Season tickets 2015/16 renewals . . .

[Jano]

If the price stays the same or goes down, which it should considering the performances this season, I'll almost certainly renew. If it goes up then I'll seriously consider packing it in, but surely they wouldn't even consider putting the prices up.

[Top Flight]

I reckon we could dip under 10,000 next time around.

Behave!

I don't think that'll be far off to be fair. I'll say it'll drop to around 11k. A lot of the long-timers I know all feel the same; i.e. detached from the club in the last few years, and no longer get anything out of going to games. Unless there's significant investment this summer, and I doubt there will be, I think numbers will drop quite considerably.

I am a long-timer and I have to admit that I am totally disillusioned as well. But for me, it is not about whether the club invests in the team that matters. I used to watch complete rubbish at Elm Park for years and it wasn't the quality of football on the pitch that I used to go for.

I think I am just disillusioned with football in general... Money has ruined the beautiful game. What is the point in the football league when the entire competition is driven by money. I resent paying £7 just to park the bloody car, another £3 on the programme, The amount of the match ticket, and the cost of getting there for what. A rigged competition. It all seems pointless. The dream is dead.

You say unless there is significant investment in the team this summer and you doubt there will be then season ticket numbers will drop considerably. It's just all about money. If football was cheap, if there was decent banter with the away fans, a good atmosphere generally, then hardcore supporters would not be feeling disillusioned and wouldn't care whether the club invests in the summer or not. We'd be happy to welcome through the next generation of young talent and don't bother trying to sign anyone.

Instead of investing in the team, the club should invest in the fans. Halve season ticket prices, provide much cheaper parking, convert the East and South Stands into safe standing terrace. Build two more pubs to serve the East and South Stands on a matchday and let people be people. Within reason of course, but don't eject people for the slightest little things. Let fans enjoy supporting their team.

[Royality creeps In]

Well for starters you can save a tenner by parking for free and not buying a programme.
Everything in the programme is available on line and there is plenty of free parking around the ground.

You need a financial make over

[bobby1413]

Behave!

I don't think that'll be far off to be fair. I'll say it'll drop to around 11k. A lot of the long-timers I know all feel the same; i.e. detached from the club in the last few years, and no longer get anything out of going to games. Unless there's significant investment this summer, and I doubt there will be, I think numbers will drop quite considerably.

I am a long-timer and I have to admit that I am totally disillusioned as well. But for me, it is not about whether the club invests in the team that matters. I used to watch complete rubbish at Elm Park for years and it wasn't the quality of football on the pitch that I used to go for.

I think I am just disillusioned with football in general... Money has ruined the beautiful game. What is the point in the football league when the entire competition is driven by money. I resent paying £7 just to park the bloody car, another £3 on the programme, The amount of the match ticket, and the cost of getting there for what. A rigged competition. It all seems pointless. The dream is dead.

You say unless there is significant investment in the team this summer and you doubt there will be then season ticket numbers will drop considerably. It's just all about money. If football was cheap, if there was decent banter with the away fans, a good atmosphere generally, then hardcore supporters would not be feeling disillusioned and wouldn't care whether the club invests in the summer or not. We'd be happy to welcome through the next generation of young talent and don't bother trying to sign anyone.

Instead of investing in the team, the club should invest in the fans. Halve season ticket prices, provide much cheaper parking, convert the East and South Stands into safe standing terrace. Build two more pubs to serve the East and South Stands on a matchday and let people be people. Within reason of course, but don't eject people for the slightest little things. Let fans enjoy supporting their team.

Why pay £7 to park ... I park free and walk 20 minutes - I accept some with mobility issues may not be able to do this, so just asking

Why pay £3 for a programme ... I've never bought a programme

Things aren't as bad as people make out. For me, it's not the best football (understatement) but good times will come again, and this year we've had a great cup run, some interesting games, and for me it's not that bad that I'd ever stop paying the ST. It's nice to have something to focus on and look forward to every week or so

[under the tin]

I am a long-timer and I have to admit that I am totally disillusioned as well. But for me, it is not about whether the club invests in the team that matters. I used to watch complete rubbish at Elm Park for years and it wasn't the quality of football on the pitch that I used to go for.

I think I am just disillusioned with football in general... Money has ruined the beautiful game. What is the point in the football league when the entire competition is driven by money. I resent paying £7 just to park the bloody car, another £3 on the programme, The amount of the match ticket, and the cost of getting there for what. A rigged competition. It all seems pointless. The dream is dead.

You say unless there is significant investment in the team this summer and you doubt there will be then season ticket numbers will drop considerably. It's just all about money. If football was cheap, if there was decent banter with the away fans, a good atmosphere generally, then hardcore supporters would not be feeling disillusioned and wouldn't care whether the club invests in the summer or not. We'd be happy to welcome through the next generation of young talent and don't bother trying to sign anyone.

Instead of investing in the team, the club should invest in the fans. Halve season ticket prices, provide much cheaper parking, convert the East and South Stands into safe standing terrace. Build two more pubs to serve the East and South Stands on a matchday and let people be people. Within reason of course, but don't eject people for the slightest little things. Let fans enjoy supporting their team.[/quote]

I haven't attended a single game since 2010, when I came to much the same disillusioned conclusion, after 42 years of watching, sometimes, some really dire fare. It's not Reading FC, it's not success nor lack of it : it's what pro football has become.
My football mojo hasn't returned. I will always be a Reading fan, but no longer put money into the pro game in any way.
Strictly armchair, strictly freeview, strictly terrestrial TV and radio.

[Elm Park Kid]

I haven't attended a single game since 2010, when I came to much the same disillusioned conclusion, after 42 years of watching, sometimes, some really dire fare. It's not Reading FC, it's not success nor lack of it : it's what pro football has become.
My football mojo hasn't returned. I will always be a Reading fan, but no longer put money into the pro game in any way.
Strictly armchair, strictly freeview, strictly terrestrial TV and radio.

I generally agree with you. I still go because they can never suck all of the joy out of football and it's great way of getting mates to all get together in the same place and the same time each week But I no longer take the game that seriously, what's the point?

What's the dream for Reading now? That we play well, buy the right youngsters, get promoted and establish ourselves as a Prem team? Well that doesn't work anymore as billionaire owners have pushed football inflation to such levels that it's impossible to stay solvent in the top league without outside investment. So the dream now really is just that one day we get bought by a Anton Zingarevich who has enough money to fulfil his man-child dreams. That we can become Reading Tigers, change our strip to corporate colours and convert half the ground into hospitality. What's the point?

[under the tin]

As I see it, the only possible light at the end of the tunnel will be the inevitable formation of a pan european superleague.
The oligarches will then all pi$$ off with their football playthings and pit their wits against each other in a pay per view TV paradise.
It might just bring some sanity back to our domestic game, where good young players can perform at the highest domestic level in the first team. It would, I believe, also help with our national team.
At the moment, we have a space race, where a few clubs have intergalactic capability, whilst the rest fcuk about with paper aeroplanes.

[Pepe the Horseman]

I'm in. If I didn't renew I probably wouldn't go to any games at all, unless we started doing really well.

[Forbury Lion]

Why pay £7 to park ... I park free and walk 20 minutes - I accept some with mobility issues may not be able to do this, so just asking

Why pay £3 for a programme ... I've never bought a programme

Things aren't as bad as people make out. For me, it's not the best football (understatement) but good times will come again, and this year we've had a great cup run, some interesting games, and for me it's not that bad that I'd ever stop paying the ST. It's nice to have something to focus on and look forward to every week or so

+1
I don't buy food at the game and I don't buy a programme, I occasionally buy a replica shirt if I really like it but that's every 3 or 4 years. I do catch the bus so it costs me £5 a game on top of my Season Ticket to attend a match and I could cut back on that if I really wanted or needed to.

[Elm Park Kid]

Doing my John Lennon impersonation for a moment - just imagine the below:

- Season tickets £200 adults, £100 concession, £50 child

- All tickets are £20 adult, £10 concession, £5 children.

- A wide selection of drinks available all at £3 a pint.

- A wide range of food trucks all charging half as much as they do now.

- A programme for £1.

Exactly how much would the above cost the club really? Maybe a Pog's like players wage for a season? I'm serious.

[RG7Fan]

I'm in - I want first dibs on next years semi-final tickets again.

[Kuhl_Runnings]

I'm in - moving to Y25, B18 is (unsurprisingly) utter oxf*rd.

[GH Royal]

I'm in - moving to Y25, B18 is (unsurprisingly) utter oxf*rd.

Stand and sing? Y25 is becoming pretty dead over the past season or so.. come help a brother out x

[Kuhl_Runnings]

I'm in - moving to Y25, B18 is (unsurprisingly) utter oxf*rd.

Stand and sing? Y25 is becoming pretty dead over the past season or so.. come help a brother out x

Not Y26 because I want it to be my choice whether or not to stand and sing. But most of the time, I will.

[LWJ]

I'm in - moving to Y25, B18 is (unsurprisingly) utter oxf*rd.

Stand and sing? Y25 is becoming pretty dead over the past season or so.. come help a brother out x

Not Y26 because I want it to be my choice whether or not to stand and sing. But most of the time, I will.

[Sutekh]

Bury v Southend is free to everyone tonight. I know it's a rearranged game following the 6 minute abandonment a few weeks ago but all the same total credit to Bury to take that approach, just proves that it's not always about the money in the professional game

Be great if Reading could try that approach for a lesser cup game at home after all, these days, how much revenue do ticket sales for one game actually generate in the grand scheme of things?

[GH Royal]

I'm in - moving to Y25, B18 is (unsurprisingly) utter oxf*rd.

Stand and sing? Y25 is becoming pretty dead over the past season or so.. come help a brother out x

Not Y26 because I want it to be my choice whether or not to stand and sing. But most of the time, I will.

I've been in Y25 for a while now, apart from the top 4-8 rows everyone else is sat usually, even then it's only the half that's closest to Y26 that stand not the full rows. Hope that helps.

Tempted to move into Y26 but quite like my view of the pitch, although the yoofs in the row infront spend 95% of the game checking the Prem scores on their phones or taking the piss out of other Reading fans so that grates me a bit too....

[melonhead]

Its not the football, success ot not that will influence me, its the distinct lack of appreciation or thought for the fans.
The Cup Semi ticketing was at best awful but todays news has left me absolutely enraged......

the cup semi final ticketing that allowed anyone who wanted one to get one?

[Silver Fox]

Be great if Reading could try that approach for a lesser cup game at home after all, these days, how much revenue do ticket sales for one game actually generate in the grand scheme of things?

I think it gets mentioned every round that there is a minimum ticket price for each round of the cups and of l8 we certainly seem to have tried to set prices at that level

[melonhead]

ill be renewing. cant wait for next season tbf