What’s the standard ticket price at Saints now mate? I’m still paying £550 for a season ticket with 12 months interest free lol.
It seems like Lo Celso can play deeper in a CM role instead of where Eriksen plays as a ten. We’d be risking not having an out and out DM but I think if you have a midfield three that dominates the possession and generally keeps teams on the back foot, you can maybe negate the need for a rigid DM type player, especially against weaker sides. It probably won’t happen anyway as Poch usually likes having an enforcer, it’s just something I’d personally like to see.
One reason I'm so glad we are a lower league side, £50 just takes the game away from those that can least afford it, I thought football was supposed to be about the community! Tbph I wouldn't pay it either, it's not wether you can afford it, it's a point of principle. I would have gone to the Newport game if it was a tenner, but I'm not paying 15 notes, I will just save the money towards the next league game.
You’re probably right. I just see it as Eriksen can probably earn us more than £50m if he stays, as finishing in a CL spot as well as hopefully another good run in the CL can net us far more than £50m. It’d be **** to lose a player like that on a free but I think it has its benefits to letting him go now.
That's decent mate, the cheapest at the Gills is £300. I've no longer got an ST but in the past I used to pay nigh on £400, I'm sure I did.
Tbf they've brought in a £400 season ticket for a certain part of the ground so I have to give them credit for that, but I wouldn't want to sit there for just one match as it's the wrong end of the ground for me. They've ****ed up the matchday pricing though as they've brought in an extra 'A*' category and the price difference between that and the bottom is double bubble in most areas. I really don't think the average fan thinks playing Liverpool/United is worth double than playing say Sheffield United, most fans go to watch their team rather than the opposition. You certainly won't find me paying 50 quid plus for a standard league game. They also haven't announced which games fall will fall into which category so I suspect they intend on making it up as the season goes on. The two layers of membership are a ****ing piss take as well, I ain't paying 45 quid just to get a higher priority on tickets.
Not sure I agree with your maths there mate, and it’s a massive call to say that one particular player could be the difference between massive success and relative failure. You’re thinking like a fan, Levy will think like an accountant, which is his job in fairness.
A bloke I know was paying about the same as I do for a pass at Leeds, and then last season they brought in an away ST as well, which was a further £800 ffs.
He is that good to be the difference though mate, he makes us tick and he's been our best player for probably 4 of the 6 years he's been with us. We picked up £100m last season from the CL run so my thinking is that if we can reach knockouts/ beyond again, that can grab us another £65m-£70m as well as increasing our chances of another CL spot at the end of the season. If he leaves in the next two weeks, the chances of both a great CL run and a CL spot finish in the Prem massively decrease.
i knocked the away games on the head, it was getting too expensive and time consuming, plus coach travel does my nut in. Time you've paid for the coach or petrol, the ticket price, food and beer, you're talking 80-100 notes every game. That's without the home game costs. Yesterday wasn't too bad, cost me £22 for my ticket in advance (£2 cheaper) - travel cost to game - £3 for match day magazine, only so i could remember the names of the new team! and price of a couple pints and a burger.
You'll still easily get top 4 without him. I think the call has to be whether he'll be the difference to win you something this season.
I wouldn't say easily mate. If Lo Celso can adapt quickly and/ or if Alli can rediscover his form prior to last season we might be ok for top four but Eriksen more or less guarantees it in my eyes. He's is up there with Modric/ Bale/ van der Vaart in my eyes as the special players we've had in the recent era.
It'll be hilarious if Wolves end the first weekend above Arsenal. I'm not saying that's going to happen.
I used to prefer aways, but these days even as a pass holder, I can never get a ticket due to the ‘closed shop’ previous purchase history rules that mean away tickets never get to general sale. People just keep their purchase history going, even if they can’t get to the game, choosing instead to sell the tickets to mates etc. It rewards loyalty which is fine, but to the detriment of about 28,000 other pass holders.
Yeah always see London team fans who have barely left the M25 offering tickets for Burnley on a tuesday night. If they don’t sell them it’s still worth ****ing the £30 off if it gets you up the order for a big European game. When there’s 3000 away tickets, I’d have 2000 for the fans with most points and some sort of ballot where you get more chance based on being a ST holder, European away games etc.
West Ham do something like that but with 10%. I think the best answer is random collections for x amount.
I agree completely. There should be a ballot for around a third of the away tickets available. That way if you apply for every away, you stand half a chance of actually getting one at some point during the season. In my case, almost certainly a Tuesday night at Brighton
