reading prices

[PutneyHoop]

True. We need to open a casino, a brothel, strip club and hotel. Maybe one on each corner of the ground? Should help with cash flow.

That would certainly make it more popular, but I suspect quite a few wouldn't make thei seats for kick off!

[silvercue]

That would certainly make it more popular, but I suspect quite a few wouldn't make thei seats for kick off!

I would be doing it for the Rs though! :drunk:

[PedalR]

There's always lots of press coverage and debate about season tickets in football. Part of me thinks that some cynical clubs issue a handful of season tickets for a silly price, say tuppence-ha'penny whilst the other 99% of their STs cost over a £grand. In this scenario with season tickets available "from tuppence-ha'penny" they appear to be the cheapest in the land.
A fairer indicator would be to see the average price of all STs on sale at a club (but that figure never get shown/published).

[W12_Ranger]

The problem lies at the feet of our grounds capacity. As we will have no more than 10K plus season ticket holders and a mixture of members and pay on the day tickets totaling a maximum of 18.5k the club needs to charge more than the average to produce a decent stream of revenue.

I personally expect the most expensive season ticket to be around 850.

I don't buy into that, I think the club would charge more than the rest regardless of capacity size. Think of it like this, if we are taking gate receipts that other clubs do with 25k capacities what would the board do if they built a new ground? I think our Board would probably think I bet we could match gate receipts of clubs with 35k capacities.

[dodge-stoke-r]

Everything in London costs more. Reading might not be far but if u moved my house to Reading it would be worth half a much..

Yeah but we want to watch a game of football not buy the ground. The overall cost of running QPR isn't any more expensive than any other club. The real problem with our season tickets is that for a few years now, they haven't really offed much in the way of a match by match saving, making them very expensive. Gold as an example, 23 games at £30 = £690. Last seasons ST price = £599. Thats just a little under £4 a game saving. Pitiful really.

[qprjim]

I don't buy into that, I think the club would charge more than the rest regardless of capacity size. Think of it like this, if we are taking gate receipts that other clubs do with 25k capacities what would the board do if they built a new ground? I think our Board would probably think I bet we could match gate receipts of clubs with 35k capacities.

I don't doubt that for a minute mate, I was going to include that point in my post. However as for the here and now I'm sure if anyone were to call the club for an explanation for high ST's the club would blame our small capacity.

[PutneyHoop]

Yeah but we want to watch a game of football not buy the ground. The overall cost of running QPR isn't any more expensive than any other club. The real problem with our season tickets is that for a few years now, they haven't really offed much in the way of a match by match saving, making them very expensive. Gold as an example, 23 games at £30 = £690. Last seasons ST price = £599. Thats just a little under £4 a game saving. Pitiful really.

I paid £530 for my gold seat last year under the EB offer. I see buying a season ticket as safeguarding my seat. Not to save money! I suspect more people will start to think of it like I do next season as members struggle to get A grade match tickets.

Also, how do u know our overheads are the same as clubs outside of London? Do players get more money for being based in London. The staff will get paid more that the equivalent at Norwich for example. The policing costs would be higher. Everything costs more hence my initial post.

[alexferguson60]

The average house price in Chelsea is now over 2 mil -- Crazy!

Yeah, but when most of the houses are around the King's Road and Fulham Road, it's hardly surprising, is it?

That's why the argument: "You don't come from Chelsea" never really stands up because no-one can afford to live there apart from exceptionally wealthy foreigners and toffs.

[qblockoompah]

we have to charge more due to smaller gates IMO. So many on here have said they would pay to watch taarabt alone, so stop moaning! lol