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I feel overall that the price increase is reasonable. I do however find it quite an interesting approach to promote the meeting of friends and rituals rather than the matchday experience and football to be provided. I am not convinced that those words will tempt people on the periphary to buy a season ticket as there is very little mention of future plans on the footballing side. The club keep mentioning the fact that they want MORE walk ons, then increase the price for the Jimmy Mac Upper for example by approximately 17% on match days. I'm sorry but this is not a good move in my opinion. I am pleased to see that the cost has not risen by much. All the incentives included aren't for me a determining factor in whether you buy a ticket or not. Again, as usual, I fail to understand why those of us in the JH Upper are treated differently to other areas with a lower discount, when our tickets have the highest cost. I would be interested to hear how the club justifies this in terms of deciding the prices for each area of the ground. Well pleased with next season's prices as the combined price of my season ticket and my son's season ticket in the Jimmy McIlroy Upper shows a combined reduction of £4.50. I have read the message from the club and the only difference I can see is the removal of the friends for a fiver and the increase for people who decide on a nice day to go to the Turf who will have to pay an extra three pounds. Will that put them off, well only time will tell. Work commitments mean I never know when I can go to a game but I have missed only two this season. It could have been more so I can't really buy a season ticket. There's nothing in this press release which excites me in any way. Prices are up but not by too much and I'm a season ticket holder in the Longside, so I get screwed with the discount again. I personally can't complain too much, but I would be livid if I was a potential walk on fan. Yet again very disappointing from the club. We were told how much time and thought had been put into this season ticket package, I can't see where. If Edmundson comes up with another publicity stunt like last year and buys a season ticket I personally will be there to ram it right where the sun don't shine. £23 on the day in the Longside - you are killing this club. Go now please. One thing the club seems to forget fairly often is that many fans do not live in the Burnley area and so find it difficult to get tickets except on match days. First of all, I'll be getting a season ticket for next year. I sit in the Jimmy Mac Upper the family stand, which by its title suggests a cosseted environment. What concerns me is that any unaccompanied juniors are only allowed in this stand. Next season's prices are derogatory and don't take into account the large percentage of supporters the club have who live outside the Burnley boundary. I live in Wigan and bypass the JJB , a ground that will next year more than likely be supporting Premiership football. I am upset that once again the club has seemed to forget us 'exiled' supporters. The increase in match day admission to go with the tank of petrol, food at motorway services and more is making it harder and harder to support my club. I have been reading the comments on here and on the message board threads, and the most glaring and obvious cause for concern that is being raised is the increased cost of match day walk ons, and I can't say that it surprises me in the slightest. Patronising and irrelevant marketing spiel will encourage no-one to buy a season ticket. I also fear the decision to penalise walk-ons financially will rebound. If - for any of a wide variety of reasons - someone does not wish to buy a season ticket, then differential pricing can only have a negative impact. I am also bemused by DE's U-turn on the importance of attracting walk-ons. He has highlighted the need to pull in more casual supporters many times, but now issues an 840-word release without mentioning them. As in recent seasons, the discount period ends far too early. I also find the below phrase very ominous. "If our season tickets increase significantly, then there will be funds for the manager to enhance his squad." Seemingly therefore, even if we reach the official 8,500 season ticket target there will be no funds for SC. It's either very badly-worded, or a classic OG - both of which are perfectly possible knowing BFC. The season ticket prices are fine in my opinion. However the extra £3 on the day isn't great it is a lot of hassle especially if you don't have a car like me and don't live in Burnley if you need to get a ticket early. I have sympathy with the views expressed by Meg Fawcett. Her loss is my gain as the Hargreaves Upper loses the unattended 'children'. I think the walk on increase is very short-sighted. As a claret who, up until last season, drove 414 round-mile trip from Norfolk to see my team, (my psychiatrist was a Norwich fan!!) I would be feeling a bit miffed now to be asked to pay an extra £3.00. There are many Clarets from all over the country who usually make a decision to travel long distances to the Turf on the day of the match (travel & weather conditions) and I think it is grossly unfair on them in particular. I usually sit in the JH lower on matchdays. However I decided that I'd make a change and go and sit in the upper tier. After seeing the new prices, absolutely no chance I'll be able to afford £379 before the end of April, never mind the £460 after deadline. Unless I win the lottery or get a significantly better paid job, I will have to choose which games I go to. How the hell do the club expect people to afford these sort of prices? This is absolutely scandalous. The club care about 1 thing and 1 thing only. How much they can con out of us. This is 1 hell of a PR mistake!! Dave Edmundson says he wants more walk on fans .... and then does exactly the wrong thing to try and achieve that, i.e. specifically penalise those walk on fans who the club do need. There is no way that the ticket packages announced will encourage more people onto Turf Moor. I have given the price rises some consideration during the day and whilst believing that the season ticket holders have got a reasonable deal feel that the "Walk Ons" like myself, wife and daughter have been treated most unfairly. At a time when we want more walk-ons - what does this achieve? Anyone in the South West Clarets will have a massive bill before even getting to the Turf and for many it will be a last-minute decision. I want to sit on the side but the no smoking policy only extends to the Jimmy Mac upper tier, hence I will be forced to sit at the end for another season. The season ticket package seems not too bad prices wise apart from the fact that the more expensive stands get less "free games". This should have been averaged out and put to a fair level for each stand in my opinion. I wholeheartedly agree with all of the comments with regard to walk-on fans. Before I even buy a ticket it has cost me £70 to get to the Turf with petrol, food etc. and now I am being asked to fork out more money because I didn't buy my ticket in advance. I think the prices are pretty reasonable. Still good value overall although I agree with your assessment of the disparity between the differnet stands (we should all get the same). The April deadline always seemed too early but the club makes a good point about the impending deadline so any incentive to bank the cash as early as possible makes sense overall. For season ticket holders I think it still remains a good deal and probaly much better than a lot of teams in our division - add to this the optimism around the club at the moment and next season could be very interesting indeed! I live 60 miles from the Turf. I used to pay on the day, but the hassle became a pain. I could rarely sit in the same place, I never knew if there were going to be smokers, or foul mouths, or whingers/booboys etc. around and I couldn't be sure of sitting with family. Even worse for big games or cup runs. Well - if you live quite far away and work on Saturday as I do it is not particularly good news. I usually book winter leave and any Saturday I can when the Clarets are at home. I now live 50 miles away from the Turf and will be renewing my season tickets if I can afford it. Can the faithful keep the faith? Not on the evidence of an ever dwindling turnout of the faithful. Perhaps fans are feeling the heat financially. Or maybe club football at this level has become a little passé. I'm inclined to believe that the euphoria and newness of life in this division has completely worn off. So the pressing need to keep prices commensurate with our ambitions rather than just at also-ran levels looks set to increase the level of absentees. If we squeak now, imagine the consternation at the prices should we actually manage to gain promotion. The irony of this is that the club have just turned around what was potentially a closing down season into one of the most cash positive periods for a long time through the sale and lease back deal, the sale of players, and the cup money... Get out of jail even if you need 99 years to pay it back! Of course this can't be repeated next season and we also need to fund the ground! Anyone for a game of ever decreasing circles? I think I'll be getting a season ticket next season, but not because of the marketing campaign. I was getting one anyway. I agree with many of the letters included, that the hiking-up of walk on prices is a dangerous and negative move. Twenty-three pounds for 90 minutes football. I am sorry, I love my club but it is just getting too expensive to watch. I understand that BFC prefer to have as many season ticket holders as possible, being money in the bank before a ball is kicked. If I lived in the Burnley area I would be one of those ticket holders. However, living on Tyneside (how many long term supporters live away?) with family commitments means I cannot attend every home (away for me) game, getting to as many as I possibly can. Until now, that is. The prices are reasonable, I live in the East Midlands and the clubs near to me will be charging far more next season. Forest may even be playing in a lower division.
All in all I will be buying a season ticket, but I always was going to do this season no matter what the marketing campaign was. I am not sure it is the right approach at the moment, but time will tell.
Dan Heap
The whole season ticket package appears to be fair enough at first glance though.
Rick Laycock
I don't agree that the club has to make us pay now, before the end of the season, particularly as hardly any transfer deals happen until July now, although I accept that Steve Cotterill would need to set things up in advance of that time. Therefore payment by the mid to end of May in my view would be more reasonable, but Burnley are not alone in doing season ticket renewals this way.
In the last couple of years the club has talked optimistically about the season ticket sales then this money has appeared to have to go to other things, and therefore the playing/transfer budget claim has not necessarily been linked directly to ticket sales. However, I am reasonable enough to assume that now the club's finances are healthier, there will be a more direct link between the two.
I will be buying one, as I have done for each of the last 27 years, looking forward optimistically to a successful season as Steve Cotterill continues his rebuilding of the club. I trust and hope that others will do likewise, to provide him with the funds to build a decent squad to challenge at the top of the league.
Jason Howorth, Leeds
Hazel Leach
The increase of approx £15 for a season ticket is fair and in line with inflation. I was expecting to see an increase in the child's ticket which is a bargain to be honest.
In summary, little change, will be getting my tickets, 1 adult 2 kids, next week.
Andy Baron
It is always a late decision before I know whether I can get down the Turf and I can say they have broken my heart with the big increase I would have to pay next season.
I say would because alas after 24 years I am going to have to say farewell to the club I have supported through good and bad. I just can't afford these big match day increases, what were they thinking of does this Dave Edmundson think we all earns as much as him?
John Shaw
This 'More than 90 Minutes' is another empty slogan for Dave Edmundson to hide behind whilst increasing the prices for the fans that they're trying to target most of all. What ridiculous logic is this?
I understand that they are desperate to get as many season ticket sales as possible, but why not increase the incentives to buy a season ticket rather than reduce still further the demand for walk ons?
Yet another own goal I feel.
Mark Smith
Despite the claims to have consulted with the fans and taken on board their concerns the season ticket package is very much identical to the offerings of the last few years.
No imagination, no real thought and as far as I am concerned, no point.
As a lapsed season ticket holder, from the James Hargreaves Upper, I will not be buying a season ticket again unless there is a real benefit in doing so.
When I first purchased a season ticket we used to get between 6/7 games free, this has now been whittled down to four When you take into account that you are almost certainly going to miss a couple of games through other commitments (weddings, holidays etc.) and the club then start giving discounted tickets to non season ticket holders you end up in a situation where there is no benefit at all (monetary wise) in purchasing a season ticket and paying the full cost of the season in one lump sum.
However, once somebody like me has taken the decision not to buy a season ticket and instead pay on the gate, you start to pick and choose your games (particularly if we are not challenging at the top of the league). As a result BFC receive approx £150 a season from me instead of the £300 plus they used to receive. As I have five friends who now do the same the money soon adds up.
When will this board of directors realise that their actions of the past few years now require a significant gesture / new initiative to prove to fans like me that we are not going to be taken for granted every time we stump up the cash in advance (i.e. discounted rates for non season ticket holders, loaning out players when we have nothing realistically left to play for, borrowing players just so we can field eleven players).
According to the Chief Executive it is vital to the club that a significant number of fans purchase season tickets. If that is the case, begging alone will not achieve it. Over the last few years the negativity and constant begging from the chief exec in particular, and the board in general, has stolen the dream, and unless the team start to show significant improvements on the pitch it is going to take a lot more imagination by Mr Edmundson to bring it back.
I say this as a 33 year-old who never missed a home game for about ten seasons and in that time visited in excess of 60 different away grounds including the likes of Maidstone/Dartford, Reading and Torquay. This season I've been to a handful of league games, plus Leeds away. I also watched Villa, Tottenham, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Blackburn home and away in the cup.
It is time for Mr Edmundson, Mr Kilby et al to wake up and smell the coffee before it really is too late, and fans like me are lost forever.
Jason Bradley
In most cases the admission price has gone up by £1 and season ticket prices about £10. The gimmicks about buying shirts and discounts at the club shop were already there last season. This package will maintain the status quo in terms of overall season ticket sales, but with the ridiculous decision to up matchday prices by £3 the walk ons will be depleted even further. We already only half fill our ground so encouraging the 3,500 who were season ticket holders to return (even a few times a year) was a major priority. How will this happen if they may have to pay £23 to watch 2nd tier football.
People will say that it isn't £23 to watch but £20 if you buy the tickets early, a lot of fans won't be bothered with the hassle of getting tickets early and won't bother coming at all, what's wrong with handing your cash over the turnstile?
If this is the grand plan that Dave Edmundson has been working on and getting paid for quite handsomly for the last few months, I suggest he hands in his resignation now.
Steve Goodwill
Chris Wilson
They will say get a season ticket but due to work commitments etc. this is not always a cost effective way to watch the games.
I attend every Saturday home game, when I leave home more often than not I have two or three with me who have just decided on the spur of the moment to come, I can't see them paying £20 next year.
Duncan Kirk
What I cannot understand is the increase for paying on the gate - this is only going to have a negative effect on the number of walk ons and could cost the club in the long run. It's hardly encouraging walk ons is it? What makes it ridiculous is the incovenience of having to phone up to buy a ticket and then queue to pick them up which in the past has been a painful experience at times.
I hope I'm wrong but I fear that both the number of season tickets sold and average walk on attendances will be down next season.
Adrian Townson
I am not lumping all youths together, but we do have a fair amount of louts in this category. Why then put them in the area of the ground provided for families?
Meg Fawcett
I have spent a small fortune over the years watching the Clarets and, God willing will continue to do so for many years to come. However, I feel the £3 price tier for turning up on the day will prove to be a problem, and I for one will think long and hard before attending the 'run of the mill' games. If things remain as at present I will find little incentive in turning up, after all the board aren't exactly falling over themselves to increase the level of expectation, the smallest squad in the Championship and we sell our two best players, I'm sorry we sell Blake and practically give Chaplow away.
I have held a season ticket for many years in the past, but due to work commitments, I find difficulty in attending night matches.However, if the season ticket reduced price incentive was extended to the end of June I would definitely commit to one but I feel the discount period only being open to April 30 is a joke and a factor costing the club a lot of sales.
Andrew Booth
Although the Clarets Foundation gave us something but that is slowly making no difference.
When will the club look at half season tickets for instance? I would definitely buy one, say half price for any 11 home games in the season.
Once again I feel that we don't count and are not valued.
Dan Milner
What on earth is the club going to gain by doing this? If someone decides that they are going to go on a game at a weekend, then what difference does it make if they buy the ticket on a Friday or on the Saturday morning? Is Mr. Edmundson naive enough not to believe that many people have other commitments and can't always make a decision on whether they can attend a particular game until possibly the night before or on the day itself.
Lee Barnett
Ian Halstead
Hopefully the concession tickets (which I assume includes students) will be availabe for single matches, as I have been fobbed off with excuses in the past saying that they only do those for a season ticket. I have been a season ticket holder for a number of years but canot afford it any more, especially as I don't live in Burnley. It isn't because of the price increase, it's just because I can't afford it.
Chris Stanworth
Most of them are a complete pain in the butt. They do not come to watch the football. To them it's a social afternoon to catch up with each other, get fed and annoy as many people as possible as they don't give a damn.
It would have been good to see the club trying to do something a bit more positive rather than just shift the problem.
Who knows in a year's time they might move them into the Bob Lord and with any luck a year later they can move them into the Cricket Field stand and share with the away fans and stay there.
Nigel Wiggins
Graham Coxall
Mark Murgatroyd
I live near the ground but work in Manchester and it will be very difficult for me to buy a ticket before match day because of the times I get home. I can't see why I should be forced to pay an extra £3 - either the club want my money and my support or they don't.
Also has there been any consultation with supporters over this or is it a case of 'the club knows best' again?
Chris Flynn
I believe that a considerable number of the 8,500 tickets sold for the current season were bought amidst the 'panic' of the club's future, and we as Burnley fans were trying to do our bit.
The attendances for the past couple of seasons, even against the so called 'bigger' clubs have as we all know been below expectations, if current pricing policies are failing to attract walk ons then how can price increases help matters?
This was a time for the club to be radical in their approach to us, the fans, price reductions (to say £15 per match) to all matches - not just the dour midweek fixtures against the likes of Brighton and Crewe, would I'm sure mean full (or as near as damn it) home crowd attendances with the positive effects that can have on players, and off field finances.
Everybody at the club wants the gound full, week in week out, so is it better to have 16,00+ at £15 (with 13,000+ being season ticket holders) or the predictable 9,000 at £22?
Let's not forget that Burnley and its surrounding catchment area is in general a financially depressed area. Dave Edmundson has obviously had a choice between trying to get even more money from those that can afford it, or make the whole Turf Moor experience more affordable for a vast majority of the local community, we could make each home game a truly memorable occasion, with the place packed with Burnley fans creating an atmosphere that will be remembered for 'more than just 90 minutes'. We know we can do it so why not go for it!!
Colin Cooney
I work shifts hence no season ticket, do not live in or relatively near to the club so will have to pay £7 more for the 3 of us. Petrol is going up allmost by the day so each home game will now cost me at least £10 more. The "day out" including a programme and petrol will be around £70.
I have been a Claret since 1971 and will be so until the day they put the lid on my box but my last 4 pay increases have been at 3% per year, not 10% plus each year!. I'm sad to say it but its likely to be 1 - 2 games less next season....Sorry BFC
Richard Scoffield
Perhaps Mr Edmundson would like to subsidise our travel as he wishes us to pay even more to get to games. Straws and camels backs come to mind.
Phil Hardaker
In years to come people will find this problem ludicrous just like smoking on planes was just a few years ago. Wake up BFC 75% of your fans don't smoke !
Richard Mellor
The walk on prices are an absolute joke and the person/people responsible should be ashamed of themselves for such a pathetic offer. I remember certain people at the club complaining that there were not enough walk- ons, and this is no way to go about increasing the attendances.
It has been mentioned that the prices for this are to keep us in line with other clubs but these people need to realise that Burnley is not a high or even decent earning wages area. It shows a lack of communication with fans again!
Andrew Wilde
My reason for not buying in advance is simple. With a 400 mile round trip to a home game, most days I just hope that my old car will make yet another long journey. Buy a ticket in advance, the car dies, my ticket and money are lost.
I supposed I will just have to content myself with filling the coffers of the other teams in the league by going to away games.
Wake-up BFC, not all of your supporters live within walking distance of Turf Moor and most aren't millionaires. We used to laugh at Walsall and their attempt to extract money from away supporters, but now it seems that BFC are trying something similar with their home supporters.
Philip Tootill
Mark Bailey
For the past 5 years I've had a season ticket. Now I am sure of my seat, I can turn up at the last minute and the people around are great, including my brother and niece. My youngest son attends with me now, and the price of his ticket is excellent.
I don't attend all games, maybe due to junior football reasons (police kick off times) or some night games etc. So it might be cheaper, even at £23, to pay on the day. There is a price to the convenience of a season ticket, and I'm happy to pay it.
Bob Nicholson
With the extra charge for paying on match days the club are basically saying "Hey don't bother".
I must admit with the totally boring stuff served up I have spent more time looking at my text for other scores while on the Turf so maybe it's not really worth coming. Burnley and their manager have done well this season to survive with limited resources - however it's not been pretty and most people outside the club see us as a very small selling club.
Stewart Beesley
The price of the ticket seems reasonable to me, but as I haven't had a ticket since 96-97, I can't really compare it to anything in terms of value for money.
A Greenwood
Therefore 10 home games for me will cost a basic £1,050 quid this means serious consideration of what I will get to see on the Turf, it also means it would be cheaper for me to go to Goodison or Anfield which I occasionally do but I would rather support my team.
Martin Dempsey
Heath Phipps
David Alton
However, unless I’ve missed something I haven’t seen many good deals for families! I think they’ve missed a trick with multiple purchases. e.g. A season ticket for me and my son, lower tier in the JM = £277 + £140. Why not make it £400 for both and if it was an adult and 2 kids = £500. Lets face it we hardly ever fill the Turf, make it easier to keep them coming.
I actually think the charging structure for individual games should be graded £20 standard but £25 for key top of table opposition who will bring a fair number of supporters and for Crewe on a wet Tuesday £15.
Mal Rostron