Also just noticed it’s £18-£30 to take a 4-13 year old.
That’s ridiculous.
I know they won’t care currently they can fill the seats but they really are risk of losing fans who will simply be priced out.
If I was to take my 3 kids it could potentially cost £160 to watch them play Brentford. Obviously I’m not going to do this.
No wonder non league crowds are growing.
Ingo will be along shortly.
It’s alright for him and his cheap season ticket. And he punishes his kids by taking them to Meadow Lane.
I breifly entertained the notion of going to Sincil Bank more often.
Then I remembered division 3 is fucking shit, and so if I can't get to WFCG because of pricing / availability and I really can't find anything better to do, I think I'd rather keep the cash and watch final score on mute with the partridge commentary and talk shit on the interspaz with a bunch of imaginary mongs instead.
That's the impact of the leeds finance guy, Paul Bell. Doesn't seem to have a clue on how to raise money apart from putting prices up.
He did it at Leeds (most expensive away tickets in the Championship), and now doing it Trentside (except he can't rinse the away fans, so has to target home supporters)
Top tier membership was £60 in 2022-23, but is now £99.
Cat A tickets that season were £35-£40, this season they are £50-£70.
Yes, can remember taking my son in the family section during the first year up and it was under £50 for us both. Has crept up a bit since then but this year it would be £85 for an adult and child to watch Forest v Brentford in the family section which I think is scandalous.
There is definitely less of a rush now in the Pro members category.
The fans groups have not even acknowledged this price rise, it’s almost like they don’t want to rock the boat as they all have season tickets…….
Yep. My brother and I aren't going to Brentford as we're away on holiday. I offered the use of our codes to our WhatsApp group, where they are normally snapped up - initially a few interested mates - but then they all decided to watch it on TV and save their dosh. If anyone here is keen let me know.
Temps pissed me off on the recent ForestFocus. Waffling on about this is the modern world. Nothing can be done. But how at least they've kept the season tickets reasonable. Well bully for you mate. That said, I am wary of making this into an argument between sections of the fanbase. We should all be united against the rises, not against each other.
Shady’s Left Hand: “moan, whinge, drone on about why-oh-why-oh-why haven’t we already signed 8 players?”
Shady’s Right Hand: “they’ve put prices up; it’s outrageous”.
Do you not spot the connection?
As was said on the same podcast a few minutes later, it costs £30 to watch Stags in League One. We’re in the Premier League, where salaries are bonkers. Sure, we don’t have to pay those salaries… but then you’d be moaning about the quality of the players we signed.
Y'see, if I was the leader of a (currently) minority political party looking to jump on (another) populist topic du jour to appeal to the 'working family man' (sic) for support and votes, without any real intention of actual doing owt, I might tempted to see if I can get a bandwagon rolling.
Here’s the reality. The clubs that can spunk oodles of cash on every elite player on the market also have the most soulless stadia with both (a) extreme wealth who have no real passion, (b) fervent (often foreign) supporters who get to attend occasionally and (c) tourists willing to pay through the nose to experience the “EPL”. Those clubs sell the listed season ticket seats for 5-10x their actual price and can charge more for members tickets.
For those of us who didn’t get season tickets/membership at precisely the right moment in the promotion season, these avenues represent some of the only ways to see a game live. Other than the generosity of folks on here.
You may not like it (and in fact many turn their noses up at it) but for clubs aspiring to “eat at the top table” [sic] you have to fleece the fans for everything they have and run the risk that the atmosphere drops when they walk away. The prices are particularly noticeable for provincial clubs where average earnings are lower than London or Manchester.
And no, one season on Champions League money where we didn’t get out of the league stage, would not have solved this. In fact it would make it worse.
You should look into how much of the income at Forest comes from ticket prices as a percentage of our income/expenditure. Or listen to some of the Price of Football podcasts if that's too hard for you. Any connection between tickets going up by £5 a game for 10,000 people and us not signing the next Messi is purely in your head.
By that logic, why charge for tickets at all as the vast majority of the money comes from the TV deals.
I accept it’s the reality and it will still sell out whilst we are doing well. I also accept that NFFC do not give a flying shit about me or whether my kids attend.
I’ll go less as I’m not paying the prices required, someone else will go instead. My kids won’t go and sadly (for me) support someone else instead. (Club won’t care).
I’m probably more annoyed that not even a squeak from the fans groups, particularity Forza, who ‘withdrew their support’ during the relegation battle as their season ticket prices went up. It just reaffirms to me that the fans groups are generally about them rather than the supporter base as a whole.
I don't see much of them these days with not being at games, but I think Forza were always a little loathe to get involved at times, at least as a collective, because that wasn't what they were about. Their purpose has always been around the atmosphere in the ground and linking the present to the past through their displays. On occasion the Forza name has leaked into other conversation probably as much as anything via individual views.
There is a fan thing (council?) that was set up because you have to have one in the Premier League, where different groups are represented and it's supposed to be a forum for discussion and for raising issues, but we're doing well in most people's eyes so who there is going to rock the boat? The club already has the 'get rid of troublemakers' clause in season tickets and memberships and there is a queue of replacements to draw down. Fans' opinions really don't matter until we start losing, a lot.
I get that and I always thought the Forza thing was about atmosphere in the ground. But when price rises hit them they were very quick to get political and withdrew the support they had in place for the upcoming game. For me they can’t have it both ways.
Welcome comrade.
