Ticket Pricing

I know many will disagree but I just find the idea of £36 for a football ticket wrong. It just is. I know it will be argued that we are in the 2nd tier etc but that's not my point. Football is increasingly being taken away from the common person and away from it's roots in many ways and ticket pricing for working-class folk is yet another example of it in my opinion. Football should be cheap not expensive to follow.
That's all I'll say as I know I will be vehemently disagreed with on two or three levels.
Cheers

 

You don't pay these type of prices in the 2nd tier of any other top european football leagues so you shouldn't have to here.

 

I agree with the sentiment but for £31 a month you can have a season ticket.

 

Not for me and many others who work weekends i'm afraid.

 

Even cheaper then if you can't actually get to games ;-)

 

I think touting £36 for likely 2 games is OTT. At least work out the average, or go with the middle band of £28 for a buy in advance option. Plus there are schemes where you might get discounts or a free ticket.

I'd be interested to know what the costs of attending are on average though. You have possible food, transport, drink. It wouldn't surprise me if the majority of matchday attendance costs are paid for the peripheral stuff and not the game itself.

Of course it would be great to have better priced tickets, but £23 and £28 seem pretty reasonable to me. But then you look at the driver of costs. Players salaries. Agents fees. Transfer fees. These are spiralling. The revenue has to come from somewhere.

 

This harps back to a previous thread about costs. Someone had the idea that the club could supply unused season tickets at a cheaper rate if donated by that said season ticket holder to help people who can't afford the match day ticket price.

Fact is people are already touting their own season tickets on match days for less than market value if they can't get to games and lending them to mates for free if it isn't a big game.

It's been going on for years.

 

Didn't say i couldn't get to any matches though did I? Managed 4 home games last season so probably 4 or 5 this season. That should cost me around what? 130£ tops? So no a season ticket would be no good clearly.

 

Yes, but £130 is cheaper than a season ticket... bargain, and less weekends ruined, win win ;-)

 

I make my rare matchday experience count. Usually ends up with a 15 hour sesh so they're never ruined

 

Cant really complain about price of a £23 or £28 ticket if you’re spending that and more to get blotto.

 

Only go out once a month: don't drink in the house so it's not really that costly.

 

But more than £23, and likely more than £28.

 

Yes and that once a month day out is fundamental to my mental well-being.
20 quid is fair enough for a champ game. I can afford to pay more because i am frugal and reasonably comfortable financially.
It costs too much though: it costs too much in the vanarama or whatever that's called these days too.
It's interesting on here to see quite a few people get all "Tory-like" when season tickets and matchday prices are discussed.

 

I'm not sure its tory like to say £23 or £28 is a fair price for a championship football game.

After all, if you complain about that price, I'm sure you'd be complaining about the price of your transport. Of food. Of the tipples you consume in the 15hr sesh and so on and so forth.

 

Cook a full breakfast before i go out: walk to town and back when playing at home so no cost there. Probably spend 100 quid so that's like having 25£ spending money a week and saving it up. Don't think 100£ a month is frivolous, far from it.

 

I never said it was frivolous, and even if it was, they are peoples individual choices. Everyone can choose to spend the money they have however they wish to spend it.

My original point still stands though.

 

The prices are what they are but they are too high in this country. There's something sadly wrong when non-league teams have to charge 15-20£ to get in because they have to pay hyper-inflated wages even at that level. You can watch some Bundesliga games for that price which shows just how much the impact of sky/bt money has had on football in this country.

 

Twenty is plenty. We try to defend the indefensible. We are part of the problem unfortunately

 

Completely agree. We don't have to pay so much in players wages, agents fees and transfer fees. They fuel the need for revenue and for temporary rich owners to lose some of their wealth.