| Season Ticket perspective 11:52 - Jul 11 with 4544 views | welwynranger |
After reading loads on here bemoaning the price of a gold S T. Just compere it to if you liked the theatre so you went once a month a good seat will cost between £60 to £80 a gold seat works out £40 per game for live entertainment and you dont know if its good or bad until the end |  | | |  |
| Season Ticket perspective on 18:23 - Jul 11 with 959 views | wombat |
| Season Ticket perspective on 17:09 - Jul 11 by simmo |
I meant the numbers of renewals, and the ST have only 'sold out' because they cap the number sold so they can make money on match day tickets.
They will sell out anyway because we're now in the Premier League and people will renew out of blind loyalty, even if they can't really afford it. |
They can't sell more than a certain percentage of the capacity of the ground , all clubs have to have a certain amount of tickets for sale per match
One thing I do wonder is are we going to give away fans upper school end only this season ? |  |
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| Season Ticket perspective on 19:32 - Jul 11 with 929 views | Stanisgod |
| Season Ticket perspective on 12:15 - Jul 11 by simmo |
I don't go to the theatre, because it's £60-£80 quid and I like football, which isn't a middle/upper class past time, it's a working class game built by fans, in our case by fans in a poor area. My problem is not even the higher prices, which are to be expected when in this cnt of a league, it's the fact that they didn't reward the people that had stayed with the club post relegation. Especially as it wasn't a plucky relegation that we just fell short for, it was a clusterfck of a season (2 seasons) where the soul of the club was removed and fans paid up to £50 a ticket to watch people whose fcks were left in the bank.
Apart from anything else, when is £40 enough for a matchday? Or £60 enough for a night in the theatre. There's food, drink, travel, etc. I am not saying the club should factor in how much people want to spend on those things in a match day, but it's never just the cost of a ticket. |
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| Season Ticket perspective on 19:48 - Jul 11 with 921 views | Match82 |
| Season Ticket perspective on 15:21 - Jul 11 by Antti_Heinola |
Fact is though, Match, no team needs to do this because overall attendances are pretty much healthier than ever across all divisions. But totally agree prices are crazy. |
Oh agreed, they'll get punters through the turnstiles anyway.
But with a reduction in price you'd still increase your fanbase, and some of the money you "lose" from profit on ticket sales, fans would be more likely to throw that at scarves, shirts etc. |  | | |
| Season Ticket perspective on 09:19 - Jul 12 with 870 views | Marshy |
What is expensive? Surely it is all about perspective and affordability. Example: if someone has a salary of 100k, then the cost of the season ticket would be just like a drop in the ocean to them. If however your salary is only 15k, then you're going to be struggling to stump up the 700 odd pound. Therefore to one person they are great value, but the other poor value. | | | |
| Season Ticket perspective on 12:12 - Jul 12 with 830 views | DejR_vu |
| Season Ticket perspective on 14:22 - Jul 11 by Northernr |
I've heard this theatre comparison before and it boils my pis.
1 - You know what you're getting at the theatre. You can read reviews, you can speak to people who saw it before you, you can research the plot, you can look at the author or the actor's previous work. You've a really good idea before you step in there what you're going to get. At the football Holland v Argentina can be the most boring thing you've ever seen in your life and Algeria v South Korea the most entertaining. You're shelling out without knowing.
2 - At the theatre you're treated very well. They give you a nice comfortable seat where you can sit and have a drink in the warm. They say hello when you walk through the door and they show you to your seat. They let you order your interval drink beforehand so you don't have to queue at half time. They say "I hope you enjoy the performance" and "look forward to seeing you again soon". It feels like they want you there.
At the football, by and large, you're treated like absolute sht. For a start the match might not even take place on the day and time they said it would, it might shift after you've booked work holiday and travel. They might decide to throw you out halfway through for daring to stand up or, at Manchester United, just to make a point that they can. They might decide to force you to drink in a certain crowded pub, out of a plastic glass, and tell you when you have to leave that pub. They might decide to trap you in the stadium for 30 minutes afterwards. They'll totally rip you off at the end of insufferable queues for sub-standard food and drink and if you try and bring your own to counter this they'll take it off you at the turnstile. Quite often - Everton, West Ham, Arsenal - you'll be given a seat with no view of the pitch, and no roof or alternatively - Sunderland, Newcastle - so high and far away from the pitch that you've not a single fcking clue what's going on at the far end. More often than not you can come away with the impression that they'd rather you just fcked off and died than turn up again the following week.
3 - Theatres are in city centres, surrounded by bars, pubs and restaurants which you can have your unrestricted choice of and are - usually - well maintained. Football grounds that are in city centres are often in a poor state while the club bankrupts itself buying players, and the surrounding pubs are segregated. Most new grounds are in the middle of butt fck nowhere with no train station, inadequate parking, and only a Frankie and Bennies within 25 minutes walk.
4 - People don't support a theatre. They may like it, it may be their favourite thing, but nobody has the same sort of community link, family connection, deeply ingrained feeling towards a theatre or a play as they do to a football team. If people can't afford a theatre ticket they don't buy one. If people can't afford a football ticket, often they buy it anyway. Yes they're stupid, yes it's their problem, but it's irresponsible to start charging £52 a time when that's the case. A football club should be an asset to its local community, not a drain on it.
5 - Championship teams play 6 or 7 times a month. premier League sides 4 times a month. I doubt even Bill Kenwright goes to the theatre that much.
6 - I've never been rained on in a theatre. I've never been cold. I've never had sleet blow in my face. I've never had some fat tattooed scumbag in a Wolves shirt hoik a big ball of spit from the back of his throat and deposit it down my back. I've never felt threatened or been threatened at a theatre. I've never seen a fight at a theatre and I've never not been able to go into a toilet cubicle at a theatre because there's a queue of scumbags snorting coke off the toilet seat.
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Blimey what do you do for fun, pull your fingernails out with pliers? | |
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| Season Ticket perspective on 12:25 - Jul 12 with 823 views | Watford_Ranger |
It's terrible value even if you're a millionaire for the worst facilities in the division and more than likely one of the worst teams.
We still pay it out of blind loyalty because there's not a substitute for it as there is for other forms of entertainment, if you can even call football entertainment.
If and when I get married, have kids etc. I might have to force myself to give it up but there's a feeling of guilt for me if I don't go, as stupid as I know that is, which no other hobby can cause you. | | | |
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