West Brom place a freeze on season ticket prices
West Brom today announced a freeze on season ticket prices for next season.
The Baggies will keep this season’s rates in place for the next campaign after they cut adult prices by around £50 across the board last summer.
Season tickets went on sale today and the freeze will apply to all fans who commit by June 3 with the club keeping open the option of an increase from June 4.
Chief executive Mark Jenkins said: “The price of attending football matches is very topical at the moment and we hope the fact we’ve frozen our prices, on the back of making big reductions last summer, will be welcomed by our supporters.
“The team are making good progress on the field, having been placed in the top half of the table for the entire campaign so far, and the supporters have played a big part in our excellent home record.
“We hope the team’s performances, the prospect of a fourth successive season of Barclays Premier League football and a pricing structure which compares favourably with clubs of our size, will give season ticket holders a real incentive to renew and also encourage other supporters to become season ticket holders.”
The Baggies sold more than 18,000 season tickets last summer after the price cut, which also saw them raise the age ceiling on junior categories to allow more youngsters and students to benefit from concessionary prices.
Adult prices will again start at £349, under-17s at £99, under-21s and students at £199 and pensioners at £269 if purchased online.
Fans who buy in person, by post or by phone will pay £10 more and existing season ticket holders must renew by June 3 to guarantee their current seat.
Comments for: "West Brom place a freeze on season ticket prices"
KEV R WBA !! TOP OF THE MIDLANDS !!
and thats how you treat your fans dingles!
CantelloRocket 78
Brilliant.
That means it's possible to watch a complete season of Premier League matches from just over 18 quid per game.
Bearing in mind we fought our way up to the top flight, and negotiated an excellent sponsorship deal, then we've put ourselves in an admirable financial state without help from outside benefactors.
Superb stuff.
Orlando Wolves
I`m glad to see the Baggies doing well and also nice to see the club well run, unlike ours, and rewarding the fans loyalty.
I can only hope that my lot can somehow escape what, at the moment looks like the inevitable drop, and somehow rebuild to get back in the Premier and resume our `hostilities`.
I spent many years supporting both clubs (as I couldn`t afford the away travel) and spent many hours watching the likes of Hartford, Brown, Batson, Cunningham from the terraces at the Hawthorns.
While I lean undoubtably more towards Wolves, I would love Albion to carry the Black Country banner in Europe next season. Good luck!
The Real Bully Hoo.
It's fans like you that make the rest of us feel sorry for what's been done to your club. Unfortunately we hear more from the ones at the other end of the evolutionary scale on here. Good luck.
CantelloRocket 78
Orlando Wolves,
thanks for the friendly, positive post.
There's a lot of 'emotional' banter on here, but I guess most football fans would like to have their local rivals in the same division, so they can play 'em, and aim to beat 'em!
Wolves are going through a very tough time, and 'real' fans like you are suffering, so hopefully you'll have something to smile about in the near future, although I believe you need a complete change from top to bottom before that can happen.
Good luck too!
Baggies + BathamsBeer = Black Country Banner
Orlando, very nice sentiments.
Europe is possibly a step too far.
However, with the exception of Walsall, Albion 'can be the only' bearers of the Black Country banner!
We Only Need One Half!
Oooooooooo! that's gotta hurt em, hey Baggieboy!
Do Lallytap
FANTASTIC NEWS !!!
Well done Mr Chairman
We Only Need One Half!
Ah Do Lally, I ve been expecting you, I did ask you a couple of things, but perhaps you missed them, do you have season tickets for your whole family home and away?
wbabomber
Let the good news just keep rolling in.............
I imagine that at the E+S office the one half (The Albion reporters) are all sitting there with bunting up, a party hat on, and a glass of champagne in each hand while music blares out Celebrate good times come on...
While over on the other side of the office (The Wolves reporters) are sitting there looking like they have just been told that after the next Wolves home game they have got to go and cover a Just Bieber concert, with some of them asking "can i just go straight to the Justin Bieber concert boss"??
baggiescomeon
Whats the difference with both having fans that complain that their performers fail to turn up.
Surely the new sponsor should be a cough medicine or something else thats renowned for going down easily.
p.s - On the transfer news, if Lukaku is on the market (and that could just be stirring news), we should break all records to get him.
The Real Bully Hoo.
bco.
Love the first bit , at least Bieber turned up in the end. Will the Orangemen?
Linda Lovelace?????
We Only Need One Half!
Nice one centurion :-) have you seen them moaning about their new shirt makers deal Jez has done on their pages, given their current predicament I think he's done rather well, but the natives are disgusted.
and they call me deluded!
p.s. some one even bemoaned it because it didn't compare to our deal, give me strength!
CantelloRocket 78
WONOH,
in fairness mate, I can understand why wolves fans ain't happy about the new shirt sponsors-
would you want 'Team Puma' on yer chest when it's an anagram for-
'AM A MUPET'...........?
Jack ♣ Hat.
Cantello;,
L☺Ls mate, love it.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.
JIWAL
Well done Albion for looking after your fanbase....says it all really, Albion reduced tickets by £50 last year for PL football, Wolves cut ours by £25 for possible 3rd tier dross
Couldn't wish to see 2 clubs run so differently.Good luck to you
We Only Need One Half!
Feel for your bud, and thank you for being honest, Saunders Foot has had me thinking I was going mad recently because I have dared to point out certain differences.
JimDavis
For Irish Baggies, the exchage rate will make next season about 10% cheaper than the last one!
Kev in Mallorca
Thank's Jim! I never even thought about that. I'll spend it on me birthday in the Vine for the Arsenal game, if you are about tap me on the shoulder and I'll by you a pint, hold on!! you berra give me a description else the might be a lot of Jim Davis's in the Vine lookin' fu a free drink.
Adeu
We Only Need One Half!
I'm Jim Davis, and so's my wife!
Kev in Mallorca
One 'arf
If I remember correctly it's your round cause I vaguely remember turning down your offer of a pint cause I didn't want to get merry the other wik.
Adeu
We Only Need One Half!
Max, true, you did, but it didn't work did it, has I recall the events of the evening you were well plagiarised before I even got there!
Reddiebaggie
No I'm Jim Davies.
jp
Great news. Well done West Brom, thanks for appreciating your fans. Boing Boing.
astleistheking
I will admit, it's all getting a bit embarrassing now. We are leagues ahead of our Midlands rivals in so many ways.
I honestly can't think what my father in law (dingle) can possibly argue with me about when I next see him ?
It's things like this make you love your club even more! I remember in the early 90's that we were a penny pinching club who didn't care about the fans. JP is an amazing man! I salute you.
The Real Bully Hoo.
AITK.
Remember good old Shadrag (can't remember the name he was using at the time) telling us in true Harry Enfield style that their Chairman was considerably richer than ours and that's why there would soon be a great distance between our clubs. I suppose he was right for once.
PS. Good to see some proper Wulfies on here.
PPS. I wonder if any of our fans that still knock JP over our spending policy will come on to complain that the ticket prices should increase to subsidise increased spending.
We Only Need One Half!
AITK, living in a area as I do, with a lots of wulfies, trust me bruv, he will find summat, don't you worry about that!
The Real Bully Hoo.
WONOH.
If AITK's F-I-L is name Greg Fletcher then you're spot on. This is his post from the Wolves kit thread.
"For those Albion Fans who are throwing stones at us, be very careful in what you wish for.
Finally remember at least we had our Annual General Meeting in Wolverhampton unlike your Chairman, who thinks that the tip called Sandwell is in London.
We are still a bigger club than you, both in history and on Fanbase. If you do not like that you can ring your new friend, Paul Franks and complain, whilst I listen to an intelligent Radio Station, called Talksport."
PS.
I listen to Talksport at times and it's rarely intelligent although I suppose it depends where your level is.
Lone wolf
Why dont you give it a rest and give someone else a go. lol.
Only jokin Bully. Glad you aint dead.
Best wishes.
Odemwhinger
Thats the problem with history it's in the past, something Liverpool & Villa fans forget oh & of course the ever deluded wim mossive Wolves. Won't that mossive Walsall wolves derby be epic
We Only Need One Half!
Yeah I saw that, what never ceases to amaze me is, that if you cant get to a game, because of work for example and so you watch the game online, which I do on occasion, your slated because you obviously cant make a valid comment unless you are there, apparently? yet Talksport stick two guys in front of a telly to commentate on a game (they have done it with whole World Cup's and Euro Tournament's in the past, with their "unofficial" coverage) and that is "intelligent" radio???
Two guys, stating they are not at the game, but are sitting in front of a monitor in a studio, and people tune in and listen in there thousands.
Can anyone square that circle for me?
The Real Bully Hoo.
Lonely.
Thanks mate. All abuse welcome.
StripedPyjamaThrostle
The only thing he can find to throw at us is the location of the AGM meeting and our hypothetical preference of radio-station.
Poor guy. I actually almost pity him. Almost.
Jack ♣ Hat.
Odd Fellow,
Nice to come over here for a bit of respite I'm sure. No jollity on the dark side is there?.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.
Jack ♣ Hat.
One Half,
Just to let you know your post "Can anyone square that circle for me?" is appreciated mate.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.
astleistheking
Bully nah mate it ain't him, almost as bad though I will admit. He gets the right hump when I sing "I'd rather have a future than a past"
The Real Bully Hoo.
AITK.
What a great prophetic lyric from Paul Simon. Love it.
Reanswolf
So Albion have to pay £349 forgood standard premiership football, and the Wolves want us to pay £345 for what is at least 50-50 chance of playing 3rd tier football. If you include the £6 mandatary booking fee that has now kicked in , we will actually be paying more.
Stoke pay £344 for a chheapest adult, Villa's cheapest will be about £300.
Moxey out!
Baggyjon
Rean
More's the reason to give up Wulfland and join Jeremy's blue and white revolution. You know it makes sence
We Only Need One Half!
Trouble is Baggyjon, they cant can they? you can change your job, where you live, your wife, even your nationality, but you cant change your colours.
I know I wind up the more militant Dings, but I genuinely feel for the real Wulfies.
I do wonder how many extra of the up and coming local youth who may have chosen Wolves or Villa in the past, given that we are surrounded on all sides in our catchment area, will now chose the Baggies instead, got to be a good thing for the club.
The Real Bully Hoo.
I'm totally with you on that one WONOH, much rather see a young lad in an old gold shirt than a red Man Ure rag. The trouble is how many kids of Wolves and Villa fans will go that way rather than come over to us?
Jack ♣ Hat.
Guys,
Kids need stars to look up to and they can only get that at the Hawthorns, in the Midlands area. That is why we are the *Pride*.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.
Jack ♣ Hat.
Reanswolf,
Then they expect you to pay £7 to enter the new antiquity shop. Do you have to pay on line or do they charge more for cash on the door?.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.
Medway Baggie
Now that the kids are grown up and the wife and I have decided to enjoy some quality time together away from said kids I am able to go for a season ticket and for the first time since the mid seventies be able to go to more home games. Okay, I may not be able to get to every home game, since I work every third Saturday and living in deepest Kent makes it a long and expensive day, but I am looking forward to both watching the team and being with the wife.
Gabbys Elbow
Medway, you wonna give up the wife as a bad job............,.the baggies will always be there for you!
I've took my mrs so much over the past 20 years, she's given up coming now......what a brucie bonus.
Are we happy with a point up at Stoke?
Medway Baggie
Gab
Having been with my wife for thirty three happy years, I am not about to give up on her. I didn't phrase my original comment quite right. She won't be coming to the matches, but we will be spending the weekends together on our own and enjoying each others company. On the Saturdays that I can make the matches, I'll watch the team and she will do her own thing and then spend the night and Sunday together.
The Real Bully Hoo.
Medway.
I know what you mean. I've had seven happy years with my wife, trouble is we've been married for forty years. Only joking if you're reading this dearest darling.
StripedPyjamaThrostle
Fantastic news for the fans yet again; the club could have very easily upped the prices and cited our need for the funds but, alas, Mr Peace en co. have remained as astute and admirable as ever. I must say I find it ironic after Tim Nash's piece yesterday on Villa and Wolves' attendances this season, and how they have remained loyal whilst making a passing remark about Albion; our ground doesn't exceed the 26000 mark at this point yet we fill it, we don't have unnecessarily convoluted building plans but more modest, parsimonious plans which will see the ground develop over the coming years. Wolves have made a loss for the first time in a few years and all Mr Nash seems to want to write about is how their attendance figures beat other clubs' attendance figures. It's like reading 'My Dad's bigger than your Dad' articles on hear sometimes it truly is.
Jack ♣ Hat.
Jeremy Peace does the business yet again. Free coach trip, held prices, looks like we need extra seats or a new stand. Got to be the best run club in the Premier league. I would like to see a statue of Jeremy Peace in a seated position in the vicinity of the ticket office to honour his "Fairness in Football".
Onward and upward with the BAGGIES.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.
Solihullbaggie
Great being a Baggie isnt it? Just one thing though, i just hope it dose not stop us going for the the more up market type player, because we have not spent real money over the last three ore four years surley we could at least put a bid in for lukaku if a loan is a none starter,we cant keep scrounging for players forever, Can we?
Kev in Mallorca
Soli'
Try and keep up mate! I don't know how many times the finances have been explained on here, I'll leave it to our financial advisers to go through it, if they've got the energy,
One thing I will say is that if you think the money lost by not raising the season tickets will make the slightest difference to buying a player I should get some body to help you withya shopping.
Adeu
Real Wolf
Fair play to yow lot up the road, club is being run well, side are good to watch and deserve to be where they are in the table, and the chairman shows respect to the fans by freezing costs at these still difficult times. Wolves till I die, however we must sack the board, and get the Manager to go back to cleaning boots, great striker he was, Manager, well as usefull as a chocolate fireguard!!!
linconwolf
Well done again WBA. This club puts Wolves to shame, good luck to you.
Properly run club that treats its fans well and plays good football... case closed I guess. I'm a Wolves fan ad ashamed of my club. At least some football fans in the midlands are having it good.
Wolves deserve what they are getting as a club, but the fans don't.
Brizzle wolf
I agree (and through gritted teeth) Baggies have been showing us up in every department. Oh to support a well run club :(
Jack ♣ Hat.
linconwolf,
That last line hurts, where's my hanky. Just think, we may never whup you again, it's heartbreaking.
Told you I have a big heart.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.
Boing boing Barry
And now England call up for Ben foster it keeps getting better being a baggie
We Only Need One Half!
Yeah, but every headline is all about Rio! no bias there again, eh?
AndyH
Evening mate,
did we expect anything less from the media.....an easy story for them i suppose
I'd get annoyed but ...whats the point. We get overlooked no matter what we do, how well we play, how good our players are...which on one hand is a good "underneath the radar" thing but it would be nice for SC and the lads to get some credit at times.
Regards
AndyH
Wall Heath Baggie
Ronan Keating
see my 1999 hit
Wall Heath Baggie
That really is a daft comment One arf.If you think Bens selection is going to overshadow Rio's then you really do need a reality check.No doubt the usual suspects will agree with you as an awful lot on here think the football world reverberates around the Hawthorns, sorry to shatter your narrowminded illusions but it does not.
We Only Need One Half!
Max, I never said it should over shadow it, but neither do I see Rio's inclusion as earth shattering either, whats wrong with,
"New England Squad Announced"?
I doubt any more people read the article just because it had Rio in the title, did you?
Jack ♣ Hat.
One Half,
I see Whally Heath is trying to force another debate again. You have to see it to believe it, mate.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.
Wall Heath Baggie
I guess its better than listening to your one eyed views all day every day. My blog was addressed to one arf not you so i would be obliged if you kept your childish name calling stupidity out of it.
We Only Need One Half!
Hey, calmers Max, were all friends here! seriously, you would have read that article about the new England Squad whether they mentioned Rio or not, the same as probably 99% of other football followers, so why do the media need to push Rio into the spotlight, again, that was my point, not that it should have had Foster in the title.
We Only Need One Half!
p.s. Max posted your due on Lukaku thread, looks like you called it right and I didnt.
Shropshirebaggy
Well done yet again Mr Peace, that bloke knows what he's doing and how to look after us. £18 per ticket, absolute bargain!
Nice to see some Wulfies on here not slagging us off, I feel for the genuine fans and have said before that no one set of fans deserves that much misery, here's hoping for an end to it soon.
GeorgeBerry's Afro
From a WOLVES fan and a FOOTBALL fan
Simple maths....reduce the price of tickets to increase the average gate = more income! It’s the same mythology that the budget airlines use.
Its official Moxey is the 5th HIGHEST paid Chairman in football!!!!
Good luck Baggies and don’t write us off because believe you me we will be back!
UTW
StripedPyjamaThrostle
Jesus Christ proclaimed the same thing; 1975 years later he's still not returned!
I joke of course, it would be nice to see you back in the Premier League in the not too distant future; if your return coincides with our fighting for a Champions League spot, that's a trade-off I'll gladly take.
The Real Bully Hoo.
SPT.
Hope you mean Wolves back in the PL and not the other fella or St John might think of making a comeback as well.
oswestry baggie
So why are my seats in the executive area going up 8%?
Jack ♣ Hat.
oswestry baggie,
Coz yo sit theer dow ya, ard uv thort, un yo av extra purks dow ya?. SUST ay et mar maet. Glad t'elp.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.
Jack ♣ Hat.
Posted on the Sun site:
Steve,
You are right ,but it was nice to live in hope. Us Baggy fans will remember Romelu for his power play and goalscoring prowess. He will always be welcome back at the Hawthorns. One door closes another opens, that is why you were in the Netherlands watching another Chelsea youngster.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~J♣H.