Hull to Scrap Season Tickets

[Wonderwall]

Well this is novel, I wonder how this will work? Is it like a season ticket membership scheme? IS the membership capped at the capacity? Has to be I suppose? Means it could be a sellout every game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35822295

Hull City plan to replace season tickets with a membership scheme.

The Championship club claim the new system could see some supporters save as much as £282.

Hull will give fans the choice of three different levels of membership, with the cheapest costing £21 a month.

Vice chairman Ehab Allam said: "For too long, the price of football in this country has been much too high. This new scheme will at least ensure the same cannot be said of Hull."

The BBC's Price of Football survey 2015 found that the Tigers' cheapest season ticket cost £531, while their most expensive was £606.

Their cheapest ticket is currently the costliest in the second tier of English football, but eight clubs have more expensive tickets in the top band of pricing.

Allam added: "The membership scheme is about rewarding the supporters for their fundamental part in this remarkable story and ensuring that, wherever the team start their new campaign, the club and the fans will be doing it together."

If the Tigers, currently fourth in the second tier, reach the Premier League this season then some supporters will pay £13 per match next season, while remaining in the Football League will lower that figure to £11 per game.

It is understood this is the first time such a scheme has been tried by a Football League club, although Barnet, then in the Conference, scrapped season tickets in favour of a monthly non-contract membership scheme in 2013.

[Scatman]

What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

[Wonderwall]

What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Yeah I remember that, not sure how it worked, I worked with someone who had one, I asked if it was a season ticket and he said no, but he was entitled to go to every league match? I just looked confused and walked away, I had already wasted 15 seconds talking to him.

[Blue Since 76]

What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Yeah I remember that, not sure how it worked, I worked with someone who had one, I asked if it was a season ticket and he said no, but he was entitled to go to every league match? I just looked confused and walked away, I had already wasted 15 seconds talking to him.

I always assumed that was like our old ones at Maine Rd where you had a book with about 40 tickets in and tore the right one out at the turnstile.

Not sure I see the difference in the Hull one from a season ticket with proper pricing. Those 2015 prices are a joke

[nottsblue]

What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Yeah I remember that, not sure how it worked, I worked with someone who had one, I asked if it was a season ticket and he said no, but he was entitled to go to every league match? I just looked confused and walked away, I had already wasted 15 seconds talking to him.

I always assumed that was like our old ones at Maine Rd where you had a book with about 40 tickets in and tore the right one out at the turnstile.

Not sure I see the difference in the Hull one from a season ticket with proper pricing. Those 2015 prices are a joke

Knowing the rags it would have been a membership scheme costing twenty quid or thereabouts which you had to have to purchase match day tickets. The entitled to bit was probably just that he was entitled to purchase tickets on top of the membership fee.

[BlueinBosnia]

Not sure I see the difference in the Hull one from a season ticket with proper pricing. Those 2015 prices are a joke

I can see how it would attract casual fans or newcomers. If I had a couple of kids and lived in Hull, I could see how I'd be tempted to take them along to 2 or 3 games on a scheme like that, and maybe become an occasional/regular subscriber if the kids liked it.

[Hazy2]

Is this because Steve Bruce blocks out the pitch.

[Blue Since 76]

What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Yeah I remember that, not sure how it worked, I worked with someone who had one, I asked if it was a season ticket and he said no, but he was entitled to go to every league match? I just looked confused and walked away, I had already wasted 15 seconds talking to him.

I always assumed that was like our old ones at Maine Rd where you had a book with about 40 tickets in and tore the right one out at the turnstile.

Not sure I see the difference in the Hull one from a season ticket with proper pricing. Those 2015 prices are a joke

Knowing the rags it would have been a membership scheme costing twenty quid or thereabouts which you had to have to purchase match day tickets. The entitled to bit was probably just that he was entitled to purchase tickets on top of the membership fee.

That sounds more like ours! They used to get first round of league cup included. Remember going with a mate on his tickets to watch them play Portsmouth. The game was that bad, I was actually hoping Portsmouth wouldn't equalise as I couldn't face extra time.

[nottsblue]

What was the LMTB thing they used to do at the swamp? Anything similar?

Yeah I remember that, not sure how it worked, I worked with someone who had one, I asked if it was a season ticket and he said no, but he was entitled to go to every league match? I just looked confused and walked away, I had already wasted 15 seconds talking to him.

I always assumed that was like our old ones at Maine Rd where you had a book with about 40 tickets in and tore the right one out at the turnstile.

Not sure I see the difference in the Hull one from a season ticket with proper pricing. Those 2015 prices are a joke

Knowing the rags it would have been a membership scheme costing twenty quid or thereabouts which you had to have to purchase match day tickets. The entitled to bit was probably just that he was entitled to purchase tickets on top of the membership fee.

That sounds more like ours! They used to get first round of league cup included. Remember going with a mate on his tickets to watch them play Portsmouth. The game was that bad, I was actually hoping Portsmouth wouldn't equalise as I couldn't face extra time.

I remember going into some school at the back of the Kippax and paying £2 I think to be a member.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Ah, this will be the Hull that upped the price of a ticket from 35 to 50 quid last time we went there. Or that more than doubled the price of a ticket from the previous and next home games against Palace and Stoke to cash in on our visit.