STOKE CITY have sold more Season Tickets

STOKE CITY have sold more Season Tickets in the first four days of the Mid-Price sales period than they did throughout the entire same period in three of the last four years.

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We don't talk about Championship sides anymore Annis, it's so old school.

Apparently joint favourites to go up with the Jacks.

I expect they are looking forward to it?

I don't know if its just me, but I always thought that a small reason for our sometimes low crowds home and away was partly down to being in the same division for 14 out of 15 seasons.

Stoke had 10 seasons in the Premiership and when your best bet is to finish mid-table at best every year its got to get boring after a while surely?

They got a load of local games now next season, Derby, Forest, Villa, Birmingham, WBA and Burton, the two Sheffield and Leeds less than 80 miles up the road. Bolton, Preston, Wigan and Blackburn 50-60 miles up the road.

If they do well, their fans are going to have a cracking season following them, they will take thousands everywhere.

I expect they are looking forward to it?

I don't know if its just me, but I always thought that a small reason for our sometimes low crowds home and away was partly down to being in the same division for 14 out of 15 seasons.

Stoke had 10 seasons in the Premiership and when your best bet is to finish mid-table at best every year its got to get boring after a while surely?

They got a load of local games now next season, Derby, Forest, Villa, Birmingham, WBA and Burton, the two Sheffield and Leeds less than 80 miles up the road. Bolton, Preston, Wigan and Blackburn 50-60 miles up the road.

If they do well, their fans are going to have a cracking season following them, they will take thousands everywhere.

Whilst I'm really looking forward to another crack at the Premiership I'm not going to get too despondent if it all goes tits and we are fighting against relegation from the off. Of course I want us to do well, and would snap your hand off for a 17th finish, but the Premiership is not the be all and end all for me.

Much more important is the unity that we have now regained. If we can stay up that would be a great achievement. If we don't it makes for another exciting year in the Championship. Both leagues have pros & cons and I'm just happy supporting a unified club wherever we are.

I am backing them to reach automatic promotion with West Brom and then Aston Villa through the play-offs beating Bristol Sheff Utd or Millwall

Swansea will be 9th

We don't talk about Championship sides anymore Annis, it's so old school.

I am backing them to reach automatic promotion with West Brom and then Aston Villa through the play-offs beating Bristol Sheff Utd or Millwall

Swansea will be 9th

Sam,
I reckon they will prob bounce back with Villa & prob WBA.

Well they'll be seeing a lot more victories than the last few years. Or at least they are hoping they do.

Did they lower their prices also?

Well they'll be seeing a lot more victories than the last few years. Or at least they are hoping they do.

Did they lower their prices also?

I don't know regarding lowering their prices, I thought they were already good value.

Well they'll be seeing a lot more victories than the last few years. Or at least they are hoping they do.

Did they lower their prices also?

I don't know regarding lowering their prices, I thought they were already good value.

Maybe. Just thought their fans might demand cheaper as they've gone down. Either way, good effort from them.

No austerity at Stoke. Willing to splash the cash, to return to the Prem.

None of the relegated clubs got promoted last season and Sunderland got relegated whereas all the promoted clubs stayed up!
Let’s hope the same happens next season as apart from the top 6 there is nothing between the bottom 14 of the Premiership and the top 14 of the Championship?

None of the relegated clubs got promoted last season and Sunderland got relegated whereas all the promoted clubs stayed up!
Let’s hope the same happens next season as apart from the top 6 there is nothing between the bottom 14 of the Premiership and the top 14 of the Championship?

Teams that go down very rarely go straight back up.

When I looked at it the other week I think it was something like 4 from the last 18 and then I gave up going back any further.

Stoke and West Brom most likely to go up. I really couldn't predict where Swansea will finish but I wouldn't be in the slightest surprised to see Villa go down. Quality of squad ripped apart and if they cant get on top of their financial problems then a very possible 12 points deduction for entering administration.

I'm not surprised, their fans all have money in their pockets from having their away travel paid for them all last season.

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It is common knowledge how much Stoke City season tickets have cost for the last 10 years. It’s easy enough: the price has been exactly the same.

But we have gone back through the archives to look back at all prices in the modern era – and what, with inflation, they would be in 2018 money.

For starters, it cost £162 to get a season ticket standing on the Boothen End in the last year at the Victoria Ground. That’s still the cheapest in real terms compared to anything which has followed in the next two decades at the new stadium.

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Prices climbed £47 in the first year at the Brit in 1997/98, when there were 5,500 season ticket holders … and were pegged at that level as relegation swiftly followed.

“I am sure our fans will be pleasantly surprised,” said then-chief executive Jez Moxey before he confirmed the details. Season ticket sales fell by a thousand.

A deflating season in Division Two, despite a promising start under Brian Little, meant a hard sell and Stoke fired a mail shot to the 12,000 supporters, with Moxey promising: “We have everybody pulling in the same direction.”

Stoke stuck at £209 and kept advertising “potential Division One football at Division Two prices” until finally and memorably, triumphing through the play-offs in 2002.

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A change of manager didn’t affect the rush on this occasion. Gudjon Thordarson was sacked just after guiding Stoke up but the club, helped by optimism surrounding the appointment of Steve Cotterill, was hoping to nudge past their previous season ticket sales record, which had been set at 7,363 for 1993/94. It ended up just north of 6,500.

Early bird sales fell to 6,331 in 2003 but Stoke, with Tony Pulis now in the dug-out, thought outside the box 12 months later. Chairman Gunnar Gislason revealed a massive price cut to £199 … if at least 8,500 fans pledged to buy before the end of February.

New marketing manager Tim Gallimore, who had previously helped lead the fans’ forum, explained: “Looking at other clubs of our size, we are definitely punching under our weight when it comes to season-ticket holders. But that’s nothing new, it’s an historical thing. I believe we can get 10,000. That would provide the base to make a concerted challenge for the Premier League.”

Sure enough, 10,000 signed up – and were treated to what became known as the Binary Season, including a run of 17 games that either ended 1-0, 0-0 or 0-1.

Still, 8,500 renewed when prices climbed £30, mostly before Pulis, despite signing a new contract, was axed in the summer of 2005 and replaced by Johan Boskamp.

Gislason was scratching his head as he considered prices for 2006/07, saying: “Cutting season ticket prices as drastically as we did in 2004 may have increased attendances but it did nothing to improve the main income stream, which is selling seats for league matches.

“This experience must make us think again about our pricing strategy. Perhaps it is time to bring ourselves into line with other clubs in the Championship.”

Prices did go up another £30 but about 6,000 had put in their orders before Peter Coates returned as chairman that May, when another 1,000 were convinced to sign up, despite prices rising to £309, then £359 out of the initial discount period.

It went up to £299, with 8,000 buying, for what turned out to the promotion season but the prices for 2008/09 were set in March 2008, when Stoke didn’t know what division they would be in.

The club had passed the 10,000 mark for the first time by April and 17,000 when Premier League football was confirmed.

“We would argue we had lost a couple of generations of support as people hadn’t really had a huge deal to shout about,” said Tony Scholes that summer. “But we have now done something towards that.”

Sales have since topped 20,000 – and a quarter of the crowd is now aged under 21 – but prices have always stayed the same.

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I expect they are looking forward to it?

I don't know if its just me, but I always thought that a small reason for our sometimes low crowds home and away was partly down to being in the same division for 14 out of 15 seasons.

Stoke had 10 seasons in the Premiership and when your best bet is to finish mid-table at best every year its got to get boring after a while surely?

They got a load of local games now next season, Derby, Forest, Villa, Birmingham, WBA and Burton, the two Sheffield and Leeds less than 80 miles up the road. Bolton, Preston, Wigan and Blackburn 50-60 miles up the road.

If they do well, their fans are going to have a cracking season following them, they will take thousands everywhere.

Whilst I'm really looking forward to another crack at the Premiership I'm not going to get too despondent if it all goes tits and we are fighting against relegation from the off. Of course I want us to do well, and would snap your hand off for a 17th finish, but the Premiership is not the be all and end all for me.

Much more important is the unity that we have now regained. If we can stay up that would be a great achievement. If we don't it makes for another exciting year in the Championship. Both leagues have pros & cons and I'm just happy supporting a unified club wherever we are.

Agree
The championship is a brilliant league so competitive but we have a chance in the big time now in blue United.
Brilliant