Independent Leyton Orient Forum

LPE wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 7:42 pm Huge amount of empty seats left ahead of Saturday which I can’t see being shifted due to BH weekend, lots of people still away, £32 adult tickets and having to have an existing account so no casual fans able to buy tickets.

Such a shame as should be an electric atmosphere against the biggest club in the division.

Cheshunto wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 8:56 pm One of my mates wanted to come along with his 6 year old, so I said try the family stand, but it was £40 for 1 adult and 1 child ticket, plus food and transport, so basically he said “No, it’s too much”
It’s not just the tickets, it’s the total of everything.

And some say we need a bigger stadium…….not at these prices.

The club may consider giving the away club a bigger allocation to fill the stadium.

Bergen wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:24 pm Stevenage have sold 10 tickets for their away game vs Burton Albion on Saturday. It must be expensive at the Pirelli stadium.

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:20 am I can see why the club chanced it with these prices as we were near capacity most of last season, but reality is Birmingham City aren't exactly a fallen giant. Most of my lifetime they've been a middling championship club who had a decent few years in the prem. The idea that they are such a name that your casual match goer is going to fork out 32 quid for it is obviously ridiculous.

Appreciate that the club has a difficult balancing act between generating the revenue they need to push on at this level and keeping things accessible to the non hardcore, but gouging people is going to undo a lot of the good work they've done in increasing attendances and creating a positive vibe around the club. The prices they are charging across the board are the first serious missteps they've made imo and hopefully prompts a rethink next year.

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 11:39 am Would be surprised if the tiering experiment really works and that's quite an easy thing to scrap. Shows a misunderstanding of what a casual punter views an Orient game as. A decision to go will be some combination of the form we're in, time of year and cost, unless we're playing a properly 'big' club (like Leeds or Sunderland). For anyone under the age of 40, Birmingham won't even be the biggest team in the division - Bolton and Charlton have had more memorable success in the top flight over the last couple of decades.

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:20 am I can see why the club chanced it with these prices as we were near capacity most of last season, but reality is Birmingham City aren't exactly a fallen giant. Most of my lifetime they've been a middling championship club who had a decent few years in the prem. The idea that they are such a name that your casual match goer is going to fork out 32 quid for it is obviously ridiculous.

Appreciate that the club has a difficult balancing act between generating the revenue they need to push on at this level and keeping things accessible to the non hardcore, but gouging people is going to undo a lot of the good work they've done in increasing attendances and creating a positive vibe around the club. The prices they are charging across the board are the first serious missteps they've made imo and hopefully prompts a rethink next year.

RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 11:05 am It's a shame because this game should be a sell out . Birmingham are the biggest club in our league and arguably the biggest club we've played against in the league since we got promoted back from the National League . I know another Orient supporter who told me he'd love to go but he can't afford it .

Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 11:22 am

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:20 am I can see why the club chanced it with these prices as we were near capacity most of last season, but reality is Birmingham City aren't exactly a fallen giant. Most of my lifetime they've been a middling championship club who had a decent few years in the prem. The idea that they are such a name that your casual match goer is going to fork out 32 quid for it is obviously ridiculous.

Appreciate that the club has a difficult balancing act between generating the revenue they need to push on at this level and keeping things accessible to the non hardcore, but gouging people is going to undo a lot of the good work they've done in increasing attendances and creating a positive vibe around the club. The prices they are charging across the board are the first serious missteps they've made imo and hopefully prompts a rethink next year.

You'd hope so but it's pretty rare to see prices come down. Once they've been raised, you're unlikely to see a climb down, even if they acknowledge they've got the pricing wrong.

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 3:51 pm Asking people to pay nearly twice as much for a ticket as they were paying two seasons ago, when we haven't really made a single marquee signing this summer to indicate we're going for anything other than a solid mid table finish (which is fine), is a tough sell really.