| How Much Our Kid? 14:24 - Apr 23 with 1599 views | GaryHaddock |
The cheapest adult ticket for Man City fans last night was £71.
Appreciate it isn’t QPR but still, outrageous. That’s why I’m not clamouring for the Premiership. |  | | |  |
| How Much Our Kid? on 14:50 - Apr 23 with 1501 views | stowmarketrange |
Yet all clubs charge away fans no more than £30.Where’s the sense in pricing out home fans to subsidise away fans,the majority of those home fans aren’t because there isn’t enough tickets to go round normally? |  | | |
| How Much Our Kid? on 15:13 - Apr 23 with 1430 views | Konk |
It's the same at Fulham. I've just got to a point where the club can fu ck-off. Every time someone buys a ticket at £70-160 down at Fulham, it encourages the club to take the pi ss even more the next season. If they want to turn the Cottage into some sort of £££ Premier League football theme park for tourists, there's not much I can do other than sit it out until we're sh it again.
I'm part of a group of 20+ kids and adults that have season tickets together at Bristol City (I want my son to support his local team with his mates), and once you deduct the price of the free shirt that the kids get, it works out something daft like 50p a game for the kids, and adult season tickets in those blocks are about £16-17 per game. All of us know that if City did make it into the Premier League (spoiler alert: they won't) and stop up (they wouldn't) then ticket prices would rocket and the number of blocks that are set aside for discounted family tickets would inevitably be drastically cut given the relatively small capacity of the Gate. As someone who grew up with football costing about the same as going to the cinema, and remembers many clubs offering cheap entry for the unemployed when I was a kid, I hate the idea of people being priced out of watching their team. |  |
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| How Much Our Kid? on 15:34 - Apr 23 with 1356 views | TheChef |
| How Much Our Kid? on 15:13 - Apr 23 by Konk |
It's the same at Fulham. I've just got to a point where the club can fu ck-off. Every time someone buys a ticket at £70-160 down at Fulham, it encourages the club to take the pi ss even more the next season. If they want to turn the Cottage into some sort of £££ Premier League football theme park for tourists, there's not much I can do other than sit it out until we're sh it again.
I'm part of a group of 20+ kids and adults that have season tickets together at Bristol City (I want my son to support his local team with his mates), and once you deduct the price of the free shirt that the kids get, it works out something daft like 50p a game for the kids, and adult season tickets in those blocks are about £16-17 per game. All of us know that if City did make it into the Premier League (spoiler alert: they won't) and stop up (they wouldn't) then ticket prices would rocket and the number of blocks that are set aside for discounted family tickets would inevitably be drastically cut given the relatively small capacity of the Gate. As someone who grew up with football costing about the same as going to the cinema, and remembers many clubs offering cheap entry for the unemployed when I was a kid, I hate the idea of people being priced out of watching their team. |
"If they want to turn the Cottage into some sort of £££ Premier League football theme park for tourists, there's not much I can do other than sit it out until we're sh it again."
Isn't that the route most PL clubs are taking though? Most football tourists are going to spend far more per head (ticket, merchandise, food and drink) than those bloomin' spendthrift loyal fans who keep on turning up every week, every season. Can't they watch the games at home on TV instead? |  |
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| How Much Our Kid? on 16:59 - Apr 24 with 942 views | themodfather |
the game has been gentrified , sterilised , over policed and priced out the working man . across the leagues.
short term, newbys can pay higher prices but when a club hits bad times you NEED THE DIE HARD LOYALS |  | | |
| How Much Our Kid? on 17:33 - Apr 24 with 880 views | bosh67 |
Perhaps what we should do is set up a park QPR team and we stand on sidelines. Someone watches a phone of the actual game and then the park QPR team who can play 11 others, who are the same every week but obviously in a different kit, re-enact everything happening in the real game from someone shouting out what's happening from the phone. Only one game feed fee needed to the phone and £5 a ticket to watch the re-enactment. |  |
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| How Much Our Kid? on 19:54 - Apr 24 with 794 views | LazyFan |
| How Much Our Kid? on 14:50 - Apr 23 by stowmarketrange |
Yet all clubs charge away fans no more than £30.Where’s the sense in pricing out home fans to subsidise away fans,the majority of those home fans aren’t because there isn’t enough tickets to go round normally? |
So, its cheaper to pretend to be an away fan and turn up for every game.
"oh look here is Tom again, he must really hate us as he goes to every home game in the away end" |  |
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| How Much Our Kid? on 20:06 - Apr 24 with 768 views | NewBee |
| How Much Our Kid? on 14:50 - Apr 23 by stowmarketrange |
Yet all clubs charge away fans no more than £30.Where’s the sense in pricing out home fans to subsidise away fans,the majority of those home fans aren’t because there isn’t enough tickets to go round normally? |
The PL cannot tell clubs what to charge.
However they have got them voluntarily to agree to limit the xost to away fans to £30 per adult. So in that sense, it's hardly "subsiding" them, at least since we're only talking about 5% of places or 3k, which ever is the larger.
In the context of usually v.high, and often outrageous, admission prices generally, I for one think it's a grand, if rare, gesture, esp since it's only the most committed fans (loyalty points etc) who can get their hands on tickets for away fans.
Btw, my ST for the GTech works out at £26 a game, which for an excellent view in a modern stadium for top flight football, is imo truly exceptional value. Most General Admission ST's are around the same price, give or take, with matchday prices for Members etc not that much more (£38ish?) | | | |
| How Much Our Kid? on 20:14 - Apr 24 with 743 views | NewBee |
By way of comparison, Celtic's ST prices for next season will be:
Adult prices start at £608, rising from £559 the previous year, with over 65s priced at £376.
Celtic have also frozen season ticket prices for under-18s, with the cost starting at £50 for under-13s.
Full-time students can renew for £374.
Though tbh, I'd want them to pay me a whole lot more than that to watch Scottish football...
While to get back to Citeh, the natives are getting distinctly restless:
A [supporters] group staged a second protest this month before their win over Aston Villa on Tuesday, with three main issues:
The capacity at Etihad Stadium increasing by 9,000 in recent years but there are fewer season tickets than six years ago.
That means fans have to pay up to £88 for an adult matchday ticket or up to £58 for a child.
Tickets are then sold through third-party sites for inflated prices, they claim.
More here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx28g5dmy0vo [Post edited 24 Apr 20:15]
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| How Much Our Kid? on 20:21 - Apr 24 with 699 views | stowmarketrange |
| How Much Our Kid? on 20:06 - Apr 24 by NewBee |
The PL cannot tell clubs what to charge.
However they have got them voluntarily to agree to limit the xost to away fans to £30 per adult. So in that sense, it's hardly "subsiding" them, at least since we're only talking about 5% of places or 3k, which ever is the larger.
In the context of usually v.high, and often outrageous, admission prices generally, I for one think it's a grand, if rare, gesture, esp since it's only the most committed fans (loyalty points etc) who can get their hands on tickets for away fans.
Btw, my ST for the GTech works out at £26 a game, which for an excellent view in a modern stadium for top flight football, is imo truly exceptional value. Most General Admission ST's are around the same price, give or take, with matchday prices for Members etc not that much more (£38ish?) |
I didn’t say that the premier league told clubs to only charge £30,you did.
My point was why should home fans at some clubs be priced out of going to a game,but 5% of the crowd will probably be paying less than the home fans for the same 90 minutes?
You say members only pay £38 at your games,but is almost a 50% mark up on season ticket prices,so hardly “not much more.” | | | |
| How Much Our Kid? on 21:00 - Apr 24 with 646 views | NewBee |
| How Much Our Kid? on 20:21 - Apr 24 by stowmarketrange |
I didn’t say that the premier league told clubs to only charge £30,you did.
My point was why should home fans at some clubs be priced out of going to a game,but 5% of the crowd will probably be paying less than the home fans for the same 90 minutes?
You say members only pay £38 at your games,but is almost a 50% mark up on season ticket prices,so hardly “not much more.” |
Those who qualify for away tickets via loyalty points are by definition the most "loyal" amongst any club's home support.
While away fans also have to add the cost of train/coach/petrol etc to their day out - also occasionally overnight stays. This doesn't usually apply to home fans.
While it is reciprocal i.e. each club's fans benefit when they go away, just the same as when other clubs' fans come to them.
Or would you rather that eg Citeh charged away fans £70-odd to attend the Etihad, as well as (some of their) home fans.
Anyhow, as s.o. who really only goes to a couple of aways a season myself, I don't benefit greatly from it, but am pleased for my fellow fans who do, whether home or away.
That's it, really. | | | |
| How Much Our Kid? on 21:16 - Apr 24 with 609 views | stowmarketrange |
| How Much Our Kid? on 21:00 - Apr 24 by NewBee |
Those who qualify for away tickets via loyalty points are by definition the most "loyal" amongst any club's home support.
While away fans also have to add the cost of train/coach/petrol etc to their day out - also occasionally overnight stays. This doesn't usually apply to home fans.
While it is reciprocal i.e. each club's fans benefit when they go away, just the same as when other clubs' fans come to them.
Or would you rather that eg Citeh charged away fans £70-odd to attend the Etihad, as well as (some of their) home fans.
Anyhow, as s.o. who really only goes to a couple of aways a season myself, I don't benefit greatly from it, but am pleased for my fellow fans who do, whether home or away.
That's it, really. |
They should be charging away fans the same price as home fans pay,hopefully that would start at £30.Its a fan’s choice whether they go to away games as well as home ones,and some home fans have similar costs to watch their home games as away fans do.I travel 100 miles each way to home games,but that’s my choice.
There will be more protests by fans if the prices keep going up as they are now,especially when ticket prices make up so little of premier league clubs incomes.And by not releasing any more season tickets out of that 9,000 extra capacity at City it shows how much they value their loyal fans. | | | |
| How Much Our Kid? on 21:27 - Apr 24 with 574 views | ted_hendrix |
I watch the free Sky Premier highlights as I flatly refuse to pay any form of Monthly Pounds, Shillings and Pence to those tosspots at Sky, how a television Company can employ an ex footballer who spat on a Girl fan Is beyond me I did notice empty seats at the Etihad on more than one occasion.
You better do some overtime MOFOs |  |
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| How Much Our Kid? on 14:57 - Apr 25 with 242 views | Boston |
| How Much Our Kid? on 21:27 - Apr 24 by ted_hendrix |
I watch the free Sky Premier highlights as I flatly refuse to pay any form of Monthly Pounds, Shillings and Pence to those tosspots at Sky, how a television Company can employ an ex footballer who spat on a Girl fan Is beyond me I did notice empty seats at the Etihad on more than one occasion.
You better do some overtime MOFOs |
The empty seats are those bought by ticket agencies(touts), which they cannot sell. | |
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