Ticket Prices

[shrek]

I'm starting to think that I live in the wrong place, with everyone talking about £2 pints. A pint of normal lager in Suffolk averages out at about £3.20-£3.50.

I think £10 for about 3 hours of sport and socialising is pretty good value.

To put it into context of other sporting events that I attend, a ticket to Leicester Tigers is £25 and a ticket to the British Touring Cars is about £25-£30 and to go see England Rugby or F1 you are into 3 figures.

What I am trying to get at is that a £2 increase isn't really that much especially when the normal ticket price increase is 25% of that £2. You can multiply it by number of games, number of people or whatever, but it still boils down to less than one beer, per person, per game.

If it came down to one less beer per week, or one less hockey game per month, I know which I would choose, but hey, that's me. I'm just glad that I will have a team to watch, and judging by the signings announced so far, quite a competitive team.

[tom]

Jul 6, 2011 15:52:17 GMT shrek said:

I'm starting to think that I live in the wrong place, with everyone talking about £2 pints. A pint of normal lager in Suffolk averages out at about £3.20-£3.50.

I think £10 for about 3 hours of sport and socialising is pretty good value.

To put it into context of other sporting events that I attend, a ticket to Leicester Tigers is £25 and a ticket to the British Touring Cars is about £25-£30 and to go see England Rugby or F1 you are into 3 figures.

What I am trying to get at is that a £2 increase isn't really that much especially when the normal ticket price increase is 25% of that £2. You can multiply it by number of games, number of people or whatever, but it still boils down to less than one beer, per person, per game.

If it came down to one less beer per week, or one less hockey game per month, I know which I would choose, but hey, that's me. I'm just glad that I will have a team to watch, and judging by the signings announced so far, quite a competitive team.

When I'm up in Sheffield I can get a pint for £2.60 in my local or £1.25 in a particular pub in the city centre on Fridays after 7pm...I think you're living on the wrong side of the North/South divide Shrek

I kind of see your point about the other sports, the only thing I'd say about it is that Leicester Tigers/England Rugby/F1 are world class teams/events so you'd expect to pay more, whereas Telford Tigers are essentially a semi-pro team playing in the second tier league in a mediocre (at best) hockey nation. Still, I think £5 for a concession ticket is cracking value, as I said before.

[shrek]

Sorry, I wasn't trying to compare like for like, just trying to show that Tigers are good value for 3 hours of entertainment.

As you point out, Leicester Tigers are a world class team (we beat South Africa a while ago), but with absolutely no disrespect meant, AFC Telford are not exactly world class and they charged £11 per game last year according to their website.

Anyone who knows me will tell you that you can write what I know about football on a postage stamp, but as I understand it, they are in about the 5th tier of English/Welsh football whereas Tigers are in the 2nd tier of UK hockey.

PS, where I live in Suffolk only works out to be about 25 miles South of Telford, just about 200 miles further East :-)

[stews2u]

5th tier football still attracts a larger crowd than 2nd tier ice hockey in this country.

[topbeats]

Jul 6, 2011 17:40:19 GMT stews2u said:

5th tier football still attracts a larger crowd than 2nd tier ice hockey in this country.

...and this year they've dropped their successful kids for a quid scheme, now charging (I think) a fiver and put their normal admission prices up to about £13 (albeit the website han't been updated yet).

I remember seeing an article in the Star a few weeks after the season ended.

[stews2u]

I expect Telford United have raised their prices as they have gained promotion to a higher league, therefore needing to invest in better players and higher wages. Also it is a matter of supply and demand. As they are now in a higher league they can demand more money from their fans as they will be, in principle, supplying a better quality of football.

If Telford Tigers had had a more successful season (and before anyone shouts at me, I know survival was a major achievement) and maybe made the playoffs then I think there would be more justification to the price hike.

What you say about the actual price of the ticket going up by 50p is a fair point, but as we are talking about TELFORD Tigers and I would guess that most of the support, though not exclusively, would come from within Telford and therefore from Flex card holders. So for the home fans the price has increased by £2.

[shrek]

I know an awful lot of fans, who travel from outside of Telford (Shrewsbury, Stafford, Cannock, Wolverhampton, Wales etc) as Tigers are still their local team, not to mention the ex-locals who have moved further afield who have never had any benefit from a flex card.

You have a fair point about AFC moving up a league (I didn't know that, I refer you to my earlier postage stamp comment about my knowledge of football), but if Tigers want to improve, we need to pay for it somehow.

£10 is equal to, or below what most teams in our league charge. Even taking the full £2 extra that flex card holders will have to pay, it's still only £2. All I can suggest is that flex card holders think of all the money that they've saved over the years that the rest of us haven't.

[benji]

Andy, RE the 27 pints in one session we weren't far off that on the cricket funday we the session finished about 2:00am on the monday morning

As Shrek has mentioned on here considering we get 3 hours of entertainment which to me is very good value for money.

Oh and Shrek I was just trying to compare it to something and a pint was the first thing that come to mind

[frosty]

I'm sorry, these ppl comlaining about ticket prices and how harsh it is! yes it sucks that the rates go up but as you are well aware and have commented yourself, we have a team to run and support and unfortunatly money as we all know doesn't grow on trees! I've been a Tigers fan for over 20 yrears and traveled all over the country and have some fond fantastic memories and made some incredible friends along the way!
I for 1 can not wait for the new season to start! yes finances are a little short but then I will be making sacrafices in other areas even possibly cancelling my sky subscription for the winter! marks and spensers don't make the memoirs and happy times I and I know others have the Tigers and the Ice Hockey community across the counrty do!!
I do see your point but I do think your being a little short minded and that is my own oppion! enjoy your extended sky package! bring on the new season!! O and it would be nice to see all the fans pulling together and supporting as 1!!! Kindest regards x

[onlyme]

What is being done to increase attendance at home games? And, has anyone on the committee applied to sports match to double any sponsorship received?
The half season ticket is a good idea. I have previously mentioned that Birmingham City Football Club previously did mini-season tickets for 6 home games throughout the season. This made it affordable for my family to watch a few games.
I can see both sides of this argument but I think the committee needs to focus on filling the rink and creating some atmosphere so that supporters want to return.

[topbeats]

Jul 20, 2011 16:16:18 GMT onlyme said:

What is being done to increase attendance at home games? And, has anyone on the committee applied to sports match to double any sponsorship received?
The half season ticket is a good idea. I have previously mentioned that Birmingham City Football Club previously did mini-season tickets for 6 home games throughout the season. This made it affordable for my family to watch a few games.
I can see both sides of this argument but I think the committee needs to focus on filling the rink and creating some atmosphere so that supporters want to return.

It's not just the board/committee where this responsibility lies, but also with every fan and all trust members. Remember, that as a stakeholder organisation every trust member owns exactlly the same amount of the team as the next man so ultimately as team owners we all share the same amount of responsibility in creating our own buzz and an atnosphere new fans want to lap up.

Board members only own the exact same amount of the team as you and I, we're all in this together :-)

[deall]

Will there be any discount for people 16-18 in full time education with NUS cards?

[tom]

Aug 10, 2011 22:19:55 GMT deall said:

Will there be any discount for people 16-18 in full time education with NUS cards?

Wouldn't the £5 concession price would apply to that group?