Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:14 pm  

Did'nt IL say some thing about it going up about £1 a game ?

Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:06 pm  

shooter69 wrote:

Did'nt IL say some thing about it going up about £1 a game ?

The match day price in the Boston Stand (silver) has gone up by £1 a game since 2011 (£20), 2012 (£21), and now 2013 (£22).

In 2010 it was £18.

Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:18 pm  

Pemps wrote:

A £9 rise isn't too bad really.

Why not?

£9 is pretty much pennies, but how is any rise justified?

There's been no rise in VAT for nearly 2 years, inflation is the lowest it's been for 2 years. Added to that, we will most likely not be spending to the full salary cap next year, a number of young players are moving on, money from SKY is at an all time high and we are (presumably) getting a lot more money from sponsors - all this while the renting costs for the DW remain the same, the pre-match and half-time 'entertainment' at games either doesn't exist or is absolute toilet (PLEASE stop doing the Sumo suits thing) and the quality on the pitch around the league gets gradually worse.

I absolutely despise moaning about ticket prices, so this post is kinda ironic, but I would love to know where the £100k from the season ticket price increases is going.

Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:34 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

but how is any rise justified?.

.....Especially if the reorganisation of the reserve squads (or whatever we're supposed to call them now) is designed to primarily save money.

BTW that £9 rise is 4% which is well above current inflation. At least the car park hasn't gone up too.

Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:34 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

Why not?

£9 is pretty much pennies, but how is any rise justified?

There's been no rise in VAT for nearly 2 years, inflation is the lowest it's been for 2 years. Added to that, we will most likely not be spending to the full salary cap next year, a number of young players are moving on, money from SKY is at an all time high and we are (presumably) getting a lot more money from sponsors - all this while the renting costs for the DW remain the same, the pre-match and half-time 'entertainment' at games either doesn't exist or is absolute toilet (PLEASE stop doing the Sumo suits thing) and the quality on the pitch around the league gets gradually worse.

I absolutely despise moaning about ticket prices, so this post is kinda ironic, but I would love to know where the £100k from the season ticket price increases is going.

Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:59 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

I would love to know where the £100k from the season ticket price increases is going.

Here's three initiatives I can name straight away.

Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:14 pm  

Happy clapper

Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:16 pm  

Central Park is (I believe) being funded by the council and the money from our CC win (and other profits last year), is it not?

Wigan TV is a subscription service for people that want it, why the frick should I have to pay for it out of my season ticket? (they've actually cut a lot of content that used to be available on the website freely as well)

And I've no idea what the 3rd one even means. Didn't we have a connection with them last year as well? And by connection, I mean we just shipped our unfit players there to get some game time... surely it's not very costly.

Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:10 am  

Maybe they should introduce a scheme whereby if the club win the CC or GF, then existing ST holders get 5% off the price of the following season's ST.

Re: new season ticket prices and membership pack : Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:20 am  

Pretty sure car parking charges have gone up £35 last couple of years now £39.