Season Tickets 2020/2021

[homer]

And if you don’t stump up your pound of flesh, you lose your right to the season ticket you’ve held for thirty years, supporting the team through thick and thin

Thanks for that

 

[Lako42]

Slept on it.....


Still a terrible farce that they need to pull a Conservative party on immediately.

£70 for the chance to enter something I don't want to enter otherwise I lose something I want to keep but can't currently have.

Thanks Lcfc

 

[homer]

Manchester City’s approach:

No up front fee at all
Register to enter ballot for tickets when it becomes possible to start opening up the stadium
Retain your season ticket for next season if you are not able to do that for now, for whatever reason

Not hard, is it ?

 

[Blue Maniac]

Interesting to see the club encouraging gambling

 

[Lako42]

Manchester City’s approach:

No up front fee at all
Register to enter ballot for tickets when it becomes possible to start opening up the stadium
Retain your season ticket for next season if you are not able to do that for now, for whatever reason

Not hard, is it ?

Incredibly simple

 

[bocadillo]

I predict that this non-refundable deposit policy will be changed. The club can not risk losing the goodwill it has benefitted from in these past few years.

 

[Brown Nose]

What should they do? Answers please within these parameters...

1. It is a business. It has to be in this day and age. The product they sell is football. They can’t and shouldn’t be expected to give it away for free
2. They can’t let everyone in through no fault of their own.
3. They can let in about 8k people
4. They can rotate who is admitted so that everyone as fairly as possible gets a crack at seeing the team play.

There is a sizeable amount of aggression on here. It’s not a perfect situation or even a ‘good’ situation. It’s not the decision of the club to exclude people either. Killer respiratory diseases are apparently a bitch. Who knew.

1. They are a business run by billionaires who have made an absolute fortune out of their punt on Leicester City. Their company has mushroomed in value since we got famous, partly as a result of free publicity from being beamed into billions of homes for several years. They have made far more out of us than they've ever given back. They could also sell up and made another massive profit any time. **** 'it's a business'. If they were really who they like to portray themselves as, they could indeed give access for free this season to any key workers, kids, retired people, unemployed, etc. They wouldn't even notice the money. Top is building himself a suite in the new training ground and his wallpaper cost £20,000.

2. Boo-****ing-hoo.

3. Boo-****ing-hoo.

4. They are not 'rotating' anything. They are charging a non-refundable fee to enter a gamble to pay a much inflated ticket price. That is a disgraceful ploy to fleece supporters when there is absolutely no need for it. 20,000 x £70 is £1.4m. That's Slimani's wage for 17.5 weeks.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Have to agree with BN on this one. It’s not quite Arsenal proposing 55 redundancies immediately before signing Willian on £100k a week, but it’s certainly within walking distance.

 

[pork pie fox]

I predict that this non-refundable deposit policy will be changed. The club can not risk losing the goodwill it has benefitted from in these past few years.

Yep, I think so too.

 

[Brown Nose]

Is my working out here right?

You will need to pay a non-refundable £70 (for adults) to enter a ballot for tickets to attend games at a reduced capacity (not specified but speculated to mean approx. 1/4 full with no away fans).

Those successful in the ballot will need to pay full match ticket prices for any successful application. An adult season ticket holder in the kop currently pays £21.84 per match. The equivalent prices for an adult ticket under this scheme will be £36-£50 per match (you won't get to choose the location of your seat as they have to spread people out).

If the stadium can re-open at full capacity at any point during the season, an adult season ticket in the kop will revert back to pro rata cost of 1/19th of £415. If there are sufficient matches this will eat into the £70 deposit but this is virtually impossible as they'd have to go back to full capacity in November which is never going to happen.

So, for example, using the adult season ticket holder in the kop analogy, a season where 12 matches are at reduced capacity and you are successful in 4 ballots, together with the remaining 7 matches being at full capacity, will cost you approximately £383 to attend 11 matches (£70 + 7 x £21.84 + 4 x £40 - estimated match ticket average cost). So, you'd be paying 92% of full season ticket price for 58% of a season some of which is in a dead, mostly empty stadium.

 

[City Fan]

If there are sufficient matches this will eat into the £70 deposit but this is virtually impossible as they'd have to go back to full capacity in November which is never going to happen.

I don’t think this bit is right. £70 is approx 3 matches.

 

[pork pie fox]

“....the club felt it appropriate to share our working plans....”

Translation: The club is testing whether supporters would go along with this.

Result: “The club has listened to our fans....”

 

[M17TT C]

Guess there won't be many fans back for a while then with this as it is an absolute ****ing con!!

Seemed fairly obvious the best way would just be to allow last yrs ST holders have a ballet first, then members and then anyone else if it got that far. Obviously at no cost.

Whoever came up with this idea needs firing immediately as they are clearly so far out of touch with the real world right now.

Rinsing fans for £1.5m for the chance of nothing at the same time as selling as player for £50m+ has got to be one of the worst decisions of any of our owners, let alone KP!

 

[FOX Franks]

Wow that is absolutely shitty. Let’s hope they reverse it when they see no other clubs doing it. At all.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Seemed fairly obvious the best way would just be to allow last yrs ST holders have a ballet first, then members and then anyone else if it got that far. Obviously at no cost.

Let’s get the football right before we start on Swan Lake

 

[Feriol]

I doubt there will be too many takers, especially with the financial climate ATM and the club is likely to lose a lot of season ticket holders permanently with this policy.

 

[bocadillo]

Is my working out here right?

You will need to pay a non-refundable £70 (for adults) to enter a ballot for tickets to attend games at a reduced capacity (not specified but speculated to mean approx. 1/4 full with no away fans).

Those successful in the ballot will need to pay full match ticket prices for any successful application. An adult season ticket holder in the kop currently pays £21.84 per match. The equivalent prices for an adult ticket under this scheme will be £36-£50 per match (you won't get to choose the location of your seat as they have to spread people out).

If the stadium can re-open at full capacity at any point during the season, an adult season ticket in the kop will revert back to pro rata cost of 1/19th of £415. If there are sufficient matches this will eat into the £70 deposit but this is virtually impossible as they'd have to go back to full capacity in November which is never going to happen.

So, for example, using the adult season ticket holder in the kop analogy, a season where 12 matches are at reduced capacity and you are successful in 4 ballots, together with the remaining 7 matches being at full capacity, will cost you approximately £383 to attend 11 matches (£70 + 7 x £21.84 + 4 x £40 - estimated match ticket average cost). So, you'd be paying 92% of full season ticket price for 58% of a season some of which is in a dead, mostly empty stadium.

Not quite correct. The £70 will be deducted from the cost of the season ticket (if any is ever issued). Will still cost more than season ticket price per game though for less than the full jobby.

 

[bocadillo]

the best way would just be to allow last yrs ST holders have a ballet

Swan Lake on grass?

 

[bocadillo]

Swan Lake on grass?

Scoooooop!

 

[Brown Nose]

Not quite correct. The £70 will be deducted from the cost of the season ticket (if any is ever issued). Will still cost more than season ticket price per game though for less than the full jobby.

A full season ticket isn't possible though because it won't 'kick in' until all fans are allowed in. It only gets deducted from the full price - which will not be possible to pay so as soon as we hit the fourth home game of the season and there is no full stadium, you won't get the £70 back.

Oh, and it is actually worse than I'd calculated because every transaction will result in an admin fee being added on.