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QPR1st Supporters’ Trust is calling on the club to give travelling supporters a bit of new season - and Christmas - cheer by agreeing to a £25 ticket deal with Ipswich Town for the Boxing Day away fixture.
Ipswich is writing to clubs in the Championship suggesting a £25 reciprocal ticket deal for away fans for all its games. Twelve clubs have agreed and QPR1st believes QPR should join them.
The Trust has written to club CEO Lee Hoos asking for a positive response to the Ipswich proposal. Trust chair Stephen Dedridge said: “Away fans are vital to creating a good atmosphere at games. The level of time and money our away fans give to the club makes a real difference and we want the club to do whatever it can to make away games as accessible as possible.”
He said: “Away supporters deserve a decent deal on ticket prices. This would be a good gesture of goodwill to travelling supporters to announce this now, at the beginning of the season, and also helpful for supporters when cash is stretched at Christmas”.
Away ticket prices in the Championship have come under serious scrutiny following the introduction of a league-wide cap of £30 in the Premier League. With many away tickets priced in excess of £30, some even over £40; the Championship is one of the most expensive leagues in the world to follow your team.
Reciprocal deals have been immensely popular among away fans where they have been introduced by some clubs in recent seasons and have made a significant contribution to the uplift in the number of away fans going to games.
Lee Hyde, director of retail operations at Portman Road, is reported to have said: “Supporters travel 1000s of miles every season watching their club so we listened to feedback from both our own fans and those of visiting opposition teams and decided to initiate a price cap.”
Along with countless other supporter organisations across the country we have campaigned for the introduction of a “Twenty’s Plenty” cap on away tickets — a national campaign co-ordinated by the Football Supporters’ Federation.
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Potential £25 away ticket deal for Ipswich on 14:02 - Aug 4 with 3650 views
I suspect Hoos will tell them that 1,800 Ipswich fans all paying £11 less than they would do otherwise will cost us just shy of £20,000 and say no.
While he was at Burnley he worked out the cost of a couple of dozen seats that got ripped out and thrown at Blackburn fans during the derby game and had to be replaced then added that cost to the home tickets next time they played Blackburn
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Potential £25 away ticket deal for Ipswich on 14:02 - Aug 4 by Northernr
I suspect Hoos will tell them that 1,800 Ipswich fans all paying £11 less than they would do otherwise will cost us just shy of £20,000 and say no.
While he was at Burnley he worked out the cost of a couple of dozen seats that got ripped out and thrown at Blackburn fans during the derby game and had to be replaced then added that cost to the home tickets next time they played Blackburn
Yes, I expect the answer will be no, although he could just deduct the difference from Caulkers wages.
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Potential £25 away ticket deal for Ipswich on 16:42 - Aug 4 with 3487 views
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