2026/27 Season tickets - Poll added

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Maybe the club are waiting to see how quick and how high the take - up is of renewing season tickets before they show their faces.

 

[Voodoo Billy]

You're misconstruing.

Fans can make their protests felt by other means: boycott the overpriced crap on sale at the stadium; leave off buying merchandise; chant their disproval inside and outside the ground.

It really wont be a good look for a new ownership to be seeing that in the media.

Boycotting the food and drink outlets for a couple of matches would send a very clear message. Judging by the pre-match and half-time queues inside they must be making a bloody mint and it would be interesting to see what they'd do with 10,000 uneaten chicken strips at full time.

 

[ObiWanIwobi]

What price freezes? The last time there was a price freeze my ST cost £480, now it's £835.

The 8 years of price freezes from 2015 to 2023.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Boycotting the food and drink outlets for a couple of matches would send a very clear message. Judging by the pre-match and half-time queues inside they must be making a bloody mint and it would be interesting to see what they'd do with 10,000 uneaten chicken strips at full time.

I don't think the club would be arsed mate because the food etc is outsourced.

 

[Infernus]

The premier league is the way it is. It is not how we wish it was, especially with fans putting rivalry before cooperation on prices. If everything on the cheap is what you seek, then let us write to the club, let them know that in the summer they may sell Pickford, they may sell Ndiaye, they may sell Branthwaite, do not bother signing Grealish, he will be too expensive. We can use the savings to reduce prices slightly. Sign frees or young players, which will save a lot of money. We can get to the promised land of league 1 before we know it. Tickets will be 20quid and we will all be delighted? If you want to play with the big boys, unfortunately at the moment you have to pay big boy prices. So we either take the world as it is, or please no more advocating for a change of manager when we are not in the top 6 of the premier league. We are a very mid table club in terms of revenue as it is. I am very much all in on advocating for much cheaper prices if we are also OK with 11th-16th finishes every season. Until we are attracting top, top level sponsorship for huge money, then this will be the reality, as the gaps need to be bridged one way or another, and about 4 quid extra a game doesnt seem massive on a season ticket, especially as others have pointed out there was 8 years of freezes in the recent past.

 

[Seathestars]

I would imagine anyone with a good seat may not want to move though?

FFS Joey you don't have to move, what about that is difficult to understand.

 

[davek]

There won't be any protests at all, there could be a twitter moan that's about it, they have already improved us on the pitch we have a chance of Europe what more can they do. This week or two could actually push us toward top 5/6.

Well that comment doesn't sit comfortably with your earlier confidence that people are just grumblers and wont (despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary from Everton's recent history) protest....if quiescence requires moving on a couple of places up the table. Should have no input at all really should it?

But you've made your underlying position plain enough: you have the will and the wherewithal to pay up and make the 'choice'. That's someone who looks at things in an atomised way while others take a more collective approach.

 

[ForestBlue]

With thousands still on the waiting list the club will almost certainly be able to say that they have sold all of the season tickets and use that as justification for their pricing strategy. It'll be the waiting list stats that they'll be monitoring over the next few seasons and will react to that only if required. I suspect the list will get smaller and smaller as fans are simply priced out as they impose over inflation price hikes each season. Then, and only then, will they react in reducing the percentage increases each season if that's the direction they want to go i.e. to maintain the current percentage of season ticket holders.

The alternative is that they may want to increase the percentage of highly profitable day tripper fan they can get through the doors. If they think they can increase those numbers significantly then it actually comes desirable in their eyes to price out a percentage of existing season ticket holders.

I gave up our season tickets when we left Goodison and so far have few regrets. Lower league and non league is good and something dodgy for the prem seems to work ok for us.

 

[davek]

Boycotting the food and drink outlets for a couple of matches would send a very clear message. Judging by the pre-match and half-time queues inside they must be making a bloody mint and it would be interesting to see what they'd do with 10,000 uneaten chicken strips at full time.

A few choruses of 'sack the board' would be even better.

I really think there are some who cant see the wood for the trees here (not you, btw).

If you treat people with contempt - as Kenwright, Green, Earl and Moshiri did previously - then dont be surprised if you get an almighty backlash.

The novelty of that stadium has come and gone. There's no magic show to mesmerise the fleeced anymore.

 

[davek]

With thousands still on the waiting list the club will almost certainly be able to say that they have sold all of the season tickets and use that as justification for their pricing strategy. It'll be the waiting list stats that they'll be monitoring over the next few seasons and will react to that only if required. I suspect the list will get smaller and smaller as fans are simply priced out as they impose over inflation price hikes each season. Then, and only then, will they react in reducing the percentage increases each season if that's the direction they want to go i.e. to maintain the current percentage of season ticket holders.
The alternative is that they may want to increase the percentage of highly profitable day tripper fan they can get through the doors. If they think they can increase those numbers significantly then it actually comes desirable in their eyes to price out a percentage of existing season ticket holders.

I gave up our season tickets when we left Goodison and so far have few regrets. Lower league and non league is good and something dodgy for the prem seems to work ok for us.

They'll be able to go in that direction when we're winning league titles and not before.

They rely most of all on ST holders so they have some leverage. And presumably - even if they have replacements lined up for the hundreds or so who give them up they dont want those who did cough up again to sit in a stadium resenting the club at treating them like ?

As I said earlier: Im convinced that they'll have their heads together right now and coming up with a compromise, because if they dont they just made enemies out of about 40,000 "stakeholders" in one day.

 

[Marius57]

A few choruses of 'sack the board' would be even better.

I really think there are some who cant see the wood for the trees here (not you, btw).

If you treat people with contempt - as Kenwright, Green, Earl and Moshiri did previously - then dont be surprised if you get an almighty backlash.

The novelty of that stadium has come and gone. There's no magic show to mesmerise the fleeced anymore.

Will you be in the stands chanting that about the price increase of your season ticket?

 

[davek]

The premier league is the way it is. It is not how we wish it was, especially with fans putting rivalry before cooperation on prices. If everything on the cheap is what you seek, then let us write to the club, let them know that in the summer they may sell Pickford, they may sell Ndiaye, they may sell Branthwaite, do not bother signing Grealish, he will be too expensive. We can use the savings to reduce prices slightly. Sign frees or young players, which will save a lot of money. We can get to the promised land of league 1 before we know it. Tickets will be 20quid and we will all be delighted? If you want to play with the big boys, unfortunately at the moment you have to pay big boy prices. So we either take the world as it is, or please no more advocating for a change of manager when we are not in the top 6 of the premier league. We are a very mid table club in terms of revenue as it is. I am very much all in on advocating for much cheaper prices if we are also OK with 11th-16th finishes every season. Until we are attracting top, top level sponsorship for huge money, then this will be the reality, as the gaps need to be bridged one way or another, and about 4 quid extra a game doesnt seem massive on a season ticket, especially as others have pointed out there was 8 years of freezes in the recent past.

Ha Ha Ha.

WTaF?!

 

[summerisle]

The premier league is the way it is. It is not how we wish it was, especially with fans putting rivalry before cooperation on prices. If everything on the cheap is what you seek, then let us write to the club, let them know that in the summer they may sell Pickford, they may sell Ndiaye, they may sell Branthwaite, do not bother signing Grealish, he will be too expensive. We can use the savings to reduce prices slightly. Sign frees or young players, which will save a lot of money. We can get to the promised land of league 1 before we know it. Tickets will be 20quid and we will all be delighted? If you want to play with the big boys, unfortunately at the moment you have to pay big boy prices. So we either take the world as it is, or please no more advocating for a change of manager when we are not in the top 6 of the premier league. We are a very mid table club in terms of revenue as it is. I am very much all in on advocating for much cheaper prices if we are also OK with 11th-16th finishes every season. Until we are attracting top, top level sponsorship for huge money, then this will be the reality, as the gaps need to be bridged one way or another, and about 4 quid extra a game doesnt seem massive on a season ticket, especially as others have pointed out there was 8 years of freezes in the recent past.

I wonder what in actual money terms these increases will bring in to the club. Probably a month's wages for one of our players. A drop in the ocean versus the distaste enumerated so far, not that they appear to care.

 

[Benicetoourboys]

A few choruses of 'sack the board' would be even better.

I really think there are some who cant see the wood for the trees here (not you, btw).

If you treat people with contempt - as Kenwright, Green, Earl and Moshiri did previously - then dont be surprised if you get an almighty backlash.

The novelty of that stadium has come and gone. There's no magic show to mesmerise the fleeced anymore.

I suspect you may be a WUM.
Just stirring as usual.
Shame on you.

 

[Tim UpperBullen]

The premier league is the way it is. It is not how we wish it was, especially with fans putting rivalry before cooperation on prices. If everything on the cheap is what you seek, then let us write to the club, let them know that in the summer they may sell Pickford, they may sell Ndiaye, they may sell Branthwaite, do not bother signing Grealish, he will be too expensive. We can use the savings to reduce prices slightly. Sign frees or young players, which will save a lot of money. We can get to the promised land of league 1 before we know it. Tickets will be 20quid and we will all be delighted? If you want to play with the big boys, unfortunately at the moment you have to pay big boy prices. So we either take the world as it is, or please no more advocating for a change of manager when we are not in the top 6 of the premier league. We are a very mid table club in terms of revenue as it is. I am very much all in on advocating for much cheaper prices if we are also OK with 11th-16th finishes every season. Until we are attracting top, top level sponsorship for huge money, then this will be the reality, as the gaps need to be bridged one way or another, and about 4 quid extra a game doesnt seem massive on a season ticket, especially as others have pointed out there was 8 years of freezes in the recent past.