What it costs to watch Southend United

[Ex-Member1]

I have seen my fair share of excrement matches over the years. COYBB

 

[Liam AAS]

Walsall have the following system for U18s:

Season ticket costs £46 for 23 home games. Each time you attend, the club gives you £2 so if you go to all 23 games you get it for free!

When there are spare seats all over the ground, why aren't we doing something like that? Can someone from the trust ask Steve K at the next opportunity? Why not flog all the seats in the South Lower for this?

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Walsall have the following system for U18s:

Season ticket costs £46 for 23 home games. Each time you attend, the club gives you £2 so if you go to all 23 games you get it for free!

When there are spare seats all over the ground, why aren't we doing something like that? Can someone from the trust ask Steve K at the next opportunity? Why not flog all the seats in the South Lower for this?

I've been saying things like this for years. Plenty of seats going on match days so give them to school kids for free. You never know, some might even come back and pay!!!!!
There is so much the club could and should be doing but for whatever reason (and I'm sure there are some good reasons) they don't.

 

[tottenham541]

Walsall have the following system for U18s:

Season ticket costs £46 for 23 home games. Each time you attend, the club gives you £2 so if you go to all 23 games you get it for free!

When there are spare seats all over the ground, why aren't we doing something like that? Can someone from the trust ask Steve K at the next opportunity? Why not flog all the seats in the South Lower for this?

Yeah good idea this, makes you think why the club don't do more to get bums on empty seats eh, even more so in south lower, mind you the way this ticket system works sometimes maybe it's just to much hard work for the club to do eh:'(

 

[Kevin Hogg]

I absolutely love Roots Hall..is special, special, special.
However, with the high cost of football we certainly need a new stadium or a redesign.
The number of supporters that go in the West Stand year after year is truly incredible. Is there another stand in the league with so many pillars obscuring the view for home support? Sid Broomfield and the wonderful men who built Roots Hall were fantastic - but whoever designed a stand with so many structures impeding the view?? Bloody ridiculous. Yet we put up with it for 60 years and nobody has muttered a word as far as i have heard.
Bonkers stand! But love it!

 

[banjo saviola]

I have been going to Roots Hall on on off since 1980 and Ive never seen excrement on seats. Which part of the ground do you sit in, I think Ill make a point of avoiding it.

Perhaps they are referring to our subs bench when Alan Little was in charge..

 

[gpd]

I thought this was an interesting observation......
"Bradford reduced prices to £149 and sold 18,000 season tickets/flexicards for the 2015/16 campaign"
I would have thought a reasonable reduction might have the same impact here?
We may never know for sure, but the cheap games certainly increased the crowds so there is some evidence that price affects crowd numbers.

 

[gpd]

I absolutely love Roots Hall..is special, special, special.
However, with the high cost of football we certainly need a new stadium or a redesign.
The number of supporters that go in the West Stand year after year is truly incredible. Is there another stand in the league with so many pillars obscuring the view for home support? Sid Broomfield and the wonderful men who built Roots Hall were fantastic - but whoever designed a stand with so many structures impeding the view?? Bloody ridiculous. Yet we put up with it for 60 years and nobody has muttered a word as far as i have heard.
Bonkers stand! But love it!

...and don't forget the ladders up to the VIP hospitality suite..... we know how to spoil the fans :-)

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

I thought this was an interesting observation......
"Bradford reduced prices to £149 and sold 18,000 season tickets/flexicards for the 2015/16 campaign"
I would have thought a reasonable reduction might have the same impact here?
We may never know for sure, but the cheap games certainly increased the crowds so there is some evidence that price affects crowd numbers.

Every fan wants their own club to do a Bradford scheme, we all want to get in for as cheap as possible, but they have a huge capacity ground. If you do similar schemes at lower capacity grounds then it can run into problems. Bradford get about 1,000+ fans that have cheap season ticket and hardly ever go to the matches. Similar schemes have been done at Port Vale and Hartlepool, probably other clubs as well.

Worth pointing out that an under 16 season ticket at Bradford was £100 this season. Our under 16 Season Tickets were £75.

We have sold about 3,500 season tickets this season at the current prices, I doubt they would consider a cheap deal at the moment.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

I absolutely love Roots Hall..is special, special, special.
However, with the high cost of football we certainly need a new stadium or a redesign.
The number of supporters that go in the West Stand year after year is truly incredible. Is there another stand in the league with so many pillars obscuring the view for home support? Sid Broomfield and the wonderful men who built Roots Hall were fantastic - but whoever designed a stand with so many structures impeding the view?? Bloody ridiculous. Yet we put up with it for 60 years and nobody has muttered a word as far as i have heard.
Bonkers stand! But love it!

You are correct regular fans put up with the poor views. I would imagine that at Roots Hall probably half the seats maybe more have some form of restricted view. Of course it was much better when it was standing in the West Stand because you could move around and get a better view.

As most of the 'better' seats are sold to season ticket holders I wonder what a first time fan would make of getting stuck behind a pillar.

 

[rigsby]

I absolutely love Roots Hall..is special, special, special.
However, with the high cost of football we certainly need a new stadium or a redesign.
The number of supporters that go in the West Stand year after year is truly incredible. Is there another stand in the league with so many pillars obscuring the view for home support? Sid Broomfield and the wonderful men who built Roots Hall were fantastic - but whoever designed a stand with so many structures impeding the view?? Bloody ridiculous. Yet we put up with it for 60 years and nobody has muttered a word as far as i have heard.
Bonkers stand! But love it!

To be fair I would guess his budget was slightly less than the man who designed the Olympic stadium. When you could stand it was easy to avoid a restricted view.