St James' Park

[TRon]

Just now, Wallsendmag said:

 

Not sure it would. Here we are just 5 days away from one of our biggest home games in years v Arsenal and you can go on the site now and buy a corporate seat if you like. Still 47 seats available in Wings when I checked before.

 

For general seating our demand will be up there with any club. For corporate seating we're miles away. Put simply people up here just don't have the money.

 

It's why we need to be able to spend on the squad to drive real success. That's what puts bums on seats once you get past the diehard support base and shoots you into the superleage echelons. It's also why the cartel have worked so hard to make sure we can't spend on the team. Go build a new training ground or a conference suite and you're fine.

[OCOCOL]

2 minutes ago, Wallsendmag said:

 

Not sure it would. Here we are just 5 days away from one of our biggest home games in years v Arsenal and you can go on the site now and buy a corporate seat if you like. Still 47 seats available in Wings when I checked before.

 

For general seating our demand will be up there with any club. For corporate seating we're miles away. Put simply people up here just don't have the money.

 I bought myself a ticket to the barracks as a birthday present. The next day the club rang me to see how I found it and would I like more corporate tickets. The lad on the phone was dead canny but I thought bit was telling it’s the only time the club have ever called me for feedback when I’ve had a ST for over 33 years and 400+ LP.

 

They’re desperate to create a demand for hospitality that won’t be there until we’re winning silverware regularly (and even then we just don’t have the draw that London or NW clubs have). That’s not a bad thing imho (it makes us, us) but given restrictions it’s another thing that will impede our rise to the top. 

[OpenC]

Those guys filling the corporate seats at Spurs and Arsenal are in London anyway though. It's easy enough to take them to North London and give them a corporate football experience. There are not thousands and thousands of wealthy clients hanging around Stowell Street who are knocking back the chance of corporate at SJP because we haven't strengthened at RW for years and are just waiting for better football. 

 

Again safety imo

[Wandy]

I don't understand the desire for a huge "kop" end mind. Its an outdated concept and the views from near the back of it would be bloody awful.

[LFEE]

Shaking my head at most of you 

 

Do any of you actually watch the football whilst it’s going on?
 

“I want it to look like this I don’t want it to look like that…” yada yada yada 

 

1st world problems… 

 

You can tell some of you are locked out the ground if that’s your main concerns 

 

 

 

 

[Rich]

I'm not usually looking at the stadium exterior when I'm inside the stadium, mind.

 

I'm looking at the stadium exterior plenty on a matchday and during the rest of the week, though, and it currently gives me a warm fuzzy glow. Don't really want to lose that if possible.

[Toon No9]

1 hour ago, Mikky said:

This is one design I love 

 

 

 

Not the feeling of a classic football stadium but looks really cool.

[bobbydazzla]

43 minutes ago, Wallsendmag said:

 

Not sure it would. Here we are just 5 days away from one of our biggest home games in years v Arsenal and you can go on the site now and buy a corporate seat if you like. Still 47 seats available in Wings when I checked before.

 

For general seating our demand will be up there with any club. For corporate seating we're miles away. Put simply people up here just don't have the money.

Don’t lose sight of the fact that our Corporate experience is shite and doesn’t represent value for money 

 

I’ve been in the Barracks and felt like I got ripped off for the price of the ticket

 

They’re also having to ship some corporate out to Hadrians Tower (and Fenwicks?) for the pre-match, which is ludicrous 

 

I’m lucky enough that I could afford corporate tickets if I wanted to treat myself, but no way I’m paying those prices for what I get in return at SJP. It’s daylight robbery 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by bobbydazzla

[80]

23 minutes ago, Rich said:

I'm not usually looking at the stadium exterior when I'm inside the stadium, mind.

 

I'm looking at the stadium exterior plenty on a matchday and during the rest of the week, though, and it currently gives me a warm fuzzy glow. Don't really want to lose that if possible.

It's going to occupy a whacking part of the city and form an important part of its international identity. Why wouldn't you want to ensure it looks the part? If after a while it's made out of fraying, discoloured lumps of plastic we'll regret it.

[OpenC]

20 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

Don’t lose sight of the fact that our Corporate experience is shite and doesn’t represent value for money 

 

I’ve been in the Barracks and felt like I got ripped off for the price of the ticket

 

They’re also having to ship some corporate out to Hadrians Tower (and Fenwicks?) for the pre-match, which is ludicrous 

 

I’m lucky enough that I could afford corporate tickets if I wanted to treat myself, but no way I’m paying those prices for what I get in return at SJP. It’s daylight robbery 

 

 

A standard premier league ticket barely represents value for money any more   I had always assumed that corporate was really designed for people who aren't actually football fans but wanted to experience the thrill of seeing and hearing more common folk roaring at stuff, maybe that was wrong

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by OpenC

[AyeDubbleYoo]

3 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

Don’t lose sight of the fact that our Corporate experience is shite and doesn’t represent value for money 

 

I’ve been in the Barracks and felt like I got ripped off for the price of the ticket

 

They’re also having to ship some corporate out to Hadrians Tower (and Fenwicks?) for the pre-match, which is ludicrous 

 

I’m lucky enough that I could afford corporate tickets if I wanted to treat myself, but no way I’m paying those prices for what I get in return at SJP. It’s daylight robbery 

 

 

 

I walked into the Barracks by accident last match and I didn’t realise I was in hospitality except that Ruel Fox was there. 

[bobbydazzla]

7 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I walked into the Barracks by accident last match and I didn’t realise I was in hospitality except that Ruel Fox was there. 

There’s nothing “corporate” about it, that’s for sure 

 

When I was in there the queues for the bars were massive, there was a covers band playing Britpop tunes so loud that you couldn’t hear yourself think and I got a free shawarma wrap and some chips for my bait. The seats are nowt special either. 

 

Think it was £180 per ticket. Felt like I’d been scammed

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by bobbydazzla

[AyeDubbleYoo]

2 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

There’s nothing “corporate” about it, that’s for sure 

 

When I was in there the queues for the bars were massive, there was a covers band playing Britpop tunes so loud that you couldn’t hear yourself think and I got a free shawarma wrap and some chips for my bait. The seats are nowt special either. 

 

Think it was £180 per ticket. Felt like I’d been scammed

 

 

 

Went to Eagles hospitality which was similar, but only £50 per person. 
 

I know the Barracks is the cheapest offering TBF. 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by AyeDubbleYoo

[loki679]

For a new stadium I like that mockup someone did with the stone outside making it look like / match the architecture on Grey Street.  Can't find the image of it now but it looked mint.

[OCOCOL]

19 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

There’s nothing “corporate” about it, that’s for sure 

 

When I was in there the queues for the bars were massive, there was a covers band playing Britpop tunes so loud that you couldn’t hear yourself think and I got a free shawarma wrap and some chips for my bait. The seats are nowt special either. 

 

Think it was £180 per ticket. Felt like I’d been scammed

 

 

 

plus VAT I think - sure mine was £225. Compare that to Birminghams offering for us (which they’ve hiked up as it’s obviously a high profile game for them )2 course meal and free drink! I enjoyed it (the barracks) but as you say it wasn’t VfM - most of the people in there (those that I know) are small businesses putting it through the books rather than wealthy individuals. 

[TRon]

1 hour ago, Toon No9 said:

 

Not the feeling of a classic football stadium but looks really cool.

 

 

It looks fantastic to me.

[NE27]

1 hour ago, OpenC said:

 

A standard premier league ticket barely represents value for money any more   I had always assumed that corporate was really designed for people who aren't actually football fans but wanted to experience the thrill of seeing and hearing more common folk roaring at stuff, maybe that was wrong

 

 

 

 

And desperate fans shunted out of seats for even more expensive hospitality, at least in my case in the barracks.

 

Fucking hate the place.

[Hovagod]

1 minute ago, NE27 said:

 

And desperate fans shunted out of seats for even more expensive hospitality, at least in my case in the barracks.

 

Fucking hate the place.

Did they let you change the seat?

[NE27]

Just now, Hovagod said:

Did they let you change the seat?

 

From gallowgate club to barracks.

 

Even that was a massive ordeal which rumbled on for months. They would not accept me taking a ticket in standard areas at all.

[LFEE]

21 minutes ago, NE27 said:

 

From gallowgate club to barracks.

 

Even that was a massive ordeal which rumbled on for months. They would not accept me taking a ticket in standard areas at all.

I remember that. Probably worth speaking to the Ombudsman about TBH.