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hooraaaaay for sensibility :party::scarf:
Another slight on pensioners.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Most people will be happy and won't care about the cost to the elderly.
I had hoped that after complaining about the cost of the semi, the prices for the final would be fairer to pensioners.
I have always assumed that the elderly paid concession prices ?
Whilst I sympathise with your position where do we draw the line, discounts for unemployed, full time students, families on low incomes? Let's just delight in the fact that we're in another cup final which has been priced, in my view, sensibly. There are as many working families as cash strapped as pensioners!Quote:
Originally Posted by mim
Quite so, but only when concessions are available, which they were not for the semi and are not for the final. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Castle
Where do we draw the line with season tickets and entry to any other game?Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee-boys
Why change the rules for the League Cup semi and final?
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Originally Posted by mim
on the contrary...i'l be one myself in 11 years :greengrin but seriously your correct of course, it looks like the pricing has been set by both clubs and unfortunately only two groups have been taken in to consideration, i'd be interested if concessions were discussed at all between the clubs, and if not...why not
Great value for a cup final.
It's hibs sole decision on what they charge for season tickets, the pricing at a cup final is not under our total control, these will have to have been negotiated. It'll be based on supply/demand, will pensioners be willing to miss out on a cup final for the sake of a tenner, they obviously don't think so.Quote:
Originally Posted by mim
Decent pricing.
Would have liked to have seen is get 30K though just to give us a bit kore flexibility with sales and letting groups sit together.
Its 25 pounds though not a tenner unless I am missing the obvious.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee-boys
Looks like more tickets will be forthcoming if the 25,800 are sold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
The difference between what they're asking pensioners to pay and what they might have to pay should they have been classified as a concession.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimBHibees
I'm sure they will be but the initial allocation probably tightens up how we go about selling them slightly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
With 30K every ST holder could have got 2 so mates etc could sit together and there would have still been about 14K left. Anyway not complaining as everyone who wants will get one way or another.
What are the chances of the top bracket(purely cause it's my bracket) getting 2/3 tickets in the first wave of sales
does anyone know when they will announce when and how they will be sold? I want to be sure I can get a ticket before booking travel etc
I have the grand total of 10 loyalty points, so I'm one rung up the ladder before a general sale! I know everyone is saying anyone on the datatbase should get one but I'd like to be sure before forking out on the train!
cheers
I reckon, even with initial allocation, that anyone with enough points for half season ticket or above should get 2 tickets, then general sale.
With so many tickets coming our way, there must be a chance of something like that. Everyone who wants one should get a ticket; the Hibs support will be enormous.Quote:
Originally Posted by The young one
So the question is do i buy 2 tickets from my season ticket or hang fire till the general sale as my group is 10 and would ideally hope to be all seated together.
IMO I would only have two "waves", season ticket holders and then general sale.Quote:
Originally Posted by The young one
8,000 season ticket holders with 2 each would still only amount to 16000 even if every season ticket holder took up their second ticket option and lets face It there will be several thousand additional tickets made available after the initial 25,800.
What ever the allocation I don't think there will be a panic over getting a ticket
There's only 20,000 on the database. You'll get a ticket before general sale.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoxtonhibby
Belt and braces - but the two on your ST, then, if you can buy the ten together, do so and sell the two you already have :aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by HibbyAndy
Hmmm, so you are being asked to pay an extra £3 over ER walk up price for a cup final. Pensioners, like me, are being asked to pay an extra £13, but all is well, aye? Seem fair to you, does it?Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee-boys
nice one, I think I'm just gonna go ahead and book the train before it gets too pricey!Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
Delighted with that. I can sit side on for a change. Way too expensive for the kids the last few semis and finals to do that.
Must be a mistake surely. Cant imagine OAP's arent able to get a concession rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by mim
Just you wait until Ozzy finds out you are not in HSL. :devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by hoxtonhibby
shhhh I did buy a kicks for kids season ticket, that should keep Ozy happy no?Quote:
Originally Posted by PatHead
I would imagine that, with this volume of tickets available, the last rung of loyalty points to be given a priority period to purchase tickets before it becomes a general sale will be considerably higher than 10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
I'm on the database but have exactly zero loyalty points (to my eternal shame, gloryhunter and so on and soforth :greengrin) and fully expect to get a ticket. Having already booked flights, I'm bloody well hoping so!!
There's no "concession" category for these sales though, it's purely age related. U16 cheap, over that age £25 (which is a very fair price IMO, but anyway)Quote:
Originally Posted by JimBHibees
Seems strange to me if that is the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs
But you as a pensioner can get to the game for zero cost. So, whilst other adults will pay £35-40 to see the game you will manage it for £25. Not too shabby IMHO.Quote:
Originally Posted by mim
I think pricing in general for Scottish football is over priced, for all of us! However, as I mentioned earlier they've obviously decided to reduce the standard ticket price with the expectation that pensioners will be willing (for these one off games) to pay the same adult rate. If they'd charged £35 for an adult ticket and £15 for an oaps there would have also been an uproar, they can't please everybody I guess. I would however say that if anyone is struggling to find another £13 to attend a football game then their financial priorities should lie elsewhere and that should apply to supporters of all ages.Quote:
Originally Posted by mim
5 points or 100 points, there has to be a point in having loyalty points and these guys should be given the chance to buy tickets before any general sale (after ST holders of course).
It's a cup final ffs. I would pay double that to watch Hibs in the final. If it's too expensive for you then don't go. Why does everything on here always turn into a moaning session 🙄🔫Quote:
Originally Posted by mim
Seems a decent simple enough optionQuote:
Originally Posted by Lancs Harp
Are you under the misapprehension that trains are free for pensioners, or are you seriously suggesting that I should get a few buses to Hampden?Quote:
Originally Posted by hibs0666
Is there a designated family section or are all areas the same for kids prices
Looks like all areas are the same price this time around
That is precisely the type of reply that made me say at the outset that most people wouldn't care.Quote:
Originally Posted by Albanian Hibs
Unfair and uncalled for IMO. Pensioners have a limited income and so it's a fair point to raise. I can think of no reason why the category of concessions applied by Hibs for a game at ER shouldn't be available for this game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Albanian Hibs
I hope there will be. My young son was nearly put off for life during the 4-3 falkirk semi when there was no designated family section. . The fighting, arguing and general idiotic behaviour of a few around us had him terrified.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gmack7
Personally i think it is shocking that they don't have concession prices and would go as far as to offer discounted tickets for unemployed and low earners however that's a different issue altogether. mim has a point, a point that shouldn't exist in the first place
Completely agree. Dont understand it if that isnt the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonnyboy
Going from Kirkcaldy then you can get a bus straight to Glasgow. There's a X27 leaving Kirkcaldy at 11:35, arriving into Glasgow at Half One. You then have plenty time to get down to Hampden on any number of buses from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by mim
After the game there's a bus at 18:00 that gets you back into Kirkcaldy at 8.
Those times look absolutely perfect for your day out at Hampden and, at zero cost, it means that the cost your day out is considerably lower than for other adults. :thumbsup:
I think it's a bit of a generalisation that pensioners have limited income. Same can be said of adults. Not all have a decent income.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonnyboy
Yep many pensioners have loads of dosh right enough 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
Edit: Bloody phone is useless or maybe it's me :greengrin
I meant to add that it seems a logical assumption to make that mim ain't raising this for anything other than having good reason to
I think you'll find that there is no guarantee of any better behaviour in the family section based on previous experience!Quote:
Originally Posted by Archie89
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Originally Posted by Andy74
Most pensioners I know are minted.
I'm surprised there's no price structure for different groups and I think the tickets are expensive if there isn't. It seems strange there's no family ticket or no cheaper tickets for considerably worse seats behind the goals. It won't put me off as I'll get a good seat and can afford it but I can see it taking considerable numbers off the gate for the people who may have been tempted to take the family but have second thoughts when adding it all up.
There may still be more to come out before they go on sale but I can't see it selling out at these prices.
Indeed. I'm fairly certain there was a family section at that game (£5 a kid rings a bell) but because the tickets were cheaper it also attracted a number of numpties.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee-boys
Aye i know what you're saying, also experienced this in family sections but generally less extreme. A group of lads or whatever having a day out on the bevy looking for their version of "atmosphere" are less likely to buy tickets in a family section if there is one.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee-boys
It was cheap for kids but anyone could buy anywhere in the east at those prices (15 and 5). Where as at the celtic final there was a section which you could only buy tickets in if you were buying a child ticket within your group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
This is true, but completely misses the point that the pricing structure for football had always included pensioner concessions. Are you suggesting this should be done away with, because others are also on low incomes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
The way thing have always been change sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by mim
I'd do away with it. Plenty pensioners out there on very decent public sector and final salary pensions.
You get poorer pensioners, you get poorer working age adults too.
The ticket price has been set. £25 is a bit steep for pensioners but you could look at the great value you get at every Hibs home game. I hope no older fan misses out but if there's an issue in sure .net can come up with a solution
Yip and have more money than me!Quote:
Originally Posted by peter douglas
You can't put a price on a good time.
Prices are fine.
Yeah if there's any genuine issues with not being able to pay for their ticket then I'd happily chip in to help out.Quote:
Originally Posted by lucky
I know how much my late grandad would have loved to attend this game so if there are issues then count me in to help out.
From my own point of view the £25 for a match ticket is a relative small percentage of the weekend cost.
Transport from Blackpool to Glasgow and back, Saturday night out and stop over in Glaschu, plenty of pop etc etc etc.
Not going to be cheap but as someone posted what price these memories.
Lets hope they do unlimited for season ticket holders.
Means folk can sit beside family friends etc.
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Originally Posted by Stuarty27
This would be the best option, days like this becomes a family and friends affair when everyone who can't get to games as regularly get the chance of a big special day out.
Bang on, and just reward for loyalty in supporting the club when many have abandoned them. :aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
Just reward for people that dinnae go very often that know a season ticket holder you mean? ;-)
We all know everyone is guaranteed a ticket, why not reward season ticket holders ?Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
Can't complain with that. We were paying £23 a few seasons ago to go to Motherwell on a Freezing cold night. Well played :aok:
Is it not a case of rewarding their pals? I may not be particularly serious here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gail
I don't care if you are serious or not, I'm going to work myself in to a rage and chuck my laptop out of the window anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
They did - by spending our ST money on the players who got us to the final.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gail
You folks posting and replying to mim have it easy, I had to listen to him crying incessantly into his guinea fowl tagine last night while dining with him at Quinn's.Quote:
Originally Posted by mim
In saying that, the moaning old git was good company and it's a pity he couldn't stay for Pierre's menu for World Nutella Day.
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Originally Posted by peter douglas
More generalisations :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
In my job I see pensioners every day and I can assure you they are not sitting on piles of cash
EditQuote:
Originally Posted by Jonnyboy
It was a good night, Sergey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sergey
In Your Face Theatre company is superb and that was a great production of Trainspotting.
Now, let me get back to moaning about ticket prices for pensioners.
:tee hee:Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
You're a bad man :greengrin
That's because it's all under their mattresses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonnyboy
:greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
.net running a bus, or does anyone know who I can contact who is running a bus preferably to a boozer that is allowing the bairns in.
If imagine 4 in hand and the office (Andy back on Monday) but not sure of the plans when arrivingQuote:
Originally Posted by StevieBoyKdy
Thanks bud. I'll keep an eye out. Or How do I approach these guys.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanM
Im looking for transport for four to Hampden also,got picked up at Deer park Livingston the last time.Quote:
Originally Posted by StevieBoyKdy
Hearing a bunch of sad twats have disrupted a group of supporters plans for this.
Should be ashamed of themselves.
Hibee family aye
The club have had multiple emails from different folk about it?Quote:
Originally Posted by wearethehibs
Go on....Quote:
Originally Posted by wearethehibs
Care to elaborate?Quote:
Originally Posted by wearethehibs
I suppose it's if and how many buses they get! But I know the office it's just put your name down. I'll update when I hear more. Not sure if the office have already started to get a bus or that but I'll ask and will jump back on hereQuote:
Originally Posted by StevieBoyKdy
Seen something on Twitter about 100 Hibs.net fans contacting Hibs asking that they allow them all to sit together and it's ruffled a few feathers.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
Don't know if that's what they've asked but that's what's doing the rounds
Eh, no that's not true. On whose twitter was that as if what you post is correct then someone's just trying to be funny. In a not very funny way :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by IanM
Someone retweeted it. I'll check the now. Again, I have no knowledge! Just what I seen on Twitter hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by DaveF
If you don't ask you won't get ,If they have a singing section then they could all ask for tickets for that area ?Quote:
Originally Posted by IanM
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In fact! Read it again, Hibs.net have complaine about 100 fans wanting to sit together
Oh right, thought it was going to be something major.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanM
At least that would be something to be a bit humpty about right enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanM
*sigh* More them and us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronniekirk
This all (probably) stems from the thread on the Bounce where I saw they had contacted the club and had 100 tickets allocated - right now, weeks before public sale - in section D1 of the North Stand. For those who don't know D1, is one the best viewing area's at Hampden.
I posted on the PM board here about it and Jack (who is a regular over there) gave his side of the story as someone who organised it. I didn't agree, but hey, that happens.
I'm not overly fussed about groups being allocated area's but to hand over tickets in the best seating areas before regular Joe Public has a chance to buy - especially when tickets are priced the same and there will be big demand for D1, etc, seemed very unfair to me? And it appears that others large groups could also do the same. It's probably been going on for years at every cup final, who knows.
That's it.
And it's not hibs.net who have complained, no matter what the twitter feeds say. Any opinions I have on it are mine.
I doubt anyone cares about groups of fans sitting together.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanM
Haha you know how the internet works! It's actual Hibs.net cretins that have complained. 😂😂Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveF
I wish I knew 100 people. Happy with our group of 6 💃🏻
All of us have complained? How was that coordinated? I've been out all day ffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanM
Haha do you have any witness's that you were out??Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Aye, but they're all family! :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by IanM
Don't really see the issue here, they want 100 tickets for D1. It's just a block.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveF
I'll sit in the crappest seats if I have to. I wanna see that cup lifted.