LamieRobertson
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Why so few tickets sold V Charlton?
- Thread starter kingcole
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Category is nothing to do with policing, it's how popular the club thinks the game will be. There is a policing category as well, but that's unrelated to price.
nwgull
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Cat A refers to the pricing, not policing, doesn't it? And is probably because Charlton normally bring 2-2.5K.
The category of the match depends on how much the club feels that they can fleece day fans and away fans.
Charlton fans don't travel in numbers at the best of times. 2nd from bottom to a club that they have visited before for a match that they are guaranteed not to win, they are hardly going to sell out.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Well thats what I would like to know as I'm sure that I saw somewhere that Cat A involves more cost, whether thats police, stewards and what not. To be honest Charlton is not a big draw at all so I would like to know the thinking behind it.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Return of the Rev
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Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
So basically you are saying Tony would lose less money if prices were reduced as more would attend. Ie the price modelling is wrong
My view ( without any proper research ) is that the Derby model of cheaper prices for earlier booking looks a good one.
lost in london
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Before reading this thread I logged onto the ticket page thinking about getting a ticket for Saturday, for the first time in ages I've got a clear Saturday and would love to see this team in the flesh (subject to pass from wife/kids obviously) - it's not an affordability question, I just can't justify spending £32-42 on a ticket. Train travel to ground (2 hours each way usually despite being a 45 min drive), plus food and drink make it a very expensive day out. My fault for living so far away (40 miles by road), but if the tickets were cheaper the decision whether to go would be much easier. Watching football is a habit - I'm not saying I buy one ticket then I'm immediately in the queue for a season ticket, but you can't get people back into that habit without enticing them in somehow. If the football was crap and the stadium full you could say the club had got it right - the football is by all accounts incredible, we're undefeated and top of the league, but there are currently 662 seats available in the north stand (tragically I just counted them up on the ticket website), something isn't right.
If I buy a ticket online, do I get any sort of travel included? Presumably there wouldn't be time for them to get the actual ticket to me.
If I buy a ticket online, do I get any sort of travel included? Presumably there wouldn't be time for them to get the actual ticket to me.
Albion_Dave
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Free travel from Haywards Heath & you can use the print at home option for your ticket.
I like that idea too.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
premiership ready pricing , i would imagine its a concern for people that are borderline with affordability to home games at the moment
regards
DR
But it isn't premiership ready pricing, prices will go up markedly if/when we reach the Premier League, and the club realise that when we do get there, there will be more than enough fans willing to pay the newly inflated prices.
If you buy your ticket online and use the "print at home" option. they send you an email with the ticket attached within minutes. After you print it out you can use that for travel to the ground within the free travel boundary. Take one of tickets in north and come to the game. Bring a flask and some sandwiches. Drive down and park somewhere for free within the travel boundary and use the travel voucher that is your ticket to get to the game. Should cost no more then price of the ticket and petrol.
you know it makes sense.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Yes, being in the WSU would be fine, if the club gave out free binoculars with every ticket. Many of my Withdean cronies ended up there, but my old eyes can't cope with the distance from the pitch.
Forever?
....and ever x
Return of the Rev
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Same old rant but if football had followed the inflation rate since my first footie game i would be paying under £6 per game not the £42 my old seat would currently cost. While people pay this amount then prices will never come down,i understand its not the Albions fault but modern football in general and a mass withdrawal of income would put football in chaos but the new order would be cheaper,since stopping my s/t from the 2013/14 season i have watched 6 or so amex matches all at £20 or under.Its a shame that the pricing seems to have made it a private club, a well attended private club but one that struggles to attract new members who could put it into the black without the need for promotion.The money paid to players/agents is obscene and i feel my £5 at non league level is valued and put to better use than my £42 at the Albion.We have a fantastic stadium,chairman and fans but football is sick and the only way to heal it is to remove the leaches or starve them.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Bear in mind though, that by the time you have bought your match ticket, added in what you will pay for food/drinks etc. during your day out, that the travel saving between Haywards Heath and Falmer is only going to be fairly negligable.
kevo
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- Mar 8, 2008
- 9,801
I'm front row, East Upper. Fantastic view but even that is a little far away from the pitch for my liking. West Upper would definitely be too far.
LamieRobertson
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kevo
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- Mar 8, 2008
- 9,801
Ha, no. I had to give the second one up. I used it for friends etc. but it was still costing me quite a lot to keep two season tickets on the go! Can't complain about my seat - front row and on the aisle, one of the best views in the stadium, but sometimes wish I was a bit closer to the action. It's also a bit too quiet in ESU for my liking (was amazed when leaving the stand on Saturday people were actually singing 'We're top of the league'!).