£30 for a Cat A match - Part 2

www.foxestalk.net (Leicester City fans message board)

‘£30.00 to sit in that s**t hole, think we are paying the price for being promotion favourites at the beginning of the season. Looks like a lot of clubs don't want people watching them anymore’

‘Must be it seeing as though So'ton payed £23 for adults and £13 for 65+ & Students! Its not exactly a small price difference!’

‘£18! thats more than forest! Jeez!’

‘WHAT THE FVCK.
Seriously, I'm absolutely gobsmacked.
Why?! They can't come close to filling the fvcker anyway?!’

‘Fed up of being ripped off, how can they possibly justify charging £30 for this’

‘Last season adults were £22, now £30 means an increase of 36%.
Taking the pi55 are Barnsley.’

‘Charging their own fans and fans from other clubs £30 rather a lot this season for all category A games, look how many of them there are:
http://www.barnsleyf...2407093,00.html
Cant believe many of their fans will pay that much to see Bristol, Pompey , Blackpool and Hull.
Shocking’

‘They can **** right off for 30 quid!’

‘Their gates will dive with those prices’

‘£30. What an absolute joke.
Was really looking forward to this as well.
Under 18 ticket it is then.
B*stards!!!’

‘I'll not be going and paying £30 - FACT’

‘Apparently it's £14 more than Crystal Palace are being asked to pay, I think I'm capable of seeing when someone's trying to rip me off.’

‘U18 for me. I'd boycott if there was one though, tempted to make a big banner if we have a **** end saying "where've all our fans gone? £30? You *******s". ‘


‘Supporters' chief Cliff Ginnetta has joined the opposition to Barnsley's decision to hike their ticket prices for Leicester City's Championship visit to south Yorkshire on September 10.
Match-day admission has gone up from £23 to £30 for the clash at Oakwell, and Ginnetta said he knows fans who are planning a boycott, which was revealed in Gary Silke's Mercury column yesterday.
"This is a bit of a worrying trend and I don't think it is Barnsley's best interests either," said Ginnetta, the chairman of the official supporters group.
"Surely, they would prefer us to bring a lot of fans who will also spend money on the day.
"I don't think fans have any real objection to paying high prices for the derby games against Derby and Nottingham Forest, but £30 for Barnsley is a bit excessive. Perhaps it's because we always seem to win there!"
Ginnetta said it is also a disappointing move as his members are finding it tougher to commit to home and away fixtures because of cash restraints.
"It's tough for a lot of them and they have to pick and choose their games," he said.
"Something like this will put a lot of them off. Putting up the ticket by £7 is a lot and I don't agree with it."
A Barnsley spokesman said the clash against Leicester was classed as a Category A fixture, with category B games costing £23.
"Leicester were put in Category A because of the size of the club and its ambition based on their signings in the summer," said the spokesman.
"We like to think we are still one of the most competitive clubs in the Championship when it comes to the price of away tickets." ‘

‘And their categorising system is a fvcking embarrassment and probably one of the most stupid, thoughtless ones I've seen.
They've basically reduced the price for 6/7 teams, one of them being Southampton for their first away trip, and yet Portsmouth who have the same journey to make, mid-season, have to pay more? Tell me what on earth made them think Pompey would bring more?
Reading, one of the worst supported sides in the division - full whack. Yet Middlesbrough, far more local to Barnsley, get £23?
It's literally like they've drawn some sides out of a hat. I agree Leicester will take one of the bigger ends to Barnsley, well, would've, but there's no need at all and I find it completely unfair that teams categorise, Leeds are the biggest losers from this.’

‘I'm not shelling out my hard earned money to make Barnsley football club richer, if you want to bask it up in loyalty to your own team then do it, you are a loyal mug, but if you pay £30 to watch a match at Oakwell, I can only use the word mug.’

‘£30 for Barnsley is genuinely ridiculous, I don't blame anyone who knocks it on the head. A shame though, one of the best away days of the season last year.’

‘Barnsley was always regarded as a good day out and has been £18-22 for adults for quite some time, just like forest and derby has been £28-30, the fact that the town itself has been in recession since 1984 Miners strike and hasnt come out of it, was the main reason that the prices at Oakwell were always low to average, just because we've spent 10 million quid doesnt mean we've all got an extra £20 in our pockets to get up there and get into the sh*thole!’

‘ive been Barnsley away in the past, but wouldnt go at £30 a pop’

‘Gonna be the first game I've missed in a while purely because of the price,that's taking the pi** as far as I'm concerned!’

‘I really wanted to go and I can afford it but £30 is a no no. Sometimes you have to say hang on a minute you taking the ****.
Boycott for me!’

www.drfc-vsc.co.uk (Doncaster Rovers fans message board)

‘£30 will not be going at that price’

‘The only away game of this season that we would have taken a really decent following, and now I doubt we'll take 1000.’

‘Yep, that's about 6 in our party that will not be going at those prices.’

‘Agreed me out as well- near to xmas get flamin real!’

‘Irrespective of that, I'm out too not paying £30.’

‘£30 to sit in that ***** s**thole! They can shove their seat up their Dingle a***s at that price!’

‘Just seen the note about tickets Barnsley and NO I'm not paying £30!!!’

‘30 pounds to go to Barnsley is an absolute joke. Today I bought a ticket to watch Newcastle vs Everton in the Premier League for the exact same price. If you're telling me that those two matches will posit equal value to each other then I will have to point you in the direction of the nearest mental institution.’

‘Was going to the game then onto York for a night out for a mates birthday.....
Will just start earlier in York now...this is a joke.’

‘just 8.9k there yesterday .....sign of the times’

‘That was predicted by the Barnsley faithful, in fairness they see prices and the unfairness of the whole thing as we do.’

‘It would be a shame if Barnsley stick to this price. Barnsley away is always a good day out. If I knew there'd be 2000-2500 Rovers there, I'd pay through gritted teeth; but at £30 they'll be lucky to scrape a thousand.
2000 x £20 = £40,000 plus a good atmosphere
1000 x £30 = £30,000 plus a ****e atmosphere
Drop yer prices Barnsley!’

‘For tickets alone it would cost me (Adult, OAP & 2 16 year olds) £84 so by the end of the day i would be looking at around £120 in total with everything else added on, so i will be sadly missing watching us at Oakwell for the first time in the 32 years i've supported the club as i can not justify paying that.’

www.footballforums.net (Championship supporters message board)

‘Why have Barnsley introduced a category system when they're just putting just about everyone in Cat A?
Barnsley is probably our most uninspiring away trip of the season, where we never take alot, at the end of October. How the hell has that been classified as a Category A fixture? Jesus Christ.’

‘£30 for a little minnow club like Barnsley is a disgrace
Its a p!ss take that youve got 16 teams in Category A when only 3 or 4 will get near selling out, we usually fill that end at Barnsley but with them prices we will do well to take over 2k’

 

Those f.ckers are lucky they would only have to travel to us to pay it once, a barnsley fan would have to 16 times (potentially) and yeah i know all about the 1912 card blah blah ****ing blah.

 

well ****ing buy one and save some ****ing money then you ****ing idiot or you could just moan ont internet if you want eh

 

"It's literally like they've drawn some sides out of a hat".

Very astute, nail on head. Probably.

 

The 1912 club is a load a ****.

 

£30 to watch that!!!

(i just like saying it)

seriously though old don rowing ent a fooking clue has he.

 

no. there's no point.

proper lol. #Neanderthal

 

James? In the final paragraph of your thread..

..what team does that fan say he supports?
Because it must be either a Bristol or Hull supporter. And yet the quote claims that they usually fill the away end?? Errr, dont think so. Bristol fetch 2 to 5 hundred year on year. Even last term at £16, they brought just 453 fans. Moaning tw@ts.
So Im guessing its a Hull fan. And while they do tend to bring more fans than most, its definitely not the 6000 they would need to bring to "fill that sh*thole".
10,566 was the gate for Hull at Oakwell last season. And they had 998 away fans. Amazes me how folk 'manipulate' facts and figures despite them being out there and readily available to any old numpty (like me!)
And if indeed it was a fan of either of those clubs, then boy they take the biscuit. Ashton Gate is hardly the Allianz Arena is it? And if we are a minnow, then whats that make Bristol (league one) City? A fcukin' stickelback?!
And Hull, cant you tell they had a year or 2 in the sunny big leagues. However, Im old and ugly enough to remember Hull City as a 4th Division basement club, with gates of 2 and 3 thousand at a crumbling REAL sh*thole.
And dont get me started on Pikey FC. Who are moaning about 30, when theyre charging 2 quid less! Tight barstewards. Sell some lucky heather, some scrap, or get El-Hadji Diouf to pay you all in, the guys rolling in it.. And even THEY call Oakwell a sh*thole!? Have they actually been? What are all these clubs judging it on? The 4 teams mentioned - Hull, Leicester, Donky and Bristol - are nay bigger than us. 3 of em had run-down grounds and now have one of these generic matchbox things. Blummin Pikeys is pathetic. You could fit the whole seating in the East Stand at Oakwell (slight exaggeration but you get my drift)
Hull are 'allegedly' bringing 700 tmra. So thats a couple of hundred less.
I do wish our club would get their thumb out their arse though and knock the Pikey ticket down to 20, similar to last year and get them to reduce theirs at the Keepafloat. The Pikey had a point. 2000 at 20 sheckels is better than 1000 at 30, IMO.
Rant ends. Soz for waffling..

 

Re: James? In the final paragraph of your thread..

Being fair to Hull though Whitey 2 of the games at Oakwell have been Sky games.

Not saying they would either but definately wont tomorrow.

 

Why we should be surprised about being ripped off, is well, surprising.

Where did iSoft get it's money? Did it ever make a profit?

 

But at least they'll be able to find a pub in town. Leicester is an absolute ****hole of a town......went a couple of months ago and walked for ages around the town before we found a pub and that was a wetherspoons.

 

"It's literally like they've drawn some sides out of a hat".

How can it be "literally like" some thing? We've either drawn them out of a hat (which would be literally) or we haven't.

 

Ho Ho Ho

 

Pikeys should be grateful to sit in something bigger than a lego set, the irony in their post..sh*t hole...coming from the Belle Vue mob...kin'ell. And the comment regarding a decent following....only 1800 Pikeys managed to pay £23 last season and they needed something out of the game.

Pity we can't make it £36 for the Leeds fans.