Season ticket 2012 thread

[Gooner Girl]

Arsenal have a tiered membership system for buying tickets, Red, Silver, Gold (season ticket) and platinum. I am only a lowly red member at the moment so i get priority tickets after the other memberships. Tickets never go on general sale unless its for a cup match so if you want to go to a game you have to be a member. My friend owns 2 season tickets and most of the matches i go to have been on one of her tickets or in the Bolton end with thebish so i don't know whether i will renew my red membership as have not used it much and can't see me getting to lots of games next season with the little ones.

Ticket prices (inc season tickets) have been frozen several years but the fans are unsurprisingly unhappy about them now going up again, especially given we have won sod all yet again this season, i suspect many will give them up, what with the ridiculous cost of them anyway, but the club won't care there are many more prawn sandwich munchers on the waiting list to take their place...

[thebish]

What if you lose the qualifier?

qualifying is more than one game isn't it? not sure how it works to be honest... so not sure how GG tots it up to "at least" 4 home games if they have to qualify...

[Gooner Girl]

What if you lose the qualifier?

I don't know! I guess the club just hope and pray we get plenty of home ties in the domestic cups! Good point actually, i'd be curious to know exactly how it works (not that i'm getting a season ticket myself, just interested...)

[Gooner Girl]

What if you lose the qualifier?

qualifying is more than one game isn't it? not sure how it works to be honest... so not sure how GG tots it up to "at least" 4 home games if they have to qualify...

2 legs - home and away

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

What if you lose the qualifier?

qualifying is more than one game isn't it? not sure how it works to be honest... so not sure how GG tots it up to "at least" 4 home games if they have to qualify...

Not in this case. Fourth-placed English team is no longer directly into the groups but only gets involved in the fourth (final) qualifiers, aka "the play-off round". Winners go through to UCL groups, losers to Europa groups.

Amusingly, in a dark way, the qualifiers are split into two groups called "champions" and "non-champions". So that's non-champions having a two-legged cup tie to enter the Champions (sic) League (sic).

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

What if you lose the qualifier?

qualifying is more than one game isn't it?

2 legs - home and away

Indeed. First leg 16/17 August, second leg a week later. Clear your diary, GG.

[thebish]

What if you lose the qualifier?

qualifying is more than one game isn't it? not sure how it works to be honest... so not sure how GG tots it up to "at least" 4 home games if they have to qualify...

2 legs - home and away

ahhh.. so, what you meant was not:

so thats 3 definite home games (4 if we have to qualify...)

but rather so thats 3 definite home games (1 if we have to qualify...)

(and the qualification isn't really a champions league game - since - by definition - if you beat the other team - they never qualified for the champions league...)

so..

so thats 3 definite home games (0 if we have to qualify...)

[Bruce Rioja]

What if you lose the qualifier?

I don't know! I guess the club just hope and pray we get plenty of home ties in the domestic cups!

Aaaaaaaaand we're right back to my question. What if you don't?

[truewhite15]

Just as a minor aside, anyone get the season ticket leaflet through the post this week? The picture of the fans on it features yours truly, the younger bloke on the right and the bespectacled bloke on the left is TrueWhite senior!

[thebish]

What if you lose the qualifier?

I don't know! I guess the club just hope and pray we get plenty of home ties in the domestic cups!

Aaaaaaaaand we're right back to my question. What if you don't?

then - it depends what the actual t&cs say... (and i doubt it specifies the number of cup games)

[superjohnmcginlay]

So basically it's a big fooking rip off whichever way you look at it. Oi! Arsenal bird. Stop polluting this bit of the board.

[HMX]

Just as a minor aside, anyone get the season ticket leaflet through the post this week? The picture of the fans on it features yours truly, the younger bloke on the right and the bespectacled bloke on the left is TrueWhite senior!

Famous!

[ChrisC]

So basically it's a big fooking rip off whichever way you look at it. Oi! Arsenal bird. Stop polluting this bit of the board.

Yeah!


You made my question vanish to the depths of page 1



So i ask again does anybody know how strict the club is on age for season tickets? the other halfs brother wants to come along next season with me and has asked me to sort the season ticket. He turns 21 this month. Would obviously rather pay for under 21 if they don't check ID etc..

[truewhite15]

So basically it's a big fooking rip off whichever way you look at it. Oi! Arsenal bird. Stop polluting this bit of the board.

Yeah!


You made my question vanish to the depths of page 1



So i ask again does anybody know how strict the club is on age for season tickets? the other halfs brother wants to come along next season with me and has asked me to sort the season ticket. He turns 21 this month. Would obviously rather pay for under 21 if they don't check ID etc..

I turned 21 2 months back - problem is, I ordered mine online last season, and I think they've now, because of that, got a record of my DOB...which means my season ticket will be bumped up £100...

Will I still be going? Damn right I will.

[ChrisC]

My online shows my DOB etc.. and i pay adult being 25 but if i am adding another ticket to my order is doesn't mean everyone i order for is the same age He is a student and is trying to save some money

[aberwhite]

A Leeds United season ticket holder I know had to renew before 28 February in order to get early payment discount. And he's paying £515. And that's for second division football.
Our season ticket prices are very reasonably priced - at £399 for West Stand Upper it's only £21 per game.

[Tombwfc]

It's only pretty recently they've started giving a shit about checking people's tickets, they used to just let anyone through. Now they have a set of stewards outside a certain number of turnstiles at home games checking.

How stringent that is, or if they'll do that (or expand it) next season I've no idea. My guess is that they're looking for forty year old fat blokes trying to get in on a £49 kids ST. As far as I can tell, they don't actually check ID.

[ChrisC]

It's only pretty recently they've started giving a shit about checking people's tickets, they used to just let anyone through. Now they have a set of stewards outside a certain number of turnstiles at home games checking.

How stringent that is, or if they'll do that (or expand it) next season I've no idea. My guess is that they're looking for forty year old fat blokes trying to get in on a £49 kids ST. As far as I can tell, they don't actually check ID.

Thanks Tom he looks more like a 12yr old than a 40 odd year old bloke so all should be fine

[Bruce Rioja]

A Leeds United season ticket holder I know had to renew before 28 February in order to get early payemnt discount. And he's paying £515. And that's for second division football.

That'll be Ken Bates for you then. The man's an absolute c*nt.

[Bruce Rioja]

they're looking for forty four year old fat blokes trying to get in on a £49 kids ST.

Rumbled!