Season Tickets and the Credit Crunch

[Shrimp Curry]

With less than a month until the early discont for renewing your season ticket ends I was wondering how many people wont be renewing due to a lack of funds? I will probably renew but am thinking of paying in instalments rather than the usual one lump sum which is a good service the club is providing in my opinion. I think the fact that we are playing well again will persuade a few that may have been having serious doubts about spending £400 considering how badly we were playing before our recent good run. Also I have just seen on Sky Sports News that all adult season tickets at Wigan are only £250 next year, thats just £13 a game to support a Premier League team, shame Ron Martins pockets arent as big as Dave Whelans! :)

 

[maninasuitcase]

A good point, it's unlikely I'll be able to renew next season unless I win a few bob on the lottery in the next few months.

 

[McNasty]

I decided to pay by Direct Debit as I didn't want to lay out £380 in one go. Paid one month already and didn't miss it from the old bank account.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Also I have just seen on Sky Sports News that all adult season tickets at Wigan are only £250 next year, thats just £13 a game to support a Premier League team, shame Ron Martins pockets arent as big as Dave Whelans! :)

At last, someone living in the real world and bringing some sanity back into football. I hope it's just the start. Top marks Dave Whelan.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Me and the other half have just renewed ours, paying by direct debit.

Couldn't go without a season ticket now!

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

3 seaso's on a 0% for 10 months credit card.....easy.

 

[BoyWonder2]

Mine is my birthday present, I love that the early bird discount falls around the same time as my birthday.

 

[Sean 2]

I'll be getting mine when i can muster the effort.
Think i'll buy with pound notes this time:) It's such a grab at £380.

I'm gonna buy up the whole row this time so that i don't have to listen to the windbags i'm usually suffered with for a whole season.
Even now i go to sleep with those wonderful voices ringing in my head, such gems as "what's your plan B then Tilson?" and the often used "time for a substitute Tilson", just as the ball rolls into the net sending us into a lead.


Oh the joys of life in the East stand.

 

[Beefy]

It's a pain that the early bird cut off is so early now but I'll be scraping together £380 somehow in the next four weeks.

It's nice that Wigan have been able to cut prices so low, and they aren't the only Premier League club cheaper than us but gate receipts make up a much smaller percentage of total revenue for Clubs at that level and they've clearly decided to try to get full houses by cutting their margins.

Plus it's oop norf.

 

[Sean 2]

Indeed, now that Cricko has found sponsorship for SZ i've found much more money available for things like season ticket simply as he's not chasing me for bloody raffle tickets.:soapbox:

 

[SARF]

At last, someone living in the real world and bringing some sanity back into football. I hope it's just the start. Top marks Dave Whelan.

I wouldnt call wigan getting 35 mill from Sky each year sanity, whilst the lower leagues get eff all.. we depend on our gate reciepts.. Wigan could probably play in front of 5,000 and it would make no difference..

 

[Shrimp Curry]

I wouldnt call wigan getting 35 mill from Sky each year sanity, whilst the lower leagues get eff all.. we depend on our gate reciepts.. Wigan could probably play in front of 5,000 and it would make no difference..

Gate receipts make a difference to Premier League clubs, why else do you think Liverpool, Tottenham and Portsmouth are all trying to have new bigger stadiums built? The extra money Man Utd and Arsenal are making with their 60,000 plus stadiums is huge.

 

[Yer Blues]

Gate receipts make a difference to Premier League clubs, why else do you think Liverpool, Tottenham and Portsmouth are all trying to have new bigger stadiums built? The extra money Man Utd and Arsenal are making with their 60,000 plus stadiums is huge.

to be fair its not so much the tickets that make the money its the hospitailty.

 

[SARF]

Gate receipts make a difference to Premier League clubs, why else do you think Liverpool, Tottenham and Portsmouth are all trying to have new bigger stadiums built? The extra money Man Utd and Arsenal are making with their 60,000 plus stadiums is huge.

Obviously they dont to wigan.. Liverpool and spurs like Arsenal figure they can ship tickets out at 40 quid and fill bigger venues.. Pompey were on a rich chairmans ego trip.. Wigans chairman is prob cutting prices as he is embarassed by the swathes of empty seats when they are on T.V. at home..

 

[Holy Joe]

Gate receipts make a difference to Premier League clubs, why else do you think Liverpool, Tottenham and Portsmouth are all trying to have new bigger stadiums built? The extra money Man Utd and Arsenal are making with their 60,000 plus stadiums is huge.

It makes a difference but as a proportion of total income it is much smaller.

 

[M@CC@ 16]

Obviously they dont to wigan.. Liverpool and spurs like Arsenal figure they can ship tickets out at 40 quid and fill bigger venues.. Pompey were on a rich chairmans ego trip.. Wigans chairman is prob cutting prices as he is embarassed by the swathes of empty seats when they are on T.V. at home..

Price elasticity, having low season ticket prices will get more people to buy so they will make more or the same amount of money.
And they actually get some half decent support, oh and so positive coverage for the club.

So they win trebely, dave whelan is not stupid

 

[WickfordShrimper]

Also I have just seen on Sky Sports News that all adult season tickets at Wigan are only £250 next year, thats just £13 a game to support a Premier League team, shame Ron Martins pockets arent as big as Dave Whelans! :)

Sadly Wigan get about 70 million pound from Sky as well Without their chairman who in the past pumped millions of personnal savings into the club

If they where in Division 1 like us they would not be so cheap... likes of Hereford etc will only see gates of 3000 or so

 

[Shrimp Curry]

If Roots Hall was less than half full every week it would be interesting to see whether the club would lower season ticket prices to get more people in or maybe even put the prices up to make the extra money. Fact is with a club like ours it doesnt matter if Season Tickets are £100 or £500 you would probably still have the same number of fans buying them.

 

[londonblue]

Of course SUFC have been a bit clever with their season ticket prices for next season. The price is the same as last season, i.e. £380, however, that includes VAT at 17.5%. With VAT at 15% the price should actually be £371.91.

They haven't passed on the VAT decrease, they have kept it for themselves.

 

[Tin Bath]

I shall re-new mine tomorrow, i was hit with a P45 at xmas but i shall make cuts elsewhere than miss my regular trips to Roots Hall