Half season tickets

[Steven79]

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/get-the-perfect-gift-for-your-special-hibee-this-christmas

Timing is bonkers as they could have sold more before the league cup final tickets went on sale if they guaranteed a ticket for it.

Coupled that with selling Derby tickets at the same time as the half seasons which means many seats will vanish once they are sold for that game as the half season covers that game so clearly the half season tickets should have been put on sale a few weeks before as it's just common sense...

Also the prices are the highest they have ever been for a half season in many areas, take for instance the price for the Famous Five lower for kids which is the same price as they were at the start of the season under the early bird.

Oh and £180 for kids to be a mascot at the derby game? Who can afford that at this time of year when you factor in the cup final & Christmas etc etc...

Fans in my opinion being viewed purely as a cash cow at this club and I think it will come back to bite them in the arse also not much joined up thinking in many areas just show us the ££££.

[ABZHFC]

Couldn't agree more, ticket pricing has become an absolute joke at Hibs, with slow, stealth increases ever since we returned to the top flight. It's embarrassing and our owners seriously need to reconsider going forward

Natural Order derby in 2018, £28 for a ticket everywhere in the ground. New Year's Derby in 2022, cheapest ticket £31, costing £33 or £35 in most areas of the stadium. We are being utterly fleeced, and given that Ron Gordon once said he hoped that within a few seasons almost all the seats in Easter Road would be filled by season ticket holders, he urgently needs to change tack

I have tried writing to Kieran Power about this who, to be fair to him, gave a reasonable response. But it is now past time for the board to fix this, because things are only going to get worse and worse next season if it continues down this path

[HH81]

On top of this also bought out a new 5 game package which includes some games on the original 5 games so anyone who bought that wouldn't buy the new one.

Seems a but pointless to me.

Given the empty seats all around the ground on Saturday things are not working. I'd go as far as saying that was the lowest hibs crowd for years.

I did look at the half season ticket but again as I have a pass for some games next year I'd be buying them twice so it's pointless.

[Steven79]

On top of this also bought out a new 5 game package which includes some games on the original 5 games so anyone who bought that wouldn't buy the new one.

Seems a but pointless to me.

Given the empty seats all around the ground on Saturday things are not working. I'd go as far as saying that was the lowest hibs crowd for years.

I did look at the half season ticket but again as I have a pass for some games next year I'd be buying them twice so it's pointless.

They just seem to have no real joined up thinking apart from "Give us your cash"

Would make more sense of the packages were flexable where you can choose the 5 matches you can attend (Including one cat A) rather than just a set list of games.

[JXM73]

Ron the con starting to show his colours...pony up indeed...

[Pagan Hibernia]

It is becoming a concern I have to say.

generally Ron Gordon has done a tremendous job in the last two and a half years, a period of time that has been frankly more problematic than he could ever have imagined when he first invested.

but I always have had the fear that prices would start to go up all across the board. It tends to be what happens when American owners get involved. Improve the product (in Ron’s case shiny Big Screens etc) and charge for the privilege.

it’s a shame because he clearly is community oriented also, and in some ways communication has never been better.

hopefully common sense will start to prevail when he and Ben realise the club is dying on its arse in a half empty Easter Road

[eastterrace]

Ron the con starting to show his colours...pony up indeed...
No need with the jambo talk.

[ABZHFC]

No need with the jambo talk.

We can agree that maybe using such nicknames aren't helpful, but I do think it's important that we keep his feet to the fire, and make sure he knows that Hibs fans are not going to tolerate being ripped off like this

[wookie70]

Ticketing and communicating on ticketing have been big weaknesses for a while but particularly this season. There needs to be a strategy to try and increase attendance, a strategy to make sure supporters are fairly treated where games will sell out and imo the biggest strategy needs to be one on where the next generation of fans will come from. You then have all the debates around atmosphere/standing and changing the family area. At the moment it looks like we make individual decisions without an overall plan and some of the ticket packages and the timings for them seem counterproductive or ill thought through.

[JimBHibees]

Assumed the league cup final tickets would have been used as a motivation to buy the half season given the high demand at the time they initially went on sale. When that didn't happen assumed they weren't available anymore. Quite surprising they are as imo could have got rid of a few on the back of the final.

[Sir David Gray]

It will be very interesting to see how much season tickets go up in price next season.

At the moment if you attend more than 75% of home games a season ticket is value for money over paying at the gate. Gold adult season ticket holders paid £440 this season, paying at the gate every week for a gold seat as an adult would cost somewhere in the region of £590.

I'd like to think that saving might continue but I'm not convinced that it will and we might see the benefit of a season ticket cut down to the equivalent of perhaps nearer 90% of home games.

[ABZHFC]

We need season ticket prices to be slashed, and then bring walk-up prices down in line with that. People will say to me 'but how can the club afford it?!', they can, I don't care. None of us support Hibs for glory, I'll accept us missing out on signings to Hearts and Aberdeen (same as we currently do even though we charge astronomically high prices by the way) if it means going to Easter Road remains affordable in the future. That has to be the priority

[Ronniekirk]

There has been a lot of change behind the scenes and covid has clearly hit all clubs in the pocket There is probably an element of how can we maximise income at present
But agree someone needs to coordinate this better
One for Power to feedback to the club on


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[Jay]

Ticketing and communicating on ticketing have been big weaknesses for a while but particularly this season. There needs to be a strategy to try and increase attendance, a strategy to make sure supporters are fairly treated where games will sell out and imo the biggest strategy needs to be one on where the next generation of fans will come from. You then have all the debates around atmosphere/standing and changing the family area. At the moment it looks like we make individual decisions without an overall plan and some of the ticket packages and the timings for them seem counterproductive or ill thought through.

If the strategy to get bums on seats is to increase ticket prices then the next strategy has to be to fire the strategists . :greengrin

[HH81]

They just seem to have no real joined up thinking apart from "Give us your cash"

Would make more sense of the packages were flexable where you can choose the 5 matches you can attend (Including one cat A) rather than just a set list of games.


That's what I was thinking whilst running this morning.

At present it's 2 Cat A, 1 B and 2C games.

They could have drop down boxes listing whole season games and you just pick 5 based on that as long as it fit in with the above. You could also then have 8 or 12 game packages too with a quid off each game more you pick.

I understand want cash in the bank but agree with you that everything seems give us your cash and not think about what is been offered.

[Danderhall Hibs]

It will be very interesting to see how much season tickets go up in price next season.

At the moment if you attend more than 75% of home games a season ticket is value for money over paying at the gate. Gold adult season ticket holders paid £440 this season, paying at the gate every week for a gold seat as an adult would cost somewhere in the region of £590.

I'd like to think that saving might continue but I'm not convinced that it will and we might see the benefit of a season ticket cut down to the equivalent of perhaps nearer 90% of home games.

It's a worry for me - I don't think I could justify that level of increase. I currently pay for 3 STs (2 adult and 1 child - which will be Youth next year) and it would become unaffordable.

If anything we should be worried about the drop off in crowds not putting barriers in the way to at least keep them at the current level.

[The 90+2]

Have the club gotten rid of everyone in nearly all aspect of Communication & Marketing and replaced them with temps or what? :confused:

[Jay]

It's a worry for me - I don't think I could justify that level of increase. I currently pay for 3 STs (2 adult and 1 child - which will be Youth next year) and it would become unaffordable.

If anything we should be worried about the drop off in crowds not putting barriers in the way to at least keep them at the current level.

I won't be renewing if there's an increase. When they rebranded the seats into gold silver and bronze our ST went up by £50 . My D/D was around £70 pm so I'll just use that to choose a couple of games a month to pay at the gate and they won't all be at Easter road.

[Danderhall Hibs]

I won't be renewing if there's an increase. When they rebranded the seats into gold silver and bronze our ST went up by £50 . My D/D was around £70 pm so I'll just use that to choose a couple of games a month to pay at the gate and they won't all be at Easter road.

I think I'll be the same - already dropped 1 student ST this year due to the additional cost (including the admin fee on the payment plan) and will likely drop another (adult) if not all if we see a big increase.

[marinello59]

I hope that the free ballot amongst Hibs Kids members giving them all a chance of being a mascot has not been dropped. Charging £180 really doesn’t sit well with me.

[Mikey_1875]

I hope that the free ballot amongst Hibs Kids members giving them all a chance of being a mascot has not been dropped. Charging £180 really doesn’t sit well with me.

Commercial guy on twitter commented that there will still be 2 Hibs Kids mascot places. 9 other places at £180 a fair bit of money per match!

[Sir David Gray]

Commercial guy on twitter commented that there will still be 2 Hibs Kids mascot places. 9 other places at £180 a fair bit of money per match!

Yes Greg McEwan replied to someone who complained about this on Twitter and said that's the way it's always been done.

[ABZHFC]

Yes Greg McEwan replied to someone who complained about this on Twitter and said that's the way it's always been done.

I'm not sure he's right though, I really remember a time 10 years ago when the only games that had mascot packages were Category A, you couldn't buy a mascot package for an average, run-of-the-mill league game. It definitely has changed, and prices have increased massively since the last season in the Championship, when it cost £80 for a Category B game, now it's £155

[marinello59]

Yes Greg McEwan replied to someone who complained about this on Twitter and said that's the way it's always been done.

That’s not really true though.

[Sir David Gray]

I'm not sure he's right though, I really remember a time 10 years ago when the only games that had mascot packages were Category A, you couldn't buy a mascot package for an average, run-of-the-mill league game. It definitely has changed, and prices have increased massively since the last season in the Championship, when it cost £80 for a Category B game, now it's £155


That’s not really true though.

Not too sure, I had just seen Greg McEwan's tweet earlier today and assumed he must have known his facts.

If that's not correct then it's extremely disappointing.

[Jay]

I hope that the free ballot amongst Hibs Kids members giving them all a chance of being a mascot has not been dropped. Charging £180 really doesn’t sit well with me.

It's a disgrace. They started charging a few years ago but it wasn't this expensive and it was still mostly hibs kids getting the chance.

[ABZHFC]

Not too sure, I had just seen Greg McEwan's tweet earlier today and assumed he must have known his facts.

If that's not correct then it's extremely disappointing.

I think he's right in pointing out to the guy that Hibs Kids still get the chance to be mascots for free nowadays, but wrong to say that it has always been the case that Hibs have charged for mascot packages, when they didn't used to (and they cost much less)

[Hibernian Verse]

Couldn't agree more, ticket pricing has become an absolute joke at Hibs, with slow, stealth increases ever since we returned to the top flight. It's embarrassing and our owners seriously need to reconsider going forward

Natural Order derby in 2018, £28 for a ticket everywhere in the ground. New Year's Derby in 2022, cheapest ticket £31, costing £33 or £35 in most areas of the stadium. We are being utterly fleeced, and given that Ron Gordon once said he hoped that within a few seasons almost all the seats in Easter Road would be filled by season ticket holders, he urgently needs to change tack

I have tried writing to Kieran Power about this who, to be fair to him, gave a reasonable response. But it is now past time for the board to fix this, because things are only going to get worse and worse next season if it continues down this path

To be fair, inflation since 2018 puts the price at £30.37 so it's not far off if comparing the cheapest available tickets.

[The 90+2]

Yes Greg McEwan replied to someone who complained about this on Twitter and said that's the way it's always been done.


Brutal.

[The 90+2]

I think he's right in pointing out to the guy that Hibs Kids still get the chance to be mascots for free nowadays, but wrong to say that it has always been the case that Hibs have charged for mascot packages, when they didn't used to (and they cost much less)


Big games they started charging £150 the year we went down I think. The rest was Hibs Kids. Before then all mascots for all games where Hibs Kids or kids of players/staff.

[ABZHFC]

Big games they started charging £150 the year we went down I think. The rest was Hibs Kids. Before then all mascots for all games where Hibs Kids or kids of players/staff.

Cheers, that’s what I roughly remembered too

[Daniel 1875]

I'm not sure he's right though, I really remember a time 10 years ago when the only games that had mascot packages were Category A, you couldn't buy a mascot package for an average, run-of-the-mill league game. It definitely has changed, and prices have increased massively since the last season in the Championship, when it cost £80 for a Category B game, now it's £155

He's not said it's always been free for two Hibs Kids and then charged for others though. His tweet just says 'same as previous' - which I'd read to mean the same as it was the last time Hibs were allowed to have kids walking out with the players before Covid. Certainly don't think he's talking about 10 years ago.

https://twitter.com/GregMcEwan/status/1468162916172152837?s=20

[Pretty Boy]

I said the other day that we are going to see a lot of stuff thrown at us in the next few months, some will stick and some will disappear.

There seems a real lack of joined up thinking going on at Hibs just now in certain areas though and on the face of it the main driver seems to be parting fans with as much cash as possible. I don't think there is anything nefarious going on, we aren't being conned but football is going to be increasingly cost prohibitive.

I'm the same as a few others on here when it comes to financing football. What I could afford even 3 years ago and what I can afford now are different, if STs increase significantly then with a heavy heart I'll be out. I'll have little choice but to pick a game every month or 2 and make a day of it.

[ABZHFC]

On the subject of the OP's original comment on half season ticket costs for kids in the FF Lower, I see it has now been rectified and only costs £25 (as should be the case)

[Steven79]

On the subject of the OP's original comment on half season ticket costs for kids in the FF Lower, I see it has now been rectified and only costs £25 (as should be the case)They even had the price up on the official site as well.

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[Coco Bryce]

I said the other day that we are going to see a lot of stuff thrown at us in the next few months, some will stick and some will disappear.

There seems a real lack of joined up thinking going on at Hibs just now in certain areas though and on the face of it the main driver seems to be parting fans with as much cash as possible. I don't think there is anything nefarious going on, we aren't being conned but football is going to be increasingly cost prohibitive.

I'm the same as a few others on here when it comes to financing football. What I could afford even 3 years ago and what I can afford now are different, if STs increase significantly then with a heavy heart I'll be out. I'll have little choice but to pick a game every month or 2 and make a day of it.

I'm the same. My kids just really don't want to go to the games anymore. Complete waste of money. They've found other interests now sadly.

[007]

I hope that the free ballot amongst Hibs Kids members giving them all a chance of being a mascot has not been dropped. Charging £180 really doesn’t sit well with me.

£180 is a lot but it does include 3 tickets in the executive seats which is £132 worth. Not so good if you're a season ticket holder though. They should do a package for season ticket holders where you don't have to take the exec seat tickets.

[percy veer]

Commercial guy on twitter commented that there will still be 2 Hibs Kids mascot places. 9 other places at £180 a fair bit of money per match!


''randomly picked'' its who you know more like, out of all my friends and family ive never heard of anyone being randomly picked

[Danderhall Hibs]

''randomly picked'' its who you know more like, out of all my friends and family ive never heard of anyone being randomly picked

One of my daughters got randomly picked a few years back - freezing midweek game vs Livi in the championship. Irony is she’s the only one from my three that doesn’t like football.

Also a bit mental there were 2 folk I had worked or was working with there with their kids the same night - making it even more random.