big crowd, special offer..... we'll lose then

It's a little amount admittedly but would it not be fairer to say that a ST holder can take one ticket for free, then get 3 for £10 each.. only the matchday prices are what you take into account when considering whether to get a ST or not. I've had to miss a couple of games now, and could easily have got tickets for a tenner to each of these games without losing out?

Anyway, good crowd good atmosphere against Palace hopefully, coyb..

Good move and about time! Surprised it's taken so long for Clegg et al to see it's better to take £10.00 for a seat than leave it empty!

only makes financial sense if the 'sunshine supporters' come back and / or buy a season ticket next year.

on saturday approx 4k more than usual at a tenner each that 'only' brings in 40k which works at about 1500 people at normal prices



jas0999 added 17:34 - Feb 28
Good move and about time! Surprised it's taken so long for Clegg et al to see it's better to take £10.00 for a seat than leave it empty!

Excellent news. It is the ideal time to bring in new fans now the team are playing well, and many of these fans could become the season ticket holders of the future. It helps boost attendances and improves the atmosphere for all of us, and I see being able to buy cheap tickets for others as a real advantage of my season ticket. So, well done to SImon Clegg on this one.

If you're reading Mr Clegg, please scrap the silly match price banding system for next season. I bought my Dad tickets for his birthday to the Reading and Watford games, and Watford was £1 more as it was a "Grade A" game (maybe because the original match was Boxing Day and they haven't changed the band for the rearranged fixture?). It's only £1, but it is annoying. Let's introduce a simpler, cheaper pricing structure next season for match day tickets. Charge about 30% more than season ticket holders pay rather than the 70% more now that it costs.

I went for a tenner and will go to Palace game for a tenner. Loved the game and atmosphere against pompey and if fats Paul keeps this momentum and class going I will def buy a season ticket.

here's a plan Cleggy, why not lower all prices next season, fill up the ground and get your money that way!

So the loyal season ticket holder doesn't gain anything other than enjoying doing someone else a favour, how about dropping prices across the board thatway the gates will be up anyway

Went Saturday and will go again to Palace game but to be honest no Football match is worth more than £20 in todays economic climate.........................

(start the lynching now, but its the truth and the game needs to wake up)

Chief executive Simon Clegg said: "Consistent with my commitment to providing enhanced benefits for season ticket holders, a further similar season ticket promotion for the fixture against Crystal Palace on Saturday 9th April will be in operation.”

Where exactly is the benefit to the season ticket holder who has already bought their ticket then Clegg?

Blimey ! Are ITFC finally catching on that the high cost of match day tickets is actually contributing to our low gates?

"on Saturday approx 4k more than usual at a tenner each that 'only' brings in 40k which works at about 1500 people at normal prices".... do this every week as it's nearly Jimmy's wages then he might stay...

I, on the other hand, I would play, on loan, for a pittance.......

Clegg Out.

Great news, went on Saturday and will go to Palace game as well, simply cannot afford £20+ but £8 is too good to turn down. Would be great to be getting 25,000+ into Portman Road.

Good stuff, but what does need to improve is the sodding park and ride bus service. Had to use London road now Bury street is closed and waited a chuffing hour for a bus in the rain only just to pay to get on another bus just to get to Tescos.

That will just put people off going to to the game.

rant over.

Have to agree with Blue Army 15 -

Where the hell is the "enhanced benefit" for the loyal season ticket holder ??

Not that I knock the idea of filling PR, but don't dress it up to be something that it definately IS NOT !!

Park and effing Ride - whatever next on here?
I ride and park for F sake..... I've riden my bike 100000's of miles to watch ITFC lose or draw all over the place and I've had enough - can't Clegg do anything about the weather or is he completely useless? They are both pi55ing me off this year. Clegg OUT!
Yet another meaningless rant over.

I am not a season ticket holder myself so enjoy these promotions, but I think the ST holder buying the tickets should get some sort of benefit - either a voucher for Planet Blue, free programme etc. They have paid an average of £17 (??) for their ticket, and then they buy a ticket for their match for nearly half the price - hardly a 'benefit' to the ST holder?!

I agree the ticket prices are too high. That is why I stopped going 6 years ago. It is much worse now with fuel price rises meaning just to get to portman Road costs me £28 or more. Last time i went, a one off, it cost me and my wife over £100 with a simple meal after game as we live 110 miles away. There are a lot more like me who used to travel all over the country watching Town.

Agree with an earlier comment, 20 pound a ticket really is the ceiling for me, i would go every week if that was the price, but 30 quid prices me out of it most weeks :-(

BlueArmy01 added 18:55 - Feb 28

Went Saturday and will go again to Palace game but to be honest no Football match is worth more than £20 in todays economic climate.........................


totaly agree. I didn't renew this season after holding a ST for ten years, the £30 per game has been such a deterent that I have only been to three home games (two discounted, once on a unused ST), but have been to six away games, only paying over £20 at Carrot Rd and Reading. In the past year my income has been reduced by approx 30% which had led to a reassessment of all my expenditure, at £30 per game its just not value for money.

ITS NOT A 'RESULTS BUSINESS', ITS ENTERTAINMENT!

My season ticket works out at about £20.61 per match - which I regard as good value compared to say, a concert at the Ipswich Regent. An comparable average match day ticket bought in advance would be around £30-32. That folks is the financial benefit of being a season ticket holder!

This also clearly illustrates that match day tickets have got seriously out of kilter with season ticket prices. Yes, I expect to get a discount for loyalty, but not that much. In my opinion, match day prices should be set at NO MORE than £5 over the season ticket prices.

The £10 offer is welcome but is only a sticking plaster to the problems of the skewed relationship between season ticket prices and match day prices (don't forget the £2.50 on the day premium fiasco).

typical of cleggo. Salesman speak, mans a spiv. No "benefit" to ST holders at all!
Mans a prick!