BFCST Statement: QPR Ticket Prices

a quote from owen back at the time of the forest match

"Sorry Forest started this sorry saga, its backfired"

 

You could have a Saturday night up West after

Try and numb the pain.

 

RE: You could have a Saturday night up West after

I'd still travel that sort of distance if I was incorporating the match in to a weekend away, but I'm long past going all that way just for a game of football (later rounds in the cup excepted). Particularly places like QPR where we always ******* lose.

 

Not a real fan

etc etc

 

RE: a quote from owen back at the time of the forest match

Forest let us in cheap and we didn't return the favour when they came to us. Our Supporters Trust had no problem with this. Now QPR are helping out their fans and not ours it's different all of a sudden. If the arguement is over the price of an adult ticket then just don't go. Nobody is forcing anybody to pay it. I think Wolves was 28 quid last season and nobody said it was expensive. Yet a measly two quid more at QPR and emails are asking to be sent.

 

Thanks for clearing that up

By the way we all know without you having to spell it out again after an entire thread has already gone through it.</p>

This is supertykes territory so step away from the reply button.</p>

 

Match in the aft

Early evening meal in Covent Garden, then a few beers, back to the hotel to change and service the high class escort the concierge sorted for you, then up West to a club, and another call to the concierge.</p>

Who gives a toss if we lose ?
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I don't see why QPR are doing it anyway.

Reduced ticket prices don't work, do they?

 

"Who gives a toss if we lose ?"

Is the answer the high class escort?

 

RE: "Who gives a toss if we lose ?"

For starters..

 

RE: but what is the actual complaint?

It`s not the first time Reds fans have been charged £30 at QPR and I cant remember the supporters representatives complaining then or last season when there was an adult plus child offer on to Rangers fans but not ours.

 

"She said she was high class"

well that was just a lie.

 

What I can't understand is...

Why QPR feel the need to do it, its not as if they are playing an unfashionable team from the bottom of the table with the prospect of an easy home win and a low attendance is it? Its not as if the away team won't fill the away end and attract loads of casual supporters from other London teams who are playing away on Saturday is it?

 

Are you in business?

I like your thinking....

 

Farcical

I like how the supporters trust didn't give a **** about the Forest fans last season, I wouldn't mind but Forest allowed us into their place for £10 so for us not to return the favour for them was extremely poor.

The boot's firmly on the other foot now it's the opposing team doing it to us. QPR are doing nothing wrong offering deals to their fan, like i said yesterday why would they give a **** about Barnsley?

The prices are a staggering amount anyway, simple solution. Don't go. They are losing out afterall.

 

Selective memory alert

If I remember correctly, Forest had already announced a promotion of their own for their travelling fans and our offer would have balls-ed it up.

 

Not really.

barnsley football club get the profits for tickets at oakwell so it is barnsley football club that sets the price for the matches. What forest did was reward/apologise to fans for witnessing an awful display previously by subsidising the tickets for their fans and paying some of the money to barnsley so the fans didnt have to pay the full £20.
Barnsley in turn then reduced tickets for home fans via a 'local promotion' under football league rules. This meant that a barnsley ticket cost £5 and a forest one cost £20 and that was how much barnsley gained in sales for the tickets. Barnsley got £20 for an adult ticket in the away end for that match £5 of it coming from a forest fans pocket and £15 from forest itself.

 

my memory is fine thanks

I can quite easily recall the piss poor wanky excuse that BFC came out with for not extending the offer to the Forest fans.

 

To which :

BARNSLEY Football Club have today released the following statement.</p>

&quot;On 16 March 2009, it was released on the Nottingham Forest FC website that it would be subsidising the cost of admission to its travelling fans who attended the club's fixture against Burnley at Turf Moor because of the its team's &quot;level of performance&quot; on that day.</p>

It posted that its travelling contingent would be able to buy tickets at half price for the Oakwell fixture on 4 April 2009, with Nottingham Forest paying the difference to Barnsley FC. This unilateral action meant that most of Nottingham Forest FC's travelling contingent would be paying &pound;10 for admission to the game at Oakwell, whilst Barnsley FC's match day ticket fans would be paying twice that amount. </p>

In response to this statement, Barnsley FC decided that if it reduced its prices for match day tickets for all fans to &pound;10, it would be in the absurd situation of compensating most of Nottingham Forest FC's visiting fans for the &quot;level of performance&quot; its team had shown against Burnley. In other words, Barnsley FC would be in the position of funding a promise made by Nottingham Forest FC to its fans. </p>

Instead Barnsley FC decided to focus its funds on its own fans to the maximum financial extent it could afford. In this way, Nottingham Forest FC can deliver on the promise it made to its fans on 16 March 2006 and Barnsley FC can also offer a concession to its own fans in these financially difficult times.&quot;</p>

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Laughing. Still.
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RE: my memory is fine thanks

Having already sold hundreds of tickets on the basis of one promotion, it would have been absurd to introduce another. The people who can't see that are just mischief makers, of which this board has a disproportionate number.