Season tickets 2018-19

Does anybody know when an announcement will be made about season ticket prices for 2018-19 ?

 

No mate.

 

I'm sorry about you having an absence of friends, but do you know when an announcement will be made about season ticket prices for 2018-19 ?

 

I would guess when/if we get 40pts. Could be a while yet.

 

I'm sorry, I have absolutely no idea.
As Eastcoasthorn implies, I don't suppose they will fix prices until it is absolutely mathematically certain whether we will be Premier league or Championship.

 

I thought they may have announced early bird prices a couple of weeks ago to secure some sales when it was still uncertain whether we'd stay up. Wonder if there will still be early bird in early April or not now if the waiting list is high enough not to need it so badly.

 

Hopefully the club is revising its thinking on the wasteful Family Stand arrangements.

 

Well if last season was anything to go by it was announced after 28 games when we had 31 points and had lost 3 and drawn 1 of the previous 4 games. So some way off safety. The season went on a bit longer but even so it should be about now -last season 22 March but we are 3 games further on than then.

 

I say that every year but no, they don't seem to care.

 

They changed the Ts&Cs last year to get over the family stand issue

If you fail to attend xx% of games then basically you lose the automatic option to repurchase and re-join the waiting list

the sooner they level out the lower GT and make that the family area and open the Vicarage road end to home supporters the better

 

It is normally about this time. Maybe after Easter, I expect the club has looked again at pricing. I would expect high levels of renewals again. But the Elton John stand always seems a few hundred seats empty every home game. Perhaps they feel able to move prices up this year. Or there is going to be a building announcement with the requirement to relocate season ticket holders.

 

So what would be the best options for a ground switcharound?

I do like grounds where the home singing section is near the away supporters as creates a good banter atmosphere. Not sure that would work - would the 1881 relocate to the family? Not sure where else in the ground could facilitate the away supporters easily.

 

Away supporters were specfically moved to the Vicarage Road end when we first got to the Premier League in ‘99 for the better road access for coaches. That’s why the Rookery then became the ‘home end’ instead. So I think you’re right that it’s highly unlikely that the away fans section would be moved.

 

Plus the Rookery is bigger and has more space on the concourse behind it.

As for 'good banter atmosphere', it depends on what is meant. Lots of inventive songs exchanged, perhaps with a round of applause to opposition fans who come up with something original and funny, that's good banter, but the reality is almost always different. Rival fans spending half their time waving wan ker signs at each other rather than watching the match? Yeah mate, great 'banter', that! That really told them, didn't it!

 

If the SEJ was extended and the Vic Road End re-done (pretty unlikely I know), then I guess the Lower GT could be segregated and given to away fans. Think the last time we did that was Palace in the 2006 play off semi final.

 

Yeah, great to put away fans in the Lower GT - I could then move to the Upper GT and throw prawn sandwiches at, and drip champers on them. What jolly fun.

 

I thought it'd be better to give them the vic road end of the extended sej stand and make rookery and vic ends all watford.

 

I didnt think the Vic End was able to host a full away end without keeping the middle netting bit in place?

 

It’d be much quieter at the Vic if away fans weren’t allowed in at all.

 

I won't be renewing next year. I have a lifetime of memories now but with 3 kids I can't make every game anymore. Watch us be amazing next year now....

 

You are meant to put away fans behind a goal, I believe it's a requirement of the league but Bournemouth get away with it for some reason due to ground constraints.

 

I think I said that on here before but someone pointed out the rule just says at least a section of away fans have to be 'pitchside'. I guess that means not up in the gods.

 

I sympathise wholeheartedly with you tony. After flogging up and down the leagues with us over 50 years, I had to give up my season ticket the year before the Pozzos bought the club. B****cks!!!!!!

 

30 years this season. Had some shocking away days. Millwall nd Leicester 5-2 in successve away days. Going by coach to Peterborough away with a slipped disc. Going to Shrewsbury, Grimsby, Preston, Plymouth, Swindon. Burnley away to thank GT in his last game and getting coins thrown at us. The Luton bashing 4-0 sat near to Cameron. Going to Wolves and going into a home only pub and ordering a brandy and a cigar whilst in my colours. Turned around and the whole pub is looking at lynching me (I ordered another).
Glorious times.

 

Newcastle is in the stratosphere, but it is an excellent area IMHO, and one of my favourite away venues. The away fans have been moved around quite a bit, originally at the Vicarage road end on the bend. Then when they were marched up to the Rookery and now back at the Vicarage road end. Personally I can't see them scrapping the family stand, but it too has moved about. Originally in the Lower GT at the Rookery end and then moved to its current area. If it is to be moved, the Lower GT is the only practical space - unless they decide that the SEJ no longer warrants its premium pricing. I can't see the 1881 wanting to go into the Vicarage Road stand. It's the poorest in the ground and away from their bunker, plus the Rookery is the home end.

 

I was literally in the back row at Newcastle this season. It felt like I WAS one of the gods.

 

Good work! Tony himself would have been very proud.

 

Ha. Yes, it's certainly an experience.

They've somehow got away with an exemption:

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spo...news/newcastle-confirm-away-fans-not-14386184

 

Newcastle had an exemption because they were in the Championship last season and therefore not in discussions with the PL clubs at the time. After promotion they had already done their season ticketing and change wasn't possible for this season but I think that they will have to comply from next season.

 

The article was only written a fortnight ago!

 

The old me looks back at the young me and thinks Danny Dyer. This is probably why I don't like Danny Dyer

 

I had a good chat about renewal with my lad this evening. I gave him the option of no season ticket and cherry picking home games that we want to see, plus we'll go to loads more aways as whole Saturdays have suddenly become free again. I didn't think that he'd want to miss out on the home games but he told me he's not enjoying going to them right now so decision made.

 

I'm thinking the same tbh.

It seems to me that aside from 4 or 5 games a year vs the big teams, it's pretty easy to get home tickets on a match by match basis and away games are definitely more entertaining than home.

 

It depends entirely on if you go alone or with someone else/others. It's probably easy to get singles for most games. But most pairs are in poor positions after the first hour or two of sales, and any more than that and you're hanging off the end of the Rookery or at the front of the Lower GT.

 

I know so many people of other Premier League clubs who share season tickets. To have three seats together and agreeing how to share out games seems a good option. Mind you they are for clubs with long waiting lists and they can sell the tickets easily back to the club, because there is high demand for the seats.