[cite]Posted By: boggzy[/cite]They really have treated us like cunts over the last couple of years.
behave you wally - they have made a few naive mistakes yes but have dug their hands in their pockets for our benefit at least twice (boro and blackburn) - how many other clubs do you see looking after their fans like ours?
for an extra fiver do they deserve that comment? i hope you were there yesterday mate, if a few thousand were they might not be tacking on a few extra quid where business sense says they can
Palarse at home is £25. I sometimes wonder how some 'fans' on here would feel if they supported a different Club. We are lucky to support such a fantastic Club and for some to say they have treated us badly over the last few years is really a joke.
Ok I put my hands up and say I wasn't there, as I was working all day yesterday (not that I have to give an excuse), and I'd be at the replay if I wasn't in Scotland.
I'm not interested in the fact that it's just a fiver, or 'business sense' - it's the principle, and the way they've done it. Just like telling us Les Reed was going nowhere, then getting him to sign a 4(?) year contract, then getting Pardew in. Varney telling us we'd be told re Dowie.
Okay, granted the Boro and Blackburn games... agreed.
Re the free premiership thing - maybe if they hadn't have done that we'd have a better atmosphere and less of the arseholes who just wanna see Arsenal and Manchester Utd.
Last couple of years large. They shouldn't have made the £20 announcement simple as. Ticket prices have been very reasonable, yes. But just being told things and gaining press, then quietly changing them is out of order imo.
boggzy i'm not best pleased about the board silence on Dowie and the kerfuffle last year either but i care a lot more on that than i do a fiver. i understand your principles in your point, but do not agree with you to any degree whatsoever.
jesus reading that he was taking us for "***" would see richard murray et al spewing their guts up if they were to read this considering what they've done
The silence on Dowie is almost certainly due to legal restrictions. There will have been a confidentiality agreement signed by both parties at the conclusion of their negotiations with Dowie after sacking him.
The boards communication with the grass roots is structurally superior to any other club in the league because of our elected supporters Director.
RM and PV have admitted the club made mistakes over Dowie/Reed. When you run a club and you make statements about pricing, you have to accept that going back on those statements ain't done lightly but may well be necessary as the financial position when you made those commitments may have changed. (Maybe LA is right on this anyway).
I remember a lot of squit when the club introduced the premium rate ticket line. Lots of people complained. The club though had to take a view that that would help them to resource it better. I think that ticketing matters have been handled much better since then and the Red Card arrangement is the next logical step.
My Palarse Brother-in-Law tried to renew his three season tickets on New Years Eve to get a discount. Palarse use Ticketmaster to handle this. They told him that their records showed that he had three adult tickets when he has one adult and two junior. Apparently their system had no details on who had junior ST's. He was thus unable to renew and was re-directed to the club to sort it out. I suspect he got it sorted but their ticketing system sounds like our used to be -very creaky and under-resourced.
As leaburn says they did bung in "These will apply until further notice", so their backs are covered, I suppose. Still sneaky imo - I just think that little things like that just break trust between the fan and the board. I KNOW it's only a fiver, and they lowered the cup game to 15, and I have no issue with our prices at all - it's just the way it was done.
Nolly, the police sent the letters not Charlton. How Palace sell their tickets is down to them. I know that some clubs - not Palace - are quite happy to sell tickets to banned fans who then get turned away at our turnstiles. Others like Cardiff have away membership schemes with ID cards etc, etc. Some clubs bring their own stewards, others use ticketmaster and let that company charge a big fee, others sell early on-line so they can get the cash in quicker. I think you are letting your dislike of Palace colour your view here. We didn't sell out because not enough CAFC fans wanted to go for whatever reason be that letters, not wanting to take kids, not wanting to pay £30. We took even less to the Denis game.
The ticketing has not been ideal and the club has been too slow in using it's database and membership scheme (which has 65,000 people in it and not just ST holders) IMHO to allow people to buy on-line and by phone. Now it is doing so.
There were plenty of people on here calling for the Palace game to be £30 (the same that they charged us) or even more. £25 is still less than a normal Palace home game. If you've got a season ticket then your not effected in any case. So the club tries to maximise the income from a particular game. You may think that strategy is wrong or is sneaky. That's a fair enough point of view but saying we've been treated like C****s just doesn't leave much room for further debate. Personally i haven't got a problem with a range of prices for "big", "medium" and "small" games as many other clubs do. It does make it harder to advertise ("all games £20 is a better headline) as long as we don't get silly and charge £45 for Chelsea and then not sell out. Oh, yeah we already did that. ; - )
And Les Reed was a mistake but contracts have break clauses that mean you don't have to pay up the full length of them when you realise that.
And listen to Bing. He talks sense and I'm not talking about his 2nd para!
OK - the treated like c**ts remark was a little over the top.
I also have no problem with either our prices (compared to omost other teams) or even a big/medium/small match structure. (agreed as long as it's not £45 etc - can't believe I paid that at the time!!!)
It's just the fact that we were specifically told that this season would be £20 for all home games, and there at the bottom of the ticket news page are the palace details stating £25. And that's that! It's just after some of the other things the board have done/told us/not told us in recent seasons it just seems a bit cynical.
[cite]Posted By: nolly[/cite]are able to get tickets for there game with us online,with no proof of a season ticket or anything,we aint got ours on sale yet and had to run round hoops to get one at there shithole.why is that,is it because they dont think they have troublemakers and we have? once again the clubs puts others in front of us.im fuming .
Thats not true.
On their website it says only season ticket holders can get one per person until friday then members and season tickets holders can get one per person up until the 18th. They go on general sale after that.
so palace get there tickets on general sale 3 weeks before the game,if we done that we would all be happy.they would take no more than 2000 if they sold them like we did.
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behave you wally - they have made a few naive mistakes yes but have dug their hands in their pockets for our benefit at least twice (boro and blackburn) - how many other clubs do you see looking after their fans like ours?
for an extra fiver do they deserve that comment? i hope you were there yesterday mate, if a few thousand were they might not be tacking on a few extra quid where business sense says they can
I'm not interested in the fact that it's just a fiver, or 'business sense' - it's the principle, and the way they've done it. Just like telling us Les Reed was going nowhere, then getting him to sign a 4(?) year contract, then getting Pardew in. Varney telling us we'd be told re Dowie.
Okay, granted the Boro and Blackburn games... agreed.
Re the free premiership thing - maybe if they hadn't have done that we'd have a better atmosphere and less of the arseholes who just wanna see Arsenal and Manchester Utd.
jesus reading that he was taking us for "***" would see richard murray et al spewing their guts up if they were to read this considering what they've done
The boards communication with the grass roots is structurally superior to any other club in the league because of our elected supporters Director.
RM and PV have admitted the club made mistakes over Dowie/Reed. When you run a club and you make statements about pricing, you have to accept that going back on those statements ain't done lightly but may well be necessary as the financial position when you made those commitments may have changed. (Maybe LA is right on this anyway).
I remember a lot of squit when the club introduced the premium rate ticket line. Lots of people complained. The club though had to take a view that that would help them to resource it better. I think that ticketing matters have been handled much better since then and the Red Card arrangement is the next logical step.
My Palarse Brother-in-Law tried to renew his three season tickets on New Years Eve to get a discount. Palarse use Ticketmaster to handle this. They told him that their records showed that he had three adult tickets when he has one adult and two junior. Apparently their system had no details on who had junior ST's. He was thus unable to renew and was re-directed to the club to sort it out. I suspect he got it sorted but their ticketing system sounds like our used to be -very creaky and under-resourced.
As leaburn says they did bung in "These will apply until further notice", so their backs are covered, I suppose. Still sneaky imo - I just think that little things like that just break trust between the fan and the board. I KNOW it's only a fiver, and they lowered the cup game to 15, and I have no issue with our prices at all - it's just the way it was done.
The ticketing has not been ideal and the club has been too slow in using it's database and membership scheme (which has 65,000 people in it and not just ST holders) IMHO to allow people to buy on-line and by phone. Now it is doing so.
There were plenty of people on here calling for the Palace game to be £30 (the same that they charged us) or even more. £25 is still less than a normal Palace home game. If you've got a season ticket then your not effected in any case. So the club tries to maximise the income from a particular game. You may think that strategy is wrong or is sneaky. That's a fair enough point of view but saying we've been treated like C****s just doesn't leave much room for further debate. Personally i haven't got a problem with a range of prices for "big", "medium" and "small" games as many other clubs do. It does make it harder to advertise ("all games £20 is a better headline) as long as we don't get silly and charge £45 for Chelsea and then not sell out. Oh, yeah we already did that. ; - )
And Les Reed was a mistake but contracts have break clauses that mean you don't have to pay up the full length of them when you realise that.
And listen to Bing. He talks sense and I'm not talking about his 2nd para!
I also have no problem with either our prices (compared to omost other teams) or even a big/medium/small match structure. (agreed as long as it's not £45 etc - can't believe I paid that at the time!!!)
It's just the fact that we were specifically told that this season would be £20 for all home games, and there at the bottom of the ticket news page are the palace details stating £25. And that's that! It's just after some of the other things the board have done/told us/not told us in recent seasons it just seems a bit cynical.
I think i'll be ok with my apple though - and i've been practicising my aim!
On their website it says only season ticket holders can get one per person until friday then members and season tickets holders can get one per person up until the 18th. They go on general sale after that.
Now go and do some predictions.
https://eticketing.co.uk/cpfc/default.aspx