Falmer Flutter ©
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Don't know what the problem was, but the woman said they couldn't sell him a ticket, but he could order one from an internet café. He actually said he only had cash on him so couldn't do it.
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Don't know what the problem was, but the woman said they couldn't sell him a ticket, but he could order one from an internet café. He actually said he only had cash on him so couldn't do it.
Mendoza
NSC's Most Stalked
last season was the 1st year i didnt have a season ticket since 1992
i didnt get one as i was working abroad for 4 months of the year, and didnt know if i could get rid of my tickets
i got back for xmas, and there was a 10 game season ticket available, think it was £220 - i was nearly tempted, but then a mate said his mate couldnt go, and i picked up a ticket for £10
after that, i realised that for every game there were tickets available for every game for less than face value. I think i got 2 freebies, 5 for £10 each, and 5 for £15each. it covered me for the rest of the season.
that cost me £125 for 12 games, if i had got that season ticket it would have cost me £220 - so i saved £100 in the last few home games
going into this season, i took a gamble on it being the same sort of scenario - i may be a bad fan for doing this but for the 1st 3 home games of the season i have spent less than £50, saving myself over £20 already..
and to add to that, ive sat in the same seat for every single one of those games
i didnt get one as i was working abroad for 4 months of the year, and didnt know if i could get rid of my tickets
i got back for xmas, and there was a 10 game season ticket available, think it was £220 - i was nearly tempted, but then a mate said his mate couldnt go, and i picked up a ticket for £10
after that, i realised that for every game there were tickets available for every game for less than face value. I think i got 2 freebies, 5 for £10 each, and 5 for £15each. it covered me for the rest of the season.
that cost me £125 for 12 games, if i had got that season ticket it would have cost me £220 - so i saved £100 in the last few home games
going into this season, i took a gamble on it being the same sort of scenario - i may be a bad fan for doing this but for the 1st 3 home games of the season i have spent less than £50, saving myself over £20 already..
and to add to that, ive sat in the same seat for every single one of those games
Dave the OAP
Well-known member
so basically you cant pay CASH in a ticket office and secondly, if you havent got a credit card ( yes there are those people around) you cant watch the Albion.
And presumably your mate will think twice about looking to go again
Great stuff Brighton
Kukev31
New member
On the subject of tickets, is it no longer possible to buy tickets for the singing section? Just there doesn't seem to be the option to online.
Mendoza
NSC's Most Stalked
the singing section is the empiest block in the south stand, just buy a ticket anywhere and sit there anyway
Falmer Flutter ©
Well-known member
so basically you cant pay CASH in a ticket office and secondly, if you havent got a credit card ( yes there are those people around) you cant watch the Albion.
And presumably your mate will think twice about looking to go again
Great stuff Brighton
That's basically it. He wasn't my mate, just some bloke who came in. Might even have been on holiday who fancied an afternoon away from his screaming kids or summat. Nice to see we're in such a healthy financial position that we can turn away customers.
Storer68
New member
hardly suprisisng - off topic slightly but last week i wanted to get a bus to the cricket - offered the driver a £20 note (hardly a rarity these days - and thats all the cash points were doling out) and he refused to take it pint blnak. No reason - just said he wasn't taking it.
We ll I had a nicce walk up the hill and Brighton Bus Company are £3.40 light
We ll I had a nicce walk up the hill and Brighton Bus Company are £3.40 light
I don't think there's one single factor. Yes it IS expensive. For my part there's four of us and looking at it negatively I won't pay the best part of £100 (probably more when all the costs are taken into consideration) to sit in an open stand to watch 3rd division football - and poor 3rd divison football at that. However if we had needed to beat Northamption to clinch the Championship ... Well we'd all be fighting for tickets.
So money is a part of it, I think I went a few times last season out of a sense of duty and not because I really wanted to ("Oh no I've got a free Saturday. I suppose I'd better go to Withdean. Hopefully though the wife will find me some DIY jobs to do so I won't have to bother.") However we all hate the whole Withdean 'Experience'. Getting wet, watching Brighton lose and being told to sit down and shut up by some Nazi in an orange/yellow jacket is a truly miserable experience. But again if the team were doing well I'd probably just grin and bear it; after all, they're just doing their jobs aren't they?
So here's my solution. (You're not going to like it). We'll put up with the cost and the discomfort if Brighton are doing well. We obviously can't afford to do well in this division so ... let's get relegated and then we have another nice 'Chesterfield' moment next season!
There! Sorted! (Or perhaps not ...)
So money is a part of it, I think I went a few times last season out of a sense of duty and not because I really wanted to ("Oh no I've got a free Saturday. I suppose I'd better go to Withdean. Hopefully though the wife will find me some DIY jobs to do so I won't have to bother.") However we all hate the whole Withdean 'Experience'. Getting wet, watching Brighton lose and being told to sit down and shut up by some Nazi in an orange/yellow jacket is a truly miserable experience. But again if the team were doing well I'd probably just grin and bear it; after all, they're just doing their jobs aren't they?
So here's my solution. (You're not going to like it). We'll put up with the cost and the discomfort if Brighton are doing well. We obviously can't afford to do well in this division so ... let's get relegated and then we have another nice 'Chesterfield' moment next season!
There! Sorted! (Or perhaps not ...)
There are some excellent, if not revelatory points, on this thread.
The sad fact is, because of the Gillingham era and early Withdean years a lot of people around Sussex have fallen out of the habit of going to football every other week or so. For a spell when I was still Sussex based I had a leg injury that made it difficult to get to football and sit in a restricted position for that length of time so didn't go for a period. Initially home Saturdays were strange - there was a big piece of life missing. But, before long, weekends became fab as the realisation set in that weekends were 2 whole days for doing non-work things not just the one day, as was the case when football dominated.
Of course as soon as you get to a live game again, if football is truly in your blood, the rush of the atmosphere kicks in and you realise just how much you missed it. Unfortunately Withdean does not provide that for most - the experience is not, generallly, overwhelming positive and enjoyable. Football supporting is about more than that, but in these days when people are often time-poor and cash-strapped, choices have to be made. Football is not an essential to everyone and, as such, can be dropped as sacrifices are made.
Living 200 miles away I'm not typical at all, but when I first moved up this way I retained my season ticket and travelled back, rain or shine, Saturday or evening game and still made every game. Nowadays, frankly, I can't be arsed with it.
The sad fact is, because of the Gillingham era and early Withdean years a lot of people around Sussex have fallen out of the habit of going to football every other week or so. For a spell when I was still Sussex based I had a leg injury that made it difficult to get to football and sit in a restricted position for that length of time so didn't go for a period. Initially home Saturdays were strange - there was a big piece of life missing. But, before long, weekends became fab as the realisation set in that weekends were 2 whole days for doing non-work things not just the one day, as was the case when football dominated.
Of course as soon as you get to a live game again, if football is truly in your blood, the rush of the atmosphere kicks in and you realise just how much you missed it. Unfortunately Withdean does not provide that for most - the experience is not, generallly, overwhelming positive and enjoyable. Football supporting is about more than that, but in these days when people are often time-poor and cash-strapped, choices have to be made. Football is not an essential to everyone and, as such, can be dropped as sacrifices are made.
Living 200 miles away I'm not typical at all, but when I first moved up this way I retained my season ticket and travelled back, rain or shine, Saturday or evening game and still made every game. Nowadays, frankly, I can't be arsed with it.
Clive Walker's slaphead
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- Mar 10, 2006
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As has been said there are several reasons why people don't go anymore. I'm not a season ticket holder anymore and go as much as I can but not as often as I'd like. This is purely down to finance - I've just got an ordinary job on a wage just above the minimium and simply cannot afford to go week in week out. Football has moved away from the working man and I do object to people saying that if you want to afford it you can by prioritising - the only way i could get a season ticket is to tell my wife and 2 kids that we can't have our 1 week annual holiday. Personally speaking entertainment doesn't come into it for me as nothing can be worse than the dross we saw in the last few years at The Goldstone and at Gillingham and yet each and everyone of those days were good in their own way.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
The crowds will return if the football is exciting and successful and if it isn't then the crowds will continue to dwindle.
Storer68
New member
To sum up
When I was a nipper, football was wonderful and cheap.
Now I am midle aged, football is boring and too expensive.
except when we draw West ham away in the Cup
When I was a nipper, football was wonderful and cheap.
Now I am midle aged, football is boring and too expensive.
except when we draw West ham away in the Cup
Uncle Buck
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- Jul 7, 2003
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80%? A lot more go on the train to away games than you think.
It is not expensive as long as you are organised. £21 return from Brighton to Crewe seemed a bargin to me.
Dave the OAP
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Dave the OAP
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I think this thread ought to be printed off and sent to the club.( or perhaps paul is reading it now) as I think this makes some very important points and certainly goes some way to explain the reasoning people have for not going.
Looks like cost is a more contributory factor that people give it credit!
Yes NSC is not representative of the vast majority of fans, however if we are supposed to be some of the real die hards, then what is put here must start to ring alarm bells.
Looks like cost is a more contributory factor that people give it credit!
Yes NSC is not representative of the vast majority of fans, however if we are supposed to be some of the real die hards, then what is put here must start to ring alarm bells.
Barrel of Fun
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I think the travel voucher certainly does not help matters. There is a reason why a product is marked as being £19.99 instead of £20. Alas, there is not much we can do on that front. I seem to remember insider saying something like 15% of the ticket is the match travel fee. We would still be more expensive that the vast majority of clubs in this league, but then that is understandable considering we are one of the only clubs that rents their ground. Do Leeds?
If you lower regular ticket prices, then surely you would have to lower season tickets even further, to make it worth their while, otherwise we would face another fall in season tickets which would probably have a knock on effect with selling players earlier than we might or further lack of signings (if that is possible!).
It has got to the stage where we need to attract people just to stir up some interest with a view to (attempting to) fill Falmer. Goodness knows we have lost enough of our fanbase over the last 15 years.
If you lower regular ticket prices, then surely you would have to lower season tickets even further, to make it worth their while, otherwise we would face another fall in season tickets which would probably have a knock on effect with selling players earlier than we might or further lack of signings (if that is possible!).
It has got to the stage where we need to attract people just to stir up some interest with a view to (attempting to) fill Falmer. Goodness knows we have lost enough of our fanbase over the last 15 years.
Kukev31
New member
I think an important point is entertainment isn't just what's happening on the pitch. A big factor of whether I enjoy the day is the atmosphere, and we just don't provide the entertainment on this front.
Croydonbloke
Palace in Sussex
League 1 football, crap ground, no atmosphere, average team, windy, cold, raining, possible mid table finish
Does not really inspire you does it.
Does not really inspire you does it.
so basically you cant pay CASH in a ticket office and secondly, if you havent got a credit card ( yes there are those people around) you cant watch the Albion.
And presumably your mate will think twice about looking to go again
Great stuff Brighton
You can buy tickets at the shop until 2, falmer flutter said the bloke couldn't buy tickets at 2:15. Not sure why 2pm is the cut off point
yes we do. £1.2m a year rent.
why do you have the travel voucher (apologies if already covered, i skipped to the last page of this thread) part of the agreement to allow you to play at withdean?
how do it work? the bus/train company returns the torn off ticket pieces to the club and are reimbursed the fare?