Renewals season tickets&memberships

[skiathospurs]

http://www.thstofficial.com/thst-news/ticket-exchange-thst-comment
Ticket Exchange - THST Comment
8/2/2017

Since the Club ended its commercial partnership with StubHub at the start of June and announced that the resale platform was to be taken back in house, we've lobbied consistently for a face-value exchange tailored for the unique circumstances of Wembley next season. We said this should be done while retaining the flexibility to adapt in the future into a service that is appropriate for and of real benefit to fans of Tottenham Hotspur.

Such is the impact of TV that over half of Spurs' fixtures are rescheduled for broadcast across any given season. That's before games are displaced due to European commitments. This means Season Ticket holders are essentially buying 19 games 'blind'. There will be occasions when real life gets in the way of football and matches will be missed. The resale platform should enable fans who can’t make a match give others the opportunity to attend in their place while recouping their money. It's a simple premise.

Yesterday, the Club belatedly announced the mechanics of the new ticket exchange after six weeks of persistent lobbying from THST. We felt that these details should have been available from the start of the Season Ticket sales process to enable fans to make an informed purchase. Instead, the Club provided only a sketchy outline and, it now transpires, has not taken any of our recommendations on board.

Confirmation that the ticket exchange will open only when the entire stadium has sold out effectively means there is no exchange. Wembley rarely, if ever, officially sells out. And certainly not at the prices THFC is charging.

We had lobbied for the exchange to open by area. Spurs made the decision to sell almost all of Level 1 (lower tier) exclusively to Season Ticket holders in an attempt to preserve atmosphere. This means members will be left with mainly Level 5 (top tier) seats.

By opening the exchange once Level 1 had sold out, Season Ticket holders would have been offered a functional resale platform. And members would have had the option to purchase a seat in the lower bowl. The Club has chosen not to do this.

Given the price differential from Level 1 to Level 5, the extortionate £7.50 transactional charge levied on each seat purchased via the exchange, and given that a lower bowl seat is a vastly different experience to an upper tier seat, concerns around cannibalising primary sales were, in our opinion, marginal. The Club disagreed.

We believe the ticket exchange announcement is the latest in a series of mistakes made by the Club this summer; mistakes that will have a negative impact on supporters and the Club itself. Every action has a consequence, and the Club has seemingly stumbled from one bad decision to another, increasingly boxing itself in.

Let's recap on some of those key decisions. The Club refused to allow a Season Ticket amnesty, or sabbatical, for both renewals and new Season Ticket purchases, forcing fans to commit for Wembley or lose their chance of a guaranteed seat in the new stadium.

Season Tickets were then priced at a level above what we, and a significant proportion of supporters, were expecting. They were also priced in isolation from match day pricing, meaning when the Club came to set those individual match prices, it was limited by the parameters it had already set for itself. Match day pricing was, as a consequence, not one designed to fill a 90,000 seater stadium. Certainly not the 'bums on seats' policy deployed with such success for the European campaign last season.

One positive decision was ending the partnership with StubHub. This presented the Club with an opportunity to tailor-make a platform that reflected the exceptional circumstances of next season and maintained an important service for fans. The Club has not grasped this opportunity.

The Club has, however, left itself a get out. It says it reserves the right to vary the criteria that triggers the exchange opening. It is going to have to do that if fans are to be given anything approaching a fair system, and if the embarrassment of empty seats is to be avoided. It can wait for evidence of its mistake to emerge, damaging the Club's reputation, or it can respond to the widespread opposition already voiced by fans. Announcing clearly that the ticket exchange will open as sections sell out would show that the Club does listen to its fans, and would offer practical benefits to the Club and its supporters. We urge fans to make their feelings known directly to the Club.

We remain as willing as we've always been to work constructively together with the Club.

THST Board

 

[Glenjamin]

Was just on my network there and have seen Spurs v Chelsea is on general sale and is no where near full, so chances of getting any ticket sold on the exchange this season is nil if a derby first home game of the season doesn't sell out. I wasn't to worried this season I knew it would be hard but really all the fees and stipulations really do make the exchange borderline useless. The board know all season tickets are bought and paid, so better to put a person in an unpaid empty seat so they get all the profit instead of having to return a bit to the ST holders. Proper scandal.

It's funny how changing from a bronze ticket purchaser to being more on the inside with an ST begins to show just how much the club tries to bleed everyone of their hard earned. Usually I'm just buying a ticket but now I'm reading in to all the Spurs pricing news.

For me though an ST saves me money travelling from N.I, and hopefully once we return to WHL the exchange will become useful.

 

[skiathospurs]

How many times do I have to say that Levy and the board of EvilVCo are money grabbing cunts who are ripping the hard earned from our hands and care only about the wedge? All this bollocks about the great things he has done for the club - everything he has done had been done with our money and for the sole purpose of making him and EvilCo rich as fuck.

I am fucked off with the greed of corporate football, totally and completely fucked off with the greed of almost every cunt in this fucked up greedy, country. Greed is a fucking sickness spreading through the country fuelled by those lying rich cunts who will earn more money in a day than you ever will in a lifetime lying their fucking bollocks off about the EU, they will make a fucking fortune regardless, while everybody else will get poorer. Just like Levy and the cunts of EvilCo who will make fucking millions, maybe even billions from the stadium development and greedy arsed cuntish property speculation they have dipped their duty fucking capitalist exploiting fingers into. There is no need for the cunts to even charge a penny for tickets with the huge amount of money they are getting from Sky - the equivalent of nearly a quarter of a million season tickets!

Greedy cunt football team owners, greedy cunt agents, greedy cunt players, greedy cunts all of them - it is our fucking money, I have had enough. I don't think I will be giving Levy another penny of my money, so you cunts will be denied the pleasure of my gentle, easy going, good natured, grand-fatherly company.

I wonder if I will live long enough to enjoy the revolution that is surely coming? The dreams of generations of young people have been stolen by the rich property owning cunts who have made sure that nobody else gets a slice of the pie, why the fuck would they work their bollocks off just to pay the rent and maybe get to see a football match once a year if they were lucky? Serfdom is alive and well in the facist non-republic Monarchy formerly known as the UK. Levy and the other corporate cunts are close to the top of this pile of shit and the stupid cunts like us are firmly at the bottom, with plenty of cunts in the middle that will be sorted out after the Plutocracy have been dealt with. 2017? Are you having a fucking laugh? We are being dragged back into the fucking middle ages by the wealthy elite. A change is coming.

Ooooh did I stray into politics a tiny bit there? I think I might have done. Hopefully nobody noticed. I am feeling a little bit political this morning - as I was putting the bins out the flag waver down the road thought it would be amusing to shout out to me that the pound had risen against the dollar, proving that Brexit was great. Cunt, cunt, cunt and cunt. The pound, despite rising from fuck-all to fuck-all and a bit is still worth fuck-all and even less than fuck-all against the Euro, and he is a cunt. I told him that he was a cunt , which seemed to upset him and he called me a Marxist as if that was an insult and hurried back into his house. Cunt.

What concerns me is I have been here before.
In 92 i refused to give Sugar a penny more after boxing the ground,his egotistical sacking of Venables,treatment of fans as "plebs"(i didnt make it to Gross and Graham thank god),and I didnt go again til ENIC came in.My love for the club is unconditional,my love for Scholar,Sugar and Levy is not.
The warning signs have been there for a while,but I guess BMJ,harry,bale and Poch have allowed a feeling of omniptant arrogance to set in for the board as success on the field hid the way all profiteers work by keeping us satisfied while they have a wallet reacharound.Now they can charge what they like,add whatever terms&conditions as they like,however snidey practise has crept in.Stubhub,then taking members/STHs money before announcing demolishion of the paxton corner and new rules of ticketing application.I in no way believe the reasoning for this became apparent late May,a stadium years in the planning,Mace and its advisors would have talked about this neccesity (demolishion of north-east corner) long before we all paid our subs.Now if it was needed I have no problem with the decsion itself,but the lack of transparency to the supporters and their terms and conditions changing after paying?Hmmmmm.
Now we have a new level of pricing,because we are at wembley,back in May when we stumped up for memberships,STs why was this not sorted before,same with the inhouse ticket exchange system and "deal" offered now?surely the many many months planning allow for this?they know where every nut and bolt is going in the new ground,but cant work out ticketing for fans until 1½ weeks before the season starts?Bollocks.
They are burying bad news until its too late to change your mind,its bad practise to shit on your loyal cough cough customers (if we are merely viewed as such),football without fans is not half the spectacal,anti Levy feeling is manifesting through lack of transfers,this is misguided,as its his treatment of the people he is meant to represent of the club he is meant to be custodian of that will lead to pressure on his tenure.
I hope they change tack on the course before NWHL opens,already now there is a bad feeling growing against Levy,wont be pretty if it breaks out into plain sight and not just on T`internetesphere.
Most of the goodwill Pochettino gave me is nearly gone as far as Levy is concerned.

 

[skiathospurs]

Meanwhile how many days to newcastle away,anyone need to book a train?bus?hotel?

Ben‏ @Benexcell89
When are you anouncing the tickets for the Newcastle game? its cutting it fine dont you think?

Tottenham Hotspur‏Verified account @SpursOfficial 4m4 minutes ago
Tottenham Hotspur Retweeted Ben

We're currently working on the loyalty point adjustment & will make an announcement on the allocation shortly. Thank you for your patience.

 

[Glenjamin]

Meanwhile how many days to newcastle away,anyone need to book a train?bus?hotel?

Ben‏ @Benexcell89
When are you anouncing the tickets for the Newcastle game? its cutting it fine dont you think?

Tottenham Hotspur‏Verified account @SpursOfficial 4m4 minutes ago
Tottenham Hotspur Retweeted Ben

We're currently working on the loyalty point adjustment & will make an announcement on the allocation shortly. Thank you for your patience.

It's wild how long it's taking to sort out this Newcastle game. My brother had to book his flights weeks ago and just hope for the best because as soon as sky announced the Sunday afternoon game Easyjet jumped their prices from 32 quid to 152 quid for the Sunday evening return home. Newcastle fans got their tickets a couple of weeks ago.

 

[skiathospurs]

It's wild how long it's taking to sort out this Newcastle game. My brother had to book his flights weeks ago and just hope for the best because as soon as sky announced the Sunday afternoon game Easyjet jumped their prices from 32 quid to 152 quid for the Sunday evening return home. Newcastle fans got their tickets a couple of weeks ago.

Its a farce TBH.

 

[Dorset]

What concerns me is I have been here before.
In 92 i refused to give Sugar a penny more after boxing the ground,his egotistical sacking of Venables,treatment of fans as "plebs"(i didnt make it to Gross and Graham thank god),and I didnt go again til ENIC came in.My love for the club is unconditional,my love for Scholar,Sugar and Levy is not.
The warning signs have been there for a while,but I guess BMJ,harry,bale and Poch have allowed a feeling of omniptant arrogance to set in for the board as success on the field hid the way all profiteers work by keeping us satisfied while they have a wallet reacharound.Now they can charge what they like,add whatever terms&conditions as they like,however snidey practise has crept in.Stubhub,then taking members/STHs money before announcing demolishion of the paxton corner and new rules of ticketing application.I in no way believe the reasoning for this became apparent late May,a stadium years in the planning,Mace and its advisors would have talked about this neccesity (demolishion of north-east corner) long before we all paid our subs.Now if it was needed I have no problem with the decsion itself,but the lack of transparency to the supporters and their terms and conditions changing after paying?Hmmmmm.
Now we have a new level of pricing,because we are at wembley,back in May when we stumped up for memberships,STs why was this not sorted before,same with the inhouse ticket exchange system and "deal" offered now?surely the many many months planning allow for this?they know where every nut and bolt is going in the new ground,but cant work out ticketing for fans until 1½ weeks before the season starts?Bollocks.
They are burying bad news until its too late to change your mind,its bad practise to shit on your loyal cough cough customers (if we are merely viewed as such),football without fans is not half the spectacal,anti Levy feeling is manifesting through lack of transfers,this is misguided,as its his treatment of the people he is meant to represent of the club he is meant to be custodian of that will lead to pressure on his tenure.
I hope they change tack on the course before NWHL opens,already now there is a bad feeling growing against Levy,wont be pretty if it breaks out into plain sight and not just on T`internetesphere.
Most of the goodwill Pochettino gave me is nearly gone as far as Levy is concerned.

Love for the team and what used to be a club is what allows the Levy's and the Lewisses and the Sheik Rattlenrolls to carry on making money, there will always be enough people who will carry on paying so that the trough is always full for the corporate owners and oligarchs (what the fuck is one of them?) to stick their snouts in.

Football chairmen used to be rich fuckers that loved football, being a chairman was a hobby and a passion, they never expected to make huge chunks of money, they were the business head running the club for the members. That has changed. All of us here are Spurs till death, proper fans, but even some of us die-hards will have a line in the sand that we will not cross. Not an actual line in sand, some of use might not have any sand, I haven't got any sand, there might be some in my fishing tackle box from that one day of summer a couple of week ago when I went down to the beach - that was a cunt of a day as well, for the first time ever I only took one rod and the fucker snapped after catching a single fucking mackerel, he was a nice one, big and tasty, some cunt had a go at me for snapping his little neck, said it was cruel, probably the same sort of cunt who catches a fish then leaves it to die on the beach....am I waffling? No sand, that was what I was talking about, if you haven't got sand to draw a line in you could just draw a line on a piece of paper... no pencil? Oh fuck off, I can't do everything for you.

I don't know how fans of other clubs are treated but we seem to be victims of a casual disregard, I am sure Levy would like the whole of new WHL to be an oikless prawn sandwich zone with everybody paying at least 4 grand a year. He really does not give a flying fuck the fans, he has proved that over and over again, yet folks want to snog him and fiddle with his todger because of the 'great things' he has done for the 'club'. Club? Nah, mate that died a long time ago, a club is an organisation run by and for the benefit of the members, THFC is run for the benefit of EvilCo.

I mourn the death of the working class game, like the dreams of the young generations, stolen by the wealthy elite. There will be a backlash, the proletariat will rise up against the exploitation of the bourgeoisie ........ oh bollocks I appear to be going full mental political again, someone asked me if I would stand as a Labour councillor recently, fuck off I said, too right wing for me them Labour pussies!

 

[Wotspur]

Meanwhile how many days to newcastle away,anyone need to book a train?bus?hotel?

Ben‏ @Benexcell89
When are you anouncing the tickets for the Newcastle game? its cutting it fine dont you think?

Tottenham Hotspur‏Verified account @SpursOfficial 4m4 minutes ago
Tottenham Hotspur Retweeted Ben

We're currently working on the loyalty point adjustment & will make an announcement on the allocation shortly. Thank you for your patience.

It's not rocket science, use the points of last season, 90-95% of STH will have same no of points as last year, that means 90-95% of those who applied would get them , the other 5-10% really won't know they've missed out ....I S really not rocket science.....they ALWAYS LEAVE IT SO LATE, So peeps can't book cheap rail or air fares , and only STH who got tickets are allowed to travel on the club coaches, which are £39 , so if I get lucky, I might have to do over night Megabus or National Expresses .....

 

[skiathospurs]

THST‏ @THSTOfficial 2h2 hours ago
We're still pushing the Club for the Newcastle announcement. Totally unacceptable leaving it this late to inform fans if they have a ticket.

 

[skiathospurs]

160pts for renewing STHs,just announced,however the club site isnt showing totals so people wont know,emails sent and then recalled,seriously did we bury all our admin people in the rubble at whl.
THST spoiling for a fight now with the club,rightly so,all goodwill gone down the toilet in 2 months of closed season.
This is a new low even beating the wheel of doom.

 

[Glenjamin]

160pts for renewing STHs,just announced,however the club site isnt showing totals so people wont know,emails sent and then recalled,seriously did we bury all our admin people in the rubble at whl.
THST spoiling for a fight now with the club,rightly so,all goodwill gone down the toilet in 2 months of closed season.
This is a new low even beating the wheel of doom.

Absolutely shit crack from Tottenham the way they have done things. I have a successful and unsuccessful message. I believe I have been unsuccessful in the end, but lucky for them I didn't rush off and buy a train ticket or something if I'd been a local. Unlucky for my brother though who is over in Newcastle all weekend and thought he was polishing off a great weekend with an away ticket for the game.

Tottenham are having a mare and we haven't even kicked a football yet!

 

[Don Diaz]

160pts for renewing STHs,just announced,however the club site isnt showing totals so people wont know,emails sent and then recalled,seriously did we bury all our admin people in the rubble at whl.
THST spoiling for a fight now with the club,rightly so,all goodwill gone down the toilet in 2 months of closed season.
This is a new low even beating the wheel of doom.

Whilst I agree with you and those affected, there's inevitably going to be some shit with changes on this scale. It's being poorly communicated as well.

 

[skiathospurs]

Whilst I agree with you and those affected, there's inevitably going to be some shit with changes on this scale. It's being poorly communicated as well.

Its just this was so long in the planning or rather it wasnt.
If THFC is a business then this shit is inexcusable-

 

[skiathospurs]

Tottenham Hotspur‏Verified account @SpursOfficial 24m24 minutes ago
tickets for our meeting with @juventusfc can be purchased right up until Saturday's 5.30pm kick-off.

http://spurs.to/JuventusTickets

The reckoning is between 20-30,000 will attend,good job irrelevant sports,good job.

 

[skiathospurs]

Excellent,after seeing it on twitter thought I`d check my emails,yup 3 from the club despite not even applying.

I was successful,then unsuccessful then an email recalling the successful email,good job lads&lasses.

 

[Motspur Hotspur]

What concerns me is I have been here before.
In 92 i refused to give Sugar a penny more after boxing the ground,his egotistical sacking of Venables,treatment of fans as "plebs"(i didnt make it to Gross and Graham thank god),and I didnt go again til ENIC came in.My love for the club is unconditional,my love for Scholar,Sugar and Levy is not.
The warning signs have been there for a while,but I guess BMJ,harry,bale and Poch have allowed a feeling of omniptant arrogance to set in for the board as success on the field hid the way all profiteers work by keeping us satisfied while they have a wallet reacharound.Now they can charge what they like,add whatever terms&conditions as they like,however snidey practise has crept in.Stubhub,then taking members/STHs money before announcing demolishion of the paxton corner and new rules of ticketing application.I in no way believe the reasoning for this became apparent late May,a stadium years in the planning,Mace and its advisors would have talked about this neccesity (demolishion of north-east corner) long before we all paid our subs.Now if it was needed I have no problem with the decsion itself,but the lack of transparency to the supporters and their terms and conditions changing after paying?Hmmmmm.
Now we have a new level of pricing,because we are at wembley,back in May when we stumped up for memberships,STs why was this not sorted before,same with the inhouse ticket exchange system and "deal" offered now?surely the many many months planning allow for this?they know where every nut and bolt is going in the new ground,but cant work out ticketing for fans until 1½ weeks before the season starts?Bollocks.
They are burying bad news until its too late to change your mind,its bad practise to shit on your loyal cough cough customers (if we are merely viewed as such),football without fans is not half the spectacal,anti Levy feeling is manifesting through lack of transfers,this is misguided,as its his treatment of the people he is meant to represent of the club he is meant to be custodian of that will lead to pressure on his tenure.
I hope they change tack on the course before NWHL opens,already now there is a bad feeling growing against Levy,wont be pretty if it breaks out into plain sight and not just on T`internetesphere.
Most of the goodwill Pochettino gave me is nearly gone as far as Levy is concerned.

Bang on. Levy doesn't really know what it's like to properly upset the Spurs fans, he should ask Sugar I'm pretty sure he'll confirm it's not a nice experience!

 

[Motspur Hotspur]

I can get 50-1 for us to finish in the bottom half of the Prem, after reading this thread I'm thinking if the Club can fuck up such basic logistics off the pitch what mess can be made on it!

 

[Don Diaz]

Its just this was so long in the planning or rather it wasnt.
If THFC is a business then this shit is inexcusable-

You're right of course, the solution should have and could have been communicated so much better as soon as they knew when they had a problem. Large scale new projects, products and services often have issues, in every walk of life and every industry. It's how you deal with them that counts.

 

[Dorset]

Don't forget to get your Burnley ticket! I got an email reminder this morning, I won't be going, but if I was it would have been useful . Last week I got an offer to buy friends and family tickets for the chavs game, so I expect Burnley will sell out quickly. It might be a bit sad seeing Wembley emptier than a friendly against Juventus priced stupidly. If Levy wasn't so fucking greedy and had priced the season tickets at £300 and the match day tickets at twenty quid then it could have been so different. Twenty is plenty, home and away!

I might go to a few games this season, but these late kick offs are a bugger, the Dorset border guards shut the gates at 9.00 after the last train from dirty, dirty London enters paradise. At the moment a Sunday game would be impossible as Waterloo is practically closed while they extend the platforms.

 

[skiathospurs]

Don't forget to get your Burnley ticket! I got an email reminder this morning, I won't be going, but if I was it would have been useful . Last week I got an offer to buy friends and family tickets for the chavs game, so I expect Burnley will sell out quickly. It might be a bit sad seeing Wembley emptier than a friendly against Juventus priced stupidly. If Levy wasn't so fucking greedy and had priced the season tickets at £300 and the match day tickets at twenty quid then it could have been so different. Twenty is plenty, home and away!

I might go to a few games this season, but these late kick offs are a bugger, the Dorset border guards shut the gates at 9.00 after the last train from dirty, dirty London enters paradise. At the moment a Sunday game would be impossible as Waterloo is practically closed while they extend the platforms.

My tentative plans are back for manure and nld home and scousers away in feb,If they are late KO you`re welcome to stay for B&B chez Gandalf,I could tie in a trip to the arse end of the world (basingstoke) day after if that helps get you back?

As for ticketing too late,the club did change several hundred tier 5 seats to £20,much que howling from STHs,who THST keep explaining to have much better seats therefore cost more.I think they got a bit over exuberant after 3 CL games last year,hopefully a lesson learned for NWHL.

 

[Don Diaz]

My tentative plans are back for manure and nld home and scousers away in feb,If they are late KO you`re welcome to stay for B&B chez Gandalf,I could tie in a trip to the arse end of the world (basingstoke) day after if that helps get you back?

As for ticketing too late,the club did change several hundred tier 5 seats to £20,much que howling from STHs,who THST keep explaining to have much better seats therefore cost more.I think they got a bit over exuberant after 3 CL games last year,hopefully a lesson learned for NWHL.

The 3 game CL pricing last year was spot on.

 

[Dorset]

My tentative plans are back for manure and nld home and scousers away in feb,If they are late KO you`re welcome to stay for B&B chez Gandalf,I could tie in a trip to the arse end of the world (basingstoke) day after if that helps get you back?

As for ticketing too late,the club did change several hundred tier 5 seats to £20,much que howling from STHs,who THST keep explaining to have much better seats therefore cost more.I think they got a bit over exuberant after 3 CL games last year,hopefully a lesson learned for NWHL.

Excellent, what a nice bloke you are, I don't believe what everybody else says. Sounds like a plan, as long as there is no quaffing of puffing involved - or we'll tell Mrs D that there ain't anyway. Ah Basingstoke, so bad they named it once, but compared to Bracknell it is almost as nice as Aleppo. The only good thing about Basingstoke is that it is half way home! The United game is in the middle of the night! Don't they know us country folk go to bed at 9.00pm?

 

[skiathospurs]

The 3 game CL pricing last year was spot on.

As a wise(ish) angry man said,ticket pricing is such a small margin now with billions of tv money washing around,empty seats means less programmes,pies,beers,crisps,maltesers,bagels sold,less people visiting the shop,getting a full stadium even with reduced prices has to be the aim.It helps the atmosphere and results for sure and as it is said,football without fans is almost worthless to watch,its why they dont televise training matches!!
I think it was such a success last year,ticketing wise for european games,they got a bit carried away,selling out 4 matches is a different ball game to selling out over a season with domestic fixtures.

 

[skiathospurs]

Excellent, what a nice bloke you are, I don't believe what everybody else says. Sounds like a plan, as long as there is no quaffing of puffing involved - or we'll tell Mrs D that there ain't anyway. Ah Basingstoke, so bad they named it once, but compared to Bracknell it is almost as nice as Aleppo. The only good thing about Basingstoke is that it is half way home! The United game is in the middle of the night! Don't they know us country folk go to bed at 9.00pm?

Anyway,I could do with someone to wake me up so I dont end up halfway to dover on the train AGAIN!!

 

[Dorset]

Anyway,I could do with someone to wake me up so I dont end up halfway to dover on the train AGAIN!!

I'd rather wake up in Dover than fucking Basingstoke, just., it's a close call. But half way to Dover could be a total cunt because that would be around Maidstone - twinned with Bracknell.

 

[skiathospurs]

I'd rather wake up in Dover than fucking Basingstoke, just., it's a close call. But half way to Dover could be a total cunt because that would be around Maidstone - twinned with Bracknell.

medway towns,must be the smell of the mud that wakes me up

 

[skiathospurs]

http://www.fsf.org.uk/blog/view/is-92-for-a-pre-season-friendly-the-craziest-price-yet
Is £92 for a pre-season friendly the craziest price yet?

Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust co-chair Martin Cloake says last weekend may go down in history as the time the tipping point was reached on prices…

Tottenham Hotspur took on Juventus at Wembley Stadium in a pre-season friendly organised by Relevent Sports on Saturday. The company hired the stadium, invited the teams, and set the ticket prices. Fans were asked to pay between £24 and £92. To watch a pre-season friendly. The £24 tickets were not the most widely available.

Just 26,251 fans turned up. There was no organised campaign. Fans just didn’t buy the tickets. And that made the message all the more powerful.

There was an outcry as soon as the prices were announced. Tottenham Hotspur was very quick to distance itself – pointing out Relevent had set the prices. Fans voiced the view that the Club should have refused the invitation once the ticket prices were known. Stick up for its fans. But the Club didn’t. The game was pushed heavily through Club channels. It made little difference.

Just over a week before the game, prices were “restructured”. Seat price banding was changed so that more seats at cheaper – and I use that word in its loosest sense – prices were available. Those fans who had paid a hefty whack for seats that were now less of a whack were refunded the difference. I cannot remember an instance when ticket prices for a football match were dropped after being announced and refunds made before the game.

The game between last season’s Premier League runners-up and the Italian champions and Champions League finalists was played out in front of swathes of empty seats at the national stadium, the stadium that will be Tottenham Hotspur’s home for a year. Fans already dismayed by the Club’s failure to price season tickets and match day tickets at a level that reflects the increased capacity simply stayed away. Hardly a great marketing message to send out.

Relevent Sports, of course, are the company trying to get a closed European Super League off the ground. Just a year ago, Relevent chairman Charlie Stillitano was complaining that the likes of Leicester and Spurs had no place keeping teams such as Manchester United and Chelsea out of the Champions League. (just when I thought they couldnt appear to be bigger cunts to me)This year, Spurs are apparently good enough box-office to justify demanding up to £92 for an ordinary seat at a pre-season friendly.

It’s hard to see who has gained out of this. Fairer pricing would have surely seen a better attendance, more income all round, and a better image projected around the world.

But there’s one gain. Whenever ticket pricing is debated, someone pipes up with the view that ‘the only way you’ll get to change anything is if the fans don’t go’.

Last weekend, Tottenham Hotspur’s fans didn’t go.

 

[Dorset]

http://www.fsf.org.uk/blog/view/is-92-for-a-pre-season-friendly-the-craziest-price-yet
Is £92 for a pre-season friendly the craziest price yet?

Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust co-chair Martin Cloake says last weekend may go down in history as the time the tipping point was reached on prices…

Tottenham Hotspur took on Juventus at Wembley Stadium in a pre-season friendly organised by Relevent Sports on Saturday. The company hired the stadium, invited the teams, and set the ticket prices. Fans were asked to pay between £24 and £92. To watch a pre-season friendly. The £24 tickets were not the most widely available.

Just 26,251 fans turned up. There was no organised campaign. Fans just didn’t buy the tickets. And that made the message all the more powerful.

There was an outcry as soon as the prices were announced. Tottenham Hotspur was very quick to distance itself – pointing out Relevent had set the prices. Fans voiced the view that the Club should have refused the invitation once the ticket prices were known. Stick up for its fans. But the Club didn’t. The game was pushed heavily through Club channels. It made little difference.

Just over a week before the game, prices were “restructured”. Seat price banding was changed so that more seats at cheaper – and I use that word in its loosest sense – prices were available. Those fans who had paid a hefty whack for seats that were now less of a whack were refunded the difference. I cannot remember an instance when ticket prices for a football match were dropped after being announced and refunds made before the game.

The game between last season’s Premier League runners-up and the Italian champions and Champions League finalists was played out in front of swathes of empty seats at the national stadium, the stadium that will be Tottenham Hotspur’s home for a year. Fans already dismayed by the Club’s failure to price season tickets and match day tickets at a level that reflects the increased capacity simply stayed away. Hardly a great marketing message to send out.

Relevent Sports, of course, are the company trying to get a closed European Super League off the ground. Just a year ago, Relevent chairman Charlie Stillitano was complaining that the likes of Leicester and Spurs had no place keeping teams such as Manchester United and Chelsea out of the Champions League. (just when I thought they couldnt appear to be bigger cunts to me)This year, Spurs are apparently good enough box-office to justify demanding up to £92 for an ordinary seat at a pre-season friendly.

It’s hard to see who has gained out of this. Fairer pricing would have surely seen a better attendance, more income all round, and a better image projected around the world.

But there’s one gain. Whenever ticket pricing is debated, someone pipes up with the view that ‘the only way you’ll get to change anything is if the fans don’t go’.

Last weekend, Tottenham Hotspur’s fans didn’t go.

I may have mentioned this? Levy is a cunt. EvilCo are cunts. Lewis is a cunt. We are cunts for lining their pockets. Relevant Sports are double cunts. Everybody is a cunt.

It's all about how much money they can rip from our wallets before we say enough, the first whispers of that were heard at Wembley at the weekend, more whispers flittered around like whispery things whispering when tickets against the fucking Premier League champions and a London rival not only went on general sale but they offered multiple tickets. The whisper will become a roar, Levy will fiddle while unsold hotdogs burn, the golden goose is on it's last legs and one more squeeze from Levy will see the fucker explode. You know the old saying never kick a gift horse in the bollocks before its hatched in the one basket you are keeping it in. Wise words.

 

[Don Diaz]

Dorset's on a roll........ha ha

 

[Dorset]

Dorset's on a roll........ha ha

It's Levy mate, he's the gift that keeps on giving. Just when I am running short of ammunition he fills my armoury. Like the egomaniac Trump and his Tweets, Levy can't help himself, he is a plutomaniac ( I looked that one up, nice word, I shall use it often ) , he wants ALL the money.