QPR tickets - who on earth decided this was a Cat B game??

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  1. Micky Finn

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    £28 advance, £30 on the day. Utter madness - Tuesday night....QPR, ffs! I'm told they asked for 1000 tickets and will probably shift not much over 200 of those. Twenty. Eight. Pounds.
     
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  2. YTB

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    Queens Park Rangers charged our fans £42 or summat last season, on a Tuesday night.
     
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    Chien Lee ;)
     
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    2 wrongs don't make a right
     
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    It's a sad state of affairs but football is becoming too expensive for many.

    I can afford my season ticket but I wouldn't be travelling from Harrogate on a Tuesday night if I had to pay £32 to watch QPR, or anyone else for that matter!
     
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    The category system doesn't make sense at times. The QPR price will be as reciprocal as we dare charge, as their prices are high. Yet we make Villa and Newcastle Category A when their prices aren't as much as that.
     
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    Agreed that was outrageous, but why penalise home fans too?? I'll be there anyrode, as I can only get to a handful of games a year, but it seems ridiculous that Forest (relatively local, travel in numbers) was £25 by comparison.
     
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    Reciprocal pricing, that's why the Sunderland prices were lower.
     
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    That's why we have a flexi-ticket, to neutralise that penalty...Oh hang on!
     
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    So what?
    I believe it was our lowest away following of the season so nothing much was achieved there. I'm sure the prospect of seeing barnsley didn't draw any extra qpr fans either.
    Don't recall them fetching more than a few hundred up here either.
    "Reciprocal pricing" is pointless unless you are guaranteed a couple of thousand away supporters: not when a few hundred are concerned and no-one else prepared to turn up for an unfashionable fixture.
     
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    It's ******** mate

    It's just a lousy excuse for Barnsley to get up to the same **** as every other club
     
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    Agree with this. It's fans that get hurt at the end of the day. QPR fans didn't ask for us to be charged £42 but because their management decided that our away fans had to pay it, now our management can use it as an excuse to charge their away fans and our home fans more. And we're all supposed to be pleased about it because apparently we got our own back and really showed them.
     
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    So what you are implying is if QPR charged us less then we would charge them less?

    If that is the case I don't see what is achieved apart from punishing our fans and the fans of QPR who have no influence on prices at Loftus Road.

    In fact what it further suggests is that the club can in fact afford to charge less but either don't care or choose to fleece innocent fans of both clubs.

    Hiding behind the excuse everyone else does it is in my opinion not a justifiable answer.
     
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    But what exactly do we get from that apart from punishing other football fans.
     
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    Brilliant so we punish our fans and their fans. Ridiculous.
     
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    I think it's more the hope that other chairmen will think it's a decent idea and play ball. Unfortunately clubs like the pigs respond by replying **** your fans and **** our own fans.
     
  17. YTB

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    I didn't imply anything. Just made a point that the opposition in question charged our fans much, much more last season on a Tuesday night. Didn't suggest, imply or state anything further than that.

    The cost of watching football is a disgrace in this country, in my personal opinion.
     
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    Charge them £42.

    When literally no away fans turn up, hopefully clubs will start to realise it's ******* madness and start to change things.

    Until then, we should charge other clubs what they charge us. The existence of the flexi-ticket would mitigate the damage to our fans' pockets. Outraged by the idea of paying £42 at Oakwell? At least you get a decent view.
     
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    Like Huddersfield
     
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    Look around the championship.

    £28 is actually quite cheap comparatively.

    Doesn’t make it right - but still
     

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