Season ticket prices announced

Quoted from ginnywings

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.

I don't mind the price increases apart from the junior season ticket prices.

West Ham - New stadium, £99 for all junior season tickets (up to 16 years of age) at £5 per game, 10,000 season tickets sold.

[url=http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2015/April/21-April/New-Stadium-Season-Ticket-prices-announced]http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2015/April/21-April/New-Stadium-Season-Ticket-prices-announced[/url]

£70 for a kids ticket......Well that's not bad is it?

Quoted from Chrisblor

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)

Income Tax & Napoleonic Wars spring to mind.

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

West Ham - New stadium, £99 for all junior season tickets at £5 per game, 10,000 season tickets sold.

[url=http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2015/April/21-April/New-Stadium-Season-Ticket-prices-announced]http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2015/April/21-April/New-Stadium-Season-Ticket-prices-announced[/url]

Yeah but they have practically been given a brand new stadium for nowt and have boatloads of TV money coming in. Comparing us to teams up the football pyramid is folly.

BTW, i know someone who had a season ticket to Hull when they were last in the prem and it was over a grand. They are not all cheap.

Quoted from ginnywings

Yeah but they have practically been given a brand new stadium for nowt and have boatloads of TV money coming in. Comparing us to teams up the football pyramid is folly.

BTW, i know someone who had a season ticket to Hull when they were last in the prem and it was over a grand. They are not all cheap.

I guess GTFC expect the price increases won't make any difference to young kids having season tickets, the price to pay for league football and all that.

Club shouldn't be defending the price increase.  It's expected and after six years of no change plus the need to upgrade on the quality of the squad a fully justified increase.  Absolutely no issue with paying an extra £20 a season for my ticket.  

What they should be apologising for is the staggering laziness of basically applying an increase and nothing else.   What schemes are they offering to keep those new Wembley fans coming through the gates?  

On the season ticket push thread a number of great suggestions were made, maybe not all of them viable but the idea was there.  That's from people who are posting on a pissing internet forum, not people actually involved in the day-to-day running of the business.  Y'know, people employed to do this.

Pathetic levels of ignorance from the club, so incredibly out of touch.  I'm sure we'll see an increase in season tickets sold on the back of the promotion which is great, but the club have missed a massive opportunity to bring a new generation of fans in.

There's a reason we've failed to kick on as a club since the late 1990's and this is it.  Laziness and sheer bloody stupidity.

Quoted from KK_DOG

£70 for a kids ticket......Well that's not bad is it?

You say that but for the Pontoon Stand...

Young Adult (19-21) - £190
Individual Match Ticket cost £18
ST = price of 10.55 MTs offering a saving of 54.2% over a season.

Young Adult (15-1 - £130
Individual Match Ticket cost £13
ST = price of 10 MTs offering a saving of 56.6% over a season.

Accompanied Junior (1-14) - £70
Individual Match Ticket cost £5
ST = price of 14 MTs offered a saving of 39.2% over a season.

The saving for Juniors is much lower than for the Young Adult price catergories. If Young Adult [15-18] STs are set at the price of 10 match tickets then so should Junior STs. Which would mean them being £50 (10 x £5).

That's completely lazy from the club and ridiculous rises in the pontoon and for kids. I hope the Trust had nothing to do with these rises.

The club have really missed a trick here.  

Quoted from GollyGTFC

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.

That was clearly a one off example though isn't it. 14 years ago they were £60. £20 is not sustainable for a junior ticket so stop talking daft!

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

I guess GTFC expect the price increases won't make any difference to young kids having season tickets, the price to pay for league football and all that.

I think every step should be taken to encourage young kids into the ground. West Ham could give them away for free if they wanted. We have to balance income and charge young fans but there is also the element of loss leader to this. Get them young with affordable entry and you have some full paying adult fans of the future.