This Drift Towards Resentment Of The 1901 Club

[Chicken Runner61]

And I agree that the extra 400 1901 seats will prove to be a PR disaster. I mean really, is it necessary?

I heard they had so many more applications for 1901 membership they felt they could not lose the revenue. The cost to amend the building and add the extra hospitality area is enormous so it must be a lot of extra money.

Also I suspect that this will get the corners filled in quickly too - so look on the bright side

 

[Beach Hut]

I think the club really are courting a bad PR issue with the delay in normal season ticket details but it would not be the first time loyal fans are alienated.

 

[GuyButtersLob]

Sadly I think the club have donned their £££ spectacles and sold out before the place has even opened

The £95 million needs to be repaid somehow. I cannot see there being any problems with true fans not being able to get a seat at Falmer. Therefore, more 1901 tickets being sold can only be a benefit due to more money available for the squad.

 

[Weezle]

When anyone sells anything they want to sell the most they can for the maximum amount of money possible. It's this money which will drive our club forward by allowing us to bring in better players, bring a better of standard of football to Brighton and ultimately brig Premiership football to the City.

There's 22.5k seats available and space to build another 10k seats. In essence there's room for everybody. Even the worst seat at Falmer will be be better than the best at Withdean.

As fans we always want more spent on the club. Most of us can't afford this and it's unfair to ask Tony to cover the cost of everything. We should support those people who are willing to pay the extra money to pay for the football and future we all want to see.

 

[Tomnorthi]

They shouldn't get priority, regarding away games, but can buy at the same time as STH but they get 40% of allocation and STH get the other 60% or something like that, so its fairer.

 

[GuyButtersLob]

When anyone sells anything they want to sell the most they can for the maximum amount of money possible. It's this money which will drive our club forward by allowing us to bring in better players, bring a better of standard of football to Brighton and ultimately brig Premiership football to the City.

There's 22.5k seats available and space to build another 10k seats. In essence there's room for everybody. Even the worst seat at Falmer will be be better than the best at Withdean.

As fans we always want more spent on the club. Most of us can't afford this and it's unfair to ask Tony to cover the cost of everything. We should support those people who are willing to pay the extra money to pay for the football and future we all want to see.

Hear, hear!

 

[Foolg]

Not so much can't more won't - football as a corporate experience is not what I want.

No i know, but i presumed the majority (if they could afford to do so) would choose to go via the 1901 route. I wouldnt, I look forward to what I see as a normal saturday, pop down to the pub and then get on the train for dead on kick off.
The fact that those like me, who will be STH's, but cannot afford or simply do not want to go via that route will possibly be beaten to away tickets by someone who may go to the one big game is a bit of a kick in the teeth. We get Palace away, almost our entire allocation will have sold out to 1901 members, because realistically most will go.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

I think the club really are courting a bad PR issue with the delay in normal season ticket details but it would not be the first time loyal fans are alienated.

Its not quite that simple is it

Selling normal season tickets is going to have to be carefully thought out as to how its done and how fans pick where they are going to sit. After all how do you decide where you will sit in a stadium you have not actually been in?

Its quite a big decision isn't it? after all you could be stuck with that seat for a few years!

I'm guessing the club will want fans to have a look at the ground in reality before they actually decide where they want to buy a seat.

The 1901 club seating is fairly straightforward and they have little choice don't they?

 

[Giraffe]

Its not quite that simple is it

Selling normal season tickets is going to have to be carefully thought out as to how its done and how fans pick where they are going to sit. After all how do you decide where you will sit in a stadium you have not actually been in?

Its quite a big decision isn't it? after all you could be stuck with that seat for a few years!

I'm guessing the club will want fans to have a look at the ground in reality before they actually decide where they want to buy a seat.

The 1901 club seating is fairly straightforward and they have little choice don't they?

The prospect of having to go through what will undoubtedly be a disappointing bunfight is one of the things that drove me to the 1901 club.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

. We get Palace away, almost our entire allocation will have sold out to 1901 members, because realistically most will go.

I bet they won't! I bet only a small section will. The rest will only be interested in home games.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

The prospect of having to go through what will undoubtedly be a disappointing bunfight is one of the things that drove me to the 1901 club.

Its always been a bunfight getting away tickets. Whats the betting that was just a sales line and that normal season ticket holders will get the SAME priority as 1901 season ticket holders?

As I said one big season ticket holder bun fight then!

 

[Foolg]

I bet they won't! I bet only a small section will. The rest will only be interested in home games.

1 hour on the train, the first chance of going to a derby game, i'm fairly certain well over 1000 will travel from the 1901 club.

 

[hitony]

The prospect of having to go through what will undoubtedly be a disappointing bunfight is one of the things that drove me to the 1901 club.

I have not read any other pages on this thread, only this one, I did look at the B&HA web site but it did not tell me really, so.......what is the cost per season to join the 1901 club, or is there no answer to that yet?

 

[Spider]

Its not quite that simple is it

Selling normal season tickets is going to have to be carefully thought out as to how its done and how fans pick where they are going to sit. After all how do you decide where you will sit in a stadium you have not actually been in?

Its quite a big decision isn't it? after all you could be stuck with that seat for a few years!

I'm guessing the club will want fans to have a look at the ground in reality before they actually decide where they want to buy a seat.

The 1901 club seating is fairly straightforward and they have little choice don't they?

Poor excuse. Were you ever offered a tour of Withdean to pick your seat before you bought a ST there?

I understand why some fans are anxious about where they sit, but surely its common sense that the best views will be from a certain area, whilst the best atmosphere will (hopefully) be from behind the goal. Surely it will be first come first serve, pretty much fanning from the centre circle outwards, and from a decent height to higher and higher up and lower and lower down (exclusing those who have a particular desire to sit at very front) unless someone has a particular reason for wanting to be in line with the penalty area or whatever. But this would be easy to ask about at the club shop anyway.

 

[Springal]

Either £500 or £1000 upfront then £120 a month

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Poor excuse. Were you ever offered a tour of Withdean to pick your seat before you bought a ST there?

I understand why some fans are anxious about where they sit, but surely its common sense that the best views will be from a certain area, whilst the best atmosphere will (hopefully) be from behind the goal. Surely it will be first come first serve, pretty much fanning from the centre circle outwards, and from a decent height to higher and higher up and lower and lower down (exclusing those who have a particular desire to sit at very front) unless someone has a particular reason for wanting to be in line with the penalty area or whatever. But this would be easy to ask about at the club shop anyway.

Big difference in buying a ticket from an existing stadium than one thats not open yet. Presumably existing withdean STH's will get first dibs on the Falmer ones. I'd be well pissed off if someone who did not have a ST at Withdean had the same priority then.

 

[hitony]

Either £500 or £1000 upfront then £120 a month

Thanks.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

I totally agree. I think when people saw the plans for Falmer and the first pictures of it lots of current long term season tickets would have earmarked the middle tier in the west stand. Then the club said this was going corporate, fair enough. So back of the lower tier then near the dig outs? No that's corporate as well. So for many months people will be targeting half way in the East Stand. Nope they've gone now. I think people who have been season ticket holders through all of the dark days deserve better.

And by the dark days do you mean the last few years of the Goldstone with its protests against the board? or do you mean home games at Gillingham? (can't imagine there are too many season ticket holders there to worry about)

Because you can't possibly mean Withdean, the place we have won 2 Championships (to date) and a promotion via the play-offs, more than we managed in years at our former homes

Just because Withdean hasn't been a sparkling new purpose built stadium doesn't mean those who attended to watch the football there are special and derserve special treatment by the club, we have been relatively successful there despite its obvious limitations and it has served us well

I for one don't think the club owes me big time for having a season ticket for every season at Withdean, its role has been to put on a football match and hopefully prove sucessful on the pitch - it is not there to be blackmailed by a few egotistical fans who think they are gods gift to the club and because they watched a few games that they paid to going rate to see, and therefore
deserve far more in return than any other fan.

I welcome the new fans and those who return to watch us again at Falmer and hope that by coming to watch us at Falmer, they become regulars and this in turn helps our club to grow and succeed on and off the pitch and hope that those who are either jealous of them or are over possessive about this club don't drive them away

 

[beorhthelm]

1 hour on the train, the first chance of going to a derby game, i'm fairly certain well over 1000 will travel from the 1901 club.

dont be so sure. the sort of people buying in to the 1901 club with its resturants and such, are unlikly to be interested so much in an away day trip involving being kept behind for a half hour and a police escort to a scabby south London station.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Either £500 or £1000 upfront then £120 a month

Just to clarify those are one off payments

£500 for a 5 year call on the seat
£1000 for life

I thought it was £99 per month after that for the season ticket to go with the seat