Season ticket prices announced

Quoted from promotion plaice

Season ticket for me again then ( 6 matches for free ).

Me to, BARGAIN even at half the price

if I said to you give me £20 and instead of watching town v Boreham wood, Braintree dover in a half empty stadium I'll give you Notts County,  pompey etc you'd snatch my hand off.
I think it's a very fair small increase.

Quoted from gtfc98

Stop moaning you miserable girl privates! It's a bloody pound a game, BACK IN THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE!

Ok, so there's nothing wrong with the fact that Junior STs have gone up 250% in 4 years? And in that time adult seasons tickets in the Pontoon have gone up 14.6%.

Are we trying to encourage the next generation to follow Town or not?

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Ok, so there's nothing wrong with the fact that Junior STs have gone up 250% in 4 years? And in that time adult seasons tickets in the Pontoon have gone up 14.6%.

Are we trying to encourage the next generation to follow Town or not?

That's just not true though is it? I've just looked and theyre £70 for under 12's and £100 for over 12's. They were £60 when I was a junior and that's going back 14 years! So they've actually gone up 67% in 14 years. Your 250% in 4 years is utter nonsense.

The headline price rises are fine imo, but some of the detail seems a bit odd. Like Golly said they've ramped up the price of Junior tickets which seems very counter-intuitive if the club wants to attract new supporters while they're young. I'm not hugely bothered about the club sticking with a traditional pricing model - maybe adopting a more novel approach to pricing would have resulted in more season tickets sold, but there's also the chance it wouldn't have and resulted in the club losing money.

It'll be interesting to hear if they do away with the 50p per ticket exile tax they tack on every online purchase. Originally it was introduced with the excuse it was a donation towards youth team funding - now we're back in the league that funding will have been restored, so surely the ticket tax should be abolished? (bet it won't be)

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Still cheaper to buy a season ticket for Hull and they are potentially a premier league team next season.  The maximum price to pay at Hull is £300

I expected matchday tickets to go up by £2 and they have, so no complaints there. I do however feel that Golly has a very valid point and we seem to be pricing out the next generation of football fans. Think it is very shortsighted of them and i would like to know what the thinking behind it is.

Quoted from gtfc98

That's just not true though is it? I've just looked and theyre £70 for under 12's and £100 for over 12's. They were £60 when I was a junior and that's going back 14 years! So they've actually gone up 67% in 14 years. Your 250% in 4 years is utter nonsense.

Junior Season tickets for season 2012-13 were priced £20 for those accompanied by an adult. [url=http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Grimsby-Town-Prices-frozen-Mariners-tickets/story-16208861-detail/story.html]Click Here[/url]

Which means in 4 years they have increased in price by £50 which in an increase of 250%

Now if you immediately apologise for daring to question my statistics I will let the matter drop and we'll say nothing more about it.

Quoted from Tangerine Chris

Still cheaper to buy a season ticket for Hull and they are potentially a premier league team next season.  The maximum price to pay at Hull is £300

That's because of the way that money is distributed throughout the game. They get way more cash, so matchday income isn't such a big deal for them. Teams in the prem could let people in for free and still be better off than they were due to the massive tv rights deals they have just been given. Horses for courses.

Quoted from Tangerine Chris

Still cheaper to buy a season ticket for Hull and they are potentially a premier league team next season.  The maximum price to pay at Hull is £300

Hull's season ticket membership model is a total joke though, hated by their supporters and requires you to pay on a monthly basis, including over the Summer when they're not even playing any matches. And the maximum price is certainly not £300 - their latest 'membership' brochure lists the second best area of seating with a monthly subscription cost of £40.50 a month (£486 over a full year). The price for the most expensive seating area isn't listed on the brochure, so presumably it'll be well over £500 a year.