Bold Seagull
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Surely you do A-Levels from the age of 16 through to 18, and therefore are covered by the U18 pricing policy!?
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Surely you do A-Levels from the age of 16 through to 18, and therefore are covered by the U18 pricing policy!?
Well anyone in their second year will be 18 before the 2011/12 season starts, so will I presume be paying the full adult fare.
And those saying U21 tickets arent common: Charlton, Sheff Wed, Huddersfield, Peterborough and Southampton all have U21/Student prices.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Personal choice isn't it, I know people who dropped out of college and started work because they liked going up the pub every night. In fact sometimes it isn't always personal choice, what about the people who don't have the aptitude to go through A-levels and uni, are you going to help them in their low paid jobs when you graduate and earn a salary.
You can't set prices based on the personal circumstance of a minority.
Kuipers Supporters Club
Well-known member
It's just for someone who will be 18 by the start of next season, the cost has gone up by £245.00 a year.
If Adult prices had gone up by that much this place would have gone into meltdown.
If Adult prices had gone up by that much this place would have gone into meltdown.
do you know if those teams do an U21/student season ticket or just single match sales?
Season tickets, just looked at the articles for the start of this season. Suprising how cheap many are, Sheffield Wednesday for example is around £115 for a student.
And there would be people who will be turning 22 whose price would have increased anyway. The thing with age group prices is that eventually you will move from one to the next.
The Birdman
New member
good one
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
No, it doesn't work like that surely!? You start your A-levels in the September following GCSE's, where everyone will be 16 or turning 17 after that September. The following year everyone will be 17 before the start of their 2nd year of A-levels, and certainly 17 before the start of that season. You turn 18 in your final year of A Levels, therefore after the start of the season. I think you'll find the U18 ticket covers those doing A-levels. (which is a lot better than Southampton offer!).
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
With a 40,000 capacity stadium to fill!!
middletoenail
Well-known member
And look at the financial mess Southampton/Sheff Wed/Charlton have been in recently
smiler
Well-known member
After a quick look at the prices it looks like the club are hammering the under 21's and senior citizens with substantial increases
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
senior's are the same, new sample price £276.50 compared with current £275. U18's new tickets £197.50, current U21 £168, U16 £139.
the only real losers are the over 18's, under 21's.
armchairclubber
Well-known member
Titanic, this seems to have hit your personal circumstances particularly hard, however if it is any consolation, if my dad had offered to pay for my brother and I to have season tickets at those ages (19 & 15) I would have been totally over the moon and thought it unbelievable ! You are a very generous father !
A £4 a week paper round used to pay for a £1 or £1.50 ticket down the Goldstone when I was 13. I'm sure there are means and ways now. Good Luck !!
Superphil
Dismember
Price hasn't gone up, it is a new price, at a new stadium. Perhaps you are confusing it with the price that used to be paid when watching football at a converted running track.
Adult prices have gone up, we are just getting on with it. Some might have to curtail their seating position, where at the moment they prefer to sit in the centre, near the halfway line, now they may be considering moving further out to be able to afford the new prices, either that or we are thinking about digging a bit deeper to pay the higher price for central seats.
It's very easy and ever so slightly smug to say that... but as B4C3 said, if the typical adult prices had DOUBLED for a comparable seat there would be a complete and utter BINFEST on here right now.
Westdene Wonder
New member
Is there a plan of the stadium so that we can see exactly where these Zones are situated
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Yes, but because basically, the only losers in this are the over 18 to 21 year olds, that by majority consent have never had it so good over the last couple seasons with ST's cheaper than a Blue Square South side, everyone (the noisy majority in this case) are overall happy that the vast majority of supporters are not going to notice too much difference.
I think the arguments being made are that it's not unreasonable, in the new stadium, for an adult, i.e. over 18, to pay adult prices. I posted on another thread that Southampton don't have an U18 price band even, and their 'young person' price band is £300+, so comparable in value.
So of course, had every adult been made to pay 100% more for the rest of their lives (not just the 3 years between the ages of 18 and 21), then you would expect a binfest.
Bob!
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Superphil
Dismember
That works out at
£7.50 a month extra (£1.73 a week) per person.
To watch your team play in the best football stadium in the country, instead of Withdean.
Seems harsh to me.
Did you think it would be cheaper?