How much has the cost of a ticket actually gone up at Oakwell in say, the last 20 years. I'm not 100% sure, but it's been at least £20 for as long as I can remember. And I haven't paid any less than £300 for a season ticket in the last 7 or so seasons since I no longer could get an under 18s one. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk
There was the one season it was £15-£30 with three categories in Rowing's last year. In reality it's about £23 as you can pay a little more or little less if take kids or choose a certain stand and buy in advance or pay on the gate. The prices going up over 20 years really as expected as everything else has gone up, including wages.
Dunno but I found a Man Utd stub from when we played them in 2009 and it was £25 to get in that night. (Ponty end)
I haven't bought a ticket for a league game since 2001. It was £14 in advance. If I was to buy a ticket today for tonight's match how much would it cost?
Cup games aside I reckon it was around the return to the championship when the prices drifted north of 20 quid.
Was that the cup game where they broke their own customer charter, by charging £25 and then sneakily reworded it when it was brought to their attention.
When I started going in about 1988, I remember paying £5.50 at the gate. On a similar comparison, we used to buy players back then at around £175,000-£250,000. Probably more than were spending now 25+ years later. Granted the wages won't be the same, but neither were the TV revenues. Remember playing Peterborough away and costing £10 as well. At the time it was seen as shockingly expensive.
I have the feeling it was between £5 and £10 when the East Stand Upper was opened in 1993 but I can't be certain of the actual amount. First game for opening Leicester City lost 3-2.
When I started it was 20p, but I was only 11, a programme was 5p and bus fare from Wombwell was 5p (this was just before the cost went down to 2p each way). It all sounds like value for money nowadays! Three or four years later it was 30p entry, at that time I was doing a paper round and earning £1.80 a week so entry was one sixth of my pay, does that mean that a paper round in Wombwell now pays £60 a week?
When my Father died, just before Christmas 1999, we had to go through piles of his paperwork. It appeared he saved everything from receipts for garden plants to ones for holidays at the South Shore Holiday Camp at Bridlington. One of the items we found was my Junior Season Ticket for the 1974/75 season (in the old Fourth Division) which cost £5. It was for the old stand, Pontefract Road side. We had to sit on long wooden benches in those days. My Dad wouldn't pay the extra 3p for the additional comfort of a cushion as he thought it was extortionate and only soft buggers would use them!
