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Post by valley on Mar 9, 2024 12:56:32 GMT
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Post by valley on Mar 9, 2024 14:13:25 GMT
Season tickets on sale late march?.
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Post by bigandy99 on Mar 10, 2024 12:00:08 GMT
It’s a shame the “event” is on a Wednesday… would a Sunday not have been better?..
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Post by valley on Mar 11, 2024 20:31:20 GMT
Roland lost us thousands of new and old supporters.
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Post by valley on Mar 20, 2024 15:24:36 GMT
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Post by 1978sussex on Mar 21, 2024 14:08:26 GMT
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Post by 1978sussex on Mar 21, 2024 14:08:53 GMT
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Post by aaronaldo on Mar 21, 2024 14:15:40 GMT
As 2024/25 season tickets go on sale, the club’s owners Global Football Partners have written the below letter to supporters: www.charltonafc.com/news/letter-clubs-ownership (Reads better on the site) Dear Charlton supporter, After everything we have experienced and learned about this great club over the last seven months, the 2024/25 campaign is one we are excited about. This moment - with you being asked for ongoing support, in the form of a season ticket purchase for next season - is an appropriate time to bring you up-to-date with our actions and thoughts. We took over as custodians of Charlton on the eve of the current season. It was not an ideal start date, with pre-season at an end and the transfer window very well advanced, but the duration of the EFL approval process was not in our hands. Let’s not mince words: whilst the women’s first-team has been highly competitive and are in the mix for promotion to the Women’s Super League, the men’s first-team’s season has been disappointing. In particular, December and January was a bruising period for all Addicks. However, sometimes one needs to take one step back in order to take two steps forward. Over the first half-year of our ownership, the Charlton Board took a thorough look ‘under the bonnet’ of the club to get a full picture of the changes that needed to be made. As a result, the following steps have been taken: We appointed, in Nathan Jones, a manager that we all have real faith in That appointment was backed up with the arrival of Paul Hart, a vastly-experienced coach who has worked with Nathan over a number of years. The pair are working alongside Curtis Fleming, another experienced coach, who joined us in January In January, and even since then, we have financed significant improvements to the playing squad, paying transfer fees where deemed necessary by our football department as part of our squad-planning strategy An elite Director of Performance Services has been appointed to improve all aspects of the physical performance of our playing staff. Dr Will Abbott joined the club in January from Brighton & Hove Albion and we have already seen a dramatic improvement in the men’s first-team’s running numbers and player availability An elite Individual Development Phase Coach James Brayne has been appointed to ensure that our young players continue to develop their games as they make the move from the academy to the men’s first-team squad The academy has been strengthened, both by filling vacant coaching roles, but also by the addition of a full-time deputy head of academy recruitment A major partnership has been launched with Mount Pleasant FC in Jamaica, giving our academy access to a broader elite talent pool Prior to Nathan agreeing to join as manager, given his pedigree and ambition, he quite rightly needed to understand in full the nature of the ownership’s backing for a promotion push. We were able to give him the assurances he required and we give the same assurances to you. However, it’s important that we all recognise that Charlton is not solely defined by the men’s first-team, important though that is. Our Community Trust (CACT) is the leading club community organisation in English football; our outstanding academy was recently ranked eighth in England; and our women’s club is competing hard to join the elite 12-member Women’s Super League. Taken together, no other EFL club (and only a very small handful of Premier League clubs) can compare to what Charlton does in these areas. There is so much to be proud of already, but we are determined to build on the success of these parts of our organisation, which will benefit the club as a whole in the long run. In the months running up to Christmas, the Board also completed a comprehensive analysis of how we can increase the scope, scale and impact of our organisation off the pitch for the betterment of the teams on the pitch, benefiting from increased support and revenue. We have focused on our relevance to, and engagement with, both our existing fanbase and local communities. Resultant actions are as follows: Agreement internally on a fan engagement structure - shortly to be discussed with supporters' groups - which is fully compliant and goes beyond what the new legislation suggests The Charlton Board has engaged with the leading stadium design and architecture consultancy Trivandi to put in place a rolling series of improvements to the matchday experience The first such improvements will be the installation of safe standing at the rear of the Covered End and the construction of a Fan Zone outside the stadium A medium-term marketing campaign focused on increasing our relevance and visibility within the local community A soon-to-be-launched Schools Partnership, allowing us to engage with a young audience Building on the club’s proud history of leading the fight against racism in football and bringing equality to the game Charlton is already ranked in the top six EFL clubs for environmental, social and governance (ESG) and intend to improve further, in partnership with lead sponsor RSK Together with CACT, we will shortly announce a major business-focused fundraising initiative, enabling Charlton to super-charge our positive social impact in South East London We have signed a new digital media partnership with the world’s largest football content organisation, FootballCo (goal.com/Mundial), with the intention of spreading Charlton’s unique brand beyond the bounds of South East London From the beginning of our ownership our mantra has been ‘actions rather than words’, but there is still so much to do. Our collective aim is for Charlton to become the most cohesive and sustainable community-driven club in the UK competing at an elite level. Doubtless there will be ups and downs along the way, but in an era of strict revenue-based cost controls your club’s potential will only be achieved with your active support and engagement. That is now what we respectfully request. GLOBAL FOOTBALL PARTNERS (GFP) |
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Post by brad on Mar 21, 2024 14:24:08 GMT
Missed a trick again. Wrong prices. Get the team right and show to us first. Should all be £200 per adult and get the ground packed out.
16 to 20 year ago area really!!!!
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Post by 1978sussex on Mar 21, 2024 14:27:54 GMT
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Post by aaronaldo on Mar 21, 2024 15:14:01 GMT
Missed a trick again. Wrong prices. Get the team right and show to us first. Should all be £200 per adult and get the ground packed out. 16 to 20 year ago area really!!!! Personally thought the prices seem reasonable. I also doubt that lowering the prices to £200 will mean we pack out the Valley. Success on the pitch will pack out the Valley, not price cuts imo. What's the issue with the 16-20 section? |
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Post by valley on Mar 21, 2024 15:15:14 GMT
Same price as last this season?.
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Post by valleyfaithful on Mar 21, 2024 15:17:24 GMT
I'm in, as I am every year. Along with a healthy dose of Nathan Jones-based optimism for the season ahead.
Here's to 24/25 breaking our total points tally!
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Post by Mundell on Mar 21, 2024 15:22:24 GMT
Missed a trick again. Wrong prices. Get the team right and show to us first. Should all be £200 per adult and get the ground packed out. 16 to 20 year ago area really!!!! Personally thought the prices seem reasonable. I also doubt that lowering the prices to £200 will mean we pack out the Valley. Success on the pitch will pack out the Valley, not price cuts imo. What's the issue with the 16-20 section? We’ve discussed this question ad nauseam. Within reasonable pricing bounds, the demand for football tickets is price inelastic. If all season ticket prices were lowered to £200 total revenues would fall. I don’t think that’s even debatable. |
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Post by sittingbourne11 on Mar 21, 2024 15:30:33 GMT
Not bad £310 for the season, sure that’s less than I paid last year that works out about £14 per game brilliant value.
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Post by Mundell on Mar 21, 2024 15:35:18 GMT
I'm in, as I am every year. Along with a healthy dose of Nathan Jones-based optimism for the season ahead. Here's to 24/25 breaking our total points tally! I’ll also be renewing. It hasn’t and won’t influence my decision making one way or another, but it’s interesting that GFP is explicitly saying that if fans contribute to an increase in match day revenues the club will likely achieve the objectives they’ve set sooner. We do appear to have struck lucky (at last) with the ownership group and, like him or loathe, we have Charlie Methven to thank for that. I’m really looking forward to next season!! |
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Post by Occam’s Razor on Mar 21, 2024 15:45:14 GMT
I’m pleased to see safe standing return to the Valley - long overdue. In truth, most fans in the Covered End have been standing for years.
The argument that fans not rushing like lemmings to buy STs are somehow not backing the club is both disingenuous & absurd.
There are all sorts of ways that the investors could trim what are currently fixed costs, before looking to fans for more money.
And I say that as someone who admires most of that the investors have done so far.
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Post by valley on Mar 21, 2024 16:23:14 GMT
Sales be the same as this season.
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Post by kings hill addick on Mar 21, 2024 17:21:33 GMT
I didn't see any match prices but if they are the same as last season then paying before the 10th May earns you the equivalent of two free matches, or a maximum of three if you buy all the tickets one at a time and pay £1.50 for each single ticket.
I'd be surprised if most fans don't miss two or tree games a season, so the financial value is, probably, negligible.
I'm sure that back in the Premier League years the season tickets were guaranteed to be, at least, six games cheaper than paying as you go - and we only played 19 home games a season then.
As much as I liked having a season ticket I can't imagine that I will get close to twenty games so it would be cheaper for me to pay as I go. This, also, has the added advantage that I can pass on a few games (and save even more money) if we look anywhere as rubbish for a spell, next season, as we have this.
The benefits don't look very inspiring either. Most of them are just discounts on other, potential, ways to give the club more money.
If the match day tickets go up then that might change this but it does look like the main benefit of getting a season ticket is that it guarantees the club your money regardless of if you attend matched or not. That seems a little one sided to me, personally.
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Post by brad on Mar 21, 2024 17:21:44 GMT
Personally thought the prices seem reasonable. I also doubt that lowering the prices to £200 will mean we pack out the Valley. Success on the pitch will pack out the Valley, not price cuts imo. What's the issue with the 16-20 section? We’ve discussed this question ad nauseam. Within reasonable pricing bounds, the demand for football tickets is price inelastic. If all season ticket prices were lowered to £200 total revenues would fall. I don’t think that’s even debatable. Yes they would in cash income from Season ticket money but then you have the secondary in come from 2 or 3 more times people on match days going into the clubshop, Buying drinks buying food. Then having a packed stadium with better atmosphere where players want to play. |
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Post by kings hill addick on Mar 21, 2024 17:31:47 GMT
We’ve discussed this question ad nauseam. Within reasonable pricing bounds, the demand for football tickets is price inelastic. If all season ticket prices were lowered to £200 total revenues would fall. I don’t think that’s even debatable. Yes they would in cash income from Season ticket money but then you have the secondary in come from 2 or 3 more times people on match days going into the clubshop, Buying drinks buying food. Then having a packed stadium with better atmosphere where players want to play. The club has, already, sold the revenue streams from the club shop and food etc. The other risk with a £200 season ticket when match day tickets are between £25 and £30 is that people will buy a season ticket and still not attend regularly. At £200 one would only need to attend seven games at £30 to save money. Non-attending season ticket holders create, exactly, no atmosphere, at all. |
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Post by brad on Mar 21, 2024 18:04:30 GMT
Yes they would in cash income from Season ticket money but then you have the secondary in come from 2 or 3 more times people on match days going into the clubshop, Buying drinks buying food. Then having a packed stadium with better atmosphere where players want to play. The club has, already, sold the revenue streams from the club shop and food etc. The other risk with a £200 season ticket when match day tickets are between £25 and £30 is that people will buy a season ticket and still not attend regularly. At £200 one would only need to attend seven games at £30 to save money. Non-attending season ticket holders create, exactly, no atmosphere, at all. Maybe your right then bring it back in house. They said get a % of everything sold on match days. The main thing is getting a winning team then people would easy attend most games. Everything would be a lot easier. We still haven't got the best squad and a lot of work to still do in the summer. |
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Post by sevenoaks on Mar 21, 2024 19:32:09 GMT
Missed a trick again. Wrong prices. Get the team right and show to us first. Should all be £200 per adult and get the ground packed out. 16 to 20 year ago area really!!!! You wouldn't get anymore at that money.. Also people were all going to buy season tickets when Roland left, that never happened and its the normal hard-core that do. |
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Post by clarky on Mar 21, 2024 19:46:23 GMT
It is a good price and if we continue to finish strongly this season it can only improve numbers.
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Post by valley on Mar 21, 2024 20:50:00 GMT
17 years Stoke city
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Post by Bodiam on Mar 21, 2024 20:54:10 GMT
But they have the Bet365 family that own them, they can afford to supplement lower ticket prices very easily
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Post by kings hill addick on Mar 21, 2024 23:08:03 GMT
But they have the Bet365 family that own them, they can afford to supplement lower ticket prices very easily That is true but, presumably, they have similar wage restrictions to the rest of us. Those Bet365 millions don’t seem to be able to get them into the Premier League. I understand that we all want cheap tickets and multi-million pound transfer signings but that’s not how football is going. |
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Post by valley on Mar 22, 2024 5:47:15 GMT
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Post by seriouslyred on Mar 27, 2024 10:57:44 GMT
I didn't see any match prices but if they are the same as last season then paying before the 10th May earns you the equivalent of two free matches, or a maximum of three if you buy all the tickets one at a time and pay £1.50 for each single ticket. I'd be surprised if most fans don't miss two or tree games a season, so the financial value is, probably, negligible. I'm sure that back in the Premier League years the season tickets were guaranteed to be, at least, six games cheaper than paying as you go - and we only played 19 home games a season then. As much as I liked having a season ticket I can't imagine that I will get close to twenty games so it would be cheaper for me to pay as I go. This, also, has the added advantage that I can pass on a few games (and save even more money) if we look anywhere as rubbish for a spell, next season, as we have this. The benefits don't look very inspiring either. Most of them are just discounts on other, potential, ways to give the club more money. If the match day tickets go up then that might change this but it does look like the main benefit of getting a season ticket is that it guarantees the club your money regardless of if you attend matched or not. That seems a little one sided to me, personally. For me the benefits of a Season Ticket are much the same as when we first purchased them back in the mid 90s, namely: - commitment to the club rain or shine - same seat and not faffing around with purchases for every game - a sense that things are getting better and that we're on a journey together Reading the letter from the club, it's actually remarkable how they've injected some hope after years of mid-table mediocrity. Who knows how the first ten games will go but we should all be confident that the SMT and football management will move a step further towards delivering a competitive squad. As posted elsewhere, I'd put money on a top six finish before a ball is kicked, assuming they secure four or five "elite" players. There's no guarantee of promotion, never is. But these next few games should confirm that we already have the core of a decent squad. 23 games with fantastic views at £100 per month is a bargain. Bring it on! |
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Post by anthony55 on Mar 27, 2024 11:09:07 GMT
I've renewed.
First time since Bowyer that I feel confident we will have a good season.
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