but I won't be travelling just to see County, it's just too much extra cash that I don't have.
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Post by harrogatehatter on Jun 22, 2023 15:31:21 GMT
A cynic might say the initial ticket pricing was intended to sweeten the pill when the rise is ‘only’ £2/£4
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Post by gazz on Jun 22, 2023 17:02:18 GMT
A cynic might say the initial ticket pricing was intended to sweeten the pill when the rise is ‘only’ £2/£4 That's a very, very good shout, mate. |
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Post by ceefer on Jun 24, 2023 9:18:51 GMT
The whole match day ticket debacle and 'we have listened' is extremely poor from the club. They obviously didn't listen and apparently gave assurances that they would take the current economic situation into account. The fact that they didn't appears to show they simply do not care. At those prices you would expect at least one prawn sandwich to be included. This used to be a community club - I fear that has been lost.
ST price increases are a joke. I could understand it if we had announced a marquee signing. Included is the ultimate Carrington experience.... which we were promised last year and that ended up as a training session at Edgeley Park. Discounts are available at the club shop...on what items?
Wilson can blab on about the club recruitment model, but he should subscribe to the Brighton model. They already have one of two players already identified for every position, should they lose a player (sale or injury).
The club can blab on about sustainability - the first place they need to look at is reducing the number of employees - it's ridiculous how many off field people appear to be on the books. Have they heard of LEAN?
That said I really appreciate Mr. Stotts purchase and ongoing investment.
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Post by gazz on Jun 24, 2023 10:32:50 GMT
The whole match day ticket debacle and 'we have listened' is extremely poor from the club. They obviously didn't listen and apparently gave assurances that they would take the current economic situation into account. The fact that they didn't appears to show they simply do not care. At those prices you would expect at least one prawn sandwich to be included. This used to be a community club - I fear that has been lost. ST price increases are a joke. I could understand it if we had announced a marquee signing. Included is the ultimate Carrington experience.... which we were promised last year and that ended up as a training session at Edgeley Park. Discounts are available at the club shop...on what items? Wilson can blab on about the club recruitment model, but he should subscribe to the Brighton model. They already have one of two players already identified for every position, should they lose a player (sale or injury). The club can blab on about sustainability - the first place they need to look at is reducing the number of employees - it's ridiculous how many off field people appear to be on the books. Have they heard of LEAN? That said I really appreciate Mr. Stotts purchase and ongoing investment. This, mate. We're essentially paying for the bloated staff and Wilson's 'chuck it at the wall hard enough and it's bound to stick' approach. I completely agree that what they're doing isn't 'County', and that's why I'm becoming more and more disconnected with it. I'm going to get laughed at here, but I honestly preferred the days under Jim when we were punching well above our weight. We already know the club's thoughts regarding "legacy fans", and they're slowly taking matchdays away from them and into the wallets of the better-off - they'll do well to remember that County wasn't built on that. As I've said earlier, I won't be paying the prices they're charging. I don't know about anyone else, but I watched the play-off final at home and was left feeling "meh" after the game, rather than devastated - maybe I'm just not 'feeling it' anymore. It definitely doesn't feel like County to me lately, maybe it's just me? |
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Jun 24, 2023 15:21:48 GMT
The whole match day ticket debacle and 'we have listened' is extremely poor from the club. They obviously didn't listen and apparently gave assurances that they would take the current economic situation into account. The fact that they didn't appears to show they simply do not care. At those prices you would expect at least one prawn sandwich to be included. This used to be a community club - I fear that has been lost. ST price increases are a joke. I could understand it if we had announced a marquee signing. Included is the ultimate Carrington experience.... which we were promised last year and that ended up as a training session at Edgeley Park. Discounts are available at the club shop...on what items? Wilson can blab on about the club recruitment model, but he should subscribe to the Brighton model. They already have one of two players already identified for every position, should they lose a player (sale or injury). The club can blab on about sustainability - the first place they need to look at is reducing the number of employees - it's ridiculous how many off field people appear to be on the books. Have they heard of LEAN? That said I really appreciate Mr. Stotts purchase and ongoing investment. ...........I'm going to get laughed at here, but I honestly preferred the days under Jim when we were punching well above our weight. I'm not laughing mate, you've elucidated precisely the point I made at the top of this thread. I've travelled literally tens of 000's of miles the length and breadth of this country, watching County through good, bad and mostly indifferent and if this bunch of Johnny-come-lately's think they can look at me as though I'm some kind of cash cow to be milked for every last bent penny they can prise out of me, the second word is off. They can supply their own prefix! I haven't and will not be renewing my season ticket and if any of the clowns running the club develop sufficient self-awareness to gauge the views of people like me they'll know why. Football is about soul, heart and passion, something these f**kin' morons know nothing about because it can't be bought and sold like any other commodity, like the expensive suits they no doubt favour. Piss off gents. You can't buy the memory of being at Roker Park the night Tommy Sword's penalty knocked Sunderland out of the League Cup. You can't buy the memory of the standing ovation the Liverpool supporters gave us after taking their European champions to extra time at Anfield in the same competition. Nor can you buy the emotion at the other end of the spectrum after we got dumped out of the FA Cup by Caernarfon Town or after having being completely outplayed by Telford United. There's plenty more where they came from but it matters not, because they are worth more than any amount of money they've got but it's of no interest because it's all in the past and they are the future, a shiny, soulless future. A future in which I can put up, pay up and shut up despite the failure. Failure! There's a word eh? Failure to gain promotion despite throwing players at the squad, despite apparently having a recruitment policy to die for. Really? Call me a heretic but I've heard too many glib, self-satisfied management bullshitters over the years not to be able to recognise another one when I see and hear him. Yes Mr Wilson, I'm talking about you! And if I sound vaguely irritated by it all, then hey! I am, and I make no apology for it. |
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