Season Cards 2024/2025

[dr_horse]

Is there a season card price list in the wild or do you need to log in as a renewal to see it?

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[Robertson]

I personally don't doubt the 11,000 figure, but as @Robertson says then almost half of those (including me and my lad) were automatically added.

I can see another 6/7k people paying £10 to get onto a waiting list. It is a whole other question about paying out for a season ticket. I had previously thought that if the chance came up then I would go for it, but with the new pricing I don't think I would take the option if it was presented to me.

I do expect a hefty kick in the knackers next year when the Pro membership goes up to £150 (really hoping for another cheap scarf I can put down my trousers to soften the blow) and the cheapest matchday tickets go above £60!

The problem with all of this is that the total amount of money we are talking about really won't make a significant difference to NFFC, but it does to you or me.

Exactly, It's ten quid at the end of the day. Less than a couple of pints of Madri at the ground. Coughing up the £800 if and when the time ever comes is a different matter.

Think there's another 4,000 "plus" members (including myself) on top of the "pro" members as well, who are demonstrably keen on securing tickets given they keep buying them all every match. Frankly, we're used to being fleeced by now, we just want to go to the matches.

 

[Joe Baker's Dog]

It's the way it will go.
I have already noticed increasing numbers of Asian-featured casuals occupying seats around me.
They seem to look bemused, but then again you don't see the whole game with a Smart phone camera pressed to your eye for the 90 minutes.

At the Chelsea game earlier this season I was shocked at how many football tourist's there were........they almost seemed to be in the majority. I think I preferred the old days when getting into the ground without getting your head kicked In was an achievement at Stamford Party.

 

[Senior Flange Technician]

Never felt further detached from the club.

Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?

 

['mist rollin in']

I would rather Forza started a campaign in obscene player wages and agent fees if I am being honest. This is all far too reactionary for me and not addressing any underlying causes in football.

Good point - it would be good if these issues were looked at as a root cause of several problems with the game. Although not entirely related, the scrapping of Cup replays is just another attack on the football pyramid.

 

[Cloughie1975]

At the Chelsea game earlier this season I was shocked at how many football tourist's there were........they almost seemed to be in the majority. I think I preferred the old days when getting into the ground without getting your head kicked In was an achievement at Stamford Party.

Indeed-it was wild country at the Bridge in the 70s (I remember going there in 1975 when
all hell broke loose at Earl’s Court tube station and dodging missiles in 1977).

 

[football post]

Never felt further detached from the club.

Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?

I remember being sat on my own for the last 20 minutes of some of those games .
Although I often wondered if I was being loyal or just bloody stupid

 

[Cloughie1975]

I remember being sat on my own for the last 20 minutes of some of those games .
Although I often wondered if I was being loyal or just bloody stupid

Probably both.

 

[Cloughie1975]

Never felt further detached from the club.

Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?

Or the 10,000 who turned up for the FA Cup 1st Round game against Weymouth in 2005-at
least it couldn’t go to a replay from next season.

 

[MagicalQuakers]

I just had a quick look at the pricing for the Man City game and for an adult ticket prices range from £42 to £52.

The highest season ticket price was £660 last year, which works out at £35 per ticket.

The current cost of £52 is one and a half times that price.

Under the new pricing structure the highest SC is £850, which is £45 per game. At the same factor then the cost of a ticket for City could be almost £70!

It makes less financial sense for Forest to actually hand over any season cards that are not renewed to people from the waiting list.

[For the other main ticket prices of £48 and £42 the ratio is the same - in fact it is worse for the cheapest tickets vs season card prices. Similarly the ratio is higher for Youth and Child tickets]

 

[WatnallRed]

It makes less financial sense for Forest to actually hand over any season cards that are not renewed to people from the waiting list.

I’ve been thinking this for a while as well. We have already seen the club carve out a set of seats if in upper clough to assign to the off site hospitality at Trent bridge. If many don’t renew I can either see more of that or simply not selling SCs so they can profit from the higher individual match prices.

My personal view (as a pro member) is that the SC prices of 550/570 aren’t too bad for prem football. 700/850 for relegation scrap quality football is a bit of a piss take. How the club have handled it however, age category changes, tweets etc is a huge disgrace.

 

[Robertson]

Never felt further detached from the club.

Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?

Well I had a season ticket the year we actually got relegated from the championship, and the season after. Then financial circumstances meant I couldn't really do it anymore, though I continued going to as many games as I could. Admittedly fewer and fewer during the Fawaz years.

There are lots of reasons why people didn't happen to buy a season ticket in 2021/22, following the year we'd all had: Health concerns, Finances, Chris Hughton, etc, etc. Similarly I can see why demand remained high, given stadiums had been closed for a year.

 

[Captain Sinister]

Never felt further detached from the club.

Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?

... League 1!

 

[REDDERS78]

Right let's get a few things in order. Firstly, you've made what I've said into a vastly overblown statement, exaggerated it and then taken it to the nth degree. I don't even understand why you would think it's something I've reported to the mods over and I certainly don't think the mods would think you've crossed any lines.

The mods mantra has always been criticise the idea not the person and I think you fall well within that boundary so you certainly won't be hearing from the mods via any report from myself. I've only ever contacted them to report something on one occasion and that was when I was concerned over someone's life and safety.

As for being offended, you'd have to try a lot harder than that to offend me Redders, I'm not easily offended in the slightest and if I'm of the school that if I get offended then that's my own issue nobody else's, it's subjective so it's rare I would even raise that for myself, I certainly won't get offended on behalf of someone else.

Finally you'd do well to remember to you're own wishes

"lets stop pushing this agenda that I'm somehow not allowed to speak my mind because I don't conform to yours or others way of thinking".

I'm a huge free speech advocate Redders and if you remember I responded to you yesterday and I said that I see your point you made and i accept it but you can't see hypocrisy in that you seem unwilling to allow others to have the same right without resorting to snide remarks or blowing up over it.

I never suggested you had reported me. If you appear to want to be offended on behalf of others then I guess its an option?

Suggesting what something can be construed as is simply putting things in peoples minds and Im sure people are capable of arriving at their own conclusions, they are grown men after all, despite my thoughts.

I'd rather you just say "youre talking shit" and I'd probably agree in most cases. All this jibber jabber about someone might not like this, or might view it this way is a waste of time and gets nobody anywhere, much like laying in a road or not singing a song.

Call me cnut, its far easier, and I wont be offended

 

[Strummer]

 

[Raymondo Ponte']

Ya **** Redders.

 

[Flaggers]

You have every mod on this forum who no doubt support the views of those i disagree with so if I have done anything that break the rules Ill be hearing from them, but lets stop pushing this agenda that Im somehow not allowed to speak my mind because I dont conform to yours or others way of thinking.

1. If I'm posting as moderator, then the posts are topped and tailed with *Moderator hat on* and *moderator hat off*

If the post is not so formatted, I'm posting as me.

2. Don't ever presume to know my mind, thank you.

You can post what you like. You may or may not get pelters.

If what you post needs dealing with from a moderator/admin perspective, then it will be dealt with using the moderator hat system.

 

[REDDERS78]

Ya **** Redders.

I agree, 100% Ray.

 

['mist rollin in']

My personal view (as a pro member) is that the SC prices of 550/570 aren’t too bad for prem football. 700/850 for relegation scrap quality football is a bit of a piss take. How the club have handled it however, age category changes, tweets etc is a huge disgrace.

Fellow pro member here and couldn't agree more. I've paid £800 for Forest games this season and just had to pay £96 for a couple of Man City tickets, so with that hat on, I look at the season card prices and think they're a bargain. I love Forza, however I'm a bit disappointed that they haven't really acknowledged that members are already paying extortionate amounts; this is why I'm a bit on the fence with the protests. I do think that the club have acted appallingly with the age category changes, tweets and timing of the renewals. Genuinely think the whole situation could have been handled with better communication from the club

 

[REDDERS78]

1. If I'm posting as moderator, then the posts are topped and tailed with *Moderator hat on* and *moderator hat off*

If the post is not so formatted, I'm posting as me.

2. Don't ever presume to know my mind, thank you.

You can post what you like. You may or may not get pelters.

If what you post needs dealing with from a moderator/admin perspective, then it will be dealt with using the moderator hat system.

Very informative.

Thanks

 

[shearstone]

Fellow pro member here and couldn't agree more. I've paid £800 for Forest games this season and just had to pay £96 for a couple of Man City tickets, so with that hat on, I look at the season card prices and think they're a bargain. I love Forza, however I'm a bit disappointed that they haven't really acknowledged that members are already paying extortionate amounts; this is why I'm a bit on the fence with the protests. I do think that the club have acted appallingly with the age category changes, tweets and timing of the renewals. Genuinely think the whole situation could have been handled with better communication from the club

Out of curiosity I decided to look at how much I've spent as a Plus member. Although I've been to every home game (cups and league) so far I'm just counting league.

I sit in Upper Bridgford (U1) and have spent £734 thus far (£669 on tickets and £65 membership fee). I plan on going to both City and Chelsea so that will be a further £84 taking my total to £818 for the season. A season ticket in this area is £550. So I have paid £268 more.

It's a stark difference but it's the price you pay for being more to the back of the queue. What worries me is with season tickets going up next season I expect seating in Upper Bridgford to be even more scarce as season ticket holders may move to the cheaper area or perhaps for the new safe standing and then membership prices will go up and matchday tickets will go up alongside it. Leading that £268 difference to increase rather than narrow.

Not sure I'd be able to justify going to every game again if that's the case.

 

[RedRobbo]

I'm an OAP but in my opinion it's the younger fans who've been shafted the most. As I posted earlier a 17 year old has gone from paying £190 in block R LBC stand to £700........I don't want our supporter base to be all old gits like me........

Agreed Joe - though I’m now paying £650 as an OAP. An increase of 38%!

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

This is a good point. There's an awful lot of members who have been paying extortionate member rates and buying tickets on a match by match basis at crazy - I just paid a whopping £96 for two tickets to Man City, which makes a season card look cheap.

It's not that season tickets are cheap, it's that the club are bleeding members dry. Having to pay to be in a queue now to get membership is the cherry on top. Next season we'll be forced to pay for lottery tickets to go towards making the water work in the Trent End.

There's a whole load of ways to raise additional revenue if the club wanted to beyond the visionless let's put up season tickets:
1) 3 year season tickets with a 10% discount? Bring forward £4m worth of revenue into this season to help with FFP giving us a couple of years to get our books in order.
2) Some sort of loyalty scheme - we pay full whacking price for ST but we get access to discounts in the club shop.
3) Partnerships with local business - pay 10% more and get discounts on pints/food whatever in nearby retailers who need to drive traffic.

Literally off the top of my head. The club could have spent a couple of days thinking about it and done something genuinely beneficial to fans whilst still raising prices.

 

[Louth Red]

My Take -

The club has dropped a huge clanger with this decision which is so tough for many fans especially young adults.

It’s weird because our fIve tickets in Upper Bridgford will cost slightly less than this season.

I feel for those supporters who face the high increases but have low family incomes. Sadly some will be priced out.

I have had season tickets every season since 1991/92 and I don’t foresee non-renewal under any circumstances. It’s likely that the great majority will also renew. Those who don’t will be replaced from the waiting list.

Sadly we are powerless as fans. Our representatives on the Fan Advisory Board need to stand together on this important issue, but sadly this is unlikely. Different groups are making statements but no coordinated response. If we retain our PL status I don’t see the position changing.

Realistically I don’t envisage any protest making a difference. Over the years we’ve seen several flash points under our three previous owners. We plummeted down the second tier and then struggled in the third tier. The only occasion we have had a real protest was in the late stages of the Fawaz ownership.

As a Club we are in a very difficult position regarding PL membership. Relegation would have very serious consequences for our Club.

There are several decisions made by our owner I do not like or support - failing FFP, rising ticket prices, corporate away game deals, etc, plus poor messaging on lease renewal and planning approval for WFCG

BUT

As a Forest supporter I will do everything possible to support the team over the coming five games to preserve our PL status.
Its the biggest issue we face.

Otherwise we will be paying the highest admission charges in the Championship next season whilst losing our best players.

 

[MaxiRobriguez]

Never felt further detached from the club.

Just one question though, where were those 21,000 existing and potential SC holders when I was sat with 13,000 in the deepest shit in the championship?

People have life events: I was a regular away tripper until the promotion season when I had a child, because that happened in that specific season it meant I missed out on being able to be part of the 400 club, now I end up going to only a handful of away games.

COVID was rife at the start of that season too. Plenty of worried or immunosuppressed folk may have decided to pass on a season ticket that one year to see what happened. I know someone who did just that having been a season ticket hold for donkeys years: he still can't get a season ticket now.

Of course PL football brings with it the demand for more tickets it's just a bit too simplistic to suggest all current ST holders deserve more because they were there for all the real shit. It's also potentially not true: the chap that sits next to me got his first season ticket in the Lamouchi year.