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The definitive Newcastle ticket price poll

Did the club get the Newcastle ticket pricing right?

  • Yes, yes they did

    Votes: 55 28.5%
  • No, too expensive

    Votes: 138 71.5%

  • Total voters
    193






portlock seagull

Well-known member
Jul 28, 2003
17,618
Wasn't a great game, but a good win. It was a shame Newcastle didn't turn up and make it a contest but that's another thread.

Yes, as I said earlier, if it had been Brentford we'd have been in trouble. But Newcastle...sat back and enjoyed win in relaxed fashion...might even have a cigar later...!
 


Jack Daniels

New member
Aug 25, 2011
1,213
Buggers Hole
It's even funnier when they say, the club has missed out on them spending money on food and drink. Tickets left unsold at £28 and you have people on here saying if it was £25 they would be there. £3 that's the difference. So are we expected to believe they would turn up at£25 a head and spend copious amounts of money on food and drink. I think most would spend £3 less on food and drink surely

Especially as they lost out on my food and drink money. As per usual I couldn't get served at half time. Owing to dopy esu staff. Pondering about looking uninterested, don't understand a word of English.

Wrong thread but relevant nonetheless. Don't really care it's the clubs loss.
 




spring hall convert

Well-known member
Nov 3, 2009
9,608
Brighton
Club got it wrong, and I was there today.

Maybe ST holders should be offered their seat on a pro rata price for a limited time when compared to their season ticket. After that then normal matchday prices apply.

Your thoughts?

That's on the right lines, though as a STH myself, even a 10-15% disount may well have been enough to get me there.
 






jmsc

New member
Jul 19, 2003
647
Old Shoreham Road :o(
A humble plea to all those that didn't go today out of principle, please can you also boycott the 4th round tie
if we are drawn at home? The atmosphere was cracking today, by far the best of the season!

From where I sit in the WSU it seemed that there were more people today than for the Forest & Watford games!

Whilst I really feel for the people who couldn't afford to go today, being so close to christmas, for those that
could, shame on you, you really missed out!

Brighton are losing money at the moment and yet they didn't go down the cat. A B C/1 2 3 route, they kept the
prices against a Premier League team the same as you would be charged to see us play against Barnsley!

I think a lot of our fans forget what a good discount the club gives us for a season ticket.
 






Guinness Boy

Tofu eating wokerati
Helpful Moderator
NSC Patron
Jul 23, 2003
36,740
Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
they kept the prices against a Premier League team the same as you would be charged to see us play against Barnsley!

I think a lot of our fans forget what a good discount the club gives us for a season ticket.

You do realise that's completely contradictory?
 


PILTDOWN MAN

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Sep 15, 2004
19,339
Hurst Green
29 games today and I make it that we had the 6th (maybe 7th) highest. That's not shabby at all, considering we didn't have to resort to bargain deals to get people in.

Barber in.
 






trueblue

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
10,864
Hove
Comparing the price with season tickets is stupid. Obviously ST holders are getting a discounted price by buying for the whole season & that price is very, very decent. Bearing in mind that tickets include travel costs too within a large area, I don't think £28 for a game against a PL team is too much at all. It's a shame for those that genuinely can't afford it but for the rest, moaning about how they'd have spent on food and drink if they'd gone or how they'd rather go to away games, get real. If we're going to have a team worthy of a great stadium that can turn over Premier league sides, it's not going to be a tenner to get in.
 


jmsc

New member
Jul 19, 2003
647
Old Shoreham Road :o(
You do realise that's completely contradictory?

What on earth did I write that is contradictory?

There has never been a discount on F.A. cup tickets against a higher league team in the 34
years that I've been going to see the Albion.

For a couple of years when we were at Withdean, season ticket holders were given a free
ticket for the 1st cup game, this was usually for the JPT.
 








Guinness Boy

Tofu eating wokerati
Helpful Moderator
NSC Patron
Jul 23, 2003
36,740
Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
What on earth did I write that is contradictory?

There has never been a discount on F.A. cup tickets against a higher league team in the 34
years that I've been going to see the Albion.

For a couple of years when we were at Withdean, season ticket holders were given a free
ticket for the 1st cup game, this was usually for the JPT.

You said we'd pay the same for this game as we would against Barnsley. Then you admitted there's a discount on season tickets. Season ticket holders would NOT pay the same for their seat today as they would against Barnsley.
 




Acker79

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Nov 15, 2008
31,921
Brighton
-Price is, of course, always important. But there are many different economic levels, and for some people even £15 a ticket would have been too much for them. It is unrealistic to expect the club to lower the price so that everyone who wants to go can, and selfish to expect them to lower it to an amount you are happy to pay.
-Being free on TV is a factor for some
-Being a morning kick off will be a factor for some
-Form over the last month would also be a factor
-The fact it was newcastle:
-We faced them last season, so it's not special in that 'new opponent' way,
-we beat them last year, so even a victory wouldn't be as big an event by law of diminishing returns
-It wasn't even a first string newcastle with big name draw players​
-We played premier league opposition, in a match we were bookies favourites to win, and charged championship prices

I didn't go, but it wasn't the price that put me off, it was the fact it was a team we beat last season, and if I'm honest the disappointment of our december form, made me expect a loss for us when tickets were initially released, then as the game approached it was clear newcastle were a weakened team, and I think I'd have been unlikely to go even if tickets were just £10.


FFP is coming. This sort of commercialism is only going on way.
 








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