Carl Curtis : Cardiff City sales are on the up

Cardiff City memberships for this season are proving to be successful, with sales very high but the downside is season ticket sales have slowed right down.

It is probably down to the cost between the two and the benefits you receive.

A season ticket for myself in the Ninian Stand costs £419 and a gold membership would have cost me £25.

My season ticket works out at a little over £18 per match but friends who have the gold memberships have purchased tickets for the Fulham home game for £18.

As long as the match ticket is bought within 48 hours of going on sale the members get the early bird price, as well as that after booking their 5th match they receive a £5 discount.

The club state they have sold just over 10,000 season tickets and hope to sell 12,000 before the season kicks off but how likely are they to achieve that target when other than guaranteeing the same seat for the season there doesn’t seem much more of a benefit to buying a season ticket over a membership.

The membership looks value for money but I don’t think the season ticket comes anywhere near it, hopefully the club have plans to somehow reward season ticket holders with benefits as the season goes on.