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It cuts one of two ways, either you pay the extra or the club gets a quid less per ticket.
How much is it to watch the sky blues in the third tier at someone else’s ground?
Its £20 for a cash ticket on the day at St Andrews. It's cheaper in advance but all tickets carry a £1 admin fee.
At the risk of getting all grizzly about this, there actually isn't an £1 admin fee attached to Coventry City tickets on walk up. I checked,
the information is here. And I can't find that it's any cheaper to buy in advance, fwiw.
Also, I've been watching Sky Blues at someone else's ground ever since Wasps arrived (or notionally, since HR was sold and then leased back to the club). And at least at St Andrews they take care of the pitch and make Cov fans feel welcome, so I'm not getting too sniffy over that - or getting into that argument again!
The long and the short of it is that it's a pound more to watch a game than it was last season, no matter which way you buy a ticket. And if it really costs the club a pound more a ticket to administer it this way for every ticket sold, no matter which way it is bought, then I don't see it as particularly good business. I suspect the club will get a proportion of the admin fee back where the app or online system is used, which is OK with me.
Regardless, why not just play straight and say that tickets are going up by a pound across the board and by the way there's a new whizz-bang system that means that you can use an app or print your own tickets if it's easier. To me that's a lot more acceptable than trying to hide behind the line that prices are the same as last year apart from an (entirely unavoidable for fans) admin fee.
Like I say, I may well be on my own in feeling this way - but I'm always of the opinion that until you're filling the ground every week you want to put as few barriers as possible to walk-up supporters. Over-complexity in ticket pricing and hidden or unjustifiable charges tend to put people like me off, even if it's on principle as much as cost.