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Phoned ticket office today regarding getting a membership to buy tickets on the day , or in advance
Apparently season ticket sales are going so well that the club are trying to reduce the amount they are legally required to release to non season ticket holders
That may mean some of us are going to struggle for tickets but that's life , for the future of the club this is great news
Bluebirds !!
I just hope that all the new season ticket holders turn up for every game and not just for the big clubs.
I hope members with plenty of aways this season get a chance at away tickets (yes, self interest declared here!)
As an exile, I tend to do as many aways as possible, but having a season ticket is just not feasible.
You don't need a membership to pay on the day, or to buy in advance.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I think there will be a few occasions next season where you could rock up on the day and get a ticket, but they will be for the smaller games. If you plan weeks in advance what games you can do and then buy on day of release then i would think you would get to most games.
The season ticket holder is king, you must do everything you can do to attract as many as possible, and then sell as many as possible.
Will it be more difficult next yes definitely,but people will still be able to go to a fair amount of games next season, dont panic.
Anyone who is able to be organised will have a good chance of getting individual match tickets.Quote:
Originally Posted by qccfc
but thats the same problemQuote:
Originally Posted by tomm
anyone that lives in say london will have a quite a few games on the doorstep the same as anyone that lives near our ground that might not be able to travel away
The person who lives in London and goes to every away game is not putting any money into the clubs coffers (apart from a membership price). However the person living in Cardiff and buys a season ticket a pie and a pint at home games is giving the club a fair bit of money.Quote:
Originally Posted by poc
Unfortunately the club needs to prioritise its home base.
At least away stadiums are bigger next season.Quote:
Originally Posted by qccfc
Question is.... how much will walk ups be charged next season. I've just counted up available seats:
117. 27
108/9. 4
111. 12
102/3. 4
So, at the moment, any walk ups will be in the Upper Ninian or Grandstand ( or 118?) plus possibility of the Family Stand. So, any walk ups are mainly going to be mainly in premium priced areas....£35? Another incentive to purchase a season ticket in what's left of the cheaper seats. Looks like no chance of Flex tickets and away (gold) members may struggle to purchase away tickets with priority going to ST holders.
I maybe being a bit dense here (as I'm old), but shirley every city fan living away, knows a city fan who goes to every game !
So, why not buy a season ticket, leave it with your mate and the games you can't make, he/she, can find some plastic to buy it. !
I do this for the boys in the army, who defo can't make every game. !
Problem solved.
I've always felt that, should demand reach that point (which the above posts suggest it may do next year), it would probably be worthwhile for the club to implement a 'Ticket Exchange' system for season ticket holders, which the likes of Arsenal do - https://www.arsenal.com/ticketexchange
The Everton season ticket part of the family flog their unused ST matches through Stub Hub (sanctioned by the club). They almost make enough on the matches they can't attend to pay for their STs as some people will pay silly money. Last season cost them £100 net per person for 9 matches. So, maybe a scheme like Arsenals/stub hub might work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Earnie's bench seat
Can't see that happening. Season ticket holders will get priority.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomm
At a guess, priority for away tickets next year will be:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
ST + 6 away
ST + 3 away
ST
Gold member + 6 away
Gold + 3 away
Gold member
Another reason to buy a ST (and share if not able to attend all matches).Membership alone might not guarantee an away ticket.
Not massively fair that though, when there are some who've spent a fortune for several seasons travelling up and down the country to support the team away, to be displaced by people who have rocked up to buy season tickets just because we've got top division football.Quote:
Originally Posted by qccfc
That's the reality of the situation though. Season Ticket holders mean everything to the club, The person who hardly attends home games doesn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomm
I seem to remember last time we were in the Prem we could give our seats back to the club, and receive a percentage of they sold it on ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Earnie's bench seat
True. Until we have some sort of point scoring system that rewards membership plus aways, ST ticket holders will get priority.Quote:
Originally Posted by qccfc
BTW... only 31 STs now available in Lower Ninian and Canton.
Not exactly hardly. I do upwards of half a dozen home games. I just think a points system would be fairer than simply giving ST holders everything. Is having a good away following really not important to the club?Quote:
Originally Posted by qccfc
If they did a points system the season ticket holder automatically gets 19 points for the 19 home games he has already bought. It will take a long time for the away fan to catch those points.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomm
A good away following is important, not as important as having a large season ticket base.
Talking to a bloke this week who's been to one home game in the last ten years, his son openly swears allegiance to fecking Liverpool and has never ever been to watch the city, both of them have bought season tickets for the coming season with the intention of watching the 'big' games only, I'm sorry, but these kents make me sick.Quote:
Originally Posted by qccfc
Indeed. And you did me a favour or two before I bought STs :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Its not ideal, but that person has just bought access to 19 home games next season. I haven't done that but i've attended well over 500 Cardiff City games, i perfectly understand that the person with the season ticket gets more perks than me.Quote:
Originally Posted by ian gibson
Its always been the case that the club looks after its ST holders.
I just hope the club gets its website suitable for purpose as the last time we were in the Premier League it crashed during the purchasing process.
It will be something like that for the first couple of games, but will have to go back to a clean slate at some point to allow others to attend themselves and build up their own credits.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanD
Anticipated demand might come into play too. Burnley away on a wet Monday in November might be ST holders plus members with no away requirement from this season. Thinking about point scoring in the future, it may be possible to introduce a system that rewards unpopular aways (ie less demand) with more points than a popular away. Is it Wolves that give ST holders 1000 points plus 100 for every away, or something like that. So, 150 points for Burnley, Huddersfield, Newcastle and those attending away games could build up points quickly compared to ST ticket holders who don't go away. If the club digs deep into its customer data, a system that fairly rewards its fan base can be achievable, but probably not in time for next season.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
Yes. But do the away ticket sales mean that much to the club either? They make no money from them, so why not set a criteria and reward the fans that go away regularly. There has to be a criteria set next season for away games and it will be based on ST and Gold Membership holders that attended x amount of away games this past season.Quote:
Originally Posted by qccfc
Spedger
Last time we were promoted to the greedy league a business colleague of mine asked me to sort out tickets for him and his mate .Quote:
Originally Posted by ian gibson
I sorted tickets out close to my own seats for both my mate and his mate .
As the season progressed we all became good friends , his mate being an avid Cardiff fan I thought ....
Till the day Liverpool came calling
As kick off beckoned he unbuttoned his shirt to proudly show me his Liverpool FC top under his shirt .
i never spoke to him again , he was genuinely a decent bloke but I felt he had betrayed me . Football is a funny game .
Now there are going to be 5 (6 if you count Watford, 7 if Fulham somehow manage it) London aways, I wonder if it's possible to get enough exiles organised for an allocation?
There used to be the 1927 Club, but the guy who ran it is now a Dulwich superfan and hasn't touched city since the rebrand.
Why the hell would anyone do that ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy the Jock
Lots of the lads who I play footy with support the glamour clubs, and I'd say a few would like to get to see their team play in Cardiff. But every one of them would gave the respect not to wear their colours or cheer in the City end.
One mate found it very very uncomfortable even talking about Liverpool v Cardiff last time.
It actually increased my respect for him, he's a great bloke anyway, how he handled it. I would have preferred it if he'd denounced the theiving scouse Tossers, but for many its ingrained in them and a big part of their personality and therefore not so easy.
But at least they should be respectful enough to realise how offensive it is for those of us who actually follow our home town/ local club and have lived through the genuine pain it has caused us.
Maybe club together for a few season tickets and share them out ?Quote:
Originally Posted by richard.
A lot of the aways next year aren't going to be THAT popular anyway.
Huddersfield, Burnley, Palace, Brighton, maybe even West Ham... all long trips.
Newcastle possibly - I reckon we will struggle to sell our 3k up there.
Boro- if they come up... we only took 300 up there rhys season when we were 2nd, wonder how many will be keen if we are struggling ?
Personally I'm not bothered about Man U and Man City having done them both twice. Everton was crap too. Might do Liverpool for a weekend or to see their new stand..
More looking forward to Spurs new ground and hopefully weekends in Brighton/Bournemouth or Southampton and Newcastle
rip the seats out of the canton, put in crush prevention barriers and we'll get another 10,000 in!
That is disappointing. South Wales is hardly affluent. You can't blame the club for taking the option of getting people to commit to season tickets - the prices are still good from what I have read here, even with the latest hike. But, the club is going to turn over £100m+ next season even if the stadium was empty. Clubs are legally obliged to keep a percentage of tickets available on the day, and I hope all clubs (not just Cardiff) are held to that - otherwise, why have a legal limit at all?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Now, the issue is going to be how many of the "new" fans are going to attend every game - and will the club allow them to sell their match ticket back to the club so the club can put it on general sale?
It's likely that a number of the new fans will not be there for Huddersfield, Wolves, Brighton, Burnley, Bournemouth, Palace, Leicester, West Ham, Everton, Watford, Fulham/Boro/Derby/Villa. After all, those new fans have had plenty of opportunities to see all of those clubs in a lower division over the years (I've seen many of those clubs at Ninian in Div 4). However, I have always argued that people, especially kids, who grow up watching football on TV only realise how addictive and great a sport it is when they attend in person. And, once hooked, you usually have a fan for life (assuming nobody makes a stupid "mistake").
I have said this before but four years ago the ground was full for every home game in the Premier League, including against the so called lesser teams, so why anyone would think that people would not turn up next season is beyond me, especially bearing in mind the change back to blue and united nature of the club currently. We have already sold more season tickets this time around than for the whole of 2013/2014. You have obviously not learned from all the negative predictions you made about this season which didnt come true and are repeating your old mistakes of writing the City support off before a ball is kicked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Badly Ironed Shirt
Dml, I understand what you're saying but you have to keep in mind that season ticket holders are - rightly or wrongly - counted whether they turn up or not, so you can still have 1000's of empty seats for a match that has supposedly 'sold out'.
We have to be realistic here. Not all season ticket holders will be able to make it to every game next season. Some of them will only have bought season tickets to guarantee themselves entry for the big games. Its OK. Every club has a percentage of fans like this. Check out the Emirates, there are more empty seats than you can shake a stick at!
Maybe we can do some kind of ticket exchange service like BIS suggested and try and get as many of the seats filled as possible, but its inconceivable that there won't be at least a few empty seats for some matches.