Season Tickets WILL go up next season

[Zammo]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... hikes.html

....unless getting relegated this season is some 'tax mastermind' from Sir JM.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... hikes.html

....unless getting relegated this season is some 'tax mastermind' from Sir JM.

Among those facing highest tax increases are Portsmouth’s Fratton Park, at 225 per cent,

It never rains...

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Thankfully the cost will be shared with LI, good job we have them really.

JM will be happy to havea reason to explain the rise afetr relegation!!

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

Another Gordon Brown tax to f*ck up the football clubs and their fans.

[Sonic]

This is just the revaluation of business rates which will come into force next April. Plently of businesses will see their rates bills increasing and some will see theirs decrease, that does not necessarily mean that the price of their product, tickets in the case of football clubs, will change.

[Magnus]

Spot on sonic, ultimately the club will charge what they can get away with, ie what people will pay.

The amount of the tax the club pays has no bearing on this.

[Terminal Boardom]

Since when has SJM wasted any time in exploiting the customer? The cloth has been cut, the wage bill on the playing side slashed and STs stay the same. And the club knew that the big wage earners werre going to bugger off.

You read it here first. The STs and Match Day Tickets will cost more next season to cater for the expected loss of customer numbers and reduction in corporate revenues. And if we do well, SJM will be creaming himself all over his luxury suite as more and more mugs turn up and pay the over inflated prices.

[peterroyal76]

I'm not sure that season tickets will go up next season, especially if we don't improve or stay up. There are already plenty of angry people moaning about the deals that non season ticket holders get and saying they won't get a ST next season. If the prices do go up some people will decide not to go and some will decide they cannot afford and then pick and choose their games. People WILL vote with their feet just as they have this season
I personally don't have a season for the first time since we moved to the Madstad, but this is only because of financial constraints. I prefer to have the ST as it saves the hassle of getting individual tickets and also knowing my seat is secure for the season and for cup games. I can also understand St holders being angry about the deals non ST holders get, but I can also understand that the club need to get as many through the turnstiles as possible. Its a bit like a shop having to discount goods as the sell by date gets closer.
I haven't missed a home game yet this season and I don't intend to either.
If the worse does happen and we are relegated I presume we will have to 'cut our cloth accordingly' again! But I will still be here next season and hopefully I can afford my season ticket back. Come on URZ

[weybridgewanderer]

Since when has SJM wasted any time in exploiting the customer? The cloth has been cut, the wage bill on the playing side slashed and STs stay the same. And the club knew that the big wage earners werre going to bugger off.

You read it here first. The STs and Match Day Tickets will cost more next season to cater for the expected loss of customer numbers and reduction in corporate revenues. And if we do well, SJM will be creaming himself all over his luxury suite as more and more mugs turn up and pay the over inflated prices.

sorry mate but this is nonsense

when we were trying to fill the ground, we were one of the cheapest match days in the championship, i was buying a ticket for £17

we have never as a club pushed prices so others pay for the empty seats, quite the opposite, we have done what we can to try and fill them eg the recent to for 1 offer and the bring a friend for free offer

[RoyalBlue]

Since when has SJM wasted any time in exploiting the customer? The cloth has been cut, the wage bill on the playing side slashed and STs stay the same. And the club knew that the big wage earners werre going to bugger off.

You read it here first. The STs and Match Day Tickets will cost more next season to cater for the expected loss of customer numbers and reduction in corporate revenues. And if we do well, SJM will be creaming himself all over his luxury suite as more and more mugs turn up and pay the over inflated prices.

sorry mate but this is nonsense

when we were trying to fill the ground, we were one of the cheapest match days in the championship, i was buying a ticket for £17

we have never as a club pushed prices so others pay for the empty seats, quite the opposite, we have done what we can to try and fill them eg the recent to for 1 offer and the bring a friend for free offer

The latter was more of an after thought to reinforce the good deal season ticket holders were getting!

[Terminal Boardom]

Do you really enjoy paying so much for reserve team football?

Do you really think that you get value for money???

Do you know that for the cost of a car parking ticket at or near the mad stad, that £8 gets me into Stag Meadow to watch Windsor & Eton. Ok, so the quality of the football may be lower. However, the enjoyment would be higher!

[weybridgewanderer]

Never said I agreed with the price nor the product currently on offer

What I said was that your statement the price will go up "to cater for the expected loss of customer numbers and reduction in corporate revenues"is nonsense and is not how the club has behaved in the recent past.

[Sun Tzu]

Do you really enjoy paying so much for reserve team football?!

Reserve team football is basically fre at the Mad Stad so no point to be made there

Do you really think that you get value for money???!

Some seasons we do, some we probably don't but again what is your point ? Has there ever been a guarantee of success in football ?

Do you know that for the cost of a car parking ticket at or near the mad stad, that £8 gets me into Stag Meadow to watch Windsor & Eton. Ok, so the quality of the football may be lower. However, the enjoyment would be higher!

I would get no enjoyment watching Windsor so again you are not making a valid point.
I could walk to my local park and pay nothing to see two pub teams play so why paying £8 to watch Windsor has any bearing on Reading is a bit obscure. The cost of top class football is generally outrageous but that's nothing particular to Reading. £8 at Windsor seems steep if you ask me.

[working class hero]

Another Gordon Brown tax to f*ck up the football clubs and their fans.

A rise of £300,000 is only about £12 per person per annum [if ground full], or £24 if half empty / full. Hardly some dreadful government conspiracy.

Anyway £300,000 is only about 10 weeks pay for our previous high rollers like Doyle - so now he has gone the club is saving so much this will be a mere pin prick.

[Forbury Lion]

Doesn't bother me as I'm not going to renew.

[Alan Partridge]

Do you really enjoy paying so much for reserve team football?!

Reserve team football is basically fre at the Mad Stad so no point to be made there

Do you really think that you get value for money???!

Some seasons we do, some we probably don't but again what is your point ? Has there ever been a guarantee of success in football ?

Do you know that for the cost of a car parking ticket at or near the mad stad, that £8 gets me into Stag Meadow to watch Windsor & Eton. Ok, so the quality of the football may be lower. However, the enjoyment would be higher!

I would get no enjoyment watching Windsor so again you are not making a valid point.
I could walk to my local park and pay nothing to see two pub teams play so why paying £8 to watch Windsor has any bearing on Reading is a bit obscure. The cost of top class football is generally outrageous but that's nothing particular to Reading. £8 at Windsor seems steep if you ask me.

The cost of £26 on the gate for a Reading match is almost scandolous especially with the product on show. I paid it once for the match with Cardiff and won't be making that mistake again. Football generally is ludicrously priced, £8 at Windsor is dire, £9 at Diddy is dire as is £10 at Maidenhead. The one advantage of those places being the much more relaxed atmosphere of it all and a back to basics kind of feel, also add ons such as food and drink aren't again ridiculously over priced.

A day trip to Reading FC isn't worth the money, simple as that. Season ticket holders will go out of blind faith, loyalty, stupidity delete as appropriate but for the casual observer there is nothing on offer at Reading that is value for money. Prices going up? If it happens it's his club can do as he wants but he'll see even more dwindeling numbers next year.

[Sun Tzu]

19k for the Ipswich game.

Bizarre really.

By all logic we whould be hitting 12-14k shouldn;t we.

Yet despite the struggles and what seems like excessive costs the predictions of meltdown on the terraces doesn;t happen.

Clearly a fair number of 'casual' observers do consider it worth going.

[Alan Partridge]

19k for the Ipswich game.

Bizarre really.

By all logic we whould be hitting 12-14k shouldn;t we.

Yet despite the struggles and what seems like excessive costs the predictions of meltdown on the terraces doesn;t happen.

Clearly a fair number of 'casual' observers do consider it worth going.

Fair amount of season tickets sold weren't there? No idea how many Ipswich brought as i didn't go.

19k is a very decent crowd, be interesting to see what sort of crowd goes on saturday. Can only speak personally but there is nothing at Reading that would entice me to go at the current prices.

[Sun Tzu]

19k for the Ipswich game.

Bizarre really.

By all logic we whould be hitting 12-14k shouldn;t we.

Yet despite the struggles and what seems like excessive costs the predictions of meltdown on the terraces doesn;t happen.

Clearly a fair number of 'casual' observers do consider it worth going.

Fair amount of season tickets sold weren't there? No idea how many Ipswich brought as i didn't go.

19k is a very decent crowd, be interesting to see what sort of crowd goes on saturday. Can only speak personally but there is nothing at Reading that would entice me to go at the current prices.

9k ST wasn't it ? Ipswich would have brought 2k so not too sure where the numbers are coming from !

It's interesting the London Irish charge the same as RFC. There is no reason why the two clubs would collude to pitch at the same level so I wonder what it is that leads to them coming up with those numbers ? As things stand you'd have to say that it appears to be about what the market will pay. Which doesn;t make it 'cheap' !!

[Alan Partridge]

19k for the Ipswich game.

Bizarre really.

By all logic we whould be hitting 12-14k shouldn;t we.

Yet despite the struggles and what seems like excessive costs the predictions of meltdown on the terraces doesn;t happen.

Clearly a fair number of 'casual' observers do consider it worth going.

Fair amount of season tickets sold weren't there? No idea how many Ipswich brought as i didn't go.

19k is a very decent crowd, be interesting to see what sort of crowd goes on saturday. Can only speak personally but there is nothing at Reading that would entice me to go at the current prices.

9k ST wasn't it ? Ipswich would have brought 2k so not too sure where the numbers are coming from !

Just had a quick look on the website, just over 19,000 was the gate, 2400 and a bit from Ipswich, plus the hopsitality/ freebies they hand out, probably looking at around 7000 that paid for that inidividual game if 9K was the ST sales.

Not bad for one of the higher profile opposition in the division. I personally don't feel £26 and the extortionate extras from around the ground is value for whats on offer, clearly some do, not as many as recent years and in my opinion if it carries on in a similar vein, I doubt the numbers will continue to remain at those the Ipswich game saw.