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Season Cards 2024/2025

EmmersonForest4

Steve Chettle
Absolutely, it's the timing and the changing of age categories that are the main points of criticism. I do think the actual price of season cards, whilst expensive, isn't too bad. As a member, I've just paid £96 for two tickets for Man City and I pay the expensive membership for the privilege of buying them early, so it is true that members are paying quite extortionate prices at the moment and will jump at the chance of a season card, because in their eyes it looks cheap in comparison.

The problem is that the club have created a situation of members vs season card holders which is really poor management. The consultation process with the supporters groups should have happened or they could have introduced half season tickets, it's been a shocking approach from the club.
The major problem is the cost of running a football club. If owners actually made profits wed have so much dispoable income as a club that we would already by now have an expanded stadium or a new one. With that ticket prices can come down and because we are making money as a club they can bring down costs everywhere.
 

Bohinens_chip

A. Trialist
Not sure if this has been done already but the statement about player spend ratio is winding me up.

I know it all helps but most effective approach is don't spend so much on players!

we can release and not replace

Kouyate
Boly
Felipe
Arter
2 out of the 4 keepers we have

Assuming they average 50k a week each all in that's about 15m a year.

The marginal income from pissing off our entire fan base and threatening to ruin all that's been great about going to forest for the last 2 years. About £2m.
 

PlayedOnGrass

First Team Squad
Not sure if this has been done already but the statement about player spend ratio is winding me up.

I know it all helps but most effective approach is don't spend so much on players!

we can release and not replace

Kouyate
Boly
Felipe
Arter
2 out of the 4 keepers we have

Assuming they average 50k a week each all in that's about 15m a year.

The marginal income from pissing off our entire fan base and threatening to ruin all that's been great about going to forest for the last 2 years. About £2m.
With the exception of Boly, I fully agree. He has been badly missed this season and is the main reason we are so bad at defending free-kicks
Kouyate, Felipe & Arter (at long last) reach the end of their contracts - so that is an easy decision
I think Hennessy does as well, so ship Vlach out to Greece and we have saved the club a good chunk of money
Worrall to Turkey
McKenna - Out of contract
Get rid of all the loans (although I would like to keep Tavares - not based on his 10 mins against Wolves though)
Several others out of contract and get rid Bowler/Hwang/Panzo etc.
I might apply for a position at the club - I have been through several efficiency & restructuring processes previously - perhaps I can help them out on a consultancy basis
 

PlayedOnGrass

First Team Squad
Speaking of bad signing, Origi gets £700 an hour to contribute f*** all.

Even more proof that the £2.7M the club will raise by pissing off the entire fan base is minuscule in comparison to the clubs finances.
I hear what you are saying - but every club makes bad signings
Imagine paying £86m for Anthony @ Man Utd
or Chelsea selling CHO for £4m and buying Mudryk for £80m?

You could argue - Yes we have spend £200m on 40 players
But we could potentially get that back by selling - MGW, Murillo, Dominguez, Elanga, Danillo - on top of the £30m we will get for Mangala.
I bet we could get £10-£15m for CHO - what did we pay - £4m?
 

Raymondo Ponte'

It's all about mid-table...
Speaking of bad signing, Origi gets £700 an hour to contribute f*** all.

Even more proof that the £2.7M the club will raise by pissing off the entire fan base is minuscule in comparison to the clubs finances.
I have other thoughts, I think it's more to do with EM and the way he deals with his money.

Yes, he appears wealthy, but I think there's something much deeper. I just cant put me finger on it.

Me fingers ul be busy wrapped round sum larrup in abit.
 

garibaldi

Jack Armstrong
After the FFP/PSR fiasco, I actually question whether anyone at the club has done the math on what difference the price hikes will make.

Part of me wonders if the decision was born simply out of habit, and viewing "little people" to be there to be milked for the elite and their goals 🤷‍♂️
Yep. One of the main defences of the hike by certain fans is that because we're being fleeced in gas prices, food prices, petrol prices and the membership schemes then we should accept our community club fleecing the little people as well.
 

Bohinens_chip

A. Trialist
I wonder how much total revenue the club lost when our fans seemingly on mass (certainly on social media) decided not to buy the official shirts and instead purchase from a dodgy Chinese knock-off merchant.
One might have interpreted that as "these people are at the edge of what they can afford" as opposed to "they must have some spare cash knocking about"

But presumably no one at the club did.
 
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Mr RayReardon

Jack Burkitt
I hear what you are saying - but every club makes bad signings
Imagine paying £86m for Anthony @ Man Utd
or Chelsea selling CHO for £4m and buying Mudryk for £80m?

You could argue - Yes we have spend £200m on 40 players
But we could potentially get that back by selling - MGW, Murillo, Dominguez, Elanga, Danillo - on top of the £30m we will get for Mangala.
I bet we could get £10-£15m for CHO - what did we pay - £4m?
Couldn't agree more. We've signed Aina, Elanga and CHO for about 15m. They'd be sold on for double. Compared to other clubs' profligacy our transfer dealings have been quite efficient

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'mist rollin in'

First Team Squad
I mentioned it in a previous post in passing, but would the introduction of half season tickets actually solve a lot of the problems. It would allow fans who can't afford a full season ticket the opportunity to go, and whilst it's not ideal, it's quite a good compromise.
 

Frank Clark’s Tash

Jack Burkitt
I hear what you are saying - but every club makes bad signings
Imagine paying £86m for Anthony @ Man Utd
or Chelsea selling CHO for £4m and buying Mudryk for £80m?

You could argue - Yes we have spend £200m on 40 players
But we could potentially get that back by selling - MGW, Murillo, Dominguez, Elanga, Danillo - on top of the £30m we will get for Mangala.
I bet we could get £10-£15m for CHO - what did we pay - £4m?
Indeed, bit there's a diffence between properly scouting a player whose signing doesn't quite come off, and letting the owners son buy overhyped mercenaries or someone as a favour to a dodgy agent.
 

EmmersonForest4

Steve Chettle
The club are seemingly so desperate to raise an extra £3m that they are perfectly willing to enrage huge sections of the fanbase.

How about instead they ban Marinakis' idiot family members from spunking far more than that on useless vanity signings? Just a thought.
However with PSR I exepct the owenership to be maximise revenue out of everywhere. I want them to be agreesive with it now. So no silly stuff like not having a sponsor. That dosent help anyone get on board if they are crap at maximising revenue.

This may end up as well paving the way for a new stadium which I fear cause I dont want to be out of town. However rents are gonna go up and this is all part of the calculation. If the system of football isnt changed and we want to generate more revenue whilst also keeping up with fan ambiotions of spending and lower ticket prices than I think a move away from the City Ground maybe the only way forward.....

This is why its sad and I would much rather focus and making football cheaper for owners so we can have good competition, lower ticket prices and and not have to compromise as much.

Also fans will pay the prices as well and I am not trying to cause a civil war but with Forza doing what they are doing they have to understand that the fans who are paying the new prices are on the opposite to them. If the customers are there than who is really at fault?
 
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