I think the club have got the ST thing about right, apart from the very low starting point and there are still plenty of us paying into the 1873 scheme as well.

There needs to be increments of around £25 to get us back to the true value of a ST until we are back around the £175-200 mark and maybe some kind of discount/ incentive for being a ST holder and an !*&£ member ?

A little while ago there was some marketing stuff about ticket prices at the new stadium and IMO, these cant be any different to BV, as our walk up admission prices are pretty much in line with other clubs.

Yes, there will be better facilities but, if there is a mix of terracing and seating then the terracing should be similar to BV with a small premium for seating.

Everyone wants a good deal and right now, its probably more important to build momentum, prior to the new ground being ready and to get as many fans coming to games as possible.

If the club were to move prices to the "full price" of £250, there is a major risk that supporters would disappear and we need numbers to keep growing.

Personally,I think the instalments thing is excellent and this must help the club in the close season with regular income etc.

I believe the the price of the ticket can only be determined by the quality of the product, but understand that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys... I honestly think it's too early on in the season to say.

I do however think it's a rip off on the gate.

I agree with the half or even a 1/3 ticket and starting to pay as early as tickets are available now I.e August. collect the next bit once payments are recieved in full for that part.
I do wonder how people expect to keep the prices so low. we've paid at top 225 for a seated ticket, anything up to that would be acceptable to me, 125 this year was silly. cant make money at that price

If our league position dosn't improve or even gets worse by the end of the season I would suggest they are over valued.

If you look at it this way IF 5000 ST holders rener at £25 more and that is directly fed into squad building - that equates to a £125k salary spend.
Some will call for a top earner others more spaces in the cap for local youngsters.
A £50 increase will achive both, will only take the ST up to £175 (a little over £13 a game) and will help is move the squad and the club on.
On a monthly DD it would be less than £15 per ST holder spread over the year.
Add on any other benefits/increased benefits that the club can chuck our way and I still see it as extremely good value for money.
I completely agree that some may find it difficult, but that is only due to the present ST price when put up against £22 a game or £286 per season on the gate, I think it holds up.
Also until we are back to paying full whack we are effectively losing ground on our competitors, the longer it takes the further we get left behind (cash wise) and the steeper the gradient of our chase.

As a shift worker and single parent on a tight budget I havent bought a season ticket for this year, partly because I cant afford the outlay, even though the early bird offer is payable over 3 months, but also I can only make it to 6 or 7 of the games in any case.

If the club were to offer a half season ticket of the games of my choice plus a DD scheme over 6 months or more then it would be perfect for me but I cannot expect or hope they will do so because of the administrative nightmare it would probably cause.

If you ask nicely the club might pay it for you too (joke)

That's not right at all.

This is a full time professional sporting organisation requiring a large number of participants. £125 for a full season is stupidly cheap and, whilst I support the reasoning behind it - i.e. growing the numbers of supporters - none of us should accept that this is realistic.

Less than £10 per match for live action sport at the top tier of our sport - when it costs that much to watch pictures projected onto wall at your local cinema - is not sustainable and is in danger of giving people the wrong impression of what can be conceived as value for money - just as you have shown here.

The fact that we are playing poorly is immaterial in this regard - it just makes the sell so much harder.

I agree with him. Regardless of what others are charging I always leave a game thinking 'was that worth £x?' At the end of the season I will bear all that in mind before shelling out again.

Prices need to increase but everyone is facing desperate financial times, the club included. A staged increase over the next 2/3 seasons to Newmarket has to be the way forward. BUT there has to be clarity from the club on Segregation/Smoking/Antisocial behaviour. Happy to do my bit to support the club but it needs to support those that support it better - please!

Spot on.