Is the ticket tax and the matchday premium now affecting attendances?

[dune]

What is currently being offered up by Saints certainly doesn't warrant paying a premium on top of the price of tickets. Corteses ticket tax and matchday premium are all very well when we're worth watching, but at the minute, and given the last two attendances, I feel that Cortese's rip off charges are only going to see our level of support drop both at home and away.

[Thedelldays]

in thruth...attendances around the country are down...ticket tax or not

[NickG]

probably not bad crowd for a league 1 team, without a win at home or a manager and after Swindon game

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

No the surcharge on tickets probably has little if sod all to do with the drop in attendances. I put today's attendance down to disgruntled Pardew supporters 'voting with their feet' and the poor attendance on Tuesday night to do with the fact it was the first round of the JPT.

[Gemmel]

No - Performances are /will.

 

Cortese's stratergy was dependant on one thing - SUCCESS ON THE PITCH.

 

I think he took it as a nailed on certainty that we would win most of our matches. Short time period for season ticket sales, no payment plan etc, would have then forced fans to pay match by match and the ticket tax would have reapped it's rewards, but right now it looks like it will blow up in his face.

Add to that photography decsion and you have someone that doesn't do failure...............learning pretty ******* quickly.

[Liquidshokk]

....Well, all I'll say is some months on I still dont understand why it costs more to buy online than to buy on the day when the idea of the price rise was to stop people buying on the day.... but then I dont understand any of cloteses decisions so why should that surprise me.

[JackanorySFC]

No - Performances are /will.

 

Cortese's stratergy was dependant on one thing - SUCCESS ON THE PITCH.

 

I think he took it as a nailed on certainty that we would win most of our matches. Short time period for season ticket sales, no payment plan etc, would have then forced fans to pay match by match and the ticket tax would have reapped it's rewards, but right now it looks like it will blow up in his face.

Add to that photography decsion and you have someone that doesn't do failure...............learning pretty ******* quickly.

 

Bang on - I went to St Marys at 9.01am on the first day of the season to renew 7 season tickets (last season 3 mates bought them in october so I thought nothing of it) and was told they were no longer on sale. Sacked that game off in disgust and have only been to Orient game so far, have found other things to do and spend my money on now, my mates are mostly self employed so theyre doing cash work. Big big gamble, that won't pay off when you sack a good manager like Pardew that effects results.

[Appy]

I think the fact we were playing Rochdale affected todays attendance.

[chivvy1664]

Matchday premium is done to ease congestion in the ticket office. Matchday tickets are incrimental sales. However to many of us myself included leave it to the last minute to decide to go. If the premium cuts the que on matchdays by half then its done it s job. The fact we are ****e has a bigger effect and we are waiting for Cortese Yes man to be put in place.

[Whitey Grandad]

Of course it must reduce sales, but it's difficult to determine by how much. It's simple-minded to think that people will buy tickets in advance instead of on the day. They won't, they'll just do something else. Whoever took this decision knows nothing about the mindset of the typical football supporter.

[docker-p]

Yes, to the original question.

As an aside. I watched Bordeaux v Toulouse a couple of weeks ago. Top flight football, cracking atmosphere, €18, (£15 ish).

[Smirking_Saint]

Dune why don't you just f*ck off

[1976_Child]

No, just the fact that Cortese has rufled up our footbal club.

 

Today in the Northam/Kings corner it was empty. About 90% empty. 2 weeks ago it was full - not of STs but of people who came on the day.

 

So Cortese? Want to have a flying fukcing guess as to why they weren't their today?

[Bucks Saint]

Only consolation is that less people means less ticket revenue and less food + drink cash and so might just be the one thing that NC gives a monkeys about

[rocknrollman no2]

There were two people near me who said they had had enough,so went to the ticket office after the game and asked for their ST money back.Wether or not they got it i dont know,but it shows the level of bad feeling going around at the moment.

[JustMike]

Dune why don't you just f*ck off

 

 

this.

[kpturner]

There were two people near me who said they had had enough,so went to the ticket office after the game and asked for their ST money back.Wether or not they got it i dont know.

What do you think? The fickle nature of fans will mean that that will be glad they have a ST if the new manager is a cracker......(I did say "if").

[rocknrollman no2]

Well kpturner,i can understand why they did it,especially since all we have seen over the last 8 years has been politics and poor performances(Wembley appearance not included).But personally i wouldve waited to see who we get in and as you say,maybe it may be a cracker.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Dune why don't you just f*ck off

 

Nail on head ultimately.

[Tom8558]

recession?