Season Ticket Pricing

[View From The Top]

Personally I hope the glory hunting wan.kers who deserted us in L1 are raped when Arsenal, Chelsea, United, City etc roll into town.

 

The are unworthy of the term "fan".

[Verbal Kint]

Hoe difficult do people think it will be to get away tickets next year? Bigger allocations but i'm expecting demand to be high. Will you need to be a season ticket holder to get a ticket for away games or will we revert to having poor away followings as we did before we were relegated from the prem and all games reach general sale?

[Amesbury Saint]

Personally I hope the glory hunting wan.kers who deserted us in L1 are raped when Arsenal, Chelsea, United, City etc roll into town.

 

The are unworthy of the term "fan".

 

You should get off the fence and tell us how you really feel

[Legod Third Coming]

I've never met anyone that struggled to get a ticket in the premier legue either. Mrs Turkish worked at the club in this pwriod some of it in the office during this period and she says no time were we turning away these thousands of fans you seem to believe there were. We've got lots of fans that will only go to a few games a season, let's not forget how many birthday parties, holidays, surprise bills, traffic problems and work commitments people experienced for less glamorous games this season, they aren't going to disappear just because we're in the premier league.

 

There were glamourous games this season??!!!!

[View From The Top]

Hoe difficult do people think it will be to get away tickets next year? Bigger allocations but i'm expecting demand to be high. Will you need to be a season ticket holder to get a ticket for away games or will we revert to having poor away followings as we did before we were relegated from the prem and all games reach general sale?

 

I would imagine that plenty of younger fans will want to do plenty of the away days. My nipper certainly does!

[Mattio]

This season is likely to be the first one I've been in a position to afford/ live near enough to get a season ticket, and would have got one if we were in the BSS. I understand the distain towards the 'glory fans' though, the people sat near me at the Cov game clearly had not visited SMS in a good few years. Hopefully they'll reward those who have had a season ticket all through the years but I don't want to be punished because I didn't.

[dune]

I'm gonna treat myself to SKY (so long as they give me the 6 months half price offer in August)

[oldsarum]

Can't work out from your post why you think people are living in a dreamworld? You think they're forecast prices too high or too low?

 

too low

[sotonjoe]

Perhaps the club shouldn't be discounting renewals, and perhaps they should heavily discount first time season ticket purchases instead in an effort to encourage new fans who want to come and see Premier League Football.

 

Renewals could be priced at between £600 and £700 depending on which area of the ground you buy a seat in, whilst new tickets could be at an introductory rate of no more than £400 for the first season only. Us regular season ticket holders who will go whatever really don't need any price incentive to make us buy our tickets; we'll be there whatever!

[70's Mike]

Personally I hope the glory hunting wan.kers who deserted us in L1 are raped when Arsenal, Chelsea, United, City etc roll into town.

 

The are unworthy of the term "fan".

 

this especially the majority of the Corporates who dropped us like a stone,

[Sour Mash]

Hoe difficult do people think it will be to get away tickets next year? Bigger allocations but i'm expecting demand to be high. Will you need to be a season ticket holder to get a ticket for away games or will we revert to having poor away followings as we did before we were relegated from the prem and all games reach general sale?

Next season will be tough. Demand likely to tail off in future seasons unless we're doing really well.

[Sour Mash]

Perhaps the club shouldn't be discounting renewals, and perhaps they should heavily discount first time season ticket purchases instead in an effort to encourage new fans who want to come and see Premier League Football.

 

Renewals could be priced at between £600 and £700 depending on which area of the ground you buy a seat in, whilst new tickets could be at an introductory rate of no more than £400 for the first season only. Us regular season ticket holders who will go whatever really don't need any price incentive to make us buy our tickets; we'll be there whatever!

Good effort at a bit of bait there.

[sandwichsaint]

Totally agree, can't wait to be wallet raped myself. Those of us who've seen 15-20 games a season home and away for the last 7 years should feel privileged to pay the JCL Prem Lge prices next year. As Bob Marley nearly sang: No ST, no cry.

[Turkish]

At the end of the day no one is forcing you to pay it. If you don't like it dont go. I have always maintained football will not be for me when we get to £35-£40 a game if we are a bottom half or midtable premier league side. Hence why I won't be going to Chelsea and QPR etc next season. If you want us to be successful, sign decent players and play decent football you have to pay for it, simple as that.

[Kingsland Nick]

Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore:

"Can people on low incomes or out of work go to games?

 

"Candidly, probably not. But most people can make the cuts to their discretionary income to spend on tickets because football is more important than any other activity in their lives"

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/9244564/Richard-Scudamore-comes-out-fighting-as-Premier-League-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-in-style.html

[teamsaint]

Absolute nonsense!

 

Are you suggesting Saints only have 29,000 fans that would want to see each of the 19 Premier League home games?

 

29,000 to watch a Saints team of Premier League players in the most high profile league in the world? As I said, even in the year we came 20th and relegated a large number of games sold out and the average was over 30,000.

 

In the PL I never had a ST and I NEVER missed a home game I wanted to buy for. Bit nip and tuck sometimes, but always got one, through normal channels. Hope there is a membership scheme or similar though.

[BadgerBadger]

Hopefully they'll put some quarterly payment system in place, now they'll have the card system they should be able to handle it alot better. All of football has to be carefull not to price people out of the game.

[The Kraken]

I've never met anyone that struggled to get a ticket in the premier legue either. Mrs Turkish worked at the club in this pwriod some of it in the office during this period and she says no time were we turning away these thousands of fans you seem to believe there were. We've got lots of fans that will only go to a few games a season, let's not forget how many birthday parties, holidays, surprise bills, traffic problems and work commitments people experienced for less glamorous games this season, they aren't going to disappear just because we're in the premier league.

 

Nonsense Turkey. We sold out a few times 10 years ago; so we quite obviously need a 50K stadium right now. To not build it is stupid.

[The Kraken]

Just think of the thousands of fans that will come from Devon and Cornwall to see us; no need for them to go and see Man Utd anymore, there's a new sheriff in town.

[Mattio]

Just think of the thousands of fans that will come from Devon and Cornwall to see us; no need for them to go and see Man Utd anymore, there's a new sheriff in town.

Oi! I do!

[BlakeySFC]

Hoe difficult do people think it will be to get away tickets next year? Bigger allocations but i'm expecting demand to be high. Will you need to be a season ticket holder to get a ticket for away games or will we revert to having poor away followings as we did before we were relegated from the prem and all games reach general sale?

 

I would imagine all the London matches will be hard to get tickets for, but any north of Birmingham should be easy to get a ticket.

[The Kraken]

Oi! I do!

 

Top work. Apparently there are thousands of others just like you who are waiting to crawl out of the woodwork, stop supporting Man Utd, and come support the Saints instead. I for one can't wait to greet them in our new 50K stadium.

[Turkish]

Top work. Apparently there are thousands of others just like you who are waiting to crawl out of the woodwork, stop supporting Man Utd, and come support the Saints instead. I for one can't wait to greet them in our new 50K stadium.

 

Let's not forget this line which means people in Wrexham, Bangor, Newport, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Truro, Plymouth and Ilfracombe are just waiting to watch premier league football at Southampton. The buses are booked I'm glad to see we've got our act together to welcome amoungst others the 1,000 strong Bangor saints to SmS next season.

[Mattio]

Top work. Apparently there are thousands of others just like you who are waiting to crawl out of the woodwork, stop supporting Man Utd, and come support the Saints instead. I for one can't wait to greet them in our new 50K stadium.

In that case, I'm going to need a bigger car.

[Turkish]

In that case, I'm going to need a bigger car.

 

Do it, you'd make a profit. There are thousands who will be hitching lifts next season, you.ll be quids in.

[alehouseboys]

I've seen on another club's forum where someone had done a comparison of some Premier League clubs and the average (ignoring London) adult ST 'Best' seats in the house were in the £500s. Villa's lowest was £285, Blackburn's £225.

 

Of course you can double that for the top London clubs but that is for the most expensive seats. West Ham are rewarding loyalty and offering adult season tickets from £425 to those who have had a ST for the past 5 years.

[JonnyLove]

My Stoke supporting mate renewed his season ticket for next season for £350.

[theplayer]

I reckon it's gonna be £600+. But with skyTV dictating when games are to be played it ain't gonna be worth it. But, of course I'll renew!

[saintmatt]

Let's not forget Hampshire is one of the wealthiest counties in the country, London club ST prices are probably closest to the mark tbh. I reckon we'll be looking at c.£700

[Sour Mash]

But with skyTV dictating when games are to be played it ain't gonna be worth it. But, of course I'll renew!

How does that differ to the season we've just had?

[Sour Mash]

Let's not forget Hampshire is one of the wealthiest counties in the country, London club ST prices are probably closest to the mark tbh. I reckon we'll be looking at c.£700

Wages in Southampton aren't particularly high at all.

[dune]

Wages in Southampton aren't particularly high at all.

 

They are compared to most places. That said the flood of eastern europeans will have undoubtedly depressed them for the indiginous population.

[Sour Mash]

If I remember rightly when we moved to SMS season tickets were about £500 so if they are less than £600 11 years on it isn't too bad a deal. It's still a bloody rip as football is generally mind.

Was sorting some old stuff out in my dark and dingy bedsit yesterday and found my season ticket from 2002/03 - renewal in the Northam was £451. Not sure if that really tells us anything though.

[saintmatt]

Wages in Southampton aren't particularly high at all.

 

I'd have thought they're still higher than in a lot of cities! And our catchment area extends beyond Southampton, hence the Hampshire measure. Hampshire loves £££

[dune]

Was sorting some old stuff out in my dark and dingy bedsit yesterday and found my season ticket from 2002/03 - renewal in the Northam was £451. Not sure if that really tells us anything though.

 

I think I payed about 544 (rings a bell) in 2004/5. Block 41.

[Saint137]

You've never had it so good. I remember regularly queuing for 3 hours at The Dell to get general sale tickets before I had an ST. Back then you needed to go on the waiting list for an ST and to do that you had to have a certain number ticket stubs from previous games. Joining the Masons was probably easier.

I'm expecting £600 for the ends, £700 for centres.

[dune]

You've never had it so good. I remember regularly queuing for 3 hours at The Dell to get general sale tickets before I had an ST. Back then you needed to go on the waiting list for an ST and to do that you had to have a certain number ticket stubs from previous games. Joining the Masons was probably easier.

I'm expecting £600 for the ends, £700 for centres.

 

And for new applicants probably another 50 quid on each

[Sour Mash]

You've never had it so good. I remember regularly queuing for 3 hours at The Dell to get general sale tickets before I had an ST. Back then you needed to go on the waiting list for an ST and to do that you had to have a certain number ticket stubs from previous games. Joining the Masons was probably easier.

I'm expecting £600 for the ends, £700 for centres.

Renewals at £600 behind the goals would be a massive jump considering only 19 home games?

[This Charming Man]

Funny the amount of people on here who all of a sudden have enough money for a season ticket now we are back in the Premiership. Despite the fact season tickets are more than likely going to quite substantially go up in price...

[The Kraken]

Funny the amount of people on here who all of a sudden have enough money for a season ticket now we are back in the Premiership. Despite the fact season tickets are more than likely going to quite substantially go up in price...

 

Indeed, its amazing how our attendances will actually increase despite gaining promotion.

[This Charming Man]

Renewals at £600 behind the goals would be a massive jump considering only 19 home games?

 

I think they'll be around that mark. They'll price it based on the standard of opposition rather than the amount of games we play this season. Guarantee your tickets for Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal etc is more of a selling point than trying to highlight the fact they'll save a few quid as we only have 19 games this season.

[This Charming Man]

Indeed, its amazing how our attendances will actually increase despite gaining promotion.

 

If I had my way, only those who attended Preston in the LC this season would be permitted in the stadium for the more 'glamourous' games.

[Sour Mash]

I think they'll be around that mark. They'll price it based on the standard of opposition rather than the amount of games we play this season. Guarantee your tickets for Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal etc is more of a selling point than trying to highlight the fact they'll save a few quid as we only have 19 games this season.

On that basis you'd be looking at an average price paying per match of over £35. Guess that's the Prem. £40 for top games, £35 for mid level and £30 for 'lesser' opposition.

[This Charming Man]

On that basis you'd be looking at an average price paying per match of over £35. Guess that's the Prem. £40 for top games, £35 for mid level and £30 for 'lesser' opposition.

 

IMO, that's exactly as they'll price it.

[Turkish]

Funny the amount of people on here who all of a sudden have enough money for a season ticket now we are back in the Premiership. Despite the fact season tickets are more than likely going to quite substantially go up in price...

 

I got shouted down and called all sorts of names on here a while back for daring to question our low attendances and was told there is a financial crisis going on, people that they were skint, there was a recession on, times are hard, they can't make evening games due to work, they've got family commitments, holidays to pay for, their new council tax bill was higher than expected,there are road works on the a34, family parties this weekend, Somethg about christmas just around the corner or just gone etc.

Under those circumstances it was wrong to questions people for not going to games a support the team in what many claim is greatest time ever to be a saints fan. Suddenly it seems all of these issues which prevented people from going don't exist anymore.

Edited 6 May, 2012 by Turkish

[dune]

I got shouted down and called all sorts of names on here a while back for daring to question our low attendances and was told there is a financial crisis going on, people that they were skint, there was a recession on, times are hard, they can't make evening games due to work, they've got family commitments, holidays to pay for, their new council tax bill was higher than expected,there are road works on the a34, family parties this weekend, Somethg about christmas just around the corner or just gone etc.

Under those circumstances it was wrong to questions people for not going to games a support the team in what many claim is tubest time ever to be a saints fan. Suddenly it seems all of these issues which prevented people from going don't exist anymore.

 

Such is the feel good factor a Conservative government brings.

[Saint137]

Its a shame that the reward for ambition is less games and more games at ****ty times. We'll be lucky to have 10 games at 3 o'clock on a Saturday next season. Which actually makes having a ST less attractive.

[dune]

Its a shame that the reward for ambition is less games and more games at ****ty times. We'll be lucky to have 10 games at 3 o'clock on a Saturday next season. Which actually makes having a ST less attractive.

 

Just think of all those big champions leagues games in the future. Live the dream, the future is bright, the future is red and white.

[fromdayone]

Will there be a max number of season tickets for sale, ie 32000 minus away end?

Or are they obliged to keep a certain % available for general sale?

[stev2001]

Will there be a max number of season tickets for sale, ie 32000 minus away end?

Or are they obliged to keep a certain % available for general sale?

 

I can see there being a high demand for STs but can't see NC worring about selling out, whatever the figure maybe. If it is a problem this season expect lots of stadium expansion threads to start but I can't see it myself.

Edited 6 May, 2012 by stev2001