Season ticket prices announced

Quoted from DickBarton

Drop the ticket prices, drop the quality, and drop back down again, or.......................

Increase the prices, increase the quality, increase our staus to league 1.


Every little helps!

We're on our way..............

That's the sort of lazy logic that the club seem to have gone for.  

Quoted from Jaws

Think this has been well blown out of proportion. A loss-making business increases prices in hope of breaking even.

Best not go to the petrol station, supermarket or pub!

Its not your average business though is it ?

If you went into a pub and got served shite beer, shite food with zero customer care you might return on the chance it was an off day because you liked the surroundings...if it happened again you might complain or more as likely wouldnt go again.
If you went to the butchers and got fatty cuts of meat and sausages full of sawdust ..same again.

If either of the above businesses then advertised they are putting prices up to compete with the neighbouring pubs and butchers so they could compete ...would you rush back ? or laugh ?

The club have an emotional pull on the hardcore so they dont have to worry about us shopping elsewhere for our football fix...they have a monopoly on our football interest......but it is the hardcore only.....and IMO they exploit it by instantly "sticking a couple of quid" on the gate price.  
Yes the hardcore will renew and hopefully a good surge of new fans wll buy in on the back of promotion but after the hardcore have stuck fast through 5/6 seasons of bitter non league disappointment, after 5/6 seasons of downward spiral league football before that then it just seems a cheap, lazy option when other potential ideas could have been explored.

But as i said previously, i dont pick the ultimate bill up...i am just a loyal supporter.

The prices are fair and I have no complaints but it would have been refreshing to see the club freeze prices again as a thankyou for the majority sticking with the club and paying out £18 to see the likes of Borehamwood, Altrincham week in week out.

Quoted from moosey_club

Its not your average business though is it ?

If you went into a pub and got served shite beer, shite food with zero customer care you might return on the chance it was an off day because you liked the surroundings...if it happened again you might complain or more as likely wouldnt go again.
If you went to the butchers and got fatty cuts of meat and sausages full of sawdust ..same again.

If either of the above businesses then advertised they are putting prices up to compete with the neighbouring pubs and butchers so they could compete ...would you rush back ? or laugh ?

The club have an emotional pull on the hardcore so they dont have to worry about us shopping elsewhere for our football fix...they have a monopoly on our football interest......but it is the hardcore only.....and IMO they exploit it by instantly "sticking a couple of quid" on the gate price.  
Yes the hardcore will renew and hopefully a good surge of new fans wll buy in on the back of promotion but after the hardcore have stuck fast through 5/6 seasons of bitter non league disappointment, after 5/6 seasons of downward spiral league football before that then it just seems a cheap, lazy option when other potential ideas could have been explored.

But as i said previously, i dont pick the ultimate bill up...i am just a loyal supporter.

Spot on

Quoted from moosey_club

Its not your average business though is it ?

If you went into a pub and got served shite beer, shite food with zero customer care you might return on the chance it was an off day because you liked the surroundings...if it happened again you might complain or more as likely wouldnt go again.
If you went to the butchers and got fatty cuts of meat and sausages full of sawdust ..same again.

If either of the above businesses then advertised they are putting prices up to compete with the neighbouring pubs and butchers so they could compete ...would you rush back ? or laugh ?

The club have an emotional pull on the hardcore so they dont have to worry about us shopping elsewhere for our football fix...they have a monopoly on our football interest......but it is the hardcore only.....and IMO they exploit it by instantly "sticking a couple of quid" on the gate price.  
Yes the hardcore will renew and hopefully a good surge of new fans wll buy in on the back of promotion but after the hardcore have stuck fast through 5/6 seasons of bitter non league disappointment, after 5/6 seasons of downward spiral league football before that then it just seems a cheap, lazy option when other potential ideas could have been explored.

But as i said previously, i dont pick the ultimate bill up...i am just a loyal supporter.

It may not be your average business but it is still a loss making business. I am sure the club will have done a budget forecast to allow for our promotion and costs will have been worked out accordingly. I agree about the emotional pull but that is a choice for football fans of any club , not peculiar to GTFC. I think the price rise is fair and certainly what I expected to pay for LEAGUE football. Maybe the club have missed a trick with young supporters but we won't really know until the STs go on sale and later when the season starts. I suppose I'm lucky being a pensioner but I have a fixed income and make some sacrifices so that I can buy a ST.

Quoted from moosey_club

Its not your average business though is it ?

If you went into a pub and got served shite beer, shite food with zero customer care you might return on the chance it was an off day because you liked the surroundings...if it happened again you might complain or more as likely wouldnt go again.
If you went to the butchers and got fatty cuts of meat and sausages full of sawdust ..same again.

If either of the above businesses then advertised they are putting prices up to compete with the neighbouring pubs and butchers so they could compete ...would you rush back ? or laugh ?

The club have an emotional pull on the hardcore so they dont have to worry about us shopping elsewhere for our football fix...they have a monopoly on our football interest......but it is the hardcore only.....and IMO they exploit it by instantly "sticking a couple of quid" on the gate price.  
Yes the hardcore will renew and hopefully a good surge of new fans wll buy in on the back of promotion but after the hardcore have stuck fast through 5/6 seasons of bitter non league disappointment, after 5/6 seasons of downward spiral league football before that then it just seems a cheap, lazy option when other potential ideas could have been explored.

But as i said previously, i dont pick the ultimate bill up...i am just a loyal supporter.

No but it's the only football league club in Grimsby.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

Spot on

What do we know Heads? Just because we went to Devon to watch the Mike Newell circus......means nothing. Just stump up and keep quiet.

Quoted from Mariners_15

The prices are fair and I have no complaints but it would have been refreshing to see the club freeze prices again as a thankyou for the majority sticking with the club and paying out £18 to see the likes of Borehamwood, Altrincham week in week out.

I'm sorry but the majority who stuck with the club didnt pay £18. We had 2.5 K season ticket holders and the existence of an early bird scheme that a lot of the remainder took advantage of.

No qualms about paying a tad more for a higher quality of football that will inevitably cost more for the club in wages and future contracts.

The club needs to rake more money in to compete back in the league.

  

The club should have taken a long term view on the junior season ticket pricing and try to build a fan base for the future.

I am disappointed but not surprised that they have taken pricing strategy that that have.