Memberships (2024/25)

[Superior Acuña]

1) they don’t need to milk match going fans to buy players 2) I absolutely would rather to be able to afford to see my team than have them be class but unaffordable 

 

Football tickets are not any old luxury recreational product due to the relationship between teams and communities. That relationship can be respected or abused and taken advantage of.

 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by Superior Acuña

[HaydnNUFC]

13 minutes ago, NobbySolano said:

I don't want to be insensitive to the fact that money is tight and not everyone has the ability to pay. 

 

I just honestly don't get it though. People want to win and transfers, but don't want to contribute to it. Lot of the crying over access to tickets come across as cringe entitlement.

 

The alternative is to eliminate the membership and tack on to the cost of tickets. That makes it even more unequal as the prices will only get higher and higher. 

 

The membership cost is the way that you as a fan gets to support the club in an affordable way. $40 for a year worth of access, it's less than $1 a week. And it gives you the chance to buy a ticket at (what I believe is) well below market price given the demand there is. 

 

If you were to just let the market dictate prices tickets will easily be double and SJP would still be full every week.

 

I have not won a single ballot entry. Wish I would but I don't feel entitled to winning one. Did you have better access when Mike Ashley was running the club? I'm sure, but look at the shit you were watching. 

 

I would rather get limited access to tickets but have a great club that challenges for silverware than cheap tickets to absolute garbage.

 

Ticket pricing has very little to zero bearing on PSR or how much we spend in the transfer market and it should never, ever be an excuse for fleecing fans.

 

Our prices have gone up for consecutive seasons now and they’re almost a disgrace as is; it’s at least 50 quid for a ticket to a PL match against the likes of Bournemouth, Leicester, Ipswich and even more for better sides. Not even including the fee for a membership. For a parent to take 1 bairn it’s over 100 quid to watch 1 Newcastle match in the PL, and that’s not even counting money for food, travel etc. Even more if the parent wanted to take 2 bairns.

 

They don’t need to do it. It’s pure greed and needs calling out before it goes too far, if it hasn’t already. Thankfully the FSA are doing their utmost to do so.

[NobbySolano]

$40 membership and $25 tickets is considered milking? 

 

We'll have to disagree. I'd be happy catching the odd game in person and enjoying them on the telly the whole season. It's not even about winning, I want them to compete. 

[NobbySolano]

2 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Ticket pricing has very little to zero bearing on PSR or how much we spend in the transfer market and it should never, ever be an excuse for fleecing fans.

 

Our prices have gone up for consecutive seasons now and they’re almost a disgrace as is; it’s at least 50 quid for a ticket to a PL match against the likes of Bournemouth, Leicester, Ipswich and even more for better sides. Not even including the fee for a membership. For a parent to take 1 bairn it’s over 100 quid to watch 1 Newcastle match in the PL, and that’s not even counting money for food, travel etc. Even more if the parent wanted to take 2 bairns.

 

They don’t need to do it. It’s pure greed and needs calling out before it goes too far, if it hasn’t already. Thankfully the FSA are doing their utmost to do so.

Under that logic they don't need to charge anything. It should be free to everyone. And they will have a ballot to decide who gets to go. 

 

I could very well be in the minority here. I just don't think it's the crime everyone claims it to be.

 

I'm more reacting to the whining about the ballots. What do they want it to be? There is more demand than tickets. I think the membership + ballot scheme is as fair as it's going to get and the alternatives will only make it less fair.

 

[HaydnNUFC]

1 minute ago, NobbySolano said:

Under that logic they don't need to charge anything. It should be free to everyone. And they will have a ballot to decide who gets to go. 

 

I could very well be in the minority here. I just don't think it's the crime everyone claims it to be.

 

I'm more reacting to the whining about the ballots. What do they want it to be? There is more demand than tickets. I think the membership + ballot scheme is as fair as it's going to get and the alternatives will only make it less fair.

 

Football should be made as affordable and accessible as possible, yeah. Especially in one of the least affluent parts of the country. Obviously it’s not going to be free but the rises across the league are getting out of control when there is not one genuine reason for them to be outside of greed.
 

https://thefsa.org.uk/news/ticket-price-pain-rising-costs-measured-in-the-football-price-index/

 

https://thefsa.org.uk/news/high-ticket-prices-are-not-the-answer-to-psr/

 

The FSA are doing their best to try and nip it but takes like this and from many of our lot regarding the CL scheme last season and this topic in general are disheartening as fuck.

[bobbydazzla]

If local people, especially youngins, can’t afford to go to the match or can’t get home and away tickets because there’s no form of priority given to them, then we risk current and future generations being denied access to something that is a hugely positive and important cultural aspect of life in the region

 

I know in the modern era we need to grow a UK wide / international / affluent fan base to compete, but it shouldn’t be at the detriment of people in the North East. There needs to be some balance between the two groups 

 

I’m fortunate I know how to work the ticketing system and £50 ticket prices + £40 membership aren’t a financial stretch for me. But I haven’t lost sight of the bigger issues of football clubs being community assets that unify local people and a football club shouldn’t exist to fleece fans   
 

Especially in our region, which is a disadvantaged, overlooked, poverty stricken area of the country

 

I’d be happy to pay more for my tickets if it meant a young adult from the North East who’s NUFC daft got a discount on theirs

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by bobbydazzla

[Wallsendmag]

That's another reason why SJP is hopelessly too small and outdated now. We need 20k more seats. It would still be jam packed every week but that would probably give another 15k fans a chance to get in (assuming 25% of any capacity increase would be corporate) and make the membership far more attractive and not the complete waste of money that it's turned out to be for a lot of fans who are still sat on zero ballot successes.

 

One of the remits that the new owners promised was that they wanted to further increase the size of the already huge fanbase. Clearly they're well on their way to doing that but the current SJP really stifles things in that regard.

[bobbydazzla]

As a teen in the 90's the lock out period when it was 100% season tickets was so fucking demoralising

 

Fortunately I knew a family who would sometimes have a spare season ticket so I got to a game from time to time, but being denied access to something I loved so much at an absolutely influential age was gutting 

 

Just build an 80,000 capacity stadium, would rather have the potential of a few thousand empty seats for less popular games, rather than people being locked out or having to go into a lottery to get tickets 

[Wallsendmag]

12 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

As a teen in the 90's the lock out period when it was 100% season tickets was so fucking demoralising

 

Fortunately I knew a family who would sometimes have a spare season ticket so I got to a game from time to time, but being denied access to something I loved so much at an absolutely influential age was gutting 

 

Just build an 80,000 capacity stadium, would rather have the potential of a few thousand empty seats for less popular games, rather than people being locked out or having to go into a lottery to get tickets 

 

Aye it was shite. I was one of the lucky ones who had a ST but most of my school mates, who'd I'd stood with in the very late 80s up until the end of the 90/91 season before I got my season ticket, couldn't get in anymore.

 

We're now in a position where every single match is massively over subscribed. Wimbledon at home in the League Cup, oversubscribed, Bromley in the FA Cup, oversubscribed. When both those clubs returned some of their allocation the extra tickets were snapped up instantly.

 

I actually agree that we could fill an extra 28k seats for the vast majority of games taking things as they are. As I said above it would also make the membership more worthwhile for people. In fact they could probably increase the price of it a bit as people would be buying it knowing they've got decent access to tickets instead of the 1 in 4 chance or whatever the average seems to be now is.

[Chicken Dancer]

Whatever we choose to do (move/stay), I'm fairly certain that the vast, vast majority of extra tickets will be made up of ballot & hospitality. All about the ££, sadly.

 

I echo what those have said though. £50 to watch us play Bournemouth (taking nowt away from them, they're a good team) at 12:30 on a Saturday is nothing shy of a disgrace tbh.

[LFEE]

I see the latest SJP article pretty much confirmed memberships are reaching 6 figures in numbers. Certainly in the very high 5 figures.

[HaydnNUFC]

1 hour ago, Chicken Dancer said:

Whatever we choose to do (move/stay), I'm fairly certain that the vast, vast majority of extra tickets will be made up of ballot & hospitality. All about the ££, sadly.

 

I echo what those have said though. £50 to watch us play Bournemouth (taking nowt away from them, they're a good team) at 12:30 on a Saturday is nothing shy of a disgrace tbh.

Fully agree.

 

As is £30 for Bromley on Sunday imo. I know they’re set prices for the competition but howay, man.

[Groundhog63]

In every single walk of life we let "market forces" dictate the price. When the electorate have allowed themselves to believe any nod to socialism and affordability of goods and services is irrelevant then so be it. 

No good moaning about football prices. 

 

I'm of the opinion that I'd rather listen to Newcastle beat Liverpool in a cup final on the radio than pay for a £10 ticket to watch them get beat in the 2nd round. 

 

It'll be a new stadium with loads of corporate and a few more season tickets. 

 

 

[Chicken Dancer]

17 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Fully agree.

 

As is £30 for Bromley on Sunday imo. I know they’re set prices for the competition but howay, man.

 

I don't mind that as much but purely down to the fact Bromley will get 50% (I think?) of gate receipts. Will really help them out.

 

But aye, it is steep. The friendlies in the summer were £25, no? That was a joke.

[Wallsendmag]

On the flip side my ticket for the League Cup Semi Final was 20 quid and the bairns was only a tenner.

[SteV]

1 minute ago, Wallsendmag said:

On the flip side my ticket for the League Cup Semi Final was 20 quid and the bairns was only a tenner.

Yes, the pre-arranged pricing due to the cup scheme has positives and negatives.

 

If they were pricing up match-by-match, I dare say it’d be a bit cheaper for Bromley, but absolutely no way it would be £20 for the semi final.