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FWIW - this was an update we received from Richmond.

"The Club, including the Athletic Ground, has made cumulative losses of approximately £760,000 in the 2020 and 2021 seasons."
and
"combined impacts caused our Group turnover to drop by over £1.7 million, a 54% decline year on year"

I reckon that almost every rugby club in the land is in the same boat.

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Big waste of money printing and sending for the club plus time spent packaging. Also negative environmental benefit.

Not if you work in Print Trade ;-)

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Given the link up with London Scottish and the increased number of emerging Quins likely to be plying their trade at The Athletic Ground, I wonder if there is any chance of negotiating some sort of discounted ticket price for Quins STH.  It would be great if the Quins away games could be engineered to coincide with Scottish home matches.  Too much to hope for...?
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Renewing and only go to prem and European games. Still value for money, I was paying when JK and PG were running us into the ground so why not now?


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I'm amazed that they are putting up prices again. They have gone up so much in the last 20 years that I've had season tickets that it's gone frim a fairly cheap day out to actually quite an expensive one. I pay for BT Sport so I get to watch the rest of the games and in the last 2 years the Quins ones. There's no way I'm paying for 4 tickets at the prices that are now being advertised. We didn't renew this year because of the number of games that weren't 3pm Saturday ( my kids have rugby Sunday and Friday nights are too late). There's no way we're buying tickets that are even more expensive for less matches. Anyone praising the owners for their support of the club needs a reality check... They know as well as we do that it isn't a way to make money. But it might help association....

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The last price increase was for the 2019/20 season so it would be inevitable that prices would go up again this season.

The more successful the club soz the more it will be shown on TV. Considering there are only 3 TV slots on BT, it will be inevitable that it will fall on Friday and sunday. Although it has not happened that often this season.

As with all professional sport, it does get more costly. The owners cannot be expected to take thee losses of the Club forever so it needs to be self sustainable.

Yes they are rasikgn ticket prices but they are also maximising every opportunity through sponsorship and sweating the assets to host more non match day events at the club too.

I think that balancing the books seems to be a more realistic prospect under Laurie than it wslas under the previous CEO who seemed to waste money or weird projects that didn't go anywhere.

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It all seems pretty reasonable to me.

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Given the link up with London Scottish and the increased number of emerging Quins likely to be plying their trade at The Athletic Ground, I wonder if there is any chance of negotiating some sort of discounted ticket price for Quins STH.  It would be great if the Quins away games could be engineered to coincide with Scottish home matches.  Too much to hope for...?

There used to be, a few years ago I recall going to Scottish games and getting a substantial discount if you had a Quins season ticket. I think you paid £5 for a ground ticket.
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« Reply #53 on: »
Well quite. This idea that the owners are somehow 'subsidising' us watching rugby is ridiculous. If tickets were 80 quid a pop for the cheap seats then nobody would go.

The club are cashing in on the jonny come latelies - the stoop is clearly the place to be at the moment, but unless we win the prem every year or start winning Europe I don't think it will last. But yeah, if the ground keeps selling out they will keep raising the price because they can't expand seating.

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At a time of 7% inflation, I'm not in the least surprised that prices are going up. Goods and services bought in will be increasing in price, wage bill for both players and other staff will all be looking at the inflation figure as a minimum to try for. I'd be shocked if they weren't increasing prices.

All you have to do is decide is it worth it.

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For the Owners theres always the safety net of the rather valuable piece of West London real estate busily appreciating in value in the background.

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Yes Deadly, I didn't be at all surprised to see a move outside the M25 at some point.... Perhaps Guildford area?

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I'd be shocked if they weren't increasing prices. All you have to do is decide is it worth it.

Totally agree! It's the product that has persuaded me not to renew, not the price. Around half of our home games have been on Friday or Sunday, and recently, even on a Tuesday.

I'm particularly grumpy about having to apply for two games across the road that I've already bought rather than at the gameday-community-friendly Stoop, where I'm surrounded by familiar banter and not strangers.

I don't doubt that my seat will be taken up by someone with more flexibility than me,  - and that they'll enjoy it!

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Totally agree! It's the product that has persuaded me not to renew, not the price. Around half of our home games have been on Friday or Sunday, and recently, even on a Tuesday.

This season, 9 out of 13 home Prem games have been on Saturday afternoon, as have 2 out of 3 home European games so far.  We'll have to wait and see about the QF!

Granted, the Prem Cup games have been rather more spread about, but haven't they always?

From my perspective, the cost of my 1+1 Touchline tickets go up by £85, but as I get an extra 2 years of that rather than having to buy a more expensive concession seat for my son, the actual increase for the 4 years until he's over 18 is actually just £32.50 per season for both of us, so not at all unreasonable!

I do agree about the stupid bloody summer game over the road though!

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I’ll renew as have done for years, but now it’s mainly to make sure I have a ticket, in the past it was just so I didn’t have the hassle of getting a ticket for each game
Agree with the Johnny come lately comment, and should the performances/trophy’s decline so will they
I also probably won’t be going to next years spring thing at HQ and hope they move it so not last home fixture, I’ll be interested to see turn out today