Bill S Preston Esq.
Just doesn't shut up
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I think you are. We stand once every two weeks.I'm sure I'm not alone in missing standing on the South Bank.
I think you are. We stand once every two weeks.I'm sure I'm not alone in missing standing on the South Bank.
Respect to you. I’ll have done my 50 years in August for some really **** employers.If you want me to answer that I will. I worked till I was 74, not in teaching I might add. After thirty years at the chalk face I left the profession and went truck driving. I had a LGV licence when I was teaching and spent holidays working. I used to European work mainly.
I paid my stamp and my income tax, never on the dole or sponging of the state and I think I have earned my retirement as an octogenarian.
Mate, honestly, any extra we get stung for this summer will make no difference to the amount we do or don’t spend on players.It wouldn’t just be season tickets and match day tickets though, would it.
Probably an extra £1 for a pint, extra 50p for a pie, 10p for Bovril and 20p for a packet of crisps. All prices will increase at the kiosks.
Prices in Sir Jacks restaurant will probably increase as well.
It all helps!
I'm sure I'm not alone in missing standing on the South Bank.
I’ve had a season ticket on the south bank for 25 years, I’ve sat down for two games under Hoddle
Nah probably hiding in the wanderer pub! It is genuinely the only time I ever remember sitting in my seat.I presume for the remainder of the Hoddle days you were laying down.......
Sat down a few times when the stewards had that fruitless drive to get us all seated. They'd get half the stand sitting down, before " stand up, if you love the Wolves" would start.Nah probably hiding in the wanderer pub! It is genuinely the only time I ever remember sitting in my seat.
Once again, you're indulging in misconceptions. What I find strange is that your generation ignores all the statistics in front of them but continues to indulge in lazy stereotypes about young people nowadays wasting money on Sky TV etc and that's seemingly why they can't manage to get on the housing ladder like you were able to.As an OAP with a season ticket in the Upper Steve Bull, I would like to throw my three peneth into the debate.
My starting salary as a secondary teacher in 1965 was £710 per year which after stoppages left me in the region of £50 per month. Mortgage lenders would lend you two and a half times your salary. So approximately £1750. My first bungalow cost me £4100.00 and the mortgage payment was £26.00 a month. I had to save £2350 in order to purchase it.
We didn't have mobile phones to purchase or Sky to pay for and my car was kept going with spares from the scrap yard.
Take the mortgage payment of your monthly take home pay and. It didn't leave a great amount to live on, but we managed.
It is all relative I know but we OAPs have earned the right for a little perk now and then. We don't get a free TV licence by the way. While a meal out and a pint cost the same as my kids are charged. Petrol and electricity, water rates and community charge are also the same.
And what do you say to those young people who jump from concession price to adult? Isn't that a kick in the teeth?As for disposable income, if us OAPs had to pay full price many including myself could not afford it. It would be a kick in the teeth after all these years.
I’m in the middle of a row, right behind the goal but half way up so they’d always given up by the time they got to me. I used to love the annual letter off Moxey about persistent standing! Hoddle was enough to make me sit down for a couple of games though!Sat down a few times when the stewards had that fruitless drive to get us all seated. They'd get half the stand sitting down, before " stand up, if you love the Wolves" would start.
That’s a bit of a sweeping statement about ‘your generation’. I currently benefit from the senior discount but I agree that any discounts should be aimed at younger fans.Once again, you're indulging in misconceptions. What I find strange is that your generation ignores all the statistics in front of them but continues to indulge in lazy stereotypes about young people nowadays wasting money on Sky TV etc and that's seemingly why they can't manage to get on the housing ladder like you were able to.
Just look at the statistics, it's obvious as to why. The generation growing up now will have a worse standard of living than the one before them, which is true for the first time in hundreds of years. So, shouldn't the club be looking to help say the U25s rather than continuing to subsidise OAPs? Many of which will be in a much more secure financial situation by comparison.
The North and South Banks have always been the same price.Maybe boring but about this time last year I used the season ticket prices to make an educated guess on the 2024-2025 prices. Just extrapolated the lines.
BW upper centre £880
BW wiiings £805
Steve Bull upper £755
Sir Jack Hayward £653
I couldn't do Stan Cullis at the time because I was missing some information. I didn't have the U21 or concessions data either.
So, away at Albion, then?I can remember when it was 3 sheep and your first born daughter
Happy to be the bearer of good news the State Pension increases each April so you should have had some better news this month.Not managed to get on to the site recently, but I wanted to add this to the pensioner season ticket debate.
When I became an octogenarian in January this year, my pension increased by 25p per week. A whole twenty fine pence.
I would welcome suggestions on what I should spend it on.
A week later I received a letter from HMRC informing me my tax code had changed because of my increased income!!!
God bless the triple lockHappy to be the bearer of good news the State Pension increases each April so you should have had some better news this month.
Maybe a freddo?Not managed to get on to the site recently, but I wanted to add this to the pensioner season ticket debate.
When I became an octogenarian in January this year, my pension increased by 25p per week. A whole twenty fine pence.
I would welcome suggestions on what I should spend it on.
A week later I received a letter from HMRC informing me my tax code had changed because of my increased income!!!
Talk that they're going up by more than 10%.
Don't know if that's everywhere or just certain stands.
Hopefully seeing one of our lowest ever PL attendances last night causes a quick rethink.Ridiculous if true but nothing will change until fans vote with their feet.
Will have to see if that is the hike, where my cut off point is l think.
That’s nearly £100 for me so better not be true. Especially after a season of spending **** all and losing our best players in the summer to look forward to.12% being rumoured.
And for what?
Hopefully seeing one of our lowest ever PL attendances last night causes a quick rethink.
Not a chance. Would love to hear the reasoning behind any increase.
Actually no I won't because it'll be bull**** about increase costs due to current climate that they're having to pass onto fans.
No doubt a number of fans will eat it up but you only have to look at the poor state of the ground and lack of investment in the squad to know that it's all *******s.Not a chance. Would love to hear the reasoning behind any increase.
Actually no I won't because it'll be bull**** about increase costs due to current climate that they're having to pass onto fans.
I’m on the waiting list and been to every home game but 1Sounds like leak a 12% rumour and when it's 6% we're all supposed to be grateful.
The fact that we appear to have sold 3k seats to non-STH last night shows what a joke the '10 thousand waiting list' is.
Well if there's a 12% rise I'd be very optimistic if I was you! As you've demonstrated, you don't need a ST to get into games as it is, so it's hard to imagine there are 10k people who want to come to them all. Missing Nuno's first two seasons would have been awful, since then it's been very mixed!I’m on the waiting list and been to every home game but 1
The point is that people on the waiting lists come to games and whilst it’s not difficult to get tickets for each home match there’s still an average waiting time of 4/5 years for season ticketsWell if there's a 12% rise I'd be very optimistic if I was you! As you've demonstrated, you don't need a ST to get into games as it is, so it's hard to imagine there are 10k people who want to come to them all. Missing Nuno's first two seasons would have been awful, since then it's been very mixed!