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Not renewing?

I honestly don't know where my cut off will be.

It's only really affordable now due to kids pricing offsetting mine.

When the bairn's gets dead expensive I'll hopefully be mortgage free, so swings and roundabouts.
 

In theory there'll be an amount I'd be annoyed to pay, out of principal more than anything else, feels like £30 could be the tipping point but we'll see (it probably won't be).

The league doesn't bother me, so I'd rather be in the Championship paying less than in the Prem paying £X (where X equals whatever my tipping point ends up being).
 
Dodgy said:
Gig tickets are a one off, though (unless you go to loads of top tier gigs, obviously), you don't go to see the same act 20 times a year.
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I spend more on concert tickets each year than I do me season ticket. Quite easily. This year may be the exception, as there doesn't seem to be much on.

It cost me £150 for Rush tickets yesterday.

Last summer I saw Springsteen, Neil Young and Oasis. That was about £450 worth of concert tickets alone. Three gigs. Then there digs, travel, bait and beer on top. I also went to see Uriah Heep, Graham Nash, Bob Dylan, and the Stereophonics, and a gig or two at the Cluny.
 
chriswallace85 said:
I spend more on concert tickets each year than I do me season ticket. Quite easily. This year may be the exception, as there doesn't seem to be much on.

It cost me £150 for Rush tickets yesterday.

Last summer I saw Springsteen, Neil Young and Oasis. That was about £450 worth of concert tickets alone. Three gigs. Then there digs, travel, bait and beer on top. I also went to see Uriah Heep, Graham Nash, Bob Dylan, and the Stereophonics, and a gig or two at the Cluny.
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There's not a single one of those I'd pay money to see.

In fairness, there's a couple of them I'd probably pay money NOT to see. :lol:
 
Dodgy said:
There's not a single one of those I'd pay money to see.

In fairness, there's a couple of them I'd probably pay money NOT to see. :lol:
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:lol: That's besides the point though.

It also cost me the thick end of £400 to send our lass n her sister to Wembley to see Dua Lipa.
 
chriswallace85 said:
It's not a comparison I like to make meself, but it's an event ya pay for.

I'm not sure I follow any kind of logic that might suggest football should be any cheaper because it's more regular.
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They can get away with charging £150 for concerts because they are one off events for most people so you can bite the bullet as a one off.

If they started charging £150 for regular tickets at the football it would be unsustainable for most people and we would see crowds of about 3,000 if that.
 
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK said:
That's completely wrong as they won't be increasing it by 28% each year. If you were a ST from 2022/23 or before then it's been around 20% so you must have bought a ST after August 2022 or one of the fans who've been shown an incorrect renewal price.

They've also increased it by that that to bring it into line with the NEW prices they released after June 2025 when we knew we were in the PL. We've been cheaper overall than many clubs over the years and even the NEW prices aren't that bad when comparing to other PL clubs, especially since we've been out of the PL 10 years so prices haven't gone up like they would have if we'd stayed in the PL.

This is what it looks like when you have the renewal prices in the left columns (for early birds from last season), how much they went up by in the middle column and the percentage increase on the right.

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sorry, my mistake - should have said 550, not 590 - so my maths is all out (20% increase, not 28% :oops:). Still canny extortionate like.
 
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DiscopantsSoL said:
All 9 of us have renewed. Thing is, now with 38,500+ Standard season ticket holders and with home games completely sold out, a season ticket waiting list in the thousands and when away clubs send tickets back they are selling out too, if you dont renew you face the proposition of missing out for a long long time unless Stadium is extended. Club is in a win win position at the moment.
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I've got genuine concerns over securing a seat for me son. He's not 1 yet.
RedandWhiteRebel said:
They can get away with charging £150 for concerts because they are one off events for most people so you can bite the bullet as a one off.

If they started charging £150 for regular tickets at the football it would be unsustainable for most people and we would see crowds of about 3,000 if that.
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They're not though. That's the point. At present, it's less than £35 a game. And there's 19 of them.

The whole "well it's a one-off" compared to 19 games at a fraction of the price argument doesn't really wash.

You can quite easily spend more than you would on a season ticket by going to only 2 to 4 concerts a year.

Why should a football match be any cheaper than it already is, just because there's another one next week?
 
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The Great Soprendo said:
Just interested to gauge specifically if many people have decided not to renew their season ticket for next year due to the price rises? Or if there is a price point where you would say enough is enough?

Obviously other personal circumstances can influence a decision to renew (income/health/moving away), but it would be interesting to discuss specifically around the pricing.

Personally speaking, as long as I'm working and it remains affordable I expect I'll continue to renew but would probably draw the line eventually if they continue compounding far-above-inflation increases year after year (this year mine has gone from £460 to £590, an increase of 28%), and I'm sure many of our ST holders will be even less tolerant of continuous price rises.
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The prices are reasonable and the club have worked wonders with the finances available in a league where finances generally dictate levels of success.
 
I drunkenly told my nieces son I'd buy his season ticket in the lower East Stand.
I hope he's forgotten 😭

How much is an u18 card going to set me back?
 
mackembhoy said:
That mindsets why a lot of the things cost what they do they do. As people just happily keep on paying.

Top end gigs being that price relative to seeing some of them bands at festivals is ridiculous. So not really a good example.

Them top end gigs the main band set is normally less than a football match these days. Long gone are 2+ hour sets.

Seeing those same artists on the continent being cheaper just like the football.
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It's not ridiculous really. At a festival you have dozens of bands sharing the same sound and lighting equipment and most of the technical staff, all the bar staff, security etc. At a one-off top-end gig all the gear and personnel have to be paid for by just the headline act. It's obviously going to cost more "per band on the bill" than seeing bands at a festival.
 
Im on senior discount and have long term discount so its not too bad . I'll wear a reasonable increase tgis year due to essentially buying a better product , PL football . If they think they can come it again next season I'll seriously look at cost , whether i can afford it or not . If I'm loyal to them i expect them to be loyal to me , if I'm obviously just a punter I'll act like one
 
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