Exactly, It's ten quid at the end of the day. Less than a couple of pints of Madri at the ground. Coughing up the £800 if and when the time ever comes is a different matter.I personally don't doubt the 11,000 figure, but as @Robertson says then almost half of those (including me and my lad) were automatically added.
I can see another 6/7k people paying £10 to get onto a waiting list. It is a whole other question about paying out for a season ticket. I had previously thought that if the chance came up then I would go for it, but with the new pricing I don't think I would take the option if it was presented to me.
I do expect a hefty kick in the knackers next year when the Pro membership goes up to £150 (really hoping for another cheap scarf I can put down my trousers to soften the blow) and the cheapest matchday tickets go above £60!
The problem with all of this is that the total amount of money we are talking about really won't make a significant difference to NFFC, but it does to you or me.
At the Chelsea game earlier this season I was shocked at how many football tourist's there were........they almost seemed to be in the majority. I think I preferred the old days when getting into the ground without getting your head kicked In was an achievement at Stamford Party.It's the way it will go.
I have already noticed increasing numbers of Asian-featured casuals occupying seats around me.
They seem to look bemused, but then again you don't see the whole game with a Smart phone camera pressed to your eye for the 90 minutes.
I would rather Forza started a campaign in obscene player wages and agent fees if I am being honest. This is all far too reactionary for me and not addressing any underlying causes in football.
Indeed-it was wild country at the Bridge in the 70s (I remember going there in 1975 whenAt the Chelsea game earlier this season I was shocked at how many football tourist's there were........they almost seemed to be in the majority. I think I preferred the old days when getting into the ground without getting your head kicked In was an achievement at Stamford Party.
I remember being sat on my own for the last 20 minutes of some of those games .Never felt further detached from the club.
Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?
Probably both.I remember being sat on my own for the last 20 minutes of some of those games .
Although I often wondered if I was being loyal or just bloody stupid
Or the 10,000 who turned up for the FA Cup 1st Round game against Weymouth in 2005-atNever felt further detached from the club.
Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?
I’ve been thinking this for a while as well. We have already seen the club carve out a set of seats if in upper clough to assign to the off site hospitality at Trent bridge. If many don’t renew I can either see more of that or simply not selling SCs so they can profit from the higher individual match prices.It makes less financial sense for Forest to actually hand over any season cards that are not renewed to people from the waiting list.
Well I had a season ticket the year we actually got relegated from the championship, and the season after. Then financial circumstances meant I couldn't really do it anymore, though I continued going to as many games as I could. Admittedly fewer and fewer during the Fawaz years.Never felt further detached from the club.
Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?
... League 1!Never felt further detached from the club.
Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?
I never suggested you had reported me. If you appear to want to be offended on behalf of others then I guess its an option?Right let's get a few things in order. Firstly, you've made what I've said into a vastly overblown statement, exaggerated it and then taken it to the nth degree. I don't even understand why you would think it's something I've reported to the mods over and I certainly don't think the mods would think you've crossed any lines.
The mods mantra has always been criticise the idea not the person and I think you fall well within that boundary so you certainly won't be hearing from the mods via any report from myself. I've only ever contacted them to report something on one occasion and that was when I was concerned over someone's life and safety.
As for being offended, you'd have to try a lot harder than that to offend me Redders, I'm not easily offended in the slightest and if I'm of the school that if I get offended then that's my own issue nobody else's, it's subjective so it's rare I would even raise that for myself, I certainly won't get offended on behalf of someone else.
Finally you'd do well to remember to you're own wishes
"lets stop pushing this agenda that I'm somehow not allowed to speak my mind because I don't conform to yours or others way of thinking".
I'm a huge free speech advocate Redders and if you remember I responded to you yesterday and I said that I see your point you made and i accept it but you can't see hypocrisy in that you seem unwilling to allow others to have the same right without resorting to snide remarks or blowing up over it.
1. If I'm posting as moderator, then the posts are topped and tailed with *Moderator hat on* and *moderator hat off*You have every mod on this forum who no doubt support the views of those i disagree with so if I have done anything that break the rules Ill be hearing from them, but lets stop pushing this agenda that Im somehow not allowed to speak my mind because I dont conform to yours or others way of thinking.
I agree, 100% Ray.Ya **** Redders.
My personal view (as a pro member) is that the SC prices of 550/570 aren’t too bad for prem football. 700/850 for relegation scrap quality football is a bit of a piss take. How the club have handled it however, age category changes, tweets etc is a huge disgrace.
1. If I'm posting as moderator, then the posts are topped and tailed with *Moderator hat on* and *moderator hat off*
If the post is not so formatted, I'm posting as me.
2. Don't ever presume to know my mind, thank you.
You can post what you like. You may or may not get pelters.
If what you post needs dealing with from a moderator/admin perspective, then it will be dealt with using the moderator hat system.
Out of curiosity I decided to look at how much I've spent as a Plus member. Although I've been to every home game (cups and league) so far I'm just counting league.Fellow pro member here and couldn't agree more. I've paid £800 for Forest games this season and just had to pay £96 for a couple of Man City tickets, so with that hat on, I look at the season card prices and think they're a bargain. I love Forza, however I'm a bit disappointed that they haven't really acknowledged that members are already paying extortionate amounts; this is why I'm a bit on the fence with the protests. I do think that the club have acted appallingly with the age category changes, tweets and timing of the renewals. Genuinely think the whole situation could have been handled with better communication from the club
Agreed Joe - though I’m now paying £650 as an OAP. An increase of 38%!I'm an OAP but in my opinion it's the younger fans who've been shafted the most. As I posted earlier a 17 year old has gone from paying £190 in block R LBC stand to £700........I don't want our supporter base to be all old gits like me........
This is a good point. There's an awful lot of members who have been paying extortionate member rates and buying tickets on a match by match basis at crazy - I just paid a whopping £96 for two tickets to Man City, which makes a season card look cheap.
Never felt further detached from the club.
Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?