Adver News: Town release season-ticket prices for 2014/15

[News Monkey]

Town release season-ticket prices for 2014/15
           
           


  SWINDON Town have released details of how season tickets to the County Ground will be priced and structured for next season.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/11015615.Town_release_season_ticket_prices_for_2014_15/?ref=rss
           
           
           

[4D]

Are those bronze prices actually cheaper than current prices?

[kerry red]

Be interesting to see what teams visiting the CG next season will be deemed to Gold.

Can't think of too many - so I hope they dont just invent a few Gold games for the extra money

[Arriba]

Don't think league 1 clubs should be catagorising games personally

[Gnasher]

I'm not going to be tempted to buy a season ticket by the current deals. However, as 20 of the sides we're likely to face should be classed as Cat C games, I'm happy to pay £23 and pick and choose games. Cat A game (City or the Pox?) prices will keep attendances around the 8k mark for those games. Big fail.

[DMR]

Apologies of this has been covered elsewhere, but £27 for certain league games is an absolute piss take.

[kerry red]

Do Bradford still only charge a tenner for their games?

[Batch]

On the plus side they are doing the interest free installment, plus my son isn't 10 until august 10th so he gets another junior reds free year. The Jr fee has gone up £5 I think.

[Riddick]

Its a shame the board doesn't try the bradford/huddersfield model and give really cheap tickets for a year. Would be a good way to see if anyone is interested in the club beyond the 5.5k that turn up every week and the 2k that show up some times.

[Only Me]

Are those bronze prices actually cheaper than current prices?

Yes

[pauld]

I'm not going to be tempted to buy a season ticket by the current deals. However, as 20 of the sides we're likely to face should be classed as Cat C games, I'm happy to pay £23 and pick and choose games. Cat A game (City or the Pox?) prices will keep attendances around the 8k mark for those games. Big fail.

I wonder if the "Gold" category isn't really aimed at League games but is in there in case we get another Cup tie like Chelsea this season. But yes, clearly, £27 for 3rd Division football is bloody ridiculous. And I don't care if other clubs are charging a similar amount, that just means they're being bloody ridiculous too

[Tails]

Its a shame the board doesn't try the bradford/huddersfield model and give really cheap tickets for a year. Would be a good way to see if anyone is interested in the club beyond the 5.5k that turn up every week and the 2k that show up some times.

We don't have the fanbase to make that a realistic option. Our fans are apathetic at the best of times.

I will be getting a season ticket this year, had one since the age about about 6 until we got relegated in 2011 but decided against it the past few years.. Which has been a terrible idea as I end up forking out to go to each game anyway!

[Riddick]

We don't have the fanbase to make that a realistic option. Our fans are apathetic at the best of times.

I agree entirely and its a shame. I understand the business merits of charging the people who will always go more, but they really need to do something about growing the fanbase. Its a much larger questions of how you do that obviously. 

I've had one every season for 12 years (since uni finished) but i'm seriously questioning if i want to this next year. A key part of being a fan is the dream that we can be a bigger and better team. I don't see that desire in the club/town anymore. Power doesn't seem to have a plan to help the club. He is cutting costs and putting up prices to try and break even and then get promoted and flip the club for a profit. I've said it many times but something has to be done to push this club forward and that takes investment either in youth facilities and improving the status of the academy, or developing a new stadium and other revenue streams.

Anyway i think prices are going too far. £37.5 a month to watch 2.3 games a month or for example for £15 a month i can watch as many cinema releases as i want whenever i want.

[Gnasher]

I wonder if the "Gold" category isn't really aimed at League games but is in there in case we get another Cup tie like Chelsea this season. But yes, clearly, £27 for 3rd Division football is bloody ridiculous. And I don't care if other clubs are charging a similar amount, that just means they're being bloody ridiculous too

I can't see many part-timers being tempted to the (slightly) more glamorous league games by £27 a ticket, but yes they probably would pay that to watch a decent PL side in the cup.

I probably would have been tempted to buy a ST if the price was the same as renewals. I can't see why the prices couldn't be the same for the first month of renewals.

[Tails]

I agree entirely and its a shame. I understand the business merits of charging the people who will always go more, but they really need to do something about growing the fanbase. Its a much larger questions of how you do that obviously. 

I've had one every season for 12 years (since uni finished) but i'm seriously questioning if i want to this next year. A key part of being a fan is the dream that we can be a bigger and better team. I don't see that desire in the club/town anymore. Power doesn't seem to have a plan to help the club. He is cutting costs and putting up prices to try and break even and then get promoted and flip the club for a profit. I've said it many times but something has to be done to push this club forward and that takes investment either in youth facilities and improving the status of the academy, or developing a new stadium and other revenue streams.

Anyway i think prices are going too far. £37.5 a month to watch 2.3 games a month or for example for £15 a month i can watch as many cinema releases as i want whenever i want.

I think Power is the chairman we deserve, personally. The football club is arguably the best thing the Town has and no one can be fucked, bar about 7K of us every other Saturday (and I'd wager a good percentage of them are out-of-towners anyway). And there are many in that figure who will happily turn their back on it because we don't win enough away games (see; Twitter), or the manager, who has taken a 50% slash in budget, only has us sitting in 8th (the nerve).

We don't deserve success as a club. Maybe if the council took an interest and were proactive about joining forces with the owners we could get somewhere, but until we have a Chairman who is willing to make a huge personal loss to ensure long term success we won't ever be anything more than what we are now. And it's a shame, the Town is pushing 200,000 people and could be huge, particularly with the catchment area we have.