Just had a nice chat with United fans on another thread so I want to know if season tickets should be scrapped altogether after the recent altercation that if United fans with a season ticket don't go to the game against Cambridge they get their season ticket suspended.
What are the benefits? Well, it's easy to pick and choose which games you want to go to and the one's you don't want to go to. Yes, your revenue will be down in smaller games but it is never packed out to the full when you play against smaller teams anyway. Also, the way to keep revenue up for a club is to have requirements for a game that you go to. For example, if someone wanted to go to Man United vs Liverpool, a requirement could be that you must have been to at least 5 games this season. Then it keeps revenue up in them 5 smaller games, if that makes sense. It also allowed people to go watch their side away from home if they don't line in the area.
What aren't the benefits? Well revenue would be down, but there are some ways around that (check the example above). Also, you could argue prices might be increased to keep the same profit from revenue, which might cause some problems for some fans, but not others. Other than that, I don't really see any major problems that clubs would face if this is the case and I'm sure it would be more beneficial for all football fans and not just the one's that have season tickets.
Admins, could you multi-board this so everyone can see the general view from big clubs, thank you.
Scrapping season tickets?
posted on 29/1/15
Go back to paying on the turnstiles
posted on 29/1/15
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 31 seconds ago
Go back to paying on the turnstiles
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could you imagine.
I'm sure half that cash used to disappear into the pocket of the person on the turnstile.
posted on 29/1/15
Remember £2.40 in on the White Wall entrance as a junior WW?
posted on 29/1/15
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 1 minute ago
Remember £2.40 in on the White Wall entrance as a junior WW?
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I'm not that fecking old
Remember paying a fiver I think, then another pound to sit on the benches.
posted on 29/1/15
No but can you imagine the queues at the turnstiles and the ticket office with people trying to get replacements.
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And what exactly is the difference between a hard ticket and an e-ticket.
Maybe the UK is behind the USA on this kind of technology. We are usually in the forefront of it.
posted on 29/1/15
That was around 74 WW, if my memory serves me!
posted on 29/1/15
That was before my time as well, mid 80's for me.
I probably paid a lot more but the memory is going.
How on earth can you remember what you was paying to get in 40 years ago?
I cant remember tickets prices last season
posted on 29/1/15
That was the first time my parents allowed me down to London for a game, so a lot about it stuck in my head.
The train was £3.38 return, the game was against Luton, we won 2-0 and the crowd was 19,000.
We got relegated at the end of the season!
posted on 29/1/15
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 1 minute ago
That was the first time my parents allowed me down to London for a game, so a lot about it stuck in my head.
The train was £3.38 return, the game was against Luton, we won 2-0 and the crowd was 19,000.
We got relegated at the end of the season!
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Happened a lot in those days
posted on 1/2/15
Brilliant , who is this genius ?
This suggestion if brought in would in fact in one fail swoop destroy english football as we know it.
Now depending on what you want it may seem like a great idea to others an abysmal notion dreamt up by a prize tool