There are over 150K members, the STs on the exchange will be purchased. If you want a ticket you'll need to be a member, certainly for this season and the beginning of next season.
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Oh I thought I read loads of tickets were still available. Guess I won't be going this season then as they aren't selling memberships anymore. Only game I can go to is Everton so will see if I can get one outside the ground.
I hear there's now a tray of lasagna in the away team changing room for each match.
Jesus Christ, the state of the bootlickers on SC who casually defend the £1.75 booking fees on already pretty expensive tickets from the Spurs website.
IIRC, even season tickets have a 'card handling fee', despite being worth over a grand.
IIRC, even season tickets have a 'card handling fee', despite being worth over a grand.
Any insight on the standing v's sitting debate. The Club must be aware of the conflict, curious what their thoughts are ?
When?
Good luck with that!
We talked about this over a beer, the club received a written "expression of concern" from UEFA after the Man City game where let's be honest everyone in the South stood for the entire 90 minutes. To comply with UEFA rules the entire stadium must be seated, however in areas with 'rails' even UEFA will overlook persistent standing as they have done for years in Germany.
In order to be seen to be taking action stewards will 'ask' fans to sit in non safe standing areas, you probably saw this at the Huddersfield game.
There have been a few incidents where ST holders have protested about other fans in front of them persistently standing, these fans have been spoken to and on one occasion a group were removed from the stadium ... nothing new here it used to happen at WHL as well.
There is little expectation of safe-standing coming in next year, Spurs have offered to act as a trial venue and whilst that may happen it's not high on the Government's agenda ... right now Labour back safe-standing the Tories have no set policy.
The conclusion is that it's a bit of a bugger's muddle, the club must be seen to be applying the rules, but how hard they do that will depend on pressure they get from the FLA and/or the Council. It should be noted that fans stand at every ground in the UK and as far as I know no club has ever had it's licence revoked because of said standing.
I reckon the Football Lads Alliance are in favour of standing.
If you know someone with an ST you can do the ticket share. Just need a CRN number for that.
Yeah. In fact the club should buy a few off the touts and cancel the season tickets or memberships of the original owners.
Ah god, can of worms opened.
the last time for me was 1 March. I'd presume the next one would be 1 May
Worth putting into perspective that forecast of £500m turnover for next year :
1. Spurs turnover for year to June 2017 - the last year at WHL where we played CL matches at Wembley - was £ 310m. So if crudely we have £200m more turnover next season at NWHL and if interest and capital repayments are £40m to £50m pa then that gives us an extra £150m pa of which maybe £100m might need to be allocated to increasing wages up to Woolwich levels but we are also left £50m pa to spend on player purchases.
Of course there may be extra costs with extra revenues but if we are right that we will significantly exceed the revenue forecast, those extra costs might well be covered. And if the debt is converted to bonds there is no immediate capital repayments so interest only repayments might be £10m to £15m instead
Either way we look to be vastly better off than at WHL - worth recalling that the accounts to June 2016 turnover was £ 210m.....less than half the forecast for next year.
2. Swiss ramble figures for our main competitors for 2018 were :
Manu. £590m
Mancity £500m
Liverpool £445m
Woolwich and Chelsea with less.
So it looks like we could get to be on a level pegging with Liverpool and Mancity revenues and well ahead of Chelsea and Woolwich - the latter two have no current stadium plans which would add significantly to revenues whilst Livrpool stand redevelopments might boost revenues a tad but not that much.
So again our revenues are looking to put us in a very competitive position
If you know a ST holder who isn't going to a game they can allocate their ticket to you via ticket exchange - you don't need a membership to receive the ticket.
Quite a few are, but the club don't care. They've got the money for those seats anyway regardless of whether the ST holder turns up or not. If they can sell the actual unsold seats to members (which they've done easily) then they'll keep it members only as an incentive to buy one for next time.
£500M in revenue is quite a rosy outlook if you ask me. Feel free to bookmark this post and come back at me whenever next years financials are released in about 2 years. It just doesn't pass the sniff test, as all we've done since leaving WHL is build a stadium - there's been no new major commercial deals.
A stadium isn't going to boost revenue that much, that's simply illogical. If a £1Bn stadium were worth even £100M in annual revenue. Then you'd see every club in England lining up to knock down their gaff. Doesn't take a sharp dressed finance man from the city to see that investing a pound for a 10 pence increase in annual revenue is a pretty smart and safe maneuver.
Therefore, if the forecast comes good it will be driven by increased media income of which our competitors will receive a marginally larger slice. So the idea that we'll have vaulted into financial parity suddenly is a bit of a fantasy.
My prediction? We're on par with woolwich and chavs (without Roman dumping more rubles in), though ever so slightly behind. We're about £40M behind the dippers. And we're £150M+ behind United. City doesn't matter as their financials are just a masquerade anyway. We're closing the gap, but there's still a lot to be done.