Will You Be Renewing Your Season Ticket Before 3rd Of April?

[SLAMMED]

Will you take advantage of the Season ticket price freeze by renewing before the 3rd of April, or will you wait until you see the division we will be playing in next year?

[MeMeMe]

I for one am disgusted that the clucb has given me one and a bit weeks (received my letter yesterday) to renew "at this years prices". Quite obviously they dont have much confidence in getting promoted and so anticipate a reduction in ticket sales in these times of 'credit crunch' and job losses. The other view, the one the club will want you to take, is..."Gosh I can watch Prem football for this years money".

So why the snap decision by the club then ?. Well for me if they were confident of being promoted, season ticket sales would not be an issue and they would not have made this "offer", just hiked prices next year.

A poor PR excercise by the club. After two seasons of seeing our best players sold for millions and cheap replacements come in, this kind offer annoys me. Having held a season ticket since 1994, I will now seriously consider my position if we stay down and won't be taking up their 'offer'.

[cmonurz]

What am I missing?

You can pay price x now, or price x + a premium in a couple of weeks time.

Why is this a bad thing?

[heathrow royal]

I have already renewed for next season

[Schards#2]

Can't remember the last time I was entertained at the Mad Stad.

I've been a season ticket holder for 20 odd years but am struggling to see the point.

It's not enjoyable.
I could go to any game I wanted anyway, many in a decent seat.
It's probably just as cheap to pay by game when all the special offers are added up.
I've got enough points to go to any away game I want.
It doesn't cost me money to miss games I can't get to.

So i'm wondering what's the point?

[SLAMMED]

I have already renewed for next season

+1

[Rex]

I shall be renewing. No question.

[rg6royal]

Of course I will be renewing, im not a fair weathered supporter...

[AlexY25]

Renewing tomorrow. Not really bothered what league were in to be honest.

[Royal Lady]

How many of you that have already renewed or planning to renew are buying more than one ticket though??

In my extended family alone we have 13 ST holders - that's quite some amount of money in this current economic crisis.

[Rex]

RL - getting mine this friday - but agreed it is a hell of a lot of money to find in such a short period of time. The incentive for the club would surely be to allow for a down payment in such circumstances.

My daughters will have to wait for next month.

[handbags_harris]

I for one am disgusted that the clucb has given me one and a bit weeks (received my letter yesterday) to renew "at this years prices". Quite obviously they dont have much confidence in getting promoted and so anticipate a reduction in ticket sales in these times of 'credit crunch' and job losses. The other view, the one the club will want you to take, is..."Gosh I can watch Prem football for this years money".

So why the snap decision by the club then ?. Well for me if they were confident of being promoted, season ticket sales would not be an issue and they would not have made this "offer", just hiked prices next year.

A poor PR excercise by the club. After two seasons of seeing our best players sold for millions and cheap replacements come in, this kind offer annoys me. Having held a season ticket since 1994, I will now seriously consider my position if we stay down and won't be taking up their 'offer'.

Jesus Christ, the offer was announced on March 10th. If you didn't know the ST price offer up until now, where have you been?! Since the offer was announced on March 10th you have been able to either go to the club and buy in person, buy online, buy over the phone, or buy utilising the credit offer. What more did you want, someone knocking on your door informing you personally? This is the 21st century, there are other ways than snail mail to gain information! And I know for a fact that it wasn't a snap decision at all, next year's prices have been discussed since at least January.

[Ian Royal]

Can't remember the last time I was entertained at the Mad Stad.

I've been a season ticket holder for 20 odd years but am struggling to see the point.

It's not enjoyable.
I could go to any game I wanted anyway, many in a decent seat.
It's probably just as cheap to pay by game when all the special offers are added up.
I've got enough points to go to any away game I want.
It doesn't cost me money to miss games I can't get to.

So i'm wondering what's the point?

Sounds like you're desperately in need of a break, so take it.

I've enjoyed and been entertained in all but the two Ipswich games I've seen this season, so I don't know what your problem is.

[North Somerset Royal]

Of course I will. Even if we dont go up we will still be playing at a much higher level than when I became a regular supporter in the 3rd & 4th Divn days and I still enjoy my trips to the Mad Stad as much as I did to Elm Park then. The only thing I miss is my 5 minute walk across Prospect Park compared with my current 180+ mile round trip.

[Royal Lady]

Can't remember the last time I was entertained at the Mad Stad.

I've been a season ticket holder for 20 odd years but am struggling to see the point.

It's not enjoyable.
I could go to any game I wanted anyway, many in a decent seat.
It's probably just as cheap to pay by game when all the special offers are added up.
I've got enough points to go to any away game I want.
It doesn't cost me money to miss games I can't get to.

So i'm wondering what's the point?

Sounds like you're desperately in need of a break, so take it.

I've enjoyed and been entertained in all but the two Ipswich games I've seen this season, so I don't know what your problem is.

His "problem" is that he's seen far more matches at the Mad Stad than you have this season.

[Platypuss]

Of course I will be renewing, im not a fair weathered supporter...


... and Daddy pays for it anyway.

[The 17 Bus]

The club could well be looking at re-setting the loyalty points as well, start everyone at zero, except renewers, possibly leave points from away games on the total as well.

If a lot do not renew then there is an opportunity to condense folk a little, with many of the non renewers seats being snapped up by others in movers week. If there are 12-000 ST holders, as the last time we were at this level, the bulk of remaining seats will be the ends of the U West, swaths of the North, mostly corners and down the front, the front of the east.

I cant see many of the renerers not wanting to take the best seats, often the real point of a ST.

[Wycombe Royal]

In my extended family alone we have 13 ST holders - that's quite some amount of money in this current economic crisis.

Are you paying for all of them then?

If so can I be part of your extended family? I'll do the ironing occasionally........

[Royal Lady]

Of course I'm not paying for all of them, but the point remains that my extended family have a vast number of STs and have had for the past 25 years and it's getting to the point now, despite a price freeze, that we're starting to question whether it's worth it again this year.

[Big Foot]

In the current economic meltdown (with potentially 4 less home games a season IF we go up) - how could the club really justify increasing prices?